The Alpha Twins

Iris. (4)

It was strange here. I've never felt so safe.

I felt over-whelmed. Tears welled up in my eyes, my throat began to strain, and I just let the tears pour, struggling to breath as they did. I had done it, I had finally escaped, I did it.

But, never in my life did I think I'd have another mate, let alone two, twins.

They took me in, they were adamant they wanted me to stay. But, they won't want me to stay after I tell them everything that happened and why I ran. I am too dangerous for them.

I don't know if having mates is a good idea. Not after what happened with Gamma Josh.

But, there's a sense of security here that I severely lacked in my old pack.

Why do I feel like I could be happier here, with both of them? Why do they make me feel safe?

Gamma Josh never did.

I knew what was waiting for me. A long conversation about who is after me and why. What do I tell them? How do I tell them? Will they be disappointed that I was mated to someone else before them? How will they handle it? Will they still want me?

I wiped the tears from my cheeks, and tried my best to think of something else.

I looked around the room. It was beautiful.

The bed was much larger than I needed. I couldn't tell you how big it was, just that it is massive. It was painted white, with a luscious gray carpet, and a small white rug sitting on top of it. There are a couple of chairs scattered around the room and a nice little wooden coffee table to tie it all together. The windows are huge, with the nicest silky gray curtains that perfectly keep the sun away, if I wanted them too. Across from the large bed is a bathroom, there is a tub and a separate shower. I've never taken a bath before. I only had a broken pipe for my shower. But I was so filthy I knew a shower was the only way to get completely clean. There were all sorts of products to use. Shampoo and conditioner were a luxury I had never had before. There was body milk and shower gel and shower milk and everything you could possibly imagine.

I turned the shower on and navigated to the little tap between hot or cold or mixed-something I hadn't been able to do before as the pipe I used was always cold.

It was the most relaxing shower I have ever had. I followed all the instructions on the bottles and washed myself with everything I could. There were even products to apply afterward. I used this deodorant and body spray. I have never felt cleaner in my life.

At the sink there was a hairbrush. I was able to brush my matted hair the best I could. I was never able to do that before. I could never get the knots out with my old brush. I looked into the mirror. My hair was blonde, it hadn't been blonde in such a long time. I thought I was dark-haired as I got older. My skin was paler than I imagined.

A feeling squeezed in my stomach, like I was overly happy about something. I felt something swarming in my sides, like fluttering.

Chad brought a big pile of clothes to my room when I settled in, and left them on a chair for me to go through. I picked up a pair of jeans and a nice stretchy long-sleeved top, with a frilly neckline in a V-neck shape. I gave a look at myself in the mirror again, I could actually see my real self. Something I hadn't seen in such a long time.

I was going to have to tell them the truth, sooner rather than later. I didn't want to keep anything from them, either of them. If they kicked me out because of it, no harm done, I'd stick to my original plan and continue to run as far away as possible. But, the least I could do after they blessed me with all this was to be honest with them about why I'm here. After all, I might have brought the danger to them, unintentionally.

As I left the beautiful room, Phoenix came out of his room. And, I was surprised at how happy I was to see him. That feeling came back into my stomach, and Aurelia called 'mate' in my mind, again. But, I shrugged her off.

I stopped walking when he saw me. His face remained emotionless, and he began to walk over to me.

"What's up?" he asked me, and nerves filled me. He stood there, looking incredible, his face hardened, and at first I couldn't speak.

He continued to stare at me until I was able to recover myself.

"I need to speak with you and Chad, if that's okay?" I said, taking a deep breath. "I want to tell you who and why I was running" I told him, refraining from looking into his gorgeous but, scary deep blue eyes.

"Come with me," he said as he walked past me and down the stairs to another room.

He opened the door and ushered me in as he told me to "wait here."

I walked into the room, it was empty, there were just a few chairs stacked up and a large wooden desk table in the corner. The room itself was quite large.

I was looking around when Phoenix came back with Chad. I moved out the way of them. Chad greeted me with a smile, but Phoenix kept his face stern.

"Are you okay?" Chad asked me, kindly.

"Yeah" I replied to him.

"You look worried" he said, stopping still, looking at me reassuringly. Phoenix grabbed a few chairs and scattered them around and took a seat.

Chad placed a seat next to me.

"What I'm about to tell you is a little difficult for me to do" I told him, looking at the shoes on my feet, sadness washed over me again.

"Whatever it is, we'll help you" he said, and he lightly brushed his hand against mine reassuringly, but then thought better of it and pulled it away at the last second, just after I felt the tiniest spark of electricity gracefully graze across my skin.

"Sit down" Phoenix said, pointing at a chair next to me.

I did what he said and sat on the chair on my right, facing the middle of both of them.

"Whenever you're ready", Chad smiled at me.

"I belonged to the Crescent Moon Pack. I'm the last surviving member of my family."

"They all died there, under the rule of Alpha Felix." I took a deep breath. "My entire family for the last few decades had been slaves to that pack." I looked at Phoenix, whose gaze remained the same furious expression it always had.

"I kept to myself, I did the chores I had to do and, more importantly, I kept away from the Alpha."

"Until last year, when I found out I was mated to the Gamma," I said, and I was briefly able to make eye contact with both of them. I could see the fury as their eyes turned black, and they began to growl, furiously.

"We rejected each other!" I said quickly. Within seconds, they were able to calm themselves down.

"But, it was too brutal for me to stay."

"There aren't any feelings there!" I assured them as they began growling again.

"But, the entire pack knew, and it became harder for me to go around unnoticed. Even, the Alpha seemed to want to talk to me more often, telling me I needed to do a better job of keeping myself scarce. Even though it was the pack members who'd find me, torment me. I tried my best. I really did, but he didn't care. The punishments were much worse after that, and I just couldn't take them anymore. That's when I decided to run away. I've tried countless times to run away, but they always caught me. Everything got so much worse before I managed to escape, but eight months later, I finally did. I didn't want to chance them finding me again. I wanted to run to the other side of the world, until I met you two." I took a deep breath while they sat silently.

"I'll leave if that's what you want." I blurted out as the silence grew too loud for me to bare. "If you want to reject me, or punish me, I understand, but please, please don't send me back there, just let me run." I finished, feeling brave enough to make eye contact with both of them, but I was shocked when I saw the look of disgust on Phoenix's face and the look of confusion on Chad's face.

"You haven't done anything wrong!" Phoenix said, in disbelief.

"I kept the truth from you, and I was mated to someone else," I told him, aware he might get angry, but I was confused now, their reactions weren't what I was expecting.

Phoenix let out a deep growl and Chad looked at him. "matED, past tense" he told him, emphasizing the 'ED'.

"We knew you'd tell us when you were ready. As far as we are concerned, you didn't lie or keep anything from us. It took you, what?" he grinned. "A few hours to tell us?" Chad tried to joke.

"The fact that you used to be mated to someone else is completely irrelevant now anyway," Chad said softly.

"We aren't the type to punish members of our pack, either." Phoenix spat disgustingly.

"Sorry" I spat out pathetically.

"Did you keep running because you thought the Gamma would come after you?" Chad asked me.

"No. The bond is completely broken. I'm not even sure it was all there to begin with. I didn't really feel anything when we rejected each other."

"I thought Alpha Felix would send someone for me." I took a deep breath. "Hopefully, I'm too far away for him to bother," I explained to them.

"Are you comfortable here?" Chad asked me, so out of the blue I was taken aback.

"I am", I awkwardly made eye contact with him. He smiled brightly.

"Iris, we need to talk to our father. You can explore the house if you want, and we'll come get you after?" Chad told me kindly.

I looked confused and the sudden change of topic, the sudden change in both their expressions.

"Okay..." I replied, hesitantly.