Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 25

As I lay in bed that evening, I hear a phone ring. I glance at my bedside table, intent on ignoring it, when I realize that the screen of my cell phone remains dark. Huh?

Suddenly, I realize that the tinny ringing is the old-fashioned rotary phone that I use for sessions with Victor. s**t. I head to my closet, where I’ve hidden the phone and the equipment. I pick it up on the sixth ring.

“Hello?”

That makes two of us.

use on such a call. “It’s going to be…an extra charge. For out-of-hours care. Is that acceptable?”

” He says.

nd. “My relationship with my mate is becoming even more complicated.”

ing on the floor, waiting to be sorted.

pect that she is…manipulating me. Lying to me, maybe,” he says. “I can’t have that, not in my life, my lin

n you ela

. She knows she has power over me in that sense, and she uses it. The other day we had a…problem. I confronte

melia and the boys’ kidnapping. “Do you suspect that she is lying? Do you think that she betrayed you?” I push, a little breathless.

e.”

ries? Have you told her that she crosses a line when she…did whatever it is she did?”

he therapist.

ences.”

on the other side of the call, and I can almost see him nodding along, forming new pla

me,” I say, trying a new tack. “Imagining that you can trust her, what is this problem really about? If she has n

ean?”

problem with her using the bed

manipulative, and it takes advantage of me in a weakened sta

o that you get what you want?”

“That’s not the same thing.”

der of the world. But for her, it’s a disruption of how she sees the world, how she would like it to be.”

here.”

u feel.”

order I need to keep everyone in my pack safe. Like I have a weakness.”

tly. “You’re only a person.”

e Alpha of my pack, the future ruler, I need to…keep myself together.”

e is your weakness?”

in?”

wins.

kness is a weakness,” he says, “it must be addressed and fixed –“

I say, carefully, “are not necessarily things that go hand in hand…then perhaps it is not so bad. If sometimes she gets her way.”

an. If we are truly united in our vison for our life and our goals…then I can sometimes let her take the lead, trusting that she will get us to the

ods.”

aughs along with m

ed to consider, though,”

omething to think about,” Victor says. “Thank you, this h

goodbye.

e to take these calls. In some ways, I realize, I’m doing the same thing Amelia: wresting power from Victor without his consent so that I can get my way.

t me? s**t.

of cigarettes that I know is there. I haven’t smoked in years but suddenly I really want a smoke.

r, enjoying the way it feels on my skin, even if it makes me shiver a little. I inhale a deep breath of smoke, letting it fill my lungs, thinking, briefly, of the summer I spent in Paris as

in the air and falling into a defensive crouch, my eyes taking in the man, dressed all in black, standing on my patio.

y, ma’am,” he s

l?! He pu

ls.”

upposed to fall in line.”

dropped cigarette and handing it to me.

, at my face.

nd produces a pack of cigarettes. “Do you mind? If I…”

py today.”

m in. He’s tall, for a Beta, almost Victor’s height, with wavy black hair and swarthy skin. His nose is a little too large, but it suits his broad, well-intentioned face. I smile back at him.

ur name?”

salute. “Beta Edgar, at you service.”

al puff of my cigarette and then grinding it out beneath the toe of my slipper. “If you could avoid scaring the crap out of me, I’d appreciate it.”

can feel him watching me walk away.