Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 159 – On the Road

Evelyn glances over at Ian as he fiddles with the car’s radio controls, trying to find a station that he likes. She can’t help but smile at him a little bit. When did he get old enough to have tastes in music? It was so strange, raising a child, watching them grow into a full person.

He is technically still too young to be sitting in the front seat of the car but…well. Desperate times, desperate measures. Or whatever. Evelyn wants him close by her is the real answer, not sitting alone in the back of the car.

They’ve been mostly quiet for the trip, but it’s not an uncomfortable silence. Ian had told her, when he first got into the car, what he and Alvin had decided.

“I’m coming with you,” Ian had said, his face pale as he stood with the car door open, his feet firmly planted on the driveway.

“What?!” Evelyn had breathed, her voice low with shock. She looked behind him, looking for Alvin as well.

“No, mama,” Ian had said, interpreting her look. “Just me. Alvin is staying with papa.”

“No,” Evelyn had said, her voice firm. “I’m not splitting you two up. You two stay together.”

Ian had just shrugged and gotten into the car. “If you’re going, I’m going. Alvin is staying.” He had looked up at her with hope in his eyes. “Unless you just want to stay…”

Evelyn had considered him for a moment and then slowly shook her head. No, she couldn’t. It was impossible, now. Not after how she had betrayed Victor. Not now that she knew he’d never be able to forgive her.

“Please, Ian,” she had whispered. “Don’t be foolish – you can’t leave your brother, you haven’t been separated from him for a single day in your life! Since you were little babies the size of jellybeans in my belly! You’ve always been together!”

He had just shrugged and reached behind him for his seatbelt, pulling it over his chest and buckling it firmly. “It’s okay. I’m getting kind of sick of him.”

Evelyn furrowed her brows at him seriously, shaking her head at the lie. But Ian had just shrugged again.

“Come on, mama,” he said, looking out the windshield. “If we’re going to go, let’s go.”

Evelyn had sighed, considering it for just a moment. “What made you decide,” she said slowly, “to split up. Because I know you didn’t make this decision alone.”

Her little boy had looked at her plainly. “You need someone to protect you, mama,” he had said, and then pointed his thumb at his chest. “And I’m the tough one. So, I go with you.”

She had laughed a little at that – god, what a foreign sound. “Ian,” she had said. “I can take care of myself, I’ve been doing it for years.”

“Yes,” he had replied, again looking out the front of the car. “So now it’s time that you had a break.”

Evelyn had shaken her head a little at that, but Ian didn’t look at her. Her little boy, six going on thirty. Already he was becoming so, so much like Victor. And now she was taking him away…

She sighed and put the car in reverse, backing out of the driveway without another word. If he wanted to come, be her protector, then fine. She would take him, gratefully. The rest she would figure out later.

Ian has been very patient, not asking for details or information about where

he doesn’t know, Evelyn thinks, biting her lip,

had texted Delia earlier, asking about where she was, but the

on vacation –

time Evelyn really needed her friend

After all, Victor would be looking for them – looking for Ian, really – and he knew where Delia lived. So if they had tried to hole up there for

vacationing. Delia had mentioned Rockport, a charming little beach town a few hours from home. Evelyn hadn’t replied, but immediately had taken the next

Headed for the beach.

later, Evelyn could tell that Ian was

against the window.

“can you taste the

letting the ocean breeze fly into

This was the first time

says.

“How do you know what

eyes at her.

Your just lucky that your dad

smiles at her

at the little beach

sadness growing. “He

filling up the tank. As Ian munches on a bag of chips from her snack

So, where are you in

a few

at a little motel by the beach – so

and I planning a trip, looking for

Sunrise Starfish. He can probably afford fancier,

then goes back into the gas station to ask the

lot of the Sunrise Starfish, a cute little beach motel with a

Ian says, smiling at

bring swim trunks?” Evelyn asks as they climb out of

says, frowning as he shuts

smiling at him and taking his hand. “That’s your first mistake, Ian. Always pack a swimsuit

nods sagely, storing this advice away for next time. Together, they walk into the little