Page 19 of Three Corporate Kings and a Hands-Off Bride

“You’re going to marry us,” Cade took over from Baxter. “And not because a fortune teller said so or you manifested it.”

“But why?”

“You’re going to marry us because we fucking love you, Alicia. We’re so fucked up in love with you, we can’t think straight anymore.”

“You love me?” She asked softly, but her heart was thundering in her chest. “Truly?”

“All of you.”

“So much that we’re readingPride and Fucking Prejudice,” Baxter said, gesturing to the three copies of her favorite book of all time sitting on a desk. She hadn’t noticed it before.

They were going to read Jane Austen for her when she knew without a doubt they would rather watch paint dry.

“It’s justPride and Prejudice,” she said, smiling.

“Marry us. Say yes.”

“Yes.”

She threw herself into their arms, showering their faces with kisses. For someone who claimed to see the signs in everything, she certainly chose to ignore the biggest one of them all. She was in love with them.

She loved them since the first day she saw them. She’d been fourteen when she just so happened to be home from boarding school and her father was having a meeting with them. And whenever she came home, they were there.

She had never seen any man on the planet look as gorgeous as Cade, Eli, and Baxter. By the time she turned sixteen, she still hadn’t shaken off her infatuation with them, which made keeping a boyfriend so much harder to do.

Then she decided to take a practical approach. She drew up lists of pros and cons. She wasn’t the kind of girl they dated. She had a great set of legs and really nice boobs, but they seemed to prefer skinny supermodels with beauty so rare and unique they were deities amongst all the rest of the female population. She had zero pros to work with, so she moved on. But she didn’t really. She loved them more and more and more.

“I love you, Cade. I love you, Eli. I love you, Baxter.”

They held each other the whole night long. And when she sleepily reached for them during the night, they made love to her so slowly, so deeply, shattering her body, healing her heart, and clearing her mind for the future that had been written in the stars.

Epilogue

It was her wedding day, and Alicia couldn’t be happier if she tried.

She was marrying the three loves of her life, and she planned to love them until the end of time. This was her dream wedding, fully manifested with only the best of things. Tall, dark, broody, bossy, obscenely sexy, ridiculously possessive, fiercely protective Cade Kissinger, Eli Nicholson, and Baxter Gardner. Her three best things in the whole wide universe.

They’d move the moon for her, and they showed it to her every single time they touched her, told it to her every time they whispered,I love youin her ear, and when they were away, she felt it in every call and text and thought they sent her way.

But butterflies now flew around in her stomach. A solicitor had just dropped off the letter her mother had written to her.

Holly, her maid-of-honor, naturally, shooed everyone out of the bridal room to give Alicia some privacy. She’d always known her mom had left her a letter. Up until Cade, Eli, and Baxter had stormed into her room and jinxed herV Card Nixedproject, she always believed marriage was something that would happen on its own.

But then they told her the only guy who would be taking her virginity would be the one she married, and suddenly everything inside her shifted. She didn’t start manifesting her wedding. She started manifesting marriage to them. To Cade, to Eli, and to Baxter. Even when she didn’t know what she wanted, her heart already knew.

A smile spread across her face, and instead of the tears she thought would run down her cheeks and ruin her bridal makeup, all she felt was a surge of contentment. Confidently, she opened the envelope.

My dearest little love bug, Alicia,

Congratulations, darling girl. I know this is the happiest day of your life. I also hope you marry for love and laughter and friendship and protection. I hope your groom gives you all these things and you him.

I want you to know I’m smiling down at you. And I can see how beautiful you look. And how happy you are. Know that I am happy too. Inside this envelope is my special little stone. I wanted you to have it now that you’re married. I want the stone to always be purple for you. Hold it in your hand and see what it says. Always chase happiness, my sweet girl, in everything you do.

P.S. If you see Cade, Eli, and Baxter again, tell them I said hello. Tell them I wish them happiness too, and love and prosperity.

P.S. I always thought any of those boys would make my daughter a good husband one day when she is grown. I won’t say too much on this now, of course. But I did always wonder what the universe had in store for the four of you.

Love and happiness forever

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