Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 82 – Bachelorette

Victor doesn’t go home for dinner, though his text to Amelia suggested that he would. Instead, he stays at his club and keeps drinking.

It’s not normally in his nature to be drunk – Victor likes a clear head, solid control over his body. Besides, with his Alpha metabolism, it takes a great deal to get him drunk. Even that night on the couch with Evelyn, she had been giggling after three drinks and he had been nowhere close to as bad.

He had perhaps pretended he was, to himself as well as her, but while she could blame her actions that night on the wine…he had been damn near sober.

But today, Victor wants to be drunk. Wants to lose his mind to the whiskey, to release his worries to the wind, to be blissfully unaware, for a few hours, of what he’s doing.

Amelia hadn’t sent him any texts, but she did tag him in her social media, so he knew that she, likewise, was out having her Bachelorette party. They followed tradition in all things, of course, which in wolf culture means they’re held on the same night so that they could end in The Hunt.

It was early yet – his hadn’t even started – but Amelia already looked stunning in a short, fluffy pink dress made of what looked like miles of tulle. It made her tan legs look like they ran on for miles.

Victor flicks through the media but doesn’t leave any comments, hearts, or thumbs-up on any of it. He considers that her attendance of her bachelorette means she’s moving forward with things, and, according to her huge smile in all of her pictures, is apparently thrilled to do so.

The wedding was going forth as presumed, then. She had accepted his terms.

Victor slowly shakes his head and put his phone face-down on the bar, signaling the bartender for another drink. Even if she had accepted it, was pressing on to the wedding…it still didn’t feel right. Victor knows she has something else up her sleeve, and he hates the idea of not knowing what it was.

The bartender places another glass in front of him and Victor takes a hefty gulp from it, barely tasting the burning liquid.

Holding the half-empty glass up at eye level to stare at its contents, Victor considers the chess game that he’s found himself in the middle of. At the core of it, he knows that the thing he needs to protect is his children, his lineage.

His opponent in this game is not John Walsh, not really – Walsh is just a temporary distraction, an obstacle to overcome. Instead, the foe is, in many ways, the whole world out to take from Victor everything he has built – his wonderful life, his children. It’s a cruel, jealous world, Victor knows knows, eagerly waiting to rip everything from his hands. He has to fight against it.

this wonderful, ferocious, willful woman who

damnit. Has Walsh put this idea

huffs out his breath, knowing, on an equally visceral level, that there is something there, as well. Something with Evelyn. He has no

rubs his hand down his face. Ancient words? What is he thinking of? He stares into his glass suspiciously. Perhaps he has had too

his shoulder, making

into the face of his younger brother, Rafe. Rafe’s face is much like his own, but his eyes wilder, with purple bags beneath them. Though

Victor. He signals

he knows well – friends, cousins, classmates from his years at school, old teammates from childhood sports. He can’t

squeezes the hand still on Victor’s shoulder. “You

has that – a less worried one. Victor looks down at himself and realizes that he’s not even dressed for the evening, still

says, laughing. “Let’s get you fixed up.” They both grab their whiskeys and

and pick at the hors devours passed around by a pair of pretty cocktail waitresses. Victor stands

lips. “Doesn’t look like you’re having much fun, Victor,” he

his true response. “This kind of tradition was

Whiskey, good times with the guys, and,” he nudges

like him – the genetic similarities run

of pack leadership, Rafe embraced the indulgences of life, with all the privileges of an Alpha and none of the responsibilities. Victor sips his drink, watching his brother laugh and wondering why he always resented

he just sees Rafe for the waste of potential that he really is. Rafe could do so many great things, but he throws away his time on meaningless pleasures. Victor doesn’t know how Rafe can stomach that

the back of the room. The collected men of the party begin to drop their voices in anticipation, knowing what’s coming

never would have agreed to participate in this if