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I shrug. “I thought leaving would make you and the guys stop fighting. Stop having to deal with the crap I’ve brought into your lives.” I drag my gaze from his as I squirm under their scrutiny.
“You said you wouldn’t do that again, Kitten.” Shaun’s voice comes from behind me, and I glance over my shoulder to find those steel-grey eyes that melt my heart. “You said we were enough.”
I slowly stand from the step, brushing the dirt from my arse as I turn to face Shaun, and my eyes also find Marcus, Simon, and Garrett staring back at me.
I glance back at Shaun and shake my head. “I’m still here, Cass. I realised we need to sort this out. One way or another, this thing we all have needs to be discussed. So I sat my arse out here waiting for you adorable idiots to stop bashing on each other. I never intended to harm myself. I only meant I was going to go home and give you guys space. Let you live your lives without the drama I bring. Each of you deserves more than that. But I figure I at least owe you all that conversation.”
“Don’t talk like that. We aren’t having any conversation that involves a world in which we aren’t yours, Kitten.” Shaun’s tone is final as he frowns, and I shrug again.
“I’m not so sure I’m good for you. Any of you. I’m selfish. Too selfish, especially asking each of you to share me. Maybe if I walk away, you guys will get along again. Be friends, again.” I look back to Ty. “You can go back to teaching. You can find someone to share your life with.”
“Don’t you get it, Kitten?” Ty steps closer, moving up on the same step as me. “I’ve waited my whole life for you to come along. You’re my end game. There’s you, or there’s nothing.”
“What?” My bottom lip starts to fucking seize, and I hear feet shuffle behind me.
“I’m not letting you push me away because you have it in your head that I’m better off without you. I’m nothing without you, Rhys.” Ty frowns, glancing over to the others before looking back at me. “Maybe that makes me the monster Marcus said I was. I don’t know. But I can’t change the way I feel about you. And I don’t see you as anyone but a woman who owns my very soul.”
“Ty,” I whisper.
“I loveyou,Rhys. Not just Kitten. All of you.” Reaching out, he grips my nape before his lips claim mine, branding me, owning me, and I clutch at his hoodie, desperate to climb under his skin.
“I’m sorry. I still can’t get over the fact that my PE teacher is kissing my girlfriend.”
The guys groan at Simon’s statement as Ty’s lips slow against mine, turning up into a grin against my mouth.
“Honestly, what we just witnessed was beautiful.” Shaun remarks, and Marcus snaps.
“Fucking hell, Bossi. Has Cole got you into those mummy porn romance books he reads?”
“Don’t knock them until you try them, Grady.” Garrett snaps, and Ty and I reluctantly pull away from each other.
“You aren’t going anywhere.” He points in my face, and I grin, even though I still feel like crying and that I’m responsible for all this mess.
“I’ve been a bad girl, Daddy,” I say innocently, grasping at the old habit of mine of being playful and trying to push myself into being ok.
“Ok, I’m just saying, I’m still not fucking cool with this fucked up situation.” Marcus snaps, and I reluctantly drag my gaze from Ty’s deep blue eyes.
Upon closer inspection, I can just make out bruises and grazes on Marcus and Shaun’s faces. Fucking hell. How are they going to explain that to their parents?
“We heard you the first time.” Shaun mumbles, winning him a glare from Marcus. “I guess there are some conversations to be had?”
“You’d better believe there are some conversations to be had.” Marcus snaps, and I glance at Shaun. Waiting for him to bite back, but instead, he nods.
I feel bad. Shaun has kept the secret of who Ty is, too. He seems to always be siding with me like he’s trying to take the heat off me, but I don’t want him to do that anymore. I know he cares about his mates. I know he hates going against them. There are so many conversations to be had between the six of us, and as much as the thought of that makes me uncomfortable, I know that if we don’t have them, then these issues will never be resolved.
“Let’s get you inside and clean up your feet, beautiful.” Ty sweeps down and scoops me up in his arms. He steps towards his front door, which has a wall of my guys blocking his path, and I glance up to see him raising a single blonde brow at his former students, who glare at him, all but Shaun, for a few tense moments before stepping aside to let him pass.
As Ty carries me back inside his house and I hear the guys follow behind, I still have no idea how to sort out this mess and if it’s even something that can be rectified. I just know that I want to make it work. Whatever it takes.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Garrett
We are going round in circles. Shaun is trying to defend Tyler, but Marcus can’t accept it. I have to admit, it freaked me the fuck out when I finally saw who Ty actually was. Never did I think it was one of our teachers from school. Yet here we are, in his lake house, trying to have a discussion on how to make this work.
Just remembering what we did at the sex party last night, remembering that I watched my teacher fuck my girl, and he watched me fuck her, too. That’s sick, right?
In theory it is, but being there, watching the connection he has with Rhys is undeniable. They love each other. Like intensely. I don’t think Mr F is into students. He just fell in love with someone who happens to be legally too young. As soon as she’s eighteen, that won’t be an issue anymore, and honestly, in the bedroom, Rhys is all woman and nothing like a teenager.
