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.

out. “Hearing from you again so soon! What can I do for you? You can’t have a

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, praying I played this

on a message for

message to be passed on? Passed on to who?! This is why Badru should be on this phone, not me. He was best at thinking on his feet. I had just blown this whole thing in

things,’ Aasim wiped his paw down

you Alphas seem to think I’m your personal messenger boy?” The man sighed heavily, as though the task was a massive inconvenience and one asked of him too many times. “I’m taking a messenger fee off the next one you

without thinking, from where he listened

literally just told you to stay quiet!’

Isaac?” A

about his tone… did

“Still here.”

He prompted when I

world’s biggest i***t. A career in espionage was

discrepancy on the last payment,” I used what Elan had said and hoped, prayed, for Evie’s sake,

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

swallowed my snarl, as did my brother, whose claws dug

had to mean our mate and

Ha! You’re funny Alpha. And here

phone!’ Badru’s wide eyes warned. ‘I don’t know who this guy is, but

pulling my leg, you got any more messages for Frenchie?” The trailing end of the man’s chuckling tinted

“No.”

And, no hard feelings

tried to keep the question

comment mean? How the hell did I even press about that without giving myself

screwed. “Consider it my good deed of the day… and because you sound rather arousing when you’re trying to play it cool. Just one

the phone down, not having the first clue what part

that guy flirt with

to my brother, that out of everything he

your

he mean about her? What the f**k did any of that

rogues’,” my mind focused on those last words. “Whatever our

of finding what my father was hiding. Because if I left this room, I would go to him and my unnatural calm would explode. My wolf

open the drawer I was about to slam shut and looked at it from the side, moving

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

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,

He took it…

had it all this

saw our pain, knowing he had done

father, thinking it was

from the ledger and even when I placed the locket in front of him, he didn’t react, continuing to stare at the pages, shellshocked.

my nose

with the invoices, as do the monetary amounts,” he pointed out. “The payments come roughly a month

hair colours, eye colours, approximate

of people,” Badru’s fist clenched and his voice shook. “The payments are for people. Our father wasn’t relocating rogues… he

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