Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 54
Six days later, Victor’s house is in complete chaos.
The boys and I enter the kitchen door to a flurry of action – Betas everywhere, of course – some on guard, some carrying boxes and taking instructions. Then, there are a bevy of hired persons hanging lights in the back yard, decorations in the house. Everything is all in white, like a human wedding. But for the wolves, it’s the color of unity, of family, of births and deaths and claiming.
I raise my eyebrows as I press the door closed. “Don’t you two go anywhere,” Amelia says, pointing a pencil at the boys as they dash past, a clipboard propped against her slim hip. “We need you for final fittings of your suits.” She consults her list. “And for consultation with the makeup artist.”
their room.
o the kitchen island where she has set up her command station. “Isn’t that a bit much?”
wder, Evelyn. To keep them from shining on the TV cameras, obviously.”
say, dismissive. Whatever. She can cover them in white like a powdered cake for all I care.
g the same ones in the same positions. This isn’t his usual style – he likes to have the Betas perform all the jobs in a cycle, to “keep them fresh.” I shrug, dismissing this as well. Again, not my problem.
glad you’re here. Did you bring the boys?”
rs.
” he says. He turns to the Beta standing at his left elbow. “Will you send the tailor up to measure them? Send two Betas along – the tailor is a r
to broadcast their faces to the nation tomorrow afternoon. Protecting them from a tailor seems to be protecting the mole hill and leaving the castle unguarded. Still, I don’t fight
g?” Victor says, leaning on the island, looking me up and down. Part of me wonders if he isn’t taking a
e in white.”
o be standing in the background with everyone else – I don’t need to be in ce
He spins to Amelia. “Amelia, what’s happening here
several options via email.”
r. “I swear to god,” I say earnestly, “
his,” Victor says, frowning at me. “You’re their mother – you’
But I’m not signing
amily – all of us together –“
I see Amelia lift her head up from her clip board, her lips quirked in a nasty little smirk.
to get past him.
her face suddenly perfectly in
hand.
I swear I did!”
n us. “What happened is inconsequential.”
hell it is –“ I
s? The tailor is upstairs, surely –“
e worth anything will take an order now.”
a wants me out of it so bad, I’m determined to make it happen.
ear Victor following me behind, his footsteps measured and curious.
d slides off the table.
ve that –“ she screams, “that’s mine –“
, and I can hear the amusement in his voice. “It’s just a bit of cloth.”
going to need to get started right away.” I move past them, smug, heading for the back door.
or asks, genuinely curious.
r.”
I head out the back door.
he’ll make me feel better.
lap, making him laugh. “Welcome home, gorgeous,” he says, wrapping his arms around me and kissing my hair, taking a deep sniff as he does.
g and combing my fingers through his own lovely hair. “Any reason for the visit?”
ts his head and smiles at me. “Just wanted to see you. What’s this?” He picks
ed to cut it into little tiny pieces and piece them back together into something fabulous.”
t Edgar to laugh and am surprised to see him
’t that a little cruel, Evelyn?
y, scoffing. “She was cr
she did with my father –“
our father?” Edgar says, suddenly stiff with surprise. I bite my lip, realizing that I hadn’t told him about that. Not yet, at least.
I say, hesitating, buying time as I rack my b
ur father?”
off here and look away, trying to decide what to say. But s
o him and see that his face is devastated.
ng – really –“
r life, and your relationship with Amelia, and thus with Victor, and you won’t even tell me about it.”
ng out something deeply important and true. “But I guess…it’s just been me sharing my life. And you holding back.”
teps.
ad again, disappointed. “But I guess that we’re not. You need to figure out what you want.”
?
hold back?