I Bore Twins for My Oathbound Enemy
READING AGE 12+
The night my enemy arrived at my door to claim one of our children, my daughter was hiding a stolen blade under her pillow and my son was five hundred miles away, learning how to bury his feelings. I had given birth to the twins after Cael Rook lost his memory, and I had let him believe I was only a woman with nowhere else to go. When his memories returned, he took our son and left me with our daughter. Now the old war between our magical houses was starting again, and Cael wanted to bring both children into the fight. I could stop him only by risking the secret that had kept us alive. But if I told the truth, would the man I had deceived ever let me near our son again?
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Cael stayed for dinner.
He stayed for breakfast the next morning, too, because the road flooded and the children insisted he couldn't leave without seeing the new fort they had built from couch cushions. He stayed two more nights while the joint council arranged guards for the manor.
I did not mistake a few quiet days for a repair……
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