His grandmother took the outstretched hand, her eyes on his female. “I’m Rain. It is a pleasure to meet you. You have a lovely name.”

“So do you and it’s a pleasure to meet you as well.”

“This is Lake.” Sky interjected.

Candy turned towards his brother. “I feel like I already know you. I’m very excited for you guys with the pregn—”

Lake growled. It didn’t matter that the male was acting on instinct. It pissed Torrent off. He stepped forward and growled back.

“Now, now.” His gran tsked. “Enough of that.”

“My female is not familiar with our ways.” His voice was deep and threatening. It couldn’t be helped.

Lake nodded. His shoulders dropped as he relaxed. His brother locked eyes with Candy. “It is considered bad luck to talk of such things.”

Sky put her arm around her mate. “It’s okay, love.” She looked up at him with such love and devotion. “Candy is a human so it doesn’t count.”

Lake dropped a kiss on her brow. “You are right, sweets.” He turned his gaze back to Candy. “I’m sorry for overreacting.”

His female put her hands up. “I really need to learn the traditions and what nots. It’s my fault entirely.” She was talking too quickly. “It won’t happen again.” She mouthed sorry to Sky when Lake wasn’t looking.

“It’s one of those really touchy subjects.” Storm interjected. “Better to not say anything.” He winked at Candy. The little shit. “We can talk about other things. More fun things.”

Torrent gave a small shake of the head. Storm grinned at him and gave the tiniest little nod. This was going to end in blood shed. He could tell.

His grandmother had always been good at intercepting a conversation. More like hijacking one. “So, dear…” she directed her attention to Candy. “Tell me about yourself. Wait just a minute.” She glared at Storm. “Why haven’t you offered our guest a drink?”

“She’s Torrent’s date.” He smirked.

Gran gave him a hard glare. “Exactly, he needs to stay at her side. You’re being rude.”

Storm took a step back and seemed to cower a little under their gran’s death stare. “What can I get you to drink?” Storm smiled at Candy. His look and demeanor was a little too friendly for Torrent’s liking.

“Some fruit juice would be great.” Candy seemed oblivious to the tension.

“I’ll have a glass of red wine, brother.” It was Torrent’s turn to smirk at Storm who scowled at him as he handed him his glass moments later.