Chapter 51

From the time that Ruriel woke them up next morning with his cry heard over the monitors, Oberon started operating on the assumption that Rhonda would marry him and no question was asked whether it was actually settled between them, no question about what Rhonda actually wanted and when was it going to be discussed. Watching him with their baby son and watching him share his new life with him and taking pleasure in their company that made her stay silent and go about all her duties as a new mother since the morning.

Oberon was trying to be a hands on active from the very beginning and Ruriel was also taking him very well provided that he was a baby and to him Oberon was a virtual stranger. Rhonda could not bring herself to disabuse the idea from him.

Let it ride for the moment, she thought. She wanted to see how long Oberon’s keenness for it lasted, to be the new father and to have a family. New