Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 521

Chapter 521: 521-I Challenge You
Helanie:

“We saw the video clip, and we are really sorry—really sorry for what happened to you. Or what Zellu did to you,” Vonston, who had previously looked at me like I was some liar, had his eyes down.

“That doesn’t prove anything. She must have taken off her pendant for Zellu to—,” As Alpha Diaz spoke up, I realized he wouldn’t ever give up.

“Please, Alpha Diaz—I wouldn’t want you to speak like that about a victim anymore. As for Zellu, he explained the whole story to us. Although, since he had been stabbed, he only experienced his own actions and talked about them. But they are enough for us to know Zellu is guilty,” Vonston spoke bitterly to Alpha Diaz, shutting him down.

“But someone stabbed him. That is also illegal and a crime,” Alpha Diaz hissed under his breath.

“That we are looking into. Only when we find his body can we proceed with that case. For now, I want everyone here to apologize to Helanie for not believing her when she claimed Zellu had caused her trauma,” he continued, shocking Alpha Diaz.

“Sure, however, it doesn’t prove the crimes of the others. They stand still. If anything, we now know that Helanie had relationships with multiple men. She is just mixing them all into one night when they happened on different nights. Some Alphas took advantage of her, probably after she took advantage of them using her pheromones, or maybe she used pheromones on some while on the others she used her beauty on them,” Alpha Diaz wouldn’t rest, and it had been made clear to me.

“I would suggest you not say such things. It is indeed true that only Zellu’s crime has been proven. Romeo and Darius are still pretty much guilt-free—which is why he brought Helanie here,” Vonston shifted in his seat, looking so low in energy.

“Since Zellu’s case changed the whole narrative and even my little daughter looked me in the eye and asked me, ‘Daddy, is she never going to be believed even when so many are claiming they hurt her?’ I have to ask Helanie for a retrial. If she wants, she can continue with the case,” Vonston left my mouth open when he mentioned his own daughter.

That’s when I realized why he had been so low in energy. His own daughter questioned his way of bringing justice to the victims.

It’s crazy how people only see things differently once it is their own loved ones showing them the mirror.

“May I have a say in it?” Darius raised his hand, clicking his tongue like a psycho.

“Sure, what do you want to say?” Vonston asked him. That’s when the four standing beside me turned to him, almost in a threatening way. Lord McQuoid was sitting next to Alpha Diaz, giving him side-eye the whole time. He didn’t even accept his greetings this time.

“I know Helanie will be rejecting Norman this full moon because they lied about the mate bond,” he was so bold to predict that.

“What?” Vonston stared at me, and I shrugged.

“What is going on?” he asked.

“I find it bizarre that she did that, but it’s okay. She is a young woman with so much happening in her life that she has been making wrong decisions through and through. I think it’s safe to say that the only way she can rest with the accusations, after the criminals have already admitted it, is that she wants to marry me. That’s the only thing I can come up with. She liked me, and she—she used her pheromones to trap me.” It was a huge revelation, but also so stupid.

As the brothers started laughing, I could tell it became a problem for Darius.

“Darius, what makes you make such a big claim?” Vonston asked him, kind of giving him the same look others were giving him.

Even I had no clue what made him come up with such an outrageous statement.

“You will find out next full moon when Norman rejects her and I offer to marry her. Once we get married—you will see the positive change in her,” he continued to make a fool out of himself. I saw Romeo physically distancing himself from his friend, glaring at him.

“You want to marry him next full moon?” Vonston asked me directly.

It was so funny that nobody was taking him seriously except for Alpha Diaz, who was giving such phony expressions of shock to make it look real.

“I’m glad you asked me—I have also made up some plans—a decision,” I straightened my back and faced Darius and Romeo.

Romeo quickly stepped further away so that only Darius was in my line of sight.

“I am challenging you for your throne in a battle of Alpha Kings.” As soon as those words left my lips, gasps erupted in the air.

Alpha Diaz was staring at his sons for never filling them in on the news.

“Really? Come on now, you don’t even have a wolf. And I wouldn’t want to fight a fragile girl whose only desire is to become a Luna or a Luna queen,” Darius used a sarcastic, sympathetic tone, “It will be an unfair fight. Usually, it’s powerful Alphas who think they can take the Alpha King crown, but she—” he pouted, clicking his tongue.

“Are you sure about that?” I asked, and this time, I watched his eyes widen as the two-toned color of my eyes flashed, hinting at my wolf’s presence.

Darius stared at his friend, who then narrowed his eyes at me.

“Wow, Helanie, what is that?” Vonston questioned, Lord McQuoid getting up from his chair too.

“Her wolf has woken up. So when she was talking about challenging Darius, she’s serious. That is the only way she wants to resolve this matter,” Norman stated loudly, watching everyone’s face for reactions.

Alpha Diaz looked so bothered and lost, his eyes kept moving side to side on the ground, as if he was trying to understand something.

And then there was Darius, who had quickly recovered from the initial shock.

“Sure, I accept it, but there are my terms as well,” he declared, and everyone was suddenly all ears.