Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates - Chapter 592

Chapter 592: 592-War Between The Brothers
Helanie:

We had arrived at the deeper parts of the forest where many other creatures had been caught previously. The sight was frightening. It wasn’t just Kaye and Maximus, but a pile of Zharns that Maximus had killed and eaten.

“What the heck,” I muttered. The smell in the area was terrible too. Maximus must have come here to stack them up.

“Maximus,” as soon as I said his name, he snarled and turned to me. Kaye had been keeping him in place until we arrived. Kaye looked very low on energy too, but his eyes showed he wasn’t going to leave without his brother.

“What do we do?” I asked Norman, who was watching his brothers with teary eyes.

It made me feel really bad for him.

“We have to take him home somehow,” Emmet suggested, but I noticed Kaye swallow hard, like he wanted to say something.

“Are you sure he’ll be fine there? I mean—” Kaye stopped talking when I began to speak.

“He meant lycans among werewolves can be dangerous. What if Maximus attacks others?” I watched Emmet smile to himself.

“This is not what Kaye meant. He meant if Maximus would be safer there… because who knows, I might lose my mind and try to kill him again.” Emmet kept that sad smile on his lips while watching us. “It’s alright though. You all don’t have to pretend it’s not happening. I tried attacking Helanie today—tomorrow it could be someone else. Maybe I should be locked up too, alongside Maximus.” Emmet didn’t even hesitate when suggesting that.

“Wait a minute, you attacked Helanie?” Kaye clenched his fists so hard his knuckles turned red.

“Kaye, she’s fine. She can take care of herself, and if there’s anyone who’ll stand up for her, it’s me. You need to stop acting like that with your brother for her,” Norman shocked us when he yelled.

Maximus tried to use that moment to run past Kaye, grabbing our attention, but Norman and Emmet joined Kaye in getting their hands on Maximus and pinning him down. I had carried a bag of weapons but mostly sedatives.

“Why are you telling me this?” Kaye yelled at Norman, struggling on the ground with his brothers while trying to stop Maximus from moving too much. I quickly filled the needle with the wolfbane and silver powder and hoped it would work on Maximus.

“What is going on?” Kaye shouted at us while I reached Norman and gave him the needle. He began injecting Maximus, while Kaye reached out to his collar and then gasped.

“She marked you,” as soon as Kaye said that, Emmet turned to look at the mark too.

“Holy fuck! no,” Kaye suddenly let go of Maximus and got to his feet, shaking his head angrily.

“I can’t believe this. So you two played us all? The whole act of ‘oh, we married to save Helanie’ was a lie?” Kaye shocked me with his reaction.

“It was the truth. We were seriously—keeping our feelings,” I started to speak when Kaye snapped at me.

“When? When were you hiding your feelings? When you were with Emmet? F*cking hell, Helanie. First me, then you jumped to Maximus, and then to Emmet… I understand we were all your mates, so it was bound to happen. I can’t even be mad about that. But Norman—he’s not even your mate. How the hell did you even think about it, and not once did you think to discuss it with your mates? You looked at us with so much disgust when we brought in other women, but you accepted our brother without hesitation. You didn’t just take our mate bonds for granted—you stole our brother from us,” Kaye was screaming and yelling so hard that his veins started to pop out. At that moment, I kept my eyes on the tattoo on his neck. It looked like it was breathing on its own.

“Back off,” Norman jumped between us and placed his hands on his brother’s shoulders.

“She didn’t steal me from you. I’m still your brother,” Norman tried to make him understand, but Kaye slapped his hand away. Emmet got up from the ground and lowered his head. I could tell he was deep in thought.

“It’s funny, brother—it’s funny you think I was talking about you leaving us. Let me tell you something: you lost us. I will never accept you as my brother after what you did to me,” he pointed a finger at his own chest and then at Maximus. “This is all because of you. And him too,” he then pointed at Emmet.

“All this time, poor Emmet was feeling guilty, thinking he couldn’t make it in time. Maybe you didn’t try hard enough to reach him that night. You happily accepted Helanie—not even once did you talk to us. All you had to do was sit down with her mates and say, ‘Hey, how about you all get rejected first before she marks me?'”

Kaye was breathing so loudly I could hear a hissing sound coming from his mouth.

“Fine, I’m a scumbag. I couldn’t be with her, and I chose Kesha because Helanie literally told me she couldn’t be with me. But what about Maximus? He didn’t do anything wrong. He went against our mother for her, and she just threw him away. And then—Emmet—that motherfucker was always there for her. Even when he was losing his memory, he did everything for her. She couldn’t reject you to accept him on the first full moon? She moved on so quickly from her mates to you, but Emmet forgetting her was unforgivable? Wow.”

I guess what nobody else could say, Kaye did.

And he was right.

I felt so disgusted at that moment. Almost like I had played them all.

“Just because I love you Kaye doesn’t mean I’ll let you disrespect my wife. She means a lot to me, so I suggest you stop this narrative right here,” Norman said steadily, placing his hand on Kaye’s neck but fixing his collar in a threatening way.

‘We started all this,’ Cora said quietly, and I agreed with her.