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.

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

me, rocking my body with his. “Everything was set up to look as though your father had made off with you. Isaac even waved a draft timetable of patrol routes found in Konstantin’s room

He wouldn’t have known what the timetable was for, let alone how to use it,”

even think about that,” Badru rubbed his chin. “We just knew he didn’t… no matter how much everyone else

was Elan that provided the piece we were missing,” Astennu continued. “And when we searched Isaac’s office, we found

couldn’t read but knew what they said. My locket

found

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

him and strangled what he could

of what I did with that wolf… but it meant we found you,” Astennu

it just the two of

for so long that we didn’t look elsewhere. When we finally got our act together, we found Janet had played a part. She was blackmailed into it, but she still

away from them both. “So, it took you two months to start

you,” the nugget of a wolf tried

I even told you

itself on Badru’s face, eager, as always, to receive my irritation. Even Astennu growled in excitement, pawing

the cell,” I laughed, despite

that while they thought they

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

I regurgitated every horrid detail that the wolf had gloated, watching as the

more I saw why the goddess had paired me 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,

mated to Astennu and Badru, none of their father’s actions or Marceau’s would have been uncovered. And whilst I wished it had never happened, that I could erase every slimy memory,

gonna break our mother,” Asetnnu shook his head, burying his face

the hell are we gonna tell

I offered. “Before what happened, happened, we kinda bonded a little and she told me things I don’t think she’s told many others. Plus, I can

item you could ever want. So yeah, she’s

onesies nearly drove Ru insane,” Astennu