Warring Twin Wolves

Chapter Seven

Cooper’s POV:

I was sitting in my office deep in thought. I was worried about Gabby. At the same time, I was over the moon happy because I had found his beautiful mate. I was concerned about how our happiness was going to affect my sister.

I had just gotten off the phone with the pack doctor. My twin had finally woken up. I didn’t bother to tell him I already felt it because I should have run over there immediately.

I am so ashamed of myself because while my sister was going through the worst trial life has given her so far, I was busy feeling so euphoric, I didn’t feel her pain. I was troubled as to what that meant.

We are so close, and part of the reason is our bond. Our mother asked us about it once, and when they finished explaining their connection to her, she told us that it sounds like a mate bond, we just didn’t want to jump on each other’s bones. We could mind link before we knew what mind linking was.

Is our bond going to weaken now that I have a mate bond with someone else? Maybe as werewolves, our nature is to seek bonds, and with us being in the womb together, our bond formed.

While I was pondering on all these thoughts around bonds, the phone rang. I didn’t want to talk to anybody besides my mate. I pick up the phone trying to will her cheery voice to be there when I do. She is probably calling to check up on Gabby’s progress. She has also probably spoken to her brother by now. Maybe I’ll get some answers today to fill in the blanks and get a complete picture of everything that went on that night.

Cooper:(with cautious anticipation) Hello, Dark Moon Pack.

Jaycie: Ooooh, so professional sounding. I am impressed.

Cooper: I can’t tell if you are flirting with me or messing with me.

Jaycie: Can’t it be both?

Cooper: Oh, I get it. You are trying to distract me from asking you about your brother.

Jaycie: No, silly. I am trying to distract you from all your worries. Besides, I haven’t spoken to him yet. Well, I have spoken to him, but he doesn’t want to talk about it yet, and I am not going to push him.

Cooper: The only thing that distracts me from my misery is you. I do have some good news, though. Gabby’s awake but I am afraid she is having a rough time of it. She is trying to refuse food, though, so I will have to go soon, so I can head over and talk to her and gauge where her mind is right now.

Jaycie: Oh, okay. well, I was also wondering, and it is just a suggestion mind you, um-

Cooper: C’mon baby, we can tell each other anything.

Jaycie: I want my brother there tomorrow, but I also don’t want to make your sister uncomfortable or upset. So, maybe we should postpone-

Cooper:(cutting her off) What? Postpone what? Oh, do you mean us getting our families together and then having you with me for always?

Jaycie: Well…

Cooper: It’s not happening. We are going to be together. Besides, Gabby probably won’t even be well enough to go.

Jaycie: All the more reason to-

Cooper: (cutting her off again) No, my love, I am not going to be apart from you any longer than necessary.

Jaycie: Let me try to talk to my brother again. Maybe all of this is a big misunderstanding and can be fixed.

Cooper: Sweetie, he rejected her.

Jaycie: I know! It’s horrible, but maybe he didn’t mean it, or thought she was someone else, or-

Cooper: OK baby. I will talk to you later. Bye.

Jaycie: Bye, my sweet love.

I hung up the phone and took a deep calming breath. There is no way I am going to be away from my love any longer than what is necessary. I want Jaycie and me to start our life together; you know, marking, mating, mating ceremony or marriage or both, pups. An Alpha ceremony where I get the title, and a Luna ceremony for my mate somewhere along the way. I picked up the pace to go see my twin.

One of the problems that keep bothering me is that I feel convinced that I need to be with my mate, and then in the back of my mind, I have a niggling annoying thought of what about Gabby? Can I just heartlessly flaunt my happy life in front of her? Maybe I am looking at this the wrong way. I need to encourage her and get her to see she is still going to have a happy life. I make it to the pack hospital and enter through the front door.

A nurse comes over to me, and says, “Oh, it’s good to see you, future Alpha Cooper. I can take you straight to your sister if you would like”. I nodded my head and agreed to her offer. She stops at the door to my sister’s room and opens the door for me to go in first. I gestured for her to go first instead. She smiled at me, blushed, and giggled. I am going to have to figure out how to stop random girls from flirting with me. I can’t have that kind of thing happen in front of my mate. Would it really be that hard to have an exchange with a woman, and not have her think that you are her next big love interest?

I enter the room after the nurse and I see my sister, at least I think it’s Gabby. She is sitting in her bed looking off in the distance and I waved my hand in front of her for a few seconds. Then I touched her arm, calling her name, and she broke out of the trance and looked at me. “Oh hi, Coop! How are you?”. I feel a little wary, and I keep going, and say, “Good Gab! Listen, can we talk about what happened at the party?”. A dark look came across my sister’s face. She looked like she was remembering the pain from the rejection and whatever else had transpired.

My twin and I have always been straightforward with each other. I decided to try that first by saying, “Gabby, witnesses said that you received a rejection from a certain Alpha. Did he do that as soon as he found you to be his mate?”. She was looking down at her blanket, picking at it with her fingers. My face and voice softened a great deal, and I said in an almost pleading tone, “Please Gabby, talk to me. There is nothing that you could have done to make you feel ashamed around me”.

She looked at me and asked, “Have you heard any rumors going around about me having s*x with multiple guys from all the packs?”. Wow, is she serious? I recovered from the slight shock that gave me, and said, “Nooo”, slowly. I was wondering where she was taking this next. In a very quiet voice, she said, “Well, apparently that rumor and others have been going around about me”. She looked up at me and said, “I swear, Coop. I am still a virgin. I know I am a little old to still be an unmated wolf, but I am”. Okay, I must admit. Now I am becoming really uncomfortable and very angry. I think we’re getting somewhere. I asked her, “Didn’t he hear your side of things?”. That is when she shut down. She started to cry while staring at the wall.

I put my fingers on her head to turn it towards me, I gave her a kiss on the forehead and hugged her. I asked if she wanted me to stay and play a game with her to pass the time, and she just shook her head and gave me a faint smile. I noticed she had dark circles under her eyes. How could she look like she doesn’t sleep well when she just slept for almost three days straight? I caught a nurse out in the hall and asked to speak to a doctor. When she returned with one, she left us to talk in the hallway. I was trying to ask him questions calmly, so I didn’t scare him, even though what I just saw scared me a bit. He said that her body had gone into shock before she passed out, and with all the pain she experienced, her body went into a weakened state. Her body may have been asleep, but her mind was stressed which did not allow her body to relax properly. The thing is, shouldn’t her wolf help her heal and make her feel refreshed and full of energy. I asked the doctor about this, and he stated that he wasn’t sure, but her wolf might also be in shock or is severely depressed and is dormant for now.

As I stormed out of the hospital, my wolf wanted to run, and get this out of our system. I went to the edge of the woods, stripped down, and shifted. I loved feeling the wind in my fur, and I imagined it would be like the experience of flight. I was starting to relax until I looked around and realized that we were going in the wrong direction.

‘Caden, where do you think you are going?’, I asked my wolf. He took a minute to answer and said, ‘We are going to see our mate and rip her brother’s face off'. ‘Okay mutt, turn around. As much as I agree with the sentiment, now is not the right time. Also, our mate would never speak to us again if we hurt her brother. Besides, we need to finish getting everything ready for tomorrow’. Caden turned without another word, and we ended up getting home a little later than I wanted.

After I took my shower, I called Jaycie.

Jaycie: Hello?

Cooper: Hi beautiful. How’s everything?

Jaycie: Hey. Did you see Gabby? How is she?

Cooper: Well, she was awake, and she spoke to me a little, but she does not seem like the regular Gabby. She looks like she’s been through the wringer.

Jaycie: What did she say?

Cooper: (hesitating) I will get back to you about that. I need to ask her if it will be okay to share this with you. She barely wanted to tell ME. Plus, that gives you time to speak to a certain future Alpha about the incident.

Jaycie: Okay, I have had enough of that. What do you want me to do? This is my brother and I love him.

Cooper: What about my twin sister? She won’t admit it, but I know just by looking at her how broken she is right now. She keeps trying to convince everyone she’s fine, but she’s got dark circles under her eyes, she just stares into space and zones out, she tears up unexpectedly, I could go on and on, Jaycie. You were there. She was in so much pain, she passed out, for Pete’s sake.

We had a little bit more back and forth, we discussed tomorrow and how that will work logistically, how she needs to talk to Danny, although she said she won’t tell me unless he gives his okay, (right after I said that to her earlier today, right?) and then I started to feel a little frisky, so I started up some dirty talk. Man, I hope everything works out tomorrow.