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“But...”
“There was no way I couldn’t live happily without being a part of it.” He stands up and kisses me. “You said in your letter you love us. All of us. Please, I’m begging you. Tell me you love me back, Bernadette. I want you to be thelastwoman who says those words to me.”
“That’s easy. I love you, too, Emery Austin.”
“I think I made it obvious how in love with you I am,” Ford takes over. “Let’s go meet your Stella. Make sure you get a fair licensing deal for the designs, and then when we get back, we’ll figure out the rest. Whereyou’regoing to live.” He puts his hand on Ash’s shoulder. “Where we’re all going to live.”
“What do you say, my love?” Emery holds his hand out to me.
Jaws are dropped all around me, and no one’s boarding.
I worry Emery will have his plane roll up at the gate and bump this entire flight. I’ll be on a video with people hating me.
“Really? You all want meforever?”
“Do you think we’d chase after you like this if we didn’t?” Ford crosses his arms.
I can have it all, too.
My menandsee my designs on the runway.
Ford is right, I wanted to live here in New York. I came here on my own. Why am I going backward?
But I owe these designs to Stella, and my men support that.
I assumed I would get some kind of payout for them, but I wasn’t harping on that. I didn’t care. I’m an artist, and my passions get the better of me.
“You’re right. I want that. All of it.” I kiss each man, getting to Emery last. “Let’s get on your jet. I’d also like to be a member of the mile-high club,” I whisper.
But Ford hears me and says, “You’ll be one of the first in the triple mile-high club.”
Five hours in a jet with these three making me mindless? Yes, please!
EPILOGUE
BERNADETTE
Six Months Later
Bright lights flash in my eyes as I walk the runway, holding the model’s hand. She’s the final one of the show, and she’s wearing the cerulean blue evening gown. The one design I kept for myself.
For meandVictoria. I run her plus-size brandLoveMyShape.
Stella couldn’t fly out because she’s close to her due date. But I met her husbands. Only because I showed up with my own trio of men that day, did three men adoring one woman feel completely normal.
And wonderful.
The night feels like magic in a bottle, and I want to remember every second.
What I’ll remember most are the glowing stares of the men I adore.
At the after-party, Ford, wearing those sexy glasses, leads Ash by the hand. They are open about their relationship and unapologetic about their love.
And I’m a firm part of that love.
Ford left his law firm and started his own practice, specializing in class actions against corrupt drug companies. Ives PharmSciences was the first on his hit list, and hehitthem with a slew of lawsuits followed by a holiday greeting card filled with photos of him and Ash kissing as an extra fuck-you.
I took the leftover money from the auction andinvested in Ash’s foundation. It’s technically from me and Emery since it was his money to begin with.
