Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 61

Chapter 61 – What Did They Do?

Evgeniya

“I do not think I could ever accept another, not after Heathe-”

“Dad?” I shook my father’s arm, confused as to why he had stopped, not only, mid-sentence, but mid-stride.

And growling, in a low rumbling timbre? What had he seen? He was frigid in his stance.

I followed his line of sight to the lakeshore… to my friend Lucy… who turned her head away from gazing out at the early morning mist upon the water’s surface to stare wide-eyed back at my father.

‘…Oh snap,’ Evva looked on in my mind, stunned even more so than I.

What strange universe had I slipped into? My father and my friend? My best friend of five years, with whom I shared everything, who was also a year younger than me? And just to confirm this bizarre turn of events, I heard my father mutter ‘mate’ under his breath and saw Lucy mouth the word in reply.

The moon goddess had to be shitting me…

‘She must have given him a thing for redheads too,’ my wolf nervously chuckled.

Now I thought about it, it was obvious. Both my mother and Lucy had gingery red hair, hazel eyes, and Lucy had always been an old soul and the ‘mom-friend’ of the group.

… I could practically hear all the step-mom jokes already.

And as if on cue; ‘looks like Lucy’s gonna be calling him daddy, too,’ Badru mind-linked.

‘So it begins…’ Evva slapped her paw down her face. And if there had ever been a time I wanted to slap that nugget, now would be that time.

‘I swear to goddess,’ I silently retched. ‘You ever say those words again and I will chokehold you.’

‘Is that a promise?’ He smirked down at me from the side, a genuine fire of excitement dancing within his pulsating sapphire eyes.

‘When that brain cell of his dings the horny switch, it dings it hard,’ Evva pinched her brow in exasperation.

Without warning, Lucy suddenly ran, bolting through the trees. The woollen tribal print wrap around her shoulders billowed behind her, fluttering to the ground and a faint choked sob rang out. My father’s figure twitched, wanting to give chase, but ultimately remained fixed in his spot, not knowing how to proceed. I was about to run after her, when his quiet voice stopped me.

“You… know her?”

“Yeah,” I winced. There was no easy way to say this other than to be direct. “Lucy Maddrell. She lives across the hall from me. And she’s been my best friend for a while… and she’s about my age…”

He gave a curt nod, swiftly avoiding my eye contact, and I could swear I spotted a hint of blush under his beard.

“I need to go after her,” I began moving forward. “She’s not had the easiest time recently. You’re both each other’s second chance mates. Her first wasn’t good to her… it ended in a rejection. Astennu and Badru will fill you in.”

just gonna leave us to deal with the awkward bomb

conquer and divide approach to the awkward bomb, and you seem to be forgetting I’d be

have my mates’ faces light up and their lips twitch in glee, the pair of them

body folded in on itself as violent sobs wracked her. I dropped in front of her, on

breaths. “…I’m not fine… I can’t do

up and stinging. I knew she wasn’t fine, I knew it had been a lie, but I didn’t know it was to this extent. And neither did I know what my father would do. He had shown nothing but devotion to my mother’s memory, his mate… would he truly be able to let go of that loss, after holding onto it for

screaming into the air. Her eyes a deep red. “…What

of my shoulder jolted me in startlement. He held out the woollen wrap Lucy

broken souls need each

stared up into his eyes, her sniffles beginning to calm. She clutched her hands to her chest and slowly reached out to grasp the fabric offered to her. Their fingers must have brushed as they

whether I should leave or standby for emotional support

but I can taste the awkward,’ Evva muttered flatly. ‘Maybe just

Lucy nodded

as my wolf suggested, I backed away, albeit in a more

I strode straight past Astennu and Badru. “They’re together right

up and I could feel the questions

it! I will mentally deal with the fact that my father and

is calling him daddy, then?”

say?!” I leapt onto his back, slapping my hand over his

thighs to

have the power to ground you now?” Astennu slapped my rear, making

arms around him. “The next

both fell silent, instantly. “Yeah, that’s what

Astennu

was choosing of his own free will to go to the stables with Evie. Not that he would be going anywhere

it’s mate asking,’ Aasim huffled. ‘Like it or not, we’re replaced

would have much preferred to go too. However, there was

later. I need to speak to mom about Thanksgiving,” I glanced towards the door to our wing and settled

even having one

to find. Because I

don’t want to see anyone excluded,” all that would do was further sow discord. “But given that the last time our fathers were

and brawls are what Thanksgiving is all

our fathers, it’s likely to end in the morgue, not the

I beseeched my brother. ‘Don’t start things up with Evie. This is gonna

try, but I make no

didn’t feel very much like home. It felt like hard work, as

behind me, not out of anger, but to announce my presence. I heard the rustling and quiet giggles from the living room. I didn’t need the visuals of my parents canoodling on the

flushed, her hair in slight disarray which she tried to smooth down into her polished form. I could see the

not to notice anything amiss. “I’m

another half hour,’ my dad

course my habibi (darling),” if my mother noticed my