Husband With Benefits

"What kind of joke is this supposed to be?"

Erasmi sighed, feeling the weight of his brothers’ stares, and cursed under his breath." Dam* it! All of his brothers together were formidable! But he was the oldest in age, if not in experience and he knew he needed to curb their curiosity right now, or else it would not bode well...

So, putting on his cold face, he raised an eyebrow and glared at them through the screen. "My wedding invitation looks like a joke to you people? At least I invited you unlike a few someones who only let us know after the deed was done!"

"Gabe looked away, unwilling to engage in this, since the accusation was true, while Demetri protested, throwing up his hands in surrender, ’Hey! I told you! It’s not my fault your brain was ’faulty’ at the time!’"

"Telling me doesn’t count. Did you tell any of these bozos? No! I am telling you all and inviting you to come to our wedding, next weekend! And don’t forget to bring gifts!"

"Erasmi Frost! You cannot get away with that. You will tell us what happened and how you are suddenly engaged to Ave Mercer. If you don’t, I swear we will come there and kidnap you! Don’t tell me you went Seb’s way and got her pregnant..."Gabe snapped, his eyes narrowing at the screen.

Erasmi rolled his eyes at that, "Gabe, you of all people should understand what needs to be done for a child! You’ve married Autumn for little Arabelle’s sake, haven’t you? Ava and I are already co-parenting Caius and we’ve become close friends. So, it was the next logical step. It will save Caius from being shuffled from one house to the other. Or being subjected to useless gossip."

That silenced everyone. They all knew and understood that Caius was the most important thing to Erasmi. In fact, Caius was the reason Erasmi had even come out of the walls he’d built around himself after recovering from his prolonged illness.

Yet, while everyone stayed quiet, it was Demetri who spoke up, "You can’t live your life solely for Caius, Eras. We love and care for the boy too. But we want you to be happy."