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Sure we do. Blade 3.

I hate you both. I’ll get Yarrow to come watch Evander, and we’ll have dinner. If we make him butter carrots, he’ll do it.

He glanced at Cosmo, who shrugged before handing over Emily and climbing.Just as he got to Tisi, the little one flew back to his crib. Little turd.

Okay cool. Tomorrow we’ll do dinner, Cullen said.

Rock on,Corbin told them.I miss you.

We miss you too. And I’m so huge now.

I can’t wait to see.

It really seemed like it had been months and months rather than weeks since they’d all spent time together. Things had been nuts.

We’ll see you tomorrow, bro,he told Corbin.

Love you.

You too.

Cosmo climbed down, then sat and took Elliot into his lap. “Wanna sit with me for a bit, kid?”

“Uh-huh.” Elliot looked less…stony.

That was good.

He winked at Cosmo, who grinned back. They would plan a menu.

And then, since Orion and Hawk had left them all day, they would make them cook tomorrow.

ChapterTwenty-Two

“How much garlic do I put in the butter?” Hawk asked.

“Uh, do we have powder or paste?”

“I made the paste like you told me last time.” Hawk showed him the gooed-up garlic mixed with a tiny bit of salt.

“About half of that.” He was making vegetarian lasagna, and Hawk was going to brown meat for him and Cosmo. Corbin had said the veggie kind was fine.

They were in the big shared kitchen and lounge area, and Cullen was napping on the couch with Tisi, and he looked so pale and tired. It worried him some. All of this stress was making it hard on Cullen, who was getting close to the end of the pregnancy, and his body was really starting to do the wonky.

With Tisi being so energetic, he needed to stick closer to home. Because he didn’t want poor Cullen to get hurt or sick trying to catch up to the baby…

“Okay.” Hawk mixed butter and garlic and then spread it on the bread. “Like that, yeah?”

“Yep. And then in the top oven to brown.”

“Got it. I can cut salad. Go sit with your mate.”

“Thanks, Hawk.” He knew Cosmo would be down with the kids soon, so he did just that, lifting Cullen and Tisi and putting them on top of him on the couch.

He matched his breathing to Cullen’s, taking time to bond a little with his mate. They seemed to have had so little time to simply be together, and he’d heard from Hawk that he’d felt the same. It had been one thing after another since he’d come to the guardian house.

Maybe once the kids were old enough and Corbin worked out his shit with the fae man, Orion would take Cullen on a wee honeymoon to the Glade. The dads would watch the kids, and he and Cullen could snuggle and eat and play.

That sounds so nice, Cullen murmured in his head.