Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 300

Chapter 300: 300-Deadly Viper On The Loose

Helanie:

“I can’t believe this, I’m going to hurt someone,” Rayden hissed, his fist touching his mouth as he bit it angrily.

“I’m not telling you all this to fight someone. I’m just saying that–this whole situation is making Lamar do dumb things. Now he wants to put snakes in your locker. If you can just be careful and avoid the locker, it could save Lamar from making a mistake. Because if the deadly viper bites you and something happens, the investigation will start and Lamar will be in trouble. I don’t want my friend to be in trouble,” I said in a pleading tone. He was glaring at the texts where Lamar had said he would put a deadly viper in his locker.

“Go get out of here before I hurt you,” Rayden pointed to the space, and I quickly got to my feet. I rushed away from him and entered the academy. Everyone was asked to go to the hall where Emmet would come and talk to us.

The brothers would arrive shortly. Jenny and our whole class were there except for three people: Lucy, Lamar, and–Gavin!

Where was Gavin? I hadn’t seen him in a while. As I looked around, my eyes landed on Salem, who had been watching me. After our eye contact was made, she strolled over to me.

“Have you seen Gavin? He hasn’t been responding to my calls or texts ever since the last day of academy,” she sounded so concerned as she kept fidgeting with her fingers and complaining.

“I haven’t spoken with him,” I replied in a slightly guilty tone. I knew what he did to Lucy was wrong, and I was upset about how their relationship had turned toxic. But completely ignoring him wasn’t what a friend should do.

“Is he okay? There’s no sign of him. There’s no activity on any of his accounts either,” she looked so worried, unlike what I thought she would be like.

Did she really like Gavin, or what?

“I’ll contact him to check on him,” I gave her a nod, not showing much friendly behavior toward her.

“Okay, thank you,” she kept her voice low and her eyes on the ground as she walked away. I held my phone to my ear while dialing Gavin’s number, but his phone was turned off.

“Hm, that’s weird,” I frowned at the screen.

“What is?” Jenny, arriving from the other corner of the hall, wasn’t something I had expected. Her brother was nowhere in sight, so I’m guessing he was with Ryaden.

“Gavin hasn’t responded to anyone or stayed in contact with anyone,” I was so confused about where he might have gone. I hoped he didn’t get himself into trouble after Lucy’s fall. I could understand why he might have thought it was his fault.

“I haven’t spoken with him either. Did you ask Lamar? Maybe he had–” she stopped herself after realizing there was no way Lamar and Gavin would speak.

“Hmm, I just hope and wish Gavin is okay,” a sigh left my lips, but soon Lamar arrived, and I gestured for him to join us. He was all smiles until his eyes landed on Jenny, and his mood soured. I could guess why that might have happened.

She had done him wrong. After giving him so many hopes, she just went back to her mate, who she had only talked badly about.

“Hey,” Lamar greeted me.

“Hi Lamar, how are you?” Jenny jumped in with a bright smile covering her lips.

“Good,” he didn’t even look her way and focused on me. “Sorry for the other day.”

He mouthed the words to me, and my smile for him was a sign that everything was cool between us.

“You know, Gavin hasn’t been responding to anyone,” I understood what Jenny was trying to do. She wanted Lamar to relax with her and start talking to her like before. But I guess that wasn’t something Lamar was interested in. He had been ditched by her, so he was avoiding her completely.

“Helanie, are you okay? I mean, Gavin not being in contact with anyone?” Lamar once again focused his attention on me and ignored Jenny, whose face started to fall.

“I’m fine. I’ll call him again and leave some texts too,” I said to Lamar. I couldn’t blame him for not talking to Jenny. She messed up.

While we waited for the trainers to arrive, there was some commotion outside the hall that kind of got everyone’s attention. A few of them screamed in panic, as nobody knew what was going on. We rushed to check the noises, and it was just as I had expected.

Rayden had his friends, including Penn, on a mission to find something.

“Search everywhere!” Rayden yelled, a weapon in his hand. It was a gun with silver bullets.

As everyone saw him shoot around the corners, they started to scream and scramble away.

“Nobody panic, I’ve got everything under control,” Rayden shouted. Penn came out of one of the rooms with just a stick in his hand and grunted.

“You do?” The uncertainty in his voice caused Rayden to glare him down. “No, Rayden, I’m serious. You’ve lost your mind. And why the heck did you bring a weapon to the academy?” Penn was yelling at him, just as confused as everyone else.

“I’m telling you, the deadly viper is somewhere around. It escaped from my locker,” the minute he announced that, gasps rippled through the air.

The steps got louder as everyone started to rush out of the academy.

“I will go check it on the second floor,” Rayden yelled, but by that point, his friends and Penn seemed to have lost faith in him.

“That’s it!” Penn threw the stick to the ground. “Jenny, Helanie! Come with me,” Penn saw us through the crowd, sticking to the wall with Lamar standing before us, his arms spread to make sure nobody hurt us while trying to push through. It was getting bad.