Ash sliced a hand via the air. “The place we reside is inconsequential. We solely need to be collectively.”

She didn’t reply. The longer the silence stretched on, the extra nervous Ash grew. Piers caught his eye, and Ash noticed the identical fear in these blue depths that he knew so rattling properly.

“Sylvee?” Ash gently pinched her chin.

She prevented their stares. “I would like some time to suppose.”

Spreading her arms, she seemed between them. “There’s a lot happening. My thoughts’s so cluttered. Is it potential to get a horse saddled so I can go for a experience and clear my head?”

Neither he nor Piers moved at first. After a heavy heartbeat, Piers nodded. “I’ll see to it. Ash?”

“I’ll deliver her to the paddock.”

Sylvee moved off to vary her garments for driving, leaving them observing one another.

Ash began to talk, however Piers gave a gruff shake of his head. “We are able to’t power her to go together with our dream of getting her.”

His throat labored towards the lump lodged there. “No.”

Piers despatched him an extended look loaded with ache earlier than he strode to the door and disappeared.

Alone, Ash bowed his head. They stood to lose all of it. However at this minute, the one factor price combating for was Sylvee.

And he or she would possibly stroll away.

* * * * *

Sylvee’s muscular tissues advised her simply how out of form her desk job had made her. Stalking round a courtroom exercising her mouth didn’t make for lots of stamina both. Simply being on horseback and within the recent Alaskan air exhausted her.

After driving for what felt like hours, she dismounted to stroll the horse the remainder of the way in which to the paddock. Nobody was round, however she heard shouts and cheers coming from a small discipline close to the barn and will solely guess on the group exercise going down there.

Bare flag soccer or cornhole? A spanking contest?

Her insides clutched on the considered all three issues she imagined, however provided that her lovers and finest pals have been concerned.

She issued a low sigh and stroked her fingers over the mare’s dappled coat. “You’ve acquired it straightforward, woman.”

They wished her. Each of her males.

However how would such an association ever work? She couldn’t simply have two lovers dwelling together with her completely. She was within the public eye, and folks may very well be merciless about something past the norm. Identical-sex marriages have been nonetheless typically ridiculed, particularly in smaller cities the place they noticed much less of it.

Even when she grew to become licensed to observe legislation in Alaska, she could by no means have a shopper once more.

That wasn’t utterly true—she had Avril. The girl was relying on her to talk to her bosses. Sylvee had made a promise and she or he would see it via.

The case was the straightforward half. The tough one was cut up into two large, manly, muscular elements: Ash and Piers.

If she rejected them, they’d carry that ache ceaselessly.

Truth was, she cherished them each, and never in a platonic method. Hell, possibly she’d at all times stuffed down this ardour for them. Perhaps she actually wished them, and she or he’d turned to Charlie just because he was the better selection.

There was additionally the fairly actual chance that she was carrying their youngster. Whereas she’d thought it via rigorously, she by no means banked on them giving up their lives to handle her or their dedication to being by her facet for the remainder of their days.

She inflated her lungs. The air was scented with pine and recent grass. She swore she even smelled the mountains.

God, she cherished it right here. She stopped strolling the horse to gape at her environment. The wild panorama coupled with the nation life gave her a pang of longing so sturdy, so plain.

What about her observe? She couldn’t simply up and depart. A few of her circumstances have been difficult, and people shoppers deserved for her to see their circumstances via. Giving something as much as Charlie rubbed her fallacious as soon as, chafed her till it felt like an itch that might by no means be scratched.

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