Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 177 – Reconaissance

As the mission moves towards Walsh’s property, Victor notices that Rafe is particularly quiet.

“Are you all right, brother?” Victor asks, turning to Rafe with a frown.

Rafe leans back in the passenger seat of the hummer, his foot up against the dashboard, his arms crossed.

“Yeah,” he says, clearly distracted. “I’m fine.”

Victor’s frown deepens as he drives a bit further, but then he decides to push.

“Tell me,” Victor says. “I can tell something is up. You’re never this quiet unless you’ve got something rolling around in your head – you’ve been like that since we were kids.”

Rafe looks at his brother with a little smirk and then sighs, straightening up a bit. “I’ve just got a bad feeling about this, Victor,” he says quietly.

Victor nods to him, urging him to continue.

“It’s not that I think you’re doing the wrong thing,” Rafe says, his words slow and contemplative. “I think that you need to get Walsh out of the way sometime soon anyway, with all of the crap that he’s pulled, and that military might is the best way to do it.”

“So?” Victor says, turning onto one of the back roads that run adjacent to Walsh’s property. His force has been spreading out, surrounding Walsh on as many sides as they can without being noticed.

“So,” Rafe says, thinking it through, “it’s just…all on Walsh’s terms. On his property, with his daughter and your son as the bait. With Willard backing him up. The numbers are wrong, Victor.”

Victor sighs, knowing that he’s right. His Betas have been telling him the same thing – that the sheer numbers of the forces, what they’ll be up against –

At best, it’s going to be tight.

“I understand that Evelyn being there…it makes it tougher, Victor,” he says softly. “You want to get her home, you want to patch things up with her. But Vic, why is she there? He didn’t capture her – did she go willingly?”

A little growl comes from the back seat, Alvin’s hackles raised by Rafe’s implications that his mother might be on the wrong side of things. Rafe shoots him a look but mostly ignores the boy.

know why Evelyn went,” Victor says, likewise glancing back at his son. “But she wouldn’t have had Ian send that message to Alvin if she didn’t want me

Didn’t you tell her to leave, to never come

remember it. The stupidest thing he’d ever done, losing his

careful, “that she’s…well, that she’s actually bait? Voluntarily? That she’s on her dad’s

son know that he will

mad at me, even if…even

next words. “If she’s there,” Victor says, “at her father’s house. She’s there for a reason. If she’s telling me to come, it’s not because it will help me – not right now,

still have a relationship, he says to himself, hoping, desperately,

he feels a great overwhelming sense of…faith. That Evelyn wants him to come, that she’s rooting for him. That she’s

why?” Rafe says, frowning, interrupting

a moment to respond, wondering what just passed over him. “For a reason, Rafe. You’ve got to have more faith in her. She’s asked

in the back seat to see Alvin nodding

says. “Mom is doing it

do you know that? How do you know your mom’s motives? You’re attached,

his eyes at his uncle. “My mommy would never do anything to hurt

“She left you –“

leaps forward towards Rafe, his little nails turning to claws to rip him to shreds. Luckily, Victor puts out a hand

and, begrudgingly, Alvin gets back

line,” Victor says quietly to Rafe. “Alvin chose to stay. If Evelyn left without

sighs, resting his head against his seat. “Look, whatever is going on with you two romantically…it doesn’t matter. I’m sorry for getting into

nods, accepting his

numbers don’t line up. We are going into this battle at a sincere disadvantage, and without all of the information we need. Walsh is forcing our hand by taking Evelyn into custody, pushing us to go faster. He wants

the back seat. “That’s not quite right.” His voice

Rafe says, turning to frown at him. Alvin meets his eyes and grinds his teeth, working

right,” Rafe says, giving Alvin a smirk. “Tell us what you’ve got, little man. How is that not

isn’t the one who is pushing us to go faster – he’s not the one who let us know that he took mommy away from Ian, put

Rafe does where