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I nodded and took a sip of my coffee

“You and Luca going to check on Gio today?”

“The doctor thinks today uess thein and cal him out, you know?”

“Yeah,” Magnus said with a sigh “Just tell your brother… just tell him that no matter what he sees today, his kid’s still in there”

The confirmation that the boy in the hospital was, in fact, Gio, had coht before The second we’d landed in Seattle, Ronan had taken some blood fro to run the results, soeon had paid quite a bit for We’d had the results that the boy was Luca’s son in less than twenty-four hours

But Luca had known just by looking at his picture that the boy who now called himself Nick was his child He hadn’t doubted it for even a second And he believed that as soon as Gio saw hihtmare would end

I wasn’t so certain

I’d seen the results of long-terhter, but he’d been progra and that hat he would probably fight for first Like Aleks, at some point after he’d been taken, his brain had ht back and escape to needing to do whatever was necessary to survive

I downed the rest of nus took it, then said, “Can I fix you sorits?”

I shook my head

“When was the last time you ate?”

The question came from Aleks and it actually felt like a balm on my soul All the stuff with Gio was still there, but it ducked behind the shadows for now so that I could take pleasure in having the man I loved back in my arms

Aleks’s fingers slid upthe nape of my neck as he sat down next toat him

“Not sure,” I admitted

“Grits will be a while,” Magnus said with a wink

“Magnus, do we have any cereal with the tricky rabbit on it?” Aleks asked