Bound to the Lycan Twins

Chapter 5

Charles Cooper’s POV:

I almost don't shower again before going to the ball. But I just finished the complete perimeter run and I don't want my mate to smell that on me.

I'm quick; in and out in ten minutes and down to the party in another ten, dressed in a dark blue suit.

The ball is winding down now and she might have even retired to bed.

I'm immediately engulfed in small talk with both members of the pack and guests.

I don't see my mate but Chuck is hard to miss. So immediately I can, I make a beeline for him.

The seven minutes he's older than me really inflated his ego. The fucker feels like he's better than me, that he's the optimized twin. He thinks himself so superior because he understands discipline and sacrifice.

Well I f*****g do too!

When Chuck asked me to do a perimeter run during the prime time of the ball, knowing fully well that if I found anything, I would have to follow it up and not only might I not be able to come to the ball I might not be able to see my mate for days, what did I say? Not what I wanted today to him, that's for sure.

No, I didn't say he should go f**k himself because it's not my turn to do a perimeter run. I said, “yes Alpha." I bowed and began immediately.

You would think that if I had to share my mate with any one, my twin brother would be a good candidate. But no, I would rather be blindfolded and pick at random from this room.

And he has decided to be personally affronted by this, as if I planned this with the Goddess herself just to f*****g spite him. As if she's not my f*****g mate too.

“I've finished the check Alpha.”

He stiffens, dismisses the boy he was talking to and turns to me. "Hit all the checkpoints.”

He did not expect me to finish so quickly and it shows on his face. I nearly throw my middle fingers up at him. “Isn't that lovely?”

“It is.” He replied flatly.

“Well, not that it isn't lovely talking to you Alpha but have you seen my mate? She'll look absolutely gorgeous in the dress I got her.”

His eyes shutter. He doesn't like that and I was counting it. Red will look like a dream but this is a little side benefit.

“My mate does look gorgeous, yes.”

“I have to go see.” I say and flounce off.

Twenty minutes later and I haven't seen her or even a glimpse of her. I meet up with Chuck and I can tell by the way his eyes are roving that he hasn't either. “Have you seen her?” he asks.

"Nope," I shrug. "Maybe she's gone to bed."

"I didn't see her leave. Although I did have to go to my office and get a few papers for the Alpha of Nightfang."

"I'll go check her room and you can check the grounds. She could be taking some air.”

“Ok.”

Fifteen minutes later, I've looked into every room in the house. I meet up with Chuck in the hallway to the ballroom. “I can't find her anywhere in the house.” I reported.

"She's not outside either. I went as far as the gates."

We're both silent for a minute before he bursts out, "What the f**k does this mean?"

I almost reply back snarky but his eyes are panicked and he is tapping his hand against his thigh. This is serious.

"I think our mate has been taken."

Goddess, and on her first day in the pack too.

“f**k," he says, slamming his fist into the wall. I'll have to tell someone to fix that after all this.

"The cameras, " I say, already moving. "let's check the cameras."

The two men on duty today look up as we enter and bow. “Good-"

"Out," Chuck orders..

They don't need to be told twice.

Chuck settles himself and begins to comb through the footage.

“There.”

We watch as he walks away from her and she goes to the food table only for her to leave the ballroom a moment later. She never comes back in.

"Do you have any idea who they are?"

"There's only two people I know who'd like to hurt her," Chuck says, head in his hand. "Some perimeter check you did."

Anger makes my body hot. "I was fast, Chuck but I was still thorough."

“Obviously not!

“Yes I was! It may not have happened during my shift," I yell back. "Besides if you had assigned more than one person to my squad maybe we'd have picked them up. You left our pack vulnerable for three hours because your pride can't take it that she likes me more than you.”

“No she doesn’t! Have you kissed her?”

I haven't but he doesn't know that. The way his eyes harden brings me immense joy.

“I'm going to go look for her.

“Me too.”

We stand, and as much as I hate to say this, as much as I hate asking for his help, I force the words out of my lips because it's for my mate. “If you don't find her by morning and neither do I, then we'll need to regroup and work together.”

He doesn't say anything and it annoys the hell out of me. “There you go, putting your f*****g pride again first! My. . . Our mate is missing Chuck. Gone! She's gone! There's no space for your ego here.”

I slam into his shoulder as I leave the room.

*

Vanessa Thorpe’s POV:

I wake up spluttering and coughing, feeling as if I'm drowning.

“Oh good you‘be woken up,’” a distorted voice says.

I'm cold and I can't move my hands to wipe my wet face. I splutter as I try to catch my breath. My hands are tied.

“Oh Vanessa,” the voice begins to get so close I can smell the alcohol on their breath. “Vee, Vee, Vee."

What's going on? Where am I? The last thing I remember is the ball, the food and Jenny! Yes, Jenny and her mate took me.

My ears are slowly starting to acclimatize. “First, what do you know about the Lycans?” Jenny asks.

There's no warning as a foot stomps on my hand. I scream. She chuckles as she does it again. “Come on, tell me.”

The tears are soaking into the blindfold. “I've been in their pack for one day. I don't f*****g know anything bitch.”

“Watch your tongue,” Nate says. I feel him nearby.

“I hate you, Nate. I hope you fall off a cliff, break every bone in your body and lay there for days slowly bleeding out, while the vultures feed off you.”

I can't brace for it, because I don't see it coming but the slap slams my head into the wall my back is against. I groan as blood trickles into my mouth.

“I told you to watch your tongue,” Nate says, grabbing my hair. “And you better know something useful, because thats the only way you'll keep that unruly organ in your mouth.”

"Now, let's try that again," Jenny says, putting her foot back on my palm. My screams start up again, “What do you know?”