Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 246
I’m scowling as I storm into the house, slamming the front door closed behind me. I feel a pang of guilt when I see Ian and Victor twitch awake on the couch, Ian’s eyes wide with surprise and Victor instantly on defense, ready to take on whatever threat came through the door.
When he sees me, though – and my expression – he backs off, pulling Ian back onto his check and settling into the couch.
I narrow my eyes at him, pissed off and ready to light into anyone who comes in my path, but he doesn’t make a move, just watching me. So I move into the kitchen, glad, in my heart, that he didn’t rise to the bait.
es his eyes again. His sweet sleepy little face is a balm to my heart, instantly throwing a bucket of cold water on my rage, but frankly – I’m not done being mad yet.
particularly crusty pot used to make macaroni and cheese and some steel wool, starting in on it with a vengeance.
e moment Bridgette arrives, for her sake –
to calm down.
shes.
t and I know he’ll be begging her to stop at every place they see along the way – for bathroom breaks, ice cream stops, whatever he can think of. And Bridgette, soft hearted as she is, will oblige him, giving me just a few minutes here alone to ensure that everything is right here.
, or in a foul mood, or otherwise prepared to break her heart.
ging out through the house. I grit my teeth, staring at it for a moment, and then reaching
d me, and I spin – the tap still running – to glare up at his warm expression, his hand raised to begin patting my back. He flinches back when he sees my face, though, and lowers his hand, intuiting that I do not want to be comforted right now. “Are you all right?” he asks, worried, crossing his arms ins
else do you want him to do?”
y anger course through me. “Not be such a d**k to Bridgette.”
on that technology,” he jokes, deepening my frown. “But I’m sorry, love, I think that – as of now – that’s impossible. What’s this about, anyway?” Victor pulls me a step closer to him and, damn it, the nearness of his body calms me a little. I fight against it, wanting to stay mad.
d at the end she said she wants to come back, she wants to talk to Rafe. Get closure.”
ard to kiss my hair.
r, you know how sweet she is, and you know how manipulative he can be. I think that he picked her, specifically, because she’s someone he can control. And that if he
standing there as well, clearly offended and on the defense, but clean-cut and shaved, dressed in a casual pair of slacks and a sweater. I have to admit, he looks good.
y, I don’t want him to look good – to wear this disguise of a clean, tidy man which will make Bridgette
Ian and Victor. “I’ll want those on hand tonight.” I turn my eyes back to Rafe, glaring. “Evidence.”
o retort, his brows drawing closer, but Ian interrupts.
He jumps off the couch and rushes upstairs.
sending him to detective school. It’s decided.”
e,” Victor murmurs passively, looking between me and Rafe.
make one,” I decide, in the kind of mood where I can’t be told that I’m being unreasonable.
. “Clearly, you have an opinion about who I am and how I’ve treated Bridgette.”
close my mouth.
little smile, and then takes a step b
t,” Victor says, nodding to me and then letting me out of the comforting circ
the air and carrying him back into the living room, my little boy in a fit of laughter.
miling a little, and then turn back
ue. He sighs and runs a hand through his hair, clearly feeling awkward. “I know that I’ve…been horrible. Completely terrible, in the past. But…” he looks up at me then, vulnerable, his heart clearly on his sleeve. “I love her, and I regret it all, and if I could take it all back, I would.”
auma. “You don’t get to start with a clean slate.”
ft.”
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open. And as one, everyone in the room turns towards it.