Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 428

Chapter 428: 428-I Deserve Happiness Too
Helanie:

I had turned around and hugged him the minute I heard those words. I stayed hugging him while he kept his arms tightly wrapped around me for a few minutes before I began to pull away.

“I don’t want you to kill him. I want him to confess,” I said and noticed Emmet frowning in confusion.

“You know he would never do that,” he uttered.

“Rayden did it,” I replied, and he nodded.

“I—cannot believe one of my—” he placed his hand on his chest almost like he was still in pain. “I want to go strangle someone. It has to be anyone,” he continued to rub his chest and wander around the office, huffing and puffing.

“You know it helps when someone listens to you,” I murmured softly, and he stopped to look at me. “But I want the world to know I am not just saying it because I am some slut who—” I couldn’t finish when he pointed his finger at me.

“If I’m not going to let anyone say that about you, I will warn you too—never say anything like that about yourself either,” he sounded angry, and that made me smile a bit.

“I didn’t go back to attend that dinner with that disgusting creature,” he hissed, his fists clenched. “I was afraid I would make a mistake and probably kill him right then and there.”

Hearing him talk with me about that night of torture and being on my side was helping me with my anxiety.

“You came to our place, and my brothers—they—” I noticed Emmet always had a hard time talking when he was angry or upset.

“It is okay. Nobody knew. But I was afraid how they would react when they found out,” I watched him shake his head at my words.

“If they are my brothers and I know them, they wouldn’t question you. We know you. Only a fool would say you’re the type to wrongfully accuse someone. Besides, I want you to give me names,” he said as he sat down with a piece of paper.

“I don’t want you to do anything. I want justice in a way that the other girls who had been abused by them could get justice too,” I refused to let him take matters into his own hands. “I just want you to be there for me when I need you, when I am under questioning.”

“That is it? That’s the bare minimum? I got an idea,” I watched him snap his fingers, his eyes welling up. “I can abduct them—we can torture the truth out of them and—then break their limbs,” he shook his head, looking down at his own thoughts.

“The truth coming out would do that. I don’t want them to say we forced them into a false confession. As for the names, I only know Romeo, Zellu, and Kaidon so far,” I watched him tilt his head and then scoff.

“That Benita’s son, Kaidon?” He had an amused look on his face, as if he wanted to pay him a visit just now.

“Yes, but he says he was drugged by his friends with a mixture of drugs and Flame of Lust,” I watched him shake his head.

“I don’t care. Then he shouldn’t be around such people. Helanie, the crime has been committed. His sentence might be low, but he will be punished,” Emmet’s eyes suddenly flashed a different color, and I gasped.

“Emmet,” I reached over and sat down, holding his hand. His one hand was so big and heavy that I had to smile and shake my head.

“What?” he asked.

I didn’t know why, but he made me feel so much better.

“Listen, I don’t want you to tell anyone yet,” I was talking when he narrowed his eyes at my face and slowly reached over, placing his hand on my forehead and running it above to slightly lift my bangs.

“What is that?” he asked, pointing out the injury I got from Romeo and Zellu’s attack.

“Oh, I was ambushed earlier by Romeo and Zellu,” I had only said that much when Emmet leaned back in his chair and started shaking his legs. He seemed to be filled with so much rage that his face started turning red.

“But Gavin and Salem arrived in time. I’m okay now. I’m just worried about where Kaidon is. He promised to help me, but then he just disappeared. He texted me and led me to the library where his friends ambushed me,” I was rambling when I realized Emmet might not even be listening at this point.

“I will find out about Kaidon,” he uttered, straightening his back uncomfortably. “You should go back and rest now.”

I understood he wanted to cool down.

I got up and gave him a little bow, but as soon as I turned around to leave, I felt him grab my hand and spin me around.

I landed on his chest, my face tilted up, and my eyes meeting his.

“I am going to do a very forbidden act now,” he whispered, his eyes dropping to my lips. I guess it was his way of asking for consent.

“How can it be a taboo when it is you?” It just slipped from my lips, and the next thing I knew, he had cupped my face and crashed his lips against mine.

The taste of his lips drove me crazy. He was sucking and biting on my lips, his hands reaching my back, grabbing it, massaging all the way up and down before reaching my ass. He wasn’t just talking about a kiss.

With his hands on my butt, he lifted me without breaking the kiss and then freed one hand, tossing the things off the table and placing me on it. His hand parted my legs so that he could adjust his body between them.

I got to taste his bottom lip while he clung to my upper lip before licking my lips with his tongue and asking for entry. I didn’t want to hold back either.

I was hungry for love, for my mate’s love, for Emmet’s love. The man I had seen and admired from afar until now.

As soon as I parted my lips, he shoved his tongue down my throat.