"Mrs. Washington is already at work," he says. "You know she is so fond of you. I would have attended to it earlier, but I had assumed..." That he would want to be with his husband.
A hint of a smile.
"You are very strong," he says, "but I cannot forget a young omega, mere days after childbirth, insisting he could ride a horse. That he must ride a horse, to go and find his mate." There is something like fondness, in this memory. "Whenever you are under threat, Alexander does something foolish... Ah, but it had to be me. He is a headstrong man." He sighs. A headstrong man -- that's an understatement. Alexander does not submit to authority. "Yours are narrow shoulders for our Atlas -- but I fear the weight of the union will rest upon you, in the days to come."
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A hint of a smile.
"You are very strong," he says, "but I cannot forget a young omega, mere days after childbirth, insisting he could ride a horse. That he must ride a horse, to go and find his mate." There is something like fondness, in this memory. "Whenever you are under threat, Alexander does something foolish... Ah, but it had to be me. He is a headstrong man." He sighs. A headstrong man -- that's an understatement. Alexander does not submit to authority. "Yours are narrow shoulders for our Atlas -- but I fear the weight of the union will rest upon you, in the days to come."