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!”

a bit, “I don’t like

do I,” Tarquin

Elijah

“Any news about my mom?”

there’s a word,

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

out of the blue, Tarquin’s feelings 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,

doorstep! Not only did she abandon him, but also their kid!

he saw Elijah calm down. He knelt beside him to caress his cheek.

us right now, but…

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

“Why doesn’t Mommy want you, or me? Did you not do enough,

born so how could you be

Did you upset her? Is that why she left?”

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