Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 217

“Are you serious, Evelyn?” he sputters, his eyes going wide. “After all of this? All that we’ve been through?”

“What?” I snap in response, shaking my head so that my hair falls back over my shoulder. “Is it not a legitimate question?”

“No, Evelyn!” He says, his voice raising in anger. “It’s absolutely not!”

w?”

taking two angry steps to

exclaim. Somewhere deep inside me, I know that I’m probably being unfair – that I know the extent of what we feel to each other. But…this has also been in the back of my mind for weeks

cene. So how could I truly trust them again?

I say, some of the anger leeching at me as I voice this, my deepest hesi

t she was…she was so manipulative, and what she wanted was so contrary to what you want for your life, and that I fit that bill so neatly – but she was your mate, Victor.”

head at him.

h more than that.”

Victor!” I exclai

“Will you please stop throwing that word at me?” he growls. “I don’t have a word to explain what y

.

own his face. “I mean, haven’t my actions shown you –“

that you were standing at the altar waiting for her to come down the aisle –“

– not once. But you – your lies, and your deceptions – they go beyond –“

would have a chance to –“

se impossible arguments?”

him angrily.

Victor!” I shout, throwing my hands up. “If not now, when?!”

s of me not loving you on your lips? With rootless anxiety in your heart regarding how I feel about you?”

o die here –

–

to go with my arms around him, full of the knowledge that we love each other – that we tried everything we could to build our lives together.

s me on.

or,” I say, my voice trembling. “I…I can’t live, or die, with these questions in my head. She was your mate –“

e.

, my voice soft, “if I’ll ever be enough for you. If I’ll ever really compare to what you had with her.”

is teeth and looks off into the distance, and I can see that he is frustrated. Torn, really, between not wanting to have t

e faith in that.”

his words, all of his actions, have all turned towards me in the past months. It should be enough.

fear…it drags at my soul. Makes me weaker.

Alvin’s voice pulls me out of the moment, towards where my two boys are standing a few yards away at the top of the little rise. “Can we keep going?”

e ones who least need to hear this argument.

wards my kids. “One of you come and take my hand, help me up this hill.” Ian comes forward then and gives his h

s distant as he wracks his brain trying to find a solution to this problem.

the problem.

where the rays of the setting sun pierce through the leaves more easily.

says simply, groaning as he tak

e all quiet as we move to set up camp, even the boys, w

s I work to put together the tent, Alvi

take it to heart, mama,” he says quietly,

y head at him, curious.

agic there…”

ghten, looking back at the dark path we took, blinking suddenly as I realize that it perhaps wasn’t just me that du

te them out of nothing.

swers, before I can move forward with anything at all.

is face as well.

ht we were.