Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

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.

heard in my life, drawled out. “Hearing from you again so soon! What

no idea what to say. How the hell do I pretend to be my father, when this man clearly knew

it an octave, praying I played this

on a

passed on? Passed on to who?! This is why Badru should be on this phone, not me. He was best at thinking on

Aasim wiped

heavily, as though the task was a massive inconvenience and one asked of him too many times.

one?” Badru said out loud, without thinking, from where he listened in next to

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

A superior voice

about his tone… did

“Still here.”

prompted when I stupidly

facepalm myself as the world’s biggest i***t. A career in espionage was not going to be in the cards for me anytime

payment,” I used what Elan

The man’s patronising tone repeated. “You told me to purposely delay the payment for your last

to send it,” I swallowed my snarl, as did my brother, whose claws

to mean our

exploded through the earpiece. “Boss? That wannabe French overlord? Ha! You’re funny Alpha. And here I thought you

the f**k off the phone!’ Badru’s wide eyes warned. ‘I don’t know who this guy

messages for Frenchie?” The trailing end of

“No.”

then. And, no

to keep the question out of my

mean? How the hell

unsettling man on the other end of the phone line was about to hang up. “Before you go, Alpha. Rest assured, I won’t go running to 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 day… and because you sound rather arousing when you’re trying to play

slammed the phone down, not having the first clue what part of any of that conversation to question

that guy flirt with

my head up to my brother, that out of everything he heard, this

your first

man meant our mother. What did he mean about her? What the f**k did any

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

I left this room, I would go to him and my unnatural calm would explode. My wolf was somewhere screaming in my mind, but if I listened to

slid open the drawer I was about to slam shut and looked at it from the side, moving to peer back within it. “It’s shallower than it should

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

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

He took it…

it all

saw our pain, knowing he

I read with my father, thinking it

twin didn’t look up from the ledger and even when I placed the locket in front of him, he didn’t react, continuing

under my nose

with the invoices, as do the monetary amounts,” he pointed out. “The

the passages, noting hair colours, eye colours, approximate ages,

voice shook. “The payments are for people.