Maximus:
"So here’s the plan: get Darius’s phone," Emmet said, driving the car. Kaye and I had been staring at him, probably wondering the same thing.
Women hate alcoholic men... why the hell was Helanie looking past that? Or maybe she thought he’d stopped drinking.
"So, you’re going to sabotage him?" my wolf grunted at me.
"I’ll do whatever I want to make sure Helanie is okay. As for you, I know you don’t want her, so I won’t need your help in this case."
I never understood why my wolf was so against the idea of me and Helanie being together.
"Well, that’s because only one of us knows it all. She’s not good for us, and we’re not good for her. Besides, it’s not like you can ever mark her. Remember, to mark her, it needs to be done on a full moon night? How do you plan to do that in your lycan form? And how will she mark you?"
He raised a valid point, and I hated him for that.
It’s not that I wasn’t aware that my relationship with Helanie had been ruined for so many reasons. I sighed, realizing Emmet might have told her that he would wait for her. I could tell even Kaye felt like a fool for rushing things with her.
"Aren’t you two even listening to me?" Emmet raised his voice, and both Kaye and I exchanged a glance, making sure we both knew what we were thinking.
"Why do you get so intimate with her in front of us? Is that your way of rubbing your relationship with her in our faces?"
I couldn’t hold it in anymore. Helanie was my mate too. I didn’t like how they all just ignored the fact that I hadn’t done anything wrong, yet she broke things off with me over a misconception.
"Maximus, you know I would never do anything to hurt you, right?" Emmet asked, but I refused to believe that.
"Sure, you were always there for us," I rolled my eyes hard.
"I am. And I will always be. You and Kaye are like my little babies, you know I love you two the most," the sadness in his voice made me feel just a little guilty before I remembered Helanie and I stopped believing Emmet’s words again. If he cared and loved me so much, he would ditch Helanie and leave her for me.
"Tell me something—how would you take care of her when you’re in the middle of your binge nights? She’ll be waiting for you, while you’ll be drunk and passed out in the hallway. That’s what you used to do for us," Kaye intervened, bringing up the right kind of questions to hit him with the fact that we hadn’t forgotten about his past habits.
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