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“Mmm-hmm,” I acknowledged.
“Well it’s been a year, almost,” Duncan faltered. “A whole four seasons since you got here. A year since you changed everything for us, for the better.”
Julius nodded. “Youdidchange everything for us,” he admitted.
“Yes?” I smiled nervously, not really sure where they were going with this. “So?”
“So don’t you think it’s time the children start calling you Mommy Delilah?”
Time froze. My heart started beating double-time, as my eyes glassed over.
“R—Really?”
“Or just mom, really,” Duncan smiled. “I mean, there’s onlyoneof you, so…”
“You really want them to call me mommy?” I asked carefully. “What about…” I could barely say it. “What aboutKara?”
“Kara will always be their biological mother,” said Liam. “That’ll never change. But they won’t ever know her. As unfortunate as it is, they won’t have memories of her as they are growing up.”
Julius sighed sadly. “Nothing we can do will change what happened. We can only control things going forward. And we know whatwewant,” he said with a smile. “We want you.”
“But you already have me,” I smiled back. “All three of you. You own every last piece of my heart.” I shrugged sheepishly. “Well, at least the parts not totally taken hostage by Jace and Courtney, of course.”
“True,” said Liam. “But the twins need amother. A motherly figure, yes, but also—”
“A mother,” Duncan reiterated. He jerked his chin in Liam and Julius’s direction. “For once I agree with them. They’re absolutely right.”
I was flooded with all sorts of conflicting emotions. I felt humbled. Honored. Even a little bit frightened.
But the most predominant emotion of all was joy.
“Fine,” I said, through eyes that were rapidly filling with tears. “I’dloveto be a mommy.”
“Delilah, you’vebeena mommy,” Julius pointed out, “the whole time you’ve been here. This just formalizes things.”
Formalizes things.It might’ve seemed that way to them, sure. But they had no idea how important this was for me. Or what it meant for our family dynamic, going forward.
“Speaking of formalizing things…”
I wiped my eyes, and suddenly the guys were surrounding me on three sides. It happened often enough, though usually in the bedroom when they were about to knock my socks off. This time however…
OhmyGOD.
There was a ring box at eye-level, staring me in the face. All three men had a hand on it. Their arms were even shaking.
“We were wondering if maybe you’d make honest men of us?”
My heart skipped. My eyes were so full of tears I had to wipe them three times in order to see.
The ring was breathtaking. A circlet of white gold twisted from three sides around a big, beautiful diamond. It was the single most gorgeous thing I’d ever encountered, in my entire life.
I broke down not just crying, but bawling.
“Delilah?”
Courtney came running over, and I swept her into my arms. Jace too. There was so much concern in their little faces, I fought to regain control immediately.
“It’s only been a year,” said Liam, his voice thick with emotion. “But when you know, you know.”
