Nigel was still talking enthusiastically with such child like glee about finding his mother long after dinner and as they and the children turned in for the night.
Even as Richard noticed that his gold cufflinks were missing currently from the dresser top. He looked at his gloriously happy husband in the bed and quietly asked," So when you had the asthma attack your mother went to our room for your inhaler? "
Nigel paused in his musing on what his siblings were like to say," Yes. She was not long. Thankfully. I'm glad she was here. This one was bad. Why? "
Richard didn't want to bust his husband's bubble. He knew how much Nigel yearned for a family of his own. To know where he came from. To know his own heritage. To be able to point at a family tree and say with pride that that was what he came from. Richard had all that and he dearly wanted it for him as well. He hoped and prayed this woman was legit. If he had to lose a pair of cufflinks so be it , he decided. But if the woman hurt the man he adored she would be dealing with a wrath that hasn't been born yet.
" No reason," he lied as he gently kissed him on top of his head. " I love you. "
" I love you too. "
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As Matilda Swan brushed her blonde hair in her bedroom at her vanity table she smiled. She stared down at a faded old photo of a younger version of herself holding a smiling baby boy. Nicholas.
She had found him again.
Her smile slipped slightly. But what if someone discovered the truth? That there was no kidnapping but that the truth was not as simple as an abandonment. She had left her son in that alley near the charity hospital not to punish him but to save him.
From him......
His father.
Even as she thought of the man she had once loved and feared a chill suddenly rolled over her body.
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Mary Swan in her own bedroom was googling Richard Norland and she found loads of tasty interesting information on the man. Like that he had three children. One being her age. Sixteen.
She smiled deviously. She wondered where Niles Norland was right now. Maybe her newfound big brother wasn't the only one who could reel in a rich man. Mum would be so proud of her, she smiled as she fantasized about Niles Norland falling in love with her and treating her like a princess.
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Faith entered the small motel room and looked across the space at the double bed where a nude Penelope Perkins Hightower reclined sexily with a long stemmed red rose between her teeth and a pair of steel handcuffs dangling from her hand.
In spite of her really bad day Faith smiled. And moved ever closer to the bed.
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ODDS OF LOVE : SEASON EIGHT
General FictionThe ongoing Washington DC based soap opera about the lives of disabled math genius Dr. Spencer Norland - Lane and his doctor husband DuBuis Lane as well as their family and friends. This is Season Eight of the regular serial drama.
