I slowly brought my hands down and found them all watching me with stupidly huge grins on their faces. “What’s happening?”
“I guess we’re having a baby.” Zeke punched Griff in the arm and then rushed me. Scooping me into his arms, he spun me around and held me against his chest with one strong arm under my ass. “You’re even more trapped with us now.”
I kissed him and grinned back at them. “You aren’t freaked out?”
Con sank onto the couch and wiped his eyes. “Seems it was always meant to be this way. You’re a Phoenix, Auti.”
I went to him and crawled into his lap, smashing myself against him. “I loved you when I was a teenager, and I thought that was the most I could ever love anyone. Turns out that was just the beginning.”
Griff sat next to us, Zeke on the other side, and they all seemed to deflate into the cushions. They all looked like theyhadn’t been sleeping, but Con had two black eyes that I’d noticed when I first looked at him.
Looking them over, I sighed. “You three are a mess without me.”
“I don’t want to do it again.” Griff shuddered. “We had to talk to each other so much, and it sucked.”
“You think that’s over now that you’re, what? Dating the same woman?” I shook my head. “If this really is going to work, you three are going to have to talk about your emotions and figure your shit out. All. The. Time.”
Griff pulled me onto his lap and buried his face in my chest. “Nope. I’m just talking to you from now on.”
I held his head in my hands and finally started to relax. “So. We’re doing this?”
Lifting his eyes to mine, Griff nodded. “In case you missed it, I love you. I’m in love with you. They are too. We’re not giving you up. We’re going to make this work, no matter what. No more running away. No more hiding from us. Just the four of us, being a team.”
“You’re always so fucking bossy.”
“And you’re always so fucking mouthy. Did you hear what I said?”
“Yeah, yeah, you love me. Tell me something I don’t know.”
“How about you tell us something we don’t know?” His tone was serious as he looked at me. Then, glancing over at his brothers, he rested his hand on my belly. “Do you really love us?”
I nodded instantly. “I love all three of you. God only knows why. You have too much money, you don’t understand normal human interactions, you’re all bossy in your own ways, but I fucking love you all. Each of you.”
Zeke reached over and took my face in his hand. “I love you.”
“I love you, too, Auti. We’re all crazy about you.”
Zeke leaned back on the couch and stared up at the ceiling. “I’m going to be a dad.”
I crawled over to him and straddled him. “It’ll be fine. Don’t panic.”
“Panic? I’m barely keeping in an excited squeal. If you weren’t here to see me, I’d be running through this room like a happy little pig.”
I laughed and kissed him, slow and deep. When I felt hands sliding down my shorts, I sat up and shook my head at them. “Keep it in your pants. I wasn’t kidding about today. I have a million things to do for the kids.”
They all groaned. Con actually pouted. “Why? They don’t care about specificity. We can tell them tomorrow is actually the Fourth. Let’s send them to Jenny and have really fucking fantastic makeup sex.”
I booped them each on the nose before standing and adjusting my clothes. “I haven’t seen Jones yet. I’ve missed him. So, as much as I love the idea of hot makeup sex that will be happening later tonight, I also really want to check on my kiddos.”
With perfect timing, Jones pushed into the office and stopped when he spotted me. “Are you staying?”
I smiled and nodded. “You can’t get rid of me.”
He ran to my side and threw his arms around me. “You can’t ever leave again. Everyone was awful. I had to hide away from everyone and I was running out of books to read. Please, promise that you’re staying.”
I wrapped him in a tight hug and met Griff’s eyes over his head. Seeing Griff smile the sweetest smile at me, it was an easy promise to make. “I’m staying.”
Epilogue
