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 –“

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

turn to steel within me. “I’m not afraid of anything,” I say, meaning it. Victor nods, satisfied, and turns

suddenly, that Victor knows me well enough to challenge me in a moment like this. A few

boys,” I say, and the three of them

Laugher and conversation ring from the room as we enter it and I see my boys shy back a little bit.

to whisper in their ears. “You have nothing to be afraid of – these are your family, and they’re all so excited

Victor gives me a warm smile and an encouraging

throng of admiring friends and family. I don’t recognize anyone, but she

a family phrase. My eyes meet a tall Alpha standing in front of me, his green eyes merry and a little wicked. I blink and glance between him and Victor, shocked at the resemblance.

you to meet Evelyn Ortega, and, of course, my boys,

and holds out his hand.

very nice to

am Ian,” Ian says firmly, and then puts an arm around his brother’s shoulders, pulling him forward a step. “This is my brother

and anxiously puts out his hand as

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?

says, looking back to me with excitement

of those before,” Alvin says, encouraged by Rafe’s kindness. “We’re

at both of them. “I’m quite glad to

and I’m surprised again at the visual likeness between all four. It’s remarkable, how

you,” Rafe says, putting his hands in his pockets in the same way Victor does. “He wants to

we should go find him,” Victor says, clearly excited to introduce his father to his sons. “Are you ready for a new Pop-pop?”

jump with excitement and he laughs, gesturing for them to go deeper into the room. As the three of them go, he raises an eyebrow at me. You okay? I can see the question in his face

smiling after him, I’ll be fine. He nods with a