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?”

up so he could see better. “What do you think? Is

declared with five-year-old certainty.

exactly the same time, then looked at each other and

rooms. I could see her calculating spaces, probably mentally rearranging furniture and thinking about how

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room,” I said carefully, “but there are several other bedrooms if you’d prefer your own space.

into anything you’re not

grateful and exasperated. “Damien, we have a

a bedroom

but before I could respond, Adrian was tugging

room, Daddy? I want

been a guest bedroom, but it was large and bright

corner to corner,

And there’s space for

track!”

looked at her, there were fresh

echoing the phrase Adrian had used

“The happiest,” she confirmed.

three trips to move all of their belongings from the apartment to the house. Ophelia helped, making jokes about

simultaneously making sure that Adrian’s favorite stuffed animal and

into

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

beside the bed. He’d eaten dinner at the kitchen island, eyes wide as he took in

was bigger than his old

ever,” he announced as I tucked him into his new bed. “I got a daddy and a castle all in

for me too,” I told him, pressing a kiss to his

as I reached

“Yeah?”

be here

question hit me like a physical blow, a reminder of all the mornings he’d woken up without a father, all the times Sera

promised him, my voice rough with emotion. “Every

“Forever?”

“Forever.”

the master suite, I found Sera sitting 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

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hard, moved too fast.

her on the bed.