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?”

so he could

Adrian declared with five-year-old certainty. “Can I slide

at exactly the same time, then looked

gave 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 make the formal spaces more

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be our room,” I said carefully, “but there are several other bedrooms if you’d

into anything you’re not ready

that was equal parts grateful and exasperated. “Damien, we have a five-year-old son together.

a bedroom with

at her words, but before I could respond, Adrian was tugging on

my room, Daddy? I

it was large and bright with tall windows

corner, his

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

track!”

said softly, and when I looked at her, there were fresh tears

the phrase Adrian had used

“The happiest,” she confirmed.

trips to move all of their belongings from the apartment to the

the world” while simultaneously making sure that Adrian’s favorite stuffed animal

safely into the

Adrian was installed in his new room, his dinosaurs carefully arranged on the built-in shelves and his Batman

kitchen island, eyes wide as he took in

that was bigger than

into his new bed. “I got

the best day ever for me too,” I told him, pressing

he said as I

“Yeah?”

be here

a reminder of all the mornings he’d woken up without a father, all the times Sera had probably wondered if someone

voice rough with emotion. “Every morning, for as long as you want

“Forever?”

“Forever.”

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.

said softly, sitting beside her on the bed. “How are you