Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 149
“I already told you, kid,” Victor says to Alvin as he moves towards the couch. “The news people got bad information.”
Victor sits down as Alvin glares at him, his arms crossed against his chest. I join Victor on the couch and the boys climb up on either side of us.
“But why aren’t you engaged,” Ian says, pouting. I look at both of my boys, at the deep and real grief on their faces, and find myself not only surprised but, I admit it, a little amused.
weren’t engaged yesterday – today is just exactly the same!”
e,” Alvin whines, putting his hea
the big deal?”
ot looking at us. “We want to be in a wedding. For real this
u got locked in a closet?” I pet Alvin’s hair, smiling down at his sad little face, my heart going out to him. “I thought you guys would never want to g
again.”
ngaged? So you can get married?”
to get married? Or do you just want to walk down the aisle?”
t’s the difference?” Ian asks.
d I smirk when I notice that that his face is almos
sabers that you were supposed to carry while you walked down the aisle?”
Then they press their lips shut and innocently say nothing.
pulls Ian down and tickles him.
d try to get away. “You want me to engaged just so you get a sword?!”
t Alvin escape with him.
em! We’ve been practicing!”
t engaged for selfish reasons. And no glitter this time.”
Is this a disaster?” I ask him quietly. “For you, politically? For the pack?”
come clean about our relationship to the press, even as we let people know that we’re not engaged. Are you all right with that?”
sigh again, realizing that our little love bubble has officially been burst. But it was bound to happen sometime
for Victor in a blur. The stress and explanations started im
straightened up, confusion on his face which turned to sadness and pity when Victor had told him the news.
aid, holding the door open so he could enter the house. “I will sp
tte burst into tears, which Victor found immediately exhausting.
smirk. “Sorry to hear about your failed engagement, big brother,” he said. “So, does that count as two faile
ring? Looks just like what you did with Amelia. Cookie cutter, even.”
t the process?
s favor, but honestly, Victor didn’t really care. He had bigger things to worry about.
in the privacy of his office, Victor had sighed, pulling the small velvet box out of his jacket pocket.
n a big, big ring.
get a chance to use it.
he day had been spent working with his Beta press team to manage the situation, putting out a press
ta Stephen and Evelyn, Victor arra
ed, solidify Evelyn in the hearts and minds of the people as his future wife in intent, if not yet in promise. He closed his eyes for a moment when that was finished, hoping with his whole heart that nothing would go wrong between now and then.
it did.
ression on his face.
m to continue.
hree,” Stephen says, nodding toward the rarely-used office phone on Victor’s desk. “I tried to put him off all day, but he…won’t stop calling. He insists on speaking to you as a matter of…” Stephen grimaces, “proprietary rights.”
Beta in the eye. “Is it who I think i
en nods and Victor returns the gesture, indicating that he’ll take the call. Stephen leaves and shuts the door
ur call.”