Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates-Chapter 700-After He Left

Helanie:

I had no words to speak after she told me about the mate bond. It was as if something so impossible had happened that I could not even react to it. I just watched her face, and then Emmet’s.

What had happened? Why would the Moon Goddess pair me up with them, but then give them mates, and make another mate in a person that is so vile?

Or maybe she wasn’t. The way she came to his defense, she really loved him. But that didn’t mean she was a nice person, or did it?

She admitted that when she was dying, she cursed him out of anger and frustration and heartbreak. So what else was left?

I cannot call her a manipulator when she was just taking a stand for her mate. My heart broke at the thought of him having other mates. And I guess that is when I realized how they must have felt too when I did not want to be with one of them.

Now could I complain about them? Could I even say that they should not be with their mates? I wasn’t too sure. It just didn’t make any sense to me at the moment.

I guess the only difference was that when I came into Emmet’s life, there was no one alive in his life. So I thought I was the only one.

But now that she came into his life as a mate, we had already built that connection. So it was like inviting someone else entirely.

But then again, could I blame him for holding her hand and deciding to leave with her?

I didn’t marry him when he asked me to. So I couldn’t expect him to keep chasing after me.

Besides, after I found out that he was the reason my baby died, I could only feel sympathy for him, but no love.

"You’re not seriously telling us that you’re leaving with her to go and live in the wild. Do you not know how fucking dangerous the wild has become? What if you forget?"

Maximus was yammering, and I understood his pain. They still loved their brother. Fights and arguments happened, but Azura put the nail in the coffin when she gave Emmet the option to just leave.

"I’ll be fine. I’m not a child, besides—" Before he could finish, Azura spoke up.

"Besides, I will be with him," she said. The brothers just glared her down.

I had no courage left to ask Emmet to stay. She was his mate. Fated mate. I took a deep breath and stormed away, back to my bedroom. Once I sat down and turned my face into my hands, I started sobbing a little.

’I think we should not let him go with her,’ Cora said.

’Cora, did you not hear what Emmet said? He said he had the idea of killing me in the back of his head. Do you not know what that means?’ I said.

’It means he was fully aware, he remembered everything, when that idea came into his mind. The only time he acted upon it was when he forgot about me. The fact that that idea even came into his mind and he didn’t immediately shut it down, but it stayed, just shows that even when broken, cursed— he chose her. He wanted her back. And even if we debate that it was because she had cursed him— he was supposed to miss her, remember her,— not take someone’s life for her. I don’t want to talk about it anymore.’

I yammered and yammered, and then I just shut down. I was honestly tired. Exhausted.

Tomorrow was the big trip, and I had to go for Gavin. He had specifically asked me to come, asked all of us to come. He wanted to feel alive again. So we were going to give him that. That’s when Norman walked in after a few minutes, looking defeated.

"He’s gone," Norman said.

I took a deep breath and looked away. I had no right to stop him. Not after he killed my baby. Not after I didn’t marry him. We had just become too toxic at this point.

"I don’t know how he found another fated mate," Norman uttered, and I just gave him a head nod.

"He’ll be there on the trip tomorrow. Of course he’s not going to leave the academy and students hanging," Norman continued.

"It’s okay. I mean, he has every right to be there. I’m not afraid of him. He’s not a monster," I uttered, biting my tongue because he did kill my baby.

"I understand. If you want, I can drop you off at the academy in the morning with me," Norman suggested. But I shook my head once again.

"It’s okay. I’ll take my mom’s car."

The minute I mentioned my mom, I noticed Norman didn’t look very happy. I knew he hated my mother because of what had gone down between his mother and mine. But there was no way I would judge my mother for stealing his mother’s mate.

I did not want to believe that his mother was a victim. She was a very cunning and manipulative person, and I was all ready to hear what my mother had to tell me about myself, her past, and Darcy’s.

We were both tired at this point. I got up and slowly walked over to him.

"I’ll need some time before things go back to normal, Norman," I said, looking him in the eye. "I’m not mad at you. I’m not blaming you for anything. But if you had told me why you didn’t want me to marry him, you would have spared me a lot of guilt. I thought I was fighting between two mates. I thought I was in the middle of a place where I had to make a decision. Anyway, I’ll just go to bed now," I uttered, feeling numb to the pain.

He just watched me while I crawled into bed and hugged my pillow, closing my eyes, hoping sleep would make time pass quickly.