Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 51 – Closet Conversations

As I tuck the boys into their beds, the television in their room set to stream a Disney Channel show for the next couple of hours, I hear the phone in my closet ring.

“Do you have another secret call, Mama?” Ian asks, his eyes fastened to the screen as he asks.

“What?”

“Your secret phone,” Alvin says, absently tossing popcorn into his mouth as he watches the bright colors, “the one in your closet.”

“How…” The boys, sensing a problem, both look at me at once. I sigh. Genius twins, Evelyn, remember? I don’t know why I thought I could keep anything from them.

The phone continues to ring.

“I have to go take that call, boys, but it’s for work. I want you to keep away from the secret phone, okay? It’s secret for a reason. It’s our secret. So don’t tell anyone, not even Edgar or Daddy or Amelia.”

I tried to hide “daddy” between two other innocuous persons – Edgar and Amelia wouldn’t care.

Ian gives me a thumbs up and Alvin gives me a conspiratorial smile. The boys love a secret. Problem solved for now, I pull their door closed behind me and hurry into my room and then my closet.

“Hello?” I say, answering the phone a little breathless.

“Did we not have a call scheduled.” It’s a question, technically, but Victor doesn’t present it as such. He knows we did.

“Yes, I’m sorry,” I say, settling into my closet’s corner. I even added a little pillow back here, for greater comfort. “My children needed a little…unexpected attention. I apologize.”

“That’s fine,” he says. “I understand.”

“Wonderful. So, how are things going for you lately?”

“Things are…complicated,” Victor grinds out. My heart sinks a little bit in my chest. What? I thought things were going well after the camping trip. At least on my end, everything is pretty smooth.

“What happened?” I ask.

my relationship, which is largely what I wish to work

uninvolved therapist. “I’m very sorry to hear that.

plans, in jeopardy. It’s caused a lot of problems for me, but I confronted her about it and she didn’t even seem contrite.

in terms of devil’s advocate,” I say, “was she right? Was her plan the

with her plan, I lose everything that I’ve worked so

need to be careful here, but I also need to know. “I find myself…struggling to comprehend. I understand that you’re avoiding details for the sake of anonymity, but can you tell me

“But most significantly, my relationship

physical drop in my stomach at this, dread filling my body and bones.

solution to her meddling, is that I’m going to have to move up the event of my sons’ claiming, marking them as my heirs and as part of

agreed long ago that Victor would claim Alvin and Ian as

continue, “that moving up the date is not as much of

much planning and preparation. That’s not the issue. The

is very, very bad. What was Amelia thinking? “That’s shocking,” I say, “considering everything you’ve told me so far about your partner. She must

but also, a certain unwillingness to cede control to

contend this – remind him that it is their life – but he interrupts

equal right to plan our lives. But in this situation, she has crossed a line. It’s not merely that she’s asking to change

I say, my voice full of disbelief, my eyes

remember, of course, that I’m a therapist in this situation. I change tactics. “That is a very significant betrayal,” I say more evenly.

is for the boys to leave our lives, to remain unacknowledged by me – for me to support them and be a less-signficant part of their lives, but to privilege our own future children as my heirs. Not my

b***h, pretending to be my friend all this time – fireside sisters my ass. She’s

leading totally normal lives. As Victor’s heirs they will be destined to take up his track in life. Not a bad path, but certainly a narrow one. If they were not acknowledged, they’d have fewer privileges, but also more

My boys love their father, and he has promised them that he will acknowledge them. To break that promise – for Amelia’s sake – would be a great betrayal to my

continue, “from what you’ve said already about moving up the ceremony, that you disagree with your fiancé – that you plan to acknowledge the

decide,” Victor says. I hear a thump on the other side of the line and wonder if he has slammed his fist against something. That would be very Victor. “She has betrayed me – the kind of action that I

say, my heart steely. “That this is merely

“What do you mean?”