"It's your mistake to make." I wasn’t going down this road again. I wasn’t going to make him think I wanted him.
"Ah ha, so you do think I'm making a mistake?"
"I don't care what you do." I lied and turned away. "I'm going to go back to my room now."
"But Alice is in there with Scott and Aiden."
"So?" I looked at him with a question.
"You don't want to cock block."
"Excuse me."
"Alice has a crush, doesn't she?"
“How did you know that?”
“It was obvious from the way she was beaming from ear to ear.” He shrugged. “I didn’t presume to think it was because of me.”
“Not that that would be a problem for you right? You’d love three of the women in this house wanting you.”
“So, are you saying two women in this house currently want me?” He smiled and raised an eyebrow at me.
“No.” I said hurriedly. “Now tell me, who do you think likes Alice back in return?”
“Who?” He laughed. “I think Alice has herself a little problem.”
“Oh?” I frowned and rubbed my forehead. “So you don’t think Scott or Aiden likes her then?”
“Oh, quite the opposite.” Xander rubbed his palms over his stomach as he stood there. “I think they both like her.”
“What?” I frowned and looked into his eyes to see if he was being serious.
“I think both of your brothers have an interest in Alice.” He nodded seriously. “Hopefully, they both don’t make a play for her. She has an interest in one of them, doesn’t she?”
“Yes.” I nodded and bit my lower lip. How did he know that my brothers liked Alice and what did that mean? How would Scott feel if Alice and Aiden started dating because Alice liked Aiden and that was obviously who she would choose, wasn’t it?
“Are you going to tell me which one?”
“No.” I shook my head and turned back to the door. “That’s none of your business.”
“Are you always going to be like this, Liv?” He grabbed my shoulder. “Can’t we just be friends?”
“No, we can’t.” I said as I opened the door and walked out of the room. Who the hell did Xander James think he was? Did he really think I could just forget everything and just be friends with him? Did he really think that was possible?
“Morning Liv.” A soft husky voice made me jump and I blinked as I stared ahead of me. “Sorry,” He smiled at me widely. “I didn’t mean to scare you.”
“It’s okay.” I smiled back at him. “Good Morning to you too, Henry.” I looked into his eyes and I noticed that they were actually a lighter green than Xander’s.
“Everything okay?” His perfect white teeth shone at me as he spoke and I really began to notice the subtle differences in his appearance to Xander’s. Henry had slightly thinner pink lips and a rather deep-set dimple in his right cheek. His hair, though also dark, held light streaks of brown as well and it was slightly more unkempt than Xander’s was.
“I’m fine. It’s just been an exhausting morning already and we haven’t even had breakfast.” I laughed and rolled my eyes.
“I am hungry.” He nodded. “I’m just coming back from my morning run and am ready for pancakes and bacon.”
“That sounds good to me.” I nodded eagerly. “Banana chocolate chip pancakes with lots of syrup and bacon.”
“I’m a blueberry pancake guy myself.” He smiled and ran his hand through his dark hair, “Though I wouldn’t mind some chocolate chips. Maybe we can share?”
“Sounds good to me.” I said and adjusted my top as I stared at him. “As long as you don’t want some of my bacon as well.”
“Don’t worry, I never attempt to take bacon off of anyone’s plate.” He laughed and I stared at his lips for a few seconds as I laughed along with him.
“Good or I’ll have to kill you.” I giggled and poked him in the shoulder with two fingers sticking out like a gun.
“Uh oh, the warning has officially been issued.”
“Yup.” I said and winked at him.
“What’s going on here?” Xander’s deep voice was directly behind me and I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t heard him come out of the bedroom and down the corridor.
“Liv is going to share her pancakes with me, but she’s warning me to stay away from her bacon.” Henry answered his brother with a laugh. “I said that’s a fair price to pay to share breakfast with a beautiful woman.”