Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 217 – Tempers lost

“Are you serious, Evelyn?” he sputters, his eyes going wide. “After all of this? All that we’ve been through?”

“What?” I snap in response, shaking my head so that my hair falls back over my shoulder. “Is it not a legitimate question?”

“No, Evelyn!” He says, his voice raising in anger. “It’s absolutely not!”

“Well, it’s legitimate to me,” I say. “And I think I deserve an answer. How do I know?”

“You know,” he says, taking two angry steps towards me, “because I love you, Evelyn. There’s no space in my mind for anyone else – I couldn’t even begin to think about another woman –“

“All stuff you probably said to Amelia!” I exclaim. Somewhere deep inside me, I know that I’m probably being unfair – that I know the extent of what we feel to each other. But…this has also been in the back of my mind for weeks. Months, if I’m being honest.

Victor tenses his jaw and tightens his lips then, and I know that I’ve got him there. These are all things he certainly said to Amelia, especially when I came on the scene. So how could I truly trust them again?

“She was your mate, Victor,” I say, some of the anger leeching at me as I voice this, my deepest hesitation about our relationship. “You get one of those in a lifetime. And you left your mate for me – which is insane –“

“Evelyn,” he says, shaking his head. “It’s different –“

“How can it be different!” I interrupt, throwing up my hands. “I know that you and Amelia had your problems, and that she was…she was so manipulative, and what she wanted was so contrary to what you want for your life, and that I fit that bill so neatly – but she was your mate, Victor.”

He doesn’t say anything to me and I just shake my head at him.

“Doesn’t that mean anything to you?” I push. “How can I ever compete with that? Did you just…did you just go with me because I fit the image of the wife you want? Because I already had your kids – because…because I want more children? Because you want more too?”

“No, Evelyn,” he says, shaking his head sharply. “It’s more than that – it’s so much more than that.”

“Your mate, Victor!” I exclaim.

to explain what you are to me, Evelyn – certainly not one that competes with what that word means in our world and our culture. That word is supposed to contain the most powerful connection between

at him,

towards me. “It’s stronger than that. And just because I can’t explain it –“ he scoffs, then, running a hand down

my anger coming back. “Just the fact that you were standing at the altar waiting for her

time now to bring up your betrayal? I parted ways with Amelia and since then have never looked back – not once. But

I say, taking a step towards him and baring my teeth up into his face. “I gave up half my strength for you – my life – I’m going to die out here in these woods, leaving my children alone, all so that you would

echoing through the trees. “Why are

hesitate, then, snapping my mouth shut but still looking

his voice low with an edge of anger to it. “Honestly,

we’re dying, Victor!” I shout, throwing my

you would go?” he says, his voice lower now as he takes a step towards me. “With

with tears then, and I come up with nothing. He’s right, of course – we are beyond all of this – we’ve had

god damnit, but I’m determined to live –

arms around him, full of the knowledge that we love each other – that we tried everything

something in me. Something dark

I say, my voice trembling. “I…I can’t live, or die, with these questions in my head. She was

again, but I shake my head. He closes

voice soft, “if I’ll ever be enough for you. If

clenches his teeth and looks off into the distance, and I can see that he is frustrated. Torn, really, between not wanting to have this fight again, and

he says simply. “It’s all I’ve got. I wish…I wish you could

overwhelming sense of guilt, then. Because it is me, not him – it’s my lack of faith that has caused this rift. All of his words, all of his

fear…it drags at my soul. Makes

voice pulls me out of the moment, towards where my two boys are standing a few

two of them, suddenly embarrassed for forgetting them. How long had they been there? How much did they