Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 159

Evelyn glances over at Ian as he fiddles with the car’s radio controls, trying to find a station that he likes. She can’t help but smile at him a little bit. When did he get old enough to have tastes in music? It was so strange, raising a child, watching them grow into a full person.

He is technically still too young to be sitting in the front seat of the car but…well. Desperate times, desperate measures. Or whatever. Evelyn wants him close by her is the real answer, not sitting alone in the back of the car.

They’ve been mostly quiet for the trip, but it’s not an uncomfortable silence. Ian had told her, when he first got into the car, what he and Alvin had decided.

car door open, his feet firmly planted on the driveway.

t splitting you two up. You two stay together.”

“If you’re going, I’m going. Alvin is staying.” He had looked up at her with hope in his eyes. “Unless you just want to stay…”

e’d never be able to forgive her.

ays been together!”

. I’m getting kind of sick of him.”

at the lie. But Ian had just shrugged again.

go.”

, considering it for just a moment. “What made you decide,” she s

d I’m the tough one. So, I go with you.”

eak.”

ch like Victor. And now she was taking him away…

wanted to come, be her protector, then fine. She would take him, gratefully. The rest she would figure out later.

tient, not asking for details or information about where they’re going. Just letting Evelyn take the lead, trusting her to make the

know, Evelyn thinks, bitin

e reply hadn’t been very helpful.

Delia: Away

yn really needed her friend to be close by, and she was off on vacation.

or would be looking for them – looking for Ian, really – and he knew where Delia lived. So if

highway.

ach.

a few hours later, Evelyn could tell that Ian wa

ing his nose against the window. “Mama, I can see the ocean.”

” Evelyn said, “can you taste the sa

sticking out his tongue.

t time she had ever taken her boy to the beach. “Can you taste it?”

he says. Then he wrinkles his nose. “It just smells like crabs.”

yn laughs at tha

as had crabs. Your just lucky that your dad has a taste for seafood and –“

es at her a little bit, feeling the same.

he says quietly, nodding at the little beach town slowly rolling past them.

g. “He really, really would.”

he tank. As Ian munches on a bag of chips from her snack bag, Evelyn texts Delia again.

s later.

re!

for recommendations.

fancier, though!

r directions.

pool out front.

ling at it. “Can I go swimming?!”

elyn asks as they climb out of the car.

s, frowning as he shuts the car doo

rip.”

sagely, storing this advice away for next time. Together, they walk into th

Ian suddenly looks up at

s at him. “No, you’ll get arrested. Save the skinny

.

out to face the pool. Evelyn and Ian walk to the second story and then down a few numbers, stopping to knock on the door of room 216.

ey can hear the sound of televis

head out.

g hard to put a cheerful smile on her face.

s shooting up into her curly hair. Surprise indeed.

ame for a few days,” Evelyn say

takes a moment to look them over, quickly putting the pieces together. Victor and Alvin absent, Evelyn and Ian hours from home with only a bag and a backpack

ng soft with concern.

hold back.

looking over her shoulder. “It’s not a good time –“

se,” Evelyn says, truly surprised at her friend. How could she turn her away at a time like this?

s a woman’s voice. What –

behind her. “Are you sure?”

give me time to explain.”

e pushes the door open so that Evelyn