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.”

it look like?” He says, thinking aloud. “They’ll be gone, and so will you, off to your

open my mouth to respond when the back door opens. I grimace, anticipating disruption from his mother or worse, but am surprised to see a man emerge. A man I recognize

into a smile. “Burton!”

head slightly, smiling 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 you again,

him. He gives a short bow, and then heads

he get here?” I say, laughing

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

wine, happy, and wrap the blanket around my shoulders. “Good, I really liked him. I was sorry to have

the corners of his mouth just slightly. “I guess

the bachelor pad,” 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

glass, but I can see the sleepless nights, the anxiety, the weight of his increasingly heavy world

his mouth. I want to whisper comforting nothings in his ear. I want to run my hands through his

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

thinking a lot about the boy’s

me. He

send them back to a human school,” I say, “Not after my father took them away so easily. But there are so few schools we can

it will be several months, at least, until Prath Academy is ready to

I say. “So, what do you think about homeschooling for the spring?

considers 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

“Wait, what’s Beta

too. “I don’t know. I still think of them all as living in the barracks. A locker full of weapons and bullet-proof vests, I guess,” he says, pinching the bridge of his nose. “I don’t

of all this Beta stuff,” I say, laughing again, “I wonder if it would be