When the call came through, Ignatius Leclair was at home having a father-son conversation with Nicholas Carter.
Ignatius Leclair was a first-time father, stumbling his way through parenting, making it up as he went along. Raising Benjamin Leclair from a young age, he'd poured all his life philosophies into the little girl, molding the five-year-old Benjamin into an early-maturing, clever, and charming child with a streak of calculated cunning.
Nicholas, however, was different. His temperament was gentler and more innocent. Though precocious and smart, there was always a subtle distance in how he engaged with people.
Ignatius had noticed this immediately upon meeting the boy; the resemblance in personality between Nicholas and his mother was unmistakable.
