Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 177

As the mission moves towards Walsh’s property, Victor notices that Rafe is particularly quiet.

“Are you all right, brother?” Victor asks, turning to Rafe with a frown.

Rafe leans back in the passenger seat of the hummer, his foot up against the dashboard, his arms crossed.

d. “I’m fine.”

epens as he drives a bit

this quiet unless you’ve got something rolling around in your head – you

and then sighs, straightening up a bit. “I’ve just got a bad feeling about this,

urging him to continue.

the wrong thing,” Rafe says, his words slow and contemplative. “I think that you need to

rce has been spreading out, surrounding Walsh on as many sides as they can without being noticed.

e says, thinking it through, “it’s just…all on Walsh’s terms. On his property, with his daughter and your son as the bait. With Willard backing him up. The numbers are wron

ing that he’s right. His Betas have been telling him the same thing – that the sheer numbers of the forces, what they’ll be

hat Evelyn being there…it makes it tougher, Victor,” he says softly. “You

im a look but mostly ignores the boy.

if she didn’t want me to come.”

never come back, to leave your sons behind? Didn’t you essentially mark her as Rogue?”

e doesn’t reply.

hat she’s…well, that she’s actually bait? Voluntarily? That she’s on her dad’s side?”

or support, not in a million years. She’s far more likely to disappear again.”

hink about his next words. “If she’s there,” Victor says, “at her father’s house. She’s there for a reason. If she’s telling me to come, it’s not because it will help me – not right now, not where we a

ly, that they do.

…faith. That Evelyn wants him to come, that she’s rooting for him. That she’s on his side.

s, frowning, interrupting Victor’s reverie.

asked me to come because it helps her, or, more likely, it helps the boys.”

dding slowly, his arms crossed over his chest.

Alvin says. “Mom is

in narrows his eyes at his uncle.

you –“

nto the front seat.

gly, Alvin gets back into his seat.

afe. “Alvin chose to stay. If Evelyn left without him, it

nto it.”

ng his apology.

shaking his head. “Victor, the numbers don’t line up. We are going into this battle at a sincere disadvantage, and without all of the information we need. Walsh is forcing our hand by taking E

n tell that he’s working to contain it.

. Alvin meets his eyes and grinds his teeth, working hard not to lose his temper so that they’ll listen to him.

s, giving Alvin a smirk. “Tell us what you’ve got, little man. How is that not right?”

still clenched – not liking at all to be called little man. “Grandpapa isn’t the one who is pushing us to go faster – he’s not the one who let u

eeing before Rafe does where Alvin i

smug.

it.

to us,” Victor says, “not Walsh. She wanted us to know that Walsh had taken her, she wanted us to move faster. If she’s urging us on, it’

a Beta voice buzzes through the radio.

nd.”

tarily.”

o ready?”

at him. “No?”

k – we need to know what Evelyn is up to, we need to know their numbers. I get it now – I get that Evelyn is trying to send us a message that now is the time. But let me go get more information, find out precisely why.”

pauses, considering.

one more time and then nods towards the car following them. “Select 3, go. We will do our be

tanding. Victor returns the nod, and Rafe

radio again, commanding his Beta teams to hold their positions until they have further word.

sks a soft question. “Do you think we can