I couldn’t get Stephanie’s words out of my head. They echoed in my mind like a sinister chant, growing louder and more insistent with each passing hour. The triplets had been kind, patient, and respectful, but now… now I wasn’t so sure. The seed of doubt she’d planted had taken root, and it was beginning to spread, twisting everything I thought I knew about Jason, Mason, and Grason.
So, I did the only thing I could think of: I started to pull away.
It wasn’t easy. Every time I saw one of them—Jason with his protective gaze, Mason with his easy smile, Grason with his quiet strength—my heart ached with the urge to run to them, to let them wrap me up in their warmth and make everything okay. But I couldn’t. Not with these doubts eating away at me.
Instead, I began to avoid them. I made exc
