"While it is nice to occasionally have a break from the children, no, I wouldn't want to leave them behind. Alyssa's grandparents want me to leave her in France, and I've refused," Draco admitted. He didn't explicitly refer to the twins, but it was obvious from the plural that he included them in his life.
He shrugged. "There is nothing else to do, oui. The other options are to leave my home, which I refuse to do. They have already destroyed the home I grew up in; I shan't let them take my country and my heritage as well." A faint smirk. "And I suspect it irritates them if I play along, and do as they ask. They seek to make me react, to behave as they have stated a pureblood will, and treat them violently. And I will not."