Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 40

That night, I’m not surprised to hear the phone ring in my closet. It’s another unscheduled call – Victor is used to getting what he wants, when he wants it – but he’s starting to develop a pattern with when he needs his therapist.

Checking to ensure that the boys are asleep, I tuck Archie into my lap on the closet floor and pick up the phone.

“Hello?”

brusk, unsettled, and – as

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t you can intuit that.”

say, pushing forward. “Please continue.”

n tripped my fiancé – I don’t think he meant to hurt her, but she was hurt. Everyone was very upset.”

r.

nowing that my son was in the wrong. But I backed Amelia, and we left.”

bout his identity. “How do you feel about this?”

them. I know that they’re just kids, and they’re overreacting, and that they will, of course, not think that I don’t love them forever. But I have to admit – it’s just killing m

r sons challenge you like this.” Little does he know that I know precisely what he means, as his sons are, in fact, my sons.

most imagine him, leaning against the kitchen island, his forehead in his hand. “Amelia needed me in that moment – I’m

ou just have to do the best you can, when you can.”

ation. He wants fast, direct solutions. “How does that help?”

for a minute. Sometimes being there for then means you have to let her wait. You have to weigh everything in the balance

aphor. “You let the other, less dangerous flames wait until you deal with the big one. Then you move to the rest.”

cess the idea.

eeded most first.”

id for a little bit.”

e other line and I wait for a few minutes, seeing if he’ll take the conversation up again. Wh

seems to be something that throws you off more than anything else. That’s typically when I get these unscheduled calls, when you’re feeling unbalanced, torn by your allegiances.”

rn in my life. Well, an old pattern. One I haven’t visited in a while.”

e more?”

en sighs again, giving in. “Well, this is therapy, I suppose. I frequently felt this way as a child – torn between my allegiance to both my father and my mother. They didn’t…have a happy m

ng you experienced when you were young. Children from unhappy unions tend, more frequently, to be more hesitant about getting married.”

see.”

confirming.

ossible, even where their parents failed.”

is silent so, again, I push. “Do you feel tha

Yes, unfortunately,” he says, begrudgingly. “I felt a lot of pressure, as a child, to hold my parents

hat you’d like your sons

Anger begins to enter his voice. “I’d…I’d fee

t it’s okay to mess up, and make mistakes. That you being mad at them doesn’t mean you don’t love them, it doesn’t mean the end of the world.”

here fixing everything at once. You’re that little boy again, wanting to fix it. But, it can’t always be your job.”

o need to learn that it’s okay for them to sit with their frustration. That just because you don’t attend to them immediately, it doesn’t mean you don’t love them. They have to learn to trust that, in your hearts, you’re always going to come back, and always going to for

stand that,” I say, seeking to reassure him. “In

g about here? Who can embrace the chaos, have a bit of faith, and still show love? Anyone from your childhood?”

name come through the phone. I gasp.

. “Are you all right?”

…cold. Um. Please continue. Evelyn?”

of my sons. She has a very unique capacity for taking things one day at a time, and she has a seemingly endless wel

lso tricking him into telling his deepest darkest secrets by pretending to be his therapist.

, working to cover up my compli

hear Archie scratching at my closet door

dy.”

rl up in my lap. I give him a snuggle, thinking.

n…I’m disappointed that he understands me as this wise matron.

my lip at the thought w