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.”

be breaking up –“ I’m completely confused – they’re so obviously

at her girlfriend, “because she wants you to guess. But I know you’ll have a

nodding eagerly, my eyes wide, “Please

hand. “We’re going to…go away for

I ask, not understanding. “Like…a

Delia replies, smiling at me. “More like…that’s how we’re going to live now. A little bit without-home, for awhile at least. We’re going to go wherever we want, whenever want to. Live in a city or a place for a couple

suddenly flooded with mixed emotions. “That sounds

we’re going to miss you so much!” Delia finishes for

“I’m so excited for you! And like –

but they know

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

looking between Delia and me, “it was mostly me, I think. I’ve just been…it feels like, my whole

carefully at my sister,

understand, Evelyn. And then, after that? It was…Joyce’s life. Joyce’s life, Joyce’s world, Joyce’s choices. I was…nobody. I

a little, remembering it, and my heart

in some ways…like, mom was always allowed to leave the house? Dad didn’t stop her from doing that?” Emma is choked now, as

me at the 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 to keep my children safe that propelled me to become strong enough to

picking up where Emma left of. “Since we started…discovering our feelings for each other. And spending time

gone? Now that you’ve given me that freedom, Evelyn?” Emma says, raising her eyes to shake her head in wonder at me. “I have…a liberty that I never could

choked up, suddenly, by the emotion that rises in me. This, I think. This is

we’re running away!” Delia says, throwing her hands up and laughing, making Emma and I flinch a little bit and turn to her. I laugh too, then, realizing that Delia is right – it was getting