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“Good morning,” he said.
Such a benign greeting didn’t seem right coming from him. It made her laugh.
“What?” he asked, frowning.
“Sorry,” she said. “You brought me breakfast and you said good morning. You seem almost human.”
He straightened, his mouth firming into a grim line. “Do not make the mistake of thinking me human.”
“You seemed like a man to me,” she said, her throat going tight. “That night.”
“Haven’t you ever read mythology, Morgan? Even monsters can make love.”
Her breath caught as she thought of him as he’d been that night. Strong and powerful above her, a bronzed god, powerful and dangerous.
Ruinous.
But he was not a monster. Of that she was certain.
Are you? Or do you just want it to be true.
She had never seen evidence that he was a monster. Ever.
He was firm, and he was...
He was something else entirely.
But he was not a monster.
He was not entirely mortal, either. Of that she was certain.
“I have come to a decision,” he said.
Her breath caught and held. She wondered if he was going to acknowledge it. The children might be his.
They were his. She knew that. With certainty.
“We will be married,” he said.
“What?”
“There is nothing else for it, Morgan. These children are part of my family. And they must be bound to the family in the name. There’s no question that I will offer them my full protection.”
“As their uncle? Or as their father?”
His jaw firmed. “I will make sure that they know about Alex. That they know who their father is.”
“And if it’s you?”
“It isn’t.”
“So certain?”
And she could see in the fathomless darkness of his eyes, that it wasn’t certainty, it was pain. Pain and denial so desperate it made her chest ache. “What good does it do? Alex is gone. He has no other chance. I will be their protector. I will make sure that they understand where they come from. Alex was... He was a man with many faults. As you know. He betrayed you, and I do not take that lightly. But he was... In many ways, the best of us. He was funny, and he was...” He faltered. That mountain of a man. The first show of emotion she had ever seen in him.
Other than when he was inside you...
“I know,” she said. Because she did.
