Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 33

I slam my door behind me and press my back against it, slipping down to the floor and crying into my hands. Amelia’s words echo after me – sham, slut, w***e. Disappear. In so many ways, they’re all true.

Glad, for once, to be in an empty house, I let myself cry my heart out, reliving all of the darkest moments of my life.

Joyce, grabbing me, throwing me into that closet. Watching him with my sister.

ripping me ou

that I could buy a meal – and then, so I could buy a pregnancy test when.

tand with me as I gave them their names.

arity – charity – from Victor, after I promised myself I’d always be self-sufficient.

e bracelet on my wrist, and then tear it off, the gossamer gold chain breaking easily. I hurl it across the room. I’m just the pet that Victor kept in his play house out back, the nanny to his boys, feeding me with scrap

yself to my feet, and make my way upstairs, my shoulders still shaking with sobs for which I have no more tears.

tub, filling it with hot water, seeking warmth from something, anything. Even if it scalds me.

ying, my hair limp as it falls around my shoulders.

e before he’d quite finished his lunch.

slip off my jeans, which are frayed and ripped, but not in a fashionable way – just from years of use.

m cashing in, taking everything I can get.

use Amelia’s words nag at me – aren’t they true? I don’t pay for this house. I’m only here because I whelped two boys who have Victor’s face.

my bra, letting it fall to the floor. Then I slip my panties – basic, cotton – from my hips, and let them fal

ng my hair off my shoulders and piling it on top of my head so that I can see the lines of my back, my

ng at myself, I know I’m not an unattractive woman, that I’m not used-up, that I still have life and vigor in my body, my mind.

ed into place not very long after that. Everything Amelia has, she has because Victor gave it to her. In some ways, I think, I’m more accomplished than she is.

s to overflow. Even without the mating bond, Amelia is a serious model, with a career. I can’t discredit her to mak

takes my breath away – I think that I haven’t quite been fair to Amelia. My boys and I did toss her whole life up in the air.

r’s plans to acknowledge his sons. After all, when he does that, they will be his heirs, taking the title from any sons that she may later have. That is a big sacrifice, even though those children do not yet exist, and may never.

After all, I have not been…Well. My behavior with Victor has not been precisely above-board.

e this truth, taking a deep breath and sinking under the water. It is peaceful under here, away from the sounds and realities of the world. If I close my eyes, I can pretend tha

passed.

gotiating my place within Victor’s kingdom. But now that all of that is starting to calm down, I have to admit that the connection, which was perhaps always there, is beginning to surface again.

ough. Victor would have pulled me to him. He was hungry for me that night. And I would have let him take my mouth with his own, let him press my back up against the sink as he grabbed me by the a*s, lifting me up, letting me wrap my legs around his waist.

rd enough to claim me. And I would have let him, I would have asked for more.

uld have bared my own teeth, pushing down Victor’s shorts, tearing off my own, demanding that he give himself to me. Gasping, not caring if it hurt, Victor would have plunged into me, a

, what was seconds away from occurring if Alvin had not called for me.

lking a fine line here. And it’s irresponsible and deeply unf

ell did I think I was, sitting down f

at I’ve admitted to myself.

didn’t go that far. Because it means that I have a chance to correct it, to be better to Amelia, and to Victor, and to myself. He is, after all, a mated man, if not yet a married one. Any steps that we take to act on some random s****l energy between us are no

teammates. Anything else between us needs to be swept under the rug, or it will result in disaster. He deserv

I find the one I want. I dial, wait.

“Hello?”

?”

Yes?” The vo

to hear from you.”

on your offer of a date?”

free?”