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.

what I wish to work through with you, I discovered

professional, like an uninvolved therapist. “I’m very sorry to hear that. Can you tell

It’s caused a lot of problems for me, but I confronted her

“was she right?

the word vehemently, with finality. “No, with her plan, I lose everything that I’ve worked so hard

careful here, but I also need to know. “I find myself…struggling to comprehend. I understand

most significantly,

dread filling my body and bones. “Are they safe?” My voice comes

feel a slight lessening of my fear. “They are perfectly fine. The ultimate result, the solution to her meddling, is that I’m going to have to move

Victor would claim Alvin and Ian as his sons and heirs – who cares if it happens tomorrow or months

is not as much of an issue for you,

and preparation. That’s not the issue. The problem is that my fiancé

mouth. That 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 have

unwillingness to cede control to the

mouth to contend this – remind him that it is their

to plan our lives. But in this situation, she has crossed a line. It’s not merely that she’s asking to change or delay our plans for

voice full of disbelief, my

I’m a therapist in this situation. I change tactics. “That is a very significant betrayal,” I say more evenly. “How did you

the best plan of action is for the boys to leave our lives, to remain unacknowledged by me – for me

my

of me is fine with the idea of the boys not being the sons of such an important Alpha and instead 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

father, and he has promised them that he will acknowledge them. To

assume,” I continue, “from what you’ve said already about moving up the ceremony, that you disagree with your fiancé – that

something. That would be very Victor. “She has betrayed me – the kind of action that I would accept from no one. But she is my mate, and if what she says about wanting to defend

say, my heart steely. “That

“What do you mean?”