Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 123
Victor can’t keep the smile off his face as, a little bit later, he trudges through the snow back to his house.
It was just so unbelievably good, these past few hours, to spend time as a family, to sleep with Evelyn where she belonged, wrapped in his arms. Even the stupid mundane things, like doing dishes with the boys and helping them pick a cereal, made him feel complete in a way that he hadn’t known before that he was missing.
Thank god Amelia locked the boys in that cabinet, he thinks to himself, laughing at the terrible thought. But really, it saved him from making a horrible, horrible mistake.
– when things are all going in the same direction, suddenly everything is…easy.
n this house is better, but he wouldn’t have given up the cold bowl of cereal he had that morning for it. Not for a second.
ehind him.
mother says, coming forward and giving him a curious smile. “Everything all right down at Evelyn’s? I heard something about the heat
ed it all as some kind of parent trap. Even more than that, he can’t believe that it worked. “But it’s better now.”
she says, moving over to the coffee machine. “Do you want a cup?”
says, ignoring the narrow looks that the rest of his family – Bridgette aside – give him for staying out all night. They’re the ones who called his power into question for not having a Luna by his side. Well, now he does. Or at least, he will very soon.
ork. As he enters, Beta Stephen follows him in.
smiled at the man before. Victor clears his throat and arranges his face along more serious lines, folding his hands in front of him.
ies again. “Do you have a report,
n shakes his head, as if to clear
hile he reads.
he pursuit of excellence in education.
little disturbed by this sudden change, Victor picks up
e phone. “I’d like to speak to Mrs. Prath.”
s, her voice is icy.
at can I do for you.”
says, his voice worried. “I received a
purported them to be.”
” he asks, confused. “An
t can’t believe I was so taken in by you for so long.”
h, please –“
”
on for our children.”
ask Angelina Van Horten,” Annabeth says, her voice
and stares at the black screen in his hand. Who the hell is Angelina
“Sir?”
s to what the butler might need at this particular moment.
for my own edification.”
er in confusion.
ell in the world.”
ue.
pocket, of course.”
ourse, had my own Betas on the same project. Amelia has been in San Tropez for weeks, bunkered down in a hotel there. She hasn’t left the room in weeks.”
e home with them for years, she knows quite well how to evade them. She is unaware, however, of my man.”
places the packet on the desk and slides it o
open the seal and tipping out a set of pictures onto the desk. Slowly, he sorts thr
ws and heads for the door.
e. “Give Beta Stephen the bill for your investigator. He will see that you are paid.”
shutting the door behind him.
Industries, a clever grin playing about her mouth.
gelina Van Horten?
rly black hair falling into his face.
but would it be enough to make him betray his
ors knew for sure: first, that he had to keep tabs on better Amelia.
oor opens a
” he asks. “Are you ready?”
or what?”