Page 21 of All in April

Until she faces us and her face shows everything she’s feeling.

The three of us start and rush toward her, but she holds up her hand to stop us from gathering her up.

“Wait. I need to tell you something,” she says and we freeze in position.

“Go ahead, sweetheart.”

“We’re listening, girlie.”

“Sure, cupcake.”

“I know it’s fast and maybe too soon for it, but I’ve fallen for each of you, too. Was I angry that you switched out my birth control pills? Yes. But, I also understand why you did it. You want a family with us. All of us.”

Our heads drop. Jack thinks about making contrition again, but she continues. “And I want that, too. I wish you would have talked to me about it. That’s all. I would have been agreeable. I am agreeable.”

We all lift up our gazes to her with hope.

“Just not right now. I’m nineteen. I get that you’re all old men, but I need time before I think about when I want children.”

Jack clears his throat, “But you’ll-you’ll have our children?”

I release some tension in my neck asking, “All of our children?”

A tiny smile lifts the corners of her lips. “Yes. All of you. One at a time and when I’m ready. However!”

My heart flips at her warning tone.

“However, I want to set some rules around here. No more slobs. No more laziness and throwing things around. I want help inside and not just with the outside work. If you all want me to have children, you need to start acting like grown ups. I can’t be managing all your kids alone.”

Wolf’s grin spread slyly across his face as he arches an eyebrow. “Come here, girlie. We want to show you something. The final trick up our sleeves.” He holds out his palm to her and she takes it as we shuffle to the mudroom off the kitchen.

Jack points to the wall and she glances up at the big white board nailed to it.

“A chore chart?”

Wolf laughs. “Yep. I came up with it.”

Jack scoffs. “We all did.”

“There’s stars for a good job, too.” I show her, pointing to the point system we cooked up.

“But the prizes are blank,” she says.

“That’s for you to fill in, cupcake. You get to decide what we’re rewarded and if the job is up to your satisfaction.”

Wolf’s hand not so subtly readjusts his dick in his jeans. I know what he’s thinking. Same as me. If she has any sort of love for us, she’ll gift us with what we desire most. Our needs haven’t been met in a week and my love for her is stronger than ever. All of it pulses until the thickening hard on is uncomfortable and noticeable.

“Like, what kinds of prizes?” April’s tongue slips from her mouth and licks her bottom lip. It takes every ounce of self-restraint to stop myself from latching my mouth over hers and tasting it.

“Whatever you think we should get,” Jack says, tugging on a piece of her hair.

She giggles and smiles that lights up the room brighter than the new light bulbs. “I think you all deserve big surprises for what you’ve done for me. And I’d like to start now.”

Without hesitation, I grab her waist and hoist her over my shoulder and take off in a sprint toward the bedroom. Jack and Wolf yell and rush after us as April’s little protest turns into a screaming fit of riotous laughter. When we reach the bed, I flop her onto the mattress and she bounces, her skirt floating up around her waist.

Staring down at her, I wave my hand over her frame. “Everything off. We need to treat you the way you should be.”

She shirks off her sweater and smiles. “And how is that?”

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