Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 77

Chapter 74 – How Did He Get Hold Of This?

Astennu

‘Make this quick. I don’t like being apart from our brother,’ Aasim paced, becoming increasingly uneasy.

Our two strongest bonds were those between our mate, who had been forcefully ripped from us, and our twin, our strongest that had existed since the womb. With one bond unresponsive, my wolf needed the reassurance that Badru was there, that he wouldn’t vanish either.

‘I don’t wanna be separate either, but we’re gonna have to adopt a divide and conquer approach,’ I huffed, having galloped up several flights of stairs.

Several pack members were leaving my destination, Konstanin’s room, a few of them carrying items in their hands. I hurried down the hallway, my bare feet thudding on the naked floorboards, finding my father overseeing the last two wolves about to leave. Nothing much was left of the door, except a few splinters strewn on the floor that had been missed on what looked like the first clean-up. The hinges were all that remained, fastened to the doorframe and with shards of the former door affixed to the screws. The temperature seemed several degrees lower too, as though a window had been left open for hours.

“How did he get hold of this?” My father never turned when I stepped into the room. Instead, he held a sheet of paper aloft once the wolves had walked out, leaving us alone.

I picked it from his grasp, my brows puckered in confusion that this would be his first question and what importance a piece of paper could be. My expression sobered as soon as I saw what was scrawled on the surface, my heart returning to pound in my ears in a cold shiver of dread.

It was a rough draft of a patrol schedule for the week. I had written it in pencil till I had been happy with it and then typed it out properly to send to my father… one that I had left in Evie’s room when her heat hit, because that’s all I or Badru were focused on. I hadn’t given it a thought, until now.

“When I sent a couple of warriors here after making sure your mother arrived at the hospital,” my father finally turned around, his jaw tight and his voice thin. A faint tinge of red rimmed his eyes. He had cried? I had never seen my father cry. “They had no reply and had to break the door down. The room was empty and the window wide open with items strewn on the bed. Trackers have been searching around the pack house, as far as they can, and not one of them can pick up his scent. So, I will ask again,” he snatched the paper back from my hand, crushing it in his fist. “How. Did that man. Get a hold. Of this?”

“I… we had it in Evie’s room before we went up to the lodge,” my throat began to run dry. “But nothing looked disturbed there when we came ba-”

“Why was it left there?” He interrupted my excuses and, suddenly, I felt like a pup in trouble. “Why didn’t you lock it away in your office? Why didn’t you destroy it?”

“We didn’t have time when we took Evie away and we were going to file everything properly after training toda-”

He sighed heavily and angrily, his nostrils flaring. “So, you’re telling me Konstantin had three days, unsupervised, where he could have gotten hold of any of our pack documents that you left casually lying about?”

“You think Konstantin did this? You think he kidnapped his own daughter?!” My voice rose. “He could have been taken too. Or he’s out there,” I gesticulated at the window, “trying to look for her-”

roared, his aura flaring in a

didn’t! He’s clearly being framed

exasperation, throwing his head

you explain the scent cover? Or whatever drug was

“Did you search him?”

answer that didn’t involve a no, because I hadn’t. Not that I

course you didn’t. You had that sufficient two minute conversation which was all you needed,” he took several deep breaths, closing his eyes. “You may be a grown man, but you still have so

black beard of his jaw. When he opened them, his eyes were softer but pensive, filled with a

member that has been bludgeoned, your mate is missing, and there’s not one trace of anyone breaking into

that the most obvious person appeared to have fallen from his head. “I’m positive he did this, to get

he isn’t even in

that can’t

a while and went to New York. I rang the hotel Kate told me he was at and they confirmed he checked

have planned

kidnap his daughter and flee

from the beginning or had he upped and decided he truly hated packs this much

was adamant, a tinge of unease in his tone. ‘He might not have trusted pack, but he trusted us. Dad

soon as they entered, too. In spite of

just say so. He’s like Evie, blunt and to the point,” all this subterfuge and underhandedness was not his style.

it’s a little hard to believe

“Supposedly,” I clarified.

“Son, we’ve done all we can here. We need to regroup and discuss everything we know. Tamlyn is still running her squads around the pack garage and the cafe. Aside from a few generic boot prints, there’s nothing more for her to go on. Your mother’s awake, so I’m going to her. Go check your mate’s room, see if anything

The idea of setting foot in her room, with her spiced vanilla scent drilling into my senses, pounded my heart in my ribcage. Every flash of memory of her stormy blue eyes or dark golden hair reminded me of my failures, my mistakes. That was where Evie existed

her back,’ my

I had fallen short as a mate and Alpha chiselled away at any optimism I may have had. And the alarm I was feeling from my twin was doing nothing to calm me. Lucy had to have been there, in her room. Because