Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 537

Chapter 537: 537-She Is The Queen
Ursula:

Watching my daughter have a breakdown was not something I had expected. I didn’t think she would care that much. She would be worried, sure! But to cry like that over a man who had been so harsh to her before, and only agreed to marry her just to reject her on the next full moon, shocked me.

I knew there was nothing going on between her and that man. It was just his way of saving her that night.

But the way my daughter was crying left me worried.

“I said, I have a feeling they will release him,” I corrected myself since Emmet had been staring at me.

Watching my daughter hug and cry on this man’s chest was so hard for me.

I didn’t want anyone to touch or be close to my daughter. She deserved someone better. She should have lived her life away from the mess of this place and these people.

“Give her some water—” I said, breaking my cold attitude.

I always walk away when she cries. It kills me inside to see her in pain.

“They will punish him,” my innocent, beautiful Helanie said as she broke the hug with Emmet and looked into his eyes while complaining.

She was so naive and beautiful.

I turned around and quickly walked out of the room, dialing a number.

“Change the plan. Is there anyone who can take the blame?” I asked my man.

“There is one. He’s very sick and dying anyway. I bet he would love to serve you, Queen. What do you need us to do?” he asked.

“Tell him to confess to killing and stabbing Alpha Zellu. Say he stole the weapon from—” I paused when I remembered that girl, Sydney.

I had heard about her bullying my daughter. “Say he stole the dagger from Beta Coombs. As for the motive, tell him to say he wanted Norman to take the blame because he wanted to be a part of the rogue academy, and Norman didn’t let him in.”

I knew what this would do. The proud and mighty Sydney would feel the shame of her father not being able to protect such a dangerous weapon—one he had recently bought to protect the border from a deadly monster they had faced.

After I hung up the call, I desperately wanted to go back inside, but Darcy had come back to the mansion and I had to stay away from Helanie.

As I was walking downstairs, I found Emma and her daughter waiting for me on the first floor.

“We aren’t even allowed on the second floor now?” Emma complained.

“That’s right. That Helanie is such a bitch,” Charlotte grimaced, and I had to force myself to nod even though I couldn’t help but wonder what Charlotte would look like with all her teeth knocked out.

“Anyway, she brings bad luck. Her husband got arrested because of her,” Emma kept talking even as I tried to walk away from them.

I hated the way they talked about my daughter. The day I stop hiding my love for her, they’ll see what I’ll do to them.

“And did you look at her face—”

That was it. My daughter was crying upstairs, and this Charlotte was making fun of her?

“Charlotte, have you done something to your skin? Why is there so much breakout?” I turned to her and asked. She instantly stopped talking about my daughter and touched her face with her hands.

Her mother looked at her skin too, but seemed confused.

“It looks fine to me,” Emma said.

“Really? Look at that—it makes her look unkempt,” I pointed at the corner of her mouth, pressing my nail in on purpose, and she winced in pain.

“Her hair is also looking really dry. What’s going on, Charlotte? Maximus already doesn’t pay attention to you. If you keep looking like this, he might not want to accept you at all.”

I watched Charlotte’s eyes fill with tears—and it was such a satisfying sight.

Uh-huh! She wanted to laugh at my daughter?

“I’ll go get a salon appointment,” Charlotte rushed out of the room while Emma followed her.

I sat in the chair and stared outside the window.

‘What is going on with our daughter? How will we help her get away from these men—’ my wolf groaned, letting out a small cry.

‘I’ll need to figure something out,’ I said as tears glistened in my eyes.

‘What if they truly love her and won’t agree to sacrifice her just to save themselves?’ I knew my wolf would ask that question sooner or later.

She wanted our daughter to be happy and safe—and who could be better protectors than Norman or any of the three brothers? But I wasn’t just looking at one side of the situation. The other side was much darker.

‘They are their mother’s sons. They’ll hurt her and break her. My daughter doesn’t deserve that. I’ve faced too much, lost the love of my life and my children. I won’t let them use my daughter for their own gain too. Sometimes I even wonder if she’ll ever be able to have children—the pain of that loss is too much,’ I sighed as tears began to form in my eyes.

In a distant memory, I was holding hands with my mate—the one who was nothing like the others. He brought me to his ship and promised to show me the world. We both forgot that people weren’t as clueless as we were.

‘Our daughter is much more powerful than us. Ursula, I was wondering if it’s time—’ she went quiet when I straightened up in my chair and gently touched the chain around my neck.

‘She doesn’t need that pendant to hide her pheromones anymore. They’re fading, I heard. And now that she’s challenged that jerk—shouldn’t we help her find her full potential?’

I understood my wolf’s point clearly, but she didn’t fully understand the dangers of doing that.

‘And let them call her a monster? That would be too risky. We must protect our daughter and find a way to help her leave this place and reunite with her people. That’s the only way,’ I decided I would take my daughter away from all these people—after she gets her revenge.