MY TWIN ALPHAS

Chapter Five

Seth laughed at my words, and Arthur growled.

“What makes you think I’m gay?”

“Because you are twenty-three, and I just realized I have never seen you with a girl since I was like eleven or twelve.

I know Seth isn’t.” The thought of him with Melana irritated me, and I wanted to claw her eyes out.

“Seth is just selfish by not waiting, and I’m not gay, Lucy. I am just saving myself for my mate,” he said, looking over his shoulder at me.

“So, you’re still a virgin?” I asked him.

“Yes, Lucy, he is still a virgin. I hear him w*****g all the time,” Seth told me, and Arthur elbowed him before growling at him.

“Why the sudden curiosity in our s*x lives, Lucy?” Arthur asked me.

“I was just wondering, is that all?”

“Fine, what about yours then? Have you been saving yourself for your mate?” Seth asked, turning in his seat and looking back at me.

“I don't have a mate. You both know that. I have no wolf, so even if I did, I would never realize him,”

I told them. The thought saddened me. I loved the idea of mates but knew I would never find mine unless he found me and told me. But no one wanted a modification for a mate.

“Your mate is presumably closer than you think, Lucy. You will find him,” Arthur said.

“Or them!” Seth growled at him, making me furrow my brows at his sudden hostility.

“You still didn’t answer my question. You better not have joked around with that Mitchell.

Can’t stand his arrogant ass,” Seth growled at me. I rolled my eyes at him and his overprotectiveness.

They were like big brothers to me growing up, but now things felt different, and I suddenly found answering uncomfortable.

“No, of course not. He is a friend,” I told him, looking out the window. Their scents were overwhelming in the car.

I wondered what cologne they’d changed to, it smelled divine.

I put the window down to get some fresh air.

We were not far from home now, and dread was starting to fill me.

“She isn’t very good at listening?” Seth mumbled, earning me to look at him.

“Huh?”

“You still didn’t answer.”

“Why do I have to?” I asked him.

“Well, you asked about Arthur’s,” Seth said, and I saw Arthur’s eyes dart to mine in the mirror.

My fSefaithated under his severe gaze, forcing me to pull my eyes from his.

“Yes.

I am saving myself for the mate I don’t have, if you must know,” I told Seth, and he nodded.

“Good,” he said, glancing around at the road. I shook my skull at his phrases. Did my mother tell them to inquire about my non-existent s*x stamina? Their interest bewilders me.

Though I was curious about Arthur’s, I suppose it was my fault for bringing it up.

“So, will you tell me what you need to tell my mother? I want to know what you did that will make what I did look like nobody,”

I asked them, and they looked at each other.

“Nothing yet, but she will be pissed off,” Arthur said.

“She will be pissed off at you. She may kill me,” Seth said, and I think I saw regret flash across his eyes as he looked at his brother, making me surprised at what it was he regretted doing.

Pulling up, I groaned when I saw my mother standing out the front. If looks could kill, I would turn to ash the moment I stepped out of the car.

My mother came storming over to me in all her blazing-hot anger. I could practically see the steam coming off her as she boiled like a kettle about to scream at me.

“Don’t you run from me!” she growled as she reached me, and Arthur stepped in front of her, her hand connecting with his chest instead of my Seth.

I knew I deserved it, but I sure as hell didn’t want to get in trouble. If she would only hear me out, I never meant to blow up the science lab.

Yes, I intended to start the fire, but I never aimed to destroy the facility. And I still had my reasons for doing it if she would just let me explain.

“Reika!” my stepfather snapped at her as he walked out. Arthur rubbed his chest where she hit him as I cowered like the chicken I was behind him, hoping he could save me from her wrath.

“Inside now, Lucy!” my father said, glaring at my mother for trying to strike me. She lowered her head and sighed.

“Well, what do you expect? She is out of control, and I am f*****g sick of it! You deal with her then!” my mother screeched at him as I ran inside and up the steps to my room. Great! Now, I am trapped in here.

In a good few days, hopefully, she will calm down, and I can sneak out of my room again. Or maybe she will let me explain without killing me first.

I locked it just to make sure. Flopping on my bed, I dressed my purple comforter around me.

What a way to come home. Yet, nowhere felt like home anymore. Being away from here for years, only returning for vacations, had left me and my mother estranged slightly.

She spent more time yelling at me than letting me explain. Hearing the door bang downstairs, I jumped before hearing a soft knock on the door.

“Lucy, let me in,” I heard my little brother, Rayan, call through the door. I grinned, I hadn’t seen him for eight months. Getting up, I walked over, opening the door before attaining out and nodding him inside, and locking the door furthermore.

I grabbed him, squishing him against me as I picked him up and cuddled him, inhaling his scent. Gosh, I missed him. Before I last saw him, he had a growth spurt and was now up to my shoulder.

“Can’t breathe,” he gasped, and I let him go. Rayan was ten and the picture-perfect son in mom’s eyes. He was next in line for my stepfather's title as the Alpha King.

I didn’t recall my father, but from what I’d listened, I was better off without him. He was the one accountable for slaying my wolf and ruining my chances of ever seeing my mate or fleeing this pack.