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“Where are your coasters? You need coasters,” he says, sitting like a statue as if the thought of placing the cup down would make the world stop.
“Definitely your kid,” Marcus says, rolling his eyes before walking off, and coming back with a coaster. Itch as Valarian places the coaster on the coffee table when Marcus gives it to him before he makes sure his cup is perfectly centered. The coaster is straight, making me remember Everly finding me coasters when I visited her.
She had said one of the kids of the rogues was a little OCD. Now I wondered if she meant our son. Valarian clasps his hands in his lap, looking around and twiddling his thumbs.
“How did you find me?” I ask him.
“Mom, showed me a picture on the internet and I got maps, but I couldn’t find your street. Casey got the wrong maps. And then I found him, and Tatum brought me here.”
“I take it you’re the missing rogue boy, I heard about on the radio?”
“I was on the radio?” he asks excitedly, and I smirk.
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“Where are your coasters? You need coasters,” he says, sitting like a statue as if the thought of placing the cup down would make the world stop.
“Definitely your kid,” Marcus says, rolling his eyes before walking off, and coming back with a coaster. I we i as Valarian places the coaster on the coffee table when Marcus gives it to him before he makes sure his cup is perfectly centered. The coaster is straight, making me remember Everly finding me coasters when I visited her.
She had said one of the kids of the rogues was a little OCD. Now I wondered if she meant our son. Valarian clasps his hands in his lap, looking around and twiddling his thumbs.
“How did you find me?” I ask him.
“Mom, showed me a picture on the internet and I got maps, but I couldn’t find your street. Casey got the wrong maps. And then I found him, and Tatum brought me here.”
“I take it you’re the missing rogue boy, I heard about on the radio?”
“I was on the radio?” he asks excitedly, and I smirk.
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Tatum chuckles, watching as he stands by the couch Valarian
sits on.
“Yes, and I imagine your mother is quite worried about you.”
“Mom always worries about me.”
“I imagine that is what mothers do?” I tell him, and he nods.
“So, tell me more about your village,” I ask him.
“What do you want to know?” he says, much happier at the promise of food.
“Do you know which pack your mother came from?”
He shakes his head and chews his lip like he was thinking. “I know mom had a sister, and they used to be best friends, she doesn’t like speaking of her real family,”
“So you have never met her parents?”
He shakes his head. “No, they called mom a rogue whore and kicked her out because mom had me, but she isn’t a rogue- whore right?” he says, his brows furrowing. “Why would they do that to mom?” he suddenly demands.
I didn’t know how to answer that, but from what I know, Everly is nearly twenty–three, so that would have made her
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seventeen or eighteen when she had him. But then Everly’s words flooded my mind, “I am not a rogue whore,” she said, so that meant she knew who I was and what I was from the beginning?
“Did your mother say why she didn’t tell me you existed?”
He shrugs. “She said she did tell you, but you didn’t believe her, then she said she couldn’t.”
Marcus also looks at me, and I try to think for a second.
“What do you mean she couldn’t? Why couldn’t she?”
He scratches his head. “In case you took me from her, Mom thinks I don’t listen, but I do, she thinks you would take me away from her, but you won’t, right?”
I lean forward and brace my arms on my knees before scrubbing a hand down my face.
“No, I won’t take you from her.” However, I would if she didn’t tell me how the hell this was possible and also why the hell she kept him from me.
“How old are you?” he asks randomly.
“Me?” I ask, he nods.
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“Twenty–nine,” I tell him.
“You’re old,” he snickers.
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“You won’t think that when you’re my age.”
He goes to ask something else, but I speak before he could.
“I think we should ring your mother, she would be worried, and I think I should talk to your mommy,” I tell him, and he
nods.
“So you will come live with us now?” he asks hopefully, as if it were all so simple.
+ pause because I knew that wasn’t going to be a possibility
anytime soon, or maybe it could be. If only it were that easy. had no idea, this was the last thing I expected, but I suddenly felt like shit, that she had been raising our son on her own, looking after him all this time. All while everyone treated her like a rogue whore.
I pull my phone from my pocket when I realize something else. I met her when she was rogue and kicked her out of my Packhouse. My stomach sinks. I kicked my own son and mate out in the rain when she was homeless and living in her car. The thought sickened me, he was right there all this time, and I did nothing for either of them. No wonder she hates me.
Marcus places a plate of grilled cheese in Valarian’s lap, and
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“For real, how is it possible for you to be so much like him when you have never met?” Marcus says, walking off and returning with a butter knife and fork as well as a placemat.
“They’re happy now?” he asks, and Valarian goes to open his mouth. I dial Everly’s number listening to it ring. Marcus watches Valarian before speaking again when Valarian still doesn’t start eating.
“Yeah, yeah, I will get you a napkin,” he laughs, walking off, and Valarian smiles. I can’t help but smiles myself. Marcus ruffles his hair when he returns before passing him the napkin.
“Grilled cheese can be eaten with your hands, it’s finger food,” Marcus tells him, and Valarian scrunches his face up. That’s my boy. The phone continues to ring when after a few seconds she finally answers.
“I really haven’t got time right now,” Everly says, hanging up on me. I shake my head before redialing her number.
“What, Valen?” she growls into the phone.
“Want to explain how I have a boy with amber eyes and a startling resemblance to me sitting across from me?” I ask her, and she falls silent for a second.
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“Valarian?” she whispers, fear in her voice.
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“That would be him, we need to talk. One of my men will be waiting for you out the front of my hotel.” I nod to Tatum, and he nods back to me before walking out.
“See you soon,” I tell her hanging up before she can say anything. If she wanted our son back, she could come to me.
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