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?”

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

with five-year-old certainty.

not,” Sera and I said at exactly the same time, then looked at each other and

moved through the rooms. I could see her calculating spaces, probably mentally rearranging furniture and

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there are several other bedrooms if you’d prefer your own space. I don’t want

you’re not

exasperated. “Damien, we

bedroom with

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

my room, Daddy? I

bedroom, but it was large and bright with tall windows

corner, his excitement

how huge it is! And there’s space for all my dinosaurs and my books and

track!”

looked

the phrase Adrian had

“The happiest,” she confirmed.

the apartment to the house. Ophelia helped, making jokes about how her

sure that Adrian’s favorite stuffed

safely into

Adrian was installed in his new room, his dinosaurs carefully arranged on the

eaten dinner at the kitchen island, eyes

was bigger than his old

he announced as I tucked him into his new bed. “I got a daddy and a castle

ever for me too,” I told him, pressing a kiss to his forehead. “Sleep well,

as

“Yeah?”

you still be here when I wake

a physical blow, a reminder of all the mornings he’d woken up without a father, all the times Sera had

voice rough with emotion. “Every morning,

“Forever?”

“Forever.”

for work that morning-a morning that felt like a lifetime ago. She looked small in the large room, and for a

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hard, moved too fast.

beside her on the