Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

Chapter 116

#Chapter 116 – Snow Day

“Mama.”

I blink, my son’s little voice waking me what feels way too early on a Tuesday morning. “Mama, wake up,” Alvin says again.

“Baby,” I murmur. “What time is it?”

“It’s 5 o’clock,” he says, and I groan, turning my head back into my pillow.

“Come back later, baby,” I say. “Mama’s still sleeping.”

“But mama,” a new voice says. My other son. My other demon, I think, cruel in this moment as my sleep is stripped from me. “Mama, it has snowed.”

At this, I open one eye. “Really?” I ask, curious. My two boys are there, looming over me, nodding their sleep-touseled heads excitedly. “How much?”

“Sooooo much!” Alvin shouts, spreading his arms wide, as if to encompass all the snow in the universe.

“Buckets and buckets of snow!” Ian says, laughing and jumping to his feet, bouncing on my bed.

I laugh with him, unable to help it, and sit up to peer out my window. I gasp at what I see.

The boys are right – at least two full feet of snow cover the landscape. The trees are heavy with it, their boughs sinking towards the ground under their alabaster burden.

“Oh my god,” I say, turning wide eyes towards my boys and pretending a seriousness I don’t actually feel. “Boys, you know what this means right?” I keep my face grave.

“What.” Ian says as he stops bouncing, suddenly worried.

“Can’t we go make a snowman?” Alvin says, equally concerned.

“It means,” I say, ominously. And then, quick as a snake, I snatch each of them by the waist, yelling and pulling them down to the bed. “Snow apocalypse! Snow day forever! So much snow we’ll never get out!”

The boys laugh hysterically, riotously, as I tickle them – kicking and screaming with the pure simple joy of a little boy’s snow day.

I laugh along with them, newly excited for the day. I lay back against my pillow, still laughing, but let them catch their breath.

“What does it really mean, mama,” Alvins says, catching his breath first.

down today,” I say, shrugging. “There’s too much snow for anyone to do anything or go anywhere, so the whole city will take a break. Everyone will stay home and have a lovely, luxurious

pull myself out of bed. “Come on,” I say,

questions about what they’ll do today. I am pleased by the prospect of it – they’ve only had one snow day before, on Christmas, and today is their first real snow. I want them

papa come?” Ian asks, shoveling down his cereal

my phone to text him. I had sent him a text last night, but

up. The doctor told me you’ll be fine – you just need sleep – but I’m worried. Please

distracting me from my phone. “And Uncle Rafe and

one, and he sees

Alvin pleads, Ian joining

on, mama,” Ian says, his eyes wide. “We just

acquiescing. It’s their day, after all. I tap out another

Evelyn: Are you up?

I breathe a

– but I’m fine. I’m sorry to

Glad you are better. Snow day today! The boys want

to wait long for a

aye, captain. All hands on

the boys bolt across the yard, looking like two happy little marshmallow men in their puffy snow suits. As promised,

feel their fingers anymore. When that happens, they come inside to be wrapped in blankets by their grandmother and fed so much cocoa

in the day, indulging the boys in their every whim. If they want to sled, they sled, with Archie chasing them down the hill with every pass. When the boys want to build a fort and have a snowball fight, he orders

starts to grow dark. Then, wrapping a blanket around her shoulders, Evelyn goes outside. “Come on, boys!” She calls to the three. “It’s growing late, time

the boys

Ian and Alvin off with their gear and begins to prepare their plates of

Alvin asks, watching her spoon macaroni onto

you to,” Evelyn says, looking at Alvin

grandfather is watching the news on television. Alvin follows eagerly after. Henry, earlier in the day,

eyeing their plates suspiciously. “I don’t want you to drop

says,

drop any,” Ian says, and indeed, the boys shovel the food into their mouths at an

a while, watching TV,

of the tea that Uncle Rafe made for

Alvin continues. “We want to

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