Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 97

CHAPTER 94 – AN INTERNAL STRUGGLE?

Badru

Acting on a brief glimmer of common sense, I ran from the pack house through the main door, choosing not to follow my brother through the shards of glass still hanging precariously. Any other time, I would have taken a moment for self-congratulations that I had thought first and acted second, but given all that I had on my plate, self-congratulations were a world away.

It wouldn’t stop replaying in my head, over and over again against my will, ricocheting around my mind like a stray bullet in a metal can.

How had I never seen it?

All those signs; why he was so against Elan being in charge of our finances. How calm he was that Evie was our mate when our mother wanted to burn the house down. And most importantly, why it felt that, deep down, he thought Evie wouldn’t return… because he f*****g knew she wouldn’t.

I steadied myself on a tree that blurred past, the number of times my father had seen Astennu and me at our breaking point were too numerous to count. Did he feel guilty in the slightest, even once? All those looks of pity and commiseration… were they all fake?

There was no way he did this on his own. When it happened, he was with us at training, very happily letting us lead a troop full of warriors away from the scene and giving his accomplice an even greater head start. It had to be Finley. We may have been wrong that he was the ringleader, but we were spot on that he was involved. I knew it, without a doubt in my body, that chelb (dog) had played a part in this to take my nour el-ain.

This was why no one was allowed outside of the pack. Isaac knew there was no danger; an invention of his own making to look the part of a dutiful Alpha and to cover himself. Because he didn’t want us to go after Finley and discover the truth.

Which left me with the next sickening question: did Kate know what her son had done? A rogue had killed her youngest, but she hadn’t ever objected to rogues being welcomed into the pack, even petitioning Isaac to let them stay. She, too, had been banned from leaving the pack, from visiting Finley, but was it part of a cover? Damian had followed her and her mate and found nothing, and it wasn’t from lack of skill.

Had I made a monumental mistake in leaving her alone with the ledger and my mother?

‘If she’s involved, what’s she gonna do? Burn the evidence and erase our memories?’ Baniti rolled his eyes at me, pushing me forward to find our twin. ‘With all the best will in the world, there’s no covering any of this up.’

The bond with my brother grew stronger the closer I came. He had run clear past the lakes, leaving the mountain landmarks far behind, and all the way to the coastline of the pack. I huffed for breath after hours of running, cutting through the treeline that bordered the pebble beach. The snow had faded, retreating the closer I came to the coast. The gentle sounds of the lapping waves breaching the shore and the moonlight highlighting the whites of the surf drew my line of sight to the solitary figure loosely hugging their knees with their chin resting on top of folded arms.

The moonlight highlighted another detail, the dampness running down his face now that he shifted back to his human form, bare-ass, not caring for the frigid wind blowing in off of the sea.

dark horizon, giving no acknowledgement of my presence as I approached and sat by his side, keeping as close as I could to share what

“Cold not bothering you?”

voice thick and

wasn’t sure what to say and the silence stretched, leaving us only with the sounds of

of the world around us. “I might as well have sold him into slavery myself. I never once questioned where any of them were sent. I just assumed they

chin resting on my wrists, angling my gaze to my brother. He continued to look out onto the ocean, stewing in his head. “Neither of us could even conceive

blame for our mate’s abduction from right under our noses. Blame that should have been directed elsewhere, chiefly at the man that had implied

was ever really honest

name left him and with it a deep weight crushing both our insides,

I echoed, a faint smile ghosting across my lips.

If she had slapped me for real, I probably

tongue and her claws faster than a hot knife through butter. Just like she had when we were wrapped in our little world in our mountain

We ask, we

trip,” Evie had effortlessly popped my bubble. “Spare a

yet she worked every Solstice so that other pack

had the freedom to celebrate, however she wanted as future Luna, had

it would be

from the pebbles, noting that the

“That place isn’t home anymore and it hasn’t felt like it for a while.

my hand, tugging him to his feet. “You’ll need to shift. Unless you want to haul ass

shift with him. We took off in a kick-up of gravel behind us, the last remnants of moonlight streaming through the trees and disappearing as

as the reigning Alphas now,’ I kept up with my twin’s

‘You think?’

heat of the moment. I can’t be too logical.

a short burst of laughter for the

‘A smart impulsive idiot.’

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