Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 491

Chapter 491: 491-The Stained Blood
Jessica:

I kept staring at my phone while breathing heavily. How could this have happened? Just a week before my wedding and all this mess came to light. I closed my eyes and thought about the girl in question.

“Helanie Niles, the innocent-looking blonde,” my wolf recalled her face, and my heart skipped a beat.

“They’ve postponed our wedding because of all the issues going on,” I hissed and got up, grabbing a bat from my closet and heading to my brother’s room.

“What are you doing?” my wolf asked as I stormed into Darius’ room, the bat in my hand. I lifted it and started beating the crap out of my brother.

He woke up and started crawling away from me, reaching up to grab the bat.

“How could you do that to someone?” I was screaming in tears, losing my mind.

How the heck did I not see it before? My baby brother had turned into a little monster and had been hurting people.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” he shouted back after jumping off the other side of the bed.

“Did you do it?” I asked, glaring at him with my fists clenched. He held the bat so I couldn’t grab it and start hitting him again.

“You’re crazy,” he yelled, and that’s when my father barged in.

“Ask him! Ask your son what he did to that girl!” I couldn’t believe I was standing in front of a rapist.

I felt disgusted and wanted to get out of there. How could my brother have done all that and then come home to eat dinner with us? He shouldn’t be around any woman.

“Oh,” Father scoffed, shaking his head in disbelief.

“Jessica, my daughter, you’re accusing your brother? Didn’t you hear what happened in court? It was proven that she used her pheromones to trap and force your brother,” my father explained, gently patting my shoulder.

“If there’s anyone I thought would trust me, I thought it was you,” Darius sniffled, holding back tears.

“Oh, cut the crap. Those pheromones might have excited you, but they didn’t make you hurt her. Her own boyfriend ran away, didn’t he? If her pheromones were so dangerous, he would’ve stayed and joined you too, right? Since they apparently turn people into monsters,” I screamed in tears, watching him shake his head again.

“That was because we were already drunk. Mixed with that—”

I held up my hand and silenced him.

“And then you said you never saw her after Lady Darcy told us Helanie was accusing you of rape,” I remembered the night of my engagement ceremony when my brother suddenly disappeared. It was only later that I found out what was going on.

“I think I’ve come at the right time,” Lady Darcy’s arrival while I was in tears and losing my mind made me grunt and look away from her.

“May I please have a word?” She asked my father to excuse us, and he did. He always listened to her because he wanted me to marry Norman. I loved him too, but thinking about what he must think of me after this situation with my brother made my stomach turn.

I left the room and went to sit in the living room while Lady Darcy stayed in the room with my brother. She came out with him.

“Jessica, why are you hurting this poor boy? Hasn’t he suffered enough?” She sat down and held my hand.

“Not enough to make up for what he did to that girl,” I sobbed, closing my eyes at the thought of being related to a monster.

“I didn’t do anything. I swear,” he cried out in front of me, but I wouldn’t even look at his face anymore.

“Really? Then take the truth weapon. Tell everyone the truth.” I just had a really bad feeling. No girl would go out and tell such a horrific story just for fun.

“They’ll expose his secrets. Even if it wasn’t rape, he does sleep around. He’ll look bad, and the council can use those private tapes against him later. Why would you want that for your brother? That girl and her mother are known for doing things like that,” Lady Darcy was clearly on my brother’s side, and that made me even more suspicious.

Why was she so desperate to defend him? I mean, I knew she hated Helanie, but still…

“Really? That girl wanted to trap alphas — that’s the excuse, right? But she never asked to marry any of them, and she never even came forward with her story. She was silently staying in her room until you called the council and told them the missing pack member was alive. So I’m sorry if I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around the ‘truth,'” I scoffed, watching them both look at me.

“She wanted to marry an alpha, but her pack’s alpha had figured out her tricks. That’s why she ran away and started over — she realized her old ways wouldn’t work on a real alpha,” Lady Darcy said, finishing her point.

“Helanie is good at making people feel sorry for her. No wonder Norman is always defending her so fiercely,” she said — and then she covered her mouth, but it was too late. I caught it.

“It’s true, Jessica. That man who never thinks about anyone except his brothers now cares so much about Helanie, you have no idea. Even before he found out she was a ‘victim,'” Lady Darcy rolled her eyes at the word, “he was all about her. Just try saying something against her, and you’ll see what he does. That girl has my son wrapped around her little finger. Not just him — she even fooled Maximus into falling for her and then ditched him in the worst way. She’s trouble, and none of you will see it until it’s too late.”

My energy drained, and I leaned back in my seat. My brother seemed genuinely hurt and upset too. I was so lost at that moment. But there was some truth in Helanie’s eyes that I cannot avoid. I must not believe what these people are feeding me. I will hand my brother over to the council if I found out he truly committed such a disgusting crime against someone.