Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 569

Chapter 569: 569-Me, Myself And Her
Emmet:

“She got upset last time, so now you’re writing her name to make sure you don’t forget about her?” Meret laughed, watching me write her name in my diary repeatedly. Page after page, I would write Helanie’s name, thinking it could help with the curse.

“Emmet, this is why I didn’t want you to fall for her.” My wolf stopped laughing when he probably realized I wasn’t in the mood for jokes. I hadn’t been in the mood for jokes ever since I couldn’t marry Helanie in time.

“I am losing my mind. Just yesterday, I was staring at the sky in the woods, wondering why I was there in the middle of the night. Then I saw Maximus in his lycan form, and my first instinct was to defend myself and kill the beast. Meret, if you weren’t there and remembered more than I did, I would have transformed and attacked my own brother. It’s not about who would have gotten more injuries, it’s about betrayal. Maximus is still a child at heart; he would never forget that his brother attacked him in his miserable state,” I said, my eyes filling with tears.

“And you’re afraid you’ll hurt your mate too?” he asked.

“I’m afraid I’ll hurt everyone. With power like mine, I’m a danger to the world if I lose my memory,” I whispered, closing the diary.

They must have taken care of that student today. I refused to go because after I retrieved her diary and read the disturbing stuff she wrote about Helanie, I felt inhuman. I had a feeling I might lose my calm and attack her then and there. My human side was breaking down, forgetting it even existed. The animal side would take over because a human without consciousness is nothing but an animal, and the animal inside me still remains an animal.

When I reached the academy, I heard from Lamar and Gavin that Norman had asked Penn to join him in the woods. Which was odd because I didn’t remember who Penn was until he appeared in front of me.

I didn’t have any memory of my interactions with him, but his face seemed familiar. He told me that Helanie took Norman’s hand and dragged him into the woods, probably volunteering to fight the Zharns out of anger that Norman targeted her friend.

“I’ll go look,” I said, seeing Mr. Coombs and his pack’s warriors standing outside the office. I guess Kaye and Maximus were handling the situation with Sydney and her father.

There was only one thing on my mind — Helanie! I needed to go save her.

“What are you talking about?” my wolf snapped me out of my thoughts, and I gulped.

“Shit,” I cursed under my breath when I realized I was wrong to think Norman would hurt her. Part of the reason was that I didn’t even remember who Norman was until my wolf spoke up.

I reached the woods, heard some noises, and immediately ran to check. But the sight left me stunned for a moment. I couldn’t understand what I was watching.

Norman had Helanie pinned hard against a tree trunk and was kissing her. She didn’t seem to mind his actions either. She was taking part well enough to tilt her face and then kiss him back.

I saw it. I saw it all.

The heat—the passion—and then Norman started speaking. She obediently listened to him, her eyes shining with undying love. I closed my eyes and shook my head, trying to think clearly, but it was as clear as day that Norman was forbidding her from being with anyone else, and she was silently agreeing.

I turned around, quietly walking away.

It was too much for me. I was jealous, burning inside out, and I couldn’t even blame them. Norman had always done so much for us, and Helanie—she was too special not to have someone love her.

“Emmet—,” my wolf spoke softly, knowing my state at that moment.

“I am deeply broken. I wish I had forgotten about her before this day came,” I said, not knowing where I was walking. I just found myself deep inside the woods.

“We need to get back to our vehicle,” my wolf let out a small cry, warning me of danger, but I kept going forward, my head in my hands and eyes down.

“I love my brother, but why would he—do that without telling me? But then again—Helanie and I are over—I can’t make a fuss. Maximus didn’t make a fuss when I took Helanie from him,” I didn’t realize I was speaking out loud to myself.

“But then again—we are fated mates. We can’t be blamed—but he never cared about himself. He always kept us as his priority. The way he kissed her—Meret—my brother is in love for the first time. But the woman he is in love with—,” I started rubbing my chest, feeling suffocated.

“Emmet—where the fuck are we?” The minute Meret yelled that, I raised my head and noticed only trees, just tall trees.

“I don’t know,” I said, not worried since we would just run around until we found a way back home. It didn’t matter how many days it took.

But the real problem was something else. The problem was that we weren’t alone. Hissing started interrupting my conversation with Meret. I held my head again in my hands as the hissing got too distracting. I grabbed the dagger from my shoe while looking around.

“You out there!” I yelled. “Who’s there? Show yourself!”

I turned to the side where the bushes moved and saw something strange come out from behind them. I narrowed my eyes at it, ready to fight at first, until I forced myself to remember what happened the other night when I encountered Maximus and that he was a monster.

This thing in front of me had a lizard-like face and weird textured skin. But what if it’s my loved one? So I dropped the weapon and smiled at it.

“It’s okay, I won’t hurt you,” I said as it started coming toward me.