LW2: Twin Mates

Chapter Thirteen - relief

RUDY GRACE SILVER

I can't help the anxiety that flips my stomach around as me and Ethan walk towards my house in our human forms.

I don't know why we didn't shift but we didn't. It's going to be a much longer walk and if someone doesn't talk soon, a very long awkward walk.

Thankfully, Ethan breaks the silence before I'm forced to.

"Are you worried about seeing your parents?"

I'm a little thrown off by his question. Is he curious about me or is he also hating the awkward silence?

I hope he's curious...

"No ... I don't know. I know they're okay, we would have felt the bond if they weren't but they didn't even bother reaching out after the attack."

Ethan doesn't say anything and I search his eyes. I look mostly for annoyance or pity but none's there. I'm shocked to see understanding in his eyes.

"You don't feel like a priority." He says, it's not a question it's a statement. I nod anyway.

"I...understand. My parents always favored Carter. Always saying how he was perfect and I was the bad acting one. He always made better grades. He done this he done that. It was worse after Lesli."

I try not to gawk at his outburst. I'm pretty certain this is the most he's ever spoken at one time. And I'm even more shocked when he starts to speak again.

"Our circumstances are different but it's the same. It's probably worse for you cause you're an only child."

I nod again. We stare at each other for a moment. It feels like a weights being lifted off my shoulders. There's an understanding. A connection. Something I don't share with Carter.

"Thank you for coming with me." I say, smiling softly. He smiles back, a real smile.

"Anytime princess."

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"We're so glad you're alright darling although we would have loved it you came sooner." My mom says to me. My dad just glares at Ethan.

If you wanted me to come sooner you should have reached out. But I don't say it out loud as much as I want to. It would only make things worse.

I glance at Ethan but his eyes are already on me despite my father.

"I'm sorry, darling. I would love to chat more but there's a big pack meeting that me and your father can't miss." Mom says, kissing me on the forehead before dragging my dad out the room.

Of course there is.

I turn to face Ethan fully and he holds out his hand.

"Let me show you something?" I nod, taking his hand, and he pulls me out of the room and we head outside.

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ETHAN RICHMAN

I don't know what I'm doing. I felt like something was finally going my way and I wasn't about to ruin it. Not when I could feel the disappointment coming off Rudy in waves.

Once we get to the place I wanted to show her I look around to make sure nobody's watching and I slide past the tall bushes.

I hear Rudy gasp slightly when she realizes the bushes are actually a secret entrance. I pull open the wooden door and turn to her with a smile.

She gasps again when she takes it in. It truly is mesmerizing.

It's an enchanted garden. Full of flowers of every kind, grass the color of limes, butterflies, every thing that would be in a dream.

"It was my grandmas." I tell her.

"It's gorgeous." I look at her then. Taking in her long brown hair and blue eyes. She truly is gorgeous. "It is." But I'm not talking about the garden.

She looks at me. Really looks. Normally I would look away from this type of intensity. But I don't.

"What are we doing?" She asks, sighing heavily.

"Huh?" I ask, but I know what she's talking about.

"This. Us." She gestures in between us. "What are we doing? We slept together last night. You're taking me to a special place and what happens when we go back home? We pretend we're nothing? We pretend we're not mates? We pretend we feel nothing when we feel everything? I know you do so don't even deny it."

I don't know if I could even if I wanted to. We haven't been nothing since the night of the attack I've just been too scared to admit it.

"Why do you push me away?" She asks quietly.

"I don't know." I answer. But I do know. I want her to  be mine and mine alone and that's never going to happen.

"Stop lying! Just answer truthfully!" She shouts.

"Because I don't want to share a mate with my brother! I want a mate who's mine and only mine. I don't like to share let alone the person who's supposed to be my other half."

She purses her lips before sighing. But I speak again.

"I know it sounds stupid. I should be thrilled to have a mate even if you're also partly my brother's too." She pulls me into a soul crushing hug.

I didn't know how much I needed this hug until her arms were wrapped around me. I rest my head on her shoulder.

"It's not stupid. Goddess... I should have thought about it from both your perspectives. I'm sorry, baby." She says, running her hand up and down my back soothingly.

"We can do this though. Both of you are my mates for a reason. I don't know what that reason is yet but we'll figure it out together, all three of us." She says. And the words don't spoil the mood. If anything it helps.

Maybe things would be okay. It would take time but it was going to be to be okay.

She pulls away and plants her lips to mine in a kiss.

No mater how soft the kiss is my knees feel like they're going to buckle from the relief that runs through me.

I smile against her lips and then we walk hand and hand out of the garden back to whatever awaits at home.

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