Mated to Twin Alphas

5

After the incident in the campus parking lot, we were kicked off campus, lucky for me, when the principal showed up the twins only needed to pass him a glance before he sent everyone home instead of creating a major scene and escalating it further than it had already been dragged.

But it also meant he now knew who I was, I saw it in his eyes the moment he recognised Father and Anna, he was definitely skipping town before s**t started going down.

"Mikayla," Anna called at me from the other side of the passenger seats, but I couldn't bother to even look at her, I was still stressed from all that happened.

"Kay, I'm sorry." She stretched across and touched my arm causing me to jolt and shake her off from the sheer discomfort I felt, it was almost disgusting. "Kay look at me." She called at me again and I felt my face contort into anger even though I didn't actually feel anything at least with enough lies I could pretend I wasn't.

"Leave me alone Anna, just don't," I pulled closer to the window and looked out instead, I'd rather see the trees, at least they didn't agree to have me basically traded off to monsters.

"We didn't have a choice Mikayla, I hope you realise that." Father finally spoke up, after sitting and watching everything that happened the first thing he said was there was no other choice and I felt a part of me die from his words.

"Is that really all you have to say, you're supposed to protect me from monsters that are exactly like them, even if they're Alphas, even if they're some kind of apex right, you're-"

"You have no idea what's f*****g happening Mikayla!" Father snapped at me, it was the first time in my life he had ever taken that kind of tone to me, and it stunned me speechless as I stared at his eyes through the rearview mirror only to find him staring right back at me as the van came to a halt in the road before he pulled over and let go of the steering.

"Dad..." Anna reached forward but quickly dragged her hand back when he suddenly turned to stare at me.

"Mikayla, they're not something the local hunters can handle, we need help, okay, we can't even think of acting rashly around those two, please understand, they literally have the ability to murder a city's worth of people in a single night, if they commit to it they can kill us all in a single night, all of Hollow valley, but simply because you asked them not to; because you agreed to their terms they refused to actually hurt a single person, I know... honey I know it's a lot to ask." He reached across the seats and placed his hand on my knee making full eye contact, almost creepy eye contact.

"Until we can find a true way to fix the Jackson Brothers' problem, please bare with it."

"Father you're not giving me a choice here." I retorted back at him, refusing to accept things as they were being presented.

"Kay you don't have a choice." He sighed releasing his grip.

"What's that supposed to mean dad, I can't just do whatever they say-"

"That's exactly what it means hun." He replied. "Until we can fix this problem and get rid of them, you need to keep them from doing anything by any means necessary." He added, and I could already feel the shift in the atmosphere as I thought about the implications of what that one sentence meant, but just to make sure...

"What exactly does that mean?" I asked when he shifted back into gear and drove off again.

"I... I'm saying Kay," He paused and took a deep breath. "You have to fully commit yourself to the Alpha, both of them if need be, they want you, so you should give yourself to them, and try to keep them in check." He explained, and I felt every strength leave my bones and my jaws as well as my arms and shoulders going numb.

"Dad how can you say-"

"We don't have a choice, Anna!" He snapped at her when she rose up in my defence.

"She's your daughter!" Anna shot off another scream slamming her hand against the seat and pointing at me. "That's not something you say to your f*****g child!"

"What the hell can you understand when you nearly died twice today alone because of bad decisions, there's nothing; literally no other choice that we have right now, we either give her to them as they asked or face going into a losing war, not just any losing war but a complete bloodbath!"

"Isn't that just you having no backbone and failing to protect your daughter there?" Anna punched the seat again, and looking over at her I was shaken when I found her eyes puffy and running with tears. "You don't do that, you don't say that; we're hunts, she's a hunt, a f*****g hunt, a part of the family!"

"She isn't-" I heard him start and I felt my stomach shake and almost twist in uncomfortable paths when I remembered what Jason had told me in the parking lot. 'These people aren't your family' He had said, five words that had set me on a spiralling path downward as I remembered everything that they had done to make me look like them when I truly didn't.

"She's a hunt damnit, your daughter!"

"Kay is adopted!" He snapped, and afterwards, there wasn't another word from Anna, it felt like my soul was torn from my body when he said it, all the strength completely evaporated from my limbs, and as if all the life I felt had faded, and I just floated, Anna was seated, shocked and staring at her hands for the rest of the drive, and father... Alexander, kept his face straight and his shoulders stiff for the entirety of that time, whether he'd meant to say it or not didn't matter, he'd said it, whether he was lying about it or not didn't matter, he had said it, that cat had exploded out of the bag and nothing that anyone did or said would ever be enough to hide it again, it was truly the most horrible sensation I'd ever experienced.

Bitterness on a scale I'd never imagined packed itself inside of my mouth and worked its way down my throat like a pill too big to swallow, and I just stayed blank and gazed at the trees as they blurred past with the sound of the raging engine so muted that it truly did feel like death.