Heartless Angels

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Chapter 56 – James

e’ve been waiting here for about an hour and a half for Oakley to come and talk to us. She had requested to see Levi and Father separate from Jack and me. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not.

Jack can’t seem to stand still. He’s been pacing the sitting room that we’re in the entire time that we’ve been here and I’m 90% positive that there are going to be ruts in the wooden floor showing his path around the room. If he doesn’t sit down, I’m gonna fl*p my s hit and knock him the f uck out.

“What’s taking so long?” Jack demands, running his hands through his hair for the umpteenth time.

“She probably wanted to talk to her. mate,” I spit out the last word, hating that the Moon Goddess thought that Levi, of all males, would be a good match for my little sister. “And she wanted to talk to Father. They would have been her first two

priorities. And, I hate to think about it, but if things went well with Levi…”

Both of us shudder.

“Ugh! I don’t even want to think about that!” Jack murmurs.

“Yeah, but if things go well with them, then we get her back. I hate to say it, but we kind of have to root for them,” I reply. “If

she can swallow back everything that he did to her we’ve got to let her do it. S hit, she’ll have him wrapped around her little finger for the rest of their lives.”

He huffs out a laugh, though his face looks forlorn.

“But if she takes him back, then we’ll have her back. We need her to accept this. You know that, right?” I ask him.

“No! No, I don’t know that. I want her to reject him and for the three of us and Father to leave the pack. She’s f ucking strong, man. You know that. You could feel it like I did. We could stay here in the city and become guards in the military. Or

cops. S hit, we could go to the outskirts of the continent and live like wolves for the rest of our lives. I don’t care, I just want our sister back!” Jack nearly pleads.

“I get that, Jack. I do. And I can’t help that I agree with you. Its everything that I want. But, it’s up to Oakley. And no matter

what we do, we can’t change that,” I say.

He’s about to retort when there’s a knock on the do

door.

Both of us look at each other, freaking out. Is this it?

I look to Jack, as he is the oldest twin, to see if he’s gonna say anything. When he just stares at me like a deer in headlights, I clear my throat before calling. “Come in.”

In walks Head Commander Sophia. I have to say, if we weren’t here to possibly say goodbye to our sister, I would be all over her. She is easily one of, if not the se xiest she-wolf I have ever seen. I would let her climb me like a grizzly bear on a pine tree if she felt so inclined. But there is something else. I feel this pull towards her. I don’t think that it’s the matebond. From what I understand from friends and from Father, it’s an undeniable NEED to have that wolf with you at all times. An inability to be away

from them.

That’s not what I feel about her. I just feel like there’s something that she is supposed to be for me. Glancing over at

James, I can see that he feels the same thing that I do. A combination of lust and desire to follow.

“Alright, boys. Let’s talk before you see Oakley,” she says.

Jack growls, his wolf coming forward, wanting to have some of Sophia if she will allow it.

The sgiles, “Down boy.” Sophia points to the couch and both Jack and I sit down. She curls her b*dy into the seat across

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and the predatory sensuality that goes into that movement is se xy and alluring.

“Twin mates, huh?” she says.

“Wait, what?” I say.

“Mates? How can we be your mates?” Jack says, looking as confused as I feel.

“Oh, I’m tamping down the matebond,” Sophia says lightheartedly. “Something that my powers from the Goddess allow me to do. All of us can feel it somewhat right now, but you feel more lust and a desire to serve me.”

“So…we both have the same mate. I thought that was just legend,” Jack says.

“So are a lot of the things that go with being the Commander of the Elite 10. Doesn’t mean that they aren’t true,” she responds airily. “Now, here’s the deal. Each and every member of the Elite 10, including those who help train them, have a prophecy that says what their life will be like. I knew that you would be coming. Well, not you specifically, but I knew that I would have two mates. I wasn’t sure how it was going to happen. I should have remembered about the twins.”

“So, what’s the prophecy?” I ask, my hands itching to reach out an touch her. Its like the second she told us that we were her mates, all I can think about is feeling her skin against mine.

I can

“It basically boils down to I will have two mates who will disgust me to the same degree that they entrance me. choose to go with them and help redeem them, as well as become the head guard, the champion of the most powerful luna that

we’ve ever seen. Or I can stay here, be the head commander of the Elite 10 and mateless until my dying day. The family line will be carried on by my younger brother and my niece or nephew will succeed me when I am too old to fight or am killed in battle.”

She repeats this with the nonchalance of someone reading the back of a cereal box.

Both Jack and I sit there, flabbergasted and unsure of what to say. So, she has the option of taking us as her mate? I mean, of course she has the option, but she knows what her options are. And that scares the c rap out of me. Because she knows

what’s out there for her. She knows what she can have outside of us.

Sophia leans forward in her seat, putting her elbows on her knees and looking at us intensely. “It’s so true, you know? You

disgust me, more than anything I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen some sh it. What the two of you did to Oakley and what you allowed her mate to do to her is, frankly, appalling.”

right.

Both Jack and I hang our heads, upset that our mate would think that way about us. Even more upset knowing that she’s

“And yet, there’s a very real part of me that wants to lick every bit of your skin from your l*ps to your co cks and back again” she murmurs, her eyes dark with lust

like that

And, just like that, I’m f ucking harder than steel.

Sophia laughs at the expressions on our faces, leaning back in her seat.

Jack clears his throat, though

ough I can see his wolf in his eyes. “So, what will you choose?”

me you still want m

me?

Sophia chuckles, “Even with me telling you how much you disgust me, you

I

“We’d do anything to have you stay with us,” I say with all the sincerity that I can muster. Jack, beside me, nods his head

vigorously

She eyes us, a sly smile on her face. “The only luna that I will willingly serve is Oakley. She is destined for so much power that you cannot fathom it. If she chooses to be with Levi, she will be the most powerful luna we have ever seen. If she chooses

to stay, she will become the captain of the Elite 10, the most powerful since the original captain. I will go where she goes. So, if Oakley decides to stay with Leyi and forgive you two and her father, then I will accept you as my mates. If not, well…”

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Jack and look at each other, concern flitting through our eyes

And just at that moment, the doorknob turns and Oakley is standing there, ready to talk

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