Chapter 58

The words,” Trust me,” spilled straight from Oberon’s mind and off his tongue as he took their son Ruriel in his arms. It won a wobbly smile from Rhonda, a sheen of emotional tears making huge blue pools of her eyes. Oberon wasn’t sure this meant she accepted his word or only wished she could believe in it.

Oberon had no doubts, giving a happy, confident gurgle at the exchange of parental control. He had learnt to trust his father over the last month and Oberon privately swore he had never knowingly let his son down on anything more important to him. Trust between adults was a far more complex equation and he had hoped Rhonda accepted that he took today’s formal commitment to each other very seriously.

It was not a paper marriage to him.

He might have thought of it like that he had known about Ruriel, but this baby in his arms made a world of diffe