Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 43 – Banished

Edgar, apparently finished securing the assailant, hurries over. Evelyn startles at first – not knowing who approaches, but seeing who it is reaches out a hand.

“Edgar – I – I’m so sorry,”

“No, Evelyn,” he says, holding her face between his hands – an intimate gesture that Victor suddenly feels awkward to see. “You didn’t do anything wrong. What happened? Do you know who she is?”

“Yes,” Evelyn murmurs. “My – the stalker. My former patient. She’s…totally unhinged, thinks I stole her boyfriend –“

“The one who wrote things on your car at your old house? Who threw the note through the window last night?” Victor asks, standing and crossing his arms across his chest. He placed extra guards against precisely this threat – what happened?

As Evelyn explains further to Edgar – her voice weak with exhaustion, fear, and tears – Victor moves to the front porch. There, quietly in the dark, he sees another body – slumped in a chair in the darkest corner of the porch.

Victor hurries out, crossing carefully to the body just as the ambulance pulls into Evelyn’s drive, followed immediately by a black van full of back-up Betas. Good – Edgar thought quickly, calling in all the appropriate reinforcements. Victor makes a mental note to commend him as he moves slowly towards the inert form.

As he gets closer, Victor suddenly realizes that he recognizes the body. Beta Pete. Victor moves to his side, fearing the worst – but no, Pete has a pulse. Victor heaves a sigh of relief and notes, in passing, that Pete holds a dark square in his inert hand.

The Betas swarm the porch, their training clearly demonstrated as they move as a concentrated pack. Once they have marked the location as secure, they wave the paramedic team forward and two Betas come over to Victor to assess the situation with Pete.

“He’s unconscious,” Victor says, “thank god. I don’t know what happened.”

“Any sign of injury?” one of the Betas asks.

“Not that I can see.” Victor confirms, studying Pete’s body again.

“We’ll get the paramedics on him too,” the Beta says, snapping at personnel waiting by the ambulance. They spring into action.

“Sir?” The second Beta leans close to Pete, sniffing. “What’s that in his hand? I smell…chocolate…”

think it’s…I think it’s a brownie,” he murmurs, baffled by this strange change of events. Pulling a handkerchief from his pocket, he takes

to complete their duties. As Victor watches them go, he senses someone moving to

there’s no

wondering…but no. It was none of his business. He nods sharply. “Approved, Beta.

his smile, but he manages. It is no small thing for an Alpha to admit a debt of honor to his Beta. “Sir.” Edgar says, snapping

house to tell Amelia what happened. Have them bring back my laptop, my second phone, everything we might

office. A steady stream of Betas come through the doors all day, each reporting on the results of the varied

robe during

says, not looking up as he types on his computer,

her to see her standing across from him, her

got two frightened boys upstairs. We need peace and quiet – not an army of Betas stomping around down here like

Evelyn,” Victor says, returning his attention to the computer as he sits

did everything

snapping his eyes back to her. “If I had done everything I could have, that insane woman would never have broken into your house. I’m fixing this.

least have some food? We’ve got an Avengers movie

some bags sitting on the kitchen table. “I ordered you Chinese. Please, eat

investigating the containers. A few minutes later, she calls goodbye to him

takeout they wanted, if it would help. Besides, Edgar was up there with them all. They would

He has an important meeting, and as it has to happen now, and in person.

arrive, Victor looks over the materials that his Betas have gathered. The first is a report on the

Perkins, no-rank lycanthrope, officially a member of the small, progressive pack run by Alpha James Willard

which assigned him to

he thinks. Weak bloodlines, weak mind – no talents. The sort of wolf which he wouldn’t be pleased to call a member of his own pack, though his pack only accepts new members through familial lineage and marriage. These new, progressive packs…don’t they see how

Victor hears a knock at his door. “Ah, Willard,” Victor says, “you are quite welcome here. Please, come in, make yourself