Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 209

Late that afternoon, I frown at Rafe as Victor and he clasp hands on the front porch. The two spent most of the day talking to each other, making their plans, working through things. To give them space, I had concentrated on packing our bags and getting the kids ready for our trip.

It was a good split of the labor, honestly. I needed a distraction to keep me from clawing Rafe’s face off, and Victor needed a more sedate activity than packing. I’m by no means at my full strength, but Victor? I can tell that he has less energy than me.

Still, I can’t say that I’m thrilled with the outcome, all told.

e you’re letting him stay here in the house while we’re gone

s, wrapping an arm around my shoulders. “He’s going to try. We have to give him the space to try.”

ring and has the grace, at least, to look sheepish.

when we get home. Really get rid of the stink of him.”

at finds its way to my mouth. “I’d have thought you were sick of fir

whatever you want with it, then. Throw it off a cliff. Sink it to the bottom of the lak

ed to his as I smile up at him. “I like the sound of that.”

y,” he murmurs, nudging my nose with his. Then, he closes the distance, pressing his mouth to mine. I c

one hand. Alvin is peeking his head out too, but he makes no protest.

oose from Victor’s arms and giving my son an ironic little salute. “I didn’t mean to delay departure!”

ah!” he shouts. “Move your butt!”

we walk towards the RV’s back door. “It’s nice,” he says, just to me, “when they’re just kids. Instead of Alpha genius twins.”

smiling up at him. “They’re so bossy though.”

of me.

ll set?” Beta Stephen

packs might follow. Instead, our goal is simply to have everyone believe that we were stilled hold up in the cottage, regrouping, for…

ong as this takes.

Victor surely took into consideration in the selection.

her side as I pat the seat next to me, looking at the boys, telling them without words to come sit.

hey’re asked, happily bundling in with us.

specially because Victor is such a large, imposing sort of person and –

r races through me as I realize it, but I do my best to cover it up with a smile. Children grow – they can’t help it, as much as we’d like to keep them small.

, when we’re not driving?”

s mine!” Alvin says sternly, frowning at his brother, “I thought of it!”

first,” Ian says, sticking hi

ind that, there’s another door to the single bedroom where Victor and I will sleep.

ut we’ll all fit. The boys, hoping for more adventurous sleeping, pout at me.

t of the driveway.

t seen the view of our street a thousand times before.

but I haven’t yet had the opportunity to ask.

lls the map from his pocket, unfolding it and spreading it out onto th

so that…” Victor hesitates here, trying to find the right words, “so that I can meet someone who will make me stronger. I’m still not perfectly well after my gunshot and illness, but Edgar says this lady can help.”

on what they already know. They don’t need – not really – to know that I am sick as well. Not yet.

ace close to the paper to study it.

nd a picture of a rock formation that that looks just like this.” He indicates, then, the strange and twisted shape that Edgar drew at the start of the map.

self nodding along with them, and also thanking the heavens that Edgar can draw, at least a little bit.

nd then what happens when we get there,” he shrugs. “We’ll just have to see.”

rizons of the world, of his life.

puts an arm around him too, pulling him close.

it is short – I know in this moment that I am blessed.

thinking the same thing. And at the same moment, each of our minds tur

nsent is? To our current weakness?

final breath seeps from our bodies, we’re going to find it.

rt, I eagerly watch the miles fly by.