Aiden and Ethan’s POV
“This is getting longer than we assumed. I’m starting to get apprehensive about not seeing my mate for two months now, and here we are in the pack finding a clue, only goodness knows if they exist somewhere. This is not fair to us. We did not see her, we missed her every single night, and we are far from where she is, yet the person who caused all this crisis that we are encountering now is with his mate. Even if they fought among themselves, at least he still gets to see her face every day. What about us? We don’t even know how she is now. Has she eaten? How’s our mate, Ava?”
Goodness, I missed her, I missed her smile. Ava, I missed everything about her. How I wish she was here with us. I’m looking for her every night.
Anna has been infuriating me lately. I know she doesn’t love me. That is why I accept the fake feelings she has towards me because I don’t want any unwanted female to get jealous of my mate when I get to meet her, but she has been clinging onto me. She’s a desperate lady. I don’t love her, I clarified it for her when we started fucking each other. We both had fun. Everything is clear to me. She wants to be my mate, the queen, and the mother to all the Lycans. In her dreams.
I shall protect my mate from her as well because she’s a threat. She has proven to me that she will be a threat in the future to my beloved Ava. My Imperial father is still there to deal with and hard to negotiate with. Anna is on the surface, and I have to deal with her as well. I should have rejected her when she told me she was in love with me at first, but I unknowingly brought a future problem for myself and my mate.
I know Anna too well. She will never let her go if she finds out Ava is my mate, and not only mine but Ethan’s mate as well.
If slaughtering her will make my mate at peace, I won’t hesitate to kill her. I was still thinking of this when I heard someone yell my name, and it was no other person but my rascal twin brother, Ethan.
“Aiden!” he called out my name.
“What? Why are you screaming out my name like that? You better have something reasonable to tell me for you to blurt out my name like that. If not, I will teach you an unforgettable lesson,” I threatened him.
“Wow! Chill, brother. What’s gotten into you? Why are you giving out a cold aura and threats like this?” he asked. “Who made you get angry like this, brother?”
“Ethan, I’m warning you. It seems my threats are nothing to you, right? I am busy thinking about my mate and out of nowhere you keep screaming my name,” I stated.
“Oops, my bad brother. I missed our mate too. I regretted not telling her I love her before we left. I want a long kiss to her plump pink brims, caress, and hold her in my arms while I cuddle her to sleep on the bed. Oh, Ava, I missed you.”
I fold my arms as I keep listening to his crap. Is this my brother, Ethan? Is it still the playboy I know? He’s in love with our mate, Ava.
I giggled, “You are now a grown-up chap, Ethan.”
“Boy? Do you know what you are talking about, brother.”
“We’re both the same age, and I am no longer a boy. I am not a virgin either. So, stop bluffing to be a man you are not. If I’m a boy, that makes you a boy also,” he roared in rage.
I couldn’t control myself as I laughed again and again. He’s so funny, and he looks cute whenever he’s angry. He’s about to burst out.
“Why are you laughing?” he asked me. “I’m sure what I say is not funny, so why are you laughing as if you are deliberately mocking me, Aiden?”
“I’m not mocking you. I just find you cute,” I told him. “I’m sorry If I make you mad, but I am older than you, even though we are twins. I won’t argue with you as your big brother. So, tell me, what makes you yell my name like that?”
“Uhh.”
“I am sorry, okay? Forgive me,” I apologize to my naughty brother.
“I wish I could fight you, but my heart tells me not to,” he sneered. “And why am I calling out your name to tell you about our sister, Isabella,” he uttered.
“Isabella? What is wrong with her? Is she behaving oddly in the cell again?” I asked.
“No, not at that. It’s about your girlfriend, Anna.”
“Point of correction Ethan. Anna is not my girlfriend, she’s only my sex buddy and not anymore. Next time you mention her as my girlfriend I won’t forgive you,” I warned.
“Okay, sir,” he chuckled. “I won’t repeat it. I’m sorry. My bad.”
“It’s okay. So tell me, what happened to our sister?” I asked again.
“It’s Anna.”
“What about her? Why do you keep on mentioning her? Is there something going on between you and her that I didn’t know about? I suspiciously asked my brother.
“What? Are you kidding me?” he said in disbelief. “You know I have someone I want to protect and love for the rest of my life. You didn’t allow me to talk before you attacked me with countless questions, and you keep on talking when I am trying to clarify things to you. Aiden, at least allow me to explain before you start asking and saying rubbish about me and your dirty sex buddy. Please.”
“Okay, go ahead. Whatever you wanted to say,” I stated.
“As I say, it’s Anna, she tried to kill our sister,” he grumbled.
“What? How dare she? Does she want to kill my only little sister? Where’s that bitch? I must go and find her to settle the tally with her. Where’s she, Ethan?” I asked my brother.
“Calm down, brother. Isabella was rescued by our father before she got killed by Anna. She’s now locked up in the dark cell by our father.”
“Dark cell? Good. How’s Isabella? Is she okay?” I asked him, getting worried.
“I checked on her. She is still in a coma. She’s gonna wake up soon, and father is still beside her.”
“You checked on her without me?” I uttered.
“I’m sorry, you were nowhere to be found. Come to think of it brother, why would Anna want to kill her? They were the closest person in the pack. Isabella treats her as her sister. What was the reason why she was doing this? That’s the question I keep on asking myself, but I have no answer to it. I should wait until Isabella wakes up to tell us what happens between them,” Ethan said.
“Wait, I think I know.”
“What do you know?” Ethan asked me curiously.
“Shut up and listen to me. I think I know why she wanted to annihilate her. Do you remember when Isabella said we are her mate? Anna was there when Isabella’s wolf called us her mates. She thinks our little sister is our mate. She wants to eradicate every female that stands between us, and she thinks Isabella is a threat to her since she wants to be my mate and queen to all the Lycans.”
“What?” Ethan was stunned.
“Your mate? The queen? Is she sick? She’s insane. I thought you guys were nothing. Why is she craving that kind of absurd thing? She’s so desperate,” he commented. “A Queen? And she also wants to kill Isabella, just because she thinks she’s a threat. Wow! She has a murky soul.”
“Wait, but our sister is not our mate. We both know Ava is our mate. What if she got to know about her?” My eyes widened. “She’s trying to kill her as well. But, she’s a human, brother. Anna is a Lycan female, while our mate is just a mere human.”
“Bingo! You finally put the puzzle together. We have to protect her at all costs. We have to protect her from Anna, even if it costs our lives. She’s dangerous,” I told him.
“No need for that. She can never escape her punishment. She will be annihilated by father,” he said. “And you know this, as well, brother.”
“Did you forget she’s a higher-ranked official daughter? Father won’t annihilate her for the sake of her father,” I told my silly brother, Ethan.
“What you say makes a lot of sense, brother. She will be acquitted, but she won’t escape any penalty either. Even if she manages to escape death, I will surely make that bitch suffers for what she did to our sister.”