Torn

Chapter 36/37 Combined/Rewritten ✓

Quinn

My whole life it's been Xavier, Xander and myself. The three of us ruled our pack house since we were pups. We did everything together, from building model airplanes to combat training. The three of us were inseparable. We built our friendship and established the chain of command with Liam and Cole when we were young pups, and they were like brothers to us. We were family.

We grew up on our separate pack lands, but we had to attend human schools to ensure that we were able to blend into society without attracting attention. The five of us went from ruling our pack houses, to ruling the human school.

In our younger years, we were able to blend in with the human children quite well. As we grew and our bodies became larger, more muscular and defined. As such, the bigger we got, the more attention we received. The males wanted to be us, and the woman wanted to be ours. Cole, Liam, and Xavier lapped all the attention up while mine and Xander's eyes remained elsewhere.

One afternoon when we were around the age of sixteen, Xander, Xavier and I were walking the pack grounds. We had been talking about what would happen if Carter decided to choose who she wanted to be with, when it dawned on me that Xavier had never once showed any interest in her.

"Xavier, why don't you seem to be drawn to Carter, like Quinn and I?" I had asked him.

"What do you mean?" He turned towards me; his eyebrows furrowed.

"Well, I just meant that you and Xander are twins. You almost always have the same likes and dislikes, and you practically act like you are the same person half of the time. Why don't you feel the same pull towards Carter that we do?"

He shrugged a shoulder and kept walking. "I'm not sure. I think she is beautiful, and don't get me wrong, if the opportunity came up to get her in my bed, I totally would." He grinned at Xander who growled and shoved his shoulder.

Xavier laughed loudly. "Relax my brothers, I would never do that to you. I do feel a bond with her, my wolf and I feel very protective of her, but not romantically, more like in a family way. She's like my sister. Are you sure she isn't your guys' mate?"

Both of us nodded solemnly and Xander went on to explain that our wolves wanted her, we felt the pull but not the full extent of a mate bond. As much as it took a huge weight off my shoulders to know that Xavier didn't want Carter the same way we did, it never made sense to me. Xander and Xavier were almost completely identical, there were only a few physical traits that told them apart. They both had the same piercing blue eyes, and hair so black it was striking. Xander styled his hair a bit longer and quite shaggy, while Xavier always had his short and clean.

They were the same height, and even had the same style in clothing. The main difference was that Xavier had a scar under his chin from when we were five years old and he had fallen out of a tree and cracked his chin open, and a singular dark freckle directly under his left eyebrow that Xander didn't have.

Xander and I both felt this insane, otherworldly pull towards Carter. It felt like we were all connected to the same magnet that drew us together. For twins that were so close, I didn't understand why Xavier didn't want Carter the same way we did.

I was always grateful that Carter never showed any attention to anyone other than Xander and I. Immense relief had flooded through me that the pull that we had, seemed to be strictly between the three of us only.

It wasn't long after that day, that the five of us started spending more time apart. Liam and Cole continued to be players and date their way through the girls in school, Xavier met a girl named Anna, who turned out to be his mate, while Xander and I spent all our free time with Carter.