Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 125
Just at the last gasp of dusk, Evelyn stands with the entire Kensington family at the edge of the forest. She looks up into the sky, noting that the stars are just starting to peak out into the velvety blanket of navy blue that coats the heavens. There would be no moon tonight.
Good, Evelyn thinks. Victor does well in the dark. Rafe will have no advantage there.
“The trial begins,” Henry says, his voice low.
ves to say a word to Bridgette and Victor goes to stand with Evelyn and the boys.
th trepidation. Perhaps it is something about the reality of the forest at night, but Victor can see the fear in them.
’t fear I see in your faces, is it?” he says, perhaps more hard than kind in this moment.
t their chins.
”
know you’re going to win, Papa.” Alvin continues
Evelyn, standing behind them. “Protecting your mom.” The boys nod seriously but Evelyn rolls her eyes. Victor can’t help but smirk.
velyn.
nd looks him up and down, unable to stop herself from thinking about how damn good he looks in his black tactical gear. She frowns in an attempt to make herself be more seriou
ng her expression as he takes another step forward and
ll you about it later. When you come home to me.”
his neck, kissing him, pulling him close.
n. When she breaks away, Evelyn nods at him seriously. “You come home to us, safe and sound, you hear? Or I’ll kick your a*s, Alpha or no.”
en Victor turns. He and Rafe nod once more to each other and then each leads their forces along a separate path into the forest.
s. “Can we go to bed?”
e frowns down at him, surprised. “Really? I thought you’d be staying up until dawn, waiting for your
ns at her. “W
rugs, glancing out at the forest again. “Honestly, baby, I have no idea.
just sitting around waiting, maybe the time will go faster if I go to sleep?”
ressed by his self-restrain
early? Then we could sleep good and not worry about missing anything?”
or boys – they’re really too young to be experiencing this kind of anxiety. “Yes, darlings. I promise I will. Come on.” She takes them each by the hand and then walks them into
she asks, nodding to where Bridgette and Marissa are sitting.
left says, giving her a kind smile. “No worries at all.”
he sinks into a camping chair that has been left out for her. Marissa gives her an understanding smile and then pours her a large glass of wine from bottle that she’s nestled neatly in a pile of snow.
Evelyn?” she asks, passing the glass over into Evelyn’s mitten
not just brothers having a squabble.”
t over the top, it’s not enough.”
gette sees Evelyn’s expression she puts on a fake smile, but it immediately falls away.
“Um,” Bridgette say
owns and sit forward. “What do you mean?”
s this what it’s like to be an Alpha’s Luna? I thought it would be, like,” she wiggles her shoulders and gives her little tinkly laugh, “more fun.”
the first time, about Bridgette’s past. As the girlfriend of a Kens
a,” she says, and Marissa blinks in surprise. “So no, it was nothing like this. So is it, um…” She gestures around at the camp, encompassing everything that’s happened so far. “Is this normal?”
n says, shrugging, newly curious about this girl. “It’s not always like this, but…” she hesitates, “I don’t think m
d.
fe she has newly chosen for herself, after years of running from it.
honored to have you as part of this family, Bridgette,” Marissa says,
meaning it. “I mean, as much as Victor and Rafe are out there shooting wolfsbane bullets at each other,” everyo
st in conversation.
” Ian says to his twin, seeing the women at the fire pouring their third glass of wine.
they’ve been bundled up in their winter clothes for almost an hour now, waiting, and he’s starting to overheat.
ck of the cabin, silently opening a window and sliding through a near-invisible hole in the screen which they had cut earlier in the day with a pair of scissors from their craft box. They drop silent
ss of the forest.
t her to panic.
aid. Went to help dad win. He needs us. Don’t worry – we will be home for breakfast. Love, A&I