Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Chapter 85

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 85

CHAPTER 82 – DID HE FLIRT WITH YOU?

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SPOILER ALERT

THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS REFERENCES TO PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THE SERIES

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Astennu

I tried to keep the tremble out of my hand as the mouse slid across the mat to open the first hidden-away file. Badru quickly gripped my shoulder in silent support, the same horrid apprehension gripping his centre as it was mine.

All the falsified invoices were there, twenty-two of them in total and dating back a decade, just as Elan had found. Each was different, listing a contrasting vendor name, amount paid and service rendered; accounting, consultancy, construction…

The fact our father had these hidden on his computer told us one simple dark truth. He was not only aware of the payments to the pack, he was involved with them.

Why? What were they truly for?

‘I don’t know, but he’s the reason our mate is gone,’ Aasim roared with venom. ‘He waved that damned stolen schedule in our face like we had f****d up when he KNEW!’

My wolf’s rage seeped and blended with mine. I didn’t know how, but I knew these bullshit payments had to have something to do with my mate’s disappearance. He had the power over Janet to make her do what he wanted and was why she wouldn’t say anything. The threat on her daughter was real… and it came from my own father.

The damn family photograph leered at me. Was this why he moved it here? Out of some sick guilt?

In a single motion, I snatched the photo and hurled it across the room. The frame and glass shattered, putting a crater in the opposing wall.

“We should call this number for ourselves,” Badru surprised me with a calm and level tone. He hadn’t batted an eye at my explosion.

“I’m being serious,” he repeated when I stared back at him in dismay. “If we’re about to beat the ever-living s**t out of our own father, I want to know precisely what for first.”

I took a deep breath, the air containing nowhere near enough oxygen to fill my lungs and calm me.

“You do it, Ru. You’re better at improvising and acting.”

My clumsy distraction in the kitchen had turned my stomach with cringe.

“I am, but you do a better impersonation of dad and you know it. Even mom was fooled that one time. Which got awkward real quick,” he grimaced, paling.

It was intended as a joke a few years ago and had back-fired mortifyingly.

“Fine. But don’t say I didn’t warn you when I f**k this up.”

“You won’t,” he handed me the landline phone. “You got this.”

“Ok,” I gave in and accepted the phone. “Try and stay quiet.”

I dialled the number in haste, copying it from my brother’s phone screen, and listened to the ringing tone signalling the number was operating.

Isaac,” a rather smug-sounding voice I hadn’t ever heard in my life, drawled out. “Hearing from you again so soon! What can I do for you? You can’t have

I had no idea what to say. How the hell do I pretend to be my father, when this man clearly knew him and, from the sound of the familiarity, he knew our father

and dropped it an octave,

pass on a

is why Badru should be on this phone, not me. He was best at thinking on his feet. I

we plan things,’ Aasim wiped

as though the task was a massive inconvenience and one asked

thinking, from where he

just told you to stay quiet!’ I mind-linked him with a

there… Alpha Isaac?” A

tone… did he

“Still here.”

prompted when I

biggest i***t. A career in espionage was not

on the last payment,” I used what Elan

“You told me to purposely delay the payment for your last two packages for a few more months till

can tell your boss to send it,” I swallowed my snarl, as did

he had to mean our mate

“Boss? That wannabe French overlord? Ha! You’re funny

eyes warned. ‘I don’t know who this guy is, but you can’t bullshit him any

got any more messages for Frenchie?” The trailing end of the man’s chuckling

“No.”

then. And, no hard feelings about

I tried to keep the

did that comment mean? How the hell did

your daddy to rat you out,” his laughter rang loudly once more, letting me know my act was screwed. “Consider it my good deed of the

the first clue what part of any of that

guy

lifted my head up to my brother, that out of everything he heard, this was what he focused

your

mother. What did he mean about her?

those last words. “Whatever our dad is hiding, it goes far beyond some shady payments

I left this room, I would go

Badru grabbed my wrist. For a second, I thought he was trying to stop my aimless search. But he slid open the drawer I was about to slam shut and looked at it from the side, moving to peer

the base, sliding it back and revealing a false bottom. Inside, lay a black leather ledger. My brother pulled it out and flicked

dread began to take hold, twisting a painful jagged edge in its wake as my trembling hand pulled out a necklace I would recognise anywhere… Evie’s locket. I opened it anyway, knowing I would see the small picture of her mother inside, despite the three names carved in Russian

He took it…

had it

he saw our pain, knowing he had

I read with my father, thinking it was sympathy… and it

I placed the locket in front of him, he didn’t react, continuing to stare at the pages, shellshocked. “This is way worse than anything

nose and

amounts,” he pointed out. “The payments come roughly a month after

hair colours, eye colours, approximate ages,

“The payments are for people. Our father wasn’t relocating

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