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.

son. “But she wouldn’t have had Ian send that message to

you…reject her? Didn’t you tell her to leave, to never come back, to leave your sons behind? Didn’t you essentially mark her

he’d ever done, losing his temper like that.

she’s…well, that she’s actually

growl becomes a snarl but Victor looks over his shoulder as he drives, letting his son know

do,” Victor says firmly to his brother. “She wouldn’t do that. Even if she’s mad at me, even if…even if

think about his 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, not

relationship, he says

chest. Victor doesn’t know what, precisely, has caused it, but he feels a great overwhelming

Rafe says, frowning, interrupting Victor’s

over him. “For a reason, Rafe. You’ve got to have more faith in her. She’s asked me to come because it helps her,

in the back seat to see Alvin nodding slowly, his

says. “Mom is

his nephew. “How do you know that? How do you know your mom’s motives? You’re attached, mentally,

eyes at his uncle. “My mommy would never do

“She left you –“

his seatbelt and leaps forward towards Rafe, his little nails turning to claws to rip him to shreds. Luckily, Victor puts out a hand and catches Alvin in the chest before he can make

Alvin,” Victor commands, and, begrudgingly, Alvin

says quietly to Rafe. “Alvin chose to stay. If Evelyn left without him, it’s because I made her. The fault is with me, not

going on

nods, accepting

the information we need. Walsh is forcing our hand by taking Evelyn into custody, pushing us

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

at him. Alvin meets his eyes and grinds his teeth, working hard not

Alvin a smirk. “Tell us what you’ve got, little man. How

pushing us to go

before Rafe does where Alvin is