Chapter 111
epting My Twin Mates Chapter 111
CHAPTER 108 – SPLIT UP?
Astennu
“Ok, we’ve waited long enough,” I shook off the lightheadedness twinging my temples and manoeuvred
through the sparse crowd at the top of the fighting pit.
At the base of one of the two staircases, I felt something dribble down my lip, a tang of metallic taste
ying on my lips. I wiped under my nose and it came back covered in blood.
‘I don’t feel great,’ Aasim slurred, slumping in my mind.
I caught myself on the polished wood bannister, sensing the control on my aura fluctuating and a
strange pressure headache forming. This was the feeling I got when I was beginning to push my aura
beyond its limits, which was weird because I knew I could hold it longer than this.
“You ok?” Adrian spoke lowly, catching me under my arm. “Come on, Aste. I don’t wanna have to carry
you like a princess, but I will if I have to.”
I rumbled a groan. “Would you quit talking, already?”
“That I would, but you’d miss my dulcet tones,” he fished out the gold pocket square from his jacket and
handed it to me. “Try and stem the flow as best you can and I’ll try and lead us out of here.”
“Aste!” Badru’s crackled voice came through in my ear.
f**k, of course he would sense it.
‘If you tell him the truth, he’ll try toe back for us and probably do something dumb and impulsive to
do it,’ my wolf whimpered as another wave of painnced my forehead.
“I’m fine,” I lied. “Keep going.”
He wouldn’t buy it for a second. He only needed to buy it enough so that he didn’te rushing back.
I managed to keep upright, somewhat normally, sniffing the blood away long enough to get through the
main exit. As we passed the bouncers, Adrian slung my arm over his neck, adopting a fake smile for
the audience.
“My lil’ butterbean here had a few too many of thoseplimentary champagnes,” heughed over his
shoulder. “Let’s get you home, sweetie, so you sleep it off.”
‘I swear, one more stupid pet name and I will bury you once we’re back on American soil,’ I pinched the
bridge of my nose, catching the itch of fresh blood beginning to pour.
‘b***h all you want, cupcake, it got us past the doors without questions.’
The tension in my head began to ease and, away from the club, I released my aura, sighing in relief as
the build-up of power flowed through my pores.
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“s**t, give me warning next time before you explode all over me,” Adrian’s neck bared at an unnatural
angle, his entire posture almost bowing.
“Would you stop! For the love of goddess,” I growled, pressing the handkerchief to my nose just as it
began to gush.
“No way, I’m milking all these innuendos for as long as possible.”
I strode past him, a slight huff leaving me. No wonder I had lost control having to deal with him for the
past two hours.
We came up to the SUV parked outside the hotel and I took the fob from my pocket to pop the locks.
“Here, I’ll take those,” Adrian made a grab for the keys. “Get in the back and get yourself right. You can
direct me.”
I wasn’t in any state to refuse and my body grew limp on the backseat, not realising how much I
needed to take the weight off. I directed Adrian’s steering based on how my bond with Badru tugged as
we turned down roads. The old-style cast iron streetmps whizzed by in a short burst before the
colourful lights of the bridge came to a standstill. Adrian got out and I heard him speak, his voice
echoing along the man-made structure, followed by the grunt of effort… and I was fully aware of what
woulde next.
“I f*****g knew you were lying!” Badru wrenched open the car door opposite me, fixing me with a
worried re.
“I’m fine. I just overstretched it, holding back my aura.”
“That right there is why all you men need to carry a pocket square so you can offer it to the damsel in
distress,” Catalina pointed to the handkerchief in my hand and jumped into the driver’s seat, rubbing
her hands together over the heater.
“Since I caused it – move over, you – I couldn’t leave him bleeding all over the ce,” Adrian shoved
her out of the driver’s seat and over the centre console. “I teased him a little too hard. I didn’t realise I
was pushing the control on his aura.”
‘Pushed our control? We damn near exploded,’ Aasim grumbled a small whine in lingering difort.
“Ru, make yourself useful already and hand me some clothes. My chest is about to pop out in this
thing,” Catalina snipped, her form almost shaking. “We got mates to rescue and I’m not doing it with my
chichis (t**s) out.”
‘I had the chance to shove her in the river,’ Badru shook his head, his mouth pulled in a tight line as he
rifled through the trunk for her bag. ‘But nooo, I just had to take the moral high road.’
“Why don’t we all get changed and put our chichis away while we wait for these fuckers to show
themselves?” I cut to the chase, needing a distraction from the retreating pulsation in my forehead. “It
isn’t as though any of us can fight in these suits.”
I changed with some effort in the back seat to a simple ck long-sleeve shirt, ck pants and boots,
something that blended in effortlessly into the night, and looked anywhere bar the front as Catalina
stripped down without a care. With his boots thrown over his shoulder, Badru jumped into the back seat
with me in a hurry.
“There’s soundsing from beneath. I think they’re on the move.”
Sure enough, up the ess ramp came a series of three vans, dark in colour and slightly different from
the one that preceded it. Were they all going to the same destination?
“Al’ama (damn), we’re gonna have to split up to find that rogue and Konstantin,” Badru wiped a hand
down his face, casting me another worried nce.
“I don’t think we do,” Adrain spoke quickly. “Evie being your mate brought all of this together. It’s too
much of a coincidence for it not to be fate. Those two men are going to the same ce.”
“Cata, do you feel anything from the bond to your mate?” I tried to look over the back of my brother’s
head as he leaned forward to pull his boots on.
“No,” her eyes scrunched shut and she took deep breaths in through her nose and out through her
mouth. “…Not since they knocked him ou-”
Her eyes flew open,nding on thest van that swayed and rocked violently and, just as suddenly,
stopped. “I felt him! Whatever they gave him, he was fighting it. Follow thatst van.”
Once the target vehicle had enough of a lead, Adrian set off, keeping us at as far a distance as
possible without us losing sight. The other vans quickly split off, heading in other directions. Our van
was following a course southwards, directly towards the central Pyrenees; a mountainousndscape
just like the one Finley had described. With each mile we followed, my bond to my ammar and my pup
tugged that bit stronger and I had to concede that Adrian was right… Catalina’s rogue mate and
Konstantin were heading to the same ce, to Evie.
But another problem began to present itself as the city of Toulouse faded from urban to residential and
the small number of passing cars diminished to virtually none.
“We’re not going to be able to keep following like this,” Badru voiced the same concerns as they formed
in my mind, ncing at the clock disyed on the dashboard. “It’s 2am, there’s no cars on the road
other than us. If we keep following, they’ll know what we’re up to.”
“Cata, strip,” I wasted no time ripping off the shirt I had just changed into.
“Excuse me-”
“We need to get out and follow in our wolf form. It’s the only way we can do this and not be seen,” I cut
off her protests. “And we need what’s in our SUV, so we can’t all go. Badru has to stay so he can direct
Adrian through our shared twin bond.”
‘You were almost passed out a second ago,’ my brother grabbed my wrist before I could remove my
boots.
‘I’m the fastest and you know it,’ I met his eye.
He reluctantly let go and let me strip off, ready to shift as soon as the car stopped.
“You know, there’s less extreme methods you can take if you didn’t want me anywhere near the wheel,”
Catalina muttered.
“This isn’t The Fast and The Furious: France Edition, Cata.” I had vivid memories of how she had made
a nine-hour car journey in seven and a half.
As soon as Adrian pulled over, I kicked the backdoor open and shifted as I exited, running after the van
in the far distance.
“Move over. I need to drive for this,” was thest I heard of my brother over my paws kicking up frozen
dirt and snow.
Catalina’s equally ck wolf to mine was only a few paces behind Aasim and me, catching up little by
little on each of her bounds. Her Alpha wolf wasn’t too dissimr in size to Aasim, only smaller in her
muscle build. We kept off the road, keeping to the vegetation and trees where we could, our midnight
fur blending in well with the night, even against the white snow that began to dominate thendscape.
The higher in altitude we ran, the more remote and isted the terrain became.
Turning off of the small, winding road, the van veered to the left on an unmarked track. In light, the
tracks in the snow would give it away, but in the pitch ck, Badru might miss it.
‘Keep chase,’ I instructed to Catalina. ‘I’ll catch up.’
Finding the best tree that would face the direction my twin and Adrian would be approaching from, my
wolf rubbed the scent nd at the outer top of our tail against the bark. Badru would never miss our
scent, no matter how small or where.
Letting him know to keep the SUV’s windows down to find the turn-off, I rushed to catch up to Catalina,
finding her prowling a ridge that overlooked a strange-looking chalet, a mix between a home and an
industrialpound.
‘The van drove around the back,’ her dark eyes narrowed, glistening. ‘I didn’t see where they took
them.’
We nudged her with our muzzle, knowing the struggle gripping her… so close and so far, all at once.
These past two months had felt like two centuries.
‘We’vee this far and we’re leaving with them, today,’ my heartbeat began to soar.
Somewhere inside those walls, Evie was waiting…