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I actually do really want to thank anyone that followed me over here from twitter

I know its been a while since ive shared my story and im sorry for so many unplanned hiatuses🥲

2024 has not been a great year for me so thank you for your patience 💛
“You feel like a divorced dad doing a custody swap?” Miranda asked as she pulled his bag from the trunk of the Jeep.

Lysander sneered. “Do you ever shut the fuck up?”
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
With the girls, he could be sure Max was safe.

Safe and well entertained, his husband already laughing at the sight of Sasha bounding down the front steps of the apartment building as they pulled up.

“Maxi! Aren’t you so excited, this is gonna be so much fun!”
December 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
He was staying with the girls while the brothers were out of town.

Lysander didn’t like leaving him when he went to the office each day, he thought he’d probably have an aneurysm knowing Max was home alone for the weeks they’d be gone.
December 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Ready?”

“Ready!”
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In the front entryway Greg was stamping and pawing at Max’s feet, as if aware they were about to leave him and Aite home alone with Ren’s hellspawn of a cat.

“I’m gonna come check on you everyday!” Max tried to assure him, but the three brain cells the husky owned were preoccupied with being angry.
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Packed?” Ren’s voice called as he came up the stairs to the loft, shaking Lysander free from his thoughts.

He nodded, waving an aggravated hand at the duffle bag he had just zipped closed, the bag disappearing, sent down to the car instead.

Ren paused. “Do that with mine too. Let’s get going.”
December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
As far as Lysander was concerned, this was his city.

If they thought they had the upper hand he’d snap their fingers.

If they thought they had a foot on his neck he’d bite it off at the ankle.

No one would push the Devil of Del Sol out of 𝘩𝘪𝘴 valley.
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Unfortunately, he was his mother’s son in all of the worst ways.

A Pickingill’s pride was more deadly than any man, more catastrophic than any war or plague. It took and took and took, until there was nothing but void, no way of fixing its follies.
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For a fraction of a second Lysander had considered disappearing.

It wasn’t as if they could kill him. He could pick up his husband and his brother and their girls and vanish to the other side of the world. If the mafia truly wanted his business prospects that badly, they could have them.
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“I want a good look at the inner workings of his operation, and then I want his head on a platter as an example for the other families,” Rosewood had ordered.

“His second is someone I trust far more for the job, so sit him in that seat instead.”

It all sounded so tedious.
December 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
They were being sent in as envoys for the Rosewood family, there under the guise of assisting Daelan in matters concerning the authorities sniffing around some of his businesses.

The higher ranking families were apparently not the only ones to notice him getting too big for his britches lately.
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Daelan Thomas was their target, a young man who had inherited the seat at the head of the Thomas family when his father had passed only a year prior.

Evidently, he was too ambitious for the ranking his family held in the hierarchy.

Whoever sat above Harper and Rosewood wanted him gone for it.
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
According to Harper and Rosewood, he couldn’t just go in swinging, no matter how badly he wanted to get it over with and go home.

No matter how much it irritated him to be taking orders from men who had served him antifreeze flavored coffee.
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
forgot to post this after fridays queue but finally got an updated family photo🥳💛
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
greg and his new other dad
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
“You like it,” Lysander answered, sticking his cigarette between his teeth, phone already opened to his Uber app.

“Is this your way of telling me you 𝘥𝘰 want kids?”

“This is my way of telling you I wanna go home and fuck you till you’re—”

“𝘖𝘬𝘢𝘺!”
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Lysander shook his head though.

“Randy thinks I can’t get you pregnant, but I’m gonna try real hard anyway.”

Choking on his own spit, Max burst into laughter. “There’s something so fucking wrong with you!”
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
‘Work trip’ was Max’s very nice way of saying ‘planned assassination’.

He didn’t have many details about it, but he knew Lysander and Ren would be gone for a few weeks, if not more.

It would be the first time the two had been separated since Max had returned.
December 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Lysander nodded. “We can get an Uber or something. Let them eat whatever Mom’s cooking, I wanna spend time with you.”

He couldn’t help the smile that crept onto his face. “Is this because you’re leaving on your ‘work trip’ soon?”
December 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Max squinted. “Right now?” Lysander nodded. “Birdie wanted to feed us,” he started with a shrug, “but sure, lemme go get everyone else—”

“No,” Lysander cut in. “Just us.”

Max blinked. “You wanna leave them here?”
December 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“I’m sorry, baby…”

His husband shook his head, retrieving his cigarette once more. Taking a drag, he knocked his shoulder into Max’s, and on the exhale he asked, “Wanna go home?”
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“My head hurts,” he answered finally, “There are too many people here. I want to lay down.”

Max nodded, chest tight. He’d thought about canceling before they’d even left the apartment that morning, had known when Lysander insisted he was fine with going it was because Max wanted to go.
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
And then he blew a lungful of smoke into Max’s face, trapping him somewhere between coughing and laughing.

“Fucking hell—!” he choked out, “Is that a no then?”

Lysander shrugged, letting Max take the cigarette from his fingers when he reached for it.
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“You okay?”

Max had asked it already well aware of the answer, but he thought it was better to ask than to assume.

When Lysander turned to meet his eye, he looked nothing short of exhausted.
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
My spotify has been dedicated to Lysander and Lysander alone for like four years now

(except hamilton hi babe how’d you get in there)
December 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM