Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 146

Victor’s brows knit together as he frowns at Evelyn. He’s disappointed, of course – he had hoped to surprise her with the proposal, thought he was doing a good job keeping the secret, even – but he’s also a little disturbed by what looks like anger in her eyes.

“Um,” he says, “is that…a bad thing?”

“Victor,” she hisses again, her eyes darting around the room. “Are you serious? This is what you have planned to ask me to marry you?”

wers, the music, the impeccable service. The food, too, is going to be amazing. “What’s wrong with it?”

es bewildered, her mouth a thin line.

nfused.

w?”

napkin on the table and pushing back her chair.

room. He stands and follows quickly after her, grimacing as he sees that she’s making a beeline for the potted plant where the poo

otographer a polite smile. “Could you please come out?”

sitates and then crawls out from behind the plant, his wide-lensed camera hanging aroun

”

e photographer says, hesitating, his eyes moving to Victor’s face. Victor just sighs and rests his forehead in his hand.

no,” Evelyn says, holding a finger out towards the photographer. “You look at me. Who do you work for?”

th the photographer. “I’m going to ask you one more time. Who. Do you. Work for?”

He drops his eyes.

your bush.”

ctor. “And you can go to hell.”

the room.

ile Evelyn considers emptying the dishwasher a workout. There’s no way she should have been able to beat him out of the restaurant

ant’s stairs, looking left and right for the limousine. When she can’t find it, she heads out into

. What’s she going to do, walk home?

t he’s running now. He catches her in seconds, grabbing her by the arm, holding her fast.

means. Victor’s eyes flash with surprise but he fights the instinct to drop her arm. Instead of pull

rowls. “Take your damn hand off

od –“

an record our happy reunion after my misunderstanding?”

then what…

hand. Then she turns and starts walking down the road, picking up her skirt so that it doesn’t drag in the puddles that are starting to form on the ground.

er than that.

renches the stiletto heels off her feet.

aps him out of it.

he says, moving in front of her and blocking her way. “I get it, Evelyn – I know I messed this up – but you can’t just walk home barefoot –“

er I please.”

begins to paste her curls to her beautiful face. “We can figure it out from there.”

dge of the restaurant steps, looking at them.

it out?”

? Are you leaving me?”

’t want to be with a man who wants to marry me for a publicity stunt.”

yes filled with hurt.

ear. “Do you seriously think that’s all this was?”

that coats the bottom of her gown in water. The anger starts to drain from her face, leaving fear and betrayal in its wake.

the point of tonight. The rest of it –“ he waves his hands towards the restaurant, the photographer, the setup, “that was…I saw it as two birds with one stone,” he says, hesitating.

ly starting to figure it out.

heart. “I was wrong – I didn’t think – or, I did think, but I didn’t at all consider…” he fades off, not knowing how to finish it.

says, her body going a little limp as the last bit of rage leaves her. Tears start to leak from her eyes in her exh

alization and she nods her head.

place like this, just like this. And that marriage,” she closes her e

s his apology over and over into her hair as she cries herself out.

ing that of course she’s right. He did everything that he was supposed to do tonight – he set up the food, the music, the environment, the ring. And he knew precisely what to do because he’d done

e it’s simply what was done.

, the acceptance, the publication of the engagement in the next day’s news. The speculation from the community about how this changed pack politics.

s what they are to each other or their strange story.

ces, realizing his grave mistake. He had indeed planned the proposal this way because it’s

urns his face up to the sky, letting the rain fall against him as he’s flooded with guilt.

a little and Victor looks down at her. She can tell by his face, the regret in it, that he understands. She nods a little.

say, what to offer her to make it better.

n we just go home?”

as he comes around to open the door for them to climb in.

r as long as it took –

p in the big house across the yard?