Ditched Cheating Alpha, I Led My Daughter to Life's Peak novel Chapter 139

"My sister," Michael corrects.

Onai sighs. "Your sister anywhere without them, so you're just exacerbating her condition." He turns to Axel and Carson. "And you two should know better than this. She's still sick. You could cause another-"

Carson glowers down at him with them most ominous aura in existence. Even I want to move away. He says calmly, quietly, painstakingly slowly, "You've got some nerve, Onai, talking to me like that right now."

The look on Onai's face is priceless. He looks up at Carson like Ethel looked at me. Horrified.

Carson smirks, but it's not humorous at all. He looks pissed off. "You're really lecturing me about my mate when you can't seem to stay away from her?"

Onai doesn't say anything. He's smart. He knows that anything that comes out of his mouth would just be more nails in his coffin. I feel bad. This is kind of my fault.

Michael starts giving Onai the side eye. "Hmm... Interesting. You know, I thought there was something between you two at the house." He glances between Onai and me.

Time stops. He did not just say that. Ethel and Axel look at Onai like he's a dead man.

Onai's eyes shoot to Michael. He grabs the front of Michael's jacket and glares down at him, managing to scream, "How could you?" right before Carson grabs ahold of him.

Or at least tries to, because Aiden gets in the way first.

Onai wastes no time backing away with Ethel close beside him.

Aiden glances at Carson, unamused. "This has gone on long enough." He moves closer to Michael and grabs ahold of me.

Michael moves back. "You better get your hands off her if you know what's good for you."

"I'm not taking her," Aiden says, and true to his word, he sets me down immediately on my own two feet.

I look up at him, but he's looking straight at Michael. "This situation is very strange," he says, never breaking eye contact with him. "You have every right to be concerned for the safety of your sister, and under normal circumstances, I would respect that and leave."

"But?" Michael asks, already anticipating it.

Aiden nods, reluctantly. "But she's sick right now, so we're not going anywhere."

"That's fine," Michael says, grabbing my arm. "We're the ones leaving."

I see something in Aiden's eyes right before Axel gets in the way. "Listen." He's holding both of his brothers back as Michael continues to back away. Axel doesn't look at him while he speaks. He looks straight at me. "Michael, I know you don't understand the imprint bond, but everything in us right now is screaming for us not to leave her. The more you get in the way of that, the more..." He glances at Carson who's balling his hands into fists and Aiden who's glaring daggers. "Hostile we'll get."

He looks between the brothers, then the betas, then straight at me. "Fine. Let's find somewhere for you to sit."

True to Axel's word, he makes sure to give Michael and me our space. We immediately look for a place to sit with the everyone else trailing behind. I consider the fact that we're technically skipping class at this point for just a moment. I don't really care. We find a few tables in the shade outside. It's a nicer day, so I enjoy the fresh air and the sound of the breeze against the trees. The soft sunlight. The cool temperature.

Michael and I sit down at one of the tables on one side, the brothers sit down on the other. Ethel and Onai sit at a table beside us.

Michael wastes no time breaking the peaceful silence. He gets straight to the point the second the brothers eyes are on us. "So who exactly are you dating?" he asks me.

I was hoping he wouldn't ask that. This is so awkward. I avoid eye contact with the two betas. I wonder if they're judging my life as much as I think the world is. "The brothers." My face burns.

"Just the brothers?" he asks.

"Yes," I say quickly, hoping to avoid anymore Onai-Carson drama. "I don't like anyone else."

Michael nods. "So you plan on being... romantic and such with all of them?"

I cross my arms. This feels like an interrogation. I knew it would be. "Yes, I'm going to be with all of them, romantically. We already talked about this." I gesture to the brothers and myself.