Chapter 22

Accepting My Twin Mates Chapter 22 Chapter 22 – Do You Care About Anything Like This?

Badru ‘Catalina!’ I shouted through mind-link.

No way in hell was she getting out of cleaning the mess. She almost cost me my mate! Fortunately for me, Evie hadn’t believed it for one minute, she never doubted either me or Astennu. Unbelievably, she seemed angrier that we had panicked. My nour el-ain was full of surprises.

‘What?’ Catalina’s voice cut through my thoughts. ‘I left, didn’t I?’

I grabbed a t-shirt from my brother’s closet and ripped the door open to reveal the mess that hadn’t been touched.

‘I told you to clean this up!’ I snapped, heading downstairs to grab some cleaning things. It was a hardwood floor, so it wouldn’t need much.

‘You were serious about that?’ She sassed back.

‘Cut the attitude, princess!’ A violent snarl rumbled through my chest and my Alpha aura flickered.

“Hey!” Our main door slammed open. “I only let my sister call me that! ¡Pendejo!”

“Keep your voice down, dammit!” I hissed.

“Oh, relax,” she rolled her eyes. ” Mommy and daddy are busy elsewhere. No one is around to overhear about your Omega mate.”

Her triumphant smirk at my silence was all the answer she needed.

“I figured, with how you defended her. Neither of you two seems the type to play around. Far too nice and sweet for my tastes,” she snatched the broom out of my hands and marched herself upstairs.

‘If we throttle her, will it start a war?’ Baniti grumbled.

‘Probably. Plus, it’ll put a dampener on spending time with Evie.’

At the mention of her name, we both sighed. f**k, she was glorious! I just had to stop screwing up with her.

I grabbed a swivel mop and followed after Catalina, not trusting her in the slightest. I was a little shocked to see she was actually sweeping, collecting all the debris up into the dustpan. I kept my distance and kept my eyes on her like a hawk.

“Don’t flatter yourself muchacho,” she smirked, noticing my wariness. “I wasn’t truly interested in either of you.”

“Then why the hell were you so relentless?” I all but threw the mop at her and snatched the dustpan out of her hands.

“I was bored! Beth is miles away and busy with her mate, Thiago has his Alpha stuff, and my pack is soooo dull!” She mopped furiously. “I will admit, you’re hot and I was a little interested at first. It was fun to chase you around even though you kept hiding from me and spoiling it. You were not fun last night.

You were all mopey and miserable, now I know why.”

“You’re… not going to say anything, are you?” Could I even trust her to stay quiet?

“Of course I’m not going to say anything,” she looked at me as though it was a stupid question and strode passed me having finished cleaning. “You’re hiding her from your parents because she’s an Omega. And she hasn’t accepted you because you’ve done something stupid. Tell me I’m wrong.”

“Uhhh…”

“Great argument. I can see why you’ve won her over,” she said flatly with a raised eyebrow. This felt like the same tone Astennu used when he was being sarcastic with me.

As I grabbed the broom out of her hands to put away, I started to feel a strong wave of hot desire wash over me. Within a split second, my c**k was at attention and it even felt as though it was leaking with precum. My breathing was becoming increasingly unlevel and heavy, out of nowhere… damn the twin bond! This was coming from Astennu, and it couldn’t be worse timing with Catalina still here!

‘I don’t know what the f**k is happening in that bathroom, but you better cool it! I feel like I’m about to pop and it’s making my situation, at present, complicated,’ I yelled at my twin. The lucky bastard didn’t need to rub it in our bond that he was the preferred one.

“So, does this mean you’ll leave now?” I tried to keep the kitchen island between us so she didn’t see my situation and I gripped the countertop in a vice hold while my situation deflated.

And I didn’t exactly trust that she wouldn’t start any more drama if she remained. I didn’t need anyone’s help in that department, I had that covered myself.

“Yeah. Sure,” she smiled strangely and walked out the door.

‘At least that’s one problem we took care of,’ Baniti said proudly. ‘We should make our mate some breakfast.’

An excellent idea, now I was in a far calmer state. I needed to show Evie I could provide for her, care for her. When my brother and I did that for her yesterday, she almost melted.

The last of the bagels were toasted and I was just plating them up when Astennu mind-linked me asking where I was. Back in his room, he didn’t even hesitate to flaunt that he had seen our mate in all her glory! Lucky bastard, yet again! Although, he did look borderline impressed that I had made Catalina clean… he looked less impressed that she knew who Evie truly was to us.

“She’s leaving, she said so herself and she’s keeping it quiet. I handled it,” I offered him a bagel off of the plate.

“Good, one less person for Evie to worry about…” his words were cut off by the bathroom door opening.

“Who should I be worried about?” Evie asked, looking between the two of us.

“No one, Badru sorted it all out,” Astennu indicated the bagels and nodded in her direction.

“Oh, do you want one?” I offered her the plate.

“Thanks,” she actually smiled at me, which sent my wolf spinning in circles.

She brazenly sat herself on Astennu’s bed, eating her bagel. I didn’t think twice and sat on the edge next to her, placing the plate down on the mattress. My twin continued to stand, looking oddly unsure of himself.

“Don’t you want to sit?” She asked, confused.

“It’s probably because he’s never had a woman on his bed before,” I explained. “He’s been waiting for his mate.”

“Oh..” Evie said quietly, her mouth forming a cute little ‘O’.

But why did my brother look angry? It wasn’t as though it was anything to be ashamed of. I wished I had waited as he had.

Astennu ‘He better enjoy that damn bread because it’s gonna be his last,’ Aasim shook his head, equally mortified as I was.

“Why?!” I exclaimed.

“She was gonna find out anyway,” he shrugged it off.

“Ahbil! (Stupid!) Would you engage that brain cell, instead of letting it loose around your head like a damn screensaver!” I snapped and I was sure my face was back to being a deep shade of crimson, made deeper by my tanned skin.

“Astennu, it’s fine,” Evie patted the bed beside her.

The area so close to her had me feeling incredibly hot again and certain things in motion, again. Badru gave me a warning look, sensing my aroused state. I quickly sat, wanting to hide the growing bulge in my pants.

“…Do either of you care about anything like that?” She said quietly, playing with her bagel.

“No,” I slipped my fingers under her chin to tilt her face up to meet mine so she knew I meant it. The tingles from such a light touch buzzed all the way down my hand, directly to my heart. My whole chest bloomed with an incredible warmth.

I would have liked one of us to have been her first, as I wanted her to be mine. But it didn’t change anything for me or how I felt about her.

“I don’t care either…” Badru tentatively crept a hand towards hers, nervous because, so far, his advances had been shot down. “…I’d be a bit of a hypocrite if I did.”

To his surprise, she didn’t pull away, rubbing her thumb over the back of his knuckles; much to his glee.

Evie let out a long exhale. I hoped that she could feel it through the bond that we were sincere with our words.

“Before we get into it,” my brother frowned. “What exactly did Finley do last night… to you?”

“He just made a pass at me and when I said no, rather colourfully, he grabbed my wrist…” she started, but the deep growls from both myself and Badru cut her off.

‘I knew I should have done more than punch him…’ he snarled.

“He didn’t hurt me. He let go quick when I kneed him, hard. And then you punched him,” she glanced at my twin. “And he got rejected. I think he suffered quite a bit last night. Although not enough in my opinion,” she muttered. “You better talk to your parents about that, because I already heard rumours about how I’m either going to wind up in a cell or expelled from the pack.”

“There is no way in hell would we ever let that happen,” Badru took a chance to scoot closer. “Who do you think got you out of the cells last time?”

“I thought… it was your father?” She looked between us.

“Once our mom was done raging, we talked our dad around that it was an overreaction. It was only a dumb song after all,” I began.

“It was actually pretty f*****g funny,” Badru sniggered. The ‘Rage Against the Piano’, as we called it, was a particular favourite of ours. “Even our dad laughed, but never mention that. He’ll deny it.”

“I had no idea,” her brows furrowed, she seemed to have a hundred thoughts flitting through her mind.

“I always… kinda thought… you hated me.”

That vulnerable expression etched its way back onto her face, her eyes glistening. This was like a repeat of yesterday where all I wanted was to hold her, to allow the mate bond to soothe her.

“Never… not once,” my twin gently cupped her face and pressed his forehead to hers; a sign of deep affection between wolves.

“There’s no one we’ve wanted more. That guy will be dealt with later today,” I promised, leaning in to nuzzle against the side of her face and I took a risk at spanning my hands around her waist.

She didn’t pull away and let us comfort her. Goddess, she felt perfect. I wanted more, and to never let her go.

‘Dealt with? I’m going to f*****g kill him, is what!’ Badru tried to keep a lid on his anger.

‘Chill. We’ll deal with him, properly, in time. Dealing with him how we want to right now won’t help Evie feel more secure and it’ll only bring more speculation about her, which is precisely what she doesn’t want,’ I tried to keep my hands loose so I didn’t hurt Evie but I felt my jaw tick.

I may have to bide my time, but Finley’s fate in this pack was sealed.