My mouth falls open and then I’m laughing, my shoulders shaking almost with hysteria, and I put my head in my hands.

Twins. Twins!

Again, twins!

Oh my god.

I’m still processing the news when I feel warm hands on my shoulders. I look up, then, into Victor’s serious face. “Please, Evelyn,” he murmurs, putting pressure on my shoulders and I realize that he wants me to lay back.

“What?” I ask, leaning backwards a little but not understanding.

“I need to –“ he doesn’t finish his sentence – apparently can’t finish his sentence, he’s too swept away by his emotions. Still not understanding, I oblige him and lay back on the bed, looking over at my sons who apparently understand.

“Here, papa,” Alvin says, hopping off the other bed and coming to point at my stomach. Then, as Victor lowers his head to my lower abdomen and presses his ear against me, I understand. And I’m suddenly quite jealous.

“Hey!” I cry, sitting up a little, “no fair! No one else gets to hear if I can’t hear – I can’t bend like that!”

Ian, apparently coming up with a solution, runs away from the bed while Victor murmurs “please, Evelyn, quiet – please, I’m begging you -” and closes his eyes, apparently listening very hard and training all of his wolf hearing onto my stomach.

I keep my neck bent, my eyes on him, watching and…I see the moment that he hears them. I gasp myself, seeing him go perfectly still.

“Oh my god,” he murmurs, rigid with shock for a moment, “Evelyn…I can hear them…”

Then he whips his face up to me, his eyes wide, more surprised and overwhelmed than I think I’ve ever seen him. I honestly – I don’t know what to do – but a smile spreads on my face despite me.

“Well?” I say, spreading my hands out desperately. “What do you think?”

his other arm around my shoulders, pinning me to his chest. I

completely undone by the look on his face. The broad, disbelieving smile, the wide

my eyes as I

Twins again?!” Then he squeezes me back against him and I find

not…truly. Not yet. No – I wanted this moment

clever boys

and see Ian standing next to me, holding out the toy stethoscope from his doctor’s play set. “Here,

let me go far. “Does this actually

little. “I think so. But maybe it is

into my ears. Then, bending over, I place the round chest-piece of the stethoscope low on my belly.

mama,” he says, pointing

ask, remembering that he showed Victor

at me. I move the stethoscope to where he

hear it. At first it sounds like one heartbeat, moving very

my god…” I murmur, starting to

real. It’s truly

Twins…

overwhelmed. Next to me, I feel two little boys press against my side and

“I didn’t mean to keep a secret – or, well, I did – but I

wiping at his eyes with the back of his hand. I press a quick kiss to his

probably understand. What he’s also saying behind those words is that he’s excited because he gets to be here for it this time – that he missed the first pregnancy, and the birth, and the early days with the

– and so am I, to be able to do this with

me. “Stop looking at dad! Look at

I ask, “I’m sorry baby – what’s wrong – I wasn’t ignoring you

up into my lap. I coo to him, making space between me and Victor so that my boy can sit with us. I

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