Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 299

Chapter 299: 299-Throwing My Friend Under The Bus

Helanie:

“Maximus,” I laughed, feeling him smell my neck while planting small kisses all over my skin.

“I can’t get enough of you,” he raised his face and said, his eyes locked on my lips.

“Hey!” he suddenly pulled away from me as if he remembered something. The next thing I know, he’s taking something out of his pocket.

“I got you this,” he held up a pink diamond, beautifully set in a gold chain.

“This is a rare kind,” I asked, and he shrugged.

“You are a rare kind,” he said quickly, moving behind me and shifting my hair to one side. I didn’t want to accept such an expensive gift, so I placed my hand on his to stop him.

“What? You can accept gifts from Emmet but not me?” His comment hit hard. I turned to glare at him, and he quickly bit his tongue.

“Sorry! I thought it would land well, and you’d accept my gift,” he said, looking down, trying to appear so sad that I couldn’t help but feel touched.

“Fine, but no more gifts,” I warned as I sat upright.

“That’s not possible. I’ll spoil you so much that the one night I don’t give you anything, you’ll beat me up,” he joked, making me laugh at how adorably sly he could be.

The pendant did look amazing on me. However, as he sat in front of me and admired it, he frowned a little.

“Take off your pendant. I want mine to shine on your neck right now,” his request left me frozen for a moment. Every time someone asked me to take off my pendant, I felt like I was back in that subway again.

“Maximus—,” I looked down, touching the pendant.

“Okay, no worries. Mine still looks more beautiful on you,” he said, not forcing me to remove it and sparing me from revisiting my trauma through my actions.

“Shall we go now?” I asked again.

“Yeah, I don’t want my queen to freeze to death. Your cheeks are so red,” he acknowledged that despite having the fire going, it was getting chillier. The wind wasn’t helping the fire either.

He put out the fire while calling someone to take care of the decorations. Then, he wrapped his arms around me and walked me out of the woods.

“I still can’t believe I have you in my arms,” he whispered, once again showing how amazed he was, pulling me closer to his chest. Walking with him like that felt so safe and comforting.

We kept talking about different things, mainly him talking about how much he wanted us to get married or accept each other throughout the walk.

He was never the shy type, but sometimes he could be a little too bold. For example, when he made a comment about how he thinks I’ll be blushing red the day I stand completely naked in front of him.

That comment alone made my cheeks turn red. Once inside the mansion, we went our separate ways. I had eaten too much cake, so I didn’t have any room left in my stomach for dinner.

Then, I was tired from the lessons, so I wanted to sleep early to make sure I could get up early and leave for the meetup.

As planned, I woke up early, changed into my uniform, and headed out of the mansion to catch a car. Maximus had asked his driver to drop me off while he had to finish some things before coming to the academy.

I had even forgotten about the trouble I had to face from Rayden. Once I got out of the car and hadn’t even entered the academy yet, Rayden caught me off guard. He stepped in my way and motioned for me to follow him to the side of the building where we could speak without anyone seeing us.

“What is it? You can talk here. There isn’t anyone around—” I looked around and exclaimed. Some of the students were already inside the academy, while others were still on their way.

Lamar was on his way, and I was hoping he would come in time.

“Just shut up and follow me,” Rayden grabbed my arm and pulled me behind his car instead since I refused to go behind the building with him.

He pushed my back against his car and placed his hands around me, trapping me.

It wasn’t good. Every time I was in close proximity with him, I felt my body getting cold and numb.

“Now tell me, you visited me in the hospital, didn’t you?” he pressed. Of course, he wasn’t going to back down from his claims.

“Tell me,” he almost yelled before getting himself under control, probably out of fear that anyone would see us like this, with him scaring me.

“You want to know the truth? The truth is that I didn’t. I was home the whole time. Do you think the trainers wouldn’t have asked the warriors if I had left? You were under heavy drugs and medication; you probably just thought I visited you,” I said it so confidently that he zoned out again.

Of course, the brothers didn’t bother asking the warriors because I sounded so convincing to them. And me going with Norman to Rayden also proved that I wasn’t lying.

“Okay—,” he grunted, “is there anything you want to tell me now?” He raised his head again, warning me to finally admit if I was lying.

“I’m not hiding anything from you. If anything—you should—” I paused and closed my eyes. I had to do this. I needed to divert his attention from me and make him angry. “But you should be asking that question to your mate.”

His facial expression changed as he narrowed his eyes at me at the mention of Jenny. “How dare you say her name.”

There was a threat in his tone, but I wasn’t backing down. “I’m not lying. I know she told you that she only slept with Lamar once, but that’s not true. The two of them slept together again—” I watched his face change colors.

“You’re lying,” he hissed, ready to probably throw a fist at me, so I had to rush and show him the evidence.

I pulled up Lamar’s text and turned the screen to him. “She visited him in his pack, and the two of them slept together in his motel room.”