Page 140 of Their Wicked Ways

I shrugged, but my goofy smile gave away just how much his praise meant to me.

The drive to work was less than ten minutes, and we were the last to get there.

“Morning!” River waved enthusiastically. “Come get a donut and save me from myself.” He shook the box at us. “I once saw a meme that saidI’m an adult. I can have cookies for dinner, and no one can stop me. Then the next picture saidI ate cookies for dinner, and no one stopped me, and the guy looks like he’s dying.” River grimaced. “That’s going to be me if you don’t save me. Only it’ll be breakfast and not dinner.”

“That was a lot of words for this early in the morning.” Gray snatched the box out of his hands and passed it to Wes.

“What can I say? I like donuts.” River grinned.

Ez took a bite of one of the donuts as Wes extended the box to me. I grabbed one without really looking at it.

“So, I have something I need to tell you guys.”

Everyone stopped and turned their full attention to me.

I’d figured telling them all at once would be easier than one at a time, but now I wasn’t so sure. Having all of them stare at me was unnerving, but I wasn’t going to back down now.

“So.” I cleared my throat. “I’m not sure how else to say this except to just come out and say it, but I’m not straight. I’m bi.”

“Awesome.” River held his fist out for a bump. “Welcome to the club.”

“And,” I continued when no one else said anything. “I’m kind of not single anymore.”

“That was a convoluted way of saying you, Ez, and Wes are making the beast with three backs.” Zane guzzled something out of his thermos.

Wes started choking beside me. He’d picked the wrong time to take a bite of his donut.

“You knew?” I gaped at Zane.

“Were you trying to hide it?” He chuckled. “We work with you. We’ve seen the looks. I swear sometimes I get a contact boner just from being in the same room as the three of you.”

“Contact boner.” River snickered.

“Did anyone else know?” I looked at Quinn incredulously.

He popped the last bite of a donut in his mouth and delicately wiped off his hands.

Noah raised his hand as Gray said, “Yeah.”

“I didn’t.” River looked around at the group. “But then again, I didn’t even know whenIwas dating a guy, so it’s not surprising I missed whatever was going on here.” He waved his hand at us.

“And everyone is okay with it?” Ez asked.

Gray leaned against the twins’ car. “Why wouldn’t we be?”

“Because there’s three of us?” Wes looked around the group.

“So what?” Noah shrugged. “As long as you’re happy, that’s all we care about.”

Zane and River nodded.

Gray swiped the last donut out of the box. “Done freaking out?”

“For now.” I smiled as the weight of my secrets was lifted off my shoulders, leaving me feeling light and buoyant and happy.

So damn happy.

I had the best friends I could have ever asked for, who treated me better than my family ever had. And I was in love with the two most incredible men I’d ever known.

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