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“Ben, what’s the matter?” Farah asked feeling him move from his position in their bed.
“Go back to sleep, it’s fine.” He rose from the bed and walked out the door.
“Saul, get up. We have a problem.”
“Ugh, what?”
“It’s Ben, there’s something wrong.”
“It’s probably a plant. We should do as he suggested and go back to sleep.”
“I don’t think so, the children are still in bed and he would have mentioned before bed if there was a plant he needed to check on tonight.”
“Alright, let’s go.”
They grabbed their robes and followed Ben.
When they found him he was sitting in Farah’s office.
“Ben, honey, can you tell us what’s going on?” Farah sat on the sofa next to him.
“Terra said she wanted Mummy to read her a bedtime story.”
Saul sat on Ben’s other side. “She was asking for Rose?”
“No, she was asking for Farah. She said that Rose might be her mother, but not her Mummy.”
Farah looked at Ben, she knew how hard he worked to tell the kids about Rose. “Oh, Ben.” Her arms wrapped around him.
“She still loves Rose and you, but kids tend to call any authority figure mum and dad. I have students call me dad all the time.” Saul tried to reassure him.
“This was different, she was adamant that Farah was her mum.” Ben looked at Farah.
“Ben, she’s four she probably doesn’t understand what she means.” Farah pressed a kiss to his temple.
“I searched her mind, she was serious. She doesn’t even remember Rose.”
Saul grabbed his hands. “Then we tell the kids that we’re together and they can all call Farah mum.”
Farah looked at him like he’s out of his mind.
“They deserve to know the truth. If Terra’s already calling for Farah that way when distressed it’s only a matter of time until she does it during the day.” Saul reasoned to them.
Ben looked over at him. “Are you out of you fucking mind? She’s four, she won’t understand what could happen to us if parents found out about us. How that could ruin our lives and the kids’ lives.”
“Or they can grow up with the knowledge that their parents love one another, and we won’t have to keep large secrets from them. There won’t be a chance of them freaking out when they get older. We hadn’t even planned on staying at Alfea until Rosalind went crazy, if not for her we could be back in Lynphea raising the kids.”
Farah looked at the men she loves. “He makes a really good point.”
“You think that we can do that? Raise three kids without parents getting mad at us?” Ben leant into Farah.
“We’re going to have to figure something out. This baby is going to need all three of us.”
“Baby?” Saul and Ben asked at the same time.
“Yes, baby. Possibly, twins, they do run in my family.”
“We tell the kids at breakfast. It’s going to be hard to hide a baby.” Ben pressed a kiss to her cheek.
Saul leaned over and kissed her other cheek. “This is going to be an interesting school year.”