“You realize you could get pregnant, even if we pull out.”
And that would be stupid, right? His finger immediately brought my chin up. I’d love to be lost in his blue eyes but the conversation was too intense. “I’m sorry. That was foolish of me.”
Atlas put a finger to my lips. “Shhh… don’t call yourself foolish.” He waited for me to nod, then continued, “Have you heard of breeding kink?” He huffed and continued, “I’ve wanted to ride you bare from the moment I laid eyes on you and saw my soulmate. I wanted to put my babies in you. I wanted a life raising a family on a ranch.”
“We all do,” Phoenix was quick to clarify.
“Yeah, it was one of the truths that came up while talking to the counselors,” Everest pressed a kiss to my forehead and let his lips brush against me as he spoke. “I’ve imagined your belly swollen with my child and nothing has ever made me happier. So when we thought we lost you…”
“Wait,” I said gently. “You really talked to each other about this?”
Everest cleared his throat. “The counselors helped us address some pretty big issues, and it’s a good thing they did because this could have been a trainwreck otherwise.”
Atlas mumbled agreement. “We all want to breed you. If we hadn’t discussed it, I don’t know what would have happened.But now we understand that to have you, we might have to share you.”
“Wewantto share,” Everest glanced at his brothers. “We want to have sex without protection. But we’ll never be able to agree on who should get you pregnant first unless you have a choice.”
I might pass out.
They all reached to steady me. “Shit, we’re getting way ahead of ourselves. Catherine said you wanted to date us first.”
“I just said that because I didn’t want to be the weird, quiet girl who wants to be bred by her reverse harem.”
“You’re willing to get pregnant?”
“I want to get pregnant.”
“Then you have to be committed to more than dating us, babygirl.” Atlas had never sounded so off kilter.
I nodded, expecting him to make me speak, but I was choking on all of the emotion.
Everest rushed away, grabbing the bag he’d set beside the door when he’d entered. “We’re not exactly wearing our shining armor or riding white horses—or unicorns—right now, but we’re prepared, just in case this happened.”
Phoenix interjected, “If this is too much, just say so, or use a color and we’ll regroup.”
Atlas nodded to the side. “We can move right past this and get you on that bench where we’ll breed the fuck out of you.”
I mentally questioned if that sentence worked, but I was questioning their sudden eagerness more. “What’s in the bag?”
Everest stopped a few feet in front of me and turned so his back was to me. He set the bag on the floor and his brothers stepped beside him, all with their backs to me. They each pulled something out of the bag… books?
“Dammit, we forgot to tell you to close your eyes.”
“Okay, closed.” I chuckled.
The shuffling didn’t make it clear what was happening. My heart raced. I flexed and curled my fingers. This was visual deprivation. I definitely had to add blindfolds to the mix.
“You can open your eyes,” Everest said, but his voice came from lower than expected.
The three of them were kneeling, each of them holding a book with folded pages. I thought they were my books for a minute until my eyeballs read the message.
Atlas held a book whose folded pages spelled out,Will you.
Phoenix held a book that read,marry.
Then Everest’s book had,us?
I couldn’t move.
