Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 281

I lead Emma and Delia out to the front porch as Bridgette goes upstairs for a shower and Victor and Rafe begin to concentrate on their work today. As we settle into our chairs, I’m pleased to see Miss Georgia coming up the path.

Good, I think, smiling and waving to her. Now the boys will be distracted as well.

Georgia gives me a happy nod as she heads into the house, looking for the boys, and I pull my legs up onto the little loveseat as well, beaming at Delia and Emma.

hem.

he window at the house filled with people, “seems t

You get used to it – it feels…I don’t know. Like a sports team, or something. Everyone working togethe

ut we they were always outside the house.”

s warmly. “I always liked a full house growing up.”

u guys thinking about moving in together or something?” I blurt suddenly, curious.

all.

ally,” Delia says, unphased by my question (she knows me, after all) and taking Emma’s hand, “kind of…th

so obviously together. What the hell is going on?

says, sighing and smiling at her girlfriend, “b

eagerly, my eyes wide, “Pleas

lot?”

ot understanding. “Like…a trip?”

A little bit without-home, for awhile at least. We’re going to go wherever we want, whenever want to. Live in a city or a place for a couple of months at a time.

ut w

t to come! Can I abandon my children and go with you?!”

ow that I never would.

g to miss you so much. What made you decide to do this?!”

it was mostly me, I think. I’ve just been…it feels like, my whole life, I’ve been living…someone else’s life. Or the life that someone picked out for me.”

ife dad wanted,” Emma continues softly, “which I know you understand, Evelyn. And then, after that? It was…Joyce’s life. Joyce’s life, Joyce’s world, Joyce’s choices. I was…nobody. I

remembering it, and my heart goes out to h

he floor of the porch. “But Joyce – I wasn’t allowed to leave unless he gave me permission.”

a little tremor of horror running through me at the life my sister lived, at the life I was supposed to have lived. And I know that it’s not because she was weaker than me – I would have collapsed to it as well. It was only my desperation to keep my children safe that propelled me to become stron

g time for each other.”

could have imagined before.”

lead. To give more people this kind of chance.

and turn to her. I laugh too, then, realizing that Delia is right – it was getting too serious, too morose a conversation for something that is supposed to be happy.

see the world, because I never have before.”

,” I say, wiping at my own eyes. “But you have to send me postcards everywhere you go. And Alvin and Ian too, they’ll be so jealous if you only send

elia says, raising her eyebrow with a smirk.

y sister and my friend laugh. “And,” I say, hesitating, “You have to come back in eight months.”

le anywhere. Why?”

putting my hands to my stomach. “You

de into noise – shouting with joy, jumping to their feet, throwing their arms around me and laughing, asking questions and

mma and Delia. Or did a bomb just go off on the front porch?

uld probably tell Rafe. He’s the last to know.

e it out.

the babies.