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“You challenge the shit out of me,” he chuckles and leans back to cup my wet face in his massive palms. “But what is music without the staff to keep it all together?”
“Fin.” My heart splinters in two and bleeds a rush of warmth into my chest for the first time in … well …
Ever.
This moment. This segment of time.
Thisrushas I stare into the loving blue gaze of the man that stole my heart when I wasn’t looking. It’s what I will forever recognize as the moment that my life changed for the better.
“Say it, Cedar,” Fin demands in that tone that sends chills—thegreatkind—down my spine. “Tell me I’m not crazy.”
“Pfft,” I scoff on a watery chuckle. “You’re definitely crazy, hotshot.”
“Cedar,”he growls in warning.
With a wicked grin and a zip across my lips, I lock it up tight and toss the imaginary key over my shoulder.
I might love him … but I’m still me.
“Sweetness.”
Chapter Forty
Fin
Iopenmymouthto demand she say those three little words to my damn face, only to have it all set aside for the man that walks back through the doorway covered in paper scrubs and enough blood to make me growl.
“Rex?” I spare a glance for Cedar, including a lifted brow that promises we’ll talk about this later, and step up to my brother that looks like hell chilled over. “Man, say something.”
“She’s—” Rex’s bloodshot and glassy eyes lift to mine and shine with so many emotions as he babbles and wobbles on his feet. “They’re—”
When he topples a little too far to the side, I catch him by the biceps I’ve seen lift amp stacks without breaking a sweat, and his grip latches onto my forearms with more force than I expected. “Goddamnit, Rex. Spit it out,” I growl at my brother while I silently hope that what I see is not what my brain wants to tell me it is. “Is she ok? Are theyok?”
Swaying and unsteady, Rex’s eyes mist over as his fingertips dig into my arm. “Fin,” he chokes out on a sob that breaks my fucking heart when he launches forward and wraps his massive arms around my shoulders.
“Rex,” I demand and grip him right back. “You bastard,tell methey’re okay.”
I feel his head move against my temple as the shakes take over his body and a relief I refuse to believe just yet washes over me. “They…it’sthem,Fin.”
“Them?” I ask with a thickness to my own voice, the lumps building higher and heavier in my throat. “As in Aria and the baby, right?”
His head shakes against me. “Two.”
I rip Rex’s iron grip from my body, his hands landing on my shoulders to keep himself upright while I hold him steady by his ribs. “Two?”
The man nods with a tear-streaked face and a lift to his thinned lips. “Yeah, Fin. We got twins and they’re okay.”
“Fuck.”
“Oh my God.”
Arms are all I see before the both of us are submerged in all of those that have sat around us and waited for the words to finally come out of Rex’s mouth.
Cedar crushes to my chest when Aurora bounces excitedly beside her and Rex as more arms snake around us and bring us all closer together.
“Holy fuck, bat dick, you scared the shit out of us.” I chuckle at Mac as his bandana comes into view over Leo’s head and Toby’s beard scratches over my arm.
“Me?” Rex scoffs halfheartedly and shakes his head as best he can as the center of our giant group hug.
