Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Chapter 118 – Admissions?

Evgeniya

The short time I needed alone was enough for the band about my neck to spiral away with the suds, a tottering calm settling and one far more fragile than I’d like. There was just enough room to change without my elbows colliding on the wall and when I unfurled the clothing handed to me by Catalina, I had a decent idea why she had left with an impish grin.

Fill out the underwear, she had said. I would sooner spill out of them. The panties were a sheer dark blue lace held together in a band that formed the thong. And the ‘bra’ was a matching lace bralette that crossed at the back and would just about cup the front of my breasts. If Astennu and Badru saw me in these, they would be wrecked, along with the small bed…

‘…And us, with any luck,’ my wolf finished my thoughts. ‘I need some rearranging, if you catch my drift.’

‘The window blinds catch your drift, Evva.’

When I swung open the door, after throwing on the pants and sweater, my two mates broke apart, their deep whispering ending the second they saw me. It was like walking in on a conversation where the topic of discussion was obvious, and the silence that escorted it was confirmation. The topic was me and I knew what they wanted to ask.

“Hey, ammar,” Astennu offered out his hand, guiding me to sit between his legs on the bed so he could brush my hair.

Badru wrinkled his nose as he leaned into me. “Are they Catalina’s?” And when I nodded, his frowning pout deepened. “Her scent doesn’t sit right on you, my nour el-ain. You should definitely take them off.”

I shook my head, unable to hide my blurt of laughter, and surged forward. My kiss had meant to be a peck, to adore his lovable crude charm, but as with many things around my mates, control went out the metaphorical window. The heated tension broke the moment the sparks of his lips ignited, his taste and scent of nutmeg and cinnamon claiming me.

I released him, seeking out my other missing scent. Astennu’s lips collided with mine and curled my tongue from my mouth with his sweet tree sap treat. The touch of his fingers around my throat and tangled in my hair were light and barely a whisper, yet my pulse jumped as though he had voraciously worshipped my body.

I leaned back into his chest, catching my breath as his hands snaked around my waist to my stomach. Badru rested his forehead upon mine, his palm stroking around where our small mound would grow in time.

“Did he… did he touch you?” Astennu whispered in a strained voice, kissing the base of my neck where it met my shoulder.

“You don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to,” Badru nuzzled. “You can tell us to shove it, and we’ll shut up.”

My sniffle became a short laugh, the two of them wiping the small tear that burned a trail down my cheek. They would know I wasn’t assaulted; they would have felt it and they wouldn’t have needed to ask. But I was violated and I didn’t know how to tell them the truth yet.

My trembling laugh died in the same breath it formed, tears that I was growing sick of shedding dampening my cheeks further. Badru kissed them away and Astennu softly rubbed my arms, returning to my stomach and our pup.

me, us,” I changed the topic, knowing full well my unspoken reply hung between us like a lead curtain,

had made off with you. Isaac even waved a draft timetable

can’t read English. He wouldn’t have known what the timetable was for, let alone how to use it,” I wiped a

just knew he didn’t… no matter how much everyone else said

missing,” Astennu continued.

décolletage and was clasped at my nape. My fingers brushed the etched surface, carved with three names that I couldn’t read but knew what they said. My locket that I had left behind the morning I was taken. Part

also found a

rogues your father sold?” I guessed Badru’s words. “I know. Marceau boasted a whole lot.

beat the s**t out of him and strangled what he could out of

of what I did with that wolf… but it

two of them that

his neck. “We kinda focused on it being Finley for so long that we didn’t look elsewhere. When we finally got our act together, we found Janet had played a

it took you two months to start thinking of suspects, other

without you,” the nugget of a wolf tried

cell. I still managed to make an escape plan and execute it. I even told you about Janet being shady!” I threw up my

wide goofy grin plastered itself on Badru’s face, eager, as always, to receive

starting to rethink the cell,” I laughed,

while they thought they knew

a lot more than some fight rings… his family is why my father’s people were wiped out… and your

horrid detail that the wolf had gloated, watching as the colour drained from my

with the twins, to correct the veered track that Isaac had set fate on. It could be no random trick of happenstance that he was mated to Qamar and crossed paths with the very man responsible for her trauma. In another world, maybe he didn’t let his prejudice blind him and maybe he was the one who would have taken Marceau’s

or Marceau’s would have been uncovered. And whilst I wished it had never happened, that I could erase every

is gonna break our mother,” Asetnnu shook his

how the hell are we gonna

we kinda bonded a little and she told me things I don’t

every baby item you could

pile of tiny onesies nearly drove Ru insane,” Astennu offered his brother a lopsided sympathetic