The mafia King's Pet [M×M]
Covered in blood… mine, mostly, though some belonged to the afterbirth, to the trauma of forced delivery.
What did I have?
I closed my eyes and reached inward, past the pain, past all the noise of my failing body. Even past my Ashbourne bloodline. And reached for the thing I had felt when I first touched my son. That spark. That connection…
Power.
Not like Damon's alpha strength or Millen's genetic enhancements. Something else, and it runs deeper than any bloodline that ever existed.
The Ashbourne bloodline wasn't just about strength or speed or heightened senses. Those were surface manifestations, parlor tricks compared to the true gift. I had not understood it before, until now. The bloodl