Free-Beloved-Army

We were only fifteen. I wish I could say that we didn’t know any better, but that would most certainly be a lie.  Out of the four of us, the only four in the world, we two were probably the only ones who knew exactly what we were doing. He was too strong and serious to not know what he was getting into, and I was too smart and thorough. We knew what risks would be involved if we were to move our relationship beyond the borders of brotherhood into something more serious and intimate, and we chanced it anyway.  We knew the chances that our father could find out and forbid it. We knew our brothers would catch us, and shun us.  It would hurt

He decided that he'd never liked his wife so much as when she was divorcing him. Exile from their home country was one thing, and he could take that in stride, if his government--idiots, backwards troglodytes, all of them!--was determined not to see that his work with DNA was crucially valuable to the future of biology.  But then, within six months of settling their household, Mathilde had to drag him through the American courts on divorce proceedings.  Oddly enough, he'd felt closer to her in those days than at any other time.  For a while, they'd both loathed each other, and in her haughty, husky tones he'd se