“Ho-ly fuck…” He gasped as his jaw dropped to the floor at the sight of the flawless brunette, lying face down in the middle of my bed. “That’s—”
“Tessa fucking Bradley. I told you.” I hummed my pride, pulling on my boxers before leaning back against the door frame and crossing my arms over my chest.
“That—”
“Explains the mutual and exceedingly quick attraction on both our ends.”
“The twin shit...” We spoke in unison, and I nodded my confirmation, still smiling ear to ear in anI told you somanner.
My brother and I stood there for a few minutes, in stunned silence, while I chewed on my thumb, admiring her prone figure, already turning hard from the memory of last night, now knowing it had been her this entire time.
I wasn’t blind; I caught most of the similarities: her eyes, her scent, and even her sexual habit of biting when she came, but the pink hair threw me off. Without the glamour of a Hollywood stylist, she looked more normal, and honestly, I liked her better this way.
Tessa didn’t need someone to make her stunning; she was exactly that all on her own. And now she wasours.
“Alright, so what’s the plan?” Levi broke the stillness that had fallen over us, and I arched my brow at him in question.
“What do you mean?”
“Well, we have to tell her the truth, we can’t pretend to be one person—and then there’s the whole secret society and marriagething…” His voice drifted off as I remembered all the shit we still had to reveal to her.
Would Tessa marry us on a whim? I didn’t know how the fuck to pitch something like that to her; that was Levi’s area of expertise. I was just along for the ride, in a sense.
“What if she runs?” I rushed out, nervous of losing the one thing I wanted all over again.
“Well, luckily for you, she won’t be running off anytime soon.” Levi gave me a scheming smile, and I furrowed my brows, curious as to what he had done to make that even possible.
“Oh? And why’s that?”
“Because she signed this…” My brother reached into the back pocket of his jeans, extending a tri-folded sheet of paper for me to take. “I was going to wait until tomorrow to say anything to you, but it looks like now is the perfect time.” I unfolded the document and skimmed over it. As I was running my fingers over the embossedState of Nevadaseal, I realized that I was holding a marriage license. My eyes flicked back up to meet Levi’s with a look of shock and awe. “She believed she was signing her employment paperwork when, in reality, it was our marriage license. I’ll have to amend her name with Dustin, seeing as she’s notEvie Sinclair, but aside from that… Tessa is ours.Legally bound.”
This was a fucking dream come true.
“And the test?” I added, remembering that Tessa would still need to pass her initiation to make this permanent. It was one thing to have the signed license, but the requirement…
“In a month. Dallas beat us to the punch, and so his wife is next in line. Tessa will follow once hers is complete.”Dallas snagged a wife too, good for him.
“So we still have time to figure out how to disclose this information to her…” I mulled over the facts. A month was more than enough time for us to work on breaking the news gently. “Then I guess, for now, I say we just focus on getting Tessa to accept our agreed-upon relationship before rushing into anything else.”One step at a time…
“Sounds like a plan,” Levi smirked, stretching his arms over his head as he lazily stepped into the bedroom. “Do you mind?”
“Only if we can have a little fun first.”
I enjoyed playing games, and Tessa had an attitude so… why the fuck not? We were in the mood for celebrating after all.
With a cocky grin, I skirted to the opposite side of the bed, readying myself by the window as Levi settled in behind her. A single nod from my brother and I whipped open the curtains, a wakeup call to our beautiful girl.
The moment the bright morning sun kissed her eyes, Tessa whimpered, rubbing her face on the pillow before rolling into Levi.
“Lucas, it’s too bright.” Tessa’s drowsy voice cracked as she curled into my brother’s chest, and I bit back the urge to laugh, knowing exactly how this was going to pan out.
“It’s not Lucas, babygirl.” He hummed into the top of her head with a smile.
“Cute, but I can’t keep up with the name flipping this early in the morning… Just pick one and stick with it…”
“Tessa,” My brother whispered her name, and her eyes flared, dilating to the size of saucers. She peered up at him before pushing away and sitting up straight in fear.
I stepped forward from my corner of the room, and I swear Tessa flew out of her fucking skin.
