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his thoughts and emotions that when he had first started to build his businesses, he’d gotten most of the money by gambling. He had the best poker face for it, the talent almost seeing him dead more than once during much earlier and more dangerous times on the planet.
    “As I said earlier, my mother, brother and I wanted more than the brutality of my father and his kind. And we raised Traze to be the same way. Unfortunately, our brother Dagog has always been more of a duplicate of our father and has most likely taken over the moment the first explosion went off on the mother ship.” Grai explained, evading the deeper reasons why he had done the things he had. Those were revelations for another time, if ever. Right now, now they were going to need each other… and soon. That would take precedence for now.
    “So it is this Dagog that will now take over the empire? Not you?” Ivint asked curiously. The more Grai spoke, the more the young Relian fascinated him. If this was a lie, then it was the most elaborate lie Ivint had ever seen. The problem was, the lengths he had to go through to hide all of this from his father had to have taken just as much of an intricate scheme. Ivint wondered just who was the victim of the man’s intelligence… his own people or them?
    “Yes. The moment the mother ship was destroyed, he knew that my brothers and I had… defected. That and we blatantly killed part of my father’s personal forces here, in that field. When he comes, he comes for all of us. And he will unleash the dark ones on us. We all have to be prepared.” Grai admitted sadly. He had hoped that he would never be put in a position to have to choose between his people and his brother. However, Dagog didn’t give him a choice.
    “What about my daughter? If you are so damn benevolent and unlike your father, then why did you do that to my daughter?” Banatar demanded weakly, the full situation finally sinking in for him.
    For almost a hundred years, if not longer, it had been the enemy giving his people food and the tools for survival. The young Relian, Traze was right. Nothing was ever as it seemed.
    “My father did not begin to trust me with his breeding program until recently. In fact, the only access we could get was the little Traze was able to hack from their communications or the girls we could rescue.”
    “ Dare was my first time running one of the experiments, although they had started using my suggestions for a gentler approach earlier than that. I wasn’t part of the scheme to kidnap anyone either. I was handed Dare by my father’s people after she, and Balduen had already been taken.”
    “She wasn’t supposed to be touched until Friday. The doctor took it upon himself to do the procedure a day early. Either way, I would have allowed the procedure to continue if they hadn’t escaped or were rescued.” Grai looked away, trying to hide his shame. Only a few very sharp pairs of eyes were able to catch it flicker across his face.
    “You know Tricia is my mate. Her son Tristan, is my son.” Grai waited for the gasps of shock and muttered rage to settle down before continuing. He especially watched Balduen carefully, hoping he would not have to tangle with the man again.
    “Tristan is dying. The only thing we can discover is that because Tricia is human that the beast has been unable to properly bond with him. It’s causing the seizures that are destroying his body and his mind. Maggie does not believe he has much more time.” Grai’s voice cracked, and he had to suck in a deep breath to try to control his emotions. The thought of losing his baby boy too much for him to deal with right now.
    “He is telling the truth, Ivint. I’ve been to see the boy in the MedLab. He does not have much time. I had originally thought that it was Dare’s child who was creating the disturbance in the Shengari’ because I sensed the Relian presence. However, once I saw and felt the boy downstairs; I knew it was he that