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"Congratulations," Salem hugged me again while Lamar, Penn, and Gavin danced around me. They had been jumping up and down like little kids this whole time. Jenny kept mimicking how I would look once I got crowned.
"So, you’re coming to the hostel tomorrow?" Penn asked, giving me a look that said I needed to stop making excuses and just join them already.
They had made plans that included hopping from bar to bar and doing everything I couldn’t do because my life had been so hard.
"Yeah," I nodded, my eyes shifting to the brothers in the distance.
After Jessica killed her brother, she wasn’t well. Her father and Norman took her home after managing to convince her to let go of Darius’s body. Darcy and Emma rushed back home, grabbing Charlotte with them. But Charlotte seemed genuinely happy for me.
Now it was just me, my friends, and the brothers.
"Okay, so you go enjoy your victory with them today, tomorrow is ours," Lamar warned me, pointing his finger at me to make sure I didn’t forget the plans.
I nodded, smiling from ear to ear, then walked away to join the brothers. As soon as they saw me walking towards them, they broke the circle and smiled at me.
"So, Alpha Queen of North—how do you feel?" Maximus pretended to hold a mic with his clenched fist and interviewed me.
"I am the happiest today," I uttered, tears still forming in my eyes. But these were tears of happiness.
"So, how are we going to celebrate your birthday today? Don’t say no, you’ve earned the right to live a happy life. Let’s make this day the day you slayed the monster and became the Alpha Queen," Kaye added with a cheerful gleam in his tone. Every time someone called me Alpha Queen, my chest swelled with happiness.
I never thought I could be anyone, let alone an Alpha Queen. Just the thought of my crowning made me smile until I turned tomato red.
"Congratulations. I always knew you were special," Emmet uttered, then cleared his throat to remind me of something, "Are you and Norman rejecting each other today then?"
I watched eyes stare at my face and my throat began to get dry. Of course, I was going to reject Norman, but then I felt like I should stay with my friends tonight.
They had waited so long for me to be with them.
"Ohhhh! Wouldn’t it pain? Actually, I’m spending the night with my friends. I want to be full of energy and enjoy my nineteenth birthday, unlike my eighteenth. I want to get over that phase and be happy for once," I noticed the way they silently stared at my face, no heads nodding to show they agreed.
"Will it be okay if I do it next month? I mean, waiting for him to come back when he should be with Jessica, and then making my friends wait—" I yapped and yapped with an awkward smile on my lips. I felt so uncomfortable at that moment.
"No! Trap will be the right word."
"Of course, that will do as well," since nobody was helping me out, thankfully Kaye stepped forward to defend me.
I suddenly felt at ease when his brothers reluctantly nodded their heads. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
"So I will go and stay with them," I waved at them, turning around in an awkward, no-goodbye kind of way, and started walking after my friends.
"Hmm, what an excuse to not reject Norman," Cora uttered.
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