Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 136

“You invited my brother to stay with us? Here?” He hisses, his face suddenly red with exhaustion and anger.

“I had to!” I protest, keeping my voice low and glancing to the living room, where I know our two little spies are surely listening.

“Evelyn,” he says, exhasperated. “Rafe just betrayed me – betrayed us! Tried to take everything we have –“

m right now – don’t you see that he’ll take it out on her?!”

growls, moving closer to me, “that perhaps he picked her precisely because she’s the kind of girl we won’t be able to help wanting to save? That she’s another

t changes nothing. I raise my eyes to his. “Victor, it doesn’t matter. Even if

oking up at the ceiling. “Evelyn…”

them out, for a few days, at least. Until he’s at full strength.”

I want

burn this house to the ground while they’re here, it’s on your head.”

raight, coming close to him and raising my chin for a kiss. “No, baby,” I murmur. “You have insurance for th

again, in no mood for my jokes, but he gives me the requested kiss. A light one, but with promise.

w?”

e chef had left a casserole for us to heat up upon our return. “Then we can go down to the cottage.”

silently inquiring if he wants some.

? If they’re tired, why make them hike down to the cottage?”

me time. “They need more consistency in their life, Victor. If that’s where their tutor comes to teach them, then that’s where they should sleep. They need a steady schedule.”

ng, and then moves closer to me. “Well, why don’t we move that stead

ing it. “You want them to s

ly to him, angry now. “Victor, you cannot just take the boys –“

ng.

e.”

, slowly putting the pieces together. “Did you…did you just

ard, wrapping a hand around my back to pull me to him. “Yes, Evelyn. Are you so surprised?”

shocked.

in this direction – he declared me officially his Luna this morning – in front of witnes

ill –

I feel my stomach roil with anxiety. Victor’s face changes as he sees the new expression on my face as worr

d the answer there. “What’s wrong? You don’t want to move in?”

house.

unlight. But…

abric – hell, even the silverware –

ll over it.

ay, wondering how to express this to him without hurting his feelings. Victor

p on me. “We didn’t just decorate it together. We designed it.” He drops his hands from me and leans against the counter, studying me. “Actually, to be frank, she designed it. I had this house built according to her plans.”

,” I say, considering. I hadn’t really known that

, which indeed has a beautiful view of the setting sun.

bably because things are so…intense with us. That I think it wipes that distance away.”

im.

ed. On the sheets that she picked, where you…”

I

my shoulders, pulling me close again so that my head is t

-the-art kitchen, “when I move down to the cottage with you.”

miles at me, raising a hand to my face, stroking my cheek softly with his thumb. “Come on, Evelyn, it’s obvious. You’re the only thing that matters to me anymore.”

if I can help it.”

e it all if it means I can have you too.”

t. “But the mice…” I grimace.

ng tomorrow.”

Alvin shouts, his head popping immediately over the couch. I grin up at Victor, knowing what’s coming, wanting to see his face and he hears what’s coming

an’t kill the mice!”

ars next to Alvin’s likewise appalled. “You want to kill Pinky and Bluey!? And all of their babies?!”

r as if he’s a monster. My grin widens as I see Victor’s face turn from confusion, to comprehension, to disbelief. Slowly, he turns his head to me. “You let them name the mice?”

I laugh up at him. “You’re in our world now.”

eep it interesting.”

my toes and kiss him. Kiss him truly, a vow on my lips. He returns it, every bit of it.

he sinks back onto the couch. “Can we at least get some dinner over here, if you’re gonna keep kissing?”