Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 529

Chapter 529: 529-Let’s Punish The Asshole

Helanie:

“You’re shameless enough to approach her again? And even corner her?” Vontson yelled, his eyes bloodshot with rage.

“I didn’t do anything!” Rhiz snapped, his voice rising. “I didn’t know she was coming here. I was looking for a restroom when I found her in the room. I had just come out of the bathroom when she was standing by the door, locking it. Then she took off her pendant—and seduced me! But when I started fighting it—she hit me. She attacked me.”

“The only reason I gave in to her pheromones before was because I thought she wanted me too. I didn’t know she’d turn around and call it rape. But this time, I was fighting hard—”

Rhiz had been rambling since he got caught. I had a feeling he was going to blame everything on my pheromones.

“But you need to understand,” he added, grasping at straws. “Her pheromones make you commit a crime.”

Gavin’s expression hardened. He’d clearly been waiting for that excuse.

“Take it off,” Gavin ordered, his gaze shifting to me.

“What?” Rhiz blurted, thinking Gavin was speaking to him.

“I said take off that pendant,” Gavin clarified, looking straight at me. “Let’s see if anyone in here loses their mind.”

I nodded and stood up from the sofa, unfastening the pendant. I knew it might get awkward, but I had to show them my pheromones weren’t as dangerous as Rhiz claimed.

As I stood tall, everyone exchanged uncertain glances before turning their eyes to me.

“I’m sensing something… but it’s very mild. Like a faint scent,” Lamar said, turning to Penn for confirmation.

“Yeah. I smell something faint, but it’s not seductive,” Penn agreed.

“I don’t even sense anything,” Vontson added with a shrug.

Rhiz looked like he’d just lost a major battle.

“It—it didn’t use to be like that. She—she got marked by her mate, right? That’s why—listen—” Rhiz started to stammer, his words growing more suspicious with each pause.

“But didn’t you just say her pheromones made you lose control?” Rudy said with a smirk, his tone dripping with disbelief.

“You stay out of it! You’re the problem. Why would you bring her here?” Rhiz snapped, pointing accusingly at Rudy.

“Because I wanted to expose you,” Rudy replied coolly.

Everyone turned as an omega entered the room, carrying a laptop. With all eyes on him, he set it on the table and pressed play.

The room filled with silence as a video began to play—a recording of my earlier interaction with Rhiz in the bedroom, where he confessed to everything.

It was a moment of undeniable relief. The truth was finally out.

Rudy’s mother stared at his face in shock—and so did everyone else.

“You set the camera up to catch him?” she asked, a huge smile forming as she patted her son’s back.

“I wasn’t going to let him get away with it,” Rudy said, smiling at me.

The rest of the room slowly broke into relieved, proud smiles, but Rhiz looked like he was coming undone. That is when Lamar broke free from the grasp of Gavin and attacked Rhiz. However, being an alpha, Rhiz was going to retaliate when both Penn and Gavin started beating him up as well.

“My sister was just so innocent–she wasn’t born to pleasure you,” Lamar was yelling and crying, kicking him along with the others. I saw Vonston gesture at his warriors to not stop them.

After they gave him a good beating, we all gathered around Lamar to give him a hug.

“And to think my husband married his mother and brought her in—thinking her son could one day become Alpha—it just blows my mind,” Rudy’s mother hissed, eyeing Rhiz from head to toe with disdain. He had been back on his feet, all bloody.

As they spoke, Salem and Jenny rushed over to stand beside me, quickly filling me in on the real history between Rudy and Rhiz.

Apparently, the reason Rudy had enrolled in the academy was to battle Rhiz. The two were meant to fight for the crown—a decision made by their parents. But instead of agreeing to a fair surrender rule, both sides had wanted the other to die. That’s how deep their hatred ran.

The battle was supposed to happen soon. But now… it wouldn’t.

“Alpha Rhiz,” Vontson said coldly, stepping forward. “I’ve already informed your mother to come here—to stand by as your dethronement is finalized. And not just that—you’ll be punished for your crimes against Helaine. At this point, I don’t trust a word from any of you. I’m just waiting for the battle between Helaine and Darius to see any truth.”

With a snarl, Vontson hurled his glass across the room. It hit Rhiz squarely in the chest, and Rhiz groaned.

Then Rudy’s father arrived, and it turned into a chaotic family reunion.

He walked straight up to Rudy’s mother and apologized—deeply—for ever choosing a woman who failed to raise her son right, who made Rhiz into a monster.

Rhiz’s mother came in shortly after, only to slap her own forehead in shame when she watched the video. Both mothers apologized to me and Lamar. Rudy’s father embraced me gently, assuring me he would accept any punishment I wanted to give his son. Whereas they knew no amount of apologies could comfort Lamar at the moment.

It was a complete mess. A whirlwind of emotion and truth.

But deep inside me, I couldn’t fully react. I felt… numb.

After everything was done, Lamar and I chose the punishment ourselves: eternal damnation. Rhiz was sentenced to be thrown into the underground prison—forever. There, he would serve as a slave to the other prisoners, stripped of his rank and pride.

As we walked out of the mansion, the brothers arrived.

Norman was already fuming. He rushed out of his car, grabbed Rhiz—who was going to receive 200 lashes and was being escorted to the prison transport—and began beating him mercilessly.

Kaye, Maximus and Emmet followed close behind, ripping off their jackets, ready to join in.

I witnessed firsthand what it meant to be attacked by warrior-blooded brothers. They could tear someone apart.

It took several warriors to hold them back and explain what had already happened—that Rhiz had been exposed by his own words.

Finally, the brothers stepped back.

Rhiz was thrown into the prison bus. He never apologized. Even when the council offered to reduce his lashes by 100 if he simply said sorry—he refused.

The only thing he muttered before being taken away was:

“I regret not killing her that night.”