Lucas studied his ass in the mirror and smiled proudly at what he’d done since having the twins and the whole Daniel Ritter thing happened. It’d been six months and his body was almost back to where it was before he was pregnant. After what had happened, he had to stay in the hospital for two weeks before the doctor allowed him to go home. Tucker and his parents had brought the kids to see him every day, which was the highlight of his day.

Pulling up his pants, he walked down the hall to check on the twins; they were six months old, and he couldn’t believe how much time had passed or how big they were getting. Next, he made sure their bags were packed for the weekend. Because he wanted everything to be perfect for when Tucker got home later that night. The combined training that had Tucker going back and forth to New York had finally happened. Tucker had been gone for three weeks, a bit longer than they anticipated, but they spoke to each other every night.

Exiting the twins' room silently, he walked over to Zoi’s and opened the door to the now three-year-old who sometimes thought she’s thirty. “Hey, Zoi, what are you doing?”

“I’m drawing a picture for you and Papa.”

“Oh, wow, I get a picture too,” he said making her chuckle. “Can I see it?” She nodded, and he walked over to sit beside her on the floor.

It was a very good picture of a house, two ill-proportioned male figures standing beside the house holding what looked to be babies with a little girl standing in between them. One male had black hair and the other had yellow for blond. He smiled noticing what he assumed where clouds. Sitting on the clouds were two figures that Lucas couldn’t make out.

“Zoi, what are these?” he asked her pointing at the two figures.

“Mommy and Aunty Roe,” she told him as if he should know exactly what they were.

“Oh,” was all he could say. Tucker and Lucas had spoken to Zoi about her mom and Rochelle without going into deep detail about their deaths. They gave her a story of having angels watching over her and her brothers. She knew that Rebecca was her mom and that Rochelle was once Tucker’s wife, who she decided to call Aunty Roe.

He set the picture down and brushed his fingers through her curly hair. She got up and sat in his lap bringing more of her drawings with her. The conversation that he and Tucker had sometime after he’d woken up in the hospital came back to him. He’d confessed to Tucker that he’d been having dreams about Rebecca and thought that was all they were, but he also explained how Rochelle’s ghost had woken him up when Daniel Ritter had entered their home.

Tucker had told him he’d thought all that time since Rochelle’s death he thought he was going crazy. He’d also given Tucker Rochelle’s message, but they made a promise not to reveal anything to the family. Saying they were seeing ghosts in their dreams was one thing, but in real life was another.

The sound of the front door closing had Zoi up and running out of her room and down the stairs. Lucas, on the other hand, was a bit slower, he stopped at the bottom of the stairs watching Tucker and Zoi greet each other. Zoi was giggling and hugging her papa as tightly as she could. She was rubbing her tiny fingers through the scruff on his face that made him look sexy and dangerous. Tucker looked over at him and the heat he read in his husband’s eyes made him gasp and his cock jerk in anticipation for the night to come. Tucker had no idea that he arranged for his mother and father to watch the kids for the entire weekend.

“Are you going to keep it?” Lucas asked stepping close to Tucker and Zoi touching his cheek gently.

“Do you think I should?” Tucker asked rubbing the scruff on his chin.

Lucas kissed him rubbing against Tucker’s lightly bearded cheek and moaning in his ear before stepping back and winking at his husband. “Go get cleaned up, we're having dinner with my parents tonight.”

“Do we have to? I kind of wanted to spend the night doing other things.”

“It’s part of the deal I made with my mom so that she and Dad would watch the kids for us this weekend.”

He and Tyler finally got their new office set up, and things were running smoothly. For his diligence, Lucas promoted Matt to take over his side of the New York office. He'd offered to take Matt with him, but since he was pregnant with Erich's child, he declined the offer to move to Providence. The relationship between Lucas and his father was getting back to normal. He was slowly coming to terms with and forgiving Asher for his infidelity.

One thing he had to agree with his mother on was that whatever happened between Helen and Asher was between them and he and his brothers had no say in what happened. Seth transferred to the newly set up Providence Seeker office and was leading his own team. 

Lucas liked Seth a lot, he blended well within the family and even started joining Lucas, Christen, and Tyler for their weekly brother lunches. They were all with him when he got his surprise for Tucker that he couldn’t wait to show him.

“Fine,” Tucker relented then pinched his ass as he walked by him to go upstairs.

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Later that night Lucas walked into his bedroom as the towel he was wearing around his waist fell to the floor. He bent to pick it up and stopped when he heard a gasp. He looked over her shoulder and saw Tucker staring at him or rather his ass.

“Do you like it?” Lucas asked standing up.

“When . . . When did you get it?” Tucker’s voice was low with arousal.

“The day you left, I took my brothers with me.” Christen couldn’t believe he was doing it.

“I can’t believe you’re going to get a tattoo,” Christen said to him.

“Why, what’s wrong with a tattoo?”

“Let me rephrase my statement. I can’t believe you’re going to get property of T. H. S. on your ass.” He leaned in and whispered the last part.

“I think it's kind of adorable,” Seth said.

“You would,” Tyler said. "You worship the ground this idiot walks on.” He pointed at Lucas.

“Says the mama’s boy, who was afraid to tell Mom about his own tattoos,” Lucas teased. “I don’t want her to see me as some bad boy.” Lucas mimicked Tyler adding puppy dog eyes.

“Shut up,” Tyler said and whacked him on the back of his head.

 Tucker’s warm hands touching his ass, pulled him from his thoughts and into the present where he needed to be.

“I can’t believe you did this for me.” His fingers were lightly tracing the letters on his ass.

Lucas wrapped his arms around Tucker’s neck. “I did it because I belong to you.” He brought Tucker’s head down for a kiss stopping anything his husband had to say. He loved the feel of Tucker’s newly trimmed beard brushing lightly on his skin. “Make love to me, show me how much I’m yours in your mind,” Lucas said against his lips.

“Anything for you.”

Tucker made sweet love to Lucas’ body that night, paying extra attention to the tattoo on his ass. Licking and tracing the letters with his tongue sending heat and fire up and down his spine. Their lovemaking was unhurried as they held onto each other as if they hadn’t seen each other in years and not weeks. Whispered words of love and adoration flowed from their lips as they orgasmed. Lucas was happy that they had the entire weekend for each other without any interruptions.

 “Fuck, you drive me crazy,” Tucker whispered in his ear. They were lying in bed after they made love to each other with Tucker’s head on his chest, his fingers lightly massaging his scalp.

“I know,” Lucas told him smugly.

 “Do you know that I love you?”

 “I think as much as I love you, which is why I want us to have another baby.”

He saw the surprised look on Tucker’s face, but he was sure. This was something he'd thought about for weeks. Daniel Ritter was right about one thing, Doctor Leap started the effects of men being able to have children, but the rest was left up to science, evolution, and the will of man.

Maybe Leap had more to do with it than Lucas wanted to give him credit for, and maybe things would be different if men weren’t able to have children, but who could really say that this wasn’t supposed to happen. That he and Tucker wouldn’t have found their way to each other. They weren’t looking and had decided to live the rest of their lives alone, but at that moment Lucas couldn’t see himself without Tucker by his side.

 “Are you sure?”

 “Yes.”

“How soon?”

“Would now be too crazy?” Lucas said with a smile. Tucker's smile lit up the whole room, and it made his heart soar with joy.

“Then let’s get to work.”

 He leaned down connecting their lips together and thanked all the gods for everything he had and that he was able to keep his promise to Rebecca, that he hadn't closed his heart off and that he was able to love again.

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