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Note: So I got a message asking for a quick overview of family relations for a quick reference, so here it is and I hope it helps. Eggsy is the paternal nephew of Taron and Addison Egerton. Lee would have been their much younger half brother. Lee's parents were Terrance Egerton and Amelia King, who was forced to stop going by King after she disgraced her family by becoming pregnant out of wedlock. Consequently she adopted the last name Unwin. Hope that helps.

Follow My Lead

The estate where the meeting was scheduled to be held was in the pack's territory which meant getting there without running into fellow members took some doing. But Eggsy's uncles apparently knew all the back roads and they weren't in a hurry so going the less traveled routes wasn't a problem for them. And luck was with them in that when they pulled up in front of the destination the only two wolves waiting for them were ones Harry was pleased to see. The bald bloke was this Merlin they kept talking about and the lovely looking woman with him was the healer Harry had assured him Daisy would be safe with while they were dealing with King.

Stepping out in his slightly uncomfortable new shoes, they definitely needed to be broken in a bit, Eggsy kept Daisy cradled protectively against his chest as he looked over the couple walking towards them. He wasn't sure how amused he should be over the shock on the couple's face.

"He looks just like me, doesn't he?" Taron grinned at them.

"Poor bastard." The Scotsman smirked at Eggsy's uncle as he said it, and then when his gaze slid back over in Eggsy's direction as the amusement fell away. He arrowed towards him, Eggsy instinctively bracing himself at the approach of another predator. "Hello, Eggsy. I'm Merlin. Your father was a fine man. He was a loss to this pack."

Shifting Daisy over to one side Eggsy took the hand offered to him and shook it. "Thanks."

"And this wee, bonnie lass is your sister, yes?"

"Yeah. Though she ain't lookin her best with her little chipmunk cheeks, are ya, Luv?"

Daisy's mutters might have been agreement.

"I have to agree with my mate. She's adorable even with the chipmunk cheeks." The woman who came to stand at Merlin's side soothed Eggys's wolf in a different way than a dominant maternal seemed to do. He was sorta gettin a loving mum vibe off of her. Only like she was his mum so he couldn't find her romantically attractive, whereas Eggsy imagined that he'd find other maternal dominants besides Harry attractive. Just not at Harry's level.

"I'm Rachel, the pack healer. May I hold her?"

Glancing in Harry's direction, and trusting his nod, Eggsy handed his sister over to be cuddled and cooed at. The woman knew how to hold a baby at least, and the vibes she gave off must not just affect other wolves as Daisy was all but beaming at her. Around the spit bubbles, anyway.

The sound of a motor had them all looking in that direction, the car coming up the road worthy of appreciation. "Fuck me. It's Bond's car."

"And the driver even looks like the most recent Bond." Rachel informed him with a wink.

Addison glared at the approaching vehicle. "So much for King not knowing before the meeting."

"That's William King's car. Your first cousin once removed. He is, as previously stated, our current alpha's only son." Harry supplied as he and the others moved closer to him. Forming, Eggsy realized, a barrier between him and the coming vehicle. Everyone was in front or beside him now, the other men blocking his view and keeping him from getting a good look at the car or the man driving it.

"Well if he does look like Daniel Craig…at least I have good looks in the genes." Pity he hadn't gotten taller genes. He was the shortest man there and was having to peer around Harry like a little kid.

And his first cousin once removed did remind Eggsy of the latest James Bond once he'd gotten some quick glances at the other man after he'd parked and exited his car. Watching the posh toff button up his suit jacket and then adjust his cuffs, expensive sunglasses just adding to the overall look, Eggsy could easily imagine the man at the fanciest of parties AND in a war zone. Suit or not there was just something about the bloke's face and body language that suggested he could go toe to toe with just about anyone and come out on top.

This William King bloke radiated a strength and power that had nothing to do with the very fit body on display in that suit and everything to do with his nature. The way he moved was all predator, Eggsy noted as the man turned to look in their direction, scanning-and stopping at the slight gap between Harry and Merlin. Where Eggsy was peering back at him. Oops.

And it didn't matter that their eyes couldn't really meet while the other man was wearing shades. Eggsy felt pinned under that gaze like one of Harry's fucking butterflies.

Long strides ate up the space between them, William pulling off his shades to reveal pale, icy blue eyes that seemed to stare right through him. And that gaze held him right up until William was about two strides away from their group, the other wolves pulling tighter rank between him and his cousin.

Another sweeping look, William's gaze locking with Taron's this time around. Or tried to since Eggsy's uncle was wearing sunglasses too.

"You have a son."

"I have a nephew."

William's eyes widened ever so slightly before he looked in Addison's direction. "And does your feline friend know about this?"

A two-finger salute was Addison's answer.

"Feline friend?" Eggsy asked Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

"I'll explain later." He murmured back.

"Cheers."

"He looks just like you, Taron. And he's the wolf that trespassed on our territory the other day, isn't he? I thought there was something familiar about the way he moved." William studied Eggsy thoughtfully. "By birthright this is his home. There would be no trespass and my understanding is that Miss. Morton wishes that no charges for her injury be laid at his door. So why the necessity of a Kingsman meeting?"

"Don't ask stupid questions you already know the answer to, William."

"Careful, Addison."

The two wolves gave each other dark looks but there didn't seem to be real animosity between them. At least not on William's end.

"Shall we head in?" William motioned towards the door.

Nodding Taron started leading the way with Addison while Eggsy, Daisy and Rachel occupied the middle with Merlin and Harry bringing up the rear.

They were almost at the front steps when an ill timed wind blew past Eggsy, carrying his scent straight in the direction of the man studying him from the corner of his eye.

And they all saw that moment when what he was smelling registered.

Going still as stone as he inhaled deeply, William's eyes went blank with shock for several heartbeats and then knowledge came into them. Knowledge and anger as he turned fierce eyes in Addison's direction.

"Touch him and you'll bleed." Taron said it casually, like he was warning William not to go out without putting on sunscreen. "He's not the one you want to injure. Our father is already dead and buried. Though you can break his tombstone if it will make you feel better. We'll buy him another later."

"Your father…not Addison's son. Lee's. You're Lee's boy. Eggsy." William looked at Eggsy for a moment before his gaze started switching back and forth between the two Egerton brothers with lethal fury. "Your father is the one who got my then nineteen-year-old aunt in the family way?"

Damn. If his grandfather weren't already dead William's glare could probably kill him on impact. And since Eggsy was in total agreement with his cousin about what said grandfather deserved that thought didn't bother him in the slightest. Though it did solidify the thought that he never wanted to make William that angry at him. Ever.

"Well I didn't do it. And not even Addy's that dim."

"Oi."

Before Addison could finish pulling back his elbow, no doubt intending to use it against his brother, William's voice whipped out and stilled his actions.

"That's enough, you two. This is no time for your childish bickering."

"There's always time for bickering, William. Addy and I would have killed each other decades ago without it." Taron smirked at the other man, still seeming completely unfazed by William's cold fury. "And right now you have more important things to think about."

"Such as?"

Now it was Taron's voice that took on a lethal edge. "The fact that he's not just my flesh and blood, but yours. And what your father is going to have to say about that."

William paled. Actually paled. And then he looked at Eggsy and…well shit.

"How long have you known about him?"

"We learned of his heritage last night. Do you really think we'd have allowed him to grow up in the council estates if we'd known that he was a wolf, much less our own kin?"

William inclined his head, the different shades of blond in his hair called into attention by the sun. "I know that, Taron. What I meant was-nevermind. The point is that waiting another month to introduce him would have been the logical thing to do."

"Not possible." Merlin interjected before anyone could respond to that. "Miss. Morton's statement that the previously unknown wolf was most likely from the estates was passed on to King as acting Alpha. He drew the same conclusion that Harry did and sent two members of our pack to bring the boy in last evening. They smelled Harry's scent and reported back to me that the boy was likely in Harry's custody as he wasn't found in his mother's flat or the surrounding neighborhood."

Eggsy nearly gave himself whiplash in his haste to look in Merlin's direction. "Wot? They went ta the flat? They didn't hurt her none, right?"

"She's fine. Apparently your-Mr. Baker was willing to let them search the flat for you in exchange for a small bribe. It seems he's eager to have you permanently out of his hair."

"No surprise there." The feeling was sure as fucking mutual.

"I informed the men that I'd update the Alpha and I did. I told him Harry and I would have the wolf in our custody before morning and would deliver him to this meeting as planned."

Aka Merlin had neglected to tell King Eggsy's name or how he was related to the pack.

"He'll be furious."

"When is he not around Taron?" Merlin shot back in response to William's mutter.

No one could apparently argue with that.

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Once they were all inside the building Harry observed Taron lifting a hand up to remove his sunglasses in a calculated move meant to distract William from studying Eggsy some more. It was a well played move. Despite the animosity between their two families the two men had always respected each other on and off the battlefield and Taron was a maternal dominant. Ergo he aroused protective instincts in his dominant packmates even when those same men knew Taron could kill most of them without breaking a sweat.

Harry wasn't surprised when the dominant ignored Taron's question of how long he'd owned the Aston Martin in favor of asking Taron if he'd had his injuries seem to. And William most likely didn't just mean the facial bruising either, though Harry had noted Taron was taking pains to appear uninjured otherwise.

"Nothing worth mentioning or treating."

"Smarting from being harmed by a human, aren't you?"

Taron's voice was amused. "Keeping tabs on me, William?"

"It's always struck me as wise to do so."

One could never really argue with William, Harry mused to himself. Even when the dominant was furious he was cold and controlled. But Harry wanted the man to, if not be on their side, at least not be entertaining the desire to throttle Taron. Who loved to pick fights with members of the King family.

"William. Will you stand as Eggsy's shield as well?" Harry understood that Taron wanted to keep William distracted long enough that the man wouldn't leave their group or text a warning to his father but in Harry's mind it was more important to make William see Eggsy as someone he should be protecting. As his own flesh and blood.

For a moment William glanced over his shoulder at him, then turned back to look ahead once more.

"I will stand with you on this."

"Seriously?" Eggsy's surprise was in his voice.

Stopping this time William shifted so that he was standing in profile when he spoke. "Your father was my cousin. Our parents wanted us to have nothing to do with each other, but I did look out for him when I could. Your mother and I never liked each other, and when I offered her money after his death she refused it. She thought I should have taken better care of him and that it was blood money. Guilt money. She wasn't entirely wrong, either. Seeing that you leave this meeting unharmed, and remain safely in Taron's care, is little enough to be asked of me."

"Thanks."

"Let Hart, Merlin and I do most of the talking. That goes for all of you. Unless you want to add something, Rachel."

"I'm just here to babysit Eggsy sister. But thank you."

"Ah. I assumed she was his daughter."

"Well you know what they same about people who assume." Taron began with a smirk.

"Hush."

And on that note William started walking again, his long strides eating up carpet with the rest of them all hurrying to catch up since they couldn't exactly present a united force if they weren't all together.

Ahead of them two pack members stood guard in front of the doors leading into the meeting room, William calling over for them to open the doors for them.

Both men scrambled to do as ordered, though Harry noted that they were also trying to get a look at Eggsy without making it obvious. William was in front with Addison and Taron flanking him a step behind. Eggsy was somewhat visible, but William and Addison were very deliberately blocking anyone's view of the boy.

Reaching out Harry gave Eggsy's shoulder a squeeze to remind him that he had his back and then he let his hand drop away as they crossed the room's threshold.

Directly across from them was a dais on which sat two high back chairs reserved for the alpha and his mate. Luck was with them and Chester King's mate wasn't in attendance. A high ranking senior soldier stood on either side of the acting alpha, acting as his bodyguards, while on either side of the dais chairs were set up and currently occupied by the other members of Kingsman. The rest of the room featured wooden seating in aisles, meant to be used by other packmates. A quick glance around revealed that King hadn't arranged for any 'spectators' to be invited to this meeting save for the Kingsman recruits who all sat together to the left of the doorway.

The room's light came from the windows high that spanned the length of the room, though high up enough that anyone brought here couldn't exit through them. This room was used primarily for meetings between their pack and outsiders they didn't consider a threat, but who weren't pack.

Not surprisingly it was Chester King who broke the hush that had descended upon the room at their entrance, their alpha saying his son's name in a tone that demanded explanation.

"Father. Allow me to introduce Eggsy Unwin Egerton. Grandson of Terrance Egerton and Amelia Unwin, formerly King. He was the wolf who entered our lands the night before."

Gasps that echoed around the room, then all was silent. Harry could feel every set of eyes in the room trying to get a good look at Eggsy, who was keeping his mouth shut for the moment.

Harry couldn't see King well enough to know if the older man physically reacted to that news, but there was a definite edge to his words when the acting alpha spoke.

"Are you telling me that that boy is the son of Lee Unwin? And that it was Terrance Egerton who sired the latter?"

"Yes, Father. And as he is wolf, and his bloodlines are of this pack, he was within his rights to enter our territory."

"And are you taking the word of the living Egertons as to the boy's parentage? Seems to me he very strongly resembles you, Taron. More than your father."

"As you well know, or should recall, Alpha, it's a known fact that the shared looks you mentioned tend to skip a generation. Lee Unwin no more looked like Eggsy and I than my own father did. But my nephew and I do bear a striking resemblance to my paternal grandfather. And if you wish both Addison and I would be happy to have our blood tested against Eggsy's to confirm the exact nature of our relationship. He is to be our heir, after all."

That started up some new rumbling, though everyone was wise to keep it down.

"Bring the boy here."

Harry couldn't help but tense up even though they'd all known that this was coming. And while there'd been some debate about it in the car Harry forced himself to stay where he was as Eggsy stepped forward and was allowed to leave the protective circle they'd formed around him.

And breathed a little easier when William moved to flank Eggsy's side, Taron on the other as the two men walked their kin up to stand in front of King.