Page 108 of Between Never and Forever

“What the—” I took a deep breath. “You’re all here. So, may as well tell you. I’m going to marry her.”

“What the fuck?” Dimitri spit out while Dom rolled his eyes.

Declan said, “We knew that was coming.”

“Oh my God. Congratulations,” Lilah squealed.

I turned to Dimitri first. “She’s your best friend. She’s going to be your sister-in-law. You knew it was coming.”

“But like this? Did you even fucking propose?” He glared at me, and I rubbed my chin.

“I gotta work some things out.” My jaw flexed up and down as I stared at him. “You knew about her mom?”

“Her business to tell you, man. Not mine.” He didn’t apologize, and I knew he wouldn’t. That shit was on me for ghosting her all these years.

“You all know about her mom?” I asked as I turned toward the screen. None of them were dumb enough to respond but that gave me the answer I needed. “Fuck. I wish I’d been there sooner.”

“You’re there now,” Dom said. “We made sure of it with your stupid contract.”

“Fuck you guys,” I grumbled, but Dimitri’s hand clamped on my shoulder to provide the support I guess I needed.

“Anyway, your girl is popular.” Dante cleared his throat, and I narrowed my eyes at him. “She’s going to have stalkers. If we’re not too concerned—”

“She’s got one who took pictures of her. You understand? They’re ofherin our suite. And then the pictures were sent to our fucking room,” I informed him, my tone grave.

Cadetskedwhile Dante sat down as if he was suddenly concerned. “You up security?”

“Of course I upped security.” I wasn’t a dumbass.

“I’m sure Keelani has her own team—”

“They were never her team,” Dimitri grumbled.

I confirmed, “They were fired the second we took over.”

The whole family stared at us and then they all started commenting at the same time.

“What time should we come in?”

“We’ll be there next week.”

“I want to go by then too. I need a vacation.”

“Should we just take the jet?”

“You fuckers aren’t coming here. This isn’t a vacation,” I tried to explain, but no one was listening.

Dimitri finally said, “Everyone stop. Just chill for a second. Give us a week or two. It’s too chaotic when you all are here.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Lilah pouted.

“Yeah, you don’t want your baby sisters there? We’ve been cooped up for months.” Izzy was smiling big.

“Go to the Bahamas or something then. You guys start shit, and we don’t need—”

“Kee will say yes to us being there in a week. I just texted her.” I knew my sisters knew her from back in the day, but they weren’t that close.

“How do you even have her number? Don’t dig for information on her, Izzy.”