Richard was just about to chime in with Finnian's train of thought when Maddox, seizing the chance to divert Fredrick's razor-sharp glares from himself, interjected casually, "Hold up, Finnian. That's not quite right. Our Vivienne's just a young thing; babies are a ways off for her."

"Exactly, my point! Vivienne's only twenty. What's this rush about kids?" Jasper nodded approvingly at his third son, waving his hand dismissively, "They should focus on their careers for now. Children can wait a few more years."

Finnian is spouting nonsense again!

The family had only just reclaimed their precious lost lamb, and the score for whisking her away without so much as a by-your-leave hadn't been settled yet. They couldn't let Percival get too smug about it! Leopold, shoveling down his food, glanced from one to another, then at Vivienne, whose cheeks were tinted with a fresh bloom of red.

Struck by a sudden inspiration, he blurted out, "But hey, they're already hitched. Having kids is just a matter of time, and I bet any child of Vivienne and Percival's will be a real looker, even prettier than the two of them."

Silence fell like a curtain as he finished speaking. All eyes converged on Leopold.

Leopold shivered, “Did I, uh, say something wrong?"

Richard was the first to recover, "Wrong? Absolutely not. You nailed it, buddy. I'm right there with you, Leopold!"

Jasper opened his mouth to argue, but his brain, traitorously, continued along Leopold's line of thought.

Well, it did make a sort of sense.

Their Vivienne was a dead ringer for Sasha, a real beauty, and that Ellington boy wasn't too hard on the eyes either.

Wouldn't their child be the cutest kid on the planet?

Jasper's eyes sparked to life in an instant.

Meanwhile, a few aunts and uncles stared at their suddenly swayed father, on the verge of tears.

sipped his drink, his gaze

lips twitched, wondering how the conversation

and glanced

continue, Percival picked up the thread, "Vivienne, don't worry. We can wait to

fought the urge

was Mr.

Percival's gaze softened, and he ruffled Vivienne's

now. They were still

to set up their own department, and while he and Vivienne had drafted a list of potential

the ancient warrior lineage, not to mention that mysterious woman-none of these

was that Karen hadn't awakened, and Vivienne's father was

would need to be carefully planned, to be held in the presence of Vivienne's parents, followed by children. Vivienne looked up

Wolf always seemed to

villa, the

Porsche pulled

warm, yellow streetlights, the car approached Kaitlyn's home at a

Victoria stepped out,

Kaitlyn's staying now?" She took in the

them this place. They haven't been here long. Vivienne's men were guarding the place, keeping us from finding it. But recently, their security seems to

curled. "I didn't realize Vivienne held Kaitlyn in

with her heels clicking, arriving just as the Littleton family sat down for

on the table, heard the doorbell and wondered, "Who could that be at

wheeled

"Dad, let me get

for a response, she hurried to the

Tyler's indulgent and worried gaze, Amelia

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