Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins – Chapter 88

When we arrive over an hour later, the boys are thrilled, but everyone else is, I think, feeling the strain. The boys spent the rest of the ride continuing to needle Amelia about little things, despite Victor and my equal attempts at intervention.

I may not like the girl, but it’s her wedding – she doesn’t deserve to be tortured just because the boys are bitter that their father has chosen her over me.

I bite my tongue at this thought, unwilling to admit…well. That’s all beside the point.

rfall that plunges from a cliff face several stories above us. It’s absolutely breathtaking.

an shouts, running over towards the rail that separates the wedding facility from the plunging catarac

it in a barrel!?”

What!?” I shout, horrified at the idea. I stride over to them, grab

safe!”

“We watched a documentary about Niagara Falls!” Ian contin

ay, stern, eager to kno

e had the same impulse.”

” I mutter, “and I’ll shove you into the barrel myself.”

I bring the boys over to grab it. As we turn back towards the venue, we see a man dressed in black tails walking over to us.

ada

smiling. Madamoiselle, I sa

ring towards the face of the venue. “We have a suite prepared for you and

l stories into the air, a beautiful hodgepodge of terraces and balconies from individual rooms and suites. The ballroom, I know, from Amelia telling us perhaps a hundred times, is on the roof

ait to see it. Amelia’s excellent tas

nd him, waving to Victor, who waves back.

er. I peek over my shoulder and see that Victor is laughing again, clearly happy. I smile as well, unable to help it.

resses 12 – the top floor – and we zip upwards, my ears popping as we go.

and we zip upwards, my ears popping as we go.

stake. And corrected it for her.”

er’s eye and he gives me a small smirk. I laugh a little, pleased, and remind myself to ask Victor to give him a hefty tip

r.

to get them all smudged –“

he butler calls after me. “If I may, the falls deserve to be admired, and we have staff who ar

t pull the boys down nonetheless. I think I’m going to like this butler

in.

with a hand on his arm. “Really,” I say, holding his eyes. “Thank you, very much.”

thing for a lady, such as yourself.”

ing myself for what is surely going to be a complicated weekend. I turn to look again at the beautiful falls, letting them soothe me.

it closed. She’s a tall woman, about twenty years older than me, with light brown hair coiled into a neat chignon at the back of her neck. She wears a stunning blue dress. It

outh lifting into a wry smile.

ust be my grandchildren.” She kneels on the ground and opens her

er imagined I’d have to do it without him.

r. “Are you our other grandmama?” Ian says, eagerly looking over her face.

rey hair, though. Yours is better.”

y style.”

eing to the plan. “Now let me take a look at you,” she says,

a stranger to me. I bite my lip, hoping that she will be kind.

ys, glancing up at me, “ho

ung,” I say with a little laugh, “so I imagine they must be all Victor.”

her daughter-in-law. Still, a strange part of me really does want her to like me.

”

inking she has perhaps just given me a compliment.

consider it?”

both boys say with enthusiasm, and I can tell already that she has won them over. Frankly, she’s charmed me a bit as well.

he says, straightening and heading for the door. She rests her hand on the d

n.

tand me?”

od, just once. She gives me a slow smile.

pen. “Don’t let these wolves tear you to shreds.”

at, she sai