Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 19
“Please,” I say, clutching the phone and trying to explain the situation to my landlord. “You don’t understand, this is an angry former client who has no grounds for this harassment – “
My boys are at Victor’s house, meeting Amelia, thank god. I don’t want them to hear any of this.
“It doesn’t matter to me, Ms. Ortega,” my landlord’s tinny voice zings through the phone. “It doesn’t matter to me if the client’s vandalism is unfounded – what matters is that my tenant is putting me in a situation where my home is being vandalized!”
could do to get it scrubbed off before Victor picked up the boys, but I guess I wasn’t fast enough.
o someone else, someone who doesn’t do s*x work to pay my mortgage.”
I exhale, clenching my teeth against the rage that builds inside me. Her false accusations aside, it is unfortunately within her writte
e hell was I going to do now.
uickly. I apply – quietly, discreetly – to every open ho
we have to be out tomorrow and we have absolutely nowhere to go.
ed her parents, in Ohio, and they said they’d be happy to take us in – but I don’t want to uproot my boys like that.
ad goes nowhere. When we arrive to view the house, the key is missing from the hide-a-key.
clearly feeling bad. “I’m sorry, Evelyn,” she says. “Looks like the
g to do?
aos. s**t s**t s**t, I think, throwing my car in park, leaping out and running towards the front door where guys are throwing my stuff – all of my stuff, the boys’ toys, my linens, the food from my fridge – onto
cry, running to hold them back. “You don’t understand, I’m trying to leave!”
ning crunch.
fe.
t sneers at me. Fine. I ignore her and turn to my boys.
everything is fine. But wait – I look over the boys and realize that they’re not crying because of the house, they’re in pain –
ead – what –
vin cries wrapping himself around me. Ian does the same, but
u?”
ntil they calm down, telling them that everything’s okay.
nt wrong?”
l. “They were just so horrible about you, mama,” he says.
tute,” he says, pronouncing the word wrong, but getting his meaning across anyway.
boyfriends,” Ian goes on, “and that you let them do bad things with you –“
–“
hold them close, filled with rage at the horrible children who would say such vicious things to my boys
they’re treated at their school?
the boys to be strong, to not believe anything those stupid kid at school said, and to go and sit in the car while mommy makes a phone call.
e else in control. As they go, I raise my phone, intending to call a movi
alk over to him, pasting a sunny smile on my face. “Hey Vic! Beautiful day we’re having here. Are you just by for a visit!?”
dangerous. “Why are my sons’ belongings being thrown all over the lawn?”
snarls, “what’s happening!? Are you being evicted!?”
e it out.”
is hands to get the men’s attention.
ou are paid.”
e needed –“
I said,”
d drive away.
I don’t admit it to Victor, but I am grateful. Now I can get all this stuf
boys – being evicted from their home – I thought you were a good mother, how could I have misjudged –“
y feral now, ready to defend myself – my motherhood – to the very end.
.
. “All right.”
ack into a less defensive stance.
ward and putting an arm around my shoulders. “You’ll tell me everything. But first, let’s get these boys out of here before they see their life spread out on your lawn.”
smile at him, hesitant.
” Alvin ventures
a little joy to the scene. “Hey, guess what – today is a big day – you get to move into a brand new big house!
r, I don’t –“
nods, asking, silently, for me to trust
, so you can come over every day!”