Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 215 – Between Us

Alvin folds his hands in his lap, shrugging one shoulder. “Ever since we were very little –“

“Since we can remember, I guess,” Ian picks up, miming his brother’s action.

“We’ve always been able to see the magic. To notice it, when others don’t,” Alvin finishes. Both boys look apologetically Victor and I, then, as if they’ve been keeping a big secret and are sorry for it.

“But what is it?” Victor presses.

“It’s just…extra stuff, I guess,” Ian says, frowning, trying not to be vague but failing. I sit back and try to be patient, to let them work through it. “Like, it is the thing that is between Alvin and me. The thing that makes us able to talk to each other. The thing that makes us able to do…extra stuff.”

I frown at this, confused. What kind of extra stuff?

“When we were little,” Alvin says, “it was just around, the magic. And it was just between us – like always floating there, in the air.”

“Do you mean,” Victor says quietly, “that you can see it?”

Ian nods lightly. “Sometimes, we can. Not all the time. Or maybe we just don’t notice. But when we look for it, and it’s there, we can see it.”

Alvin nods, agreeing. “And then,” he continues, “as we got older, we learned how to start to use it.”

“That’s actually pretty new,” Ian says, excited. “Alvin figured it out most – like, he was able to use it just a little bit ago – on the battlefield –“

“The Alpha command,” Alvin clarifies, nodding. “I was able to…grab the magic. In the air. There wasn’t a lot. But I was able to use it to make the command work, even though I’m not technically their Alpha.”

Alvin smiles at Victor then, the Beta’s actual Alpha from whom he had briefly stolen command. Victor just shakes his head at him, not in denial, but in wonder and confusion.

“We thought,” I say, hesitating, “we thought you could just do that stuff because you’re smart. But you’re saying it’s because you’re…magic?”

it. “We can just see

as well. I shake my head, not able

against the fabric of the tent. I shudder at the thought. “They’re the magic. And you can see them because you can see the magic. So, why

nods, likewise curious. He saw them

he’s starting to get tired, but no way in hell I’m letting him go to

out here,” Alvin says, his eyes going wide and excited at the thought

says, thinking even harder, “maybe you could see it tonight because

from my mouth. “I

had a little bit of the magic, when we were little. But then you got more when we started spending more time

we met you at Quiz Nation. You had a little magic around you. Just blip blip blip!” Alvin pinches his fingers in the air, dancing them

forward. He looks at me as he scrounges through it. “And then, after the claiming

Ian pulls a chocolate bar out of his

then you got lots more right before the wedding. And then more and more later, when you decided

protest, which I ignore as I take a bite and hand it back to him. I need the sugary comfort of chocolate more than he does

says, looking at us in disgust.

baffled and frankly

your feelings – and because, like, you wouldn’t get it – but ever since the first night

around me for any sign of the magic. Covered in it?

the air around

and we both know that it…well, it kind of makes sense. I still don’t know what the hell this magic stuff is, but if it

explains how so many unexplainable

bite. “That’s what the ghosts were drawn to,

down into my

of the century, but I can’t think of any

kids. “For telling us. Explaining it. If