Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

“Inside, Evelyn, please,” Victor growls, and Evelyn moves away from him. She looks between the two brothers for a moment, and though she would usually push against an order like that from Victor – or anyone, really – something, in this case, suggests that it’s best not to engage.

So she simply moves away, quickly climbing the steps to the porch and disappearing through the cottage’s front door.

“What the hell is wrong with you,” Victor snarls when she’s gone, advancing on his brother, feeling the tips of his claws start to poke at his fingertips.

“What’s wrong with me?” Rafe challenges, holding his ground. “What the hell is wrong with you, Victor!? Letting Walsh go, because Evelyn decided that she wants her dad to go free?”

“Enough!” Victor shouts, slashing the air between them, his fangs lengthening. Rafe’s eyes go wide at this – Victor is usually in perfect control of his transformation, but something about this has really set him off –

But still, this decision – it goes too far –

“You can’t let her do this, Victor!” Rafe shouts, his own fangs lengthening in response to his brother’s threat. “He will do it all again! Everything you fought for, he will take from you!”

“And you think I can’t manage that threat?” Victor asks, still advancing on Rafe, their bodies close together now. Violence is in every line of Victor’s muscles as he stares his brother down. “You think I haven’t considered this? You think I have made this decision easily?!”

“However you’ve made it, it’s the wrong decision! You’ve got to make him pay!”

“It’s not my decision –“

“You’re going to let her decide! Her be the arbiter of justice in your pack – in our pack!? And Walsh’s too – the pack your sons will inherit – she gets to decide its future?”

“Who else should do it, Rafe,” Victor asks, his voice low, his pulse racing now, barely keeping a leash on his rage as his brother insults his Luna again and again. “Who would mete out justice in this pack, if not her? It is her father’s fate, hers, her sons’, for which she decides –“

“She’s too close to it!”

“Precisely why she should decide!” Victor cries, shoving Rafe now, making him stumble back a few steps. “There is no one for whom this decision is harder, you i***t! She has spent days being tortured by this – having to face the actual people who this decision would affect! And she’s sobbing in my arms because she’s had to make it – and you come along and challenge her on it!?”

Rafe snarls but Victor lashes out, pushing him again – hard enough that he falls to the ground.

“Stay down, Rafe,” Victor snarls, standing over him. “You will learn your place in this pack – even if I have to teach it to you by force –“

“My place!?” Rafe rages, snarling at his brother. “On the ground – lower than her – I’m supposed to take the decision of a Luna as law!?

over his face, completely appalled. But Victor, to Rafe’s surprise, just shakes his head at him, taking a step back. As Rafe watches, Victor leashes his self again, his fangs retracting, the claws that started from his hands

Victor asks, still panting with anger, but his voice more even

“What?” Rafe asks, baffled.

just said. That you reject the idea that you’re lower than a

not what

of it shaking Rafe. “You f*****g i***t,” Victor

– at least internally – that even if those hadn’t

head at him again. “Don’t you get it, Rafe?” he asks. “This is why she won’t come back

now, filled with objections, with defiance at the

as his words meet his lips, Rafe realizes that he can’t speak them. Because Victor

herself to a man, an Alpha, who always sees

blow and his arms go weak. He lets himself fall backwards into the gravel of the drive, his head bouncing, but he ignores the pain. He hadn’t realized…hadn’t thought that those ideas lived in

But clearly…

to get it into your head that being Alpha is not about having complete control and shaping the world into what you want. It’s about building the world in which you and the

is your Luna, your moon. The sooner you figure out that you’re not the earth in this metaphor – the thing around

his brother

as he reaches the

her when she calls.

walks up the stairs and into the

Rafe rests his head back against the gravel of the dark drive, staring at the

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in my lap, staring out the front picture window with me as Victor stalks up the steps and heads towards

run over by a car if one pulls in the

a moment to consider. “Probably

turns to me, scared. “Should

I whisper, still a little mad. “Let him risk it. He’s a

confused for a second, but we’re interrupted when Victor opens the door, coming into the dark house and looking around. It takes a moment

sighs and sinks his hands in his pockets, shaking his head

say, my voice soft but even. “You wouldn’t want us to miss

Ian calls, curious. “What is