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?”

gave Catalina a warning glare, “I’m pretty sure you’re safe. I’ll talk

Thiago 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.

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

here,’ I

can drive. You and Thiago can go for broke,’ he half-smiled, which slipped away the instant he returned to staring

from my brother and

world,” I didn’t see why I had to be the only one dealing with their personal pain in

knowing exactly who I meant. And he

made this interesting, ay Astennu?” The devil spawn smirked at him through

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

rayiea (f*****g fantastic),”

was Arabic for ‘can’t wait’. But if you must know, he couldn’t come help because his mate also went into heat, three days ago. So, I doubt his priorities are anywhere else,” Thiago paused

my

side-eyed her brother. f**k,

on caffeine but why don’t you try and catch some

engine and steady music playing from the radio. Maybe I could catch a few minutes, but without my nour el-ain’s supple skin

face, the most perfect pillows to exist. My eyes fluttered open

My Evie.

She was back.

was all a

the 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 though, I didn’t remember putting

billowing the sheer white drapes and dancing pale shadows over my mate’s naked body. The birds chirped, the green leaves

She gripped my wrist, turning the soft underside to her teeth. My heart rate rose with excitement as she

straddling my waist to pin me beneath her. I was always her willing captive, eager for more of her fire and sharp

I hadn’t a clue. But if it meant I was reprimanded by my nour el-ain,

She said, her lips

through those pouty red rubies wasn’t

“Badru!”…

up, we’re there,” Astennu jostled me to

startle, the balled-up fabric my head rested on

around, trying to make sense of where

whimpered as reality, coldly, set back in. ‘And a cruel one

though I have any

making out with your coat?” Catalina arched a questioning

khara (shut up),” I muttered a quiet curse, not sparing her

me a sympathetic glance. ‘I dreamt of her too, that I was about to mark her. I woke just as

just a day without

up?” I said a little

quiet Seattle suburbs. Many of the homes in the area held the same air of affluence; high manicured hedges, tall gates and

the only way in is to climb,” Thiago shook the gates. “I

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

Catalina exclaimed indignantly. “I’ll ruin my

eyes. For

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

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

hand on 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 and dropped to

little sister hopping about to brush the dirt off of her feet. ‘But

Rivera siblings. ‘I’ll admit devil spawn is more

still don’t like her though,’ Baniti

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

last bit sounded

floors the apartment building had, it didn’t lack for size. I followed behind my brother, up the outer staircase to the

think we should split up,” Catalina looked down the

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