Epilogue
“That’s the last of it.” I looked around my dorm room. “But if I forgot something, you know where to find me.”
“Down the hall?” Dahlia sat on her bed, her new black silk sheets, a gift from my mates and I, looking so much more her style than anything she’d ever had before. She stood up and came over to hug me. “But it won’t be the same.”
“You’ll find your mates one day.”
She laughed. “Plural? I’d settle for one that I really liked. But I have other plans, an education to finish and a career that I haven’t decided on yet to begin. I’ll be fine. And I’m so happy for you. Now, I can hear them waiting for you out in the hallway.”
Indeed, they were speaking loudly enough for us to hear although not make out the words. “I’m very glad to be moving in with them, but I’ll miss you. Even if I do see you around every day. You were and are my first best friend. For life, okay?”
“Absolutely. If you can find time to hang out with me as a newly mated woman with a big family.”
“Isn’t that the strangest thing? Can you imagine? I walked in the doors here alone and now I have so much family and everything.”
She walked me to the door and hugged me again. Then I opened it and walked into the embrace of my mates. My father was out there somewhere, I had a feeling, and I hoped he would make himself known. Tell us why he had acted the player and if there was indeed a good reason for it. But for now, we had each other and our mates and, as my sisters said, had made our peace with it.
Asking for more than Fate had gifted me would be greedy. I’d accept all this love and never call it settling. But if you do want to meet us, Daddy, come on ahead. You have a lot to answer for, but if you’re lucky, we’ll love you as much as we love each other and our mates.
And who could pass up a chance like that?