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a tantalizing mix.
    He remembered thinking on his way to the Caffey estate library, ‘Three days ago everything was different, I didn’t want to kill Dave but, him or me, and who’s ever gonna protect me? I didn’t have a choice.’
    In the large marble, museum-like hallway, a curtain of light from the enormous bay window behind Charles’ desk poured through the partially open door, along with three voices.
    ‘ Sounds like they’re all in there, dammit. I don’t wanna deal with the bitches, especially that old hag, dried up, old…’
    “ Murdered?” Amelia’s voice rose in pitch, the vibration of the word sending shivers through him as he crept through the shadows toward the door.
    “ Beaten to death with a shovel, or so they’re saying.” Gertrude confirmed coldly.
    ‘ Dave? Why the hell are they talking about Dave?’ he wondered.
    “ You lied to me! You told me my baby DIED during the birth!” Amelia shrieked, “The DOCTOR even told me that! What’d you do? Buy HIM off? Unbelievable!”
    “ You could hardly blame me, Amelia, or Charles…” Gertrude’s voice came through.
    “ I hope you two rot in HELL FOREVER!” she screamed. “You are two of the most vile, reprehensible people I have EVER had the misfortune of KNOWING, let alone being related to!”
    “ Let’s not forget who had the affair here, Amelia!” Charles’ voice seemed to draw closer to the door.
    Randy leaned forward, entranced by the scene unfolding in the library as Charles stood before his wife, with Gertrude obviously taking his side in the matter.
    “ Aww, what’s the matter, Charles? Oh wait! I know… you’re just upset because MY getting pregnant meant the inadequacy was YOURS, NOT mine!” She breathed then wheeled around to face him again, “And let’s not forget how many women you fucked trying to get them pregnant so you could claim a child! People in glass houses, you pig!” She sneered.
    “ Did it ever cross your mind to think about what kind of man this David Backer might be? He might’ve been… cruel! He might’ve been…a monster! And you took MY baby and tossed her into the arms of a complete stranger! Someone you knew nothing about!?” She demanded once more.
    “ Frankly, I actually hoped he was,” Charles confided dryly.
    “ It’s your own fault,” Gertrude shook her head, “If you’d at least had the discretion to use some kind of contraceptive when you decided to start… rutting with that… that… half-breed piece of trash…”
    “ Don’t you EVER talk about Jesse that way! NEVER!” Amelia ordered furiously. “He’s TEN TIMES the man this pasty little pencil-pecker is!” She jerked her thumb at her husband.
    Randy remembered the feel of his heartbeat accelerating as he raised his hand to the door, barely able to breathe with the new knowledge that the woman Dave had raised as his own was the product of an infidelity. ‘No no, not Sam. Maaan,’ he squeezed his eyes shut and took a deep breath, ‘I’m sorry, Dave. I’m so sorry. It’s in the blood, you have to understand, it’s in the blood. She’ll only wind up causing someone pain, rip their heart out and grind it into pulp. I can’t let her do it man,’ he’d pleaded internally before knocking to announce his presence.
    A second before stepping into the library Randy felt a hand slide into his, drawing the dream out of fact and into the realm of desire. He turned his face to the right, warmed by the presence he’d know anywhere.
    “ I miss you, Ran,” Eric raised their hands up to his lips, pressing a gentle smile to the older man’s warm, supple skin.
    “ Eric…” he felt his mouth grin. His hand slid out from his brothers then around the younger man’s lean waist drawing him close. His fingers traced the lovingly chiseled lines of his face, and his heart leaped into his throat as he pressed their mouths hungrily together.
    “ I love you, Eric, God, I love you so much,” he whimpered, nuzzling their cheeks