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

satisfied, and turns back to the room

that Victor knows me well enough to challenge me in a moment like this.

them turn to face me.

enter it and I see my boys shy back a little bit. I realize, suddenly, that of course this is likely

to whisper in their ears. “You have nothing to be

it’s true. Victor gives me a warm smile and an encouraging nod. We each take a boy by the hand and walk

little laugh amongst a throng of admiring friends and family. I don’t recognize anyone, but

be 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

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

holds out his

hand and laughs, charmed. “Well, very nice to

then puts an arm around his brother’s shoulders, pulling him forward a step. “This is my brother Alvin. He’s a little

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

I’m 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 dad’s brother, in fact. Younger, of course,” Rafe looks up

Ian says, looking back to me with excitement in

one of those before,” Alvin says, encouraged by Rafe’s kindness. “We’re getting all kinds of new

and straightens up, still smiling down at both of them. “I’m quite glad to have the honor of being

the visual likeness between all

you,” Rafe says, putting his hands in his pockets in

him,” Victor says, clearly excited to introduce his father to his sons. “Are you ready

almost 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

I’ll be fine. He nods with a small smile and