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.”

return. “Do you even realise how much Astennu blamed himself? He

sniped coldly. “That damn rogue had his claws in you already with whatever lies he told for sympathy. Even after all the rumours Janet spread at

only lies here were from

of shame, guilt or regret. The small pup in me wanted to see some flicker of the former parent I used

anything?” I said after a deep breath to keep

thrown from the pack, along with the mate, as rogues and she would join them. If she did as I ordered, she would be exonerated and the matter

on top of everything and you still have the balls to act like rogues are the villains?” I scoffed, regretting every bad

followed in my father’s footsteps? Selling rogues as though it was some necessary evil to cure the world of their blight? The thought sent a wave of sickening self-disgust through my bones that I

know not to use wolfsbane?” The question

was a go-to substance to use on all wolfkind, cut with whichever tranquilliser of choice to

told it would knock the targets out. All they had to do was consume it. Konstantin was the

told you about the wolfsbane? That Marceau

that I went

that my

you away without a second thought.” Call me petty, but it was an immense swell of entertainment to watch his face contort

out. “He arranges the transport, transfers the payment at my request and forges

grief, twisted my guilt with it. My next question would not be an easy

person you contacted, a withheld number… that was Finley, wasn’t

usually able to

filled in his sentence when he trailed off. “You’ve been doing it comfortably for over a decade, I don’t see why you’re getting shy

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

a place back in the pack and his former mate, Lucy, all to himself, did just the trick into getting the i***t ass-hat on

those fingers we digested,’ Baniti added with a

hurt…” 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

about your Luna,” the creepy 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 he was truly

But Astennu had already punched him unconscious and he was none the smarter for it.

wake her when she called out for her attackers to stop, or

through the air

grip. “I may have been scared of rogues, but what

so you’d never feel scared again,” he pleaded like a madman, turning his feral break from reality onto me. “You and 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

lie. And now I see the truth. We weren’t your sons… we were just another

our grandpup before