Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 114
I few days later, I sit in my closet, my fingers buried in my hair as I stare at the rotary phone on the floor.
It’s been an incredibly busy couple of days, the first of the new year. The boys have started with their new tutor, I’ve been reconnecting with clients after the holidays, and, generally, just trying to get life to normal after the complete blow out of the last two weeks.
But behind it all, creeping up on me, staring over my shoulder, is the knowledge that for the first since we’ve met…Victor and I are both single.
eta project, as well as developing the school, but in the times when we’ve met together to talk about what’s best for the boys…
I feel…
ally, to consider my feelings about my breakup.
of him, pressed down my feelings, stayed busy, made sure I was so exhausted at night that I didn’t have time to let my thoughts drift in Edgar’s direction before I fell asleep.
for the phone to ring.
I blush a little, thinking of it.
ictor living next door. And in my heart, I know it’s true – hell, even Edgar knew it was true.
worked?
k my kids, that we were disappearing, that we were going to build a new life away from all of this.
en us deep into the mountains, to live in a cabin. Or the desert, where we could live in a yurt under the desert sky.
of course Edgar didn’t do that.
e in, teeth bared, ready to fight Victor for me, ready to take me away, desperate t
th me, then?
it that I feel myself torn between these two men, and neither are fighting to be with me? Victor chose Amelia, he was going to marry her i
nce instead.
se me? Or…
strong possibility that no one ever would.
e at it, despite the noise echoing in my closet.
ssed, I told myself I was doing it to keep an eye on Amelia. That threat, too, is gone.
through the agency, told them I’m too busy?
one conti
a selfish woman.
o?”
l these months – it was him, just by the cadence behind it. “Are you busy? It took you awhile to come to the phone today.”
st a momentary distraction. I hope you’ll forgive me.”
.”
little awkward. “How…have yo
im laying in his bed. His warm tanned skin against the cool white cotton of the sheets…
is that progressing?”
ly feeling much better about that,” he says.
ed to make that happen?”
connection to help him?
ou tell me any more?” I ask, deeply curio
hat shock tingles in my fingers. What?
ar,” I murmur, uncomfortable to be discussing myself. I’ve got to get us off this topic. “Tell me more a
Well,” he says, hesitatin
ability to steer him otherwise. “Of course,” I say.
awkward but…”
drop like a stone as I wait, breathless, for his next words.
be with. And I have absolutely no idea how to proceed with…courting her?” He laughs a little, a self-deprecating sound. “Does that make any sense?”
.
supposed to advise him on this? Tell him how to court me?
t me: wrong. Wrong. Wrong!
wrong. I know that it’s wrong
sorry,”
tare at it for a long while, willing my breath to slow. Then, I lean forward and unplug i
weat off of them. “It’s done, it’s over. No harm done. The agency will set him up with someone else. Someone who can actu
but, until then, this will do.
inst it.
ift back to what he said.
una. Maybe even wants to marry me.
my lip, considering. Could he really mean it?
ed Amelia over me?
ly, is it that