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“I used to think they weren’t in the cards for me,” she started to share, and I froze, afraid that if I even took a breath, it would frighten her. But she simply kept sharing, and fuck me, I loved it. I love her. I love her with every part of my being. “But then, seeing my sister and the way she is with them, the way they are with her… even when they’re terrors and—" She giggled. ” I love them, but trust me, they can be. I don’t know. I guess I’m not opposed to the idea. What about you?”
“I, umm…” I cleared my throat. “I was the same. I never wanted kids. Once a, umm…” I scratched the back of my neck. I couldn’t believe I was about to share this. “A friend I used to have in college?—”
“A friend?” Her lips twitched, and that little birth mark by her lip rose slightly, s if she wanted to laugh or found me amusing.
“A good friend. Close one.” She really hadn’t been. We’d been fuck buddies. We’d used one another to burn off stress and try to relax during finals week one year, but I couldn’t tell Rosie that. “Well, she thought she was…” I shrugged and frowned. “It was a terrifying thought back then. Scariest week of my life.”
“I bet.” She nodded. I could see her curiosity piquing, and when she asked, I breathed out. “And now?” Without my eyes moving from hers, my hand reached for hers, and the pads of my fingers brushed the tops.
“Now, I think I’d be ready for anything with the right woman,” I admitted and waited for something inside of me to tell me I was full of shit.
Kids? Me as a dad?
I’d thought about it for six months. The thought had been visceral. Primal. Breeding Rosie was one of those dirty fantasies I’d replayed in my head, but talking to the one and only woman I had ever thought about carrying my child?
It didn’t change my mind.
It only made things feel right.
More than right. It felt meant to be.
“Well.” She licked her lips and pulled her hand away from mine. “I’m sure she will be a lucky lady.”
“One day.” I nodded. “So, we’re good?”
“Always, boss.” She winked and turned before I scowled. Boss. I didn’t like that. I wanted her to call me something else. Something darker and more dominating.
I shook the thought away and wondered for the hundredth time if it was something Casey and Mal thought about, too. We had played with women together in the past. We were members of one of the most exclusive clubs in the city that money could buy. The three of us were as different as morning, noon, and night, but we had something very big in common behind closed doors.
Actually, we had a lot in common behind closed doors.
I just hoped that was something she could get into.
I turned around and glanced at Rosie. She had already gone back to cleaning the room. She must have felt my eyes on her because for a split second, our eyes connected, and I felt it. There was no way I could feel what I felt, what I knew the three of us felt, when she looked at us and not have her feel the same.
“Have a good day.” She waved. Her dark eyelashes batted slowly, and I swear time slowed. Oh yeah, I could see her being into the same things we liked.
She would be our good girl.
Our princess.
And we’d be her daddies.
I nodded and walked out because I couldn’t trust the words that might slip past my lips. I was growing impatient.
Mal had to agree, because our baby girl needed us.
5
MALCOM
“The three of us?” I hissed and stared at the men who were like brothers to me like they were fucking insane. I wanted what they were suggesting, but I couldn’t get myself to give in. All morning, I’d been chewing myself a new one for how I’d behaved with Rosa.
“Yes.” Jett shrugged like they had suggested pizza for lunch instead of what they’d just proposed.
“Absolutely not,” I clipped, running my hands over my close-shaven head. “No.
“Why?” Casey asked with concern in his eyes. “We’ve done this before.”
