She looked at Beni who winked at her and Adil who was grinning like the cheshire cat. “You all want this?”
“Uh-huh.” Adil nodded his head, his hair flying haphazardly. “I’d marry you tomorrow and not regret a single minute of it until I take my last breath.”
“Sunshine,” Beni reached into the water and pulled her foot out and began massaging the sole, “you were never meant to be temporary, not for any of us. Within minutes of meeting you, I knew you were the one for me.”
“Ditto,” Adil said seriously.
“What we are saying, Juniper, is we’re committed to making sure you understand not all men are going to cheat or be disloyal. We’re going to wait until we can legally put a ring on your finger. It will be an engagement ring first and then a wedding ring. The minute the engagement ring goes on your finger, then we fuck, and we paint your insides with so much come it’ll be impossible not to take.”
Her eyes burst open at his words, “what?”
“Did I stutter?”
“This is not how I envisioned this conversation happening,” Adil muttered with annoyance as he gave Phineas a shove. “We were supposed to talk about this after dinner tonight.”
“You talked about this?” her eyes darted around the room.
“Yes.”
“You talked about marrying me.”
“We did,” Phineas nodded seriously. “We want to marry you. You’re important.”
“What if I don’t want to get married again?”
Beni lifted her foot higher and kissed the bottom of her foot, “Sunshine, are you really telling us, you who was loyal to one man for fifteen years, doesn’t want to be married, raise a family, and get a fairy tale happily ever after? I don’t believe it for a minute. You are the reason happy ever after stories exist, Sunshine.”
“Raise a family?” the words rebounded in her brain as his comment about painting her insides suddenly clicked. “You want to raise a family with me?”
“We want it all with you, Sweetheart,” Phineas chuckled.
“What if I can’t carry a baby?”
“We’ll figure it out but I’m thinking he was the problem, not you. Anyone as snaky as him is bound to have lazy sperm.”
“You sound so sure.”
“I am.” Phineas shrugged. “I know it’s only been a couple of weeks. I know your heart is still grieving what you’ve lost. I know, we,” he waved to the other two men, “can help you heal and help you love again. I went to talk to your doctor.”
“What?”
“I talked to your doctor in a consult. I didn’t mention any names and neither did she, but I asked, hypothetically, how long a woman needs to wait until they try again after a miscarriage. She recommended a woman wait at least one cycle. I know you want a baby, Juniper. I know you do. So, when our ring is on your finger, you should go through one cycle by then. She did mention it was up to the mental ability of the patient as well. She said our girlfriend might not be ready to try again and if it’s the case then the three of us will need to don condoms until she is ready.”
“Or we can just come down your throat instead of deep inside you.”
She shivered at the words which came unbidden from Beni’s lips and even he looked surprised he said it.
He shrugged, “we were all thinking it.”
“I know I was,” Adil slapped him on the back.
“How would that work?” she eyed the three of them. “You’re just all going to come inside me and may the fastest swimmer win?”
“Fuck no,” Phineas laughed, “Beni qualified for Olympic trials with his butterfly so hell no it’s not going to be a race of fastest. It’s going to be a race for the fittest. We’re all equally physically fit. We challenge each other every day in the gym to outdo one another.”
“Don’t you need a Phineas the fourth?” she questioned quietly.
“We already agreed, first boy is named Phineas to keep my grandfather happy. We all love him to bits.”
“What if genetically he isn’t yours?”
“We already agreed that we’re all dad.”
“You had all these conversations without me, the woman who is going to carry these children?”
“We started the conversation,” Phineas corrected, “and came up with a potential plan which we wanted to discuss with you after dinner.”
“This is all happening so fast.”
“Yet, you feel it too.” Phineas didn’t back away from her confused gaze. “You feel the same connection with us, as we do with you. You’re our missing piece, Juniper. You’re the binding person which will make us the true family the three of us were meant to be. I hate living alone. I spend more nights in Beni’s guest room than anywhere else. I know Adil is the same. Fuck, we shared a crib and playpens. We were always meant to be together because we were always meant to share you.”
“Oh,” the poetic words from him made her heart skip and she felt a strange urge to weep. “You really feel so strongly so soon?”
“I really do.”
“I do too,” she wailed suddenly. “I feel like such a fraud.”
“A fraud?” Adil moved quickly to kneel next to Phineas as Beni’s hands rubbed Juniper’s calf reassuringly. “Why?”
“Because I thought I loved Kyst with all my heart and it’s barely been a couple of weeks, and I don’t even miss him. All I think about is the three of you and I should miss him, and I should still love him, but I hate him so much and all I want all the time is for you to be with me. I’m screaming he cheated but I’m worse because I don’t think I loved him the right way.”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.