Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates novel Chapter 454

Chapter 454: 454-Forget-Me-Not

Helanie:

"I’m sorry, we were about to—" I uttered, shyly tucking my hair behind my ear.

"Kiss? I wish we had," Emmet replied shamelessly, standing outside the hostel with me.

The glimard disappeared, and so did its glims and the snow. The temperature was back to how it should have been. The snow on the ground vanished like magic, too.

The others were so tired that they fell asleep after they transitioned to heal. It was just Emmet and me who stayed awake.

"How are you now?" he asked as I started walking beside him, strolling toward the ground.

The morning was arriving, and so were the brothers. They had informed Emmet that they would be over in some time.

"I’m good. I hate how I acted," I mentioned, remembering the time I ran away because of the threats. But that was a scary day.

"Don’t ever do that again," he warned me. As we walked side by side, I felt his hand brush against mine a few times before he tangled his pinky finger around mine.

"I won’t," I replied, not sure if I was being honest.

"You have us now. We’ll make sure nothing happens to you," he reassured me, his tone so comforting.

"How were you when I was gone?" I asked, noticing him steadily hold my entire hand in his.

"I’ll be honest with you—I was gone. I was lost. Norman told me... I almost didn’t even remember you."

I knew he was being honest and sharing his side with me, but that part hurt me. I slipped my hand out of his. He noticed and stopped walking, turning to face me.

"I didn’t mean it like that. I don’t know what’s going on with me, Helanie. I’m forgetting things now—even you! And that’s what scares me the most."

The sheer horror and sadness in his eyes sent goosebumps over my skin. I never wanted to see him so down. But the way he was talking made it seem like it was a serious matter. Even I had noticed it before, so I knew he wasn’t lying.

"Does your brother not know what’s going on?" I asked, worried about what would happen if he completely forgot about me.

"Come with me," he said, holding my hand and quickly leading me away—away from the sight of the hostel’s building.

Once we were behind the big trees, he pulled me closer and spun me around, pressing my back against the tree. He cupped my face in his hands and crashed his lips against mine.

My heart started skipping beats as he recklessly sucked my lips, almost like he had been hungry for years.

"I thought you wanted to say something," I managed to comment between heavy breaths when we broke the kiss for a moment.

Instead of answering, he crashed his lips against mine again, shoving his tongue into my mouth.

I instantly sucked on his lips hungrily, like a starving tigress.

"I am speaking... just to your soul," he mumbled, breaking the kiss only slightly before sucking on my upper lip again.