“He did?” She turns to me. “You did?”
I nod.
“Oh my God, congratulations.” Isla drops to her knees between us both and throws her arms around us. We fall down like dominoes, and I wince in an agony I bottle down inside.
“Garrett,” Kai says through the laughter. “You okay?”
I lie on my back and look at the ceiling. “Just winded.”
“I’m sorry.” Isla climbs to her knees and hovers over me, holding her hair behind her ear. I can see straight down her blazer and can confirm she’s naked, apart from some little sticking things over her nipples and some tape to stop things from gaping. “And yes.”
I slide my hand to her cheek. “Yes what?”
“Yes, I’ll be your old lady.” She turns to Kai. “And yours, if you want me.”
Kai dives on her, and they laugh as they briefly roll around on the rug. “Of course, I want you, Sunshine. But let’s get our old man up off the floor.”
“Funny,” I say, deadpan. But then, I laugh anyway.
“I feel like we should stay in to celebrate,” Isla says, eyeing the bed.
I shake my head. “No. We’re taking you out. Your only option is where. There’s no wrong answer and no pressure. You want the restaurant, we go without question. You want the clubhouse, we go to the clubhouse. You want to turn around and leave after a minute, we turn around and leave. But I promise this, you choose the clubhouse, I won’t leave your side for even a minute.”
She takes a deep breath. “You’re really letting me choose?”
“Yes,” Kai and I say together.
“It’s not a trick question, like, there’s a right answer I’m supposed to choose?”
I take her hand and place it over my heart. “I promise you, there’s no trick. No test. I love you, Isla. Never thought I’d say it to anyone else in my lifetime, but here we are. I’m proud you’re ours.”
Kai lifts my hand and kisses it. “Well said.”
Isla looks between us again. “Before I say the obvious, can I clarify one thing?”
“Shoot,” I say.
“I should probably have asked sooner, and I’m sorry if this is a curveball question, and?—”
“Just ask, Isla,” Kai says.
“There won’t be more people, will there? Because two has been a stretch for me. I know you said a closed triad, and I looked up exactly what that is, but I don’t think I could deal with it if the two of you changed your minds and had relationships with other people while the three of us?—”
I look to Kai.
“A closed triad,” he says. “The two of you are more than I dreamed of.”
I don’t need to ask if he means it. I can tell. “Just the three of us.”
“Phew,” Isla says. “I was about to tell the two of you I loved you. It would have been embarrassing if you’d suddenly produced a fourth person named Sheldon.”
Kai’s laughter snaps through the room. “Sheldon?”
I kiss Isla, then. “You love us?”
Isla nods. “More than I thought was possible.”
“So,” Kai asks, “where are we celebrating the fact we all love each other, and Garrett and I just got engaged, and you just became an old lady?”
