Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 241 – A Second Adventure

When I wake, the other side of the bed is disappointingly empty. I reach my hand out, brushing the sheets where Victor’s body left an impression behind, tracing the phantom shape of him.

“Oh well,” I murmur, sitting up and stretching my arms over my head. I’d catch him next time. I look around the room, scratching my head and running my fingers through my hair, trying to wake up. I’m suddenly struck by how wonderfully ordinary it is to wake up in my own room in my own bed in my own little cottage. After our rather mystical journey out in the forest, what was once mundane seems a bit magical.

I smile, hopping out of bed and pulling on my robe. Ten minutes later, I’m downstairs in the kitchen looking around at an apparently empty house. What?

Where was my family?

I turn when I hear a little padding of feet on the stairs.

“Mama?” Alvin’s head peeks into view on the staircase and I give him a big smile.

“There you are!” I say and he hurries down the steps. “I was wondering if I was all alone. Maybe the ghosts came and kidnapped you all.”

“They wouldn’t do that,” he says, wrapping his arms around my hips in a sweet hug. I bend down to give him a little kiss. “Ian wasn’t in bed though,” he says, looking up at me with a little frown. “Maybe something else kidnapped him?”

I press my lips together, interested. “Your dad’s not here either,” I murmur, looking around. “I’d bet they woke up early and went on some adventure before I bet they both got kidnapped. Though, in this family…”

As I look around, I spy a little note propped against the coffee machine and grin, moving over to it. Of course Victor would leave me a note with the coffee, where he knew I’d find it. There’s coffee in it too – he made me a pot before he went wherever he went. I smile, pouring myself a cup as I flip the note open. Alvin heads to the fridge, pulling the door open and using a stool to lift out the milk, which he runs to place on the table.

“What’s it say, mama?” he asks, dragging his stool over to the cabinet so he can reach the cereal.

“As I suspected,” I report, “they dashed off on a little adventure.” I flip the note over, looking at the back. “Doesn’t say where, though.”

I reach into the cabinet above the coffee maker to take down a bowl and spoon for Alvin, but when I turn I see him looking down at his feet, clearly disappointed.

putting the bowl on the table and crouching

on an adventure,” he murmurs. “And they left

sugar,” I fret, pulling him in for a little hug, crushing the cereal box a little between us. “That’s all right! We’ll have our

this, peering up at me.

“So eat up – you’ll need your energy!” His mood boosted, Alvin hurries off to the

that the promise of a little

thing I had to

about half an hour later, heading for the black SUV that Victor has set aside for my personal use. In

But I do.

and the Beta guard who is standing awkwardly by the

sad eyes. He still looks terrible; I wonder

you out here all night?” I ask, folding my arms as I stare

hand through his hair. “Just…didn’t feel

“And you weren’t freezing?”

wasn’t so bad,” he sighs.

I huff, rolling my eyes. “Obviously you know you’re welcome to sleep in the house, right? You don’t have to stay

to admit that the gesture makes me smirk a little. I’d rather see him angry than depressed and despondent on my front porch. “I just…didn’t

trying to block out any feelings of worry or pity for him. “We’re going out for a little, we’ll be back

to see her?” he asks in a rush as I start towards

back over my shoulder at him. “Is it any of

begins to stand up, eager.

a hand, though, cutting him off. “I’m not on your side here, Rafe. Even if I am going to see her,