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.

Victor says, likewise glancing back at his son. “But she wouldn’t have

to never come back, to leave your sons

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

says, his voice careful, “that she’s…well, that she’s

letting his son know that he will handle this. Alvin meets his gaze and keeps quiet, but his hackles

wouldn’t do that. Even if she’s mad at me, even if…even if she never wants to see me again. She would never turn back to her father for support, not in a million years. She’s far

think about his next words. “If she’s there,” Victor says, “at her father’s house. She’s there for a reason.

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

doesn’t know what, precisely, has caused it, but he feels a great overwhelming sense of…faith. That Evelyn wants

why?” Rafe says,

a reason, Rafe. You’ve got to have more faith in her. She’s asked me

in the back seat to see Alvin nodding

“Mom is doing it

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

his uncle. “My mommy would never do anything to

“She left you –“

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

Alvin,” Victor commands, and, begrudgingly,

“Alvin chose to stay. If Evelyn left without him, it’s because I made her. The fault is

against his seat. “Look, whatever is going on with you

accepting his

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.

not quite right.” His voice is

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

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

man. “Grandpapa 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 her downstairs in the

before Rafe does where Alvin