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“This place is way too big for just three of us, but it would be perfect for five of us, along with a few kids and maybe some pets,” Tom said, and when I shaded my eyes to look at his face he was grinning and raising his eyebrows at me. It took me a minute to take in his words, but when I did I almost choked on nothing but air.
“Y-you mean….us? You’re t-talking about….oh bloody hell!” I murmured as heat rushed through me and my hands instantly became clammy at the thought of all he was suggesting.
“Slow your roll, Tom. You’re scaring the shit out of Blake,” Liam laughed.
“I’m not…I mean…don’t you th-think it’s a little soon to be setting up home and pl-planning the nursery?” I gasped.
“Nope. I know you’re going to be ours, Blake. It can take as long as it takes, but one day the five of us are going to call this place home. We’re going to teach our kids to swim in that pool, and play games with them on this lawn,” Tom told me. I had no clue how to feel about that. It terrified me, but at the same time it sounded so wonderful. Unsure, I glanced to Liam, expecting him to tell Tom to stop being ridiculous, but he had this goofy faraway smile on his face.
“You’ll look so beautiful with a big round bump, filled with our baby,” he sighed, and this time I really did choke on air.
“Jesus Christ,” I spluttered. “You b-both need to calm down.”
“Hey!” Declan called from the house. I turned to look behind me and sighed in relief at the sight of him.
“Dec! Thank God! Please come and swiftly ch-change the subject,” I pleaded.
“What’s wrong, beautiful? They boring you to death?” he chuckled as he jogged over and crouched beside my chair, leaning in to kiss my cheek.
“More like scaring the crap out of m-me.”
“What are you fuckers doing to our girl?” Dec accused.
“Just telling her our vision of the future,” Tom replied.
“They’re talking about babies. I am n-not ready for babies,” I countered. Jesus, I didn’t even know if I wanted kids. It’s not like I was going to inherit good mothering genes from my bitch of a mother.
“What the fuck? Stop scaring her, you dicks,” Dec growled. He turned to me and placed a hand on my bare knee. I was wearing a thin cotton summer dress again, becoming quite attached to the easy to wear garments in this stifling summer weather. “Sorry tiger. They’re idiots. What’s this? Is it for your dad?” He pointed to the picture on the table.
“Yeah. The twins built the frame for me. Do you think h-he’ll like it?” I asked.
“I know he will. Better hurry if you’re wrapping it though. We need to head over there soon.”
“Grey meeting us there?” Liam asked.
“Yeah. His shift doesn’t finish until six,” Dec confirmed. “I need to shower and change. Can you two be trusted not to freak Blake out any more?”
I tried not to pout at the news he was changing. He looked so mouth-watering in the grey slacks, black button down shirt and smart shoes he had on. His sleeves were rolled up to his elbows and he had the top two buttons of his shirt undone. I had thought he looked good in his gym clothes, but holy crap, he looked amazing in slacks and a shirt.
“It only freaks her out because she wants everything we’re describing,” Liam returned, and I had to admit, he wasn’t wrong. Everything they had laid out for the five of us sounded pretty damn amazing. My feelings for them all were incredibly strong, and they had grown in such a short time too. I knew that had to mean something, and the conversation I had about soulmates with Nan, was never far from my thoughts. Maybe she had been right, maybe Dec, Grey, Tom, and Liam had been placed in my life path for a reason and the five of us really were meant to be. The idea was both wonderful and terrifying. I just wasn’t sure I had what was needed left within me to be all that they needed me to be. I wasn’t even sure I had the courage within me to try. It would mean going all in with them, which came with a risk of my heart being completely shredded should it ever go wrong. If that happened, if they walked away from me because they realised I could never be who they needed and wanted me to be, I feared I would never survive it.
What was that saying?Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.Something like that, anyway. Was that true? Would I be better if I had loved my guys and been loved in return, but lost them? No. There was no way. If that happened I didn’t think I would come through it. But could I really turn away from them? Stop what we had between us and stay as nothing more than friends? No. I couldn’t. They meant too much to me, as did the future I hoped we could one day have. Maybe I should just go back to my nun-like existence after all! It was definitely much simpler.
CHAPTER 15
GREY
“I need to get in there and assess him,” I told the firefighter who was trying to push me back from the wrecked SUV.
We had been called to the scene of a traffic collision, an SUV had been ploughed into by a courier van. My partner, Caleb, was checking over the driver of the van, but other than some bruises and scratches from broken glass, he seemed to have gotten off lightly.
I had no idea how the accident had happened, but the SUV had taken the brunt of the impact and the driver, a guy who looked a little older than me, had what looked like severe crush injuries and was pinned by the front of his car which had crushed forward into him.
The firefighter continued to stand in my way as he spoke to his superior, while others around us worked to get the car open with various equipment.
“Okay, go ahead,” the firefighter said as he stepped aside and directed me towards the passenger side door, which they had managed to pry open.
“Hi, my name’s Grey,” I told the driver as I crawled into the passenger seat beside him, ignoring the feel of the smashed safety glass of the windscreen under my knees. “Can you tell me your name?”
