Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 374

Chapter 374: 374-Face Off
Helanie:

“Cut the call,” Lamar mouthed to me because he could tell I was having a panic attack. The way he mimicked my condition from that night made me clench my fists and close my eyes to try and breathe properly. But I couldn’t. I was enraged. I wanted to kill him. It had to happen now. He had no way to be guilty and get punished. His punishment would be death.

“And I realized, hmm, it’ll be much more believable if I say you tried to seduce two Alphas to pit them against each other, and when they caught on to your bullshit, you accused them of rape and ran away when you couldn’t prove the evidence.” His words made it harder for me to breathe.

All this would definitely make them believe I’m in the wrong.

“But—” I gasped, “I am not that heartless.”

He suddenly changed his tone back to normal, no longer mocking me.

“Oh, come on, don’t cry,” I bet he heard me sniffle. “Here’s what should be done. You just come meet me alone in the deep woods, and we’ll settle this out,” he finished.

I opened my eyes and saw Lamar shake his head at me. “Tell him no,” Lamar mouthed.

I kept watching Lamar’s face before I closed my eyes again and replied, “Okay.”

I hung up the phone, and he texted me exactly where we were going to meet.

“Helanie, what the heck did you do? Just wait a minute and think before you just go into the woods—” Lamar started to follow after me as I grabbed my boots.

“I don’t care anymore. I need to see him. If you really want to help, get me a silver dagger.” I was breathing heavily, trying to stay calm while there was fire burning inside me. How dare Rayden mock that night?

“Helanie, let’s think—” Lamar insisted, but I stepped back from him.

“Okay, I’ll go alone then. You don’t need to find me anything,” I told him. He grabbed my hand to stop me.

“I know you’re angry, and I guess you’re right. But you’re not going alone. He killed my sister too, so I’m coming with you,” he said, grabbing his bag from under the bed. “Don’t worry, we have enough daggers in my bag for the both of us.”

With that, we held hands and started heading down the stairs to the ground floor. Our plan to have lunch with our friends seemed pretty unrealistic. Given the circumstances and our mission, we shouldn’t even be sitting on our asses and doing nothing.

We walked out of the academy and were on the road when we started to hear calls from Jenny, Penn, and even Gavin. We avoided them all and continued on our journey. I was feeling very emotional because today I was going to confront him, and I could tell Lamar was in his feelings too.

Although we couldn’t get Rayden to lead us to his friends, we were still going to be upfront with him, and I would fight till my last breath.

We arrived at the designated location, and sure enough, Rayden was leaning against the tree, waiting for us. But his mood soured when he saw Lamar with me.

“Already breaking the rules,” he hissed, narrowing his eyes at Lamar.

“What did she tell you?” he asked Lamar, who narrowed his eyes in return, then stretched his neck, getting ready to hit him with the truth.

“That you are a bastard. You can’t keep it in your pants,” Lamar finished, and somehow, Rayden found it hilarious because he broke out in laughter.

“That’s cute,” Rayden finished. “I told you to come alone. But you broke the rules. Now I’ll have to go tell the council everything about you. Everything about how you tricked the Alphas and fooled them,” he quieted down when he saw Lamar square up to him.

“You fucking wouldn’t dare,” Lamar yelled.

Rayden squeezed his eyes shut for a moment, furrowing his eyebrows and pouting. “What’s up with you? Why are you acting like I did something to you?”

Of course, he didn’t think Lamar’s anger toward him was justifiable—just because it didn’t happen to Lamar, but to me.

Rayden was a cold man, an ignorant, heartless man.

“You shouldn’t believe her entirely, you know. Do you know she’s been having an affair with her stepbrothers?” Rayden said it in a tone that he was certain would shock Lamar. He was expecting Lamar to turn to me in disbelief about why I hadn’t told him about my affairs.

“I know,” Lamar replied, and it visibly bothered Rayden.

“Huh! So you’re on her side because you think the trainers will help you with the academy score? Let me tell you a funny story—she played them so the trainers are against her now. I heard what happened at the training ground today as well, so you might want to reconsider the whole thing and whose side you want to believe in,” Rayden spoke bitterly but kept a grin on his lips. “Hey, trust me, dude. She’s lying about everything. She faked her death and left her pack. Do you know she was the one who caught me in that hooker lie?” Rayden was trying to turn Lamar against me, but he didn’t know Lamar had already figured him out long ago.

“She didn’t,” Lamar said confidently. “And you know why I’m so certain she didn’t? Because it was I who did it.”

That surely struck Rayden hard. He seemed taken aback before he shook his head. “Why—why would you do that?” It was almost like Rayden didn’t want anyone on my side. Even my own friends taking my side was hurting his ego.

He wanted to corner me and win from me one last time after losing so many times.

“Because,” Lamar walked closer to him and uttered, “remember that redhead you and your friend raped and murdered? She was my sister, you fucking prick.” With that, Lamar headbutted him so hard that Rayden fell on his butt, his eyes growing unnaturally wide in shock.