Deception, p.40
Deception, page 40
I glower at him. “You were going to try and win me on a coin toss?”
“Fuck a coin toss,” Scout says with a devilish grin that makes my heart flutter. “I asked first, so I win.”
“You proposed to me in the backseat of your brother’s car.” I huff, smacking at his chest. “Not exactly romantic.”
“It gets the job done.”
“Gross. I hate you,” I tell him. “I’ll marry whoever gives me the most romantic proposal. How about that?”
“Nah,” Scout barks out. “I called dibs on you first.”
“I’m not the last ice cream sandwich in the freezer, asshole! I’m your woman!”
We continue to argue, the three of them ganging up on me until we arrive at our new brownstone. Leo put us up in the perfect home with a great school district for Della. Better yet, it gets us out of the apartment Bryant owned. I’m not sure if we’ll stay here forever and go to college locally or if we’ll end up moving to Massachusetts for Harvard, but it’s nice knowing we have a place that’s ours and we can take our time deciding. Sparrow parks in front of our house and we all climb out. Scout stays glued to my side, a possessive arm wrapped around my shoulders.
“Landry Croft, honey, will you marry me?” Sully waggles his brows at me. “Is that romantic?”
“Slightly better than Scout’s,” I agree, “but still lame.”
Sparrow laughs at his brother who is now pouting. “Do I win if I have a ring?”
“I do love jewelry,” I tease.
“What the fuck, man?” Sully demands. “You seriously don’t have a ring.”
Sparrow holds up his phone, showing me a glittering ring he searched up on the internet. White gold with three massive diamonds on it. “Do I win?”
“This ring is perfect,” I murmur, grinning, “but until it’s sitting on my finger, I guess I’m still undecided on who I’ll marry.”
“I’ll drag you to the courthouse right now,” Scout growls. “Decision made.”
“Fine,” I grumble. “You can win, but I don’t want a dumb courthouse wedding. I want it to be epic and fabulous. A princess wedding.”
“Whatever you want,” Scout says, dragging me up the steps. “Now let’s get inside. There are two girls I’ve missed more than you.”
“Sparrow, you’re my favorite now,” I tease, letting him steal me away from Scout.
We enter our new house and Ty stands from the couch. He grins upon seeing the four of us. Della looks up, sees Scout, and bolts for him. He hauls her into his arms, squeezing her tight. I chew on my bottom lip, trying and failing to keep from crying at their sweet reunion. Heathen makes her presence known, meowing loudly and circling his feet.
Finally.
Everything feels right and in place.
After Della pulls away from Scout, she signs to Ty, You can learn how to make pancakes like Scout. He’s our maid.
Ty snorts out a laugh and signs back, Is that so?
She nods and grins at Scout before signing to him, Right?
He rolls his eyes at me and signs back, Yeah, but at least I’m not the dummy.
Everyone looks over at Sparrow. He shoots us the bird, which isn’t sign language, but still gets the point across.
All the guys, Ty included, have been learning ASL because of Della. It makes me happy that they accept her the way she is and want to communicate with her.
“Now that you guys are back, I’m going to bounce. I have a date.” Ty waggles his brows at me. “Call me later so I can tell Della goodnight.”
She hugs Ty, who took the news of having a new cousin well and actually wanted to be in her life, and then he’s gone. Scout takes her into the kitchen to get started on some pancakes per Della’s request. Sully tries to assist but Della makes dramatic signs, reminding him he’s a terrible cook. I can’t help but laugh.
Sparrow hugs me from behind. I relax against him, enjoying the happiest moment I’ve ever known.
“We could make our escape now,” Sparrow murmurs against my ear.
“To the courthouse?”
“I was going to say to the nearest closet so I could fuck you into getting me the answer I want, but if you’re giving up now…”
I laugh and shake my head. “You’re going to have to work for it.”
“You love my tongue.”
“Not as much as she loves mine,” Sully offers. He winks at me, making my pussy clench in response.
“He worships my pussy,” I agree. “You like to smack it around.”
“Don’t act like you don’t come like a wild banshee when I smack your clit.”
“Just saying,” I huff. “He worships it. Maybe you should, too.”
“The only thing Sparrow worships is your asshole and his reflection in the mirror,” Sully says with a wide grin. “When we finally knock you up, we’ll know it wasn’t his sperm that won the race. Kind of hard to travel from the ass to the pussy to make our babies.”
It’s true. Sparrow is the only one who fucks me in the ass. I think he’s deemed it his. Now that Scout’s back home, I wonder if he’ll be able to hold on to that piece of real estate for much longer.
“Nap time,” Sparrow grumbles. “Call us when the pancakes are ready. Laundry needs her beauty rest.”
I don’t reward him with a reply to that rude-ass statement and pull out of his hold.
“I’m going to take you upstairs and prove to you who eats pussy better,” Sparrow says, trying to grab me. “Come on. Don’t be like that, Laundry. I’m just fucking with you.”
Della throws a wooden spoon at Sparrow and it bounces off his head.
“Dude, what the fuck?” He rubs at his forehead and scowls at her. “Your little sister is a dick. How do you say ‘dick’ in sign language anyway?”
I sign to Della, Thanks for rescuing me from the dummy.
This earns me a smack to the ass from Sparrow.
“Children, behave,” Scout says, pointing to the kitchen table. “Set the table and sit your asses down.”
All the teasing and bickering fills my heart with a joy I’ve never known until this moment.
“I’ll make it up to you later,” Sparrow promises, winking at me.
“You better.”
I know the second Della is asleep because my handsome trio creep in on me. Maybe to others, they’re assholes or monsters. To me, they’re everything. They’re my lovers, apparently my future husbands, the saviors I didn’t know I needed until they’d already saved me.
They may not be heroes to anyone else, but they’re my heroes.
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