Helanie:
The brothers had gone silent for a while before Maximus ca at and grabbed my arm, pulling away from them. The minute I resisted, he stopped and turned to look at .
"Please, I just need to talk," he said.
His request made turn my head and look at Emt, who had his eyes narrowed at us before he stepped up to have a word.
"Then I will be there too," Emt added.
"Let’s go. We all need to have a chat," Norman announced once he gestured at Kaye, who had been staring at with his mouth slightly open as if he had received the shock of his life.
We all went ahead and sat in Norman’s seven-seater while he drove us away from the hostel. I felt so odd sitting among them because the brothers kept huffing and puffing, blowing out air from their noses.
"Please breathe more loudly, all of you," I turned to them, briefly looking away from the window.
Maximus looked at Kaye and then at Emt before he said, "I will obey you and behave."
"Sure, you’re an obedient one," Emt quickly caught on to what Maximus was trying to do.
"How is she mated to all of us?" Kaye complained, finally breaking the silence.
"Not !" Norman fixed his mirror to glance at us. "And we will talk once we are in a safe place." He sounded way more annoyed than the others. Of course, he was angry because his brothers were now going to argue about yet another thing.
And arguing about a mate is even more stressful.
Norman stopped his car next to the woods and gestured for all of us to get out. We did as he asked.
"She is not mated to ," Norman reminded Kaye.
"And not ," Maximus said, making roll my eyes. I wanted to tell him that I am mated to him, but I felt like if I did now, it would be even ssier.
Norman shared a glance with Emt because he knew that wasn’t the truth and that I had felt the mate bond with Maximus too. However, even he knew telling Maximus would make him go crazy.
"How is it possible for an oga, like she claims to be, to have multiple mates?" Norman started, making Emt sigh.
"And she was carried in a bridal style by the Moon Goddess herself." As soon as he said that, everyone turned to and gasped.
"The Moon Goddess?" Kaye raised his brow, his lips turning into a straight line.
"Yep," Emt confird.
"And her body heats up when she is stressed," Norman added, making Emt frown. It does?
I rember Hans complaining during our test, but I didn’t know it was a real thing and not just a figure of speech.
"So what are you guys suggesting? That I’m a witch or sothing?" I sighed at the topic of conversation.
"No! What we will do is—no one will accept you since it will cause issues between brothers," Maximus turned heads with his statent.
"Um, brother, with due respect, I don’t think you can make decisions for mates." In a very nice yet firm tone, Emt shut him down.
"Well, with a very humble request, it’s either we all stay away from her, or I will not let any of you have her," Maximus was taking bold steps, so I had to remind him of sothing that would stop him from coming after .
"You had your chance, and you screwed it up—" I shut up when he grunted.
"I didn’t. I never intended to go along with my mother’s plan, and you know how I will prove it?" he hissed, pulling out his phone to show sothing. It was a text ssage he had sent to Kaye before he pursued . In that text, he had confessed to Kaye that their mother wanted him to play , and he told Kaye that he wouldn’t. That he would befriend , but not play with .
"I wasn’t lying," he hissed.
I felt shock hit . And the way he ca to save made believe he truly cared for . But what could be done now?
I noticed Emt looking at , his face showing he didn’t like where this was going.
"But you have a mate now, so calm down," Kaye put his hand on his brother’s shoulder to ease him up.
"You don’t get to say anything. You’re just mad because she chose over you," Maximus shrugged, causing Kaye to hiss at him.
"She didn’t. Did you guys not catch when she said she had promised not to accept a mate until her revenge was done?" Emt ca to clear my na so that Kaye would stop accusing .
"Oh!" Kaye might have rembered because his face relaxed before a smirk ford on his lips. "Then that ans—I can still claim her. She didn’t want to accept because of her promise to the Moon Goddess. Sa as you. You are her mate, so you two have to wait," Kaye smirked, his eyes shining.
"Enough!" Norman yelled. Having to listen to his brothers for too long had exhausted him.
"And besides—I don’t understand why you are claiming Charlotte is your mate. Did you do it to hurt Helanie?" Norman finally snapped. I knew Norman didn’t like Charlotte, but I was worried that bringing up this topic might reopen so doors that should stay closed.
"I felt the mate bond with her in the woods. Rember I told you about it? That I could tell I had felt a mate bond with soone in the woods," Maximus sighed, making cover my mouth in shock.
Is this what Charlotte told him?
Because the incident he was ntioning to Norman was the one where I was in the woods.
Norman stared at and then mouthed, ’I have to tell him now. This is not looking good.’
I didn’t want to stop him anymore. I had previously thought we were only hiding the fact that I was also his mate, but now we realized he had been lied to.
"Maximus—what I am going to tell you will break your trust in many people," Norman’s words turned the air silent, "but you deserve to know the truth."
"That girl in the woods was not Charlotte."
Norman’s statent shocked Maximus. He looked at all of us and then back at Norman, who very calmly added,
"It was Helanie."
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