Page 12 of The Platinum Dragon's Courageous Mate

“I just like finger food.” Micah began to fuss, but before Kieran could stir, Lachlan had picked up both Micah and Kaden, cradling one in each arm.

“He does like the babies.” Bryant smiled, and Kieran just sat there feeling completely out of place and half-uncomfortable, half-confused.

He didn’t understand why anyone would be so nice to him. He was going to take it, though, for Micah if no one else.

Micah deserved… a family.

Chapter

Four

Lachlan was starting to despair a little bit when it came to Kieran.

If Lars came over with Kaden or Logan and his mate came over with the twins, Kieran would dutifully trot Micah out and let them play. But otherwise he kept to his little apartment still.

Oh, he would play cards with Lachlan, and he would eat with him if asked to come down and do so, but he still just seemed so lost.

So Lachlan finally decided to take matters into his own hands. He started clearing out one of the guest rooms near Kieran’s little apartment in order to make a craft room. The place just had boxes of old crap stored in them that he hadn’t even looked at since he moved. In fact, Lachlan wasn’t sure he would even say the boxes were full of his stuff.

The house had sort of provided what he needed when he moved there, morphing itself to suit him as Guardian houses did, but it could be that the boxes were left over from a previous owner.

Regardless, he decided to start by removing everything in the room and pulling out the carpet to put in hardwood floors. Ifthey were sealed well, he could put a rug down or not, as the case may be, and Kiran could do anything to them and they would be fine.

Then he got a hold of Jake who was the ruby guardian of their wing and asked him to come measure the space for shelves.

Jake did woodwork for the wing, and it was absolutely amazing stuff, so his fellow guardian was, unquestioningly, the person to do it.

When he showed up, Lach was stunned to see Jake had both Grant and Gwynny with him.

“Sorry, Lach, but Sammy’s pregnant again.”

His eyes went wide. “Again?”

“Again, so I’ll take care of the babies. He’s going sit around, barf, and threaten to kill me. It will be a great day.”

“Wow, that’s kind of amazing, my friend.” Not too long ago, if he remembered correctly, Samuel and Jake had been talking about how they were going to wait for a while before they had another baby if they had another baby at all.

Looked like maybe that hadn’t gone the way Samuel expected it to.

“I’m glad I could provide some life expectancy for you, then,” He went on as he chuckled. “Do you need me to get Alban to come watch the kids?”

“Sure, but they would also love to see Micah, I bet.”

“Let me go get Kieran then. I’m certain he would love for Micah to have a play date.” And Lachlan would take any opportunity to see Kieran.

“Okay, take me up on the way and I will have a look at this room.”

“Absolutely. Grant, would you like to come with me? He held out his arms and while Grant wasn’t nearly as little as he used to be, he was still perfectly sized to be carried.

“Uh-huh. I can play with the babies, right?”

“You may, yes.”

They all trooped upstairs to Kieran’s wing of the house, and he showed Jake where the room was. Gwynny burbled at Jake, and he bounced her on his hip while he listened to Lachlan talk about what he wanted done.

“I was thinking of floor-to-ceiling shelves along that back wall that has no windows so that he can put supplies there. He’ll want a comfy chair so he can sit and knit, but also he’ll need a work station with a chair that goes with that too.”

“I like where you’re at with this.” Jake grinned at him. “I’ll keep Grant here with me to begin with, and you talk to Kieran, and then we’ll see if he’s okay with the kids seeing Micah.”