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.

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

at exactly the same time, then looked at each other and

probably mentally rearranging furniture and thinking about how to make the formal spaces more livable. When we reached the master suite,

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

into anything you’re

gave me a look that was equal parts grateful and exasperated. “Damien, we have a

a bedroom with

flashed through me at her words, but before I could respond, Adrian was tugging

room, Daddy? I want to see

was

to corner,

it is! And there’s space for all my dinosaurs and my books and maybe even

track!”

looked at her, there were fresh tears in

echoing the phrase

“The happiest,” she confirmed.

to move all of their belongings from the apartment to the house. Ophelia

simultaneously making sure that Adrian’s favorite stuffed animal and Sera’s coffee mug

into the

installed in his new room, his dinosaurs

island, eyes wide as he took in

that was bigger than his old

his new bed. “I got a daddy and a castle

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

he said as I reached the

“Yeah?”

here when I wake

father, all the times Sera had probably wondered if someone she cared about would still be there

voice rough with emotion. “Every

“Forever?”

“Forever.”

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.

her on the bed. “How are you