Page 9 of The Platinum Dragon's Courageous Mate

“Kaden likes him.” Lars gave him a happy smile. “Seriously, he thinks Micah is neat. When I told him we were coming, he was very excited.”

His eyebrow lifted. “Do you think he understands?”

“Oh yes, absolutely. He knows we are coming to Uncle Lockie’s.”

Kaden burbled. “Lockie, Lockie, Lockie.”

“That’s right, and he was telling me all about the baby. He was rocking his little baby doll and singing to it. They’re going to be fast friends.”

Bryant winked around. “I think we’re going to try to have another one?—”

“Oh!” Lachlan clapped.

Lars shook his head. “But not quite yet. I’d like to have a little bit more breathing space in between than my brother Logan did. He has two sets of twins, and they’re very close together. They are very, very,very. At least the girls.”

Lachlan chuckled softly. “Don’t malign my babies.”

“Yes, they do love their Uncle Lockie.” Lars chuckled and leaned forward. “The boys are very sweet and gentle and very much more like their omega father than they are their wildly head of the entire wing dad. That’s the girls. They’re going to take over the wing one day. I have no doubt.”

Lars nodded. “You see, there’s six guardians — Bea who you haven’t met. She’s very fierce and kind of solitary, and then her mate, Mickey, and their child, who is also very, very solitary. Then there’s my brother Logan, who is the head of the wing’s guardians.

“There’s me, my brother—” Lachlan said.

Bryant waved.

“Lars, and then Jake, who has two children, Grant and Gwyn.”

Kieran blinked. “So both you and Logan are guardians? That must be frightening, especially if you both are called at the same time.”

Lars nodded to him. “Yes, it is, because that means that someone has to take Kaden if we’re both called out, but fortunately we have a very peaceful wing.”

Kieran blushed and rolled his eyes. “Until me.”

“Well, yes, until you, except somewhere there was a very serious lack of communication.”

Kieran sighed. He hated disrupting things for others. He really did.

Stop. You’re not a problem at all.Lachlan reached over to touch his hand, smiling.

“It’s not a communication problem with you, but—” Bryant shrugged. “The assassin, for what it’s worth, he said that he was here to kill you, that he was going to kill you, the baby, and Lachlan because Lachlan got you pregnant.”

He’d been told this, and it was as ridiculous now as it had been the first time Lachlan had explained it.

“We know Lachlan didn’t get you pregnant. Lachlan had been here for three years when you showed up, and little Micah was brand new.”

Kieran shook his head. “I’ve never had sex with Lachlan.”

Lachlan chuckled. “Kieran, I would remember. Trust me, I would remember.”

Kieran’s cheeks went hot, and he looked down. He would too.

He couldn’t tell. He couldn’t tell what had really happened. At least not all of it.

It would bring the world to a screaming end here in this wing.

“I swear to you, I had no idea that all of this was going to happen. Two years ago I was just a college student.” That was it. He’d been studying, he’d been young and happy, and he thought he’d been in love.

That part had been absolutely wrong.