Page 66 of Treasure and Tarot

“So do I.” He chuckled. “I was panicking, thinking you wanted me to leave.”

“No, no, I don’t want you to leave. I—I was. It’s the…” Sebastian offered him this nervous little smile, then grabbed hishand, pushing a ring into his palm. “I was wondering if you would do me the honor of marrying me and being Abby’s father.”

Colton sat there and stared, utterly gobsmacked. “Are you serious?”

He was about to propose; he had a ring in his pocket, and Sebastian had stolen his thunder.

Sebastian blinked, chewing on his bottom lip. “Yes. I mean, yes. Will you marry me?”

Colton rolled his eyes. Jesus, now he’d scared his lover and made him doubt himself. “You’re not going to believe this, but—” He reached down and fumbled with the ring box in his pocket, then he pulled it out. “It was in my pocket. You just beat me to it.”

Sebastian’s expression, which had been more than a little crestfallen and worried, lightened right up into a huge smile. “Oh, well then I suppose that’s a yes?”

“Yes! Yes, absolutely.” Like he’d ever say no. “And we don’t have to worry about me adopting Abby. My lawyer is going to have that paperwork declared a forgery. I want it known that I was always her father, and I will always be her father.” His lawyer was suing for damages, defamation, and a number of other things. There was no way those people would hurt his family again.

Sebastian’s eyes filled with tears. “I’m so glad. I’m so… She deserves you, and you deserve her. We’re a good family, the three of us.”

Colton slid his ring on Sebastian’s finger, the simple band a promise of forever. Theywerea good family, the three of them. “Put mine on me?”

“Of course.”

He lifted his hand to have a look at it; it was a very masculine gold ring with a bit of nugget and a single star sapphire in thecenter. Substantial and beautiful. “It’s perfect. When did you want to do it? Get married, I mean.”

Sebastian shrugged. “We could do it tomorrow. Over the weekend. I don’t care. We could go across to Secret Springs and do it there. Or we could just go to the hotel here. Or here in this house. I don’t need anything fancy. I just wanted to be us and know that we were solid.”

He nodded, totally understanding that. Now for the next question he had. “What do you feel about having another baby, about growing our family?”

Sebastian didn’t seem upset by the question in the least. “I think it’s a really good time, actually. You know if we started trying here in a few weeks. She’s almost four. That would mean she’d be five and about to go to school. That’s a great split for ages. She’s old enough to love the idea of a little brother or sister.”

“I think that that’s a good idea. I love that. We’ll get married and, when you’re ready, you can stop taking your birth control and we’ll see what happens.” This was a dream.

“Okay.” Sebastian grinned at him and then started to laugh. “We’re engaged, and we’re going to have a wedding. A little teeny tiny you, me, maybe we’ll elope wedding. Although I think Abby needs a dress. And flowers. She should absolutely get to pick a dress and have flowers.”

“Whatever you want, babe. The guys will want to either come or throw us a party, though.” He shook his head. “I still can’t believe that you totally stole my idea about proposing.”

Sebastian shrugged and rolled his eyes. “It just seemed like the right thing to do, the right time.”

“No, I agree. It was the right time, obviously.” He met Sebastian’s gaze. “I can’t thank you enough for letting me be her papa. Seriously. It means the world to me.”

“Even if you and I weren’t going to be you and I, she deserves to know you. Please understand that I know that. You being here wasn’t at all what I’d feared. I love having you with her. I don’t understand why your parents thought that she wasn’t worth it. Why they wouldn’t want to know their grandbabies…”

Colton didn’t either, to be perfectly honest. He didn’t care. He didn’t want them anywhere near his baby, or his omega, or any future children he might have. There was something wrong with them, and they didn’t deserve to know Abby.

It didn’t matter. They didn’t belong here. “I think we should have a little party at the hotel. A ceremony, something small, but invite all of our friends. Maybe in a month. Then we can find her dress, and we can have flowers. I think that would be perfect.”

Sebastian nodded, eyes shining, and then he moved to sit closer, snuggling into him. “I love you. Is it wicked to kind of want to take you upstairs and do naughty things with you?”

His body tightened, the pressure of air against his ear intimate and wonderful. “It is. I like you wicked. I wonder if we could get Xavi to babysit tonight.”

“She sleeps pretty well through the night.” Sebastian bit his earlobe, just barely enough to sting. “I mean, if we’re going to have to wait anyway.”

“Mmmm. True. We’ll save the babysitting favor for the wedding, huh?”

“Uh-huh.” Sebastian nibbled at his neck. “We have time for a little fun now…”

“Do we?” They’d have to be fast. And quiet. Somehow that made it hotter, and he slid his hand, with his new ring on it, thank you, down to squeeze Sebastian’s hardening cock. “Then we should definitely celebrate.”

“We totally should.” Sebastian arched into his touch, and they were off and running.

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