Theo stared down at his gift in shock.
"What's that, then?" Blaise called from his 4-poster bed, "your papà paid someone to owl you your watch?"
Theo first traced the cuvette, carefully engraved with an alchemical array, then turned to the etchings around the watch face:
Theodore Aurelius Nott • 11.17.1979 • Solus mihi invidus obstat
His eyes stared at his family motto, frozen. Flipping the watch over displayed a family crest, his Mother's family crest.
"Not my father." He choked out.
"Then, who? Thought your dad was the last of your family?"
"...my future wife."