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.

don’t have a word 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

at him, confused, not really

“It’s stronger than that. And just because I can’t explain it

“Just the fact that you were standing at the altar waiting

barks, making me jump a little. “Is it time now to bring up your betrayal? I parted ways with Amelia and since then have never looked back – not once. But you – your lies,

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

his voice loud and echoing through the trees. “Why are you doing this? Why are you starting

mouth shut but still looking up at him

left all of these issues behind?” He asks, his voice low with an edge of anger to it. “Honestly, are we not beyond all of this? Why

throwing my hands up. “If not now,

this is how you would go?” he says, his voice lower now as he takes a step towards me. “With accusations of me not loving you on your lips? With rootless anxiety

come up with nothing. He’s right, of course – we are beyond all of this –

I’m determined to

we do die. He’s right. I want to go with my arms around him, full of the knowledge that we love each other – that we tried everything we could

something in me. Something dark urges

to clear the air, Victor,” I say, my voice trembling. “I…I can’t live, or die, with these questions in

opens his mouth, his brows drawing down, ready to fight again, but I shake my head. He closes his mouth, but

know if I’ll ever not be able to wonder, Victor,” I say, my voice soft, “if I’ll ever be enough for you. If I’ll ever really compare to what you had

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 wanting to

he says simply. “It’s all I’ve got. I

my lack of faith that has caused this rift. All of his words, all of

at my soul. Makes me

of the moment, towards where my two boys are standing a few yards away at

the two of them, suddenly embarrassed for forgetting them. How long had they been there? How much did they hear? Of all people in the world, they are the