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five year olds. “Cranky. Sounds like she was just tired and cranky. I’m sure your uncles don’t think you’re a handful.”
    “Nope,” Chase agreed quickly and the compassion in his voice was almost embarrassing. They all knew what he was doing, understood and accepted it, but he needed to let it go already. “He’s pretty perfect. They both are. Right, Ty?”
    “They’re both angels in comparison to me, so yep, pretty perfect.” Ty and Luc shared a fist bump before Ty gestured the waiter over and settled back in his seat. “Important, life-altering decisions make me hungry. Can we order now?”
    The waiter rushed over before anyone could answer and they placed their order. It was obvious from Ava’s expression that she was thinking everything over carefully and was just biding her time until the waiter left before she gave him and Bull her most serious stare.
    “If Uncle Ty and Uncle Chase become our Dads when they get married, does that mean you’ll become Dads when you get married?” She glanced back at Luc, as if to confirm her logic was sound. He nodded encouragingly, so she pressed on. “Will they just give you kids at Disney or do you gotta pick them up when you get home?”
    Red looked at Bull in surprise. He wanted to argue that it didn’t work that way, that Ty and Chase would get married and then adopt them, but they had already wrapped those two events together for the kids. If one came, so would the other. It wasn’t his place to correct that. In fact, he was all in favor of it, and knew the only reason Ty hadn’t already started adoption proceedings was because of the state law. The adoption ban had been shot down as unconstitutional and they knew couples who were adopting, but the law was still on the books. There was legislature on the table to finally have it removed and Ty was waiting for that to happen before he got the ball rolling. His reasoning was that he didn’t want anyone to have the opportunity to overturn it. He was already their guardian and Kieran filed paperwork to name Chase as co-guardian so that he could legally make decisions for the kids in Ty’s absence, and maintain custody of the kids if anything ever happened to Ty. For all intents and purposes they were already their Dads, the rest were just formalities.
    “No,” Bull answered slowly. “They don’t just give kids to people who get married. It only works when the kids are as special as you and Luc, and the new parents as special as your Uncles Ty and Chase. Does that make sense?”
    “Yes,” Luc answered before Ava could argue. “That makes sense ’cause our Mom made us special just for Uncle Ty and Uncle Chase.”
    “Exactly,” Ty agreed, his voice thick with an emotion Red was sure he rarely showed. “That’s exactly right.”
    Red looked between them and felt a burst of pride. Ty and Chase had settled into the role of parents so effortlessly and it was beautiful to see. There was a time when he wouldn’t have believed it possible of anyone, his own experiences coloring his perceptions, but he now knew everything happened the way it was supposed to. Another path might not have led him to Bull and that would have been more of a crime than what his mother did to him. It didn’t change his mind about kids of his own, but he was really happy to have Ava and Luc in his life, to witness their little family blooming, and was very content to be an honorary uncle.
     

Chapter 6
    One cannot live on cock alone
    “Are you almost ready?” Bull leaned against the door frame and watched Red appraising himself critically in the mirror. Red’s eyes narrowed and he leaned over the sink, feeling along his cheek. “What are you doing?”
    “I think I’m breaking out,” Red grumbled as he turned his head this way and that, taking a full inspection. Bull had to bite his lip to stop from laughing. Red wasn’t normally one to primp and pose in front of the mirror, or to eye himself so critically, but the last few