Pregnant With Alpha’s Genius Twins

Good, I think, smiling and waving to her. Now the boys will be distracted as well.

Georgia gives me a happy nod as she heads into the house, looking for the boys, and I pull my legs up onto the little loveseat as well, beaming at Delia and Emma.

“We’ll have some privacy now,” I say, smiling at them.

“Privacy,” Emma says, looking through the window at the house filled with people, “seems to be a…relative term. In this house.”

“Oh, it’s not so bad,” I laugh, tucking my hair behind my ears and shaking my head. “You get used to it – it feels…I don’t know. Like a sports team, or something. Everyone working together towards the same goal. And most of the Betas go home at night.”

“Most of them?” Emma asks, raising her eyebrow. “We always had guards at mom and dad’s house, but we they were always outside the house.”

“Well, here to,” I say with a shrug. “Though I guess it’s…smaller.”

“I think it’s nice,” Delia says warmly. “I always liked a full house growing up.”

I c**k my head to the side and study the two of them, wondering what all of this house talk was getting to. “Are you guys thinking about moving in together or something?” I blurt suddenly, curious.

Emma blinks at me and then blushes, I think not really used to being asked about her private life so straightforwardly. After a life with Joyce, after all, she’s probably not used to anyone asking about her thoughts or her plans at all.

“Actually,” Delia says, unphased by my question (she knows me, after all) and taking Emma’s hand, “kind of…the opposite.”

horrified. “Are you – you’re not – you can’t be breaking up

sighing and smiling at her girlfriend, “because she wants you to guess. But I know you’ll have a panic attack if we don’t tell

I agree, nodding eagerly,

says, giving a little shrug and squeezing Delia’s hand. “We’re

not understanding. “Like…a

awhile at least. We’re going to go wherever

flooded with mixed emotions. “That

finishes for me,

hand and nodding. “I’m so excited for you! And like – jealous! I want to come! Can I abandon my children and go

me, but they know that

chest. “Oh no, I don’t want you to feel guilty, but I really am going to miss you so much. What

I think. I’ve just been…it feels like, my whole life,

nod, looking carefully at my sister,

the life dad wanted,” Emma continues softly, “which I know you understand, Evelyn. And then, after that? It was…Joyce’s life. Joyce’s life, Joyce’s world, Joyce’s choices. I was…nobody. I feel

sister hangs her head a little, remembering it, and my heart goes

so hemmed in. I know that a lot of Lunas have felt the same, but in some ways…like, mom was always allowed to leave the house? Dad didn’t stop

life my sister lived, at the life I was supposed to have lived. And I know that it’s not because she was weaker than me – I would have collapsed to it as well. It was only my desperation

different,” Delia says, picking up where Emma left of. “Since we started…discovering our

gone? Now that you’ve given me that freedom, Evelyn?” Emma says, raising her eyes to shake

This

I flinch a little bit and turn to her. I laugh too,