Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 286
Victor gives Bridgette a friendly nod and then takes me warmly in his arms, pressing a kiss to my hair and resting his cheek against the top of my head. “Did you think the other kids wouldn’t like them?”
“I don’t know what I thought,” I murmur, still watching my boys, a hand pressed against my stomach as well, half of my thoughts on my girls.” Honestly, Victor, is it horrible if I…wanted them to be? A little bit?”
“Well, at first blush, yes,” Victor whispers, laughing a little. “But tell me what you mean.”
e human school, they were too advanced, and they were my little buddies, they hung out with me. Oh my god,”I say, laughing and wiping the tears from my eyes before they can fall on my cheeks. “I think a part of me did want the other kids to reject them so they’d keep hanging out with me.”
y’re going to make friends. But don’t worry, ‘ll always hang out with you.”
lls away, simultaneously laughing and offended. “Hey!” he says, giving me a little shak
close again, feeling a little bit bad, but not that bad. It’s true, after all. “They’re more fun but you’re very nice in other ways,” I murmur.
oing to love me more.
turning th
ead and hugging my mate close.
g me grin. “It’s time to cut the cake.”
people are starting to gather. “Could you stand back though?” I continue, looking at Rafe innocently. “I wouldn’t want to get your jealousy all
y’ve got nothing to be jealous about, nothing at all. I glance at the diamond again on her finger as I move to the counter to start lighting candles on the cake, happy that they, too, seem to be
etting people come to me so that I don’t have to spend a moment looking away from my boys playing flashlight tag in the yard with their new friends.
next to me.
seems to help that nobody knows the rules to the game, and no one seems to care.”
or the joy of it.”
ng out at the kids *Chapter 256
ay Night
our swelling stomachs.”
l.”
ed,” she says, raising her eyebro
lly if one is the Supreme Luna.”
aughing, still not used to the title.
we hope – at the end of the summer. But still, I’d better get used to it, hadn’t I?
ow come you didn’t take it?
he influence, after all.”
ork. I only want to help part time – the rest of it, I want to be home, comfortable, with my kids.” She turns and smiles at me then. “And while you, Evelyn, will always be a mother first, I think that you really, really want to make this world a better place.”
seen. “Thank you, Annabeth,” I say quietly, reaching out to take her hand. “For believing in us. Maybe ev
ard do give me a kiss on the cheek. And then she claps to her chiltren, calling them back to the
ment. “TI’s not even late!”
ouse. “Birthday’s almost over.”
y, gesturing to all of the kids gathered at the foot
ave a surprise, just for the two of you.”
ng us our space.
nning at him, just as eager. “
I don’t know!”
ng at Vitor and Ian, who cross over to us.
between all of us.
flipped a coin,” Victor replies, smiling at his son, excited. “She got heads, which means she picked out lan’s gift. And I g
an says, pumping a fist in the air.
in’s face drops in disappointment.
“I win! Yes!”
t boooooth of themmmmm.”
g his arms. “I did great this year.”
ppointed.
“Now you have to pay the price.”
ping onto the couch, still dancing.