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“See you tomorrow, Benj,” I said. “Text me if you want me to bring anything.”

He looked about ready to fall asleep but he smiled, and Leon led me out the door. “Let’s get you home, princess.”

I smiled and leaned into him, and as we climbed into a taxi, I couldn’t help but think of that one word.

Home.

What it used to mean, and what it meant now. The place that felt right, the people who made it so.

“So I was thinking,” I said as we walked into the grand hall to the living room. The opulent furniture, the grandiosity of it all used to seem so over the top; now it felt like home.

“Thinking about what?” Marek asked as he laid my suit jacket neatly on the back of the sofa.

“About my future. About us. About the word home.”

They both stopped and waited.

“I was thinking I could stay here four nights a week and stay with Fitch the other three. Our lease is up in about four months, so that kinda feels like a great trialperiod for us to see if living together forever, and for real, would be good. And who knows, maybe after that, we can sign our lease for another six months but keep it as a studio for our Only Fans, and maybe as a bit of a boy’s club if me, Fitch, and Benji want to hang out and watch movies some nights. I don’t know. I haven’t run this past them, so I’m not sure. Hopefully our videos will start earning some money and we can afford that.”

I waited for them to object to being able toaffordanything, but they didn’t.

They just smiled.

So I kept talking. “And maybe I can take some courses in the second half of the year to get me ready for university next year. I’m not ready for it this year, but with some practice and bridging courses, I could really hit the ground running next year. I think I’d be better suited to property law and you two are like the gurus of that, and I should have some income by then, so I’ll feel better about contributing...”

They were still smiling.

“What?” I asked. “You’re not saying anything. Did I say something wrong?”

Leon broke first, his grin wide. “Of course you didn’t. You just saidforever. You saidliving together forever.” He looked at Marek. “Did you hear that?”

He nodded, smiling. “I believe so, yes. He definitely saidliving together forever, for real. That’s what I heard.”

I chuckled. “Did you not hear anything else I said after that?”

Leon nodded and cupped my jaw. “We heard it all,darling. You can be whatever you want, do whatever you want, whenever you’re ready. You can make decisions, you can change your mind, you can change direction, you can do whatever makes you happy. No rush, no pressure.”

Leon came up to stand behind me. He pressed his lips to my neck. “But you did sayforever.”

“And I meant it,” I said. “Fitch and Benji are my brothers, my family. But you’re my daddies, my home. I don’t know what my future looks like. The fact I am even thinking of my future is a miracle and a testament to you both and how you love me. There’s still a lot I don’t know, and things could change. But we won’t. What we have is forever. I have to believe that.” I swallowed hard. “As long as I have you both, I’ll be home.”

Leon kissed me softly. “My sweetest boy. You said the word forever again.”

Marek hummed, his hands on my hips. He looked up at Leon. “Should I get him our gift? We were going to wait, but I think we should give it to him now.”

Leon nodded. “Yes, we should.”

Marek disappeared and I looked up at Leon. “A gift? What for? It’s not my birthday.”

He booped his finger on the tip of my nose. “We wanted to give you something to show you what you mean to us.”

Marek came back with a small box. “We considered getting you a necklace and threading our wedding bands on it so you could carry our commitment around with you,” he said. “But we agreed that it didn’t feelright to not wear our wedding bands. So we got you this.”

He handed me the box. It was a jewellery box but bigger than a ring box.

My heart was squeezing out each beat, my hands were shaking. I opened it, and inside were two plain thin gold bands and a third with a large pink stone. I looked up at them both. “What is...? I don’t understand...”

“One for each of us,” Leon said. He took the biggest plain ring and slid it onto his ring finger next to his wedding band, and then Marek took the other plain ring and did the same.

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