Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 100
CHAPTER 97 – PAYING THE PRICE?
Badru
“You ok?” Tamlyn tapped her cane to find me, resting her hand on my shoulder.
“No,” I swallowed down the lump that seemed firmly lodged uncomfortably in my throat. “But I will be.”
“For what it’s worth, you handled it like a pro. I’d high-five you but that seems inappropriate, so an awkward support hug it is,” she felt me out and squeezed me around my middle briefly. “I’m actually surprised. You held it together and Aste lost his s**t. Guess it’s always the quiet ones.”
Astennu!
“I need to go. I think he went to pay Fin a visit.”
“That boy’s losing more than some fingers,” she uttered, switching to mind-link as I rushed away. ‘I’ll catch up with you, just go.’
It was two and a half hours to Seattle by car. In my wolf form, I could be there in just under two.
Running from the prison building and shimming through the perimeter gate before it had fully opened, I stripped as fast as I could once I was in the treeline and wrapped my clothing into a bundle. Baniti was quick to come forth, shifting in the blink of an eye, grabbing up the bundle within our jaws and following the yank on the bond to our twin.
The forested and mountainous landscape of the pack quickly melted and bled into the manicured greenery of the human territory. On the outskirts of the suburbs that sprawled below us, our paws stumbled, a blinding mash of rage and all-consuming vengeance doubled us over. Our shoulder burned out of the blue, as though the ghost of a blade had passed through our fur and split apart our skin… our brother… he was hurt.
‘Astennu,’ I tried to reach out, but it was no use. It was as if my voice rattled around my head, unable to find its target.
Baniti pushed us to our feet, staggering our paws forward towards our bond that flashed like a hotwire strung out on more power than it could channel.
‘He’s alive,’ my wolf reassured and fixed our sights ahead. ‘He’s just very pissed.’
‘No shit.’
belonged. This was a first where I had been crippled by the onslaught of hostility, so strong its acidic taste gagged at the back of
shrubs of a nearby mansion, I shifted so I could dress and not have to be naked where the humans could see me.
swank apartment building, but I also knew the sounds of panicked
gates were wide open and the building’s courtyard was a ghost town, except for one figure. Naked, covered in blood and staggering down the outer stairs in a daze, Astennu looked like a character from the very slasher movies he hated. The blue of his irises were dulled and vacant, staring at an unknown point behind me. It was as though he didn’t
pissed,’ Baniti muttered, as
him as he slumped to the smooth
Pulling my sleeve over my palm, I rubbed around the spot where I had felt the injury, smearing away the sticky crimson stain and finding a long thin gash. There were no signs of healing, the edges rumpled where his skin had been singed, but not
sides of his face in hopes that I could pull him from the murk his consciousness had dissolved into. “I know something that might make you happy… the pup, it’s a
flickered to mine, the small shimmer of
“She is?”
I just know he’s
suddenly upturned in a
sound barely left
“That’s where Marceau is?”
Neuf. That guy’s base is in mountains somewhere. Finley didn’t know where,” my brother’s brows scrunched, his eyes hardening. “I made sure he didn’t
he need a morgue
was a pointless question to ask because I
mess… Kate will already know but we should formally
apartment was. He had killed Finley and, by the amount of blood, not cleanly. The way he spoke, so detached and devoid of emotion, he wasn’t back to
not knowing entirely what to do to be that for him. He was my anchor, not the
wrists tightly, but I could sense it in
and burning in acceleration, approaching fast. A pack vehicle spun into
a car with you again!” Tamlyn climbed out of
How the hell did you
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