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?”

could see better. “What do you think? Is it

too big!” Adrian declared with five-year-old certainty. “Can I slide

and I said at exactly the same time, then looked at each other and started

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 prefer your own space. I don’t

you’re

was equal parts grateful and exasperated. “Damien, we

a bedroom

but before I could respond, Adrian was tugging on

room, Daddy? I

bedroom, but it was large and bright with tall windows that overlooked the gardens.

corner, his

is! And there’s space

track!”

when I looked at her, there were fresh

echoing the phrase Adrian

“The happiest,” she confirmed.

their belongings from the apartment to the house. Ophelia helped,

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

into the

dinosaurs

kitchen island, eyes wide as he took in the professional-grade appliances

that was bigger than his old

announced as I tucked him into his new bed. “I got

the best day ever for me too,” I told him, pressing a kiss to his

as

“Yeah?”

be here

without a father, all the times Sera had probably wondered if someone she cared about would still be there

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

“Forever?”

“Forever.”

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, and for a moment I

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hard, moved too fast.

said softly, sitting beside her