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?”

you’re safe. I’ll talk to

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

wanna shift and stick your head out the window?’ Astennu suddenly nudged my side, jolting

here,’

go for broke,’ he half-smiled, which slipped away the instant he returned to

Baniti. Aside from my brother and Evie, he was the only

my brother’s favourite person in the whole world,” I didn’t see why I had to be the only one dealing with their personal pain in

who I meant. And he said

this interesting, ay Astennu?” The devil spawn smirked

driver’s seat. “You know, he’s gonna be my head warrior when I take

rayiea (f*****g fantastic),” my brother

come help because his mate also went into heat, three days ago. So, I doubt his priorities are anywhere else,” Thiago paused in thought. “Whatcha got beef with

reason,” my brother

swept onto Catalina’s lips as she sneakily side-eyed her brother. f**k, she knew and she was mind-linking

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

across my chest and settling against it. My eyelids slowly fell heavy with the rhythmic hum of the engine and steady music playing from the radio. Maybe I could catch

my face, the most perfect pillows to exist. My eyes fluttered open to ample and full breasts cushioning my cheek, rising and

My Evie.

She was back.

It was all

way her long dark golden hair spilt onto her pillow. The double marks on her slender neck shone a silvery pink on either side, as pretty as I had dreamed. Funny

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

my wrist, turning the soft underside to her teeth. My heart rate rose with excitement as she licked the pulse point of my wrist, nicking the flesh with

straddling my waist to pin me

of her wonderful lips, telling me I was about to pay for something. What? I hadn’t a clue. But if it meant I was reprimanded

said, her lips wrapping

that rang through those pouty red rubies wasn’t

“Badru!”…

there,” Astennu jostled me to

startle, the balled-up fabric my head rested on slapping me in the face

head shot around, trying to make sense of where I was and why Evie

reality, coldly, set back in.

I have

out with your coat?” Catalina arched a questioning brow

a quiet curse, not sparing her

of her too, that I was about to mark her. I

just a day without her. What would longer be

little loudly, shifting the focus away from my mortification that Catalina kindly pointed

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 hedges, tall gates and clean painted walls, hardly the regular environment you’d expect to find

climb,” Thiago shook the gates. “I doubt

well within our rights as the nearest representatives of a pack and as Finley’s former Alphas to enter the premises to investigate. The human inhabitants would know they couldn’t stop us. It didn’t mean they were about to let us

exclaimed indignantly.

For the

her nose and in two strides up the footholds of the gate, he leapt over

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

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 and dropped to the snowy ground with ease. Catalina turned, threw

like a bratty 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

I climbed up after the Rivera siblings. ‘I’ll admit

like her though,’ Baniti groused my own unspoken

to me, striding off ahead to lead the way. ‘If you

that last

had, it didn’t lack for size. I followed behind my brother, up the outer staircase to the second floor and along the balcony walkway

think we should split up,” Catalina looked

you know, do all the real work,” she jibbed in a tone I recognised as sarcasm. “And we’ll go have