I leaned forward. “Actually, there’s something else we should probably share.”
Silence stretched between us, and in the moment I felt like I was standing in front of an open door and trusting that everything would be okay when I stepped through to the other side.
Jase cleared his throat. “You both already know we’re dating Faye.”
Chase nodded. “Yeah …”
“She’s good for both of you,” my dad added.
“There’s more,” Jase said.
Chase tilted his head, his eyes narrowing just slightly. “Okay.”
Jase took a breath. “We’re together too.”
For a second, neither of our dads spoke.
Then Chase blinked. Once. Twice. “Together? As in?—”
“As in, we’re an us,” I explained. “Not just with her.”
My dad’s eyebrows shot up. “Well, I wasn’t expecting that.”
Jase let out a weak laugh. “Neither were we, to be honest.”
Chase’s mouth curved into a small smile. “And you were scared to tell us?”
I looked down and nodded.
He crossed the room and clapped each of us on the shoulders. “You both should know that all we ever want is for you to be happy. If being in a relationship with each other and another person makes you happy, then we couldn’t ask for anything more.”
My dad nodded. “We love you. Everything about you.”
Jase swallowed hard. “You’re okay with this?”
“Of course we are,” Chase said. “We raised you better than to think love is something to be ashamed of.”
Dad chuckled. “Can’t believe you guys were nervous about telling us, of all people.”
Jase snorted. “Hopefully, our new teammates will be cool with it too, because we don’t intend to keep things a secret anymore.”
Chase rolled his eyes playfully. “Crew and Knox just celebrated their one-year anniversary. Aron and Drew are married. Gage and I are right here.”
He was right. Crew and Knox had made coming out and getting married in the league look easy. Then there was Aron, our new manager, and his husband Drew who’d known us since we were kids. The Seawolves were probably the best place for us to end up.
“If anyone gives you shit, it’ll be because you’re Chase’s sons, not because of who you love,” Dad added.
I laughed for the first time since Vegas. “Great. They probably already thought we were nepo babies. Now that we’re on the same team, they’re going to assume we’re getting special treatment.”
Chase pointed at us. “You’ll just need to prove otherwise.”
Faye: Good luck at today’s game. Can’t wait to watch you make your Seawolves debut
Jase: Wish you were here
Faye: Me too. Hopefully, I’ll make it to Portland soon
We’ll call you after the game
