Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates

Chapter 734: 734-The Lies Of Our Mother

Emmet:

We began to walk behind Helanie like lost puppies, all four in a line. Once we were in the room, she slammed the door of Kaye’s room shut and locked it. As she turned around, I saw Maximus look at her excitedly.

"No, Maximus, we’re not here for that," she snapped at him, and he calmed down as he was unbuttoning his shirt.

But under our gazes, he muttered, "I was just joking."

I guess he was trying to lighten the mood. He was way too happy not to make a sexual joke.

"You," Helanie pointed at me. "I’ll give you five minutes to start talking, because after that, you’re out of the room and will never be part of this conversation."

She stated it loud and clear, warning me to tell her why I did what I did. But the fact that she believed I had a reason gave me hope.

"I would love to, but—" I paused and made eye contact with Kaye.

"I’ll be waiting outside," Kaye said, and Helanie started to frown.

"No. You were against my mother too, so I would like to have this conversation with you as well," she said stubbornly, not letting him pass.

"Helanie," Kaye uttered. He only turned his neck once toward me for a glance before looking back at her.

"Just trust the process, please." He gently touched her chin, rubbing it while speaking in a soft, slow voice.

I watched Helanie’s body relax.

"Please," he insisted again.

With a frown on her forehead, she stepped aside, letting him walk out.

"What is going on? Why does he have to leave?" Maximus asked.

"In case you haven’t noticed—" I started, but Helanie showed me her palm.

"Professor Emmet, you’re not taking the lead. I’ll ask you a question, then you’ll answer," As she said that, I stepped back, lowering my hands in surrender.

"Explain yourself," she said, folding her arms across her chest.

She was so adorable when she was angry.

"I’m trying to get the information out of my mother," I said, and she shrugged.

"Emmet, you couldn’t tell me that?" She clicked her tongue.

"I didn’t have time. I had no clue about the whole Ursula thing. I had no clue about anything." As I began to explain again, she started to wag her finger sideways.

"I want to know from the time you left with Azura. I know you were upset that we accused you of something, but you didn’t try to understand what I was going through," she hissed, making perfect sense.

"I had to leave with Azura because I honestly had no answer to your questions. I felt responsible but also lost. I wanted to apologize but I didn’t even know why I hurt you. I did not remember. Besides, I wanted her to lead the way," As soon as I said that, Helanie clapped her hands and pointed at the door.

"Now get out."

I had never seen her so stern and angry with me. I knew I had messed up badly.

"Wait. I did it because there is something wrong with her," aa soon as I said that, she folded her arms across her chest again, rolling her eyes. I guess we were making accusations with no real answers, which is why she kept getting annoyed.

"And everything your mother has told you all about the curse is a lie. It’s a made-up story." Then finally, something worthy of her attention was brought up by me. Helanie’s body suddenly relaxed.

"How do you know that?" Norman asked.

"Life has a funny way of reminding you about the importance of something before it snatches it away from you. Lately, I had been having flashbacks of when we were children, and a few things kept hitting me hard. I guess it is the Moon Goddess’ way of giving me back all my memory before it is taken away. Memories from a very long time ago. And that’s how I knew something was wrong with my mother. So I started to get closer to her," I stated, watching them finally take interest and listen to me.

"That night, when I took my mother’s side, I got to spend a little time with her afterward. She began repeating the same nonsense to me, the same ’cursed by Moon Goddess because she wasn’t the favorite,’ blah, blah, blah. I took a few snippets, a few hints from her here and there, and I began to make pointers. Then I did my research," I started, my hand still moving toward my pocket, like how a professor would give a lecture. The minute I noticed Helanie was staring at me, I pulled it out again. I was trying really hard to not make it seem like I was a professor giving a lecture.

"What did you find out?" Helanie asked me.

"That all the things she’d been saying about the curse didn’t make any sense. There was some reality behind them, but the rest of the time, she was just trying to fill in the gaps," I said.

Norman began to move around a little, snubbing something down with the tip of his shoe as he looked down.

"And what was it?" Norman asked.

"Remember when we were children? Kaye used to cry a lot. And there was one thing that kept coming up in our household, it was the mate full moon. And until that mate full moon, I didn’t remember how much our parents fought about that day. So I started digging. And guess what I found out?" I uttered, watching them look at me with horrifying looks on their faces.

"What?" Maximus asked. noveldrama

"If anyone wants to mate and conceive on the night of the full moon with their fated mate or chosen mate, their child will bring misfortune. They’ll all be messed up. The Moon Goddess will turn her face away from them. And there were a few examples I read in old history books. One of them was forgetting their own existence, wanting to kill their mate, and turning into a lycan, and the list goes on." As I finished, I watched Maximus’ eyes widen at the fact that his curse was from something that might have been done wrong by our parents.