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She had much preferred going out to nights spent at home. And they had thrown themselves into that even more after the loss of Athena. It was not a mystery to him why. They looked at him and saw ghosts.
And growing up might have been lonely if not for...
If not for Alex.
And that was the essence of the issue with his family.
Feckless. Reckless.
And perfectly wonderful to be around.
But someone had to do the work.
And someone had to pay the price. Always.
Someone had to.
But a child from Alex...
“I have not told your mother yet,” his father said. “She would be... Do you know what this means? A grandchild? What if it’s a little boy? We must bring her here.”
“Yes,” Constantine agreed. Because regardless of his entanglement with Morgan, of course, they must have Alex’s child.
It felt...
There had been a moment where he had thought only of himself. Of Morgan carrying his child. And that would have been...
He had vowed he never would. He would never be a father.
Ever.
But this chance...this chance to have a piece of Alex here with them. That healed something in him.
They would have more than a cold stone with his name carved on it.
They would have his child.
“She is poor,” Cosmo said. “Perhaps we can offer her money to give us the child.”
“I very much doubt that Morgan is going to allow you to fight for her baby.”
“You are so certain? I thought you had absolutely no esteem for her. I thought you imagine her to be a gold digger.”
His parents had instantly welcomed Morgan, but they were like that. It was part of their complicated nature. They were not cynical people. They had no real reserve, that was the issue. They said what they thought and sometimes they said things that were painful for Constantine. And sometimes they spoke nothing but love and support.
They had certainly done so for Morgan. They had defended her no matter how cautious Constantine was about her.
Yet again, he’d felt he had to protect Alex where they were not...
Where they were only focused on the good and the glittering.
“I did,” he said, clipped. “She could’ve come demanding money from you at any point over the course of this pregnancy, and she has not, has she?” Of course, that wasn’t the real reason that he didn’t think Morgan would go after his family money. Or at least, that she wouldn’t trade her child for it.
No. It had been the hurt when she had discovered Alex was being unfaithful to her. And the passionate way she had gone up in flames in his arms.
She was not a woman of cold, calculated intent. Of that he was certain.
He knew that now.
