Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 451

Chapter 451: 451-Let The Monster Eat The Culprits
Maximus:

“Fine, he admitted to one mistake. But that doesn’t prove anything else,” Dad had disappointed me greatly.

But I understood he was looking at it from the perspective of the council. They would ask for solid proof because we were going after some top students from their academy and also big alphas.

“We will still need proof,” Dad hissed, warning us not to make things complicated by doing something reckless when we didn’t have enough evidence.

“Sir, if everything has been said and done, can we take her back to the hostel? She needs rest and to be away from toxic people,” Lamar requested, his eyes on Helanie. Then he looked at our mother, Emma, Charlotte, and finally at Romeo.

I was surprised to see Lamar’s growth. The only reason I was allowing him near Helanie again was because he meant well—he was genuinely always there for her.

“Sure, take her home,” Norman gave him a nod, letting them take Helanie away. I desperately wanted to spend time with her, to hold her in my arms.

But I knew she would never let me. As soon as Helanie walked away, I noticed Charlotte staring at me.

Dammit!

Why did the Moon Goddess make her my mate?

I didn’t want her. And after what Helanie told us, I would die before accepting Charlotte. I wanted Helanie. Just her and nobody else—now more than ever.

Even if I have to make my brother, Kaye, reject her, I will do it. I will not stop until Helanie is mine.

But we weren’t done yet. Norman grabbed Romeo and started taking him to his study, with us brothers following after him.

“Now, tell us, where is your phone?” Norman pushed Romeo onto the chair while I locked the door behind us. Kaye had a knife in his hand, while Emmet stood awfully still, not even moving a muscle, glaring at Romeo.

“This is my phone,” Romeo looked at all of us before handing his phone to Norman after unlocking it. I couldn’t even breathe the same air as him. To think my cousin had hurt my mate was making me go insane.

To think he had touched her against her will, or that he saw women’s bodies as objects, made me want to puke.

Letting him breathe another second was making me hate myself.

“This is a new phone, Romeo. Do you want me to spell my demand out to you?” Norman yelled in his face, hunching down over him.

We let Norman do the talking. He could make Romeo pee his pants within minutes.

“I changed my phone. My old phone broke,” Romeo explained, but his body was shaking so badly that his words were coming out all wrong.

“You take me for a fool?” Norman placed his hands on the chair’s armrest and leaned toward his face.

“Brothers—why are you doing this to me? She doesn’t like me because I am dating her ex-best friend,” Romeo let out a cry. I could tell he was shocked that we weren’t immediately believing him.

“The best friend who came out and said a lot of negative stuff about you?” Kaye hissed at him, while Emmet silently watched. I was beginning to wonder if Emmet was holding back, charging himself up for a more brutal attack on Romeo.

I wouldn’t mind. I would happily join him.

He was lucky Helanie wanted her culprits to admit to their crimes. Otherwise, my fist would have been down Romeo’s throat already by now.

I kept feeling this rage in me, this disgust for my own blood.

The things they did to Helanie, the things Helanie recalled—I felt like the world should have ended that night. Nobody deserved to live when her right to live her life on her own terms was taken away from her.

“I need your old phone.”

This is why we let Norman interrogate him. We would lose our temper, but Norman kept his priorities straight.

He was going to get the phone to find the videos. If we could find them—even if there was no face—we could prove Romeo was there because he was recording.

“I threw it away,” Romeo stammered again. Of course, he was lying.

“If you think you can get away with it just because you won’t admit it, you’re wrong,” I stepped forward, towering over him in warning.

“Every day you live after today will be worse than your death,” Kaye stepped beside me, standing shoulder to shoulder.

“A woman is not your property. You made a grave mistake, and on top of that, it turned out to be Helanie,” I hissed.

“Either you confess, or—your every inch will go through hell every single day,” Norman joined us, standing in line with us.

“So pray that death comes to you sooner, Romeo. It’s going to be a hell of a ride for you and those bastard friends of yours,” Emmet finally snapped out of his trance and stood in line with us.

“Brothers—” Romeo couldn’t even come up with another word.

That’s when our mother barged in—the woman who couldn’t stand with another woman even when it was clear Romeo had attacked her.

“Huh! For heaven’s sake, he made a childish mistake. He didn’t want to leave her out there; he just didn’t realize how tightly he had tied her,” Mother was quite a piece of work. She was blatantly believing him, even though I was sure she knew she sounded ridiculous. But her hatred for Helanie, because of her mother, was overshadowing everything else.

“Go ahead, take him away. He is not related to us anymore,” Norman said to Mother, who looked quite shocked before hiding Romeo behind her once again.

“I will not allow this,” she looked Norman dead in the eye.

“Nobody cares what you allow. We have made our decision. We will find the others and make them all confess,” Emmet was always vocal about his disagreement with our mother’s actions.

But it was decided. The Glimards would stay. We wouldn’t fight them. We would let them invade the packs and kill every one of them.

This is what they deserved for hurting my mate.