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"Fine, he admitted to one mistake. But that doesn’t prove anything else," Dad had disappointed greatly.
But I understood he was looking at it from the perspective of the council. They would ask for solid proof because we were going after so top students from their academy and also big alphas.
"We will still need proof," Dad hissed, warning us not to make things complicated by doing sothing reckless when we didn’t have enough evidence.
"Sir, if everything has been said and done, can we take her back to the hostel? She needs rest and to be away from toxic people," Lamar requested, his eyes on Helanie. Then he looked at our mother, Emma, Charlotte, and finally at Roo.
I was surprised to see Lamar’s growth. The only reason I was allowing him near Helanie again was because he ant well—he was genuinely always there for her.
"Sure, take her ho," Norman gave him a nod, letting them take Helanie away. I desperately wanted to spend ti with her, to hold her in my arms.
But I knew she would never let . As soon as Helanie walked away, I noticed Charlotte staring at .
Dammit!
Why did the Moon Goddess make her my mate?
I didn’t want her. And after what Helanie told us, I would die before accepting Charlotte. I wanted Helanie. Just her and nobody else—now more than ever.
Even if I have to make my brother, Kaye, reject her, I will do it. I will not stop until Helanie is mine.
But we weren’t done yet. Norman grabbed Roo and started taking him to his study, with us brothers following after him.
"Now, tell us, where is your phone?" Norman pushed Roo onto the chair while I locked the door behind us. Kaye had a knife in his hand, while Emt stood awfully still, not even moving a muscle, glaring at Roo.
"This is my phone," Roo looked at all of us before handing his phone to Norman after unlocking it. I couldn’t even breathe the sa air as him. To think my cousin had hurt my mate was making go insane.
To think he had touched her against her will, or that he saw won’s bodies as objects, made want to puke.
Letting him breathe another second was making hate myself.
"This is a new phone, Roo. Do you want to spell my demand out to you?" Norman yelled in his face, hunching down over him.
We let Norman do the talking. He could make Roo pee his pants within minutes.
"I changed my phone. My old phone broke," Roo explained, but his body was shaking so badly that his words were coming out all wrong.
"You take for a fool?" Norman placed his hands on the chair’s armrest and leaned toward his face.
"Brothers—why are you doing this to ? She doesn’t like because I am dating her ex-best friend," Roo let out a cry. I could tell he was shocked that we weren’t imdiately believing him.
"The best friend who ca out and said a lot of negative stuff about you?" Kaye hissed at him, while Emt silently watched. I was beginning to wonder if Emt was holding back, charging himself up for a more brutal attack on Roo.
I wouldn’t mind. I would happily join him.
He was lucky Helanie wanted her culprits to admit to their cris. Otherwise, my fist would have been down Roo’s throat already by now.
I kept feeling this rage in , this disgust for my own blood.
The things they did to Helanie, the things Helanie recalled—I felt like the world should have ended that night. Nobody deserved to live when her right to live her life on her own terms was taken away from her.
"I need your old phone."
This is why we let Norman interrogate him. We would lose our temper, but Norman kept his priorities straight.
He was going to get the phone to find the videos. If we could find them—even if there was no face—we could prove Roo was there because he was recording.
"I threw it away," Roo stamred again. Of course, he was lying.
"If you think you can get away with it just because you won’t admit it, you’re wrong," I stepped forward, towering over him in warning.
"Every day you live after today will be worse than your death," Kaye stepped beside , standing shoulder to shoulder.
"A woman is not your property. You made a grave mistake, and on top of that, it turned out to be Helanie," I hissed.
"Either you confess, or—your every inch will go through hell every single day," Norman joined us, standing in line with us.
"So pray that death cos to you sooner, Roo. It’s going to be a hell of a ride for you and those bastard friends of yours," Emt finally snapped out of his trance and stood in line with us.
"Brothers—" Roo couldn’t even co up with another word.
That’s when our mother barged in—the woman who couldn’t stand with another woman even when it was clear Roo had attacked her.
"Huh! For heaven’s sake, he made a childish mistake. He didn’t want to leave her out there; he just didn’t realize how tightly he had tied her," Mother was quite a piece of work. She was blatantly believing him, even though I was sure she knew she sounded ridiculous. But her hatred for Helanie, because of her mother, was overshadowing everything else.
"Go ahead, take him away. He is not related to us anymore," Norman said to Mother, who looked quite shocked before hiding Roo behind her once again.
"I will not allow this," she looked Norman dead in the eye.
"Nobody cares what you allow. We have made our decision. We will find the others and make them all confess," Emt was always vocal about his disagreent with our mother’s actions.
But it was decided. The Glimards would stay. We wouldn’t fight them. We would let them invade the packs and kill every one of them.
This is what they deserved for hurting my mate.
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