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When Kent moves his eyes back to Daniel’s face he’s surprised by the rage he sees there. He had expected shame, embarrassment, but this –

“You’re going to ruin her life, dad,” Daniel growls, leaning over the desk to bring his face closer to Kent’s so that he can see. that his son means every word. “And if you do that, I’m going to ruin yours.”

Kent leans slowly across the desk, meeting Daniel’s fury with his own deliberately cool gaze. He opens his mouth, then, intending to say “try me,” but he’s honestly surprised when another set of words leave his lips.

“You lost her, Daniel,” Kent whispers, his eyes narrowing at his son. “And I’m not giving her back. Go find another beard to pretend to be your wife. Fay is mine.”

Daniel stands up stock straight at these words, paling a little, and Kent suddenly realizes what he said. The knowledge he just confessed to knowing, without…without meaning to do it –

Daniel backs away from the desk, staring at his dad, fear stark on his face. Kent merely straightens, watching him go, not letting Daniel see that he messed up. Inside, there’s an impulse to reach out a hand to his son to apologize, to tell him that

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doesn’t actually

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Kent knows that this was, in some ways, an act of war between him and Daniel. To be…different, in a family like this, was in some situations a death sentence. And Kent has not intention of punishing Daniel, or making him

knowledge as he just did as a way

father’s gaze, shaking his head a little bit. Kent’s stomach turns as he watches his son twist the knob, leaving

that ‘secret‘ between us anyway. It’s better to have it out in

can’t uncross. If he’s lost Daniel’s trust for good, without meaning to do it. All in

the words in his mind that he had thought when he left her room. This girl will be the death of me.

fuck up like this before she had come around. He

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there’s no time to dwell on the thought. A knock comes immediately at the door before Kent can indulge in the question any further, or come up with a solution on how to approach Daniel

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his

open and Marco

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