Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 47 – Home again

“MAMAAAA!” I lurch to my feet out of a straight sleep when I hear my son’s voice calling to me. Edgar next to me shudders awake, though he manages to stay in bed.

“What’s happening?” He murmurs, staring around bleerily.

“They’re back,” I say, pulling a blanket around my shoulders and ducking out the door.

From my vantage on the cabin’s short deck I see three figures walking in from the forest. I squint my eyes, trying to make out details. Disheveled, their t-shirts ripped – mud on their pants and boots – tiny scratches everywhere – and huge smiles on their faces.

I exhale a big breath. They’re okay. They’re happy.

“Boys!” I call, raising a hand to wave to them. At the sound of my voice, the boys start to run to me, though I can tell by their pace that they’re bone tired. I laugh, considering that of course they are after a night running through the woods.

Victor doesn’t pick up the pace, but wanders leisurely behind them, his hands in his pockets. I can see that he is smiling as well.

Ian is the first one up the three steps to the cabin’s porch. He throws his arms around my legs, shortly followed by Alvin, who does the same. “Mama!” Ian says, looking up at me. “It was amaaaaazing!”

I laugh down at them, cossetting their hair, their faces, trying to look at them both at once. “I want to hear all about it!”

“We saw everything, mama!”

“There was a deer!”

“And a lake! A big LAKE all silver in the moonlight!”

I oooh and ahhh as they tell me jumbled details. My eyes follow Victor as he climbs up onto the porch. The boys are still talking as he stops in front of me, leaning against one of the wooden pillars and giving me a smile.

“So, did you have as much fun as they did?” I say, nodding to the boys.

“It was amazing,” he confirms, holding my gaze. “I know they’re going to do their best to tell you every detail but it was…indescribable.”

I smile at him, truly feeling warmth towards this man who has given my children this gift, their first wolf’s moon. “Thank you, Victor. I’m so grateful.”

shrugs. “I was

Ian says, annoyed to have lost my

say, pretending to be confused. “Didn’t you eat any

says, wrinkling his nose in horror. “You thought we were going to

my

ten squirrels!?” Ian joins Alvin in his revulsion, their faces twin mirrors

down close to their faces. “And

and running down towards the fire where Betas are

their tails!” I call after the boys, laughing. “The fuzzy

laughs along with me, but scrunches his nose in a fair impression of Alvin’s face. “You really are gross sometimes,

to add a little

any squirrels, right?”

my eyes down like a 40’s movie

the fire. I offer to help, but the Betas shoo me away, pressing coffee into my hands and promising scrambled eggs.

is Amelia?” Victor asks a Beta,

a Beta. “She stayed up late by the fire, snoozing on and off, but she eventually turned in. I imagine she’ll sleep late,” he says, and I wonder if she got into the whiskey. I

a plate of fruit and starting to

he looks up at me

a Beta hands me a plate

that,” Victor says, “you mean that you spent all night with Edgar and she hung out

I say, pointing at him with my fork, “she didn’t have cell reception out here, so that’s impossible. And two,” I say, not letting him

spit-take. The boys laugh with delight at the sight and I can see their plans already forming to copy him, spitting out their own drinks. I narrow my eyes at them, pointing my fork at them too. They notice and nod, their

returning my attention to Victor as he mops coffee off of his already-filthy shirt. “She brought

chuckling. “It sounds like you two are getting along, and that’s all

say, my mouth full of egg. “A good

and ignores me, but the boys laugh at my joke. I wink at them, glad for my own

finish up breakfast, Victor confers with the Betas and I overhear him telling them to pack up