Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 272
The boys then throw their heads back, wailing harder and I…
Well, I do something that, in retrospect, is probably very dumb.
But I gasp and smile broadly, my eyes shining as I lean forward, my voice breathless with joy. “Girls!?” I ask Alvin, thrilled. “They’re girls!?”
staring daggers at me and leaping up from my lap. “You are happy they are girls! You will love them more!”
o wipe the smile from my face and failing.
n’t!”
l have me!” Vi
on him, my mouth fall
Oh come on, Evelyn,” Victor says, raising his eyebrows seri
creech a hand goin
their sisters’ heartbeats, about being accused of keeping secrets, about Victor taking their side –
we just…
le grief over it.
eg and open my eyes, my laughter abating a little, to see my Ian’s tear-staine
murmur, helping him up onto the bed and into my lap. “Don’t be sad – I promise not to love them more than you.”
asks, sniffing.
fter all. It’s only fair.”
Good,” he says, smug, and leans his head
’s lap silently. And then we all sit for a minute, catching our breaths, Victor and I looking at each other with happy eyes over the heads of our kids.
I can’t believe we’re going to have double this, I say to his mind, shaking my head a little. Doubl
id little push. Let’s just – handle these two, and the two on the way, and we’ll worry about all of that…much, much later.
ttle boy’s unique scent.
ddenly, though, somethin
did you know?” I ask.
s eyes drying up now.
I explain, watching him. “You can’t hear that in a he
he says cas
the babies!?”
t –“ I say, disbelieving it.
“Well if you would let me finish –“ Alvin interrupts, rolling his eyes at us. I press my lips together to keep from laughing, not imagining that he’d take that well in his current mood. I nod to him, letting him know that we want him to continue. “We tried to mind-link with them, but we couldn’t do it, because they’re just…”
ing.
We knew that they felt…good, I guess? It wasn’t really a feeling.”
l.”
d perhaps not really interes
th girls anyway,” Ian offers, dis
“Well,” I say, conciliatory. “Maybe you’ll change your mind.”
ctor asks, c
as he sits up. “We have had a hard morning. We would like some alone time so that we can figure out how
I’m being condescending because, in reality, I think it’s wonderful that they’re asking for space when the need it. The therapist in me is thrilled.
it all.
e of the room, talking softly, and I take Victor’s hand, heading for the door.
stops and calls to Ian and Alvin. “Boys?”
ey turn to us, li
s four. All right?”
in and nod e
ictor and I head out the door, me pressed to his side.
to his arms, spinning me around in the hallway, burying his head again against my shoulder. I give
ews of my life.”
I reply, staring into h
,” he says, softly lowering my fee
t?”
’re totally going to love tw
ly will,” I say, nodding seriously. “You guys are all screwed – it’s me and the girls forever now – you’ll all be forgotten and we’ll have girls forts like your stupid boy forts and no boys will ever be allowed in –“
laughs, opening his mouth to tease me further when we hea
surprised to see Rafe standing there.
“But the car is here? To take us to the jail?”
rops at his words.
se, of course, I forgot that today is the day we go to deliver the ne
he darkest.
ou still want to –“
he says, taking my hand and turning back to Rafe. “Sorry, Rafe,” he says, “we got…distracted. The boys were upset. Give us ten minutes,
at us suspicious
all.