Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 119

Chapter 116 – Home?

Badru

‘How you feeling?’ The wet nose of Evie’s wolf nuzzled into my cheek.

“Like I wanna throw up fire,” I slurred, the moonlit world around me still spinning with a faint chime to it.

No amount of wolfsbane training could have prepared me for the amount coursing through my bloodstream. I didn’t know how many darts I had been hit with, but the number definitely amounted to more than one. Baniti’s voice had all but vanished in my mind, our link separated and cut as the toxin bound itself to my nerve endings.

“Here, chica,” I had heard the echoing voice of Catalina speak from behind my eyelids that had slowly begun to close.

The fur beside me retreated and was replaced with subtle soft skin that I wanted draped across me forever. A tickling trail of light fingers weaved through my short beard and I couldn’t stop the overly dramatic purring growl rippling through my throat. I grasped her palm, running my tongue over the sweet-tasting pulse point of her wrist and did my best to prise my eyes open to meet her stormy blue irises.

A black shirt covered her bare figure, but seeing she was knelt bare in the snow wouldn’t do. Ignoring the bunching tension at my temples and the pounding of my head, I pushed a splayed hand out to prop myself up and pull her by the waist to my lap. The mother of my pup was not about to grow cold in the snow.

“Ru!” She hissed a whisper, pushing at my bare chest. “I’m fine. You’re the one who needs looking after. You took four vials of wolfsbane.”

“I’m not the one pregnant here that’s been locked away for two mont-… Wait,” I interrupted myself, trying to focus my vision on the clearing around us.

Our SUV was pulling into sight, driven by Adrian. Catalina looked as though she was stitching up the wounds on the dark-haired vampire which my foggy brain wanted to remember as Bastiaan. And the others were busy checking if the guards were actually dead or tending to their allies’ injuries. Even through my dissociated vision, I could tell apart the vampires from the wolves. Their eerily pale skin, coupled with the swirling muted colours on its surface, could belong to no other being. Of all the creatures I was expecting to find held here, vampires would have been at the bottom of that list along with wiccans.

The one person I needed to see was nowhere in sight. Scratch that, two people.

A feeble whimper from my wolf tweaked my mind, his form remaining a blur, but at least he was coming back to me.

‘Aste! Where ar-’

‘Don’t worry about me, akhwyaa alsaghir (my little brother),’ I could feel his overprotective relief washing through me. ‘Konstantin and I are coming back… Marceau is dealt with.’

Their two wolves emerged through the scrub line of the trees and my twin made a beeline for me and Evie, sniffing over where I had been hit. I had to do a double take of Konstantin’s wolf, unsure whether the lingering effects of the wolfsbane were messing with my eyesight or whether his wolf really did look more of a beast than Evie’s.

Astennu’s crouched human form shifted at my side, helping our mate stand first and then slinging my arm over his shoulder to haul me to my feet. I grabbed my pants at the waistband from where they had torn to stop them from falling down like a slap-stick gag; my partial shift just as I was hit with the darts had shredded through my boots and shirt and had almost claimed my pants.

‘Come on,’ he supported my weight on one side as Evie steadied me from the other.

‘But you’re hurt, too.’ I could smell the tang of blood on him and I would know his scent anywhere, intermingled or not.

a small puncture wound to my shoulder. So quit arguing

where to begin. We needed our mate out of here, but the idea of sending her off alone made my skin shiver and growl bubble deep in my chest. After two months apart, she was never leaving my side again. We also had a clearing of at least twenty individuals, I couldn’t see straight yet for a true count,

had opened a whole can of worms

with Marceau’s body?”

pants up. “I no waste more effort on that svo

on one leg to pull up his pants. “What are you doing? Get

Marceau had shifted. Whatever it was she was after, she must’ve been successful given her adorable little jump and rush to rejoin us. Without a word, Konstantin threw a blanket around her now he was dressed, equally ignoring her protests that she was fine, even though she was barefoot in the snow. Those two were a mirror of one

she perched on the edge of the SUV backseat, huddled

him?” Astennu twirled the syringe around, stepping back out of the way as Bastiaan

eyes flickered to him, a glisten of moisture misting them over. ‘It was a guess he’d

you stop heavy lifting, you’ll pull a stitch,” Catalina shooed the vampire away, looking between the syringe

shape.

to him. He looks like he needs it most,” Diego was completely out of it, shivering in a cold sweat

tried to stifle her snivel, preparing the injection expertly and administering it to the deltoid muscle of his upper arm. Not a second after the pale yellow liquid

brother stood shoulder to shoulder with me in front of our mate, taking her hand. “You’re not gonna like this, but you need to go with Catalina, Adrian

the deeper blue shades of her irises

been trained for things like this. Well, maybe not dismantling a secret trafficking ring up a French mountainside per se, but it can’t be any harder than

to find,” Catalina inclined her head to other rogues as she smoothed her mate’s hair back tenderly. “We need to know what Marceau did with any

males at his side shook their heads to confirm. “It’s been almost

people are trading?” Catalina raised a brow in challenge, making a few of the men shrink under her stare. “Female rogues? They do exist. What the f**k do you think men like Marceau do with them? Because

argued. “But you should go with them, Catalina, and take your mate, make sure he’s safe too. You’re not gonna concentrate on anything with him laid up, and you know it. I’ll handle things here and we’ll go through what we can find. I managed to get a message through to home, so they’ll be preparing some assistance for us by the time you get there. And hopefully, if we move fast, we can stay ahead of anyone finding out what went down up here. Marceau and all the guards are dead,

it, we’ll head out. But we will come back,” I emphasised when I spotted a

wish them luck. And goddess knew what we would discover when we found their families or any female rogues that Catalina had drawn the point to the distinct lack of. None of it was a matter

and bruised red-haired vampire laid a hand on his upper back. “You should

deep brown hair and dark purple eyes that I could just about distinguish. I couldn’t quite place his accent; different from Bastiaan’s and, oddly,

separated from my coven for too long.

the States,” I looked

daughter to prevent her from trying to help us distribute the supplies we were leaving

Portuguese brothers, Rudolfo and Mariano. The latter had a human-chosen mate and pup used against him who he hadn’t seen in four years; his pup, a son, had been a toddler the last time he saw him. Mariano thought he was enlisting to fight and

he wore mismatched the tall and robust build of his frame. The two vampire males that had lived in opposite cells to him claimed

Maxim. I had to rack my brain back to high

life, he had been sold into it with his she-wolf mate. He had