Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 101

“It’s good to speak to you again,” Victor says the next evening, his voice metallic and mechanical through the old rotary phone.

“Yes,” I reply, twirling my fingers in the chord. “The agency let me know that you tried to contact me over the weekend. I apologize for being unavailable.”

“That’s all right,” he murmurs, dismissing it. “You are, of course, entitled to your life. You shouldn’t have to be on call for all of my emergencies.”

ds after the whole wedding fiasco.

,” he says, clearly searching for words. I nod, understanding. He wants this to be anonymous, and will have trouble telling me details without revealing his identity.

Please, continue,

in the first place.

ur family?”

“Like many Alpha families, our relationships are…str

tanding. My own family is similar, though I have no brothers to compar

tion, threatening to take the pack from me

to my hairline. This is…shocking, and very worrying. Victor Kensington, deposed as the leader of the Kensington pack? Who would

as twenty-two, and single, it was…easier. All I had to do all day was think about the pack, work on the pack, build the pack and its defenses and its resources.”

listen silently, my heart

hink that my attention was torn in many different directions. I wasn’t able to give the pack or my relationships the attention they deserve. And they all suffered.”

to accurately analyze the situation.

uth pulling up into a little half smile. “But you know, it shouldn’t…be like that,” I hesitate, here, trying to puzzle out what I mean ev

ou mean?” He asks.

onship – then perhaps something is not working there. Ideally, all of those aspects of your life would be going in the same direction, be working together, rather than pulling you apart.”

nsidering my words.

ng that he needs to break up with his girlfriend, especially as I already know that he’s done that.

in that direction recently. My…relationship, with my…well, my mate. I’ve finished it, rejected her.”

very sorry to hear that. I know that you worked very hard to try and make that work.”

s, a little lost in his thoughts and emotions.

ur life and your future? Help you be able to make everything move in the right direction?”

ht now? I just feel a little lost.”

rage him, let him know that it’s all going to be okay. But of course, in this moment, I am his therapist, not his…well, whatever it is I am to him.

y hands, its steady dial tone ringing, wondering if there’s anything I could have said that would make it better.

his life right now, and there’s nothing I can do to make it better – it’s not even my job to make it better, just to listen and pe

that’s insid

in the closet, yanking a cozy sw

looking through some books.

t for a minute?”

ks, taking another piece of licorice from his pocket.

ll this candy, give it to me. And don’t even think about hiding it.”

but hand over their stash.

re did you get all of this, anyway?” I ask, frowning down at the doubl

to us,” Ian says, pouting. “It’s ours.”

my shoulder as I pull on the warm boots I have sitting by the back door. “So don’t even think about sneaking any!”

“Mama,” Alvin w

dropped, finally, and I’m going outside. “Just across the lawn to visit daddy.”