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 that went off?’ Astennu

bomb, and you seem to be forgetting I’d

the pair of them becoming sidetracked so readily. It appeared they shared that horny switch, and my father was too distracted to reprimand

with her face buried in her hands, her body folded in on itself as violent sobs wracked her. I dropped in front of her, on my knees, peeling her hands away. I thought I had seen her broken before… but

she wept. Each word was laboured and fought through her sobs and heaving breaths. “…I’m not fine… I can’t do this again… be rejected… I feel like I’m

to say or do except hold her close, my eyes welling 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

screaming into the air. Her eyes a deep

hand sliding across the back of my shoulder jolted me in startlement. He held out

she thinks two broken souls

out to grasp the fabric offered to her. Their fingers must have brushed as they

side, unsure whether I should leave or standby for emotional support for one of them…

don’t know, but I can taste the awkward,’ Evva muttered flatly. ‘Maybe

and talk,’ Lucy nodded to me with a teary

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

wanna discuss,” I strode straight past Astennu and Badru. “They’re together right now, and we’ll leave it at

the questions swimming

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

calling him daddy, then?”

leapt onto his back, slapping my hand

grabbing my thighs to keep me in place

this mean she’ll have the power to ground you now?” Astennu slapped my rear, making me squeak at the

around him. “The next one of you who makes a step-mom joke is on

fell silent, instantly. “Yeah,

Astennu

and, for once, he was choosing of his own free will to go to the stables with Evie. Not that

‘Like it or not, we’re replaced as his

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

door to our wing

one now,”

needed to find. Because I

want to see anyone excluded,” all that would do was further sow discord. “But given that the last time our fathers were around each other and it almost

what Thanksgiving is

it’s likely to end in the morgue,

for the love of goddess,’ I beseeched my brother. ‘Don’t start things up with Evie. This

but I

felt like home and, no matter what, I had always loved coming back to it. But now? It didn’t feel very much like home. It felt like hard work, as though I was constantly about to set foot in

but to announce my presence. I heard the rustling and quiet giggles from the living room.

polished form. I could see the irked look on my father’s face that he had had whatever he

pretending not to notice anything

with another half hour,’ my dad frowned, confirming what

my habibi (darling),” if my mother