Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 103
CHAPTER 100 – WON’T YOU PLAY?
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This would be taking place roughly around the time when the twins would be setting off to ‘dysfunction around France’.
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Evgeniya
“Are you sure you’ve never played this before, dad?” I wiped away the filled grid drawn in dry-erase ink from the glass and penned out another.
“No, your mother never taught this game,” a small yet easy smile spread under his much thicker beard. “She used to play spy in eye to help my English.”
My laugh echoed between us. “I spy,” I helped correct him. “But I think we’ll stick to tic tac toe. There’s only so much we can spy in here.”
‘Unless one of those fuckwit guards passes by,’ Evva yawned and stretched, bored out of her mind. ‘There’s at least twenty things there and all of them swears.’
As I looped a circle to make my first move, she bellowed a huge and overly dramatic groan. ‘Can you play anything else? It’s been three hours!’
‘You wanna go back to hangman?’ I asked sarcastically, knowing it would shut her up.
‘If you go near that game again, I will force a shift and gnaw my leg off.’
‘That’s what I thought, so drop the attitude.’
It wasn’t entirely her fault she was being so snippy. Two months sealed away in my mind was getting to her, creating an increasingly cantankerous wolf. Her spirit buzzed under the surface of my skin needing release and in a few more months, when my belly would begin to show, our pup would be too big to safely cope with the physical stresses of a shift. If she thought a couple of months were going to be tough, how would she cope with half a year?
“Pravyy nizhniy ugol,” my dad said slowly, enunciating his syllables and pitch, telling me in Russian where he wanted his ‘X’ placed.
Small moments, like these, over the last few months, we had taken to teaching the other. I helped my father with reading English and he taught me some Russian.
“Bottom right corner?” Diego beat me to it, stealing my thunder.
praised. “Molodets,
just a pretty face,
chiselled muscles, bruises and tattoos, tía (girl),” he flexed his bare-chested physique playfully, preening like a peacock. “There’s a
at him, writing the ‘X’ in the grid and placing my ‘O’ in the opposing
question at my father as
first time in a long while, his eyes held a twinkle of genuine amusement. The dark circles
you look
little lighter, something within me felt the same too. Perhaps it was the serene quiet that we were experiencing, coupled with our little game, that had given us a brief sensation of normality. I had been trying to distract my father since he had woken from the after-effects of
my bond had eased somewhat, tugging away still, but not as painfully.
tac
thought going first would win it for
he said in his dad-tone filled with wisdom. “You thought you had won
on the hard wooden floor. I shuffled back to my bed by the wall, the only spot in my cell that had a blind spot from the CCTV camera outside. After all the trekking back and forth from my cell to Marceau’s private dining room, I had managed to peek a glance at the inside of the sliding door right by the exit to these cells; a surveillance room
the cells were presently empty. Inmates were either taking their recess time outside or were attending their fights. In Bastiaan’s case, it was the latter. He had been gone since my father had returned. Both my dad and Diego
been summoned for a dinner in two days and I was overdue. As if on cue, the sound of boots approached, followed by Diego’s curses in
routine well by now. I was only glad that it coincided with a day I would have no audience
I mouthed silently to my
because I knew he would worry regardless, but it made me feel better, like a lie to myself that everything would
route I didn’t know yet was the one that
me from the table nestled
illuminated only by the long candles lit on the formally set table and the fire crackling away behind. A large roasted chunk of meat from wild boar
reluctantly sat. I wished he would take the furthest seat, but I knew he wouldn’t. He would sit himself as
snatched my hand, holding it fast against my pull of resistance from his
Pew’s lips
taste buds, beating down every impulse I had to cram
part of his sick game of control, and carved up slices of the roasted meat, sliding them onto my plate. Next, he spooned the vegetables on, making a show to press himself
for me, ma chérie?” He tilted his glass, filling it with a pale rosé wine. “I know
a piece of cauliflower and shoved it in my mouth. These were my tiny acts of rebellion, the only things I could control.
in his
my food, not out of hunger, but the sooner I finished, the sooner all of this would be over. It in no way surprised me that I was watched, yet ripples of agitation wound around my neck as though a
eager to eat,” he drained his glass, pouring a
something that looked akin to a brownie. The rich chocolatey scent hit me, too rich, too overbearing, too sickly.
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