Page 122 of Secret Baby for My Brother's Best Friends

The sound of the front door opening and closing causes the atmosphere to ease and just brighten.

Adam smiles first. "She's back."

Sam doesn't bother to say anything. He simply turns and heads upstairs, probably eager to see her. I feel the same way.

I take my boxing gloves off as the men head upstairs and sniff myself a couple of times. Not too bad. Still, I go to the basement bathroom and step in the shower for a few minutes to get the grime off me.

By the time I head back upstairs, they already have her on the couch with Sam rubbing her feet, and Adam making lunch.

She has them in the palms of her hands.

When she sees me, her face glows.

"Hey," she says.

"Hey," I respond, walking over to kiss her. "How was work? And your brother?"

"Work was fine. I talked to James," she said, beaming. "We made up."

"That's great," I say, a huge weight lifted off my chest. It would have been horrible if her fight with her brother had destroyed their relationship. "That's amazing."

"Yeah. Speaking of amazing...I'm going to see my doctor tomorrow," she says. "I want all of you to come with me."

That has everyone in the room freezing.

"Sorry," she says, taking a deep breath. "I didn't mean to blurt it out just like that, but....yeah. I've decided."

"Are you sure?" Adam asks. She nods.

"Do you know what this would mean?" I ask her, and she bites her lips and nods again.

"Yes," she says. "It would mean that people, at least at the clinic, would know we're together, all of us. And I think I'm okay with that, or at least, I want to try to be okay with that. I have to be okay with that because I can't choose." She looks between us. "All of you have come to mean so much to me in the short time we've known each other. So we'll have to try being together. If you want that is..." She shoots me a doubtful look, and I'm flabbergasted.

If we want to?

Of fucking course we want to.

As if there was any possibility of us saying no to that.

As if we don't all crave her with every breath we take and with every fiber of our being.

As if my soul isn't jumping for joy right now, the voices in my head are finally shutting up.

She wants us.

Fuck what society says. This is right. This is how it was meant to be.

As if this isn't right.

As the others talk, the words are droning in the background.

I kiss her again, on the lips this time.

There's still so much we need to talk about, so much that we haven't decided on yet. But all that can come later. This isn't the end. It's a beginning.

James doesn't look surprised to find me in his office.

It's evening time, and Chelsea is home with Adam and Sam. I told them I wanted to run a few errands and came here.