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Cosmo did take him right back up to the entrance of their house, where he stopped, looking uncertain.

“I’ll go first,” Corbin announced.

“I’ll go second!” That was Cullen.

“We’ll go together.” Cosmo grabbed his hand.

“All of us.” He glanced at Cosmo. “When uncertain, I find it best to do it at a run.”

Cosmo laughed, the sound full of wild magic. “Then let’s go!”

Together, they sprinted toward the door, three colorful little dragon elves and him, and whoosh. They were in.

They all four blinked, and then the triplets let out a wild cheer that was unlike anything he’d ever heard.

That was the fae in them, that wild light, that fire. He had never seen anything quite like it, but his entire soul responded to the sound.

Hawk added a roar to the commotion, because this was truly his home now. He knew he wouldn’t lose it if he went into the dragonlands, and he would be able to live with Cosmo as they needed to live. As Guardians.

Together.

And their children would be able to have friends, family, a wide support group.

It was more than he had ever expected.

It was heaven.

“We need to order those pizzas.” Cosmo’s eyes were filled with tears, but there was no unhappiness in them. That was pure joy. “We have a party to get to.”

Chapter

Twenty-Five

Cosmo was so happy that he could hardly bear it. He had to admit that he and Corbin and Cullen had even spent more than a couple of minutes making Hawk go in and out the door to the veil, just because. Not much. Only like ten or twelve times, just to make sure that it kept happening.

Arielle and Sebby thought it was the funniest thing they’d ever seen, their rare joint laughter filling the air. He was sure the twins would have loved to see it as well, but they were grounded.

Cosmo wasn’t sure that they were even going to be allowed to come down and have pizza, and he was not going to get in the middle of that with Eagan and Ollie.

Nope.

Not his circus, only marginally his monkeys.

Besides, he had so many people to introduce Hawk to. Poor Hawk just seemed a little dazed.

Cosmo wasn’t sure if it was the number of dragons he was suddenly being introduced to, the release of what had to have been a huge stressor, or possibly just a little bit of magical heartburn.

As Hawk successfully entered the dragon world again, Cosmo sidled over to his mate. “I think that’s good.”

“Yeah! Can we eat now?” Sebby asked.

Corbin’s smile was fond. “Go take the pizzas to the table.”

The kids grabbed the boxes and started heading up to the huge courtyard that the dragons had made. It was a place for the children to play, a common meeting ground, a picnic area.

It had been placed in a protected spot, but it was still far enough from Myk’s garden that certain curious little ones couldn’t go eat all of the tomatoes again.

Not that the thief could have been him, because he would never do that, but someone had eaten Myk’s tomatoes without permission.