Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 81

Chapter 78 – What Are We Missing?

2 months later

Astennu

“Let me get this straight, pup,” the irate Alaskan Alpha of Tundra River pack snarled down the phone line to me. “You think I have something to do with your mate being taken?!”

How he had the audacity to address me as ‘pup’ was ludicrous. The man was barely two years older than me or Badru. Konstantin said his former mate’s pack wouldn’t be an issue, that they wouldn’t care about him or Evie. But what if he was wrong? So, with some effort, we had tracked a phone number for the pack via their neighbour to their north, White Cloud pack. The Alpha to White Cloud had surprised me by being both helpful and polite. It aided in our favour that he hadn’t much respect for the new Alpha of Tundra River.

“Alpha Dominic, I’m simply crossing off as many suspects as possible,” I did my best to keep my voice level and not escalate the phone call to a screaming match or trigger a war. “But your pack killed our mate’s mother. Why wouldn’t we suspect you?”

“That wolf was a deserter, she had it coming,” he sneered. “And why the f**k would I care about some she-wolf from 20 years ago that I’ve never met? Lycan or not, I don’t give a s**t. A willful she-wolf is of no interest to me.”

His end of the phone was slammed down with such force, the receiver shuddered on my end. I swallowed my roar of rage, clinging to my urge to hurl the phone set across the study.

“You did better than I would have,” my brother bounced his knee, going over a clip of CCTV footage for the umpteenth time in the unlikely chance we had missed something on the thousandth viewing. “If that had been me, it would have ended in an Alpha challenge.”

‘An alpha challenge sounds good to me,’ Aasim prowled in the back of my mind.

‘Sit your ego down, wolf,’ I warned him before he got any more bright ideas.

“Why don’t you save that Alpha challenge for Catalina?” I took a few deep breaths to cool my jets.

“Goddess, I wish I could throw her out without looking like a douche,” he grumbled, clenching and unclenching his fists on either side of his laptop.

Her brother, Thiago, had left a while back. As heir to his pack, he had responsibilities of his own on his shoulders. He didn’t need our s**t on top to deal with. Much to the joy of my brother, Catalina hadn’t left with him. She stayed by Lucy’s side most of the time, assuring that she felt safe, and why Badru couldn’t throw her out and not look like the biggest asshole on the planet. No matter how much he wanted to. Personally, I preferred her here. We were spread thin enough as it was and Catalina’s presence meant Lucy’s safety was one we didn’t need to worry about. Anything that lessened my worry, and my guilt, was a rare positive.

A tightness gripped Badru’s voice that he was

“Where else?”

hissed under his breath, slamming his laptop closed with a crunch. “I wish

tiny items made all of this too real, too sickeningly real. For two months, Badru and I had felt the tiny life growing. We didn’t know whether they were a boy or a girl, or which of us fathered them and neither did

because we were getting exactly what she had always wanted us to have; a family. Ever since we had told her, she had become obsessed with buying things for the pup… our pup, to distract herself from the reality of what

if we found them

threw herself into false optimism that we would find

in words, but I could tell how he spoke. He didn’t think Evie was coming back; a fear that was internally screaming louder and louder in my head. And while he said he wouldn’t paint Konstantin as the culprit, he did. The more that time went by with us finding no answers and no leads other than what was

parents, Kate and Lance, and found nothing; a word I was becoming infuriatingly used to hearing. The guy had a mate and a job that he was neglecting, for us. After a month, he had to stop, otherwise, he would unintentionally draw attention to himself. For a

to visit. This was mainly

Badru

went to Finley’s place.

station someone by his apartment, but our dad wouldn’t allow it and wouldn’t even entertain the notion. He said it was too dangerous to leave a small number of our pack so far outside of our borders with no close back up.

that Finley was meant to have stayed at, The Moon’s Courtyard, emailed me their security footage and part of me wished I had never asked. It showed him clearly checking in and then checking out, right there on my screen. I still couldn’t believe it, neither could Badru, and it played on our

all of

Badru

roared, slamming my clenched fists to my

a dead end, we trained. My brother and I needed our fists strong for when we found our mate. We no longer presided over any training classes, neither of us had the patience for it and it wasted our time. The final slice to my frayed strand of restraint came from the rumours, the little whispers from a few pack members. I expected the ones about Konstantin. They had started the day Evie went missing. The one that tipped me over the edge, was the one I overheard three warriors a few years older than myself whispering over: that Evie had run from us, that she had done what rogues did best, played

be obsessed,” I looked up at my brother as he spun the little tealight candle in its