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He gets up and comes around, kneeling beside me. “I have to make it official. I need a wife, going forward, not just a partner. Of course, consider this coming from the four of us. I may be the one who ends up signing the marriage certificate, Stella, but you’d be marrying the four of us.”
“Oh, my God,” Theo gasps.
I catch a glimpse of Mrs. Kendrick squeezing Mr. Kendrick’s hand on the table.
“What is going on?” I mumble, shocked out of my mind.
“We love you,” Noah says. “We’ve loved you for years. We plan on loving you for plenty more.”
“And we want to spend the rest of our lives with you, ma cherie,” Beau adds.
Levi smiles softly. “A ring from the four of us feels like a natural progression, babe.”
“Stella, I love you. We’re doing so well together. I want to make it as official as we can possibly make it in these circumstances,” Isaac says, opening the box to reveal a gorgeous diamond ring. My soul practically leaves my body as I gawk at the magnificent opal stone mounted on a sleek platinum base and surrounded by tiny sapphires that, oddly enough, match the color of my eyes. “Marry me. Marry us, Stella, and make us the happiest men on this earth.”
They have been faithful. They have been loving and fierce. They have claimed me in more ways than one.
These four men have given me a home and a whole new life. They’ve taken my children as their own, and they’re raising them with me. They have been patient and nurturing. Bold and ambitious. Caring and attentive. We’ve had our ups and downs, like every other relationship, but at the end of the day, we’ve stuck together through and through.
It makes sense.
“Yes,” I say, having found my voice again.
What else could I say? As Isaac slips the ring on my finger, as he and Noah and Levi and Beau take turns kissing me, as I lose myself in the tightest embrace of their arms wrapped around me… I tell myself… It couldn’t have gotten better than what we already had—until it did.
All it took was a ring and a promise.
We made it through the fire and the rain. We’ve survived so many terrible odds. I love them equally, and they love me intensely. Yes. A thousand times yes.
The End
