Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 303

Chapter 303: 303-I Am The Stepsister

Helanie:

“Rayden—” Emmet stretched his neck, holding back his anger by forcing a smile onto his lips. “Why would you do that? What issue do you have with Helanie?”

There was a strange threat in his smile that even I didn’t want to figure out.

“I—I don’t have an issue. She has an issue with me. Ever since I—” he suddenly went quiet. But during those words, my heart skipped a beat.

I really thought I was going to get a confession out of him. But he was a monster who never really realized he had done something wrong. So getting a confession out of him was not something I could expect.

“I have something to say—” I added, “He also told me that he would hurt himself and we would blame Lamar.”

I watched Rayden clench his jaw at me. At this point, if I had told everyone that Rayden was a clown, they would have believed me. Rayden had lost his credibility.

“She’s lying—” he yelled, but a slap from Maximus knocked him to the ground. Everyone was shocked to watch an alpha get beaten up and humiliated like this. It was no small thing.

“So you like playing games, huh?” Norman now stepped forward, kneeling down to Rayden, who looked lost, probably trying to figure out how to prove to the trainers and everyone that he wasn’t some crazy guy who had nothing better to do than bully me and lie, lie, lie.

“We’ll deal with you,” Norman hissed, gesturing for him to step aside and stand with the other students.

“What a jerk. What’s your obsession with Helanie?” I heard Sage grunt at him, quickly walking away to make it clear she was disgusted to stand next to him.

“It seems like a typical bully move. He attacked me under the excuse that Helanie told him I had messed up our lycan trap plan,” Arlo added. The top seniors clearly showed their dislike for Rayden now.

I noticed Jenny looking over at Rayden. She had only taken one step toward him when Penn grabbed her arm and stopped her.

“Enough is enough. He said some nasty things about you in front of everyone, he’s constantly putting Helanie through stressful situations, and you want to go stand next to him?” For the first time, Penn stopped his sister from approaching Rayden in public. That was a huge win for us.

But I wasn’t happy with how blind Jenny had become.

“Asshole, get away from us,” Rudy pushed Rayden aside, making everyone go “ew” at him. He couldn’t even lift his head.

I swear, I saw a tear roll down his cheek from the public humiliation.

“Everyone!” Emmet cleared his throat and stepped forward to address the students.

Norman and the others moved away from Rayden, who would be dealt with later.

“I guess we couldn’t have a proper meeting in the hall since someone ruined it for all of us,” Emmet continued while glaring down at Rayden.

I stood tall and proud. I wanted time to stop so I could keep watching Rayden cry.

The brothers were also focused on Emmet, unsure of why he had called this meeting.

“So we’ll do it here,” Emmet announced, acknowledging the injured students.

It would have been too much to make them go back inside instead of just letting things move along faster once the meeting was done. It could be handled easily if they just stayed here and prevented the students from going in and out of the academy.

“Some things have been happening for the last few weeks. It started on the last day of the academy when some students bullied and attacked one of the students near the lockers,” Emmet pointed at me, and a chill ran up my spine. It took me back to the day Lucy had fallen.

She was still in the hospital, and I wanted to get back to her as long as I could.

“And then, after that incident with one of the students—Rayden—started causing trouble for Helanie.” His speech perfectly matched today’s incident.

Everyone stared at Rayden and rolled their eyes. It was like even they were tired of Rayden always being in trouble.

“That’s when Riri also got expelled. Now I’m wondering if this bastard influenced her,” of course, Arlo forgot they were happily bullying me and the others.

“And then Rayden’s parents and one of our other student’s parents started chasing after Helanie to bother her, trying to force her to sign and accept Rayden’s apology. Not only that, but they wanted Helanie arrested and thrown in front of the council for standing up for herself,” Emmet continued, setting the stage for today’s meeting.

I’ve never had someone stand up and explain to everyone what I’ve been through. Emmet doing this was such a relief.

“So—I’ve reached out to the council to explain why my brothers and I show extra care for Helanie—” Emmet paused just to read his brothers’ faces. Norman was looking at him like he was trying to understand what Emmet was about to say before he actually said it.

“And today I’m going to tell everyone why we care for Helanie and why she should be treated with respect here.” He took a deep breath and then said what I hadn’t expected him to say.

“She is our stepsister!”

It was those words that took Maximus’s breath away, visibly. At least, visible to me. Kaye turned to Emmet with a look on his face that only I could understand. Even Norman rolled his eyes and turned slightly to the side so the others wouldn’t see the disappointment on his face.

“What?” Jenny gasped.

“Her mother is getting engaged to my father very soon. Helanie is not only a student of the academy but also an owner of the academy. Yet she’s been given all the tough tasks, passed them and earned her place here. So, any bullying against her will result in severe punishment,” Emmet finished.

At this point, everyone was starting to realize what they’d just heard.

And of course, the brothers didn’t look happy at all.