Their salvation.

Ch. 4- "Meeting the family."

Max's POV:

Oh my god. Today is not the day for this. I will not swoon over his voice, or how good he looks in that suit. Nope. Definitely will not. Realizing I haven't stopped staring at him, shaking my head I snap out of it. Putting a blank face on "If you heard me then why haven't you left? It's closed which means not open for business."

The god for a man stops smirking only to give me a panty dropping smile and replies "I'm not here to eat, Bella. I'm here to meet with some family." Still looking blankly at him "Meeting family?" He slowly nods at me and is about to say something until the kitchen door opens and Paul comes out. Noticing the man, his smile gets even bigger and calls for his wife while embracing the beautiful man. Heidi walks out "What is it Pau- OH MY BABY!" She rushes to embrace him as well.  Watching all of this unfold is leaving me more and more confused, it's almost giving me a headache.

Breaking the silence I ask "Does anyone want to explain what's going on?" They separate from their loving hug and look at me, all three still smiling warmly Heidi speaks first "This is my nephew André, the one that I was telling you about." Thinking it over a second, it finally hits me and I do a very hard double take at the man standing in front of me. Walking over to the picture wall, bringing Heidi with me and finding the only family picture with children. "This is the André you told me about, the tiny little boy in this photo!" Whispering "You said he was nerdy! That is not a nerd! That is a very intimidating mountain for a man." Heidi laughs "Maxi, that photo was when he was 15! He hadn't even hit puberty yet. He may be a grown adult now, but I still see him as my nerdy little boy." I scoff at her response "Nerdy little boy. Heidi, He looks like he's model for "Tough guy weekly" for crying out-loud. He's beautiful but his entire existence screams danger. You're either blind, absolutely delusional or both. Im starting to think both."

Hearing a hearty laugh I turn around to see what's so funny, but my face turns bright red when I see both Paul and André are standing behind us. Realizing they heard everything i said I do the first thing I can think of, Run.

So. I've been sitting in the bathroom for 20 minutes. My face is still bright red. I'm beyond embarrassed. I ran on impulse and I've come to the realization that it's almost time to pick the kids up, I have to walk by them in order to do that. Also, we are all supposed to go over to Paul & Heidi's for dinner tonight, and I don't know if I can do that now.

Heidi and Paul know me behaving like this isn't entirely too common. Yes, they've seen me make a fool of myself but I've never actually ran away. And for what ever reason during this whole inner chat all I can think about is his laugh. It's all André's fault. That's what I've come up with. He turned me into a blushing school girl and he hasn't even really done much. He just looks at me and I'm a mess. This is new territory, a territory I didn't ever think I'd get close to exploring and I honestly can't. I have kids to worry about. They need all my attention, well, and Cameron too. Boys, Men, whatever he is.. I can't.

The only thing I can do is splash some water on my face and walk out of this stall & bathroom with my head held high, tell Heidi and Paul that I cannot do dinner tonight and head home with the kids. And that's exactly what I'm doing.

(Except, apparently I'm not doing that because this just happened.)

I open the stall door and walk to the sink, I dip my head down to wet my face and the moment I lift my head back up, I see them. The silver eyes & a smirk. He followed me into the bathroom. He followed me into the bathroom. Are you kidding me???