Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates novel Chapter 675

Chapter 675: 675-The Broken Heart Curse

Helanie:

"What happened afterward?" I was shocked to hear that they hadn’t been living a very loving life before her demise.

I could tell why. Emmet was a teenager himself, and he had been burdened with responsibilities. Of course, it couldn’t have been easy for the brothers to watch their little brother go through a painful transformation every full moon. And then there was Azura, she wasn’t helping him either.

What he told me made me feel like she was really being difficult.

"Norman asked me to look after Kaye and Maximus because I wasn’t in the state to carry Azura to the hospital. He took her there, and that’s how the night ended," he paused before softly adding, "The morning I returned home, I also found out she had gone missing from the hospital."

That’s when I began to remember that Emmet had once accused Norman of being behind Azura’s murder.

"Do you think Norman didn’t take her to the hospital?" I asked, not believing it myself. I knew Norman. I knew he would never do something like that. Even when, in the beginning, he hated me and wanted to shun me away, he never did. So why would he do that to Azura and cause his brother such pain?

"No! Absolutely not. I know Norman took her to the hospital," he said, sounding genuinely firm in his response.

But then why did he accuse Norman? His memory couldn’t be blamed for it. There’s a difference between having no memory and having a false one.

"Then how did she end up in the well?" I inquired.

"Ah, that’s a mystery. But I always had a theory. Maybe she woke up and left for transition, and because she was weak, she tripped and fell into the well? She was stubborn, though, so I could imagine her going out on her own," he muttered, not once blaming Norman for it.

I leaned back in the seat before uttering, "What were you two arguing about?" It was the same question I had asked him before. I had a good visual of the night, but never the answer to that exact question.

"Helanie, I told her that I couldn’t feel the same way toward her as I did during the first two years after she arrived. It was young love, maybe just attraction. But over time, I realized it was more so forced upon me. She was the one who guided my feelings most of the time. She was the one who would tell me how I felt about her, that she saw it in my eyes. I was a young whippersnapper, so I believed her and got into a very immature relationship with her. The kind where even holding hands seemed naughty. But the haze of that phase faded with time. I began to realize I was more curious to find my fated mate than to choose her, and I told her exactly that. She didn’t like it. She began to question my character and even said I was being misled. She claimed I had hurt her so much with that thought that one day, she would die because of me. And guess what? Right before Norman carried her away, she whispered one last thing into my ear," Emmet paused, making me watch his face in worry.

"If you hadn’t broken my heart, I wouldn’t have followed you. My blood is on your hands, and I curse you to always remember me," he uttered, then gently touched his neck.

I frowned in confusion, trying to see what he was touching when he said, "And she marked me."

"Emmet, what do you mean by ’she marked you’?" I asked, curious about his words. It was a bizarre confession to make.

"When a werewolf is dying with a broken heart, she or he can bite you and curse you with their memory," he said softly.

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