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.”

I stated woodenly, meeting a gaze I knew he wouldn’t return. “Do you even realise how much Astennu blamed himself?

wasn’t as though either of you believed it,” 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

I repeated through clenched teeth, my jaw spasming with a string of curses I wanted to let loose at him. “The only

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 of the former parent I used to love

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

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 did as I ordered,

the balls to act like rogues are the villains?” I scoffed, regretting every bad thought I had silently cursed at rogues because

in my father’s footsteps? Selling rogues as though it was some necessary evil to

did you know not to use

to use on all wolfkind,

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. Konstantin was the issue because

you about the

went

my

as s**t gave you away without a second thought.” Call me petty, but it was an immense

bit out. “He arranges the transport, transfers the payment at my request and forges the documents to make them look bona fide. After that one incident with the rogue, who killed Kate’s son, might I stress, we learned to move faster and have the rogues

a quick glance, the way her face twisted in grief, twisted my guilt with it. My next question would not be an

person you contacted, a

I’m usually able to move

“You’ve been doing it comfortably for over a decade, I don’t see why you’re getting shy about

work alone, but the circumstances this time were quite different. He needed a cover and his trip

former mate, Lucy, all to himself, did just the trick into getting

over those fingers we digested,’

of torment filtered from him. “I dealt with Konstantin, Finley was meant to take the girl.

Our mother was never meant to be knocked out that

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

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.

claws extended, ready to fly through the

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

going to let rogues stomp all over our pack! I thought I raised you better than

truth. We weren’t your sons… we were just another asset, heirs to carry on your

about our grandpup