Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 82

AMTM Chapter 79 – Was It You?

Astennu

“How are we gonna handle this?” I yanked a chair up to my brother’s desk.

Badru was on it in a second, tugging his laptop open and cursing, violently, in a string of Arabic that would make our mother blush.

“You say that around mom and she’ll wash your mouth out with soap,” I raised a brow as he threw his obviously smashed laptop to the side and fumbled through his drawer for his tablet.

He looked at me with the most unimpressed expression, pausing his search. “Well, it’s a good job she’s out shopping for damn baby clothes instead.”

With lightning speed and laser focus that he always had when he reacted to a situation, he laid the tablet flat across the split in the wooden surface of his desk and began flicking through a programme.

“It’s Janet’s last day in work right now before she’s off for two days,” his eyes scanned over the screen, looking over the rota and navigating through to something else. “She’s widowed with a grown daughter, who lives in another pack. With any luck, no one’s gonna suspect she’s missing until she’s meant to be back in work.”

“When you say ‘no one is gonna suspect she’s missing,’ just how exactly were you expecting to handle this?”

I knew my brother was impulsive, so I was slightly concerned by how he phrased it. We needed to investigate, not blow this out of proportion. All we had was a simple inclination and no evidence.

“That it gives us two days to question her somewhere and get a confession,” he looked up from his screen, truly confused. “What did you think I meant?”

“I thought you were planning something that involved hiding a body.”

“Goddess, no! Well, actually…” he paused in thought. “We will need somewhere to hide her and we need to figure out how to approach her. If she’s guilty and sees us coming, she could mind-link someone and we could lose potential evidence.”

“We could knock her out with the tranq darts from the weapon store and take her to the cells afterwards?” I suggested a rather extreme solution but, presently, it was the only one that would work.

Silver wasn’t just a metal that inhibited our healing and scorched our skin, a thin and intact barrier of it contained a wolf’s mind-linking ability. A wolf could mind-link within the confines of the silver barrier, but not across it. It was why our prison cells were lined with the metal and, during a wolf duel in matters of pride and title, a circle of silver was painted on the ground that opponents had to fight within to prevent cheating from outside the ring.

“If we’re wrong about this…” a sick feeling began to form in the pit of my stomach.

I had made so many mistakes already. I may as well have handed my own mate to the kidnapper personally and guilt ate me alive a little more each day.

“I don’t wanna start congratulations early, but I’m not so sure we are… and it’s all because of you. You were right, about all this, and if you hadn’t said anything, we would still be chasing our tails.”

“Stop, you’re gonna make me blush,” I tried to laugh him off, but my face fell a split second later.

I knew what he was trying to do, make it out that I had saved the day by having some breakthrough. How could I be any saviour when I had directly contributed to the disaster?

“We’re not gonna be able to do this alone,” Badru shut off his tablet, sliding it back into his drawer. “We need someone to guard her that won’t tell a soul other than us if Janet says something while we’re not there.”

“Just us? You don’t wanna tell dad any of this?”

“Hell no,” he shook his head as though the notion was ridiculous. “He’ll just say we’re wasting our time. No way will he believe a long-serving pack member being responsible for this over a rogue, especially not after the failures we’ve had. I want the full proof to slap in front of him, myself.”

“You gonna point and say ‘ha’ in his face, too?”

“Maybe. I haven’t decided yet. I don’t wanna be too smug.”

“What about Suzanna? She knows the pack cells like the back of her hand,” I rose to my feet along with my brother. “Tamlyn would have been the best choice, but she’s too high profile to go MIA for 48 hours.”

mind-link her

brisk midday breeze.

you’re doing this alone!’ He glared, resisting the urge to shove me. ‘Besides, the objective here is to be discreet and

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our small weapon store that I leant against, seeing our Gamma saunter towards us with her arm resting

wouldn’t invite me along anyway. And third, you

her from coming along,” Suzanna lowered her mate’s cane before she

to leave her shift in an hour,” Badru held up the single-handed dart gun. “And we take her

hold of the weapon, checking the chamber and sights. “And here I

bloodshed, and quickly. The wolfsbane repressed their wolf and cut the individual’s ability to mind-link. The sedative knocked them out

and

near the small window where I had conducted my witness interviews, waiting for Suzanna to lure our unsuspecting target.

away from

if she played a part. If she’s innocent, what

aura to temporarily neutralise it, camouflaging my presence for Suzanna’s ruse to work. Peering through the gap in the blinds, I watched as she ushered Janet inside, her coat over her hands casually, hiding the dart gun. My brother was poised at the driver’s wheel ready for when I jumped

a dart was fired straight at her neck. I prised the window up to leap in as Suzanna grabbed hold of her, clamping a hand around her mouth to stifle her shout of pain at the dart lodging itself deep and releasing the wolfsbane mix. Janet’s struggling slowly let up, her body finally going slack.

us.

the Jeep’s speed as balanced as he could between

don’t think so,” Suzanna replied. “There weren’t many around. I told

Tamlyn cooed from the front seat. “I know it’s fake, but

you with anything,” Suzanna grouched. “You smell it coming a mile off. How the

that sentence,” I interjected, somewhat embarrassed to

pregnancy body for Badru and me

Alpha. The facility had been rebuilt a little over five years ago from its outdated former structure, consolidated

our borders and held here to determine their level of threat, our prison was underused, meaning it was staffed to reflect that. A bonus

with a headstrong she-wolf. As quickly and quietly as we could, I led the way to an isolated cell. Each was as basic as possible, containing

adrenaline from my pocket. Normally, we would allow the sedative to wear off on its own. We didn’t have time for that on this occasion. She would come around quickly,

in pain. A small whimper echoed as she rubbed her neck; the site where the dart had hit. Janet’s eyes blinked, chasing away the fog that clouded her vision and her hand swept over her dark hair that lay in disarray. Her face

do with our mate’s disappearance?” My brother was first to begin, doing well to hold back the growl I could feel him wanting

her throat bobbed.

water? What about our mother and mate’s tea, was that you?” I

on the bed to press against the wall, like a cornered animal, sealing her lips and focusing on a spot of

her and, still, she looked away, flinching. “Was it because Evie reported you for stealing petty cash? Or because she stood up to

Did he pay you to do this?” I received no reply, just silence. “Was it

someone threaten your daughter?” Tamlyn spoke up from

nerve that was

opened her mouth to say more, only to snap it shut without another

threatening her? No, they do, in fact, give a s**t?” My brother’s jaw

I slammed my hand to the wall behind her head, looking her dead in the eye at her continued silence. My aura flared, out of my

quick on my heels and Suzanna and Tamlyn close behind. I slammed the cell door closed with a reverberating shudder, the concrete shaking loose dust at the force, and snapped up the viewing port in a

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