An Enhanced Wedding and Other Stories by Victoria Sue

Author:Victoria Sue [Sue, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Gay / Lesbian / LGBT
Amazon: B0C39BTZJB
Goodreads: 138332327
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-09-11T22:00:00+00:00

Three weeks after Elijah came home from the hospital, Talon and Finn were allowed to take all three older kids out for the day. Talon and Finn had both agreed they needed to concentrate on them first, and despite what Finn worried about, he wanted them to be a family, and never wanted the older ones to think they were just a means to an end. Asa had seemed ecstatic when he’d found out they had applied to be their foster parents. Henry hadn’t really commented, and Elijah had been silent other than agreeing when he’d been asked officially.

Finn completely understood. You couldn’t put a band-aid on years of disappointment and while Elijah seemed to cautiously trust them, he knew it was something that could take years. They had their fourth visit with Zuri scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, so it would be a busy weekend.

They picked Elijah up from the group home first and Finn groaned when he saw his black eye. “What happened?”

“This fuckwit I know from school called Asa a—never mind,” Elijah muttered and nearly threw himself into the back of the car.

Finn didn’t ask for specifics, but knew it would have hurt. He also knew the conversation about Elijah using his fists to settle an argument was going to have to happen, but he gleefully decided Talon could handle that one. After all, co-parenting, right? He would do the night feeds with Zuri because that had suddenly become a thing again. Apparently, Zuri had decided she didn’t need anything other than an hour’s nap, her slightly frazzled foster-mom had told them last week.

Finn had already decided to ask for some leave if, when, they brought the kids home. They would need some time together in the first few days. Finn wiped his sweaty palms on his jeans. This was their first unsupervised visit. They’d also had to take a first-aid course supplemental to their regular one, because they’d found out Henry occasionally had seizures. It didn’t seem to happen often, and the doctors were investigating, but it meant no unsupervised bath time, for starters. Conscious of what Elijah had gone through, and while they didn’t think Clive had tried anything with Henry, they made sure there was going to be a shower for the boys to use. They couldn’t know for sure how much Henry had been affected yet, because Henry barely spoke, even to Elijah and Asa. It was hardly surprising, even without the threat of possible abuse, so that was another reason they were all treading very carefully.

Talon and Finn had talked about this day out a million times and changed their minds just as many, but in the end, they’d decided to go to Tampa Zoo, and meet Vance, Sam, Luis, Kai and Liam there. If their three showed any signs of getting overwhelmed they’d agreed on a code word with Vance for leaving.

Vance being Vance had called it Operation Rhinoceros since there was a new baby Rhino at the zoo, and they were all hoping to catch a glimpse.

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