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Are you going to love your baby more than you love us?

No one loves us like you do.

“Oh, guys. Love isn’t halved—I could never love you less.”

They curled into him, and he poured out all his love to these two amazing dragons.

They sighed, leaning into him.It’s been so nice here, Uncle. It’s kind of boring.

He had to laugh. These two were used to a vast underground cavern that was their family’s to explore. Village life might be odd.

“It is, loves? I bet you’re right. Are there no exciting caves here?” He carried them through the sunlight.

“No. Not one. And there are such nice mountains behind us.”

“Then there must be somewhere. You just need to get your uncle Ty to take you looking.” Or Gavin. He had a talent for it.

“Can you take us?”

Oh, Hawk would love that… “I’ll try, yes.”

“Yay!” He got kisses on both cheeks.

“But not today. Today is for food.”

“Tomatoes. Your?—”

“—baby likes?—”

“Tomatoes!”

“Yes, my beautiful loves! The baby likes tomatoes!”

“They’re poison, you know.”

He snorted. “Like Corbin hasn’t told me that. Nightshades. Maybe my baby will spit poison like Austin.”

Two sets of eyes went wide. “Ohh.”

“Poison.”

“We could teach the baby to spit.”

“Poison. At whoever.”

“We wanted them.”

“To. And no one.”

“Would know it.”

“Was us.”

He chuckled at them, stroking their scales. He and Myk seemed to be the only two who weren’t a little bit worried about this pair. They weren’t bad. Just powerful. And together, in a way that seemed very unusual to most people.

Cosmo didn’t find it unusual at all. Their mother said he and his brothers hadn’t spoken a single word that wasn’t in unison for the first dozen years of their lives. They truly were one mind and three different bodies.

The twins liked to play that up. Naughtiness got them attention. It got them a little bit of shock. And it healed the wounds that were caused when other dragons didn’t really want them.