Three pairs of eyes sparkle. Vibrant blue, deep brown, burnished hazel. Three mouths elevate into smiles. Flirty, charming, daring. Three males step nearer to me, their completely different scents catching within the evening air, then wafting round me.

“Good,” Hollis solutions.

“We don’t both,” Rhys agrees.

“We wish to take you as your boyfriends,” Gavin says.

“Your actual boyfriends,” Hollis says.

“Not a part of a mission, not for a contest, not for per week,” Rhys continues, and this romance Ping-Pong is making my coronary heart spring wildly.

“For good,” Gavin finishes.

There’s a heady pause, stuffed with crackling electrical energy as a breeze whips by, my skirt rustling round my ankles. I swallow previous a stunning knot of feelings, then say, “I wish to be your girlfriend.”

Rhys lets out a long-held breath. “We wish to be your boyfriends.”

Hollis’s brilliant blues glimmer with happiness. “We wish you to be ours.”

“Mates…and lovers,” Gavin says, ending because the exhausting strains of his mouth soften lastly.

My coronary heart is a roman candle, bursting with mild and pleasure as I shut the remaining distance between us and someway throw my arms round all three of those huge, sturdy hockey stars who’ve proven up for me over and over. “You’re mine,” I whisper, my throat catching, my eyes shining, my feelings spilling over. “You’re all mine.”

For the longest time, I fervently believed romance was just for different folks. I actually thought love would solely damage me. I assumed my profession was all I might rely on. However for the reason that evening they saved my cat, I’ve been studying slowly however certainly that I can depend on folks—the individuals who present up for me. These males who need solely one of the best for me. Who let me be my greatest.

Once I break the hug, I look from one to the opposite to the opposite. “I really like you. All of you. All three of you.”

Hollis reaches for my hand and threads his fingers by means of mine. “I really like you a lot, Briar.”

Rhys cups one cheek. “I’m head over heels in love with you.”

Gavin slides a hand down my neck, over my shoulder. “I really like you.”

Their love professions are so very them, and with them I’m so very me.

We get within the automotive, and I spend the limo journey kissing my boyfriends. Once we’re just a few blocks away, I shoo them off, then repair my lipstick and straighten my hair.

We arrive on the gala and head inside.

I’m the one with the entourage—a queen together with her courtroom.

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THE FAKE OUT

Rhys

Fifteen extra minutes and the awards start. Fifteen minutes until our lady takes the stage to obtain the prize.

I’m going to cheer the loudest.

Proper now, the 4 of us are standing at a excessive desk within the nook of the ballroom, chatting, toasting, having fun with life, and simply being collectively when my telephone buzzes with a textual content. I assumed I’d silenced it. Grabbing it from my pocket, I see it’s the psychologist asking if Wednesday afternoon works for our subsequent session.

Gavin shoots me an admonishing look. “Possibly flip that off.”

He makes a very good level. However that is additionally a very good alternative. I haven’t instructed my associates but. “I’m seeing a psychologist,” I say. “He focuses on athletes. It’s…useful to date. I simply want to verify a time.”

Chastened maybe, Gavin’s lips twitch in a curious grin. “Oh. My dangerous. And yeah, do it.”

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