Her Brother, Her Mate

Mark POV

Vincent pays the bill while us brothers stand around awkwardly, trying to figure out what to do next. I never thought I would be sharing a mate with my brother. I’ve shared girls in bed with him before, but a mate is different. Hadley is, just….everything. I don’t want to treat her like a rando we picked up in a club for the night. I want to cherish her and worship her. I hope Mitch feels the same way.

“How insane is this?” Matt huffed comically in disbelief.

“Lilly’s probably going to be so jealous. She only gets one of us, and Hadley gets two,” Mitch smirks at him.

“f**k you,” Matt cursed half-heartedly.

“This isn’t something to joke about,” I glared at Mitch. I’m still pissed that our parents would allow Mitch to get closer to her while they told me to stay away. It’s confusing as f**k and it pisses me off more to know that whatever their deal is, Vincent seems to know about it when we did’t.

“Calm down. Jeez,” Mitch shakes his head at me. Goddess, I just want to knock his f*****g lights out right now.

“Don’t tell me to calm down, a*****e. I have been worrying my a*s off the last few days trying to figure out how to get her to accept me, and it’s coming so easily to you. Like always, mom helped you out, and I got s**t on. f*****g titty baby.”

“Guys, chill,” Matt tells us.

“Don’t tell me to f*****g chill. This s**t is messed up!” I yelled.

“It’s not my fault that you pissed her off by being a horndog. Quit taking it out on me,” Mitch sneers.

“I wasn’t being a horndog, you f**k! I was just messing around and she saw it at the worst possible time. Don’t act like you’re any better. Does she know what you’re like? Does she know this same f*****g place we’re standing is where you pick up girls multiple times a week?”

“She knows enough,” Mitch shrugs, “I didn’t lie to her. I told her how much of an a*****e I was. She’s our f*****g mate, dude. She is fated for us. She’ll be able to handle our pasts, you just have to be honest with her and not try to scam her into liking you.”

“Everything okay?” Vincent asks as he re-joins us.

“Peachy,” I sneered, glaring at my brother.

“Hmm, okay. Well, your parents are waiting for us. Let’s walk back to the resort before you cause more of a scene in my restaurant and I lose my temper.”

All three of us brothers cringe, knowing what that would mean. Vincent’s a scary mother fucker when he wants to be.

***

The atmosphere is thick in our parent’s suite. I’m surprised to see that Amanda Phillips is even here with them. They all three seem entirely exhausted and stressed to the max.

“What’s going on?” Mitch asks, looking between our parents nervously.

“Have a seat, boys,” my dad orders us, but none of us move. Vincent has gone to stand beside Amanda, but the three of us are still hesitating in the foyer. “I won’t ask you again,” dad sneers.

There’s a green glow around him, his magic surging forward, ready to suppress and break us if we step a toe out of line. Whatever is going on, he’s pissed, or highly stressed. Whichever it is, none of us want to cross him.

Matt takes the armchair furthest from him, leaving the couch across from dad’s glower the only place for Mitch and I.

“Honey, calm down,” mom rubs his back, trying to help sooth him. The glow slightly recedes, but it’s still framing his eyes and hands.

“Sorry. It’s been a long day. I never expected my sons to both share a seer mate. Trying to make the preparations with just Amanda and me to break the bonds I placed on you both is maddening enough as it is.”

“Bonds?” Matt furrows his brows at our dad. “What bonds?”

Dad sighs heavily, “The bonds holding back their ability to absorb magic.”

Mitch and I looked at each other in confusion.

“What are you talking about?”

“We don’t have magic abilities,” I said.

“No, you don’t because I sealed them. You both started showing abilities far too young and I had to. Now that you both share the same seer as a mate, I have to reverse it or you could end up killing her.”

Horror fills me. How could we not having access to magic we never knew we had, kill our mate? What the hell is a seer?

“Dad, you’re not making any sense,” Matt is just as confused as us.

Dad leans his head back, cracking his neck before looking between Mitch and me.

“Do you boys know what a seer is?”

We shake our heads.

“Do you know how a witch draws their magic, increasing their power?”

That we did know. Dad told us when we were younger.

“They take from the elements, sacrifice, stealing vitality, and creating chaos, lots of other scary shit.”

He nods, “Normally, witches can only draw magic from our world. The safest way is by stealing vitality through feeding on emotions and channeling the strong ones, drawing from that, like Amanda does, or through physical contact, like s*x.”

We both cringe. Yes, we know that all too well. That’s why we moved out of our parent’s suite at a young age into our own rooms in the hotel. Mom and dad f****d constantly when they were together.

“A seer is a being that’s half human, half fae royalty. They have the ability to draw magic from the fairy realm, channeling far greater power than is possible in our own world by our own meager means. Since they are inherently human, they can’t use the magic they channel, but a witch can take it from them. They are essentially a limitless magic bank.”

“So that means Hadley is-” Mitch began to ask.

“Descended from fae royalty? Yes. I knew her mother. She was a direct descendant from the Northern Fairy King. He once fell in love with a human, brought her to his court, then, while she was pregnant with his child, one of his wives cast her out of the kingdom and sold her to a coven of witches because of jealousy. Hadley is the great-great granddaughter of the Northern Fairy King.”

“That’s why her eyes are that vibrant purple? Because she is descended from fae royalty?”

Dad nods. “She’s a seer,” Dad says through clenched teeth, “An important one. Amanda and I worked hard to help escape with your mother’s help.”

“What is she running from? What are you and mom hiding her from?” Mitch asks desperately.

Mom starts tearing up a bit, and dad hugs her, kissing her temple, telling her it was okay. She gets up and walks off toward their bedroom. Whatever dad was about to tell us, I could see that it filled mom with a lot of guilt, making me nervous.

Dad leans forward on the loveseat, resting his elbows on his knees.

“She thinks she’s running from a forced engagement. She doesn’t know it, but she’s running from my old coven. The one I left to be with your mother. I was set to be the next head, but then I chose your mother over the right to ascend. The head of the coven I left in the north was granted exclusive rights to draw magic from the seer. Hadley’s mother was supposed to be my wife, but I loved her like a sister. I didn’t want to marry her. Finding your mother changed everything for me. I found something more important to me than gaining power.NôvelDrama.Org copyrighted © content.

“When you boys were very young, Hadley’s mother ran away and found me. She was heavily pregnant, and was scared for her unborn child. The one who took my place when I left was not a kind man. He was already married, so instead of divorcing and taking her for his wife, he kept her as a mistress. When he needed a new seer for his son, he allowed his right-hand man to impregnate her, creating Hadley.

“Your mother tried to let me help her, but she and Sabrina didn’t get along. Sabrina thought the only way to save her baby was for me to accept her as a second wife or mistress so she could help me grow my power. She grew up in that type of lifestyle and didn’t see anything wrong with it. Your mother overheard her trying to convince me and kicked her out. She told me if I chose to help her, I could, but I would be leaving her and you three behind. She was willing to use the pack and Alpha Jared to keep me away if I left Miami, and even said she would take a chosen mate since she was still unmarked.

“I would never put anyone before your mom. Sabrina left and I never knew what became of her. That was until Amanda’s sister in New York told us about Hadley. Hadley was the child Sabrina was carrying. She also found out that Hadley was being raised by Sabrina’s half sister, Safarah. Zachary, Hadley’s father, took Safarah as a wife to keep her in line. Sabrina was nowhere to be found, most likely killed by Fadel for running away. Fadel had a nasty temper and let it get the best of him at times. Amanda and her sister worked hard to get Hadley here where we could keep her safe for Sabrina’s sake.

“I have a feeling Sabrina died trying to save her daughter from the life she was forced to live, and we had to save Hadley for her. Your mother had the idea of bringing her to the hotel where we could keep her safe in our own sanctuary. We had no idea that she would be your mate. With you being Gemini twins, it makes it more dangerous for her to be your mate.”

Wow. That was a lot to process.

“What are Gemini twins?” Mitch asks.

“You are both Gemini twins. Matt was more wolf than witch, probably because together you absorbed whatever magic he possessed in the womb. Gemini twins are male witch twins. You are capable of greater magical abilities because you can channel magic between each other, making you twice as strong. Being hybrids, both strong wolves and witches, I had to suppress your witch side to keep you hidden from the darker covens and demons who would like nothing more than to use you two to do horrible things.”

“So, we do have magic?” I asked, confused.

Dad sighs, “Yes and no. You are like empty vessels right now. That’s why you are both so….promiscuous. Your body craves power, and it chooses to seek it out through s*x. That’s why your mother and I have never held you back in that aspect. The vitality you absorb during the act goes right back into the original vessel, since I’ve suppressed you both. I’ll have to lift the blocks placed on you, though, if Hadley is your mate. It will hurt her if you channel magic from her through the fairy realm, and it all goes crashing back into her when you are through.”

“So until you remove the bond on them, mating Hadley could kill her?” Matt asks.

“Unfortunately, yes. I’m sorry, sons. I thought I would be saving you both from the harshness of the world of witches. I didn’t know I would be preventing you from being with your mate instead. I will fix this, but it will take a few days. Until then, please don’t be intimate with your mate. Keep her safe.”