Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates

Chapter 715: 715-Withdrawn

Emmet:

"You also have more mates?" I asked my brothers, and they stopped focusing on my mother just to give me a head nod.

"And it’s fucked up because we don’t want many," Kaye snapped, clutching his fists.

"Aren’t you engaged to Kesha?" I asked, cracking my knuckles as I tried hard to act like I was thinking too hard to remember such a crucial detail.

"Yeah, I don’t want to stay engaged to her anymore," Kaye said, making me pout and nod my head.

"Wait, what are you saying? It is not a joke. You all seem to think everyone else is at your service, that you can use and discard anytime you want. You all got engaged to Charlotte, Jessica, and Kesha, and now you want to leave her? After you felt the mate bond with them?" My mother started panicking, and honestly speaking, I would be too if I were in her shoes. What my brothers were saying was pretty messed up.

I watched Helanie come out of the mansion looking so defeated. Her beautiful face looked so saddened that it broke my heart for her. But sadly, this is the world we live in. There are rivals, and Helanie has to understand that some good news comes with bad consequences. And this was one of them.

Once I felt the mate bond with Azura, I had a feeling my brothers would too. And it had become reality.

"Well, then instead of keep repeating our mistakes, we want to finish it. I will reject Jessica tonight," Norman said, looking deeper into my mother’s eyes.

"Well, the full moon is over. It’s just the dinner that is left. Are you confusing the dinner with the full moon?" my mother asked very dramatically, pointing at the sky.

"Well, then I will reject her next full moon," Norman argued.

"Why?" However, my subtle disagreement caught their attention. "Doesn’t Helanie have four mates? So what if you have two as well? Don’t get me wrong, but I think it is even better this way."

I watched my brothers glare at me, as if wondering what I was on about.

"Think about it this way, you cannot just share her with everyone staying in the same room as her. You will have to plan days. And while she is with one of you, the others will suffer. So if you have your other mates with you at that time, I mean, the time will pass pretty quickly."

My suggestion definitely angered them because they did not seem to agree with me.

"Emmet, we would like you to not intervene. You made up your mind. You chose your fated mate. As for us, we will make our own decisions," Maximus hissed at me, looking upset that I even suggested they accept their other fated mates.

"Sure," I shrugged to Maximus.

"I will never let you speak to your brother like that. He’s older than you. Don’t forget," Mother snapped at him, probably because she liked my idea more.

And honestly speaking, even when it was going to hurt Helanie, I was going to do my best to make sure my brothers accept and mark their other mates.

That was when Norman stepped to the side, and we watched Helanie approach us.

"I hope you all had a great night. Did you all eat well?" she asked, her eyes blankly staring at me and Azura before looking back at our mother.

"Oh yeah, we didn’t eat yet," my mother said.

And the way Helanie was staring at her, I was just confused. Did something else happen here? It was like she could jump at my mother anytime and hurt her.

Once Helanie walked away, my mother shifted in her seat.

"Azura, can you please leave us alone?" she asked her, but Azura clung to me, refusing to leave. noveldrama

"Azura, please."

I gave her a look, wanting her gone, because it seemed like whatever my mother wanted to talk about was important, and I wanted to listen. So Azura gave in, almost like she would later fight with me over it, and walked away.

Now my mother started to talk.

"I was not very well liked by the Moon Goddess. She wanted me to sacrifice my children, you four, but I didn’t want to. So I fought it. I turned my back on her and went rogue. I took her favorite Alpha King, your father with me to live as a rogue. I was defiant. I was angry with the Moon Goddess. I stopped praying to her. I stopped thanking her. And I guess it angered her a lot. So she sent in another woman to show me that she could steal her favorite Alpha back from me. And that happened. And I felt like if I went back into the pack, it would be fine again. But it was never fine. The Moon Goddess holds grudges. I lost many children at that point. The record is right in the hospital. I kept losing babies. And then I decided to rely on my sons. But the Moon Goddess had to give me one final blow. She brought in the same woman’s daughter to show me that she could steal my children from me as well. So the mate bond you felt with her was just her being angry and showing me that she can do worse things to me. This is where the whole curse also comes from. I was not supposed to have children. She had asked me not to sleep with my mate on certain nights, but we did. And I had babies during those nights. And she was so angry. It was like she saw me as someone who never listened to her. So I was cursed. My children were cursed, you four. And the only one who can break the curse is the woman that she brought in, giving her importance to Ursula’s daughter."

My mother clenched her fists, tears streaming down her eyes.

"It was like the Moon Goddess crushed me because I tried to raise my head. And that woman, she loves the Moon Goddess a lot. She always prays to her. So she’s her favorite."

My mother was hissing a lot.

"But then your fated mates had to reappear, because by the end of the day, we are all born with our fate, with the fated mates tied to us. Jessica, Charlotte, Azura, and Kesha, those were the unfortunate women who got tangled in our messy world. And now they have mates that don’t even want them.So go ahead, reject them. I will not stop you. But remember, it will make you feel a lot of pain. And the Moon Goddess might get angry, because she doesn’t like anyone going against her."

My mother explained, making me nod my head, while the others looked extremely devastated.

"I think Mom is right," I said. "You guys should accept the other mates. They deserve it too. And I’m pretty sure Helanie will be fine with it. I mean, she has three mates herself. So it will be a lot better for you to have other mates. At least it will also take some pressure off of Helanie. She won’t have to go around running errands, trying to save everyone, when there are other mates who will also take the responsibility to help you guys, and us, with our curses."

I tried to make sense of the situation, to help them understand that they had to accept their other mates. They had to bring them home. Because that would be the right thing to do. There was no right and wrong, no disloyalty or loyalty anymore. It would just be helpful for all of us.

"Emmet is right. If you want the load off of Helanie, accept your other mates. So when Helanie is taking care of one mate with his curse, the others have their own mates. Do it for yourself. Do it for Helanie."

Mother agreed with me.

"No," Maximus shook his head. "I will not."

As he made his decision, Norman also nodded.

"I won’t accept my mate either," Norman agreed with Maximus.

However, the silence from Kaye made me wonder if he was convinced.

"Fine, I will accept Kesha."

And just like that, one of them cracked. Now I had to crack the other two and make them accept the mates. At one point, they might think I was sabotaging their relationship with Helanie because they didn’t let me marry her.

Well, I guess we all are evil in someone’s eyes.