"What are you thinking about, sweetheart?"

He whispered the question very close to her ear. His breath fanning her sensitive skin. Their cheeks were almost touching and she was suddenly feeling overwhelmed as her body once again started reacting towards his closeness.

She tried to answer his question and distract herself but no words came out of her mouth, making her gulp down her saliva to relieve her dry throat.

A twitch appeared on Kaiden's lips as he noticed her reactions which immediately made his heart and soul fill with a weird kind of satisfaction.

He very slowly pulled his face back and then looked at her flushed cheeks. Her doe-like emerald eyes were gazing at him as if she could not find it in herself to look away at all.

"Angel, you need to stop looking at me like that. Your eyes are telling me to do things with you that you are probably not ready for."

His voice came out low and raspy as he looked at her with an intense fire sizzling in his beautiful cerulean eyes.

Emily immediately looked away and cleared her throat to pull herself out of the weird and intense thoughts that had taken over her fuzzy brain.

"W-why are you here?" She asked in order to change the topic.

"Because I find that you are out on a date with another man. The next thing I knew, I was already here." Kaiden told her and waited for her response, only to see her trying to cover the smile that was threatening to spill on her lips.

"Why are you smiling?" He asked with genuine curiosity and confusion clearly evident in his voice.

Emily turned her attention to the man as she asked in a soft teasing tone, "Are you jealous?"

"Of course, I am!"

She was definitely not prepared for him to accept it without missing a single second. Another smile appeared on her lips as she slowly shook her head before turning her face to look at the children playing with balloons and huge water bubbles.

"Are you not going to say anything?" Kaiden asked as he inched closer to her and snaked one of his hands around her shoulder.

"Mr. Kaiden Sullivan, behave yourself. You just can't go around grabbing girls in public." Emily immediately reprimanded as she slapped his hand away.

Kaiden was about to speak when Shadow suddenly decided to return at the wrong moment. He immediately gave the man a complaining look while Emily was not noticing.

[What? I already gave you around ten minutes. Also, I'm not a fan of this place. It's making me uncomfortable whenever she's not around me.]

Shadow immediately responded through mind link before he took a seat on the other side of Emily and passed her two cups of cold drink.

[Does this mean you are going to tag along for the rest of our time here?]

Kaiden asked through the mind link as he accepted the drink that Emily offered him.

[Unfortunately, yes!]

That's all Shadow said in response before he disconnected the link, leaving a very unhappy Kaiden pouting on the other side.

Emily, who was completely oblivious to everything that was going on between the two men, suddenly stood up and said in a cheerful and excited tone, "I have a great idea!"

Her eyes were expectantly looking at the two men as she thought about the wonderful idea that just popped up in her mind.

"What is it, Princess?" Shadow asked as he put all his attention on the girl.

"Let's go out camping this weekend. All of us." She excitedly introduced her idea and waited for their response.

"You mean all of us....as of your family, my family, and Shadow?" Kaiden asked while arching his eyebrows.

"En!"

Emily hurriedly nodded her head in reply.

"That actually sounds good. I'm all in," Kaiden said after a few seconds as he stood up to join his girl who beamed happily at him.

Shadow also stood up and walked closer to the two of them before speaking, "I'll take care of the arrangements."

"Yayyyy!"

Emily cheered with excitement and pure joy visible on her face as she gave a quick hug to Shadow and then pulled Kaiden into a tight but also a quick hug.

Neither of the men got the chance to figure out what was happening before the girl was already pulling away from them and moving towards the Ice cream booth as she called them to follow her.

"Did she just..."

A sigh left Kaiden's lips as he shook his head slightly to pull his thoughts together. He turned to look at Shadow who appeared to be as normal and calm as his usual self.

"Shall we?" He asked while offering his arm to the other man as if they were going to a ball.

Shadow did not even spare him a single glance as he walked away, following after Emily who had almost disappeared in the crowd.

***

Later that evening...

"You are not officially together yet, are you?" Rylan asked as he followed his brother into the kitchen.

"Why?"

Kaiden asked instead of answering as he took out a jug of condensed milk from the fridge.

"Bro, what are you trying to do? You guys went out on a date and it went so well then why did you not confess to her? Are you seriously waiting for some other man to snatch her away from you?"

Rylan's questions made Kaiden stop as he was about to start the mixer. He finally looked at his brother as he replied, "I did not confess because I want to take things slow. I want to know if she's ready for a relationship right now or not. And as for Shadow, then both of us don't need to worry at all. If he wanted, he had entire four years to snatch her away but he didn't. Even though there are ninety-nine percent chances that he likes her more than just a friend, he would never come between both of us. So stop suspecting him."