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“Maybe I’m not the best person to do this. I mean, I don’t have any formal training in social services or whatever. But I thought it might be useful if I could spearhead some sort of program to help witches who are having trouble finding a suitable partner in the witching community. Come up with strategies to allow them to connect with unsparked men who might be a good fit.”
“I think your experience has been more than good enough training for that,” Gabriel said. “And I think you can find a way to accomplish just about anything you want to, Sprout.”
I snuggled deeper into my consorts’ combined embrace. It had always felt amazing, being with these guys, but now, without any threats hanging over us, even my fractured spark danced with a brilliant warmth. We’d fought, and we’d won. The long life together I’d dreamed about could really be ours, from this night onward.
“Is there a relationship agenda too?” Ky asked, rumpling my hair. “Do you want us all moving onto the estate permanently?”
“Of course,” I said. “I mean, if you want to. I’m not going to be offended if you’d rather spend some of your time in town or wherever. I just… I’d love to have you here as much as you want to be here. I know you have the rest of your lives too.”
Ky chuckled. “I have a few clients who are going to be overjoyed that I can remind them to reboot their computers again. I don’t think that requires I keep my apartment, though. It’s not exactly far from here to town.”
“I have no desire to spend any more time in that shitty basement my idiot landlord passed off as an apartment,” Damon muttered. “Especially not when I could be here with you instead.”
“You know I’m already moved in,” Gabriel said.
“And me,” Jin said. “I’ll probably be doing some traveling to gather new pieces for display once the gallery is rebuilt, but there’s nowhere I’d rather come back to than this house.”
“Maybe you’re going to need me to build an addition to go with that bigger bed,” Seth joked. I poked him with my toes. He caught them, running his thumb over the arch of my foot. Then his hand went still. “I guess there are other things we’ll need to talk about at some point. Like… kids?”
“Kids?” I repeated, with a shiver of emotion that was nervous and joyful all at once. I hadn’t let myself think about anything that far in the future when we still hadn’t been sure we’d get to have any future at all.
“Your Assembly has to approve, right?” Gabriel said. “Now that they’ve made us official and everything… Not that I’m saying I think we should get started on that stepjustyet.”
“But sometime,” I said, the shiver turning into a full-out flutter in my chest.
“Sometime,” he agreed.
“Just saying this now,” Damon said, with a kiss to the side of my neck. “We all know Rose and I will make the cutest kid. So clearly I should go first.”
A laugh sputtered out of me. “You figure we’re going to have a rotation, then? Not just leave it to chance?”
“Hey, if you want the best…”
“Hold on a second,” Ky said. “I don’t think wedoall ‘know’ that. Should we bring an objective third party in to evaluate our respective cuteness factor?”
Jin snickered. “Knowing you, you’ve probably already got an expert in mind.”
At that remark, we all cracked up. I lay back, soaking in the warmth and love of the five men who’d joined their lives to mine.
What we had here, what we’d made together, it was right. It was good. And I couldn’t imagine ever feeling lost or lonely again, not while I had my consorts by my side.
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