Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 148
The next morning, I wake up to the feeling of little fingers pressing at the skin around my eyes, prying my lids open.
“Mama,” Ian whispers as I blink and flinch out of his grasp. “Wake up. We want to tell you congratulations.”
“What?” I ask, still bleary with sleep, realizing suddenly that he’s sitting on my lap. How did he get up there without me waking up?
n his neck.
wicker frame of the loveseat and work to pull myself up – god I’m cold and rigid – when suddenly,
r faces, holding two huge plates of very sloppy-looking pancakes with candles stuck in them. Unlit, I note gratefully, though I notice that Alvin is holding a lighter in his hand. Slowly, I get to my feet.
s behind me at the sudden noise.
he boys. “Surprise for what?”
he pancakes.
drops open as Victor’s face
d.
reaked them out.
ile, “for your very kind gesture of…engagement pancakes!”
righten at my acknowledgement.
akes, his little lip quivering. Luckily, I’m there to lunge forward and catch them.
ean,” Ian says, frowning at us, anger and betrayal in his face. “The TV said you were engaged.”
ews doesn’t lie.”
e inside, where it is dry and warm. Mom and I have to figure out what the heck is going on.
TV is, indeed, turned to the news network. Frowning, Victor leaves the pancakes on the kitchen counter and heads in.
lour and eggshells and glitter.
everywhere when they were making pancakes…
al day instead.
ounter where I left it plugged in last night before heading to dinner. Seeing that it’s Delia, I pick up.
s gushing.
she says, laughing into the phone. “Congratulations, Evelyn, I’m so happy for you!”
ne, she hesitates
ning back against the counter and putting a hand on my he
asks, worried.
velyn, it’s on every network – there are pictures –“
ask, glancing in towards the living room.
engagement dinner – there’s none of him on one knee, but there are some of you barefoot in the rain with him holding your face in his hands and then you crying a
know who reported this?”
aid that you wanted more privacy at the actual moment, so you left the restaurant to go out front under the stars!” She sq
I say, frustrated. “There were no stars, it was raining.”
e didn’t ask you to marry him?”
n it.
velyn,” she says, her voice coming in a rush, “you didn’t say no, did you?! TELL me you didn’t say no!”
ll together, we’re really happy, I just wanted…more time…”
. “Victor Kensington asks you to marry him and you say no?”
s way too soon, and it was bad.”
d I can almost hear her grimace. “I can see how that is…non-preferred.”
r a nice dinner. No one asked, no one said no.”
hear her sigh, before she concludes, in a sing-song tone, “You should mar
. “You let me know how it works out, okay? And I want all the details at our nex
ang up. Then, I pour Victor’s cup of coffee, add cream and sugar to both, and t
at the screen as he accepts the mug from me.
out. Your little photographer ran the story anyway.”
. “I know. They ran the story twice while you were on the phone. I’m so sor
claiming day. They’ve pasted a big decal of an engagement ring on the bottom half of the screen.
orld, we are engaged.
next?