Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 228

Victor heaves a huge sigh of relief, running a hand down his face, and I can feel the reprieve running through his body. I beam at him, scootching closer, glad to be able to see and feel the tension leaving him.

It’s real. It’s all real.

I mean, we knew that it was. That’s what we’ve figured out here in the woods, in the past few days together. That despite the label that the world had put on his and Amelia’s relationship, and despite the fact that our connection didn’t have the same kind of label – at least, until now – that what we had was real, and true, and important.

that it has a name. Not truly

d to put to this incredible thing between us.

sits patiently in her little nest, smiling at both of us.

, shaking his head a little fr

le at this, pulling a shawl from some corner of the her little seat and wrapping it around her shoulders. “Well, it’s precisely not of this earth, of course. That’s the important thi

ion.

shape of constellations above us.

Ohhh,” I can’t help but murm

her, perfect matches.”

ose who found their mates were lucky enough to find the person it seemed was made for them, as if shaped from the clay o

llations, the planet, the individual stars.

appens just right, it so happens that the souls that forms in their bodies – not simply the bodies

ing the little grove with a steady golden glow.

she says quietly. “Two souls made for each other, lucky to have been born at the same moment on earth, lucky enough to find each other. Or,” she c***s her head the side, studying us

lush a little. It’s true that I went to the ballroom that night looking for a distraction, but from the moment I saw him at the top of the stares, it was like a moth

looking me over and then turning back to the wo

she says, raising a

ough me.

d. You’re my mate, Victor. You’re stuck with me now.

I know he doesn’t feel. Now I’ll have to feed you, and train you, and take you for regular walks –

attention back to her. “You have the rest of your lives for sickeningly-sweet private conversations. But we have more to discuss, and my time runs short.”

to go? Why can’t you stay? We have so much we want to know –“

is only at midnight that our two realms fully touch.” She points westward then. “And the earth continues to turn. We must press on, for you are dying.”

o pale, then.

onestly, I shouldn’t have – but I did forget.

laughs in response.

t. Your astral pairing has allowed you to share your souls with each other, to give strength from one where it was lacking in another. But two souls cannot feed on the strength of one for long. No,” she says, shaking her head. “You must

t her, frustrated.

hrugs a little. “You must close the loop, my dears. Consent to finish it.”

separate,” she says, holding her two hands a

ching my own.

head. “How do we –“

o be done, not mine.”

t back o

heal him. I could have just let him go, as horrible as it would have been, but I chose this instead.

to bring it to an end.

ow, determined to do it. The woman smiles

back. “Let her go,” he says quietly.

s at me though, just at me. “He is right, your mate,” she says, holding my

please!” I cry out, holding onto her hand. “Please – my children –“

the woman is gone.

m her seat, rubbing herself warmly against my legs as she goes. Then, without a backwards glance, she lopes off into the forest – fading from our vision and perhaps from the world.

ppears, the motes of magic scatter, leaving Vic

miling down at me though I know that he, too, is disappointed that we’re not yet done. “Mate. What do we do now?”

g we were supposed to do – we found the woman –

we still weren’t healed.