Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates novel Chapter 191

Chapter 191: 191-Oh Gavin!

Helanie:

"Please, can we go look for him?" she insisted, holding my hand and almost pulling me with her. My heart was pounding at the thought of walking around the hostel and getting caught.

"Lucy! Why don’t we just give him a call instead?" I asked, starting to pull her back toward the room. We were playing a tug-of-war at this point.

"You think I didn’t? I called him, and his phone is switched off," she replied, forcing me to stop pulling her.

"Then maybe he’ll return, and you can ask him where he went. The rogue community is a big place; he could be anywhere," I said, offering a weak smile as I tried to sound helpful.

It pained me to watch her insist on going with her. Normally, I wouldn’t even think twice about joining her, but tonight was different.

"Helanie, that’s the fucked-up part. He’s not outside. He’s in the hostel. I saw him come in with a red rose, and then he disappeared. I asked the guard outside if he left again, and he said he didn’t. He’s somewhere in there, not even in his room," she said, rambling with so much concern that, at this point, I was confused too. Could the red rose have been for Lucy? But then why did he disappear?

"Okay, let’s go look for him," I finally agreed. Watching her beg me to come with her wasn’t easy.

"But please, if he asks you to leave him alone, you will not beg him to stay," I hated when she acted so miserable.

"I will not beg him to stay," she spoke softly, her voice sounding so low.

"Can we first go ask Salem to come clean our room?" She suggested, and I shot her a disapproving look.

"Really? You want me to ask for trouble?" I wasn’t happy to hear that. I did not want to be around Salem whether it was to tease her or play with her.

"Helanie, she tortured you. If you don’t make the best out of this punishment, she’ll think she can get away with anything in the future. And trust me, she hasn’t learned from her mistakes," she stated, making me realize she was right.

The reason Salem and Sydney kept hurting me was that they always got away with a slap on the wrist.

"Fine, let’s go there first," I nodded. We were rushing because I wanted to be done with the search and get back to my room.

As we stood before Salem’s door, I noticed Lucy looked slightly agitated. In fact, by the time we were outside the door, she had a hand on her chest and the biggest frown on her face.

"Are you okay? We can go back to the room--" I grew worried when I noticed tears in her eyes.

What was happening to her?

She ignored me and slammed the door open, confusing me. I had expected her to knock first. But the minute the door opened, I realized why she looked like she was in pain.

It was her mate bond that pushed her to visit Salem first.

He didn’t just betray Lucy, he hurt me as well.

"Worse than trying to kill you, like Lamar did? You forgave Lucy, and even Lamar," he defended himself.

I was in shock.

He was so busy trying to punish everyone by using different excuses that at this point, I didn’t even know if I could ask him to explain himself. It was pretty obvious that he wanted to punish us and make a point, so he did.

"You heard him. You’re so wrong to side with his cheating mate and question him," Salem muttered. I averted my gaze from Gavin.

"You told her," I felt personally attacked.

"How much have you been telling her about your friends?" I just felt like I couldn’t trust him in that moment.

"I didn’t say anything. She overheard us arguing one day and found out. But that’s not the point. The point is, you’re going to forgive me like you forgave her and Lamar, right?" He stepped out from behind Salem, who didn’t look too happy that he wasn’t yelling slurs at me for taking Lucy’s side.

"You know what, you two are comparable," I said, and with that, I turned and left the room.

I had to go look after Lucy. But when I reached the elevator, I felt a hand on my shoulder that spooked me out so much that I turned to stare at the person, my eyes wide and shock clearly visible on my face.