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?”

see the magic, and now, I guess, move it around sometimes. But,” he quirks his head, considering.

nods, considering this as well. I shake my head, not able to figure

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

likewise curious. He

his head. I can see that he’s starting to get tired, but no way in hell I’m letting him go to

excited at the thought of it. “Like, so much, that it can make itself

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

the word sputtering from my mouth. “I

me. “Yes,” he said. “You always had a little bit of the magic, when we were little. But then you got more when we

we met you at Quiz Nation. You had a little magic around you. Just blip blip blip!” Alvin pinches his fingers

He looks at me as he scrounges through it. “And then, after the claiming ceremony, when daddy tried to bring

drops open as Ian pulls a chocolate bar out of his pack. He takes a bite, looking between Victor and my shocked

lots more right before the wedding. And then more and more later, when you decided to be a

candy bar out of my son’s hand. He gives a little squeak of protest, which I ignore as I take

says, looking at us

frankly a little offended.

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 daddy

around in the air around me for any sign of the magic. Covered

the air around me, like he’s scattering flies. “You can’t

his hand away. But my eyes meet Victor’s, then, 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 is…between us. Then it’s certainly something we’ve been dabbling in more and more since

explains how so

says, shrugging and handing the half-eaten candy bar unasked to Alvin, who accepts it gratefully and takes a bite. “That’s what the ghosts were drawn to, tonight. All the magic around you

looking down into my hands. “That’s all

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

us. Explaining it. If there are any