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Authors: J.L. Langley
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another by their first names. Nate found he liked them both quite a bit.
Both men were a little older than Nate and not what he’d expected.
Steven was quite laid-back. He gave the impression of laziness, but his form spoke of anything but. He wasn’t overly tall, but the man was powerfully built, wide through the chest, lean through the hips. He wasn’t a man who laid around all day.
Raleigh wasn’t tense exactly, but he wasn’t as easygoing as Steven.
He brought to mind a big cat, always alert and ready to pounce. Like a large feline, Raleigh was tall and athletic looking. Nate had no doubt the man would be as fast as he was strong. It made Nate wonder what exactly the man did for the IN.
Nate took a sip of his drink while he tried to get a grasp on his most recent discovery, that the Townsend offspring were responsible for the computer being off. He’d come to suspect it before Raleigh revealed the truth. “Let me get this straight. The princes shut Jeffers off in order to have an adventure?” Nate frowned. It seemed to him the princes did as they pleased already.
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Steven nodded from his seat, an armchair across from Nate. A lock of black hair fell into his eyes. “Raleigh’s children are brats.”
Brushing the hair off his spouse’s face, Raleigh got up from his perch on the wide arm of the chair. “Why is it whenever they do something good and noteworthy they are yours, but let them foul something up and they are mine and mine alone?” He crossed to the desk, sitting on the edge.
“Need I remind you that you are the one who wanted six children?”
Steven’s lip twitched and his sherry-colored eyes twinkled. The man clearly took delight in teasing his spouse. “Besides, they do have your DNA, how could they not be hellions? And since I’m quite positive it is your genes, not mine, that make them that way…” He shrugged and caught Nate’s gaze, the mirth evident in his grin and raised brow.
Raleigh snorted. Raleigh was one of the classiest and commanding men he’d ever met—the snort seemed so out of character. It made him appear even more like Aiden.
The thought of Aiden immediately brought to mind the way the man looked in his arms a couple of hours ago, and Nate’s cock began to rouse. He crossed his ankle over his knee again. “Ahem. I thought the two of you only had five children? Was I misinformed?”
Steven chuckled. “We only have five because I managed to talk some sense into him at last.”
Picking up a pen from the desk, Raleigh flung it at the king, then turned his attention on Nate. His gray eyes twinkled. “No, you were not misinformed. There are only five and Muffin.”
“Muffin?” Nate blinked. He assumed they were talking of the little girl he’d seen earlier, but he had no clue who she was…to them.
Laughing louder, Steven hurled the pen back, clipping his consort in the chest with it.
Raleigh ignored the pen altogether. “Muffin is our eldest’s charge. I suppose in a sense she is our ward, but Rexley found her when she was a newborn. He was shopping with his chaperone and he heard her crying. She’d been abandoned in an alley behind a shop and reminded
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Rexley of a muffin, all round and plump. It was before he ate lunch.”
Raleigh chuckled.
Nate frowned. From what he had learned, Regelence’s citizens subscribed to the artificial creation and incubation method of procreation. It was clear from what was said that the princes were created from such a process, because they obviously had both Steven and Raleigh’s DNA. There was an egg involved, of course, but in most cases during the creation process the egg donor’s genetics were removed until it was inconsequential unless the child being spawned belonged to that woman. “Why would someone abandon a baby that they’d had made. Could they not have designed her the way they wanted?”
Steven shook his head. “I presume she was conceived naturally. But,
Both men were a little older than Nate and not what he’d expected.
Steven was quite laid-back. He gave the impression of laziness, but his form spoke of anything but. He wasn’t overly tall, but the man was powerfully built, wide through the chest, lean through the hips. He wasn’t a man who laid around all day.
Raleigh wasn’t tense exactly, but he wasn’t as easygoing as Steven.
He brought to mind a big cat, always alert and ready to pounce. Like a large feline, Raleigh was tall and athletic looking. Nate had no doubt the man would be as fast as he was strong. It made Nate wonder what exactly the man did for the IN.
Nate took a sip of his drink while he tried to get a grasp on his most recent discovery, that the Townsend offspring were responsible for the computer being off. He’d come to suspect it before Raleigh revealed the truth. “Let me get this straight. The princes shut Jeffers off in order to have an adventure?” Nate frowned. It seemed to him the princes did as they pleased already.
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Steven nodded from his seat, an armchair across from Nate. A lock of black hair fell into his eyes. “Raleigh’s children are brats.”
Brushing the hair off his spouse’s face, Raleigh got up from his perch on the wide arm of the chair. “Why is it whenever they do something good and noteworthy they are yours, but let them foul something up and they are mine and mine alone?” He crossed to the desk, sitting on the edge.
“Need I remind you that you are the one who wanted six children?”
Steven’s lip twitched and his sherry-colored eyes twinkled. The man clearly took delight in teasing his spouse. “Besides, they do have your DNA, how could they not be hellions? And since I’m quite positive it is your genes, not mine, that make them that way…” He shrugged and caught Nate’s gaze, the mirth evident in his grin and raised brow.
Raleigh snorted. Raleigh was one of the classiest and commanding men he’d ever met—the snort seemed so out of character. It made him appear even more like Aiden.
The thought of Aiden immediately brought to mind the way the man looked in his arms a couple of hours ago, and Nate’s cock began to rouse. He crossed his ankle over his knee again. “Ahem. I thought the two of you only had five children? Was I misinformed?”
Steven chuckled. “We only have five because I managed to talk some sense into him at last.”
Picking up a pen from the desk, Raleigh flung it at the king, then turned his attention on Nate. His gray eyes twinkled. “No, you were not misinformed. There are only five and Muffin.”
“Muffin?” Nate blinked. He assumed they were talking of the little girl he’d seen earlier, but he had no clue who she was…to them.
Laughing louder, Steven hurled the pen back, clipping his consort in the chest with it.
Raleigh ignored the pen altogether. “Muffin is our eldest’s charge. I suppose in a sense she is our ward, but Rexley found her when she was a newborn. He was shopping with his chaperone and he heard her crying. She’d been abandoned in an alley behind a shop and reminded
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Rexley of a muffin, all round and plump. It was before he ate lunch.”
Raleigh chuckled.
Nate frowned. From what he had learned, Regelence’s citizens subscribed to the artificial creation and incubation method of procreation. It was clear from what was said that the princes were created from such a process, because they obviously had both Steven and Raleigh’s DNA. There was an egg involved, of course, but in most cases during the creation process the egg donor’s genetics were removed until it was inconsequential unless the child being spawned belonged to that woman. “Why would someone abandon a baby that they’d had made. Could they not have designed her the way they wanted?”
Steven shook his head. “I presume she was conceived naturally. But,
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