Accepting My Twin Mates by Unwise Owl

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 8

Chapter 8 – It’s Her?

Badru

Why couldn’t Astennu have just sped off?

I would have. Let the fucker run back to Two Moons.

‘I would’ve waited for the car to be at full speed, first,’ my wolf, Baniti, snarled. ‘Then kicked him out of it.’

Like me, my wolf was rather impulsive. I always thought his appearance would have tamed that streak in me. He hadn’t. And he had even less patience for Finley nowadays. In these last two months of being away at Opal Sun, I was starting to wonder why exactly we were friends. Was it just because of proximity? Maybe it was the lack of a buffer with our pack? Goddess, was he always this obnoxious or was he simply growing worse?

He did take the death of his little brother, Arthur, hard and heavily blamed himself, but most people would grow from such a tragedy. Fin hadn’t and it was becoming increasingly difficult to have sympathy for someone who was constantly an asshole. And since the summer of this year, he had turned worse, making me wonder if I had ever actually truly known him.

I realised now I didn’t like the person I was when he was around. I didn’t see it when Astennu and I were teenagers, how much we gave into peer pressure, but we had matured since then.

I wasn’t paying attention to what the asshat, now in the front passenger seat, was spouting on about. I was too engrossed staring down at my now ruined sketch that had a dark and jagged line running straight through the middle of it. There were some marks on the side where my pencil had made contact as I had slipped off to sleep, but it had been salvageable. It wasn’t anymore. However, the dark mark didn’t detract from how beautiful her eyes were. Eyes that I had memorised.

They were the reason I was so relieved to be heading home. Specifically, to catch a glimpse of the colour I didn’t know how to name. They were like a storm, unyielding, forceful and held nothing back. Her eyes occupied my mind constantly, trying to gauge their true colour. In the sun they were a penetrating blue, when she was irate they were deep silver; they always kept me guessing.

In the last two weeks, Evie had virtually lived in my brain. Every time I closed my eyes, she was there and her image only grew with intensity. The things she had done to me were quite literally the stuff of my dreams. Too bad that was entirely where it would remain. And with that thought came a very bitter slap to reality.

There were so many times in the last few months, before my trip, that I wanted to just go up to her and ask ‘please be my chosen mate’ but I knew the response I’d get. She’d either laugh in my face, flip me off, or slap me across the cheek… actually, the thought of that last one turned me on a little. I shifted in my seat, in heated discomfort, having to readjust myself. Ok, it turned me on a lot.

If my mother knew how much I wanted Evie as a chosen mate, she would throw a fit and I doubted I would hear the end of it. In no way did that deter me from wanting her.

But, no matter how much I wanted her as my chosen mate, it couldn’t happen. Astennu wanted our fated mate, although I knew how much he was crushing on Evie along with me. And like him, I found it completely insane that we were so fixated on her without the mate bond. It couldn’t be a coincidence. However, where I would be ecstatic to accept Evie without the mate bond, Astennu was more hesitant, wanting to know for certain first. Not that either of us had any chance with her at all.

We had f****d that up royally, especially me.

I never backed down from anyone, well except our mom; she was terrifying when she was angry. I even stared my dad down at times, but the one person I could never meet in the eye was Evie; the worst torture there was as it was her eyes that had me transfixed. Any time I did, the only face I would see was hers of four years ago. How her lip quivered and the single tear that slipped down her cheek, stabbed me to my soul, even my wolf was pissed at me. I had never felt more of an asshole than I did at that moment. It made me realise how much of an asshole I could be, and I was ashamed.

was no different. I was given a chance

envied Astennu’s control and self-assurance. I was the one who followed their hormones and was impulsive. My brother was the planner, always so down-to-earth and meticulous while being more expressive of his true emotions. I was the overly dramatic one, able to react at the drop of a hat, but more secretive about my true feelings to the rest of the world. The two of us may have been identical twins, but we were vastly different

least hooked up with Catalina? She tried to follow you around enough,” Finley continued on whatever s**t he had been harping on about that I hadn’t

brother uncomfortable and a little embarrassed; it made me uneasy too. I hadn’t been intimate with anyone for over four

front seat said when neither of us spoke up. “She’d have given you both a

Rivera, the leader of Opal Sun where we had been staying and we

have gone after her then!” I snapped, losing my

really needed to dial it down using

was only focused on you

interested because our packs are allies and there are two Alphas with us. She certainly

me how Fin scoffed at the mention of ‘love’ and ‘mate’, or my brother’s scowl at hearing the scorn. Astennu prided himself on the mate bond more than anything. Again, my impulsive decisions in my younger years had come back to bite me now. In my

wasn’t interested in us for any other reason than the fact we were Alphas, an ally to her father’s

us was remotely gay, and he was now mated himself; plus he was a good friend of ours too. Elisabeth, Matías’s second child, was nice, I guess? But she ran

for my brother too. Because of our twin bond, we were far closer than normal wolf siblings. I felt his emotions, even before we

on the ground that must have fallen overnight. As we pulled up to the main porch of the pack house, Beta Kate and her mate Lance, Finley’s parents, were already waiting, alongside my mother. Our future Beta had woken up on his own as we had driven down the tree-lined road. Both he and his mother shared the same sandy-brown hair, tanned skin and pale blue

steps and pulling both Astennu and me into a huge

tall woman herself, but with both mine and my twin’s 6’9

you’ve both grown so,” she stood back and held us at arm’s

is a little

drew out. ‘Oh hell,

the door, greeting us as our mother had. He was a similar height and build to the both of

two will be putting me out to pasture soon,” he chuckled, looking us over. I didn’t think we had changed much, but

and her mate. Astennu handed the keys to a member of staff who had come to park up our SUV properly, thanking him. Our mom led us all inside,

and snacks for us all. You must be famished,” she linked her arm around our

There were too many people moving around, disturbing and masking it, to pinpoint who or

picking that up too?’ Astennu mind-linked

to get a little nutty,’ he added, and I

had gotten over his momentary dazed state and had begun pacing, frustrating