Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 249

Chapter 249: 249-Everyone Let’s Go Find Helanie

Kaye:

‘Ugh!’ I groaned as I sat in my seat and touched my chest.

‘Stop it, it’s not that serious,’ my wolf muttered in response.

I had been giving him the silent treatment for a while. Every time my chest hurt, I would groan at him, and he would say the same nonsense to me.

My brothers and I were headed back home after sealing a deal with a pack from the North. Those packs were always the messiest; they kept their business very private. They would much rather lose their lands to drought and disaster than let anyone from the outside come and help them deal with their issues.

‘It’s hurting because I am missing my mate,’ I muttered under my breath.

‘Your mate doesn’t care about you. Besides, her wolf is still asleep, so don’t worry, there’s no pain. It’s just in your head,’ he hissed back at me. ‘Think about Kesha. She cares so much about you.’

This is why I didn’t want to talk to him. He would bring her up out of nowhere and spoil my mood. Hearing Kesha’s name only made me remember my messed-up life, where I had to be with Kesha over Helanie.

‘Do you blame Helanie for not caring? This is why. Kesha is the reason Helanie doesn’t even want to look at me. You need to know she’s not like the others. You disrespect her, and she’s done with you. You could be the ultimate werewolf king, and she wouldn’t care about you,’ I was growing tired of telling my wolf about Helanie. He should have known her by now. And somewhere deep down in my heart, I felt like he knew. He just didn’t want to admit it.

‘Don’t give her too much credit. By the end of the day, she is taking favors from your brothers, especially Emmet. I bet they’re sleeping together,’ the minute he said that, my head turned to the side, and I watched Emmet sit and stare out the window of the car. We had taken one car due to Norman’s insistence. Otherwise, Maximus and I didn’t want to sit in the same car as Emmet.

‘Oh! Don’t look at him like that. You know it’s not his fault. He doesn’t know you and Helanie are mates. Emmet is–,’ before my wolf could keep talking about how nice and caring Emmet is and that he’s just a little careless because of his alcoholism, I had to shut him down.

“Yeah, so caring that when Maximus and I needed him, he told us to deal with our problems and leave him alone. Every time we were in pain, Emmet was nowhere in sight. He doesn’t care, even when we promised each other that we would always be there for one another,” I hissed at my wolf so loudly that I bet my body shuddered visibly.

“Guys,” Maximus suddenly called for us, making us all look back. The driver and the warrior were sitting in the front, with a window rolled up between us to make a partition.

It was because sometimes we talked about all sorts of stuff, and Norman had told us to stay private. So, we followed his rules, and honestly speaking, keeping your secrets to yourself helps a lot.

“Huh?” Norman responded, while Emmet looked not so interested as he tiredly searched for his small alcohol bottle in his pocket.

Here we go again.

“I was talking to Dad, and he told me that Helanie is at Penn’s pack. Did you know she was going there?” Maximus asked me and then looked at Norman, who shrugged.

“So what? They are her friends,” Norman didn’t seem to grasp the intensity of it, but Emmet laughed along with me.

Emmet stopped searching for his bottle and turned his whole body to face us.

“Isn’t Rayden friends with Penn and Jenny’s mate?” It was as if Emmet was reminding us of something we knew by heart now.

“So what, guys? It’s not like they’d bully her there. She’s not a child. She can take care of herself,” Norman dismissed our concerns with a wave of his hand and looked straight ahead again.

But Emmet was watching our faces as he added, “Let’s head to the Polar Red pack.”

Finally, he was on the same page as us, but Norman was quick to look back at us again.

“Emmet, you too?” he asked, and Emmet shrugged. Now, that’s what we need Emmet for. We could really do anything that would upset Norman, but Emmet was this way.

Even when Norman would always care for him, that wouldn’t sway Emmet from doing what he wanted. He barely ever was under pressure.

But at least now we were headed to see Helanie.

‘And you’re only happy because you’ll get to see her? What happened to you? Since when did you become so hopelessly romantic?’ I had to avoid my wolf because I was honestly very happy.

Every time I thought of her and smiled, my wolf grunted and hissed at me. At the same time, I was in contact with Rayden’s father. I wanted to make it seem like I was discussing the recent event with him, but what I was really doing was trying to find out where his son was at the moment.

Alpha Rayden’s father: I will sit him down and have a talk with him myself once he gets back home. He’s headed to his mate’s pack right now. But I am reassuring you, he will not mess up again.

I didn’t even have to focus on his words because my fear had come to life.

“Maximus,” I turned to my side to whisper to Maximus, who was quick to give me his attention since we both took each other and our concerns seriously.

“Rayden is headed to Jenny’s pack.” I didn’t even have to explain to him why it was stressful information.

Ever since Emmet brought Rayden’s behavior around Helanie to our attention, we have been secretly worried about what was going on between the two of them. Maybe it was just because he was her stepbrother, but it was more than that for me.