Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 102

I walk slowly up to the house, surveying the scene, not wanting to run into members of his family. I meet a few Betas in the woods between houses, but they merely nod and smile as I pass. I return the gesture, glad to know that they’re there.

The house itself is quiet, though. Lights are on in various spaces, but there’s no sign of life in the kitchen or anywhere on the first floor.

Frowning, I come around the pool and stand by the edge of the back porch, trying to see if Victor is sitting somewhere close, maybe reading –

ust see Victor, sitting in an Adirondack chair in a dark corner of his porch.

or that little jolt to my nervous system, so kind of you.”

g on the floor next to his chair.

u doing out here?” I ask, wrapping my arms around my body for warmth.

air at all soon, so I thought I’d take advantage of what could be my last night. Plus, I wanted to get away from them.” He uses his head to indicate his famil

ttle. “It feels like I’ve gone back to high school. I’m the Alpha of this pack, but somehow I find myself taking the trash out for mom, listening to my dad lecture me on the fact that my tie is too loose.”

in the frustration that he expressed over the phone.

ou’ll find a new normal.”

at is. Suddenly I’ll be in this big house, all alone.” He sips his whiskey, thoughtful, and my heart goes out to him.

man I recognize –

on!” I say, laughing. “What are you doing here?”

, smiling at me, and comes over to us with a glass of wine on his tray and my favorite blanket draped over his arm. “It is a pleasure to see you again, Madame,” he says softly. “I took the liberty of fetching you this glass of wine, so that Alpha Kensington is not drinking alone.”

he blanket, thanking him. He gives a short bow, and then heads

in and turning back to Victor.

to have a rare talent for intuiting people’s needs. So I offered him a job.”

sorry to have to say goodbye to him.”

y. “I guess I was wrong before, I will at least have Burton here when you all leave.”

chair next to Victor’s. “You two are going to get up to some crazy times.”

yes.

the porch. The lines of his face are cut as finely as glass, but I can see the sleepless nights, the anxiety

im laugh.

ss tighter to further avoid the impulse to reach out and touch him. Then,

ot about the boy’s schoolwork.”

lowly, he opens his eyes and looks at me. He doesn’t say a word, just lets m

say, “Not after my father took them away so easily. But there are so few schools we can send them to, and nothing

it will be several months, at

ng for the spring? And then summer off, and then Prath in the

ders me and thinks about it. “We could certainly find a tutor easily enough. I’m sure Annabeth could recommend someone suitable. But you

ts, I guess,” he says, pinching the bridge of his nose. “I don’t know.”

t, his sprawling modern mansion, “is certainly big enough.”

you getting at, Evelyln?” He narrows his eyes, studying me closely.

Just that…we could stay, perhaps. A little bit longer. In th

d, but he just stares at me.

s gone. Until we all feel a little more…settled. But we don’t want to be a burden. If having us back there,” I gesture towards my little cottage, “Is any trouble…we can go.”

and I bite my lip.

good plan, for their education.”

the arm of my chair.

made the right choice, I am sure.

. “You can stay forever, if you want.”

ile, nodding once, and then skip down the stairs, blushing. I don’t know precisely what he meant by that, but…

Perhaps a question for another

nd head back into my happy little cottage. My home. For now, at least – but maybe…maybe forever? Is that too long a