Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 244 – Down the Barrel of a Gun

“Get out of my house!” a feminine voice shrieks. “I’ll shoot you! Get out!”

“Bridgette!” I shout, half panicked and half furious, ducking my head and curling my body around Alvin’s as I press us both against the wall outside the cabin’s door. “Put the f*****g gun down! It’s me! It’s Evelyn!”

“Evelyn!” I hear her gasp and there’s a clatter – god, did she just drop a loaded gun on the floor? I groan, hearing footsteps pounding towards us, realizing that we never should have left her alone with a gun in the house.

I’m looking up at the door and see the moment when her pretty blonde head peeks out of the. “Oh my god!” she pants. “It really is you! I am so sorry – Evelyn, you scared me –“

My limbs are shaking as I unwrap myself from Alvin, who looks up at Bridgette.

“Hi, auntie,” he says, working to give her a tremulous little smile.

“Oh, baby,” she moans, crouching down next to us and putting her arms out to him. He immediately goes to her, wrapping her in a hug. “I’m so sorry.”

“It’s okay,” he assures her, resting his head on her shoulder. “We surprised you – we should have called first –“

“We did call first,” I say through gritted teeth, taking a deep breath and working to dismiss my anger, to remind myself that she’s a woman alone in the woods. She has every right to defend herself. We just…should have taught her some gun safety first.

“Evelyn,” Bridgette says, shaking her head. “I’m so, so –“

“It’s okay, Bridgette,” I respond, getting to my feet and forcing a smile onto my face. “No harm done, right?”

She nods briskly, gesturing towards the door. “Come in!”

She picks Alvin up and holds him on her hip as she leads the way into the house and, despite the panic and adrenaline still pumping through my veins, my heart breaks to see her do it. After all, she’s here because she thought she, too, was going to have a little one to carry just like that, and then found out in the worst way that she wasn’t.

shut behind me, shaking the thoughts away. They’re not helpful right

her and Alvin into the kitchen, where she places him on a chair

little shrug as she opens the fridge and pulls out a bottle

don’t have

at me. “I forgot it. And when I went down to the little store in the village,” she continues, gesturing out the

didn’t…order one?

and looks down at the table as she places the carton of orange juice on

moving quickly to her

whispers, not looking at me. “He wouldn’t stop. Even when I blocked his number, he just got a new one. So…it was easier to just

my arm around her, giving her a squeeze.

think about how it was cutting me

it. “Who cares. We found

juice from her hand and nudge her towards the table, taking over for her so that

looking around the cabin curiously as I move to the cabinet and take out

much,” she

bored?” Alvin asks, turning his head to the

a secret. “I’m hardly ever alone. Did you know I have six brothers and sisters? We all grew up in a little house, and I had to

always have Ian.”

replies with a

you’re…happy here?” I ask, pouring the orange juice and

smiling up at me. “Though I think I’m getting ready to go. Peace and quiet is great but I have to return to my life

you know what you want to do

bites her lip, shaking her head to tell me she doesn’t. I