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?”

the idea of it. “We can just see the magic, and now, I guess, move it around sometimes. But,” he quirks his head, considering. “Maybe we can

as well. I shake my

over my shoulder at the smoke forms that I now imagine brushing up against the fabric of the tent. I shudder

curious.

head. I can see that he’s starting to get tired, but no

going wide and excited at the thought of it. “Like, so much, that it can make

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

ask, the word sputtering from my mouth. “I – I

the magic, when we were little.

you,” Alvin says, smiling up at his father. Victor just blinks at him, shocked. “When we met you at Quiz Nation. You had

looks at me as he scrounges through it.

of his pack. He takes a bite, looking between Victor and my

“And then you got lots more right before the wedding. And then

son’s hand. He gives a little squeak of protest, which I ignore as

at us in

Victor says, baffled and frankly a

says, looking between us with his nose wrinkled. “We didn’t want to tell you, because we didn’t want to hurt your feelings – and because, like, you wouldn’t get it – but ever since the first night after

the air around me for any sign of the magic.

leaning forward and flicking his hair through the air

makes sense. I still don’t know what the hell this

it certainly explains how so many unexplainable things

takes a bite. “That’s what the ghosts were drawn to, tonight. All the

I say, looking down into my hands. “That’s

century, but I can’t think

quietly to our kids. “For telling us. Explaining it. If there are any changes to it, or anything