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?”

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

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

the fabric of the tent. I

nods, likewise curious. He

Ian says, stretching his arms over his head. I can see that he’s starting to get tired, but no

his eyes going wide and excited at the thought of it. “Like, so much, that it can make itself present. Like it did

“maybe you could see it

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

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

was you,” Alvin says, smiling up at his father. Victor just blinks at him, shocked. “When 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 around like fireflies. “Little sparks

his little backpack forward. He looks at me as he scrounges through it.

of his pack. He

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

squeak of protest, which I ignore as I take a bite and hand it back

at us in disgust. “You guys

Victor says, baffled and frankly a little offended.

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

for any sign of the magic. Covered in it?

Alvin says, leaning forward and flicking his hair through the air around me, like he’s scattering flies. “You can’t sense it?

kind of makes sense. I still don’t know what

explains how so many unexplainable

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 two. They were just curious. Just wanted to

say, looking down into my hands.

it’s the understatement of the century, but I can’t think of any other way

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