Page 3 of Twinning and Sinning

How would we break the news to her? Two large 'dogs' she was bringing home were actually Werewolves. We couldn't just shift right in her living room. We would be stark naked. This had to be tactful, and that was Dimitri's department. I was a do or die, rip it off like a damn band-aide. I huffed, causing Dimitri to look over me closely.

I wasn't sure if Dimitri saw it, but I could see the haunted look in Seraphina's eyes before she looked at us. She was skittish, but once she saw us, her whole demeanor changed. Her eyes lit up like the light sources of our home. I wanted to see that look every day for the rest of our immortal lives. Seraphina clicked her tongue to her cheek for us to follow her, not before I gave one last glance at the old man and showed him a good set of teeth. He paled and sat back down in his chair.

Seraphina led us outside and promptly took off the chained leashes. Dimitri looked at me in question. Dogs on Earth were always led on leashes. Dimitri and I were tall wolves, but she still kneeled on the ground before us. "Listen, guys, I know you aren't dogs. I don't know why the hell this podunk town thought so too. You're wolves and if you want to be free, go on. If not, you can come home to live with me. I'd really like it if you came with me," she mumbled while shaking her head. "I know what it's like to be trapped and can't escape, so here is your chance." Seraphina stood up and looked out into the woods behind the shelter. Her look was distant, and a lone tear tickled her cheek. "I'm so pathetic; I'm talking to wolves," she spat out a sad laugh.

"Go on, be free. If you decide to stay, just know you will always be on the run, and we will depend on each other," her sniff didn't go unnoticed as Dimitri trotted up to her and leaned his head on her stomach. I came around and licked her hand. There was no way we were leaving her, not after whatever hell she had been through. We searched far too long, and we were up for any damn fight we needed to do to keep her safe. We were alphas, damn strong ones too. Sons of the strongest Alpha in centuries.

Plus, she was our damn mate. We've waited thirty years for her. Some stupid humans would not keep us away. We just had to stay away from any silver smoke hand grenades.

Seraphina made a laugh-cry sound and motioned for us to follow. It was a black SUV. There were dents in the front and back and scratches alongside the doors. A few holes littered the driver's side door.

"Are those bullet holes?"Dimitri mind-linked me.

"Sure as hell looks like it,"I grumbled back. "What kind of shit is she running from?"

"We'll protect her and take her home." I took one last look into the woods. "One step at a time,"Dimitri scanned the area before hopping in the back of the SUV.

We had a long road ahead of us with Seraphina. I could already feel it. Between telling her who we are, saving her from whatever was chasing her, we already had our hands full with a fiery redhead.

Seraphina

I wasn't planning on adopting a dog today, let alone two.

Three months ago, the small bookstore where I started to work had several employees who took me under their wing. They had lived in this smaller town all their lives and the generations before them.

The little town of Glasgow, Montana, really was in the middle of nowhere. No, seriously, it was printed on the sign when I drove in on my beat-up SUV.

I had traveled a long way to get here, and I was hoping this was my last stop. This had been the longest I had stayed at any one location the past year, and I no longer looked behind my back as much as I used to. The fear of someone always watching me was still there, but not as prominent as before since coming to America.

Zoey saw me pull up the moment I entered the town. They didn't get many new people around here if any. Zoey took me to her own tiny home with her parents. I gave them the story I gave to everyone when I entered a new town.

That's how I built my relationships, lies. I wasn't hiding from an ex-boyfriend or lover. I was running from my own family.

Zoey quickly got me set up at the bookstore; she and her friend Trey, and the store owner were the only ones on the payroll. It was a library/bookstore, really. People came in and read books, put them on the shelf, and left. The owners didn't care, and the state ended up giving the bookstore a small grant for treating it like a library. The state didn't want to build a library for the sake of three thousand people.

The pay was small, enough for me to buy food. The money my mother had stuffed into a bag on my run out of town was enough to get me by for a good twenty years, maybe longer if I played my cards right. My mother was my rock and the only sane one in my family. I was never sure how she met my father, or maybe he just took her and told her she was his.

My mother, Savannah, was the epitome of beauty. She was tall, skinny, and had the perfect runway model figure. She has shining red hair as I did, but hers always fell in the right places. My father would brag to his friends and business partners at the mansion what a phenomenal woman she was, the perfect wife and housekeeper to an estate that housed dozens of guards. That was all on the outside of their relationship; behind closed doors, she was miserable.

After stopping by the local grocer, I bought a few things to get the wolves by. Food, shampoo, brushes, eating bowls. They were antsy when I left them in the car. I feared they would poop in it. I heard some dogs do that when they are scared. They thankfully didn't and immediately perked up when they saw me walking out of the tiny store.

I continued to drive down the dirt road up to my tiny home, just outside town. I had bought it in cash and put it under a fake name. That wasn't easy to acquire, but you figure out who to go to when you are on the run. It had needed a lot of work. It was white with black shutters. A cellar in the back held most of my personal items. I never kept things that meant a lot to me in a house or apartment I stayed in. If my father ever searched the house, he would find nothing but useless nick-nacks and nothing personalized. I wouldn't have to move if he couldn't find any evidence of me living there.

Even with the money I had, I was reluctant to use it. I could live comfortably now that I felt like my sperm donor wasn't looking for me here. I grew up in the lap of luxury. Private tutors, swim lessons, musical instrument lessons, you name it, I was thrown into the world of education.

"You have to study hard because your body will get you nowhere,"he spat at me. I was twelve years old when those words left my father's mouth. They burned into me like a cigarette to paper, lighting a fire to all the self-confidence I ever had. "I can't believe you came out of your mother,"he would grumble and walk away.

It hurt, especially when you never saw your father. Dario Rinaldi, a famous businessman in Italy, was gone for weeks and months at a time. Mother would join him a few days here or there, but always beg to return home to me.

The road to my home was bumpy. I could feel every bump with my thick thighs. They would jiggle here and there, and my breasts would need double the sports bras at certain times of the month. Every bump reminded me that I wasn't good enough, that I was just an eyesore to him until he got rid of me.

"Seraphina's face is gorgeous. Just cut out the food," my father waved at the chef."Just steamed vegetables and grilled chicken. Do you hear me? I need her in prime condition in a month." My heart ached as he left the kitchen the last night I saw him. My mother pulled me close to her chest and kissed my temple. Petting my hair, she cooed in my ear like I was still a child."It will be alright, everything will be alright," her Irish accent bled through her English.

Little did I know that those words my father growled at the chef would pull the trigger of her vengeance towards the Rinaldi family.

I sighed heavily as I parked the car. My new companions looked around eagerly as we drove up. They were adorable in a big, scary kind of way. My melting heart couldn't say no to the big puppy dog eyes they threw at me at the pound. My heart instantly melted seeing them stare at me with such warmth. Their little doggie souls called to me. Maybe Zoey's words were right. I just needed a furry companion to keep with me on these lonely nights.

I couldn't get close to Zoey as much as I wanted to. In fact, I couldn't get close to anyone. If my father found me and knew I had made friends in this town, he would burn it to the ground without lifting a finger just for fun. His men would cover the ashes with piss like the place never existed. I've seen his wrath when he was angry, and it wasn't pretty.

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