The Broken Angel & Her Overprotective Brothers

"Can we take Shadow out on a date?" 

"Pfft!" 

As soon as Kaiden said those words out loud, two major things happened. First, Shadow spat out the water that he was drinking, and second, Mark burst out into laughter. The latter almost rolled out of the couch because of laughing too hard.

"Really? Can we do that?" Emily asked excitedly while completely ignoring the reaction of the other two men.

She felt Shadow turning his questioning gaze from Kaiden towards her as if to ask what the hell was wrong with the two of them. However, she tried to act oblivious to him as she waited for Kaiden's response.

"Of course, we can. As long as you are up for the idea, I can handle the rest. Since he doesn't like to be in public places or around too many people, I'll find something peaceful for this special date." Kaiden answered hurriedly as he tried to hold back his excitement. While he too could feel Shadow's glare, he decided to follow his mate's plan and tried to act oblivious to him.

"Wow, guys. I'm really impressed. Since you two are okay with other people joining your time together, Can I tag along too? Considering I'm single, I'll love to have some fun and quality time with you guys." Mark butted in as he finally got control over his laughing.

"When did you become single? Last weekend we saw the news about you and that celebrity going to the pub together and as far as I can recall, you didn't turn up back home till late in

the morning. Thing again, are you really single?" Emily was quick to call out her brother who was becoming too shameless with every passing day.

At this point, she had no idea about how Domenic was controlling himself from lashing out at Mark and his everyday controversies. Considering Mark was in an important position in the company as the COO, his dating rumors always ended up creating troubles for the company and her other brothers.

Not like Mark wasn't aware of the troubles that he kept creating, neither was he really dating those girls and sleeping with them. Emily knew at least that much about her brother. Of course, she couldn't read his mind to know exactly what he was planning to do but it seemed like he was doing it to purposely irritate someone. 

"She was just a one-night stand. Nothing much. I'm still single as always." Mark replied with a little shrug of his shoulder as he gave her a small wink. "Of course, if you are worried about me being a third... Wait... the fourth wheel in your time alone, you can just say it directly. I won't mind." 

Before Emily could speak, Kaiden quickly responded with a single clap of his hands. "You got it perfectly right. We don't want to take you along with us."

Emily turned to look at her boyfriend with raised eyebrows, both shocked and impressed to see that he dared to say something like that to Mark.

All this time, that man had always behaved in front of her brothers just because they were her brothers. Even when Leo, Crist, and Mark used to behave unfriendly towards him, he didn't say anything. However, she finally got to see him being his confident self in front of her stupid brother. 

"See! Look at him treating me like this. I can finally recall why I never liked you." Mark muttered as he stood up from his seat and giving Kaiden a little scoff, marched out of the living room while heading inside the kitchen to probably get some snacks to munch on.

"Ignore him, he's being moody," Emily told Kaiden as she stared in the direction of the kitchen. Sometimes, she got worried about Mark and there were two reasons for it. First, out of all her brothers, she knew the least about Mark's personal life which was a mess at this point, and Second, because she could tell he was creating those mess on purpose. The question was why. 

"He's just being himself." Kaiden's comment brought her attention back towards her mate and she didn't deny his words. After all, he was speaking the truth.

"Alright! Let's follow this idea of yours for a quiet date for the three of us. I'm sure you will..." Emily didn't get the chance to finish what she was saying as Shadow suddenly appeared beside her on the couch and placed his palm over her mouth to silence her. When he was sure that she won't be speaking, he finally pulled his hand away and turned his attention to Kaiden.

"What stupid idea is this? Why do you even want to take me out with you guys?" He asked with clear annoyance in his tone. He seemed the least happy with Kaiden's plan.

"Why? What's wrong with this idea? Aren't we allowed to spend some quality time with you outside our house?" Emily asked as she turned to face the grumpy Supreme Lord. 

"You guys know that I don't like to be around people..." Shadow tried but failed when Emily reminded him that they won't be going to any public places.

"Come on, Shadow. Be a good boy. I promise you will enjoy it. Now, don't make this grumpy face anymore." Kaiden said as he stood up from his seat and came to sit next to Shadow.

What left both Emily and Shadow surprised was when he threw his arms around the latter's shoulder and gave him a tight squeeze in the name of a hug. The quick wink that Kaiden gave her over Shadow's shoulder made Emily chuckle as she shook her head at his antics.

"You are right, Angel. He's full of comfort. Please don't mind if you see me hugging him more in the future." Kaiden spoke after a few seconds and Emily could clearly hear that he meant what he was saying. 

She smiled at him before she too joined the hug, wrapping one of her arms around Shadow's waist while throwing the other over Kaiden's shoulder before she tilted her head to give a huge smile to Shadow who seemed to have finally given up.