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

to never come back, to leave your sons behind?

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

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

he drives, letting his son know that he will handle this. Alvin

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 more likely

reason. If she’s telling me to come, it’s not because it will help

says

it, but he feels a great overwhelming

says, frowning,

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 me to come

glances in the back seat to see Alvin nodding

Alvin says. “Mom is doing it

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

eyes at his uncle. “My mommy would never

“She left you –“

off 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 it into the front

commands, and, begrudgingly, Alvin

left without him, it’s because I made her. The fault is

is going on with you two romantically…it doesn’t matter.

nods, accepting his

going into this battle at a sincere disadvantage, and without all of the information we

right.” His voice is still angry but

meets his eyes and grinds his teeth, working

says, giving Alvin a smirk. “Tell us

still clenched – not liking at all to be called little man. “Grandpapa isn’t the one who is pushing us to go faster – he’s

nods, seeing before Rafe does