Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates-Chapter 691-Broken And Alone.

Helanie:

"What is going on here?" Norman asked, his eyes full of tears.

I was still not able to process how to react to the information Kaye had given me. He had broken the kiss almost instantly when he noticed I wasn’t participating, but then he had to mark me. He still had to mark me.

"I need to mark her before it’s too late again," Kaye uttered awkwardly, while I stood still. I could hear commotion around me, as if the others had arrived too. By others, I meant Darcy and her royal beta.

Kaye gently pushed my hair off my shoulder and buried his face in my neck. Norman and the others were in my line of sight, but my teary eyes remained on Norman, who looked hurt.

He was the one who was hurt? Did I do him wrong? Did I hide the truth from him? I left the idea of being with my mate for him, and he hid such a big truth from me?

Norman looked away when Kaye’s teeth pierced through my skin, and I closed my eyes. The mark of a mate was able to console me for a bit. The burning feeling of setting the world on fire had calmed down by then. But it will rise again. Of course it will. There is no way anyone would hear what happened to their baby and not be traumatized.

After Kaye was done marking me and pulled back, Norman walked over to reach me, "you were really at the courthouse that night?" I am guessing he had called people around and found out the truth about that night.

"And what about you?" My question made him slowly turn around to me.

"What did I do? What are you on about? How could you lie to us, Helanie?" Him looking hurt in the moment was driving me crazy. He had no right to hide such a truth from me. What was he trying to do? Obviously securing his brother’s reputation.

"What are you angry with me for?" I tilted my head, and he frowned.

"You went there and were ready to marry Emmet," He bobbed his head to the words he spoke. Kaye snapped his head at me, showing shock while his mother covered her mouth to control the yelp that might have wanted to escape her lips.

"But I didn’t. I thought you and Maximus were genuinely not ready for me to accept Emmet until–" I nodded my head repeatedly as well, my voice giving away the pain I was feeling.

"Shit," I heard Kaye curse. He probably remembered why I was so lost.

"Do you know what is going on?" Darcy asked Kaye in a whisper, but I was able to hear it. At that moment, I didn’t pay too much attention to it, but they were quiet and at a distance, yet I was still able to hear them.

"Helanie, are you okay?" Norman’s body softened and he reached out for my hand, but I tilted my body to the side to avoid his touch.

"How do you think Azura is back?" I asked Norman, and he looked so lost.

"Wasn’t there a sacrifice done? A life for a life?" I hissed, my fists clenched. How dare he even think sacrificing my baby would be worth bringing his lost love back? She was dead for a reason. Her time was up. But my baby. What was my baby’s fault in her demise? Why was my baby’s life stolen?

"Oh," Norman uttered.

"Emmet was the one who pushed me, wasn’t he?" I asked him bluntly, and he closed his eyes.

"It’s true that I found such notes in his room, but I don’t believe them. My brother would never do that." He got me all worked up, still shamelessly siding with his brother.

"Did you even ask him? Or did you just assume? Because, Norman, the sacrifice he wrote about is the reason Azura is back today. I didn’t die, but I did lose a life. My baby—" I touched my empty stomach, and only then did Norman’s eyes begin to widen.

"You’re so blinded by your brother’s love that you didn’t even ask him but started stopping me from being with him. So somewhere along the line, even you didn’t believe him entirely," I hissed, feeling so suddenly betrayed.

Even when they were my mates, they were closer to each other than they ever were to me.

"You think if it had crossed my mind, I wouldn’t have— I did think about Emmet pushing you, and that’s why I didn’t want you to mark him. That day, when I said you cannot mark him, it was because I thought it was unfair. He pushed you down, and you were going to mark him to save his life. I wanted to find another way to save him, but baby! Baby, you said you’d forgive him because he had forgotten everyone," Norman tried to hold my hands again, but I kept shaking my head and creating distance between us.

"But he didn’t forget everyone. He fucking remembered Azura. And not only that, he thought it was the right thing to do to kill me for her. He had not lost his mind entirely at that point. He knew what he was doing. He made a choice. Even if he didn’t know who I was, he knew he was doing wrong to his brother’s mate," I yelled and closed my eyes as a stream of tears rolled down my cheeks.

"It’s like—every fucking time I trust him—he fucking chooses her. And I don’t fucking care who you all choose now, but why did my baby have to suffer?" I screamed, my hands over my chest as I felt that burning pain of losing my baby.

"Helanie, I didn’t think of it like that," Norman said, now clearly feeling guilty.

"I’ve had enough of being the forgiving one. I’m done. You all just do whatever you want to do, and then blame it on your curse, and I suffer—" I almost lost my voice as I knelt down to cry.

"Helanie—" the two of them said in unison when I heard someone else come in.

"You all fucking stay away from my daughter," it was my mother storming in, pushing past Darcy to reach me.

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