Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 80

Chapter 77 – You Feel It Too?

Badru

Me and my big mouth.

Since my group of potential witnesses was the smallest compared to my father’s and Astennu’s, I blasted through fairly quickly. Not wanting to sit still, I stopped by the hospital a short drive away to see my mother. Sitting still led to thinking, thinking led to a pair of smouldering stormy blue eyes, and those eyes led to my pit of despair. So, like my brother, I kept moving.

By a stroke of good fortune, Kate was sitting with my mother while my father continued his work. Away from her Luna, I had asked the Beta, in no uncertain terms, to either give me Finley’s key to raid his place, or we would break his damn door down. I may have been a little forceful in my request, but whatever. I didn’t have the luxury of civility given my situation.

And while I was in the hospital, I thought it was only right to let Lucy know what Astennu and I were up to. As the words ‘we’re breaking into Finley’s place’ escaped my mouth, Catalina slammed open the door shouting road trip and that she was coming too. Damn an Alpha she-wolf’s ability to hold their aura longer than a wolf male. With the added benefit of being able to hold their scent in short bursts, to top it off; a natural defence mechanism among incredibly strong she-wolves that males didn’t possess. I would have thought my own Gamma would have had my back.

Wrong again.

Tamlyn had magnanimously taken over to sit with Lucy, not an ounce of remorse on her face. Had I wronged her in a past life?

“Walking faster doesn’t mean I’ll quit,” a shrill voice followed after me, grating on my last nerve and making me wish the ground would spontaneously swallow her up.

Catalina was quick on my heels as I left the small conference room Astennu had been working in, reminding me to never voice my intentions out loud again and to stick to mind-linking for all future conversations when she was around.

“Don’t you dare ignore me Rolfe clone. I will shift and run after your car. Evie is my friend. I’m doing whatever I can to bring her back, just like you,” a harsh thud collided between my shoulder blades.

I stopped, dead, whirling around to see a silver sparkly flat on the carpet behind me.

“Did you just throw a shoe at me?” I picked it up, riled, waving it in her face.

“Calm down,” she snatched it from my hand and hopped on one foot to put it back on. The urge to be a five year old and push her over was strong indeed. “It’s a ballet flat, not a stiletto.”

“Word to the wise, never ever throw a shoe at an Egyptian. That’s how street fights start.”

“Why?” She rushed to catch up with me as I strode away. “It’s just a shoe.”

“In Egyptian culture, it’s a huge insult. The shoe is considered dirty, so it’s like you’re literally flinging shit.”

“So what does it mean if I hit you over the head with my ballet flat?”

I didn’t need to look at her to know she was smirking.

‘You should have pushed her over,’ Baniti grumbled, disliking the she-wolf so near. ‘That was your escape.’

Pressing the button on my fob for our private garage attached to the Alpha wing, I leaned against my twin’s Jeep, waiting for him and Thiago to catch up. A vibration rattled against the metal door from my back pocket pressed to its surface. Elan’s name flashed on the screen along with his picture, one Astennu and I had taken at his wedding which was on the blurry end of my memory of the night.

“Hey,” I answered on the second ring, trying to turn away from Catalina so she couldn’t listen in.

“Hey,” he replied in a declining tone that signalled disappointment. “Well, a bunch of volunteers from the Family and the Yakama Nation stopped as many cars as we could, but, nothing. They could well have passed through our land before we organised ourselves. My Elder and the tribal council pass on their apologies.”

“Don’t worry about it, Elan,” I sighed, dejected. “It was a long shot anyway, but thanks for all you did. Your people put themselves in harm’s way for us.”

“You two doing ok?” He said after a few seconds of silence. “Stupid question, I know.”

Astennu, on the surface, looked focused and in control. Within, was a whole different story. He was a mess of guilt and denial. My mess was a little more obvious, transcending to the outside. My tension was at its cusp, teetering and threatening to fall and with Catalina around, I was fit for exploding. I’d rather muck out Heru’s stable with the beast in it, than be locked in a confined space with her.

“We’re functioning, is about the best way I can put it. I’d function better if certain people would f**k off!” I snarled in Catalina’s direction as she tried to listen in.

“Is that code for you wanting me to go?” Elan chuckled, unsure.

“No, not you,” I pressed the phone back to my ear. “The pest I’ve been saddled with.”

“If you don’t mind, I’m trying to hear if he’s hot,” said pest folded her arms, giving me far too much attitude.

“He’s married, so wave your lady parts elsewhere!”

“Do I need to tell my Hazel I have a she-wolf after me?”

sure you’re safe. I’ll talk to you later,” and

and Astennu finally caught up. Insisting he drove, Thiago got behind the wheel, programming his GPS on his phone, and Catalina called shotgun, leaving my twin and me with the back seat to ourselves. The trees and landscape blurred past as I

out the window?’ Astennu suddenly nudged my side, jolting

She’s here,’

which slipped away the instant he returned to staring

of a dope as Baniti. Aside from my brother and Evie, he was the only other that saw that particular side of

car is my brother’s favourite person in the whole world,” I didn’t see why I had to be the only one

knowing exactly who I meant.

ay Astennu?” The

chuckled from the driver’s seat. “You know, he’s gonna be my head warrior when I take over from my father, so play nice. You’ll be seeing a whole

fantastic),”

‘can’t wait’. But if you must know, he couldn’t come help because his mate also went into heat, three days

my brother

she sneakily side-eyed her brother. f**k, she

caffeine but why don’t you try and catch some sleep? You’re no good to your Luna’s search

the rhythmic hum of the engine and steady music playing from

soft yet firm encapsulated my face, the most perfect pillows to exist. My eyes fluttered open to ample and full

My Evie.

She was back.

was all a

my time to admire her timeless beauty and the way her long dark golden hair spilt onto her pillow. The double marks on her slender neck shone a silvery

a warm breeze billowing the sheer white drapes and dancing pale shadows over my mate’s naked body. The birds chirped, the green leaves rustled and the gentle sound of the water lapped against

My fingers slid along her neck, cupping her jaw as my thumb traced over the plumpness of her cherry lips. She gripped my wrist, turning the soft underside to her teeth. My heart rate rose with excitement as she licked the pulse point of my wrist,

down on top of her, she flipped our positions, straddling my waist to pin me beneath her.

I was about to pay for something. What? I hadn’t a

She said, her lips wrapping around my

the voice that rang through those pouty red

“Badru!”…

there,” Astennu jostled me to

a startle, the balled-up fabric my head

shot around, trying to make sense of where

as reality, coldly, set back

I have any

finished making out with your coat?”

a quiet curse, not sparing her a

sympathetic glance. ‘I dreamt of her too, that I was about to mark her. I

was just a day without her. What would longer be

up?” I said a little loudly, shifting the focus away from my mortification

slipping my arms through the sleeves, and hooked my thumbs in the pockets as I took in the gated apartment building nestled in the quiet Seattle suburbs. Many of the homes in the area held the same air of affluence; high manicured

the only way in is to climb,” Thiago shook the gates. “I doubt these humans are gonna

Finley’s former Alphas to enter the premises to investigate. The human inhabitants would know they couldn’t stop us. It didn’t mean

indignantly. “I’ll ruin

my eyes. For the love

function over fashion, idiota (i***t),” Thiago flicked her nose and in two strides up the footholds of the gate,

over ruining your footwear, then stay out here and keep out of the way while we do the real work and find what this fucker did with our mate and her father,” I snapped, a growl from my last nerve shattering and edging my words. “I’m sure there’s a coffee house around here somewhere that’s more

the gate to climb, she shoved me away hard in the chest, threw her shoes over and was shimming up the wrought iron frame. At the top, she swept her legs over

spoiled princess and she is a bratty spoiled princess,’ Thiago mind-linked me through the gates, smirking at his little sister hopping about to brush the dirt off of

the Rivera siblings. ‘I’ll admit devil spawn

though,’ Baniti

to me, striding off ahead to lead the way. ‘If you want, you can break a few

that last bit

I followed behind my brother, up the outer staircase to the second floor and along the balcony walkway to the

split up,” Catalina looked down the line of

in a tone I recognised as sarcasm. “And we’ll go have coffee with the