Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 489

Chapter 489: 489-The Distraught Fiancé
Norman:

Jessica: I can’t believe you trusted that girl’s words and went against my baby brother.

Jessica: Look what happened. She was proven to be a liar.

Jessica: I am deeply hurt, and I want an apology.

Jessica: I saw your brothers as my own, but you never cared about my family.

“Isn’t your phone buzzing a little too much these days?” Kaye playfully slapped my back as he sat down on the patio with me.

“She could go on and on. Someone needs to take her phone away,” I groaned under my breath, putting my phone down on the table.

“She must be really upset. She’s been blowing up my phone too. And I get where she’s coming from. She’s his sister and has been there for us. I’m sure she doesn’t know what an evil monster her ‘baby brother’ is,” Kaye mocked the way Jessica always referred to that grown man as a baby.

“I can’t deal with her right now. Even when her name pops into my head, all I can think about is Helanie and what Jessica’s brother did to her,” I sighed, taking a sip of my coffee.

“You guys didn’t question me further,” I knew Kaye was desperate to know how we felt about his little confession the other day.

“We just didn’t know what to say. If your curse is to kill your mate, and your mate is Helanie, that means—” I stopped talking, unable to say it out loud.

“War between brothers. Because she’s their mate too?” Kaye sighed, smiling as he nodded in understanding.

“I will never go to war with you, and neither will the others. They love you. But—we’ll keep Helanie safe too,” I confirmed. There’s no way we’d think about hurting him. But we will defend her from his attacks.

“I don’t know why this happened to me. Why me— and maybe it was fate when Helanie asked for time and we broke up. Maybe it was the Moon Goddess looking out for her. Because she does seem to have some fascination with Helanie,” although Kaye was trying to make light of the situation, I noticed the tears in his eyes. The brothers had shown their love for Helanie for a while, so I could only imagine how Kaye must be feeling now—torn between loving her and feeling the urge to kill her.

“I’ll find some way. I just need to get into Mom’s head,” I said, watching Kaye lean back in his seat and stare at the sky.

“Is Emmet marrying Helanie?” he asked.

Emme told us that Helanie had made up her mind. Thankfully, she had stopped with the whole “promise to the Moon Goddess” thing. One must not be blinded by anger to the point that they make their own life miserable.

Marrying Penn would have been a good option for her if Emmet wasn’t in the picture. But she has someone who loves her, and that someone is her mate, so why not?

“I guess it’s also helping me not freak out about the fact that Emmet will be marrying her. But then Maximus— I don’t think he’ll be able to stay calm for too long,” Kaye wasn’t wrong. After I told Maximus and Kaye about the sacrifices Emmet had made for them, Maximus had stopped complaining or hurting Emmet with his words. But seeing Helanie marry Emmet will be hard for him.

“But it’s not like he can do anything about it. The council will be marrying Helanie off on the full moon night. At midnight, to be exact. And with the way the accused’s Alpha King fathers have been doing everything they can to fix this by getting her married, they won’t delay the wedding,” I reminded Kaye that we don’t have time. We need to get Helanie out of there.

“Hmm, what exactly is the plan?” Kaye asked.

“So, you’ll be taking care of Kaidon. Make sure he doesn’t arrive in time. When the clock strikes twelve and the desperate council is looking for Helanie’s groom, I’ll show up with Emmet. Emmet will volunteer, and I’m sure they’ll just marry her off without a second thought. They want her married and settled so she’ll forget about the revenge stuff. Besides, Alpha Diaz won’t be there that night to object. The council will go by his earlier words— he said Helanie should be married to anyone as punishment on the next full moon,” I repeated my plan.

“What about Dad and Helanie’s mother?” Kaye mentioned the elephant in the room, and I sighed under my breath.

That part was worrying me too. My dad deserved happiness as well. But right now, Helanie’s safety was way more important. Besides, Helanie was my brother’s fated mate, so it was a risky situation.

“We’ll deal with it later. You just keep an eye on Maximus. Emmet is worried about him,” I sighed as I rubbed my face in my hands.

I wasn’t thinking that we would marry Helanie off to Emmet and everything would magically be fixed. We still have my brother’s curses to deal with, the fact that they are mated to Helanie, and then there’s my mother’s anger—along with the biggest issue: justice for Helanie.

“We’ll take care of it all. How about we pay her a visit?” Kaye suggested, making me nod my head. I didn’t trust Helanie’s pack members or the family she lived with.

“We must. Call Emmet and Maximus,” I said as I stretched my neck, and that’s when a text popped up on my phone again:

Jessica: Tell me what I should do? My brother says he didn’t do anything. Why am I the one getting punished? What did I do wrong? If he’s found guilty, I’ll punish him myself. But if there’s anything I can do—any way I can get the truth out of him—I’ll do it.

I was surprised she said that. I’ve known her to love her brother a lot. I appreciated that she wanted to help, but I was more impressed by the fact that she thought I would believe she would actually hand her brother over to the council if he was found guilty.