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.

Rafe lifts his eyes to meet his brother’s. “Listen, Victor. I f****d

the side, giving Rafe a 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

I’m going to repeat back to you your actions in the past few months? And you’re going to have

at his

leave that to Evelyn – she’ll be more than happy to go through the details and pin you to the wall for each one.

you, Rafe?” Victor growls, leaning across the table and glaring at his brother. “That is a good woman, who by all

against his palms. “In all the s**t after the wedding – in all of the s**t before the wedding. You weren’t there – you

seriously your excuse?” Victor says, sitting back in his chair,

it. I’m man enough to take

in his hands as Rafe takes a

moment when I started the lie,” 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 it for

Victor sits quietly, listening.

was just using me, as he does all of us. He’s just like John Walsh in that way, do

of Alphas,” Rafe says then, shaking his head. “Where it’s fine, encouraged, even, to just take whatever the hell you want, and

did you get out of it, Victor?” he asks. “How did you…not become them,

did escape it,” Victor murmurs, holding his coffee tight. “I

read the end of the sentence on his face though. “Evelyn?” Rafe says, leaning forward in his chair, a little disbelieving. “Seriously? One woman

of this. I have trouble even thinking about the things I said

then?” Rafe

started to see her as a person. She forced me to start seeing her as a person. Not as a Luna, or as a surrogate, or as my kids’ mom. But as a full person, who loves and fights

at that. “You certainly

was worth it,” Victor says, dead serious and a little mad that his brother would laugh. Rafe holds

how I have to change? I have to find the right

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 why you treated Bridgette like trash? That everyone else in her life treated her like trash, so it was okay for you to do