My Twin Alpha Mates

Chapter Two

Pisces' POV

I woke to the sound of busy hallways, people rushing and shouting outside my ridiculously large bedroom chambers. I took my new silk eye mask off my face and shuffled across the silk sheets and reached for my phone on the bedside table. A couple texts notifications from Cleo and Felix. I decided to check the message from Felix first.

Hey, how are you?

A bitter feeling waved over me and I hastily texted a response,

Like you care. I haven't heard from you since I was forced to move here.

To offer some perspective, it's been four days. It's now Friday. So yes, I was feeling a little abandoned by Felix. I exited out of my messages with him and checked the messages from Cleo,

Hey girl, you up yet?

Omg you sleep in so late, hurry up! I wanna go for a horse ride.

If you aren't up in 10minutes, I'm coming in to wake you.

I began to text my response just as the large wooden door swung open and Cleo strode in. She smiled, "Oh, good, you're awake." She beamed. "Now get up! Let's go for a ride."

I rolled my eyes at her enthusiasm but found myself smiling too. I swear the angels send Cleo to me at the right time. She has been helping me through my grief so much these past few days. I definitely don't feel quite myself yet, but she's really helping me get there.

Xavier's been keeping his distance oddly. Perhaps he really does respect that I need space? I kind of can't help but feel a little bummed that he hasn't spent any time with me. Dinnertime is probably the only times he has seen and spoke to me, and that's because his father decided to seat him next to me. Their family, my father and myself, and the third in command and her family all sit at this very long table in some lavish dining room every night. It's kind of like we're this one big family, but not a happy one.

"Come on already!" Cleo laughed and threw a pair of jodhpurs onto my lap. I sat up and kicked the think, silk duvet off. I gathered the rest of my clothes and changed into them before quickly brushing my hair and teeth. When I exited my bathroom, I spotted Cleo walking along my bookshelf, reading the titles of each book. She pointed at a copy of Black Beauty,

"I read this when I was 10. Had me crying for days." She stated simply. "What's your favourite book?"

"Uh.." I thought. "To be honest, I'm not really much of a reader. Mum would make me read books for my schooling, but the only one I could read to the end and actually enjoyed was the Book Thief. Rudy was just so adorable."

"Can't say I've read it." She shrugged. "Alright, you ready? Let's go."

When we got to the stables, our two horses were already tacked and ready to go. Not long later, we were riding through the forest that surrounded the south side of the castle grounds. "You excited for the ball tomorrow?"

"I don't know." I shrugged, "I feel kind of like it's a bit pointless to have."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, the point of it is to welcome me and my father, but I've been getting the vibe from your family that I'm not overly welcome? I feel like everyone avoids me."

Cleo feigned a look of hurt and I rolled my eyes, she knew I wasn't talking about her. She's been an amazing friend. "I assume you really mean my brothers. Look, Elijah hasn't been at any of the dinners or around anyone because he's a loner. He hates people, he'd prefer to spend all his time getting ready. He hasn't been avoiding meeting you, he just avoids people in general." She explained. "You'll finally get to meet him tomorrow. And Jax, well shouldn't his mullet speak for him? He's actually fully dove into the world of drugs this year. I honestly can't believe he's my twin, we couldn't be any more different."

I nodded, my mind drifted over to Xavier and before I couple ask, Cleo spoke again, "Seth has been chatting to you hasn't he? I thought I saw you two kicking the soccer ball around yesterday."

"Yeah," I nodded, "He's been friendly, he's good at small talk."

"Yeah he is. He's always good at keeping the conversation going that brother. Oh and what about Xavier? He sits next to you every night at dinner." She waggled her brows.

"I think your dad might have told him to." I mumbled. "He hasn't really spoken to me much at all these last few days."

"That's odd." She stated, a genuine look of confusion crossed her face. I gave her a questioning look,

"Why? It's not like we know each other or are friends."

"Yeah but he told me you're-" she froze in her sentence and a sheepish look crept over her. "Nevermind."

"No, he told you what?" I frowned at her.

She shook her head profusely. "It's not my place to say."

"Tease." I rolled my eyes at her, but gave a small smile to show there was no bad blood. I respected her value of trust and loyalty. I felt my phone buzz inside my pocket. I shifted forward in the saddle and pulled my phone out to see Felix's name flash across the screen.

"Who's calling you?" Cleo asked. I stared at his name for a couple more seconds before declining the call and putting it back into my pocket.

"Felix." I muttered, still feeling bitter.

"Have you not spoken to him in all this time?" She asked surprised. I shook my head.

"He ran away when I needed him. He got angry at Xavier and chose to have that as his focus instead of keeping calm for me." I shrugged. "He's only just reached out this morning to see how I'm going. So, he also hasn't messaged any of the last days, while I've been struggling to cope. Yeah, he's not really been a best friend lately."

"I think Felix got a bit wound up the other day because.. hear me out, but I got real jealousy vibes from him. Like, maybe he's crushing on you, and didn't know how to handle it when a prince, and one of the next in line to be Alpha, was giving you attention?"

"That's ridiculous. He's like a brother to me, we've been best friends since we were seven." I waved a dismissive hand. Well, I was seven. He was five.

"Why don't you invite him to the ball tonight? Or we could just ride over to the farmer's village now and talk to him? A friendship that long deserves an explanation." She said firmly. I shook my head, the last thing I needed was a reason to start thinking about all the s**t things with my life right now. That would just make me think of my mum and... I shook my head again.

"No, I think I'll leave it for now."

She shrugged, "Alright." I noticed her eyes go a little foggy and white for a few seconds, I've realised this happens when the wolves use their mind link to communicate. Her eyes returned to normal and she grimaced. "I have to go back, I'm late for training. You should join in today; those sidelines always look so boring."

I pressed my lips together to form a flat line and scratched my neck behind my ear as I thought. I nodded, "Alright, I s'pose knocking around some werewolves could be fun."

"Pfft. As if. I'll thrash you." Cleo joshed. "Come on, I'll race you back."

We galloped back towards the castle; Cleo won as per usual. Her horse Rave was one of the fastest stallions in the stables. They often raced him at the humans' horse racing events, I believe he's won them something over five million dollars so far or something. 

As we arrived at the training grounds, instead of walking over to the stone bleachers, I walked onto the field with Cleo. I looked around the different people that were here. King Alpha Drago and most of his children; Xavier, Seth, Cleo, Jax, Milo and Seven. Of course, Elijah wasn't present. He's been a ghost the entire time I've been here. The third in command, Sheila was here with her three children, Derek, Diego and Dyson, they were triplets and similar age to myself. Their mother, Sheila was a Warrior Wolf, she led many battles and was a fierce component.

"Oh, welcome Pisces!" Drago outstretched his arms with a smile, "I'm glad you've decided to join us today." He then grinned at the others, "It looks like we have two surprise trainees today." He then nodded in the direction behind me. I turned my head over my shoulder to see a tall, broad shouldered young man, who looked only a couple years older than myself. He was muscly, a chiselled jaw, and defined features, he had short brown hair – all these features very similar to Xavier. Except for his eyes. A piercing green, like the forest. My guess –

"Elijah, welcome."

Elijah stopped walking to sniff the air, his eyes turned very dark, to almost a black colour. He looked fierce and determined. He looked directly at me. I watched, startled and perplexed as he turned around and strode off hastily. I watched after him with confusion before turning to look at everyone else to see them equally confused. Xavier was the only one who didn't look confused. He looked angry. He sprinted off, after his brother. I looked at Cleo, questioning her with my eyes.

"Ahh, well I guess Elijah and Xavier have somewhere else to be right now. Let's get started shall we? Cleo, you're with Jax, Milo and Seven obviously you two will be partnered as usual. Derek you can go with Seth. Dyson you're with me. Diego, your with our newcomer." He waved a hand at me.

Everyone started to shift into their wolf forms. Diego jogged over to me and gave me a friendly smile, "Hey, I'm Diego."

"I know, we met the other night at dinner..." I trailed off, a bit confused as to why he was introducing himself for a second time. He chuckled and shook his head,

"Right, sorry. So uh, I'm assuming you'll be using your magic on me in my wolf form? Or should we just go no magic, no wolf form and just mundane combat?" He asked as I was busy staring off in the direction Elijah and Xavier had fled in moments prior. I looked back at Diego and shrugged,

"Which ever is fine with me."

...

Training passed slowly, the entire time I could barely keep my mind off of the twins. When training ended, I raced up to Cleo and hastily dragged her off the field. She gritted her teeth and looked very uncomfortable.

"What you were going to tell me earlier today, about Xavier, is he my mate?" She was silent, and rocked back and forth on her heels. I spoke again, "And Elijah, on the field earlier, I've seen too many werewolves give that look when they see their mate for the first time... surely this doesn't mean that they both are..." I shook my head. "I mean that's just impossible."

Cleo shook her head, "It's not impossible. Just extremely rare. What a predicament." She shook her head and folded her arms.

I shook my head, "I changed my mind, I don't want to go to the ball." I said quickly. I felt my breath hitch in my throat and my heart thundered in my chest. The Moon Goddess must truly hate me to match me to two people, two upcoming Alphas!

"Come on, it's not that bad." Cleo paused as she thought about what she was saying, "Actually, it's pretty awkward." She nodded affirmatively. "But it'll be okay!" She quickly blurted, "We'll do up a pros and cons list, I'll tell you everything there is to know about them. Oooh! You could go on dates with them and get to know them before deciding. Best not to pull an Ashley, She's Dyson and Derek's mate. She's with them both, I can't imagine how awkward things would be in the bedroom. It's so weird how comfortable they are at sharing." She shivered.

"Cleo."

"Right, sorry. I tend to ramble a lot don't I." She muttered more to herself.

"What do I do?" I sighed and allowed my body to fall to the ground, I first sat cross legged on the grass before falling onto my back. I stared up at the blue sky, and the odd fluffy passing cloud.

"Honestly, I'm not even sure if Elijah will want this, so you might not have to worry about breaking anyone's heart."

My heart felt a small jolt of pain and I looked at her confused. "He doesn't want his mate?"

Cleo pressed her lips together to form a flat line, "Uh, well remember how I was explaining how he's a bit of a loner? He sort of doesn't care about anything. He hasn't since..." She paused and looked directly ahead at a tree. Her breathing faltered a little, "Since our mother passed away eight years ago." I sat back up and looked at her. She sighed and sat down beside me and picked at the grass, pulling little grass blades out of the ground as she spoke, "When we lost her that day, we lost Elijah too. He shut himself off from the world. Dedicated himself to training and battles. He never shows emotion, never angry or scared, or happy, or sad... He never talks to us, only to our dad and his twin, Xavier. But even with Xavier, he's a bit indifferent."

"That's really sad." I told her. She nodded.

"When we were little, Elijah was my world. I looked up to him, he protected me in every way. We often played together. He was my hero. He and Xavier were lucky, they had the most memories with mum, they were 16 when she passed, so she was even there for their first transformation. I was only 11 when she passed." She mumbled and threw the blades of grass at the ground.

I suddenly found myself feeling a little grateful. It's been hell losing my mother, but she was there my entire childhood. I had twenty years with her, she was there for everything, well almost everything. She disappeared a lot during the wars. I wish she was here now though. I really need her advice.

I looked up at the sky, in hopes she might just randomly appear, like Mufasa did for Simba. Perhaps I should come check at night time when the stars are out. I shook my head, maybe through a spell it might be possible, but I'd have to learn how to cast. And that wasn't very likely without having a teacher. It also wasn't likely because my mum begged me to promise her that I wouldn't learn how to cast spells. She wouldn't tell me why, but it was her dying wish. So, I obliged. 

"I'm sorry to hear about your mum. You lost her at a young age. That's not fair." I said and glanced back at Cleo. She gave me a small, thankful smile.

"It helped having my family. Elijah made it a bit harder, but Xavier really took the wheel and helped us to pull through. Tomorrow night, is going to be fun, we're going to dance and meet new people from other packs, and it's going to be fun. To hell with my brothers, they can sort out this mate issue between them for now."

I nodded, not 100% certain though. Maybe things will turn okay.