Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 102 – To stay or to go?

I walk slowly up to the house, surveying the scene, not wanting to run into members of his family. I meet a few Betas in the woods between houses, but they merely nod and smile as I pass. I return the gesture, glad to know that they’re there.

The house itself is quiet, though. Lights are on in various spaces, but there’s no sign of life in the kitchen or anywhere on the first floor.

Frowning, I come around the pool and stand by the edge of the back porch, trying to see if Victor is sitting somewhere close, maybe reading –

“Looking for someone?”

I jump at the voice, panic flooding me. But when I look in that direction, I just see Victor, sitting in an Adirondack chair in a dark corner of his porch.

“No, I just came up here looking for someone to scare the hell out of me. So, thanks for that little jolt to my nervous system, so kind of you.”

He gives me a low chuckle. I climb up the three short steps to the porch and walk over to him. He’s got a warm blanket spread over his knees, a glass of whiskey resting on the floor next to his chair.

“What are you doing out here?” I ask, wrapping my arms around my body for warmth. “It’s getting cold.”

He shrugs. “It will be too cold to come get fresh air at all soon, so I thought I’d take advantage of what could be my last night. Plus, I wanted to get away from them.” He uses his head to indicate his family inside of the house.

“Are they so bad?” I ask.

He rolls his eyes at me, just a little. “It feels like I’ve gone back to high school. I’m the Alpha of this pack, but somehow I find myself taking the trash out for mom, listening to my dad lecture me on the fact that my tie is too loose.”

He heaves a sigh and shakes his head. I purse my lips, hearing again the frustration that he expressed over the phone.

“They’ll be gone soon,” I say softly, trying to be encouraging. “You’ll find a new normal.”

gone, what will it look like?” He says, thinking aloud. “They’ll be gone, and so will you, off to your new house, wherever that is. Suddenly I’ll be in this big house, all alone.” He sips his whiskey, thoughtful, and my heart goes out

door opens. I grimace, anticipating disruption from his mother or worse, but am

a smile. “Burton!” I say,

at me, and comes over to us with a glass of wine on his tray and my favorite blanket draped over his arm. “It is a pleasure to see

thanking him. He

get here?” I say, laughing again

“I liked him. He seems to have a rare talent for intuiting people’s needs.

a sip of my wine, happy, and wrap the blanket around my shoulders. “Good, I really

of his mouth just slightly.

I say, raising my eyebrows and lowering myself into the chair next to Victor’s. “You two are going to get up to

huffs a small laugh and then closes his

the darkness of the porch. The lines of his face are cut as finely as glass, but I can see the sleepless nights, the anxiety, the weight of

my hands and smooth away the frown I see pulling at the corners of his mouth. I want to whisper comforting

glass tighter to further avoid the impulse to reach out and touch him. Then, I clear

know, Victor, I’ve been thinking a lot

his eyes and looks at me. He doesn’t say a word,

after my father took them away so easily.

several months, at least, until

you think about homeschooling for the spring? And then summer off, and

me and thinks about it. “We could certainly find a tutor easily enough. I’m sure Annabeth could recommend someone suitable. But your next house – will it be spacious enough to have both a home office for you, and

lightly. “Wait,

A locker

it would be too crowded. But your house,” I look up at it, his sprawling modern mansion, “is certainly big