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.

the thoughts away. They’re

the kitchen, where she places him on a chair at the table and moves to the fridge. “Why didn’t you answer any of

giving me a sorry little shrug as she

have a

down to the little store in the village,” she continues, gesturing out the window with the

one?

looks down at the table as she places the carton of

I say, moving quickly to

it…” she 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

put my arm around her, giving her a squeeze. “I’m

shaky little smile. “I didn’t think about how it was cutting me off from you though. That was stupid of

dismissing it. “Who cares. We

towards the table,

do you do out here all the time, Bridgette?” Alvin asks, looking around the cabin curiously as

much,” she

you get bored?” Alvin asks, turning his head to the

of like being bored for a little,” she says, whispering it like 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 share a bed with all of my sisters.” She stretches out her arms, taking up

I always have Ian.” He taps his

replies with a big

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

smiling up at me. “Though I think I’m getting ready to go. Peace and quiet is

know what you want

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