Mated to My Fiancé’s Alpha King Brother

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Damien’s POV 1

“Adrian,” Sera called, and our son immediately appeared in the doorway as if he’d been listening the entire time.

“Yes, Mommy?”

“How would you feel about living with Daddy in his house?” she asked, her voice carefully neutral.

Adrian’s face lit up like Christmas morning. “Really? We could really live there? With Daddy?”

“If that’s what you want,” Sera said softly.

“YES!” Adrian shouted, launching himself at both of us and somehow managing to wrap his small arms around us both. “Yes, yes, yes! Can

we go now? Can we see my room?”

The pure joy in his voice was infectious, and I found myself grinning as I ruffled his dark curls.

“We can go look at the house right now if you want,” I told him. “And then we can start packing up your things.”

“Can I bring all my dinosaurs?”

“Every single one of them.”

“What about my Batman nightlight?”

“Especially your Batman nightlight.”

“What about-”

“Adrian,” Sera interrupted with a laugh, “you can bring everything that’s yours. But first, let’s go see the house and make sure you like it.”

An hour later, we were walking through the front door of my estate, and I tried to see it through their eyes. The marble foyer with its

soaring ceiling and crystal chandelier, the sweeping staircase, the formal living rooms and dining area that I rarely used-it all suddenly

felt enormous and cold.

But Adrian’s reaction was everything I could have hoped for.

“Whoa,” he breathed, his head tilted back to stare at the chandelier. “Daddy, do you live in a castle?”

that,” I said, scooping him up so he could see better. “What do you think? Is it too

five-year-old

the same time,

them the full tour, watching Sera’s face as we moved through the rooms. I could see her calculating spaces, probably mentally rearranging furniture and thinking about how to

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would be our room,” I said carefully, “but there are several other bedrooms if you’d prefer your own space. I don’t want

anything you’re

grateful and exasperated.

bedroom

but before I could respond, Adrian was tugging on

I want to see

him had been a guest bedroom, but it was large and bright with tall windows

corner to corner, his excitement

announced. “Mommy, look how huge it is! And there’s space for all my dinosaurs and my books

track!”

looked at

the

“The happiest,” she confirmed.

trips to move all of their belongings from the apartment

was “moving up in the world” while simultaneously making sure that Adrian’s favorite stuffed animal and Sera’s coffee

into the

in his new room, his dinosaurs carefully arranged on the built-in

eaten dinner at the kitchen island, eyes wide

that was bigger than his old

as I tucked him into his new bed. “I got a daddy

too,” I told him, pressing a

said as

“Yeah?”

still be here

mornings he’d woken up without a father, all the times Sera had

here, I promised him, my voice rough with emotion. “Every morning, for as long as you

“Forever?”

“Forever.”

on the edge of the bed, still wearing the clothes she’d put on for work that morning-a morning that felt like a lifetime ago. She looked small in the large room,

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hard, moved too fast.

softly, sitting beside her on