Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 55

Chapter 55 – The Mind-Link?

Badru

“Those files come through ok?” I jostled the phone from my shoulder, setting it down next to me on speakerphone.

I was busy being an actual Alpha, while Astennu was off on his stalker mission. How had the two of us switched places? I had become the ultra-responsible one and my twin was now the galavanting impulsive i***t, albeit for a few hours at least. And wherever he had gone, he was drawing nearer. I could feel our twin bond growing stronger.

“Yeah, your wolf runner just dropped off the flash drive,” our Delta, Elan, spoke, the clacking of his keyboard could be heard in the background. “This one’s gonna take me a while to get through, maybe a few months? I hope that’s ok.”

“It’s over a decade of financial records. I’m more surprised you’ll have it done in just a few months,” I reassured. It wasn’t as though we were in any rush for an overview of financial records dating that far back.

He had completed the last batch we delivered when we visited with Evie, but we must have missed some figures as there were random parts that didn’t fully add up. On paper, our pack was earning more than what was adding up and because the discrepancies were far and few between, I must’ve made an error when I had compiled the files. It was another kick to the rear that I needed a better grasp on our paperwork; an area I never excelled in and my brother did.

“And congratulations, again,” I added before I hung up. “I know you and Hazel are gonna be awesome parents.”

It was still early and they weren’t telling many yet, but Elan’s newly-wed wife had found out she was pregnant. The honeymoon gift to Hawaii Astennu and I had given them must have done the trick. He thanked me once again and hung up.

The mention of reproducing had instantly triggered my wolf’s instincts, imagining scenarios of pups everywhere. I, however, was a little more terrified. I could barely keep a handle on myself. How could I be responsible for another life? A tiny life? One whose survival depended directly on me. I did want pups, but I was more inclined to wait a little longer than Baniti, who was practically picking out names already.

“You still awake over there?” I called out to Lucy, who had her head buried in paperwork.

She had offered to stay and help me rearrange border patrols. Her organisation skills had been fantastic so far, proving to me she would make an excellent head of house, if she ever wanted the position. She had also been listening in to the most tedious conversation possible between Elan and me over allocations for pack funds to our infrastructure; even I had almost fallen asleep.

“I’m fine. I’ve had my espresso and all of this is helping take my mind off of things,” her knees bounced rapidly where she sat cross-legged, and not from the caffeine either.

“You know he can’t get to you now?” I looked up from my laptop screen. “And you’re free to have a warrior as a guard any time you want, day or night.”

“I know…” she chewed on her bottom lip, tracing a finger on an invisible pattern on the carpet. “It’s still hard to accept that the one person I should have felt safest with, has me looking over my shoulder.”

An arm gripping around my waist automatically took my attention. To work, I had slipped under the covers and sat with my back to the wall behind me, wanting to be as close to Evie’s bare skin as possible. A quiet, sleepy moan left her parted lips as her fingers bunched in my long-sleeved t-shirt. My palm ran the length of her arm, following its path up to her cheek.

“I should get going,” Lucy suddenly announced, pushing herself up from the floor.

She tried to force a smile, but it was strained and did nothing to hide the glisten in her eye. A pang of guilt rippled down my spine. In front of her, I had unintentionally rubbed the mate bond in her face, showing her the care she had been denied.

Just as she stood, the keypad on the lock rattled and the door opened to my naked brother, obviously having just shifted back.

Lucy squeaked once more, slapping her hands over her eyes. “I’m enforcing a pants rule with the two of you.”

For a tiny Omega she-wolf, she had no problem scolding us like children. She stumbled from the room, almost catching herself on the corner of the mattress if not for Asteenu quickly grasping her elbow. She mumbled a thank you, keeping her eyes closed.

“Have fun?” I cranked my laptop back open to get to work and sent one of the updated rotas via email to our father.

“I know exactly where he’s staying, for now at least,” he grabbed his pants where I had dumped them on the floor. “Need an address for those fingers after all.”

I groaned loudly, throwing my head back against the wall. I was beginning to wish I’d just regurgitated my stomach up.

‘I still think you should send them back steaming,’ Baniti hadn’t moved in his pride, even if the whole thing was an accident.

“How’s the beast?” I changed the subject. I could smell he had been to the stables on his return. He had that horse stink all over him.

“He’s fine. I ran the paddock with him for a few minutes,” Astennu headed straight for the bathroom. ‘And quit calling Heru a beast! I will fight you.’

Once he was showered and dressed, Astennu settled himself on the other side of Evie, choosing to work one-handed and rested his other hand on our mate’s bare hip.

With Evie’s files not stating anything we didn’t know already, I began an internet search for ‘lycans’. Aside from what was taught of werewolf history in school about lycans, which was a vague myth at best, knowledge on them was fairly basic. I certainly never thought I would have to know anything more detailed.

They were said to be a pack that had cut themselves off from the rest of the werewolf world centuries ago somewhere in Russia. And from my search, the Kamchatka peninsula was supposed to be the most likely location of their pack. They had supposedly begun reaching out to the outside world from their pack 40 years ago, and had vanished 10 years later. Those 10 years of contact were the only reason there was any whisper of them to begin with, and why they were considered a myth, a wolf that walked on two legs.

The fact that one was currently fast asleep, in her shift torpor, beside me, had upgraded the ‘myth’ to ‘very much real’. How the lycan pack had vanished and why Evie was here in Washington when her pack was a whole continent away, was starting to give me a headache figuring it out. So much so that Astennu gave it a break for now, saving what we had for when our mate woke up.

The one person we hadn’t expected to pay us a visit in the evening, was our mother. And neither was it to check on us. She had come, not only to ask how Evie was doing, but to extend an invitation to thanksgiving dinner that was fast approaching. Normally, our pack leaders and their families would celebrate together. Kate, for obvious reasons, would not be joining us this year and Tamlyn would be visiting family in Opal Sun. Whether it was a miracle or not, I was relieved that our mom was making some effort to let go of her past.

Night had drawn in quickly and between the two of us, Astennu and I had completed all our security updates and changes. We had put ourselves down for one of the new early morning patrol runs along the southern and eastern borders; lead by example, my brother had said. Tamlyn had agreed to watch Evie for us. Neither of us wanted her to wake up alone, which she may very well do tomorrow.

I took the gamble to look through the things Astennu had brought, hoping he had remembered my go-to distraction. Sure enough, he had grabbed one of my small sketch pads and

clean page. I could draw Evie from memory, but I had never gotten such a close-up study of her to sketch. It was a shame her eyes were closed. They were mine and Baniti’s

hand curled against her chin, a few strands of hair draped over her nose, her cheek slightly squashed and cushioned from the

I loved her. But unlike him, I had the good sense not to f*****g mind-link it to her. I knew she was falling for us, too, even if she hadn’t said the ‘L’ word yet. Maybe being a lycan, they felt the bond differently? Perhaps for them, it didn’t send them into an obsessed frenzy and their love was earned the harder way, with patience. Patience was

Evie

world’s worst hangover. Even my eyes throbbed when I tried to prise my lids apart to take in

crudely groaned. ‘Wait… did we get f****d sideways? Or was that

and think with your v****a again,’ I rolled my eyes

to walk the planet,’ Evva’s clear wolf image in my

peed? There’s a lot backed up in

hadn’t left me. I cracked open an eye, greeted by the soft light of my side lamp. The next sight that

catching flies,’

sweet goober behind me. He lay on his

another day in paradise

here I thought you would’ve missed them,’ I snorted at my

she grew defensive. ‘Sorry if it sounded

is all that comes

‘So, holding a giant

tickling his nose and jolting him awake. He groaned as his eyes fluttered open and a small sleepy smile spread across his lips before

grabbed onto me with fierce strength, pinning me

we are

and her v****a led mind

Badru jolted awake at the sudden commotion, his sketch pad thrown to

through his features. He didn’t say a

was I out?” I panted when I was finally

in, pressing a kiss to my lips, slower but just as sensual. “You feeling ok? You still look a little

boost I needed. Usually, it’s him sticking

seconds and already giving me s**t?” He pawed at my hips, trailing his nose

up for lost time,” I shook free of his hands. “We’ll get into it in a second. Right now, I really

a little shaky, but I managed to hold it together enough to stagger my way to the bathroom, despite the two of them insisting on trying to help me. They soon stopped when I slammed the door in their faces. I hadn’t reached that level of comfort with them yet. After relieving myself, I detangled my bird’s nest hair and released

The tingles felt a little stronger, their features

I was

going to figure

threw her paw up to the said door in exasperation. ‘I can

have Aste and Ru, ahbil,’ I was beginning to absorb the twins’ more colourful Arabic terms. ‘I meant that we don’t have anyone to

right. If this was the other way around, she’d be rubbing it in

holier-than-thou attitude?’ She sassed. ‘And get out of the shower

I opened the door only to be almost flattened by

leaning

no other options. Astennu quietly shook his head, laughing as he

really are

I drop and show you my belly, will you rub it?” His arm slipped around my waist,

around behind me, feeling for his ribs to pinch. He soon let me go with a jerk to his side.

a pair of pants at his twin’s head and leant down to lightly kiss me. A kiss so soft and fleeting it had me following after his lips when he

and my

French girls?” I grinned at Badru, my eyes flickering down to the

could be the Rose to

a deer caught

hands. “How have you done it this long?” I pleaded

patience,” he shrugged into his

of me, in front of me?” He pushed Astennu

picked up on that

began dragging my brush through my hair and rubbed in a little hair oil. “I didn’t imagine

sitting beside me and pulling me into his lap. He hadn’t even

pain imaginable and shifted into a lycan,” I tried and failed to get out of his lap, feeling his erection growing under my ass.

stick my mind elsewhere?” His tongue lapped at

back of his head and clench my thighs at the

pull me

found as a baby. Unfortunately, it’s just as your file states. I wanted

cut in, his mouth set in his trademark pouting tight