Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates-Chapter 556-The New Alpha In North

Helanie:

He used his strength to push me back and get on his feet when Cora suddenly started to howl louder than ever. In seconds, clouds started to fill the sky, roaring and lightning flashing through them.

The crowd looked up and gasped.

With a roar that shook the air, Darius lunged at me. His claws slashed, but I was faster—much faster. I darted to the side, my body moving like liquid. The crowd screamed in awe, their eyes wide as they watched the two of us clash in a whirlwind.

We circled each other, growling, eyes locked. He tried to get the upper hand, snapping at me with deadly intent, but I could feel the power in every strike I made, every move I took. My body was made for this fight, made to dominate.

He swiped at my throat, but I ducked, slamming my body into his with a force that knocked him off balance.

Darius was struggling now, his moves slow, unsure. His pride had always been his strength, but it was slipping. I was breaking through his defenses, one strike at a time.

He staggered back, growling in frustration. The fight had been going on for what felt like hours, the ground beneath us soaked with rain, and so were we.

I charged, my claws cutting through the air faster than I had before.

He barely had time to react as I slammed into him with a force that sent him tumbling backward. He hit the ground hard, a shocked gasp escaping his lips.

I stabbed him in the chest with my claws and saw his eyes widen. The crowd went completely silent at the brutality.

He began to gulp and sputter blood out of his mouth. He tried to move his claws around to slash my skin, but his claws could barely do any damage. My skin had turned into something solid.

"Please," he wheezed, struggling to lift his head, blood staining his fur. His eyes were wide with something I had never seen before—fear. Real fear. "Please... don’t... don’t do this."

We both transitioned back, only wearing shorts and a top, and he was only in black shorts.

I stood over him, my chest rising and falling with each breath, my claws growing and disappearing like it was that easy. He was on his knees now, his once strong posture broken, the cocky smile that used to haunt my nightmares nowhere to be seen.

I knelt down and clawed his thigh, my fingers digging into his skin, my claws going deeper and deeper.

"Ahhhh!" he screamed in agony. "Stop—your claws are—burning my insides!"

He began to wiggle like a worm on the ground.

"Have mercy on the lad," his father got up from the crowd and started crying. freewebnøvel.com

"Please, son, surrender!" he cried even more.

At this point, no one was making a noise.

"Remember how you tortured me that night?" I hissed at him, blocking his father’s pleas.

"I promised I would kill you with my own hands or I would never find peace," I muttered, watching his face turn red.

But even in that state of agony, he decided to use his last strike to break my happiness.

"Thanks for letting me know what you wish for," he stuttered before yelling, "I surrender!"

I frowned in disbelief when he broke into a smirk, barely able to hold it before he began to cry out in pain again.

"I wouldn’t let your last wish come true. You will never be able to kill me," he let out a chuckle when the warriors arrived and forced me back from him.

"Ahhh!" He had his arm wrapped around his stomach as he stumbled and barely got up from the ground.

"You might have won—but you failed to prove me guilty," he mouthed, his father rushing over to support his body.

Vonston walked into the ground and stood beside me. "The battle was the most intense fight ever. Even the sky cried and joined these true. However, as promised—we will choose the winner who will be crowned as the alpha king or queen. And without any shadow of a doubt, Helanie Niles is the new alpha queen of the North."

Those words and that title almost stopped my heart in my chest.

"Alpha queen?" I asked, turning my head to him.

"We wanted to bring in the crown too, but look at this rain," Vonston smiled, his tears hiding behind the rain.

"I am the alpha queen," I pointed at my chest and faced the crowd. Emmet, Norman, Maximus, and Kate started to walk towards me while the others were not allowed to overwhelm me.

But they were all clapping for me and crying happily.

As soon as the brothers circled around me for a group hug, I heard a little complaint from Darius’s father.

"That doesn’t prove my son’s guilt. It’s just that he is not an alpha king or an alpha anymore. However, the stress everyone has put on his shoulders by claiming he committed crimes made him lose today," the brothers stepped away to watch Seon Louise save his son’s face.

"It is true, it doesn’t prove anything. You might have won today, congratulations—but I am still innocent. Someone who was tortured to the point that he couldn’t train," Darius hissed, and the crowd went silent.

"Ah?" I raised my brow.

"What? Am I not telling the truth?" The eye contact Darius gave me was enough for me to understand what he was trying to do.

"When I told you I wanted to kill you—you thought that was my wish?" I mumbled, but loud enough so that everyone could hear us.

"You said it," he sputtered, spitting blood out and then straightening his back.

"Hmmm! What if I tell you—it was my way of getting you to choose to surrender instead of dying by my hands?" I watched him frown and shrug. I knew he wasn’t going to give up, even if I had killed him.

"You didn’t want me to die?" he smirked, even when everyone was watching him.

"No! Or else—how would I have made you confess to your crimes?" I smirked, and his smirk faded.

"Now that you are not an alpha king—nor an alpha—I kick you out of my pack and make you a rogue," I hissed loudly, watching him frown for a moment and then shrug as if it didn’t bother him much, until I added, "And as a rogue—I command the weapon of truth to be used on you."