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Magnus and Dante had been holding hands as Father O had spoken, and as Dante’s tirade continued, Magnus drew him closer and closer to himself “How much, Dante?” he interrupted

“What?” Dante asked, his entire attention switching to the man in front of him

“How nus repeated

Dante seeer he looked at Magnus, the more he seemed to relax He looked down at their hands and then took one of Magnus’s in both of his He turned his hand over and skiers over the open palm

It was Magnus’s left hand

I watched in curious silence as Dante took one of his fingers and began outlining shapes on the palnus’s hand

And then I realized they weren’t shapes

They were letters

He riting sonus’s hand

But I had no clue what and Dante didn’t say the letters out loud When he was finished, he turned to look over his shoulder at his brother and held out his hand Aleks placed a ring on Dante’s palm Dante and Aleks shared a smile that said volumes about what they were to one another, then Dante turned around and slid his ring onto Magnus’s finger

No one stirred or spoke as Magnus did the exact sae he wrote on Dante’s skin had thewas in place, the ain

Father O was a smart man, for sure, because the second thetheir union, then he was announcing thenus were in each other’s ar even as the kiss went on and on Thethe children in the room, but the look they shared was proof that Aleks and I probably wouldn’t have access to the upstairs bathroom anytime soon

When the ceremony officially ended, Aleks came to me and I put my arm around him Then I watched my new family start their celebration

As happy as I was to be so war I needed to do before I could really enjoy any of it

I needed to tellhome

Epilogue

Aleks

Teeks later

“Are you sure, Aleks?”