Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 584

Chapter 584: 584-Another Brother Is Missing
Helanie:

“I am really fine,” Sally repeated herself when I checked her fever once more. When I brought her home and started cleaning her wounds, I realized there was no injury that could have taken her life, but she still bled a lot.

She also had a fever, and I knew it was from fear. But now that hours had passed and she had woken up, she looked much better.

“He didn’t want to kill me,” she muttered with a smile on her lips. I was a little confused by her behavior. Ever since she woke up, she had been very calm instead of freaking out. Even her other friends, who had freaked out for her, were confused.

“How do you know that?” I asked, making sure I gave her medicine and she drank plenty of liquids with it.

She swallowed the medicine, and after steadying herself, she said, “Because it didn’t want to kill me. He wasn’t trying to take me away to feed on me. He was—I don’t know how it’s possible as we all know a lycan can’t speak—but he was murmuring something. Almost like trying to say it,” she recalled the night, her eyebrows scrunched while trying to explain what she felt about the lycan last night.

“What do you mean? Did you figure out what he was trying to say?” My heart ached at the thought of Maximus trying his best to speak but no one being able to understand him.

“Yeah, I did,” she replied.

“What was it?” I asked again, looking at her face with interest.

“He was saying the word ‘mate’ over and over again,” the little pout she made with her lips made me sit back and stare at her face.

“I’m not making it up. But it seems like that poor thing was looking for his mate,” she said with a very sympathetic look on her face.

It made me wonder why he picked her of all the others. He saw the purity in Sally, and this is what she believed in too.

“His mate must be very loving and understanding of him. I just hope Rogue King Norman and Rogue King Emmet don’t kill him,” she sighed, having no idea they didn’t go after him to slay him but to find him.

But hours had passed by now, and there were no signs of any of them. I had been growing impatient and tired of waiting. I was this close to leaving the mansion to go after them, but Nortman had trusted me with the job of taking care of the mansion and everyone else in here.

“Hey,” just as I walked out of the maid’s room, I bumped into Jessica. She hadn’t woken up through the whole chaos last night because she had slept after taking heavy medications to relax herself. Now that she was awake, she heard all sorts of news and had come to see me.

“Tell me they’re not going after Maximus too—,” she whispered, looking around to make sure nobody was listening to us.

“No. Of course they’re not,” I eyed her for even thinking they would do something like that.

“He must be so scared out there,” Jessica replied, her hands on her waist.

“I’m just lost at why it happened. It wasn’t even a full moon night,” I complained, touching my forehead.

“There is one person who could solve that mystery for us, but I’m afraid if we tell her, she will cause chaos here,” Jessica was walking beside me to the main mansion, huffing and puffing.

“Darcy? Oh yeah, we shouldn’t tell her anything,” I agreed with her.

“What’s up with that girl Charlotte?” she asked, then sighed, walking upstairs to check on Kaye.

“Charlotte likes Maximus. She wanted to go after him, but her mother drugged her and locked her in. I think she did the right thing. Charlotte isn’t ready to be out in the woods when Zharns are getting so bold, attacking people in groups now,” I said, stopping before Kaye’s bedroom.

I was afraid to face him again. He would be so upset. As soon as I opened the door, I was met with another shock.

“Where is he?” I asked loudly, rushing into the room and then toward the bathroom. Jessica went straight to the window and pulled the curtain away. She gasped.

“He escaped through the window,” she announced, making my heart sink.

“Wait, no!” I yelled worriedly, quickly moving toward the window and seeing it was open.

“We should go look for him,” Jessica suggested.

“You should stay here. You’ve been through a lot, too,” I said. I didn’t want to drag her with me when she needed to rest herself.

“Helanie, I can’t hide from the truth that I killed my brother, who deserved it. Let’s just say, this whole mess needs more hands on deck, and I’ve been preparing to be a royal beta of my pack for a long time. I have skills, trust me,” she reassured me with a straight-lipped smile.

She was right. We had to go.

However, we had only run downstairs and were in the living room when we watched two people come in, looking defeated.

“Norman! Emmet!” I called out, ready to run to Norman when Jessica rushed past me first and landed on Norman’s chest.

“I’ve been so worried,” she started saying, hugging him tightly while his eyes stayed on me. I couldn’t run to him after that.

“Jessica, you shouldn’t have. I can take care of myself,” he then unwrapped his arms from around her and walked past her to me.

“Where is Maximus?” Not wanting to continue any drama related to us, I focused on Maximus for the moment.

Emmet had his head down the whole time. He looked so disturbed.

“Where is he?” I asked Emmet this time, trying to include him so he wouldn’t feel left out.

“We don’t know. We couldn’t find him,” those words felt like a dagger in my chest, and Emmet looked just as devastated saying them out loud.