“We’re not the only one with secrets.” My father’s eyes narrowed on Aaron and then on the rest of us. “What happens in your relationship is best left between you and your spouse. Remember that, boys. It’s okay to share some things with the outside world, but at the end of the day, remember who it is you come home to at night. Who you curl up next to in the bed before you go to sleep, and who you open your eyes to every morning. Your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your wife. A man who can’t be faithful to his family is a man who can’t be trusted, period, point blank.”

We were all silent for a good thirty seconds, ingesting and digesting my father’s words. I couldn’t see them, because I was too busy looking at my own wife, but I was certain my three brothers were also looking at their wives, delivering silent promises with their gazes that lined up with my father’s words, as I was.

An hour and a half later, I found myself trailing behind my wife, watching the sway of her ass in the knee-length, sleeveless, floral dress she wore, as she strolled down the hall, carrying Travis, our youngest triplet, in her arms. I firmly held Annalise and Tristan at either one of my sides.

We both worked to change the children’s diapers, dress them in their pajamas for the evening and warm their bottles to give them before putting them down to sleep. With three babies, all eight months old, it was a task to get everyone to bed on time but it was one we were getting better at.

“Stop!” Destiny, whisper yelled, swatting at my hand after I’d just pinched her ass on the way out of our children’s bedroom. We kept them all in the same room, for now, since the room was directly across the hall from our bedroom.

I frowned and then growled, grabbing the slip of a woman I’d married, pulling her soft body to my hard frame.

Giggling, she wrapped her arms around my neck. “You’re incorrigible.”

I grinned. “You know I love it when you use big words like that.” I dipped my head, biting her chin before licking her neck. I lifted my head with her still in my arms. “We should have another baby.”

Destiny sucked her teeth and pushed from my embrace, turning her back on me to head into our bedroom. I was expecting that exact response.

“Tyler Townsend, are you out of your mind?” she began as I entered the bedroom behind her.

I pulled open the top drawer of the mirrored nightstand that sat next to my side of the bed, reaching for a remote, before plopping down on the bed.

“Yup. Any other questions?” I pressed the power button on the remote, and the familiar noise of the retractable mirror that was above our bed sounded as it began to emerge from it concealment.