Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 57 – Blood

“You would have refused, Evelyn!” Victor yells, slamming my kitchen door behind him as he stalks into the room behind me.

We just spent the last half-hour shaking hands and smiling at people’s congratulations. I kissed my boys, laughed at Willard’s jokes about surprises, smiled for pictures, all the while seething on the inside, waiting for the moment when I could tear him apart.

As soon as there was a break, I caught Victor’s eye. It wasn’t hard – he’s been waiting for this too. Without a word, we both stalked off towards my cottage.

“Yes, Victor,” I say, spinning to face him. “I would have refused, because you took the one thing from me that I have left! You took my freedom,” I say, banging on his honed chest with my fist. “And now you’ve got me all wrapped up in documents, your little pet, here at your command.”

He growls down at me, perhaps not as cool under my pressure as he thought he would be. “So go ahead, Victor,” I hiss, bringing my face close to his in a challenge. “Boss me around. That’s what you want, isn’t it? All this talk about protection and family, but all you want is control. So go ahead, command me.” My lips pull back as I growl. “Make me do your bidding.”

Victor fully bears his teeth then and he moves towards me, seeking to dominate me with force of his will, but I don’t stand down. His eyes dart downward, taking in all of me – my whole form in white linen and lace. “Go ahead, Victor,” I whisper, cruel. “Do it.”

He spins away from me, a snarl ripping from his throat. “Evelyn, you’re taking this out of hand.”

“I’m doing no such – “

“Evelyn,” he commands, slamming his hand against the wall. “It is a simple issue. If I had told you, you would have refused. So I was obliged to force your hand, for your own protection.”

“No, Victor,” I say, crossing my arms across my chest. “You had a choice between two options: to tell me, or not to tell me. But only one choice would have yielded you what you wanted, and so that’s the choice you made. And you’re trying to assuage your own guilt by suggesting to me that there wasn’t a choice at all!”

my official protection, and have been reinstated as an Alpha-born woman, the rights of

the side. “I ran away from those rights, which ruined the first twenty-two years of

says, turning and stalking back to face me. “As a woman marked with Alpha status you are protected, you cannot be

cage,” I cry again, though softer this time, overwhelmed by my emotions.

am not tying you to anything,” he says, taking my face in his hands, showing

into his face. We stay like this for a moment before I plead, “Please, Victor. Let me go, let me be Rogue again. I can’t…I can’t live like this.” Tears seep free from my eyes, collecting against

father can’t get to you,” Victor says, soft. “He can’t touch you, can’t take you away, can’t take your boys away. Don’t you see? In one

playing into his game. He

from me and drops his hands, his face now wary and curious. “What do you

from this, but I do

said horrible things about you, Evelyn,” Victor says. “Terrible

my head. “Wasn’t that the result? You’re playing checkers with someone who is a master at chess,

away to stare out the back window, trying to figure it out. I collapse into a chair at the kitchen table, exhausted now that my rage has gone. I glance at the clock on the stove. It’s only 1:00. How am I supposed to survive

are you two doing,” Amelia whispers furiously. She hurries over to Victor and grabs his hand. “Everyone saw you disappear in here together, and the press is waiting

the change,” Victor says, gesturing to me. “If you

“Are you okay?” he asks, his voice careful and full of love. I