Dante smiles as he finds Scar walking out of the house towards the garden where he has been waiting for her.

"Finally" he grins throwing his arms around her.

"Oh shut up, Rain finally is asleep"

"Ooh I feel naughty, it's like we are hiding away and meeting in secret from all these eyes around us...

It's like having an affair with you"

"As if you can leave Jean for me"

"That I cannot" he sighs with a pout before hugging her.

"How are you?" he asks worried as all playfulness leaves him.

"Better when I can see my daughter back home"

"She will be fine, trust me I have seen her grown up with my own eyes. Just as marvelous as her mother but don't you dare tell that to her" he warns before they take their usual seat on the bench.

"I won't. It seems both my daughters will be your daughter-in-law huh?" she teases as she pushes him a bit with her arm.

"I did get them both did I not?" he says with a heavy sigh.

"You don't seem happy," she asks curiously turning to face him.

"I am not. I am just scared, scared of what tomorrow will bring in front of us. When I found Raine and brought her with me there was just something in her I wanted to protect; I should have connected the points...

She calls the same instinct of protection from me like the way you do, I love to mess with her, tease and taunt her, she just pokes me in a way it irritates the shit out of me...

The same way Adrian pokes me in a way and my son is one damn bastard to have the honor to found a mate in her...

Not because she is your daughter but she is Raine, the little shit I found covered in dirt and the woman she turned out to be, makes me one damn proud fucker though...

Turned out to be a real diamond huh?" he smirks as he pinches Scar's cheek.

"Thank you for taking care of her all this time" Scar smiles wiping the lone tear that falls from her eye.

"She would have been just fine even if I did not find her, just as strong like her father and kind-hearted like her mother" he replies as he gets up from the bench.

"Still, my heart is at ease knowing she was safe around all of you, around the strongest men I have come to know...

Even if Adrian was not, there as her father you all were there like one for her and I thank you for that" she smiles getting emotional while Dante nods as he walks towards the house without saying anything.

*******

"Sneaking peeks at your wife and her lover I see?" Dante teases as Adrian walks out of the shadows.

"Are you?"

"What her lover?"

"No, but in love with her" Adrian asks without any emotion showing on his face.

"It's true I love her but we both know you are in love with her between you and me"

"Go home, it's late" Adrian calls, as he turns his back to him and walks towards where his wife was sitting.

Dante chuckles as he makes his way home, whistling in the empty corridors of Adrian's house.

Stopping his car, he sits inside and stares in front of him before slowing making his way out with a smile seeing his mate sitting on the steps waiting for him.

"Done with your late night visit to your secret lover?" she teases as he goes to sit next to her on the steps of his house.

"Damn, I got caught again, thought you were asleep" he teases back nuzzling her neck before he bites on her mark making her moan.

"How are they?" she asks pushing his head away from her neck.

"They are cooping with the news" he sighs holding her hands in his before kissing it softly.

"Did you talked with Devilin?" she asks a bit worried for her elder son.

"Nope, he has cut all the connection ties once again, will have to kick his ass again for doing so" he replies with a grin.

"Dante, when will you stop hitting your son? He is grown up and now he has a mate as well, so try to cut him some slack will you"

"Ah damn, but I love beating him" he groans making her chuckle.

"He thinks you don't love him much you know"

"Did he say so himself?"

"No, but I can see it in his eyes, just like his father he is good at hiding his true feelings but sometimes it shows"

"You know I love all of my kids equally, but I am harder on him than anyone else because he is so not like me...

Soon, he will have to replace me and for that, he needs to be tough, make some difficult decisions he needs to be both mentally and physically strong"

"Still there is some other ways to teach him that," she whispers rubbing his arm.

"It's the only way I know to show him I love him and if your son thinks I beat him just for fun then well it is true" he winks pecking her lip.

"Dante"

"Jean"

"You know how much I hate it when he hides stuff from me, things would have not turned this ugly if he had told he found a mate and it was Raine...

He always does that, waits till last moment to tell me everything and what do you say about all those times Devon hid his scent and pretended to be Devilin?

Do you know how insulting it is to not know what is going on in your own son's life?"

"He is just too scared to disappoint you. You know he tries so hard to make you proud of him; everything he does is just so you appreciate his efforts"

"He does not need to prove anything to me baby, I am proud to be his father. My kids have always been my pride, without them I am nothing...

I know I made a few mistakes, lied to hide one truth but at the end they are my kids, my blood and I love each of them equally...

Yes, I am tough when it comes to Devilin but trust me baby it is for his own good. Do you know how hard it is for someone as me to be where I am today?

My father is a vampire mated to an angel, a fallen angel at that; because of my father, my mother is not accepted in her world...

An angel can never mate anyone but my father, well he is a Fucktard so what the fuck. Then I fell for this hybrid one of the special kids, who has a direct link with the queen of were and vampires that makes us the strongest bloodline...

It is rather fucked up and now your son goes and adds a dragon-master as his mate as well, do you know how much more difficult it will be for me to clear this mess?

We do not even know if anyone will approve of this mating and I am the last one to find out so the fuck I have a right to kick his ass for that"

"But even he did not know about Raine's linkage Dante" she tries to soothe her mate's stress.

"Yet, he should have come to me when he found her and will you ever stop defending your son? I am your mate; I am your first priority"

"That is why I never kick your ass when you beat my son," she giggles before shrieking as he pinches her side.

*******

"Adrian asked if I am in love with Red," he states as both of them just stay staring at the front of their house.

"Hmm, are you?"

"What do you think?"

"I have always wondered if I was not in your life would you fight Adrian for her," Jean asks as she faces her mate who has a smile on his face.

"Never, its true Red holds a special place in my heart and life but I would have never gone for her even if she was not Adrian's...

I do not love her like a sister but I do not love her as a lover as well, I have never got a hard on for her nor have I fantasized about her, it is just that...

She is the first girl I have met that never judged me, that just loves me for who I am and what I am...

I admit I was not at my best when we met but she just has this air of innocence in her, that spark of pureness that makes you want to capture and keep admiring it, no matter what, she always finds something good in everyone...

She is just Red for me, the color of love that spreads to everyone she meets and somehow she changed my perspective of things...

She is a mere human yet she has the most powerful thing inside of her that no one has, the power of giving love to everyone she meets, her heart is just so pure that I envy it every single day...

That is why I so desperately wanted my son to mate her daughter because I wanted that small part of her heart in my bloodline and I am one lucky bastard to get so much more than I bargained...

Adrian is the luckiest man I have met as he has the most beautiful women in his life as his wife and daughters, if you thought Red and Ariel are great wait until you meet Raine, you will be stunned...

She will surpass everyone when the time comes, she may be Adrian and Red's daughter but she has the best of each one of us, she is the best creation of ours," he explains with a sweet smile.

"Yet you kept her hidden from everyone of us"

"That is because none of us were ready to let go of her anytime soon," he states rubbing their noses together.

"I wonder where she is" Jean sighs worried for the girl as well as her son.

"Wherever she is trust me she is just fine, we did not grow her up as a looser back in HP, she may be just a girl but no one is as tough and strong as our little Raine...

And I did not teach my son to give up, I have full faith he will find her before any harm falls her way"

"You surprise me each and every time, dear mate"

"Its part of my charm" he winks kissing her softly before in a swift motion he picks her up in his arms and walks inside of the house.