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“We got more.” Zeke gives her a grin that rarely made an appearance before she entered our lives. He’s always let Xander and me see the softer side of him, but that side was never truly soft. Watching him settle into life in this house with Lily and our dogs has brought me immeasurable joy. Before Lily, Xander and Zeke were the only two people in the world who truly mattered to me, and I would have done anything to make them happy. Who would’ve thought that one woman could be the answer for all of us?
“Thanks to your obsession with everything Christmas, we have four trees. Seemed like we needed more presents to go under them.” I place a kiss on her forehead.
Xander comes back with my briefcase and pops it open. “We are doing this tonight, right?”
“Yes. No more waiting.” Zeke sits on the couch behind Lily and me.
The spot between Lily’s brows pinches together. God, she’s so fucking beautiful. “No more waiting for what?”
Sitting on the floor next to us, Xander places the black bag in his lap and unties the gold ribbon. Lily watches him, probably assuming it’s a gift for him, and she isn’t wrong. There’s a gift for each of us in there.
“Yours is the blue box. Zeke’s is black. Lily’s is green.”
He grins at me. “And yours is gray.”
Lily glances between Xander and me as Xander takes the four ring boxes out of the bag and passes them out.
Lily runs her fingertip over the soft green velvet. “W-what are these?”
I shrug. “Open it and see.”
“Are these a gift from you?”
“From all of us, to all of us.”
Her frown deepens.
Xander fidgets. Zeke sits perfectly still. The heavy knot of anxiety in my throat mirrors the tension radiating from them. What if she says no?
She snaps open the box, and her eyes immediately fill with tears. Her ring is made of four thick bands fused together, two platinum and two rose gold, each engraved with one of our names. She looks at us with tear-filled eyes that overflow with love for us. “It’s beautiful,” she whispers.
Xander opens his box to reveal his ring, which is identical to Zeke’s and mine. The only difference between ours and Lily’s is that ours are all platinum. He immediately slips it onto the ring finger of his left hand, and Lily sucks in a stuttered breath.
“That’s where yours will fit too, princess.”
Tears drip from her chin, and she opens her mouth, but nothing comes out.
Zeke leans forward, hands clasped between his spread thighs. “We might not be able to legally marry each other, baby doll, but we are committed to you and each other more than any marriage license can demonstrate.”
She looks between Zeke and me. “You both have one too?”
I take out my ring and slide it onto my finger. “Sure do.”
“The only piece of jewelry I’ll ever agree to wear,” Zeke says as he puts his on.
Xander jumps up onto his knees. “So what do you say, shorty? Will you be our wife?”
Zeke cups her chin in his hand and tilts her head so she’s looking up at him. “Say you’ll be our partner in every way, baby doll.”
“Yes! Yes, I will,” she squeals, almost jumping off my lap with excitement. I take her ring out of the box, and a lump of emotion lodges in my throat as I slip it onto her finger. Fucking perfect.
I had this idea a few months ago but worried Xander and Zeke would think I was crazy. When I suggested it, they both immediately jumped on board the second I said the wordwife, and we spent the last few weeks designing the rings. Xander has hounded me practically every hour on the hour this past week, beyond ready to do this. And in this moment, the four of us make sense in a way nothing else ever has. Together in everything. Always.
Lily holds out her hand, and the precious metals glint in the lights from the tree.
“Looks beautiful, Mrs. Archer.”
Zeke snorts. “I don’t fuckin’ think so. Mrs. Cavanagh is way better.”
