The law of opposites existed within the pair as much as between them, and like all opposites they magnetized and pulled close. In another life the pair might have become their own fairy-tale. He might have saved her and himself, but the damage their offspring showed the flaw in this idea. Something in their blood mixed and soured. Gabriel had given up on the notion of happy endings after his first love had abandoned him for another. What he sought from Alaine and what she gave were shadows of what could have been.
She spoke of his son, and the Aquila smiled slightly. Of course this was where the boy had fled. After what his sister had said…well, it seemed logical. It seemed odd to the coy-wolf that his ferocious son would show such concern for children he barely knew, but after watching him chase after his sister time and time again he might have expected such a thing. Ezekiel’s one weakness was his devotion to family; it overrode even his loyalty to Inferni.
“And to see you,” he amended, amber eyes softening. “My daughter told me about the children.”
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