Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 89 – Rehearsal Dinner

A few hours later, when the boys have been neatly dressed in their first suits of the weekend, there comes a knock at the door.

I smooth my hands over my own black cocktail dress and go to answer it. I let out a whoosh of breath when I see that it’s Victor. “Come in,” I say, opening the door wide for him. As soon as he enters, though, I close the door quickly.

He turns to me, frowning a little. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah,” I say, raising my hands to check and see that my hair is still in place. I laugh a little. “Your mom just spooked me a bit, is all.”

“My mom?” he says, turning fully to stare at me. “My mother came to see you?”

“Yeah,” I say, nodding. “Didn’t you know?”

Victor slowly shakes his head back and forth and I can see him processing. “What did she say to you?”

“That your family was going to be hard on me,” I say. “I’m grateful for the warning, but I admit, I’m more anxious than I was before.”

Victor glances back at the boys. “Did she see them?”

I nod. “She was really nice to them. She said they reminded me of you.”

He nods, considering. “My mother is a…tactical woman. I wanted to be here when she met them, but clearly, she had other plans.”

He turns his full attention on me, then. “She’s not wrong, Evelyn,” he says. “I should have warned you before – my father, my brother, they will take Amelia’s side and see you as an interloper. But it’s nothing you can’t handle.”

I laugh a little, sardonically, and press a hand to my forehead. “Should I even go to this dinner, Victor? Honestly, the boys are safe here – they can go alone –“

a step closer. “Well well,” he says, repeating his mother’s phrase. “I didn’t think it’d take so little to scare you

at him, narrowing my eyes, feeling my will turn to steel within me. “I’m not afraid of anything,” I say, meaning it. Victor nods, satisfied, and turns back to the room where the boys are

Victor knows me well enough to challenge me in a moment like this. A few minutes

on, boys,” I say, and the three of them turn to face me.

noise at the start of Victor and Amelia’s rehearsal dinner. Laugher and conversation ring from the room as we enter it and I see my boys shy back a little bit.

nothing to be afraid of – these are your family, and they’re all so excited

hoping that it’s true. Victor gives me a warm smile and an

throng of admiring friends and family. I don’t recognize anyone, but she holds court in the center

a tall Alpha standing in front

says, putting out a hand to shake his brothers. “I’d like you to

holds out his

“Well, very nice to

and then puts an arm around his brother’s shoulders, pulling him forward a

himself, and anxiously puts out his hand as well. “I am

glad to see it is a gentle, pleased laugh, not one to make Alvin feel ashamed. Rafe shakes his hand. “Well, it is very nice to meet you too, Alvin. We’ll see what we can do about making you come out of your shell. Did you know, I am your uncle? Your

uncle!” Ian says, looking back to me with excitement in his

kindness. “We’re getting all kinds of new

of them.

again at the visual likeness between all four. It’s remarkable, how easily my boys fit in with

pockets in the same way Victor

introduce his father to his sons. “Are you ready for

into the room. As the three of them go,

He nods with