Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 203

I can’t help the little giggle that comes out of me then.

Honestly, it’s all so strange and ridiculous – and, really, really frightening – that all I can do is laugh and make a joke out of it. It’s a knee-jerk reaction, probably a poor one and a result of my exhaustion, but I’ve got nothing else.

“Don’t worry,” Rafe, I say with a clever little smirk. “We don’t use it to talk about you. At least. Not often.”

ng terrible and glancing at Rafe – but he doesn’t say anything at all. He’s just messing with his brother.

ething nasty to Victor but Burton interrupts.

ng between us, worried. “You must listen close

of it, the more I realize the weakness in my limbs, my heart. The new difficulty I have drawing breath.

y. I’d do it again, a hundred times. A thousand.

s a ceremony – honestly, you shouldn’t have been able to do it without guidance –“

r a moment, amazed, before continui

best, without the closure to the ceremony. Without the full consent.”

I don’t – I don’t have another word for it, but that’s the best I can come up with. We grew up speaking of it in a whole other language – one in which even I, a grand master, am stil

ay, hesitating and squeezing Victor’s hand. “What will happen to us if we don’t…finish it?

rse.”

ay quietly.

shakes his head. “It will get worse, for both of you. Right now, you are sh

. It’s silent for a long moment, the only sounds the laughter of our children in the next room. The sound that gives me strength, though. Energy, hope.

his, too. For them, if for no one else.

ing,” Rafe says, and I can hear his frustrated words coming from between clenched teeth. “Is that they just bought themse

s.”

s face drawn. “How do we close it?”

rry,” Burton says, his eyes fill

he kitchen, paying attention.

is not hopeless,” Burton says qu

To her?” I ask, fascina

of his pocket. One that I recognize.

here did you get that?”

s.”

s?”

ard then, grabbing the note that Edgar gave us all those week

e. But he knew enough to…to recognize. What he saw. In the two of you. The connection between you.”

ar knew more about this than we did. What the hell was going on in my life?

f?

t the hell was my life right now? I fight the urge to laugh again.

how. She’s the only one who can help.”

ttention on us.

ing the boys, works to wrap up the conversation as

or says quietly.

n’t know,” Burton says, apologetic. “But, s

k at Victor, then, sadness in my ey

to rebuild.

e it through, I know.

sleeve.

im, a smile pasted onto my face, I know that he intuits that som

lap and giving him a big hug. So much for someone to end

limbed into his lap. The four of us look at each other qu

g at me seriously. “What is going on? You can tell us. We want to help.”

ks like we don’t have a choice. “You are always so helpful to me, and I’m so grateful for you.”

ds, believi

sharing this illness with me, whatever it is.

t were up to him, I kno

and stop him from making such a stupid choice.

ooking between us. “To where?”

ing it to him.

where it is. It’s going to be great!”

ee the bright side of the situation, find the humor in it. We’re all alive, after all. We’re b

s face unimpressed.

“Yes

lances down at the map and then between Victor and me. “Can’t we just g

ive to say yes – to just go with my family to the beach instead of following a cryptic map to find some woman to complete some ceremony I unwittingly started last night.

tor laughs along with us, and Ia

ks dumb, I want to go to the beach!”

d over Alvin’s hair. “I promise you, that’s the next place we’ll go. But first?”

t we’ll do it. We’ll find her. We’ll complete the ceremony. We’ll live.

live, we’ll live a lon

mile and nod.

oy’s head and close my eyes, resting my cheek against his hair.

e rest of our lives.

do it.