Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 309

Chapter 309: 309-Maybe Him?

Helanie:

“Helanie,” Lamar extended his arm to hold my hand as he navigated us through the cave.

“He’s here! I found him!” Salem screamed from afar, calling for us and letting us know she had found Gavin.

Our eyes were wide as we followed her voice and reached the small hidden area in the cave. It was Gavin hiding there, and he came out when he heard Salem calling for him.

“Gavin!” I pushed everyone away to kneel before him. His foot was badly injured, and maybe that was why he couldn’t leave the cave. I could tell he had lost a lot of blood too, which is why he hadn’t been able to shift either.

“Helanie!” he whispered, smiling through his bloody face.

“What happened to you?” I wanted to give him a hug, but he looked in so much pain that I couldn’t do anything for him.

“Okay, we need to get him out of here first,” Sage suggested for Rudy to carry Gavin on his back. It was hard to lift him without moving him too much. And every time he moved, he cried and screamed. It was terrifying.

While Rudy carried him on his back and walked us toward the mountains, I realized Salem was probably really interested in Gavin. Or why else would she have come to a group of people who aren’t fond of her to find someone she had a fling with?

“Thank you,” I said to Salem as I passed her.

“I’ll take him home and get him all stitched up before I help him with the transition. We can’t take him to the hospital yet, because then everyone would find out that something happened to him on the mountains,” Lamar suggested, making me frown at him.

“Yeah, and it seems like we’ve found the hidden cave of the Lycan. But where was he? I thought he would be there and hide until the full moon,” Sage was trying to find out the truth about the Lycan.

I could see it in her eyes that she was still very much interested in finding that Lycan and capturing him.

“Rudy, take Gavin to Lamar’s motel while the rest of us leave,” Sage ordered. Rudy would take Gavin in his car while Lamar rode his bike to his pack, as he wouldn’t leave his vehicle behind.

“I’ll be fine. Go,” I told Lamar when he passed me a glance. It was morning, and I would be fine going by myself.

“The Lycan is not just a monster,” Gavin spoke, stumbling as Rudy laid him down in the backseat of the car.

“What do you mean by that?” I asked, leaning down to him. The others were standing all around him, worried for him.

“He transitions only on the full moon into a Lycan,” he explained through sleepy eyes. Sage had given him some medicine to help with his pain.

“Thank you—I didn’t think you would come—” Gavin was in the middle of speaking, smiling at me, and then he closed his eyes and passed out.

“Oh!” Once again, a look of strange determination took over Sage’s face as she gathered more information about the Lycan.

It was shocking to me as well. I thought the Lycan was a monster who stayed in that form as a curse. But I never thought it was someone who would transition back into their human form once the full moon was gone. It made my heart sink in my chest.

Who could it be?

Who could be my mate?

Rudy and Lamar drove off while Sage seemed to have something to say to us.

“Okay, everyone. This gives us hope,” she clapped her hands, rubbing them together. “So the Lycan is someone who lives among us but turns into a monster and terrorizes us on full moons. You know what we can do with this information?” she smirked, coming up with a plan.

“We can set up cameras all around the cave and find out who it is,” she snapped her fingers, making everyone look at her a bit oddly. I’m sure after last time, not many were ready to go on a deadly mission to find and capture the Lycan again.

“Come on, everyone, show some enthusiasm. This Lycan has been hurting our kind, and then it gets to live among us like a snake,” she hissed, and the way she phrased it got others intrigued and agreeing with her.

“And besides, you don’t have to do anything. I’ll set up some cameras around the cave and inside it, and then we’ll go together in the morning to collect the footage. It’s that simple,” she shrugged while the others nodded.

I wasn’t too sure. It was dangerous to be in the Lycan’s cave again.

She said goodbye to us, and I began my journey back home. While hiking, my eyes landed on something very familiar and striking.

I would have never paid attention to it if I hadn’t seen it before. It was a black, shiny material stuck to one of the trees as if it had been ripped during some wild encounter. I reached the tree, touching the material, and noticed all the blood on it.

Not only that, as it was normal for blood to be in the rogue community, but what was shocking to me was that I recognized the initials written on the torn piece of fabric.

“E-M?” I frowned.

I remembered him speaking to his brother about leaving to go somewhere. But I thought he would be going out for a meeting with a client. Some of their clients, no, many of their clients, visit them, and then they have parties and meetings with them after midnight.

But this didn’t seem like a party to me. I grabbed the fabric and held it tightly in my hand while briskly walking back to the mansion.

It didn’t make sense why his jacket was torn and all bloody. In my mind, I was hoping to go home and later hear the rumor that Emmet might have encountered something and got his jacket ripped. But when I arrived home for dinner, I was shocked to see nothing being mentioned.

No one was talking about anything. Especially the brothers.

I went to join them for dinner, my eyes on Emmet. He seemed just fine and had no story to share.