Charlotte:
"Stop crying now," I rolled my eyes at my mother, who had been sitting on my bed and tearing up ever since she walked into my room.
"Mom, just calm down. So what if you apologized? You were wrong too for accusing Emt. Just tell sothing —-did you really think Helanie said Emt was assaulting her?" I asked, because I didn’t get to speak to my mother about the whole ss that she beca a part of.
She sniffled and cleaned her nose, her hands rubbed together in her lap, and I knew instantly she had lied.
"That was a wrong move," I said, finishing up my makeup, more specifically, finishing up my eye makeup to hide the swollen eyes and the bags under them.
I haven’t been able to rest ever since Maximus transitioned. I know he’s in the basent, and my heart ached that they weren’t letting walk downstairs to see him.
However, even if I couldn’t see him, I would give him my blood to help him sohow. I’ve told Norman to let know when to do that. Since Maximus was now in his beastly transition, he wouldn’t be drinking directly from soone. So we’ll have to give him blood in a bowl or sothing.
"Mother, calm down," I sat down with her and rested my head on her shoulder.
"How could I? You are also Team Helanie now. All you do is defend her, even when she’s stealing the brothers’ attention left and right," my mother tried to shrug my head off, but I wrapped my arm around her shoulders even tighter.
"You’re not wrong though." As soon as I said that, she turned to and I had to lift my head from her shoulder to look her in the eyes.
"You know?" my mother scoffed. "You act like you’re unaware."
I sighed and held her hand between my hands, "That’s because I thought that would help. That day when Roo died, I watched Jessica co and et Helanie like they were friends. I realized if I needed to guilt-trip Helanie, I had to befriend her first. At this point, isn’t it obvious that we can’t hurt her directly? We have to act like we’re her friends."
My mother’s eyes started to widen in shock when she heard finally tell her my true plans.
It was true. I didn’t even sleep overnight and felt so guilty for treating Helanie wrong. I learned from Jessica’s situation. I wanted to make Helanie feel bad for getting close to Maximus, but things were different for and Jessica. With Jessica, Norman had an engagent — yet it didn’t stop Helanie from stealing him.
"So that’s what it was. No wonder I couldn’t help but see you stare at Helanie with that strange look of anger whenever nobody was looking."
Of course, she was my mother. She knew well.
"Mother, we just have to change our plans. Be nice for now. And yes, I’m aware my plan didn’t work either. Jessica got her mate stolen. Helanie is no one’s friend. There’s no amount of guilt that would make her choose others’ happiness over hers. But I’m planning sothing big — sothing so big that it will change our lives forever," I smirked as I stared into the distance.
"You must tell Lady Darcy this. She was so upset with you last ti," my mother excitedly sat up in the bed, finally smiling now that she knew she wasn’t alone in fighting against Helanie.
"Mom, she knew. That whole yelling back and forth was her idea. We knew Helanie would hear us or soone else would and tell Helanie about it. That’s why we kept the door open," I leaned in to smile teasingly at my mother’s face before pulling back.
"All the while we were planning sothing else." I had hit rock bottom when I found out Helanie had been accepted by Norman. At that ti, I realized she had bagged the big fish.
The guy who controlled everything and I knew at that mont she would ruin it for too. Maximus was still head over heels in love with her.
I sotis had a bad feeling about Maximus’ mate in the woods as well. What if she shows up? So Darcy and I planned sothing epic. We wanted Jessica to get on board with our plan, but it was hard.
She was too righteous.
She loved Norman, but not enough to fight for him, to take drastic steps for him.
"I will go see Emt for a mont," the minute I said that and got up from the bed, my mother held my hand and gave a look, warning not to go see him.
"That asshole is the reason I was ashad," my mother hissed.
"And he is the reason you stayed in the mansion. Don’t forget, he forgave you. And I’m not eting him because I trust him or anything. I just need to find out where he stands with Helanie. The two haven’t been talking much, so maybe he doesn’t like her either. I just have to snoop around a bit," I freed my hand from my mother’s grasp and then carried my bag over my shoulder before leaving for Emt’s room.
Walking through the passage was hard. I could get caught.
But thankfully, no one was focusing on this area anymore. The brothers were usually in Norman’s room or office, cooking sothing.
I gently pushed the door open and walked in, finding books and research papers scattered around.
I stayed there for a while but didn’t find anything useful. While walking back to my room, I got a call from Darcy.
"So? How’s it going?" she asked , sounding curious.
"Well so far. The brothers are having a eting," I said.
"Yeah, I know. If my calculations are right, I know who Maximus’s mate is. I’ve started the fire and the mate will co out from the smoke herself."
There was a wicked laugh she always let out that made my heart beat faster. But I never told her that.
"Great. My job here is done too." I smirked, rembering how I fooled Helanie into thinking that just like Jessica I’m also on her side.
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