Tactless Temerity

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Sigurd evik

Rory broke eye contact at my announcement then turned to Josephine, in which I followed.

"What the hell, Mr. Frost?" Josephine sounded alerted and I was unsure if it was a good thing or a bad thing as there were other emotions in her eyes. She then checked all of my sister's direction then back at me before continuing. "Marriage? You...are out of your mind. And why are you asking Rory? You cannot even ask me out to a proper date."

"Stupid Siggy!" Amalia called out. "How can you have sex with her almost every night ever since Spain and not ask her out?"

"You tell your sisters about your sex life?" Josephine was more than scandalized and I shook my head plenty of times before waving a hand for them to stop talking.

"No...no...Amalia, big sister...I love you but fucking zip it. I apologize for my cave women sisters, they know no bounderies and they are just excited...right, sisters?" They all nodded and Amalia gestured her finger to zipping her mouth.

"I did not see this night going like this...nor did I expect a yes..." I scratched the back of my head and I saw Mikhail shaking his head as he raised a bottle of beer at me.

"You're serious with this." It was Rory.

I nodded at her then looked at Josephine apologetically.

"Forgive me, Sigurd...but...do you even love my sister?" Rory continued.

I chuckled then turned to her.

"Love....do I love her?" I breathed hard and smiled to myself. "Love is such a definite word for how I feel about Josephine..." I knew that Josephine's eyes were on me and though I wanted her to see my expression, I fought the urge to stay still and let Rory have her piece of me first. "Everything, however could define what she is to me..."

Rory raised a brow at me.

"That's...sweet, but words are words. You're young, you obviously have your way with words and women...and let's not forget, you're Scandinavia's Grand Patron." She paused then turned to my sisters. "I signed a very thick NDA to know these things...and my husband as well." Then back at me. "That's a lot of responsibility, Mr. Frost and one or two...my sister and I, are not easily swayed with such...sweet words. And hey, let's put me out of the equation. Si ate ang importante dito. I can see that you have good intentions, props on the asking for her hand, I appreciate that. But..." She looked at my shield maiden so I was not able to stop myself from looking at her as well. Our gazes locked. "It's not gonna be up to me."

"I know that very well, Rory." I turned back my attention to Rory. "Still, I wanted your blessing on this...as you can see, family is very important to me."

"Siggy, if I may intrude." My brows shot up at Aviika's unlikely politeness before shrugging at her. "Aurora, Josephine, Mikhail." She called out making them turn towards her. "I know that our Siggy is...very upfront and may seem...what's your term for it, padalos-dalos. Yes, padalos-dalos. But that's just it, it just looks like it, when in truth? Sorry brother, they have to hear this..."

I groaned and massaged my temple, but did not say a thing.

"You see, Siggy does not tell us anything anymore unlike when we were children. When he does something, decides on something we sisters would only partake on the easy parts, the positive parts, the enjoyable ones and no one, not even our mother would question how things came to be, for our Siggy...our Siggy had already weighed in everything that could go wrong, and somehow we hated that brilliant part of him with passion. So it was to our surprise that one day, last year...when we all arrived from Viktor's party, he called to us for he needed our help for the very first time....our little Siggy was somehow back and though the matters were not like before when he wanted to reach for the milk that was on the counter or he was crying because he wanted candy, we were all on board. Do you know what he asked of all of us?"