Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 74

Chapter 71 – Who Can Say No To Free Tea?

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JUST TO GIVE A WARNING: WHILE NOTHING IS DISCUSSED IN ANY GRAPHIC DETAIL, THERE MAY BE A SMALL PART OF THIS CHAPTER THAT SOME READERS COULD FIND TRIGGERING.

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Evgeniya

I was doing this for my mates.

These were the words that played on repeat as my personal mantra, even though I wanted to be a petty b***h and tell Luna Qamar to shove it, along with her tea.

‘Just don’t tell her to f**k off again and you’re golden,’ Evva sniggered, despite the fact she desperately wanted to.

‘As long as this tea thing isn’t a ruse to get me to reject the twins, I won’t.’

When Badru told me their mother wanted to spend time with me and ‘bond’, I almost thought he had been a nugget again and misunderstood sarcasm. That was until Astennu confirmed it and I plain wanted to believe he was just drunk. Both excuses sounded more plausible than their mother wanting to be pleasant towards me.

But, I needed to learn to bury hatchets and be amiable to those I didn’t want to. If I were to be the future Luna, there would be times I would have to plaster on a fake and cordial smile around those I would prefer to claw instead. I couldn’t risk a fight between packs, all because I couldn’t hold my tongue. And I could both see and feel what this discord with my mates’ parents was doing to Astennu and Badru. A home they grew up in now felt the furthest thing from it and, while it was inane of me to think so, I couldn’t help the pang of guilt that it was all down to me.

I wasn’t the only one doing things they didn’t want to. The twins had to lead training with their father this morning. Beta Kate was still on her leave of absence for her health. Being pregnant and dealing with the turmoil her son had left behind were taking a heavy toll on her. Leading any form of training was at the bottom of her long list of worries.

Letting go of the warmth of my mates’ hands was more difficult than I realised it was going to be. The security it provided ebbed away, giving rise to the unsettled feeling gnawing in the pit of my stomach. I had forgone breakfast this morning with the nervous stomach ache swirling around my lower abdomen.

“We’re good to meet tonight?” I upturned my eyes, meeting their midnight irises. “You don’t have any late-night patrols to do?”

“Not unless our dad’s still in a pissy mood,” Badru grumbled.

“He’ll come around,” Astennu’s brows creased in a furrowed frown. By his tone, it was evident he was hesitant to believe his own words of encouragement.

“Well,” I sucked in my lips and pressed them tightly together, set on what I wanted. “However it goes for all of us today, tonight… there’s something I want to give each of you.”

“A present?” Badru tilted his head like a pup, delightfully innocent. His twin, at least, was a little more clued in, his face morphing to an expression of raw want.

“Yeah, a present,” I shook my head, my shoulders shuddering with my held-in laughter. “One that will look very nice, right there,” I pointed to the curve of his neck where his nutmeg and cinnamon scent drew me.

Finally, with a more direct hint, the realisation dawned. He spun me around, clear off of my feet, causing my knitted dress to flare. His lips crashed to mine, sucking the breath from my lungs. Astennu quickly snatched me from his brother’s arms, kissing down my neck. His canines extended, the sharp point nicking my flesh.

“Aste!” I shrieked, pushing him back as hard as I could, though I wasn’t strong enough to escape completely. “Not here, you i***t!”

‘That would have been a fun explanation to hand to their mother,’ Evva almost wheezed. ‘Sorry we’re late. Told your baby boys we wanted to mark and they jumped our bones.’

“You can’t ever call me the impulsive one again, after that,” Badru elbowed his brother good-naturedly.

“Sorry,” Astennu flushed crimson, averting his embarrassed gaze to my hand and dusting my open palm with kisses. “Are you definitely sure?”

“I’m sure that I’m never telling either of you anything like this again when we’re outside… but yeah,” I nodded. “I’m more than sure.”

and I watched them disappear into the training centre,

to one of her favourite spots, a cafe called Amarin tearoom, meaning ‘Two Moons’ in Egyptian Arabic. We would be out

the Luna than talk to my father about my heat, it was not my way of telling fate to ‘come

worse ways,’ Evva piped up. ‘Like saying you’d rather

measure right before meeting my biggest fan,’ and all my wolf did was offer me a sarcastic salute. I

the

hung from the ceiling to look like little moons, giving the place a soft glow and an intimate atmosphere. The mixed scents of teas, cakes and cookies roused my stomach awake and I prayed it wouldn’t announce itself in front

waitress greeted me at the door, not needing my

picture of elegance, sat Luna Qamar. With a graceful leg crossed over her other, she was dressed in a ruby-red blouse with gold buttons and a fitted black

with a reserved smile, her hands bunched on her lap, making me wonder if she was as tense as I

cutting Evva off before she could make any comment. ‘I mean it. Go wave your

you agreed

desperately wanting to pop. But to my surprise, she

the back of my chair opposite. “Who can say no to free

I have

I snapped at my wolf, her snickering echoing in

quite,” the

record for me: inserting foot into mouth within ten

My thick black tights kept my outfit on the classier side rather than revealing. I had refrained from wearing my locket on purpose. While my mates

mean, I like tea and

I seriously considered nose-diving into the snow outside to escape. Evva’s silent observations of my blundering

admit, you always did prepare excellent tea without fail,” the Luna attempted to make eye contact, swiping her hand over an

hair and deep golden skin, right down to her full lips. Their sapphire eyes were entirely from Alpha Isaac; a long-standing family trait, it seemed, given the ancient portrait of their ancestor, Alpha Emmerich, that hung

accepted the compliment,

it, no matter how many times I show him. I caught him once making it in the microwave,” she shuddered. “Needless to say, he was banned from

laugh this time was genuine, imagining the large Alpha being torn a new one by his slip of a Luna. Qamar was no

the stairs, the same waitress from before, walking over to us with her

please, with

favourite and I

same,” Luna Qamar smiled graciously. “But with

the scones are still

dear. We’re in no hurry,” the Luna spared me a consoling look. “A few

the air between us, neither of us knowing how to

you hate

in mincing words or dancing around the subject.

straight to the point,” she

when you found out about me and your sons

And it wasn’t exactly unveiled privately… I didn’t handle the situation in the best way I

piano lessons? You might say you don’t hate me, but you certainly don’t like me. So why did you spend money on me

showed promise. Even I could see that much,” she answered simply but honestly. “And it’s an excellent attribute

for my lessons so that I could bag a mate?” In her eyes, it was probably so that I’d leave the pack, and quickly too. “Well, you weren’t wrong. Aste and Ru love my playing, but I take

took a deep breath to bite back my resentfulness wanting to

up in a pack like this,” the hurt seeped into my tone. “Being treated as a rogue, something I had