Chapter 12

“You’re getting married?”

Tarquin froze. “Who told you that?” he asked.

Elijah didn’t speak, just stared him down.

It hit Tarquin then, “Nola let it slip?”

Elijah’s brow furrowed ever so slightly as he stayed silent.

Understanding dawned on Tarquin, and his face darkened as he explained, “Don’t listen to her tall tales! Daddy’s not looking to bring you a stepmom. You know I’ve never stopped looking for your birth mother.”

“Not marrying her?”

“Not in a million years!”

“Sure?”

“Positive!”

bit, “I don’t like

do I,” Tarquin

Elijah

quivered, “Any news about my

second there’s a

he was old–school about love – a one–woman man for life. Since they had been together, then it had to be her and no one else in his heart. He longed to find her, to

became a tangle of love and resentment. She was the only one he’d ever been with; Elijah was surely hers and their fruit of love. So, how could she just

Nola hadn’t stumbled upon Elijah, he would’ve died on their doorstep! Not only did she abandon him,

Tarquin fumed internally, he saw Elijah calm down. He knelt beside him to caress his

right now, but… some things can’t be

a bitter pill to swallow that the highest–valued men in the world were both lonely and pitiful since they were abandoned by the

doesn’t Mommy want you, or me? Did you not do enough, or am I not

“She left when you were just born so how could you be not good

you

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