Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 331

Chapter 331: 331-The Lycan Always Forgets

Helanie:

I was on the verge of breaking down after hearing Maximus express his fake love for me. It was truly heartbreaking.

Just a few months ago, Kaye had said something similar to me.

He had asked me to accept him, and he would leave with me. But he didn’t want to wait.

And then tonight, Maximus said the same thing—but he was lying.

Altan used to make such crazy promises in the coldest tone as well.

It was always like that.

No one had ever fulfilled their promises to me.

“Maybe I’m really not that special for someone to be honest and loyal to me,” I whispered, covering my face in my hands and sniffing as my tears soaked my palms.

“What will I do after I reject Maximus and refuse to be in a relationship with him? Will he openly try to hurt me? What will happen to my revenge when such a powerful man is after me, trying to take me down?”

I was losing my mind, disgusted with myself for getting tangled up in yet another mess.

If I had avoided this from the start, I would have been fine.

No heartbreak.

No pain.

I would have just focused on myself.

I had been so happy to have my wolf, but now, that happiness and small victory were overshadowed by Maximus’s betrayal.

That night, I went straight to bed because I had other plans for the morning.

Lamar, Gavin, and I had talked about going to the library to find a way to help Lucy.

However, we were going to tell Gavin about the tenth floor in the morning so our research would start in the right direction.

I woke up before breakfast and even left the mansion early to avoid seeing anyone. I planned to meet up with my friends, and then Lamar would drop me off directly in the woods where Maximus would be waiting for me.

That was another issue I needed to solve.

After rejecting Maximus, I would need a new job. I didn’t think working with him would be good for my mental health.

He would make my life miserable—I knew he was capable of it.

I remembered how, in the beginning, he had hated me. I mean, he still did.

But before he faked affection for me, he was clever and vindictive.

I would need to stay far away from him.

“Hey,” I waved my hand, slowing down when I saw Sage and Rudy standing behind Lamar and Gavin near Benita’s café.

“Sorry for crashing your meetup, but I was so curious that I couldn’t sit still when I saw Lamar and Gavin show up on his bike,” Sage mumbled in one breath, laughing awkwardly at herself.

“Oh no, that’s fine,” I said, forcing a smile as I waved my hand.

I had a bad feeling she was here to talk about the Lycan.

She had a weird obsession with catching that Lycan.

“I just wanted to ask Gavin a few questions, and I’ll be quick,” Sage said, shifting her attention to him.

“Yeah, sure. What’s it about?” Gavin asked, his expression matching the curiosity of the rest of us.

“That Lycan—you saw him transition, right?” she asked, her excitement evident.

“No!” he replied bluntly.

“Oh! Then walk us through your time in the cave,” she said, using hand gestures to show her eagerness.

As Gavin began speaking, I noticed Rudy glancing at me, only to quickly look away when I caught him.

Now that was something new.

“I was on the mountain when night fell. I had been up there for days at that point, but that one night, things got out of hand. I was unable to defend myself because I had run out of flashlight power, food, and basically everything I needed to survive. I felt something attack me from behind. The next thing I knew, my body was free-falling off the mountain. But then, the Lycan grabbed me and dragged me to his cave. He was so scary and—” Gavin grimaced at the memory of being trapped with the Lycan.

“So, he attacked you and then took you to his cave?” Sage clarified as he nodded.

“That’s what I remember,” he answered.

“And what about, um—your time in the cave?” she asked, her fingers anxiously fidgeting.

“He put me in there and left. I hid in his cave, and by the time he came back, he was covered in blood—like he had eaten something, or maybe someone. The smell of blood was rich and… powerful. It was like whoever he ate was a high-ranking werewolf or someone with immense power,” Gavin’s face paled as he recalled the details.

It must have been horrifying for him.

“Hmm… and he didn’t eat you?” Sage asked directly this time.

“Actually, no, he didn’t. He just came and left. It was like he forgot he had put me in there. There were times when he would appear in the cave, looking lost—like he was trying to remember if he had been there before. That’s when I started noticing that he doesn’t remember what he did the night before.”

That was the key to our answers.

A huge revelation.

We all exchanged shocked looks before turning back to Gavin.

“Great! So that means if he broke the cameras when trashing the cave, he wouldn’t even remember doing it,” Sage let out a deep sigh of relief and then smiled confidently.

So this had been worrying her.

Of course, it was something to be concerned about.

But right when Gavin made that revelation, one of my biggest worries was answered as well.

So the Lycan wouldn’t remember that I was his mate?

Is that why Norman wanted to ask me if I was in the woods?

So—he’s really a Lycan?

Petrified, I began to sweat.

All this time, I had convinced myself that he probably lied just to stop me from asking about the Lycan.

But now I was certain.

It has to be him.