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"Kaye, watch your language," I hissed at him, and it angered him even more.
"Shut up!" Kaye yelled, his finger pointing at me.
"She didn’t tell you we were mates?" Kaye let out a grunt, his eyes getting watery again.
"I swear, no. She told me she would take care of some stuff before we both announce to our dad that she is my mate and we move out of the mansion," Maximus tried to explain to his brother so that he understood that he didn’t betray him.
Now that I realized what Kaye was saying, I was instantly guilt-ridden. If my ex or my mate had gone to date my sister next, I would be devastated too. And Maximus wasn’t even my mate, so me feeling attracted to him was just so wrong.
"She was going to accept you?" Kaye was now focused on asking his brother questions. It all just made me look worse, and I was aware of it.
"Yeah. We were going to interrupt the engagement ceremony. We decided that if our parents didn’t accept our relationship, we would move out and cut ties with them so that our relationship didn’t look wrong," Maximus explained, and Kaye shot me a glare. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
"But you said—you were not ready to be in a relationship. You didn’t—you told me to go ahead and date Kesha, but you wanted to be with Maximus? Did you not even like me—," Kaye began to stutter, but Maximus was looking devastated too.
"You gave me a tough choice. You wanted me to choose—," I shut up when Kaye rushed at me with his finger pointing in my face.
In that moment, I felt so scared at the two glaring at me and yelling at me that I began to press the bracelet in my hand. I wanted Emmet to come here and at least get me out of here.
"It was not a freaking hard choice when you chose Maximus. All this time, I thought maybe—maybe I was the one who pushed you by bringing up Kesha. But the way you effortlessly asked me to move on, you wanted me out of your life. Why? Because just like the others, you thought low of me too!" Kaye punched the car, and I stepped back, tripping in fear and landing on the ground.
"And then you picked my brother—freaking broke me—," Kaye placed his hand on his chest, having a hard time breathing.
"Kaye, I couldn’t choose you because you were my mate—," I still managed to utter when I watched Maximus finally break free from the trance and stare at my wrist.
"What the hell are you doing?" he screamed at me, quickly kneeling down and grabbing my wrist to show it to Kaye. "She is calling Emmet on us!"
It was the shock on his face that killed me.
"She wants all of us to freaking fight?" Maximus quickly stepped back from me, raising his hands to show that he wasn’t touching me because he thought I would use it against them in some way.
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