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I swung around to make sure no one was close. “Don’t scream it, Kitty!”
For the first time in our entire relationship, Kitty’s eyes filled with tears and there was no stopping them. Black mascara lines immediately ran down her cheeks. “Oh, no! I haven’t cried since the eighties! Little Kitty! This isn’t waterproof makeup!”
I smiled and wrapped her in a tight hug. “You’re still beautiful. You have to keep this a secret, though. I want to figure out a way to surprise the guys with it. They always do the big, grande gestures. I want to do it for them for a change. Can you believe it, though? I’mpregnant.”
Her eyes went wide again as she looked behind me. “Oh, shit.”
I turned to see what she was looking at and saw nothing until my eyes moved lower. Standing a few feet away from us was our neighbor’s kid. He was four and I hated him. I knew I wasn’t supposed to, but he was a monster. Since his family moved in next door, he showed up at our house all the time. He broke things, tried to take Jesse’s bike and whatever toys he left out, and he’d even gone into our house once and hid until his parents had searched their security cameras to see where he went. They’d stormed our house with cops in tow to find a kid we didn’t know was in our home. The only reason the little shit didn’t get us charged with kidnapping was he didn’t know the cops were there and jumped out to scare us, which had been his master plan all along.
I narrowed my eyes. “Ethan.”
He hissed at me. “You’ve got a secret and I’m going to tell!”
65
***Olive***
“Thehellyouare!Your parents are about to meet my booted foot if they don’t keep you out of here. If people can do it with dogs, surely they can do it with you.” Kitty glared at Ethan. She wasn’t a fan, either. Not because of loyalty to me, but because Ethan sprayed her with the hose one time and she’d just gotten her hair permed.
“Ethan, I need you to go home.” I tried to take a calmer approach, like I was defusing a bomb. “It’s not nice to share people’s secrets.”
He hissed again and then took off towards the front door. “I’m going to tell on you!”
“Get him, Little Kitty! We can keep him in my trunk until you tell the guys!”
I chased after Ethan, with no plans to lock him in a trunk, but I was going to carry his little butt home and threaten to lock his parents in a trunk if they didn’t control their child. I grabbed at the back of Ethan’s shirt and just barely missed. With Kitty chasing after us, Ethan led the charge up the steps to our front door and I was too afraid to make him fall on the concrete steps so I had to just hope I could grab him before he got inside.
Of course, those big front windows meant that people could see me sprinting after a child. One of those people opened the front door, probably to make sure I hadn’t lost my mind, but it just let Ethan slip inside.
I charged in after him and made a panicked decision to not let my guys find out I was pregnant from a kid they hated, too. I froze and then screamed at the top of my lungs. “I’m pregnant and I want my boyfriends to marry me!”
Kitty stumbled in behind me, panting and swearing. “Well, sonofabitch.”
“You’re pregnant?!”
I looked around our front room and gasped. There were a lot of people standing around, but they weren’t the people I expected to find. I didn’t see any of the parents from Jesse’s class. Instead, there was Lydie, who’d just screamed back at me, the guys’ families, my Jolly Pines family, and so many of our friends. Standing in the center of the room were my guys.
Andrew, Caleb, and Jack were all wearing suits, holding big bouquets of roses, and staring at me in shock. Jesse was beside them, in a suit of his own, with his own bouquet of roses.
My brain was moving slower than it should’ve. I was confused about what was happening, but I was on a mission. Ethan had disappeared in the crowd but he’d pushed me to act and I didn’t want to take it back. I didn’t want to wait. I wanted to go through every step of the pregnancy with them.
I looked back at Kitty and held out my hand. “Let me borrow the rings for the symbol, Kitty. Please.”
She swore. “They were really from a Dolly impersonator and I stole them. Just keep them.”
I took the three rings and hurried over to my guys. Dropping to a knee in front of them, I ignored the sound of everyone around us gasping. “Marry me. I want to be married to y’all and I’m tired of waiting. You’ve been Jesse’s dads and such a huge part of my world for so long. I want to make it official. I want messy paperwork that would be a bitch to untangle. I want you three to feel how deeply you’re ingrained in us. I haven’t talked about this with Jesse but I know our son and I know his heart. I want you to adopt Jesse. Y’all are his fathers. Let us take…one of your last names? I hadn’t thought about that part. Maybe we’ll pick a new last name to take together. Whatever.”
Jesse pumped his fist. “Yes!”
“And yeah, I’m pregnant. I was going to deliver the news in some special way but that little asshole Ethan overheard me and he was going to tell everyone. But now I’m glad. This baby is so lucky to get to come into this family with three dads like y’all. And they’re going to have the best big brother. I don’t want them hidden from their family for a second more.”
Jack dropped his roses and pulled me off the floor and into his arms. He picked me up and pulled my mouth down to his in a fierce kiss. “You’re our perfect match, Liv.”
Jesse faked a gag. “Less kissing, please!”
Caleb blinked and looked away while wiping his eyes. “You’re pregnant.”
“Oh, fuck it.” Andrew dropped to his knee and pulled out a ring box. “Marry us, Olive.”
