“You’re up,” he said to Ethan. “Good. We need to go to Plan B.”
“What’s Plan B?” Maisie asked, even though she was sure they wouldn’t tell her.
Ethan started to say something, then stopped. He shook his head. “Plan B is that you marry one of us.”
She must have misunderstood.
She looked from face to face and saw they were serious.
Her stomach curdled as she remembered what she’d overheard about Plan B. All the excuses about family obligations and getting disowned.
No one wanted to marry her.
And even though she’d only known them for a few weeks—thinking about marriage would have been completely inappropriate—it hurt. Especially after that whole conversation about how she wasn’t meeting her potential and needed to earn the relationship.
Raphael entered wearing only jeans. He looked at Maisie, then said to Trent, “I’m guessing from her stunned expression that you told her.”
He took a shirt out of the dresser. The powerful muscles in his shoulders flexed as he pulled it over his head.
He turned to Maisie again. “Byron has escalated matters. He’s decided to enter the tape into evidence. It will hurt his family, but it will hurt us more.”
“Fuck,” Ethan growled.
Raphael glanced at him, then turned his attention back to Maisie. “He’s going after you, too; he thinks pressuring you will get us to break, or to give up our client. If you’re married to one of us, you’ll be protected.”
“Spousal privilege,” Ethan said. The words had an air of finality about them. “So long as we do it in the next week, the timing of when you learned specific details can be… fudged.”
Raphael nodded. “It’s the only safe path forward.”
A funny, erratic heartbeat fluttered in her chest, and now the room was swirling. The colors had become impossibly bright. Everything seemed to slow as she tried to think.
“Maisie?” Trent touched her arm.
She couldn’t tell her bosses why she was upset without revealing that she’d eavesdropped.
“I don’t know how I could possibly choose,” she said angrily. “You’re all so perfect.”
Ethan’s eyebrows dipped into a frown. “You’re not choosing. We are.”
Maisie’s breath hitched in her chest. “Um, don’t you think that’s offensive?”
“No.”
“Fine. No prenup.”
He stared steadily at her but said nothing.
That decided it.
“I know this will make your head explode, but I don’t want to marry any of you.”
Fire flashed in Ethan’s eyes. “We’ll see about that.”
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