Chapter 114
epting My Twin Mates Chapter 114
Chapter 111 – Reunited? I of III
Badru
“We need more of us for this,” I squinted down at thepound, but it was who stood on the edge of
the ridge that held my attention; Astennu.
Through the binocrs, I could tell he was scanning the enclosed chalet and finding us our best way in,
a n of attack forming in his mind. The entire drive up here, following his trail, my focus had been split
between the road and our bond. We had seen each other tired from pushing our auras, but I had never
seen my brother that wiped out. And on top of it all he ran for miles upon miles. I had half a mind to
have knocked him out in the car and forcibly taken his ce.
“No, I think if we strike quickly, we have the element of surprise,” Astennu lowered his hands, gripping
the binocrs tightly at chest level. ‘And Ru? Quit staring, I’m fine.’
‘I found you out of it and bleeding. Every time we split up, you get injured.’
When I felt my shoulder burn, feeling his pain as my own as he faced Finley, a gaping fear festered
away. I thought that could have been it. I knew he could win any fight that came his way, but it was the
first time either of us had tasted the bitter vulnerability of mortality, that we weren’t impervious to harm.
And neither time was I there to help him.
‘I pushed my aura, that was all,’ he swivelled his head back to me. ‘I ran up here just fine, didn’t I?’
“Can you two save your twin arguments for another time?” Catalina grouched, cursing in Spanish as
she gave up on the devices in her hand. “Argh! We’ll have to go in without the earpieces. They aren’t
charging fast enough and the two new ones to rece those we lost after we shifted are struggling with
all the rock and tree interference.”
“Then we’ll have to rely on the mind-link and hope that’s enough,” my twin approached the SUV and I
followed behind him, standing at his side as we formed a circle between the four of us. “Adrian, you’ll
stay up here with that long-range rifle and watch our backs.”
“You’re leaving me behind?” He faked an overly dramatic sob. “After all the hours I dedicated to you as
your fake mate, you’re breaking up with m-”
Catalina cut him off with a keen p around the back of his head. “Shut up, tonto del culo (i***t).”
He cut her a sharp re, rubbing the point of impact.
“As I was saying, Adrian,” Astennu could hardly keep a smug grin from his face. “You need to stay up
here and watch our backs. If anything goes wrong, you’ll be the only one able to raise the rm. No
matter what, don’te rushing to help. If we’re caught, you get out and you call Matías and Thiago
when you have cell reception for backup. As Alphas,” he gestured between himself, me and Catalina.
“We have value as hostages. You they could kill.”
“They can throw as many wolves at me as they want, I’m not being taken as anyone’s hostage,”
Catalina’s gaze drifted in the direction of thepound, determined yet vulnerable. “Not when my mate
is down there.”
“Please, you’d just have to open your mouth and they’d be paying you to leave,” I muttered, feeling
sorry for anyone who thought she would go quietly.
I was the next to receive her irritated p, clipping the side of my ear. “Telosico (shut your trap).”
“Would you stop hitting us all?!” I rubbed my palm over the sting in my ear.
“Oh my f**k, we really are the dumbest rescue mission in existence,” Astennu massaged his aching
temples and wiped his hands down his face.
‘If you don’t stop interrupting our brother, I’ll p you!’ Baniti threatened, bouncing from paw to paw in
agitation to get to our mate.
“Let’s just go and make this up as we go along,” Astennu slid a long case from the SUV’s trunk,
thrusting it at Adrian’s chest. “Marceau is probably gonna see using anyway. There’s only one
guard I can see on a heavy door and no patrol, which means he probably relies on motion sensors and
cameras for perimeter protection.”
A smart approach that, unfortunately, would be harder to slip by. No physical patrol by a wolf meant no
scent markers worn into thend over time, which meant little chance of finding the ce via a sense of
smell. And with a wolf, we could slip by it if we timed it right. Technology, not so much.
“Let me go first and I’ll take out the guy on the door,” Catalina was busy shoving items down the back
of her waistband and handing me and Astennu simr bundles; a couple of sheathed knives dipped in
silver and a side firearm. “I can hold my scent and my aura, he’ll never see meing.”
“Enough talking,” I shoved the weapons within easy reach in the band of my pants and pulled my shirt
over them to conceal their location. “Time to make some poor life choices.”
“And Adrian?” Astennu tagged on as we neared the ridge to climb down to make our approach. “Keep
trying your cell. If you get some signal, phone your Alphas and get us a jumpstart on some
reinforcements.”
“What, that’s it? No good luck kiss, pudding pie?”
“Is his mate attached to him?” Astennu hissed through his teeth when we reached the bottom of the
rocky peak. “Because I may have to bury him on this mountain.”
“Ha, she’ll have your ass and not give a s**t that you’re an Alpha,” Catalina hopped down the tree-lined
base of the ridge, taking up a position to shoulder a trunk and size up her opponent in the distance.
‘Do I get a good luck kiss?’ I yfully elbowed my brother in his side. ‘Or do pudding pies supersede
twins?’
‘Goddess, all the times you can grasp sarcasm and it’s now?’
‘You’re joking around and haven’t even realised the devil spawn is waving over at you?’ Baniti pounded
on the side of my head to gain my attention. ‘Hemar (ass).’
My head flew up in her direction to see the guard sprawled on the ground and Catalina waving her
arms at us furiously that the coast was clear.
‘Am I saving your mate for you as well, or what?’ She signalled us from the door of thepound
building. ‘Move it, clones.’
Hearing no rms and no rush of enemies swarming to assist their fallenrade, Astennu and I kept
low and ran along the snow-covered clearing, illuminated by the crescent moon above. The only stain
upon the white snow was the blood split from the guard, a precise slice made directly to his carotid
artery on the side of his neck.
‘You moved fast,’ Astennu bent down to dismantle the firearm the man carried and check for a possible
silent rm he could have triggered.
‘You clones were busy with your clone banter,’ she huffed in an effort, shouldering the stiff and heavy
metal door open. ‘I swear, am I the only one who wants their mate?!’
I was about to bite back a retort, incensed she thought I was taking any of this lightly. Of course I
wanted my mate back, I had dreamed of my nour el-ain ever since she was taken from me. To my
surprise, it was my own wolf that held me back.
‘She’s edgy because she has a mate and hasn’t even been able to hold them. We sailed through the
air naked without a second thought when Evie ran,’ he reminded me of one of my more stupid ideas.
At the time, I na?vely thought it was the gant way to catch my mate; to course through the air, have
hernd on top of me so she wouldn’t be hurt and then we would stare into each other’s eyes and fall
in love in an instant. In hindsight, I saw the w in my n.
The distorted reverberations of shouts and yelling echoed around the small clearing surrounding the
mix of the cold concrete prison building and cosy French chalet. It wasing from an unknown point
on the other side to us and it would only be a matter of time before it spilt out at our feet.
‘I don’t know what’s going on down there, but it’s pandemonium on the other side of thepound,’
Adrian put an answer to themotion. ‘I can’t see what exactly from my vantage point, but it looks
like a prison break is beginning to rage. I suggest you hurry, no dilly-dallying, pooh-bear.’
‘Is Evie with them?’ I asked for my brother, seeing as his temple was busily throbbing with a vein.
‘I can’t tell, but I don’t think so. And I’m not seeing anyone who looks like the description of her father or
Catalina’s mate. You need to be quick ande out the way you’re going in. The guards are starting to
fight and I can’t cover you if you head out another way.’
The stark corridor ahead of us through the doorway was only lit with the dim emergency lighting strips
overheard, a silence emanated from it, punctuated by the odd shout and crash that could well stem
from whatever riot boiling over outside.
‘Evie wouldn’t go anywhere without her father and if he was injured worse than we know in that match,
they might have taken him to get medical attention,’ Astennu slowly crept forward inside, listening out
for any dangers ahead. ‘If she went anywhere, it would be to get him.’
‘We follow the bond,’ I trailed behind my brother, sensing the same as him and feeling a gentle pull on
our tether like soft hands pulling on a rope.
With every step, my adrenaline raced and the pulse in my ears soared. My body reacted like this once
before, when I raced my twin up the stairs of our home to find our mate creeping from my bedroom. My
whole world had spun on its axis for her in that moment and there wasn’t a mountain I wouldn’t have
moved for her. The further I quickly marched into the corridor the more my world began to spin again,
the embers that warmed it reigniting.
I was so engrossed in it, I almost missed the rustle and click of someone concealing themselves
around the corner, multiple someones.
In a blur of movement, they spun from the corner to aim their gun. I yanked the long barrel up as they
fired, sending the shot over my shoulder and I heard it nk into the stone behind me.
My world ceased to spin and came to a screeching halt, staring into a pair of eyes that glistened in
every shade of grey and blue imaginable. They were more beautiful than I remembered and zed
with more sparkle than was possible.
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“Evie?”
‘My queen!’ My wolf howled.