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?’

Konstantin grabbing the first wolf he came to and demanding they pass on a message, probably calling us volchata (little wolves)

why he

if her father wanted to join

right mind would try and kidnap a full-grown lycan male single-handedly?’ My brother yelled in

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 array

the outside under the direction of Beta Kate. She looked exhausted, faint shadows lining under

wolf heads, dipping to kneel before us. ‘We’re not leaving any stone unturned… but I need to warn you, it’s not looking

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

checked on Lucy?’ I asked

proof, yet. In no way did I want to believe Kate abetted her son, if he was the culprit. She had

in bed. Poor girl must have been exhausted and didn’t close her drapes,’ Kate’s eyes clouded in sorrow. ‘I didn’t have

could shift, and headed off to direct a small troop of trackers circling the pack house. We quickly raced up the small flight of stairs leading up to the pack house’s

deal with whatever is going on up there,” I nodded to the main

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

all the way to Lucy’s door, pounding on the

on, open

No answer.

did the trick and, sure enough, in a tiny mound curled up, lay Lucy, a tuft of pale red

by

“Lucy! Come on!”

little more roughly. She was alive and breathing, so how could she be this

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

quickly shut her drapes to and took

kinda need you to sober up and