Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 283

All night long, I can’t sleep. Victor can, and I’m grateful for it – I’m up worrying about everything for the both of us, so I don’t want him to be as well. It’s not necessary for both of us to suffer.

I drift in and out of a half-sleep state, the question Victor asked me a few hours ago gnawing at my mind. What, really, did I want? Could I really ask him to say no to the power that’s just sitting there, waiting for him to claim it? Or, if that answer to that is no, can I really be a Queen?

What if the answer to both is no?

hen, I head to the bathroom and take a long shower that does nothing to answer any of my questions.

and towel myself off, frustrated at myself. Usually, I’m someone who has a gut instinct, who knows what the right answer is – or at least, the right ans

onfused.

action.

mething or I’ll go crazy.

ing itself neatly in my brain – I sneak out of the door of my bedroom and then down the stairs, moving as softly as I can so I don’t wake anyone up.

alone right now.

o the woods.

s.

tially, princes of the realm? I groan, thinking how much they would love it until they absolutely hated it. And for my daughters? Do I want that to be their reality from the very beginning?

gh.

, I look around and am surprised to see that I’m at the pool area in the back yard of the big house. I grimace, thinking that I haven’t been here in…weeks, and then slowly start to look around.

n, as I move around, I wonder if I even…want a pool. It’s so dangerous, with four young children and a dog – is it even really responsible?

e pool, shuffling my feet in the charred debris of the fire, I consider that…Amelia never, ever thought about that when s

o live in, and the one he had built for her, and the one she burned to the ground in revenge for his rejection. And I start to…smile. Just a little bit.

id of that house…maybe Amelia actually did me a favor.

ake. But then I’d have been sleeping in Amelia’s room, sitting in Amelia’s back yard, eating in Amelia’s kitchen. The place she designed for herself, to be Luna.

nd attention, yes, but the responsibility?

without thinking very hard about anyone but herself usi

place that’s a home for our children but that also…

igh.

ng, I look around and am surprised to see that I’m at the pool area in the back yard of the big house. I grimace, thinking that I haven’t been here in…weeks, and then slowly start to look around.

ds of so many more people.

, I know precisely what I want. It leaps into my mind fully-formed, as if it’s been waiting my whole life in the back of my mind, growing dusty

ards the cottage.

t of the house, clearly looking for me. He starts to say a few words to the Beta, who gestures out towards the woods, and then his eyes light on me. I see a little worry on his face at first, but then he s

shing across the grass and up the steps, laughing a little.

llo,” Victor says, wrapping me

y face from side to side.

,” I say, standing on my tiptoes and pr

You already hav

bly do,” I say, sta

it’s for?”

a castle,” I report, looking up at him with bright and shining eyes.

mate! We have work to do!”