Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 99

CHAPTER 96 – HE?

Badru

Astennu hadn’t ever shut me out like this before. Our anger and hurt were one and the same, but the way my brother’s detonated while mine retained its composure was alien and foreign territory.

“Divide and conquer.” That was all he would say to me.

How would we divide the interrogation of our father to conquer it, if he was leaving it all to me?

‘I don’t think it was Isaac he meant, slow poke,’ Baniti muttered, while I watched our twin burst through to their midnight wolf as soon as his feet were clear of the prison grounds.

He was heading north?

…Finley.

There was no way for me to stop him. He was far faster and more agile than I could ever be, even sleep deprived as we both were. If I gave chase, there wouldn’t be much of Finley left by the time I caught up. But did I necessarily want to stop it? Why would I want to deny that asshole the beating he had coming.

If Astennu could get the location of our mate, I was free to discover the motives of the former Alpha so nothing like this would ever happen again. I just hoped he would be ok on his own; another foreign sentiment, worrying over Astennu being the impulsive i***t.

Heading back inside the prison, solo, I was met with the scrutinous gaze of Kate, who noted instantly I was alone, and Tamlyn, who pretended to be minding her own business, but the woman had a knack for smelling the shift in mood.

‘He just needed to cool off,’ I stuck to the half-truth and nodded towards the prison door to continue my questioning like everything was fine. f****d up, but fine.

I was an ass for lying, but if I told her, Kate would go running after. She could hate what her son did all the livelong day, it didn’t mean that she wouldn’t want to protect her son. And Astennu needed whatever time I could afford him to get his answers while I got mine.

She gave me a stiff nod, which I didn’t know was from tension or disbelief, and reopened the gate.

Not wishing to go in and fully test the tether of my anger’s restraint, I remained in the frame and proceeded.

“Since you don’t know where Evie is, let’s start with what you do know. Janet, what was her role in all this?” I could see my father looking past me, searching for my brother’s figure alongside mine. Was he disappointed Astennu wasn’t coming back?

“She tampered with Lucy’s water to make sure that she remained unconscious. She used my master code to gain access and was only meant to take the locket from Evie’s room, but she found the patrol schedule as well.”

as the culprit and make us look incompetent?” I stated woodenly, meeting a gaze I knew he wouldn’t return. “Do you even realise how much

as though either of you believed it,” he sniped coldly. “That damn rogue had his claws in you already

of curses I wanted to let loose at him. “The only lies here were from you, and only you! Your heartbeat didn’t flinch,

his back to me, out of what? I didn’t know. I wanted to believe it was out of shame, guilt or regret. The small pup in me wanted to see some flicker

Janet so scared to reveal anything?” I said after a deep

knew she was stealing petty cash and sending it to her daughter. I told her, one phone call from me and the girl would be thrown from the pack, along with the mate, as rogues and she would join them. If she

of everything and you still have the balls to act like rogues are the

it was some necessary evil to cure the world of their blight? The thought sent

to use wolfsbane?” The question occurred to

lycans. It was a go-to substance to use on

directly in the eye. “I was told, under no circumstances, was wolfsbane to be used. I didn’t know what the drug was that was sent, but I was told it would knock the targets out. All they had to do was consume it.

about the wolfsbane? That Marceau

intermediary that I went

guy that my brother

well? Because he sure as s**t gave you away without a second thought.” Call me

transport, transfers the

glance, the way her face twisted in grief, twisted my guilt

another person you contacted, a withheld number…

able to

sentence when he trailed off. “You’ve been doing it comfortably for over a decade, I don’t see why

and jaw clenched. “I normally work alone, but the circumstances this time were quite different. He needed a cover and his trip across country was

pack and his former mate, Lucy, all to himself, did just the

still salty over those fingers we

the first true sound of torment filtered from him. “I dealt with Konstantin, Finley was meant to take the girl. My Qamar was never meant to be caught in any of this… she was meant to

phone guy’s words became clear. Our mother was never meant to be knocked out that day. That was why Isaac’s reaction was so genuine, because

Astennu

eye. “You’ve never had to hold your mother through every one of her nightmares, or tried to wake her when she called out for her attackers to stop, or every time she recoiled when she finally woke. You have never had to see the

him all over again. My fists curled and my claws extended, ready to fly through the air and slice him apart. As my arm tensed, about to act, a small

could you?” My mother appeared by my side, unclenching my hand to be replaced by her grip. “I may have been

your brother were going to let rogues stomp all over our pack! I thought I raised you better than to trust those kinds of people and you were ready to let them in. You

time you were teaching us, showing us how to be a good and just Alpha, but it was all a lie. Every good memory we have of you is a lie. And now I see the truth. We weren’t your sons…

did you know about our