Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

#Chapter 249 – Retribution

I wake at the sound of a drawer closing and the light click of ceramic on wood. I sniff the air and smile, opening my eyes to see a lovely cup of coffee just inches from my face.

“Oohhh,” I say, pleased and sitting up. I smile up at Victor, standing next to the bed. “And to what do I owe this great pleasure?”

I reach for the coffee but hesitate when I realize that he’s not smiling back at me. Instead, he’s very serious.

“What?” I ask, my hands falling nervously into my lap. “What’s wrong?”

Victor shakes his head and sighs, sitting down on the bed, his own cup of coffee in his hands. “It’s nothing to worry about, Evelyn,” he starts, nodding towards my coffee. “Please, have some. I didn’t mean to upset you.”

“All right,” I murmur, taking the warm cup in my hands and pulling my knees up to my chest, watching him, waiting for the news.

Victor doesn’t say anything for a moment, looking down into his coffee and collecting his thoughts. I let him take his time, studying his profile – the shape of his straight nose, the muscles in his clenched jaw.

And suddenly, I know.

“Amelia,” I whisper, my stomach twisting awkwardly.

“How did you know?” Victor asks, snapping his face to me, surprised.

I shrug. “Astral mate instincts,” I reply, twinkling my fingers at him and then taking a sip of my coffee. “I can read your mind.”

He frowns. “Even when I’m not sending you messages?”

“No,” I shake my head. “Just our connection combined with woman’s intuition,” I raise my chin and give him the look of a wise, all-knowing being. “I know everything that’s going on in your head.”

smile, seeing that he’s got some little secret brewing that he’s hiding from me that has nothing to do with Amelia. Well, let him keep his secrets. I

over the rim of my cup.

to me. “She’s shacked up with Alpha Taylor and his pack, two or three

screwing up my face in confusion. “Who is that?” I wrack my brain, trying to remember anything I’ve ever heard about the Taylor pack, but I’m coming

“Your reaction is correct – the Taylor pack is new, just on their second generation of Alphas.” He looks at me seriously now. “But they’re ambitious, and not without their resources. I think that their hunger, combined with Amelia’s relative…fame, and her supporters

me relatively updated on this – the number of people out there who still blame Victor for apparently ditching

is a love match. It’s not just by chance that he’s meeting Amelia just as he’s eager to make big moves in this world, to get as

up at me seriously, but I can’t help myself from asking

softly, hesitating.

at me, shocked

a big smile. “Come on, Victor – you know this woman. Amelia isn’t messing

then handing it to me. On the screen are a series of images of a young man with an unfortunate pug nose

the phone back to

this conclusion are ridiculous, but then he takes a

I mean, I know what I want him to do. But he

again, Evelyn,” he replies softly. I let my breath out in a deep exhale, relieved. “I don’t think I can do it again,” he continues, shaking his head. Then he looks back at me. “I mean, we have all the resources in the world – we would win – but I’m done with that. I want to foster peace

reach forward to take his hand.

it,” he replies

the number of people out there who still blame Victor for

eyes go wide. “Wait – are

stays perfectly still, letting

“You’re not going to

She burned my house down, putting my family’s lives at risk. She attacked this pack, several times, Evelyn – giving your father and Willard the ammunition they needed to take us to war. A war we came very

still horrified at the