Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 83

Chapter 80 – Payments?

Badru

“Weird, how?” Astennu asked in sceptical intrigue.

“Ok, so, I went over your pack financials for the last decade, twice, with a fine tooth comb, and it doesn’t add up. Ru, I know you thought you had made a mistake, but you didn’t,” Elan asserted. “You have some pretty huge discrepancies.”

“Are you saying someone is stealing huge sums of money from our pack?” Alarm bells were ringing in my ears.

“No, the opposite.”

My brother and I gave each other a curious glance as the phone hung, face up, between us.

“You don’t have money missing,” Elan continued. “You have more coming in than you should, meaning undisclosed income. It dates back roughly a decade. There’s no sign of any unknown sums further back than that.”

“How big are the sums?” I started, my twin finishing my sentence.

“Is it something that could have been overlooked?”

We had only recently become involved in our pack’s finances in the last several months as part of the introduction and training into our duties. One of the first points we wanted to address was improvements to our pack’s infrastructure, like the farms that Astennu had taken Evie to. It was exactly why we had asked Elan to be our Delta, delegated to the task of developing a new budget with us.

“These sums run into tens of thousands, some are a few hundred thousand. That’s a hell of an overlook. All your pack money comes from businesses within your territory and some ventures from outside with your allies. All fine,” our Delta explained, the sound of paper rustling in the background as he spoke. “Then there’s these undisclosed payments that I’ve found come with a falsified invoice. Each comes with a different vendor name, but when I looked into them, they’re fake. Which means, someone didn’t want the true origins known. These false invoices weren’t included in that first batch of files you sent, but a couple have been included or slipped through on the ones I’ve been looking at for the last few months.”

“What does that mean? What’s the point of a false invoice?” I gave another rapid glance around the stables to make sure we were still alone.

“In the human world, it’s a cover for money laundering. But you wolves operate on your own laws, not theirs. So I don’t know why the payment origin would need to be secret. As I said, this dated back roughly a decade. Do you have any idea if something happened in your pack back then?”

The two of us shook our heads, racking our brains for a possible answer. We would have been around 15 years old at the time and nothing rang any bells. There were no events of note around that time, we had nothing going on in our pack worthy of any note.

“Aside from Ru and me being squeaky-sounding teens as our voices broke and awkwardly tall with no muscles, that’s all I remember from 10 years ago. These payments, do they come on any specific dates?”

never on a recurring or specific date. There’s a gap I’m looking at,” the sound of paper flicked, no doubt from Elan straightening his files. “Where a payment wasn’t made for nearly two years and then the following year, there’s three. I’m not a member of your pack so I haven’t got a clue what happened on or around these dates that might help explain it. The payments

made and email it to

a ping from my phone. “I sent it to

phone from my back pocket, opening the email to

accounts and business dealings. But I can’t see any of this being due to some oversight or ignorance,” Elan suggested. “Either, someone didn’t care to look into these payments’ origins or they didn’t want anyone

hung up, leaving a loaded silence behind with my brother and

you hadn’t made a mistake, Ru,” Astennu’s tight voice cut through our

to look into

our pregnant mate no closer to

“What if they’re linked?”

does this…” I waved my phone in the air in front of my brother’s face, my overwrought state

collateral,” he ignored my outburst, keeping his cool facade that betrayed the inner

something,” my arms dropped to my side, along with my stomach, as a grisly realisation took hold. “But

close to us had betrayed us in

others, as leaders of our pack, that conducted business on its

part of his training, well after the payments had started. And he had f****d all his access away with his exile. But Kate? Had she been conducting shady business behind my

came along to question Janet? To make sure her

father? Was that why he wanted Elan away from our books, and the ‘outsider’ thing was bullshit? He had his issues with rogues, but could he physically

his rogue mate and was forced to give up his title, home and pack to be with her four years ago. But why would he continue to make our pack money, even questionably sourced, and how would he even have access? He hadn’t parted from our pack on good terms in the slightest and he hadn’t taken any of our calls, slamming the

sick,’ Baniti groaned,

them are true either, but we have to

unnerved Heru in his stable behind us. His

even start?” I thought aloud as Astennu calmed his horse, patting his

get into it,” he grimaced, staring at an unfocused point in the air. “We’re on our own from now on. We

had all but set, leaving behind a faint deep blue glow above the horizon of the forest and the subtle soft lights of the pack house to illuminate our home. As we pulled into our private garage, we quite literally caught our mother like a deer in our headlights. Seeing that it was us, she promptly shoved the three bags into the hands of the guard that had accompanied her on her not-so-secret shopping trip and shooed the bewildered man away and towards the pack house in an attempt to hide that she had bought more baby