Wally and Helena searched through the study and came up with nothing. Frustrated, they moved on to her parent’s apartment and began the search there through the large rooms of the suite. This was not something she would welcome. Not since they chose his clothes for the funeral. No one had entered it. Helena would be the first to admit there hadn’t been time and emotionally, she wasn’t ready to deal with all the memories. When she’d gone into his closet, her mother’s things still hung there for her like she was dead, either.
But she promised herself she’d get to it as soon as this was all over. They started their search in the obvious locations like the bookcase and nightstand. But there was nothing. However, Wally picked up a cut from a knife that’d been hidden inside a nightstand. Helena kn
“Okay, I’m here. What is going on? Why won’t you tell me over the phone?” Jillian found Helena hiding away in the breakfast nook. “Close the door and sit. There’s a pot of coffee on the table. This is crazy. You know why we came back. The council pulled another one of their games and this one really backfired.” Helena took a seat across from Jillian and cradled a mug of her own. “Yeah, but I thought you just needed to wait for them to wake up.” “Oh, they woke up, but they aren’t acting as they should be. Before you ask, let me explain. I’ve talked to both of them. They don’t remember what happened to them. However, you should have heard the jealousy when they spoke of the
Everything took longer than Helena expected. The doctor was on a house call and would need to call her back. She would not talk to his partner or his head nurse. This was just too controversial to tell everyone and their brother about. No, if people learned of what the council did, and what it did to the twins, the pack might lose faith in their future Alpha or Alphas. Whichever it would be. The twins were now awake again and not pleased with being under guard in their rooms. But their reactions to this too were over the top. Brian must have broken several things in his rooms by the sound of it. Helena expected this from Chris, not Brian. In her estimation, Brian's the more level-headed of the two. Now she needed to verify some more information and make sure everything was right. This didn't go well with Chris. Both men wanted to fi
They sent up food with a sedative in it. Then the guards would take them down and put them into separate cells for the safety of everyone. Once they woke up, it would be up to Helena to explain what was going on, and her anxiety over how or what to say was through the roof. Talking points. She needed talking points. Otherwise, she knew she’d miss something, and the confusion would just snowball into anger. Then her mind flipped to indecision. Was this a huge mistake? Of course, it was a mistake. But it’s the only way she could have this done in one shot with proof whether they could be in the same room together without trying to kill each other or, at the very least, knocking each other into next week. How did she get into this situation with
“Since you don’t know, it might help you both understand each other better and why things work and don’t work for you. It starts with being twins born on either side of the stroke of midnight. This has a telltale sign of your wolves and your features as humans. One dark, one light. One represents the night sky and stars, while the other represents the moon. Got that? Here’s the issue. You aren’t fraternal twins. There’s a term dissimilar identical twin. You’re identical, but not. Now this is where things get complicated. You are two halves of one person. One develops only part of the life skills they need and the other learns the rest of the life skills. You are effectively only a fully functioning person if you are together. Living, working, and, well… loving. You’re meant to have one mate between the two of you.” 
It didn’t take Helena to return to the packhouse with the twins following her. Dr. Merton insisted on one final examination of them before he took his leave. “Thank the goddess. They aren’t killing each other.” Jillian came into the study and saw the twins lounging on the sofas. “You know we’re going to need to refurnish this place if what you say has to happen does. We need more desks, and these sofas will need to be smaller too. What do you think Chris, a couple of desks tucked in here by the other bay window? Thank you, Jill. I’m glad you missed us. We missed your sparkling conversation, too.” He gave her a lopsided grin, so she knew he wasn’t being cut with his words.&nbs
“Fine. I agree. Party time is over and if Helena is correct. If we want to survive and be successful, we need to continue like this together. But for that, you want us to be clear on who’s in charge of all the aspects of our life or lives. I’m not sure of how to define this. But you want to cover aspects including heaven forbid one of us is out of commission. That’s what I’m hearing. Is that correct?” Chris didn’t hedge around anything. He, like his brother, got to the core by cutting through the emotional baggage. Helena felt her relief rise that they were sitting down and talking rather than yelling at each other. “Exactly. If we can do that, I feel we can go forward with this. But I will state upfront I feel you often give me busy work to get me out of the way for whatever is going
“When we’re ready for that. There’s a lot more that needs to happen before we can even think of that. So, would you both please just finish this up? It’s dragged on long enough. You’re just being foolish about all of this.” Helena just wanted to change the subject and get on with more pressing needs. “Yeah, just give it to us the paper and we’ll sign it.” Chris took the page and pen from Jillian. Signed his name before he passed it to Brian to sign. Which he then signed. “I guess it’s up to both of you to sign this and then this should be a legally binding document. You good with that, Chris?” Brian held out the paper and pen to Helena again, as he waited for his brother to respond. “Yeah, it feel
“Oh, yes, I have some news to report. Our investigator has entered the territory of the Blue Mountain Pack as a rogue seeking a new pack. He has confirmed that Nathan is there with a female. Also, that non-attack was a scouting mission to see what our defences look like. Basically, they believe we won’t change up our defences if they attack us later. They are gunning for this territory for two reasons. They want the land itself, and they believe this pack has too much influence with others and they don’t want the packs rallying behind a leader. A leaderless pack is a pack they can take over. They don’t know about the Twins of Midnight theory, so they want to sow as much confusion as possible. To keep you in competition and prevent one of you from taking on the mantle of alpha.” “Well, there’