Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 50

Chapter 50 – You Ate Them?!

Badru

My second biggest disappointment of the day after having to leave Evie behind, was that there wouldn’t be any sparring in my training today. I would have liked my payback in full where my twin was concerned. Yes, our mate would have found out how ticklish I was, but I could have kept her in the dark for a little while longer. Normally, I hid it pretty well. Only Astennu knew and it wasn’t as though anyone was going to go about tickling a full-grown Alpha; that was asking to have their head taken clear off.

My wolf and I kept up the pace behind Astennu, with Tamlyn and her mate, Suzanna, at her side, as we ran the scent trails for tracker training in our wolf form. There would be no retribution for me today. Astennu was the faster and more agile one of the two of us. There wasn’t a chance I was beating him.

‘Revenge is best served cold anyway,’ Baniti muttered, laying his head between his paws and pining for Evie and Evva.

I would have loved to have her here, running beside me, even if her wolf sense of smell wasn’t yet fully attuned and awakened. If she had grown tired or was unable to keep up with us in our wolf form, we could have carried her on our back. But with Lucy’s return imminent, my mate wouldn’t have left the pack house for anything. My one consolation was that this meant Catalina would be leaving. The sentiment may have been selfish and I knew Evie had grown quite close to her, somehow, but I would be glad to see the back of her. She was pushy and obstinate. I couldn’t foresee any future where I would want to be around her.

A subtle elation, out of nowhere, began to bloom in my chest. Astennu’s emotions were so strong through our bond, they were almost indistinguishable from my own at times. So I knew this happiness wasn’t his. It was Evie’s. Her friend must be back home. And for some reason, this made my wolf grumble and whine.

‘Why, in the moon, are you moping?’

‘We should be making our mate that happy. Not someone else,’ he sulked.

Baniti was jealous of a tiny she-wolf? He was officially at peak melodramatic absurdity.

‘We do make her happy. She’s known Lucy longer… and she’s been a good friend to our mate… much better than we ever were,’ my mood floundered. Oh goddess, I was catching my wolf’s irrational jealousy!

What halted our run, bringing us to an instant standstill, was the sensation of rage. Astennu had stopped too, mid-stride. One glance and we knew. Evie. I was about to mind-link, wondering what the hell had happened to have her emotions take such a drastic change, when her voice rang clear, laced with an edge of fear.

‘Aste! Ru! Finley is harassing Lucy again at her room… I might need help.’

‘We’re coming!’ Astennu and I replied immediately, already prepared to run back to the pack house. Our training had been coming to an end, as the sun had begun to set, and we were barely a few minutes away. The lights of the pack house could easily be seen through the trees.

I had warned him. I had given him a direct order he wasn’t to go near his ex-mate. And now my own mate could be caught in the crossfire. If he hurt my nour el-ain… I would do more than punch him. I would kill him.

Our squad of trackers behind us were long forgotten as Astennu and I took off at full pelt through the sparse trees, heading in the direction of the pack house. The trackers may have been fast, but we were faster. Two Alphas were all that was needed to deal with one Beta wolf. I was vaguely aware of Tamlyn’s voice including us in the mind-link instructing Suzanna to lead the squad back to the training centre.

‘What’s happening?’ Our Gamma kept up behind us, following our scent trail.

‘Finley! That’s what happened!’ Astennu snarled, his anger aimed at our former friend, not Tamlyn.

‘The Alpha is on the way too,’ she replied after a few seconds of silence.

Our father was back at the training centre, leading the warriors’ training with Kate.

‘Contain Finely. Don’t kill him. He will be dealt with properly and face judgement,’ our father commanded, already knowing we were out for blood.

‘He’ll be dealt with alright. By our teeth!’ Baniti was singularly minded about how he wanted to ‘contain’ the situation.

I felt a surge of faint fear flow through me. It had to be from Evie. She would never back down from a confrontation, and she was loyal. She would never turn her back on her friend. If she was scared, it meant only one thing. Finley was about to become physical.

My brother was first to slam through the door, obliterating it to splinters, at the rear of the pack house in the Omega quarters. By some good fortune, Evie and Lucy’s doors were on the nearest hallway and on the ground floor, as though fate knew something we didn’t. Bursting through the now-destroyed door, I heard a woman’s faint yelp, Evie, and the sound of a wolf shifting. Rounding the corner, I cut the inside to get ahead of Astennu and surged forward. Evie sat sprawled on the floor, keeping Lucy behind her. In front, Finley’s wolf stalked forward.

I leapt clear over the girls’ heads, pummelling into him, and rolled us down the hall. He was now trapped between my brother and me. Astennu stood protectively over Evie, brushing his chest against her cheek and blocking his escape, with Tamlyn snarling in back-up of us.

In a desperate bid to push past me to get to his only avenue to flee, the window at the end of the hall, he swiped out with his right paw, his claws extended. I ducked my muzzle out of the way and then snapped forward in one fluid motion. My jaws clamped down on the last two digits and tore them clean off. Blood filled my mouth and I swallowed on instinct, the small severed limbs disappearing down my gullet.

‘He ain’t getting those back anytime soon,’ Baniti snickered. And I would admit, there was a sick sense of self-satisfaction in that.

Fin’s roar of pain transformed to a human’s yell as he shifted back, clutching what remained of his hand which poured with blood. I spun and kicked him square in the chest, sending him sailing towards my twin. Astennu shifted, clamping his arm around Finley’s neck. The rage was clear on his face. He wanted to kill him and I wanted him to do it.

‘Stop,’ Tamlyn shifted, hearing Fin’s gargled gasps. “Don’t lower yourself to his level.”

We felt our dad’s aura approach, along with the pounding of several others’ footsteps. He turned the corner, with three warriors and Beta Kate flanking him.

Kate was about to rush forward for her son, who was quickly going limp and unconscious, only to be stopped by my father’s hand on her

her back and approached my brother slowly. “Aste… release him,” his voice may have been

for a second, I thought he was actually going to do it. He dropped Fin’s body

our father pointed to the now unresponsive Fin. “He’s not to be left alone or unguarded

follow after the three warriors and her son, but our dad once again stopped her, “send his father. We need to discuss the repercussions of this. Tamlyn,

the girls where they still

heart plummeted seeing Evie look so vulnerable. She had probably never seen a full-on wolf

waiting too long. And

wolf howled with a sadistic laugh and I narrowly contained my own in my throat. Those fingers

gone, I wiped the blood from my mouth and chin on the crook of my arm and rushed to

softly

slammed him into the wall, and told him she’s his f*****g Luna,” Lucy timidly said,

we missed it?” Tamlyn

my mate. “And here I thought you saved all your

a habit of going dumb,

and I helped her stand, gripping her tightly. Her chest still

concerns. “It’s just the come-down from the adrenaline

it was all over. She had stood up to a full-grown Beta wolf male, without the ability to shift herself… I was

didn’t touch you?”

anywhere

loose and wild,” Evie pointed to our lower halves

was fuck-face doing here,” Tamlyn tucked the towel under her arms and

“He said he wanted me back, that he could

in the air. “What did he think, that

looked about the floor, still with a slight tremor to her voice. “I can’t

the scene of the fight. This was going to be awkward to explain. Astennu slowly looked my way, the realisation dawning on his

“Tell me you didn’t…”

wants his fingers back, he’ll have to wait till I s**t them out,”

us in scrutiny,

f*****g ate his fingers?!” My mate’s beautiful

them reattached?” Lucy was as good as green. “You know rotten meat

him as punishment. I just want to be there when you tell him exactly where his fingers are,” Tamlyn gripped her side in laughter. “I might not be able to see his

note,” Astennu sighed, clutching the towel about his waist tighter, and slapped my back. “We need to go, otherwise

me was begging me to stay. My wolf was about ready to cling on to her leg and never leave. “We can send for a couple of

under watch,” Evie raised her brow. “I’m pretty sure the threat is neutralised. Go make sure he isn’t about to be

reluctantly, we

and I were sat in our father’s office. Kate had barely looked up. Her head had remained exclusively buried in her hands as our mother rubbed her back, with the odd sniffle and shaky

the missing digits?” Our dad asked as we lowered into the

my desserts for a year if you stay quiet,’ I mind-linked my twin, trying

not 10 years

revealed and I could see Tamlyn’s

settled into a tense silence after Astennu, Tamlyn and I shared Evie and Lucy’s version of events. The atmosphere grew palpable to hear what my father had decided and, by the looks of him, he had reached a verdict. I knew what verdict I wanted and I could feel

Kate broke the silence, her voice ladened with anguish. “This is all my fault. I encouraged him to go talk to Lucy, to start over… I would have loved to have her as

to where the Beta sat. “He’s a grown man. He’s responsible for his

now threatened his own mate. I don’t feel any lengthy stint in the pack cells will change him. But I won’t execute him either. Once he’s fully healed, he’ll be banished from the pack, under pain of death if he

the subtle glare he threw us to remain quiet. With how he looked at our mother and his

even think of starting a tirade,” our

leaping out of his chair and slamming his fists on the desk. “He

knew he would be taken aback by my brother’s outburst. “Kate has already lost one son. Would you make her go through that again,

little valid argument. f**k,

have little to add either. Actually, he had nothing to add. Now I had noticed, he had gone completely silent. Baniti was focused elsewhere, rigidly fixated

‘Aste, is Aasim qu-’

‘Yeah… something’s going on.’

the two of you go do something productive, burn up all this extra energy,” our dad stood, pushing away

Energy?