Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates novel Chapter 374

Chapter 374: 374-Face Off

Helanie:

"Cut the call," Lamar mouthed to me because he could tell I was having a panic attack. The way he mimicked my condition from that night made me clench my fists and close my eyes to try and breathe properly. But I couldn’t. I was enraged. I wanted to kill him. It had to happen now. He had no way to be guilty and get punished. His punishment would be death.

"And I realized, hmm, it’ll be much more believable if I say you tried to seduce two Alphas to pit them against each other, and when they caught on to your bullshit, you accused them of rape and ran away when you couldn’t prove the evidence." His words made it harder for me to breathe.

All this would definitely make them believe I’m in the wrong.

"But—" I gasped, "I am not that heartless."

He suddenly changed his tone back to normal, no longer mocking me.

"Oh, come on, don’t cry," I bet he heard me sniffle. "Here’s what should be done. You just come meet me alone in the deep woods, and we’ll settle this out," he finished.

I opened my eyes and saw Lamar shake his head at me. "Tell him no," Lamar mouthed.

I kept watching Lamar’s face before I closed my eyes again and replied, "Okay."

I hung up the phone, and he texted me exactly where we were going to meet.

"Helanie, what the heck did you do? Just wait a minute and think before you just go into the woods—" Lamar started to follow after me as I grabbed my boots.

"I don’t care anymore. I need to see him. If you really want to help, get me a silver dagger." I was breathing heavily, trying to stay calm while there was fire burning inside me. How dare Rayden mock that night?

"Helanie, let’s think—" Lamar insisted, but I stepped back from him.

"Okay, I’ll go alone then. You don’t need to find me anything," I told him. He grabbed my hand to stop me.

"I know you’re angry, and I guess you’re right. But you’re not going alone. He killed my sister too, so I’m coming with you," he said, grabbing his bag from under the bed. "Don’t worry, we have enough daggers in my bag for the both of us."

With that, we held hands and started heading down the stairs to the ground floor. Our plan to have lunch with our friends seemed pretty unrealistic. Given the circumstances and our mission, we shouldn’t even be sitting on our asses and doing nothing.