Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 208 – Hard Lines

When Victor and Evelyn come down the stairs ten minutes later, Rafe is sitting at the kitchen table looking down at his folded hands. Evelyn doesn’t say a word, barely glances at him as she instead goes to her boys, who are standing by the open front door.

“Mama!” Ian says, breathless with excitement. “Did you see it!?”

“See what, baby?” Evelyn says, coming to put a hand on his back between his shoulder blades and see what the excitement is about.

“The house,” Alvin says, leaning against the door and looking up at her with wide eyes. “The car house!”

“Oh,” Evelyn says laughing and looking at the driveway. “It’s called an RV, boys – a Recreational Vehicle. Apparently,” she smirks and looks over her shoulder at Victor, who pulls out a chair to sit across from Rafe, “your dad buys the newest model every year. Just in case.”

“It’s awesome,” Ian says, his wide eyes eager. “Can we go travel in it?”

“Can we go live in it?!” Alvin shouts, clasping his hands beneath his chin in excitement.

“You’d want that?!” Evelyn asks, laughing and gesturing towards it. It really is beautiful but…live in it!? “You’d want to live in that thing, like living in a can of sardines?”

“Well, our other house did burn down,” Ian says, pouting, “we should get a new one and this one is already here.” Evelyn can’t stop the laugh that starts to spill from her at his earnest kid logic.

“Yeah,” Alvin says, as if it’s obvious. “And we can take this one to the beach.”

“Okay, okay,” Evelyn says, reaching for the coat hanging on the peg by the door. “Let’s go explore it, and then we’ll decide whether or not we should move in.”

The boys run out the door, happy with this deal, and Evelyn looks over her shoulder at Victor before following them. Victor gives her a deep nod as Burton hands him a fresh cup of coffee.

Thank you, Victor says into her mind, for distracting them. I’ll handle this in here.

Anytime, Evelyn replies with a wink. Then, she pulls the door shut behind her, following her sons to the RV.

When the house is quiet again, Victor turns his attention to Rafe. “Evelyn told me what she knows,” he says, his deep voice rumbling with disappointment. Hearing his tone, Burton quickly makes himself scarce.

butler is gone, Rafe lifts his eyes to meet his brother’s. “Listen,

look that suggests what he has said is an understatement. A massive, horrible, disgusting

“I get it. It’s not like I don’t already know that what I

is it that you’re afraid of here, Rafe?” Victor asks, starting to get genuinely confused as he sits down at the table. “That I’m going to repeat back to you your actions in the past few months? And you’re going to have to face

looks at his

shrugging. “I’ll leave that to Evelyn – she’ll be more than happy to go through the details and pin you

to the chase. “What the f**k is wrong with you, Rafe?” Victor growls, leaning across the table and glaring at his brother. “That is a good woman, who by all appearances loves you – or loved you, at least. How could you treat

the wedding – in all of the s**t before the wedding. You weren’t there – you didn’t hear everything Dad was saying about you bringing those boys into

in his chair, a little further disgusted.

down his hands and glaring at Victor. “I did it. I’m man enough to take responsibility for my choices, even if…well, if not for much

coffee in his hands as Rafe takes a

Rafe says slowly, perhaps figuring it out for himself as he goes, “…nothing, in my life, seemed more important to me than ripping this pack from you and taking

Victor sits quietly, listening.

as he does

shaking his head. “Where it’s fine, encouraged, even, to just take whatever the hell you want, and shape the world into

back in his chair, studying his brother. “How did you get out of it, Victor?” he asks. “How did you…not

Victor murmurs, holding his coffee tight. “I think I

though. “Evelyn?” Rafe says, leaning forward in his chair, a little disbelieving. “Seriously? One

trouble even thinking about the things I said to her. But I was the Alpha, I

Rafe

But as a full person, who loves and fights and speaks and

“You certainly blew up your life to do

a little mad that his brother would laugh. Rafe holds up his

have to change? I have to find the

Rafe?” Victor hisses, leaning forward, the disgust back in his voice. “Are you seriously looking for a woman to make you treat her well? Bridgette is also a person, if perhaps less strong-willed than Evelyn. But Bridgette didn’t have the resources that Evelyn had, the upbringing in an Alpha household that told her her entire life that she deserves more. Are you going to use that as an excuse for