Frozen Valentine

receive when married or when she turns thirty.
I don’t understand people somedays but those two are fucked up. It’s why Christian hasn’t been home to see his family. Though when he wants to see his sister, he’ll have her meet him somewhere away from their parents.
As I hold the phone to my ear, listening to him laughing his ass off, I stare at the woman’s ass. I haven’t seen a woman with such a perfect ass before.
Plus, the woman has spirit, enough of it to try and put me in my place.
“Tell her to check her account that I set up for her. She’ll see the money had been put back in yesterday,” Christian says, chuckling.
The touch of Blake’s dog touching the back of my hand gets my attention and I smile at the sight of the beautiful pup. Like her owner, she’s a magnificent creature. She’s also a pup that belongs to my dog back home.
I’d found Tink when she’d been a pup herself and I never got rid of her. She’d had puppies about a year and a half ago and Christian wanted to give one to his sister. It’s good to see Tink’s pup is doing well. The other two puppies went to my uncle who wanted them for his own.
Clearing my throat, I look back up to the woman who’s standing with her back to me as she stirs something that smells fan-fuckin-tastic. “Your brother has told me to tell you if you check your account, you’ll find the money is back in there. It’s been there since yesterday.”
Blake wheels around still holding a soup ladle in one hand and reaches the other out signaling for me to hand her my phone.
“She wants to speak to me, doesn’t she?” Christian must know his sister.
“Yep.” I smirk and shake my head.
I pick up the mug of hot cocoa she made for me and drink it though I hate the taste of it. I won’t hurt her feelings by not drinking the sweet shit. Not after she made it for me.
Give me a black coffee any day of the week. I would rather have that which I actually prefer to drink than something sweet as this.
“I’ll let you get to it. Remember two things, my friend. One, Blake is my little sister and I love her dearly. I’ll kill anyone who tries to hurt her. And second, I sent you there for reasons you’ll soon find out,” Christian states and hangs up before I can ask him what he means by that.
Sighing, I put the phone back in my pocket and focus my attention on the woman standing in front of me.
“You should be sitting in front of the fireplace getting warm,” she declares with a glare.
“I’m fine,” I say, waving off her concerns.
“No, you’re not. You were out there in the freezing temps walking through at least a foot of snow with wet clothes on. You could have hypothermia or something. Aren’t you supposed to be warming your body gradually or something? Drink that and go sit down and warm up. I’ll bring you some soup in a minute.”
Fuck me.
My cock seems to find her rambling cute as hell right now. I wonder if she’s like this all the time or if she’s nervous with me being around her. It’s then I realize Blake has yet to ask me for my name. If she were my woman, I’d be putting her over my knee right now for not only running out in the cold but for letting a stranger in without finding out who they are first. Doesn’t matter to me her attempt to help me get inside when I’m nearly half her size had been cute.
“Do you know who I am?” I ask bluntly, disregarding her orders for me to go sit down.
“No, I don’t know who you are, and you don’t know who I am. But, evidently, you know who my brother is so I guess you are either a friend of his and will be nice to me, or you’re an enemy of his and maybe even a serial killer. I do hope it’s the first suggestion and not the last, because I have to tell you, I don’t feel like dying anytime soon,” she prattles, and I can’t help but throw my head back and laugh.
“Woman, that is some funny shit there.” I chuckle.
“It’s not funny, it’s the truth,” she snaps.
“Yeah, baby, it’s the truth but it’s also fuckin’ hilarious. I can’t wait to tell your brother that one,” I say and place the mug back on the counter. “I’m Theo De Luca.”
“Theo De Luca.” The sound of my name on her lips causes my cock to twitch and I’m sure if she looked on my side of the counter, she’d see him pressing against the fabric of the sweatpants. “How do you know my brother?” she asks.
“He’s a friend of mine and we work together,” I say truthfully. I won’t tell her that her brother is one of Leo’s top men.
“So you’re in the military too?”
Ugh, what?
Christian told her he joined the military?
Oh shit.
“Does it look like I joined the military with this scruff?” I chuckle.
“No, but you never know. You could have taken time off and grew it out.” She shrugs.
“Snowflake, your brother and I aren’t in the military,” I state, not wanting to lie to her.
“You’re telling me my brother lied to me then,” she snaps, her gaze narrowing to tiny slits.
“That’s between your brother and you, babe, but I’m only speaking for myself. He and I work together and I trust him with my life as he does with me. You can trust me on that,” I say and look down at her dog. “What did you name her?”
“Blue,” she huffs.
“Good name for her, her brother’s eyes are the same way.” I don’t bother looking up to know she’s shocked by what I’ve just said.
“How do you know?”
“Because Blue’s momma is mine,” I state and look up to her