A Stolen Heart
When your king is immortalβand your exβhow do you guard your heart?
Breakups are hard, and Luc's immortal ex allows no lifetime to pass without trying to win him back. That's not happening, but despite Pietas being the jealous sort and manipulative, he's also the king. As his General, Luc can't simply walk away.
So when summoned for a "simple mission" of finding a lost child, he suspects it covers some hidden agenda or lurking secret. The mission goes off with surprising ease, and when an alien toddler needing rescue falls into Luc's lap, worry about Pietas takes a backseat. While attempting to care for the boy, a late-night visit from the immortal king reveals Luc's easy solution screwed up everything Pietas was planning.
Now Luc's slap in the middle of a dubious fix that endangers not just himself and his king, it also threatens the adorable tot Luc has decided to foster, along with all the other mortals he's come to love.
Because at the center of the Thieves' Guild Academy lies a lifetime of dark secrets, and Luc has ripped off the veil and exposed its sinister heart...
Tropes include: Adopted Child, Single Dad, Gay Dad, Found Family, Redemption, Rescue, Genetic Engineering, Bad Breakup
In this scene from A Stolen Heart, Luc Saint-Cyr is in his hoversine (a cross between a limo and a hover) on his way into the city. He'd made a list of things to deal with and plans to hand it over to his new liaison, Shohn Lexius.*
Excerpt
During the ride into Miraj City, Luc pulled out his mobile and scrolled through the list he'd uploaded from the paper in his pocket. He forwarded one item to his assistant, and added a few notes to his own to-do list. The mobile buzzed in his hand.
Shohn Lexius.
He answered, voice mode. "What's up?"
"A bit of intel. I know we're meeting later, but this will only take a minute. I think you'll want to hear it."
He put the device on holophone and his new Kin liaison shimmered into view. Her catlike ears were up and forward, a sign of curiosity and attention.
"Sir, I anticipated you'd want a background check on"βShe looked at something off-screenβ"Senthys Antonello."
"What are you? A mind reader?"
"Oh, no, sir." Shohn picked up a note-reader. "I try to anticipate what'll be needed next. What's the next logical step. Prepare for it best I can."
"Do you have relatives needing work? I could use a dozen more like you."
Inclining her head, she lowered her ears in a Kin thank you. "I'm one of a kind."
"You can say that again."
She gave him a curious look. "Idiom?"
"Means I agree." He gestured toward her. "So you know I took custody of the boy."
"Sir, I know your shoe size, what sort of pickles you like and the thread count on your sheets. You signed papers for him at the Guild. It wasn't hard."
In his other lives, no one had known squat about happenings within Guild walls. "You scare me a little, Ms. Lexius."
One ear flicked back. "Is that good?"
"I'll let you know." He set his mobile on handsfree and dropped it into a pocket. "What do you have?"
"I dug up the name of the place where the boy lived from birth until he was bought by the Guild. Heβ"
"Bought?"
"He was purchased in a group of thirty children. Twenty-seven humans plus him."
"That's twenty-eight."
"There were thirty total, but two are unaccounted for. Not sure who they were or whether they were human." She tapped a screen. "Looks like they were counted when they left the children's shelter where Senthys was reared, but I have no record of them reaching the Guild. No record of names, either. Just the count."
"Were they sold before the Guild got them?"
"No record."
The more he learned about the doings of his Guild, the less it felt like the one he knew. His Guild had been honorable. Like a family. This felt more and more like a faceless organization. Since when did family sell its most vulnerable members?
"But sir, I'm looking into it. That two children can disappear makes my claws itch. If they're safe, I want to know and if they're notβ Well, I'll let you know either way."
*Shohn Lexius is in all the Antonello Brothers books and is the heroine in book three, Her Crystal Clear Truth
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