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Beth and Prefect Conway were having a quaint morning chat over Fuchi and pastries. It was unusual for Conway to sit and talk with her after s*x. Normally, he bolted from the bedroom and sprinted to his office to plot havoc and chaos throughout the universe. Planning the takedown of the Yandan empire was his true s****l release. Beth was only a fill-in.
“Beth, can you keep a secret?”
She rolled her eyes and said, “I can’t believe you asked that, Honey Nuts.”
He could see the irritation under her smile so he backtracked quickly. “Okay, okay, I was kidding. But you have to promise to keep this a secret.”
He waited for her to agree but she continued to stare a hole into him. She wasn’t going to agree to anything more this morning. s*x was enough.
“My son, Joseph, is alive. Isn’t that
