Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 459

Chapter 459: 459-One Missing?
Helanie:

The brothers had gone silent for a while before Maximus came at me and grabbed my arm, pulling me away from them. The minute I resisted, he stopped and turned to look at me.

“Please, I just need to talk,” he said.

His request made me turn my head and look at Emmet, who had his eyes narrowed at us before he stepped up to have a word.

“Then I will be there too,” Emmet added.

“Let’s go. We all need to have a chat,” Norman announced once he gestured at Kaye, who had been staring at me with his mouth slightly open as if he had received the shock of his life.

We all went ahead and sat in Norman’s seven-seater while he drove us away from the hostel. I felt so odd sitting among them because the brothers kept huffing and puffing, blowing out air from their noses.

“Please breathe more loudly, all of you,” I turned to them, briefly looking away from the window.

Maximus looked at Kaye and then at Emmet before he said, “I will obey you and behave.”

“Sure, you’re an obedient one,” Emmet quickly caught on to what Maximus was trying to do.

“How is she mated to all of us?” Kaye complained, finally breaking the silence.

“Not me!” Norman fixed his mirror to glance at us. “And we will talk once we are in a safe place.” He sounded way more annoyed than the others. Of course, he was angry because his brothers were now going to argue about yet another thing.

And arguing about a mate is even more stressful.

Norman stopped his car next to the woods and gestured for all of us to get out. We did as he asked.

“She is not mated to me,” Norman reminded Kaye.

“And not me,” Maximus said, making me roll my eyes. I wanted to tell him that I am mated to him, but I felt like if I did now, it would be even messier.

Norman shared a glance with Emmet because he knew that wasn’t the truth and that I had felt the mate bond with Maximus too. However, even he knew telling Maximus would make him go crazy.

“How is it possible for an omega, like she claims to be, to have multiple mates?” Norman started, making Emmet sigh.

“And she was carried in a bridal style by the Moon Goddess herself.” As soon as he said that, everyone turned to me and gasped.

“The Moon Goddess?” Kaye raised his brow, his lips turning into a straight line.

“Yep,” Emmet confirmed.

“And her body heats up when she is stressed,” Norman added, making Emmet frown. It does?

I remember Hans complaining during our test, but I didn’t know it was a real thing and not just a figure of speech.

“So what are you guys suggesting? That I’m a witch or something?” I sighed at the topic of conversation.

“No! What we will do is—no one will accept you since it will cause issues between brothers,” Maximus turned heads with his statement.

“Um, brother, with due respect, I don’t think you can make decisions for mates.” In a very nice yet firm tone, Emmet shut him down.

“Well, with a very humble request, it’s either we all stay away from her, or I will not let any of you have her,” Maximus was taking bold steps, so I had to remind him of something that would stop him from coming after me.

“You had your chance, and you screwed it up—” I shut up when he grunted.

“I didn’t. I never intended to go along with my mother’s plan, and you know how I will prove it?” he hissed, pulling out his phone to show me something. It was a text message he had sent to Kaye before he pursued me. In that text, he had confessed to Kaye that their mother wanted him to play me, and he told Kaye that he wouldn’t. That he would befriend me, but not play with me.

“I wasn’t lying,” he hissed.

I felt shock hit me. And the way he came to save me made me believe he truly cared for me. But what could be done now?

I noticed Emmet looking at me, his face showing he didn’t like where this was going.

“But you have a mate now, so calm down,” Kaye put his hand on his brother’s shoulder to ease him up.

“You don’t get to say anything. You’re just mad because she chose me over you,” Maximus shrugged, causing Kaye to hiss at him.

“She didn’t. Did you guys not catch when she said she had promised not to accept a mate until her revenge was done?” Emmet came to clear my name so that Kaye would stop accusing me.

“Oh!” Kaye might have remembered because his face relaxed before a smirk formed on his lips. “Then that means—I can still claim her. She didn’t want to accept me because of her promise to the Moon Goddess. Same as you. You are her mate, so you two have to wait,” Kaye smirked, his eyes shining.

“Enough!” Norman yelled. Having to listen to his brothers for too long had exhausted him.

“And besides—I don’t understand why you are claiming Charlotte is your mate. Did you do it to hurt Helanie?” Norman finally snapped. I knew Norman didn’t like Charlotte, but I was worried that bringing up this topic might reopen some doors that should stay closed.

“I felt the mate bond with her in the woods. Remember I told you about it? That I could tell I had felt a mate bond with someone in the woods,” Maximus sighed, making me cover my mouth in shock.

Is this what Charlotte told him?

Because the incident he was mentioning to Norman was the one where I was in the woods.

Norman stared at me and then mouthed, ‘I have to tell him now. This is not looking good.’

I didn’t want to stop him anymore. I had previously thought we were only hiding the fact that I was also his mate, but now we realized he had been lied to.

“Maximus—what I am going to tell you will break your trust in many people,” Norman’s words turned the air silent, “but you deserve to know the truth.”

“That girl in the woods was not Charlotte.”

Norman’s statement shocked Maximus. He looked at all of us and then back at Norman, who very calmly added,

“It was Helanie.”