Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 38

Chapter 38: 38-Save Me, My Stepbrother

Helanie:

A twisted pain in my chest widened my eyes. Kaye was staring at me as well, looking as shocked as I felt.

Did he hear it too?

Did I just feel the mate bond with him?

But why and how? I had already found my mate, and it was his brother, my other stepbrother. What kind of twisted game was the Moon Goddess playing with me?

I now remembered everything. And yet I didn’t want to leave. I told him enough, and that was because my real life was full of misery.

But now this—it just confirmed I shouldn’t return. The Moon Goddess was on a mission to make me apologize to her. And he fucking kissed me. I kissed my stepbrother. But is it okay if I think of it as just a dream?

The moon goddess is playing with me.

That had to be it. Why else would she make the people who were going to be my stepbrothers my mates?

Not only that, but they also hated me.

“They are here,” and then we broke out of the trance once the loud noises approached us. In that moment, I realized they had caught us.

Or specifically, Kaye.

The warriors arrived and tried to grab Kaye’s arm, but he punched one of them in the face. Both of them landed on the ground when he kicked them too, but then many others arrived from behind them.

The entire pack house had now surrounded us.

My mother was among them, wearing her perfect hairstyle, but she looked shocked when she reached me.

“Your hair—” she gasped, covering her mouth with her hands.

“You— you come to my home and try to take away what belongs to me.” I felt a long arm wrap around my body, sending goosebumps across my skin.

It was Rune.

I slowly and shakily turned my back to look at him. He wasn’t as charming as I had thought before when I was under his control.

But now that I could see his true self, he was terrifying. His hair was wet, and his smirk was extremely creepy.

“Helanie! Come on. How can you want to live here?” The desperation in Kaye’s voice was different than before we felt the mate bond.

I gulped at the urgency in his eyes. He had come here for me, whatever the reason, and I was grateful for it.

“She is not coming with you. She would much rather have a perfect life here than suffer in your world,” Rune said with a smile, shaking me as he kept his arm wrapped around me, holding me close to him.

“Helanie! I won’t leave until you come with me.” Kaye extended his hand, and Rune’s nails pierced my skin, his grip tightening around my arm, evidence that he wasn’t happy about it.

“What made you think you could escape? You came here to ruin my perfect world. You are going to stay here forever. There is no exit. And as for your wolf—I’ve decided you don’t have a wolf in my world,” Rune snapped his fingers, and Kaye dropped to his knees. My body flinched, and I swear Rune noticed it because he turned his head to me.

“How about we go away? Huh? Have the perfect ending for you—an ending you wouldn’t get in the real world. There’s no end there; only one issue resolves, and another pops up. But here, you get a happy ending, and then it’s over,” he smirked as if that were enough to convince me.

But I was already convinced, wasn’t I?

As he started to drag me away, I felt my body freeze. That night when Altan didn’t stick around to protect me, I realized I had no one. But then Kaye came here to bring me back.

I was shocked.

I didn’t care what compelled him to come here; his dedication to doing the right thing twisted my heart.

I should be doing the right thing too.

“My happiness is not in finding a happy ending,” I suddenly stopped and murmured, making Rune lower his head to watch my face. “My happy ending is to go back to the real world and punish those who have wronged me.”

With that, I suddenly landed a punch on Rune’s face. He barely moved but looked offended. However, my knuckles hurt.

“How dare you!” My mother, who was kind and sweet, lunged at me to slap me. I had let my other mother hurt my feelings, so I wouldn’t let this one abuse me.

I grabbed her hand and kicked her in the stomach, causing Rune to let out a growl.

“That’s it. Take them away! I will tear them both apart!” Rune yelled, and his body began to emit darkness.

Finally, he was revealing his true self. This place was not a dream nor heaven; it was a nightmare.

“Come on!” Kaye shook me as I watched and turned my neck back to see Rune’s neck growing, his head becoming one of those creepy things with wide eyes and an even wider smile.

His people began snickering and stepped out of the way. His neck wiggled and moved in quick motions. It suddenly lunged at me, but Kaye picked me up and tossed me to the side, saving me.

The others were now just standing in a circle to make sure we couldn’t leave.

“You cannot escape me,” Rune said with a maniacal grin.

His head seemed like a wrecking ball, coming at us. Every time it tried to attack, Kaye would save me.

He was quick and strong, able to lift me as if I were a feather.

“Ughhh! Hiding behind your stepbrother?” Rune stretched his neck up to the sky, his voice booming from above. “So it was all true about you. You’re just a pathetic loser. If I were there that night, I would have done the same and even worse to you than what those alphas did. And after I was done with you, I would have made sure to discard your body and kill you.”

His words made the crowd laugh, sending tremors of fear through me.

“Don’t let him get to your head!” Kaye yelled, holding my hand and preparing to dodge the next attack.

“Aww, poor Helanie. Or maybe you wanted that to happen. You wanted someone to attack you and feel nice and good.”

It was definitely not a dream world; it had become my nightmare when I raised my head and saw a flashback of that night.

I could no longer move or defend myself.