Helanie:
I never got to ask all of them one-on-one, but they had already expressed their approval of being a rmaid. Except for Kaye. He was the only one who didn’t comnt on my new powers, or my new identity. He kept his emotions to himself, and that made wonder what was going on with him.
Did he not like the fact that I was a rmaid? Because, like my mom told , many werewolves don’t really ss around with rmaids.
"Okay," I said, giving my head a small nod.
"You’re not going to yell at him?" Maximus asked, pointing at Kaye, who only gave him an eye roll.
"No, Maximus. I have no right to," I said, keeping my emotions to myself and my voice gentle.
"What do you an by that?" Maximus asked. He was always the curious type, asking too many questions.
"I have four mates. What gives the right to question my mate if he has two and wants to accept them?"
I watched Maximus’ face lose color.
"That’s not it, Helene. You have every right, at least over my life. I would never ask you to be fair or let choose soone because you have soone else. That is not how it will work for my life. You know that. You are the owner of my life."
The way he held my hands and gently touched them, the pain started to go away. Maximus’ words made feel so important that I couldn’t even respond. If I did, I would break down.
So much had been happening around . I just found out that my father was killed in the worst way possible. I just found out that I had siblings who were snatched away from , and that they were sacrificed so these four brothers could live.
There was so much going on. I would look at my mother, and when she smiled at , I would feel my heart shrink. Where did she get the courage to still smile?
"Maximus is right."
And then Norman spoke up.
"It was never decided that we would accept our mates too. You never made the decision that you wanted four mates. It was us who decided that. So we kind of made you agree to the terms that you should have four mates. So why would we ask you to be fair and let us have two. It was never your choice in the beginning, Helanie. You did it for us. So there is no way we’ll ask you to let us accept our mates too."
Norman made turn and look at him. The man who once hated so much was now so sweet to , so kind to . I didn’t need him to say it, but I could tell he loved the most, maybe even more than his brothers.
’Are you forgiving him for not telling us about Emt being the one who killed your baby?’ Cora asked, reminding that it’s not possible he would love us more than his brothers.
’Cora, that was a situation where he had to take that step in order to keep the peace. I know he did it wrong, but that one incident can’t make turn my face away from him. I was angry for a while, but there is no way I would think otherwise. He doesn’t have to walk on eggshells, always proving himself to . Because he never asked to prove myself to him. There are things I do without his permission, without his acknowledgnt. So does that make less affectionate towards him? No. So then I will not hold him accountable for sothing for so long. It was an incident. It happened. That’s it. There is no prolonged punishnt for it.’
I reminded her that Norman had always been there for us, or at least, after so ti, he began to be there for us.
’What about Emt then?’ she asked. And the mont I raised my head, I watched Emt look at and tilt his head.
’I don’t know. He chose to leave. Otherwise, we might have figured things out,’ I uttered.
But then, the recent events and my mother’s truth made feel a little uneasy. It was just the trauma of it all.
First, so won believed my mother’s children didn’t have enough worth to live over her own children. And then, Emt did the sa thing, whether unconsciously, when he chose his ex-lover over my baby.
It was just a lot happening.
"You know what? I think they should accept their mates," However, of course, Emt has to give his input. I don’t know what’s going on with him. I do not hate him, but he was keeping things to himself, which made him seem very strange to . I didn’t know if he was on my side at this point. I an, he looked fine living with Azura.
"Emt, please don’t intervene," Norman said, turning to him and giving him a look.
But I noticed the way the two of them looked at each other. It was like that old bond wanted to be reford again. But it was Emt who was keeping himself away, I noticed that.
"Fine then. It’s just that once our curse intensifies, she won’t be able to help us all. So she must rember that one of us will die." As soon as he said that, my eyes widened.
Maximus intervened, waving his hands between us.
"No, no, no. So listen, we will reject our mates next full moon." Maximus turned to give him a very stern look, as if he knew what he was doing. But it was just his way of trying to divert attention from Emt.
"Wait, what did you say about one of you dying?" I turned to ask Emt while Norman began to roll his eyes and scoff.
"Why did you have to open your mouth?" he asked Emt, overly dramatic in his tone.
"Emt, tell . What is it? What are you guys hiding from ?" I asked again and again. I was so irritated. Every ti, I had to beg them to tell things, information they should give without needing to be asked.
"Mom just told us the rest of the curse," he said, removing his hands from the back of the couch, only to crack his knuckles.
Norman and Maximus looked extrely distraught. Kaye remained silent. His body language was always minimalistic, but now it just felt eerie.
"In the future, our curses will worsen. This ti, you were able to save us because it was one at a ti. The next ti, it will be all of us. And I’m afraid you won’t be able to help us all," Emt explained.
I turned to look at Norman.
"Why do you guys always hide things from ? And wait a minute, how do you even know if that’s real?" I asked Emt.
"I an, we could take chances. But last ti, our mother told us sothing and it really happened. And this ti, I’m doing my own research, and I think my mom is not lying," Emt said, shaking his leg as he rested it over the other and then cleared his throat.
"The thing is, Helanie, you can’t take care of all of them. I’ve already figured out that I need soone else so I’ll be saved." The way he said it made my heart crumble.
"You’re making it sound like I didn’t help you last ti," I said. He gave his head one big nod while blinking his eyes forcefully.
"I’m not saying that. I’m very grateful you helped last ti. But after that, I figured nobody would want to help . So instead of begging you all to take care of , I found soone. Or the Moon Goddess did." His words hurt so much. But at the sa ti, I could tell he believed he was hurting himself too. That’s why he was saying things that would hurt us. Those things were very sad, and we were just listening. He was feeling them.
I could only think about the night when he had almost asked to marry him. Maybe that night, he realized ’it was getting too crowded.’
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