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“Soon you’ll be queen of New York City,” Felix teased, moving in to nuzzle my neck. “I love watching you get down to work.” He paused, his body going still next to mine, and pulled back just far enough to meet my eyes. His gaze seemed to search mine for a moment before he said, “I loveyou.”
My breath caught in my throat. Then Darius was giving his brother a light cuff to the shoulder, scowling at him. “Leaping in ahead of everyone like always. Can’t youevercut us a break?”
“Obviously we shouldn’t have expected anything else,” Lucan said with a bemused shake of his head.
I looked around at the three of them. “What are you talking about?”
“We weregoingto say it all together,” Darius growled, shooting another half-hearted glower at Felix before turning to me. His expression softened. “Pick out a necklace or a bracelet or something as a symbol…”
“A ring seems too obvious when you want to keep things quiet,” Lucan put in.
Tears pricked at the back of my eyes with the wave of emotion that swept through me, but there was nothing but joy in them. “I don’t need a symbol,” I said. “What matters is that I haveyou. I love you too, all of you.”
“Good,” Darius grumbled playfully, tugging me away from Felix into his own arms. “Because it’s been enough trouble falling for you. If you didn’t feel the same way, I’d just give up on saying it to anyone.”
I nudged him with my elbow. “You haven’t actually said it yet.”
He huffed and bowed his head next to mine. His breath tickled over my ear when he spoke. “I love you, Lady Noble. You’re it for me, in case that wasn’t obvious.”
Lucan grasped my hand. “And for me. I loved you when I was seventeen, and I only love you more now that I’ve seen the woman you’ve become.”
As Felix eased in to enclose me completely in a circle of heat, my phone chimed with another text. The youngest Rosano brother nipped my earlobe. “Put the asshole clients off for an hour or two. You don’t want to look too available. And I believeweneed to christen your new digs.”
I snorted, but I couldn’t stop myself from beaming at the same time. “I haven’t even signed the lease yet.”
“But you will,” Darius said. “I think Felix has exactly the right idea.”
As he sought out my lips and Lucan slipped his arm around my waist, I decided itwasa pretty good idea. A moment like this deserved a celebration with the men I’d fallen for, the men I was staying for.
Possibly for the first time in my life, the ground beneath my feet felt perfectly solid. And as long as I had them standing with me, that ground stretched out toward all kinds of horizons I couldn’t wait to claim as my own.