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Connor’s body was ridiculously lean and muscular, but it was his abs I was fixated most on. Six, eight, twelve… I couldn’t tell you how many of them there were. Only that there were rows upon rows of them, and they all looked yummy as hell.
“You didn’t tell me she was good-lookin’,” Connor suddenly declared, slapping his friend’s chest with the back of one hand.
“It wasn’t in her file,” Aiden smiled. “And hey, you shouldn’t be saying that stuff anyway,” he went on. “Especially if she decides to—”
“Why the hell not?” Connor blurted abruptly.
“Yeah,” I teased Aiden, piling on. “Why the hell not?”
The two of us stood side by side now, our arms crossed in solidarity. Aiden’s expression turned from annoyance into defeat. We both laughed, and Connor flashed me a sideways smile.
Damn,I thought to myself. This guy too…
It was more than likely all three of the guys would be young and good-looking, but I hadn’t expected this level of instant attraction. Connor hadn’t made any attempt to find a shirt or cover up, either. Instead he seemed to relish being shirtless in front of me, or maybe he was just enjoying the discomfort it gave his friend.
“So you’ll be having our babies, eh?” Connor asked, moving his hands to his equally sexy hips.
“Baby,” I corrected him. “Maybe.”
“Just one?”
Again Aiden flashed him an alarmed glance. The dismissive way Connor waved him off made me chuckle.
“We’ll see how good you boys are,” I teased. “Let’s play it by ear for now.”
I realized suddenly I was still staring at him. Peeling my eyes from his glistening body, I pushed any lingering intrusive thoughts from my mind.
“You wanna see the lake?” Connor asked excitedly. “You showed her the lake, right?”
“No,” said Aiden. “Not yet.”
They each took one of my hands, then swept me into an absolutely breathtaking Spanish-style kitchen. Aiden pointed outward through a series of nearly floor-to-ceiling windows, to the picturesque view beyond.
“Before we go out there,” I broke in, “mind if I ask you guys something?”
They glanced back at me together now, looking very different but also the same. Connor was grinning boyishly, finally using the towel. Aiden folded his massive arms and smiled.
“Shoot.”
“Why the live-in arrangement?”
The two of them looked at each other, then stared back at me silently. I got the impression they weren’t really considering the question so much as the way they should answer it.
“I mean, it’s a long nine months,” I said. “You don’t evenknowme and you want to take me in. I could be a rabid asshole. Or the biggest pain in the ass in the entire world!”
“Are you?” asked Connor, suddenly interested.
I ignored him. “Seriously, wouldn’t it be simpler to just go through the implantation and then part ways for a while?” I asked. “We could do some group checkups, and maybe hook up for a few sonograms together. A couple of months after that, I’ll call you when my water breaks.”
Again they remained silent, looking back at me from across a colorfully-tiled island. Pots and pans hung from a rack that dangled from the ceiling. Iron and copper cookware, in every shape and size you could ever want.
Connor finally opened his mouth to answer my question. Before he could say anything, another voice called out from somewhere off to my left.
“I’m afraid that part’s all because of me,” said a third man, standing in the archway at the far end of the room.
Five
ELLIOT
