Lacey's Luhpynes [Beyond the Veil 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage and More) by Honor James Page B

child.”
    “Look.” Zhubin stepped in between them. “Let’s table this for now. Ansell, you have twenty minutes before dinner is ready. Go and have your shower. We will all sit, enjoy the meal and then discuss this further after we’ve all digested what’s already been said. All right?” He looked back and forth between them.
    Lacey nodded and sighed. She watched Ansell walk away and felt her heart hurting. She looked to Zhubin and had tears in her eyes. “I love him, so very much I love him. I love you too. What happens now?” she asked.
    “Now we will eat dinner, try and calm down and then we will talk some more. We may not solve this all tonight, Lacey, but we will solve it. He’s not opposed to being around children, your children. But he does have a point. A lie is a lie to our beasts. Whether it is small or full-born it still makes us hurt. For children, the rules of the beast can be bent but only for so long. Besides, children are anything but stupid. They see and understand far more than most adults ever could or would. Come, let’s get you something to drink while I rescue the roast from the oven.”
    “Is it just me making more out of this than there should be? And do you even want to be the father of our children? If Ansell is that against it, what are your thoughts?” she asked softly. “What do you want to do? I know what Ansell wants, and I respect that, now it’s your turn.”
    “I’m all for giving you as many babies as can be managed,” he said and shot her a grin that slid away too soon. He moved into the kitchen and went straight to the oven. “I love kids, always have. I was an only child until Ansell joined our household. Though not from lack of trying on parents’ end, from what I regrettably overheard during those years.” He paused with the oven door open and shuddered. “Some things no child, no matter their age, should ever have to overhear. But apparently my mother had a difficult time carrying me, and a hard labor. So the doctors insisted she never have a child again and then ensured she couldn’t. She slightly smothered both myself and Ansell. Which reminds me.” He turned after setting the large pan on the stove. “Watch out for her and her helpful advice. Gods only know what she may give you.”
    “Gotcha. Watch out for the motherly advice,” Lacey said with a smile. “I want a very large family, not right away, but I really do. We have a killer to catch before we can think about having a child but I truly do want as many children as we can possibly have.”
    “There you go. We will get him, Lacey. I haven’t heard anything back yet from my father but hopefully there will be news in the morning. Tonight, though, we’re not going to worry about that. We’re going to have a nice meal and spend the evening figuring out where we want our lives to go as a unit, a team.”
    “And tonight I want to know what it feels like to have you both holding me. We don’t have to have sex, but I want to know what I’ve been denying myself for so very long. I really and truly love you both and I want to know what it will be to have you both sleeping with me. Think that Ansell will go for it?”
    Nodding, he smiled slightly. “I know he seems like a stubborn asshole, believe me, he can be. But he can also be reasonable. Not always but if you get him on the right day when the planets are aligned.” He chuckled. “Can you set the table for me?” he asked, pointing to the dishes stacked on the counter.
    “Sure, I can do that without issue at all,” she told him with a smile. She moved to start to set the table and watched him as she did so. “I’ve known you guys for several years, I like both of you a great deal, I really do. I just want to be able to do this without effing everything up and it looks like I’m failing time and again.”
    “Hey, none of that,” he said, bringing over two bowls, one with baby potatoes and the other with little carrots and peas. “That