Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 76

Chapter 73 – Lucy?

Badru

The warriors that had done their best to keep up, pounded their way to us just as Astennu and I shifted. I hated to admit defeat, especially where my mate’s safety was concerned. But, on this occasion, we had lost… we had lost big time and I couldn’t feel any more like a failure as I did.

Nine wolves trotted up to us in total, solemnly awaiting instruction.

‘We’re being called back, so we need to leave this to you. Split up into two parties,’ I raised my head to each of them in turn. ‘And follow the roads as far as you can without putting yourselves in danger. Stop any vehicle you catch up to, no matter what.’

‘And on your way back, only one of you should drive the abandoned pack vehicle to return it,’ my brother added. ‘We need to preserve as much evidence as possible.’

Without another word, he turned and shot away in a streak of inky black. He was still blaming himself for this, as though any of us could have guessed someone was about to target our mate. We weren’t foresight wiccans that saw visions of the future. How were we to know? All he did was lead our training class on a run, and all our mate was doing was going on a simple meetup with our mother over tea, a mere minutes away from the main pack house… where was there any inherent danger?

‘We should have told her we loved her and not chickened out,’ Baniti whimpered, a myriad of regrets reeling through him.

‘I know… that mistake’s on me, not you…’

I had been wanting to say it from the moment I knew she was my mate, before that even. I should have said that night four years ago when we were alone in the events hall. And instead, I had been an asshole, pushing her defensive walls higher around her already heavily guarded heart. I wasn’t a fool. I knew the distance Astennu and I had started at with Evie was all down to me and my thoughtless actions. And still, after the hurt I had caused, she gave me a chance. Even when my stupid mouth reared its brainless head at the hot springs, she quietly seethed through her anger with me and patiently heard me out, waiting for my epiphany to drop that she had already worked out for herself.

With his head start, Astennu would have been a struggle to gain any ground on, but strangely enough, in just a few short minutes I was by his side. I noticed my own swiftness had lessened along with my twin’s, an unseeable force, so slight I could have almost missed it, tugging at my chest. It didn’t want me to leave our mate, but we had nothing more to go on except running aimlessly further from our pack. What we needed was to regroup and assess what had been discovered so far. Even I knew that much.

‘Do you think Konstantin went looking for Evie?’ I mind-linked as we zoomed past our borders.

As he hadn’t been joined to our pack yet, the limit of his mind-link would only go so far with us. Sadly, the only person he would be able to mind-link with at any distance was Evie, as they shared a deeper bond through blood.

‘What would he be following? Evie is unconscious,’ my brother’s voice faltered. ‘He was only able to track her before because he had a conscious bond he could follow. And wouldn’t he at least make sure a message got to us?’

the first wolf he came to and demanding they pass on a message, probably

could be why he

us thought anything of it. Evie had reached out to ask if her father wanted to join us over breakfast, despite her having no appetite. But she never received a reply and thought he

and kidnap a full-grown lycan male single-handedly?’ My brother yelled

made any sense. How had any part of this ploy been accomplished so perfectly without a single patrol being alerted? This was why we needed to regroup, to piece together all we knew so far instead of speculating an endless

the direction of Beta

to kneel before us. ‘We’re not leaving any

questions bubbling through our expressions, she answered before we could ask. ‘Go see your father. I think he’s still up there and he’ll tell

checked on Lucy?’

even though I had zero proof, yet. In no way did I want to believe Kate abetted her son, if he was the culprit. She had a hand in raising us. She was as close to an aunt for my

her door and when I checked her window, she was fast asleep in bed. Poor girl must have been exhausted and didn’t close her drapes,’ Kate’s eyes clouded in sorrow. ‘I didn’t

shift, and headed off to direct a small troop of trackers circling the pack house. We quickly

Go find dad and deal with whatever is going on up there,” I nodded to the

had reversed to an anxious and fidgety mess, pacing nonstop that

to Lucy’s door, pounding on the

on, open

No answer.

remember the number I had seen Evie punch in for the lock. My second attempt did the trick and, sure enough, in a tiny mound curled up, lay Lucy, a

her by the shoulders as

“Lucy! Come on!”

shaking her a little more roughly. She was alive and breathing, so how could she be

eyes clumsily blinking open. “Urgggh, the light,” she winced, burying her face in her

quickly shut her drapes to and took a knee by

need you to sober up