He reached out instinctively, because deep inside he knew that they shared a very grave sin, an abomination that was an accident of birth. They were BondMates. Flagen could not put a word to the way he felt about Bane, his emotional center was too badly scarred; but Bane knew, he had even researched the syndrome. The answer was to separate the afflicted offspring as soon as possible. His fathers had waited too long.
He knew that the fathers planned to give the Marquisate to Flagen and he wasn’t about to let that happen. He knew that someone would be probed for the femspring’s violation and murder, he had merely made sure it wasn’t him. He knew Flagen, the honorable fool, would insist on the probe and he calculated the exact odds against and for his desired result. A damaged Flagen could not inherit.