TORN BETWEEN ALPHA BROTHERS
He had also, in some complicated way, loved his son.
"What this means," I said carefully, "is that Dominic and Cael were not biological brothers."
"No," Dominic said.
"Which means the mate bond—" I stopped.
The silence changed quality.
"The mate bond is biological," Fen had told me, in our very first real conversation. A recognition sequence wired into wolf DNA that triggered on contact with a genetically compatible mate. I had always understood that Dominic and Rafe were my father's brothers, which had made the dual resonance strange but explicable—some quality in the Blackwood bloodline, some genetic compatibility that crossed family lines in the rare dual-bonded. That had been the story.
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