Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates
Chapter 608-My World Is Falling Apart

Chapter 608: 608-My World Is Falling Apart

Norman:

"What is going on? Tell me in detail," I asked Kaye on the phone, running around to find Helanie like a headless chicken. She had left before, but that was when she was under a lot of stress. But last night after I left her at home, she seemed fine. In fact, she was happy about how her life was turning out. I didn’t see her being upset or stressing over her pregnancy.

"Emmet has lost his mind. He is attacking everyone at the bar. We came here to collect him but—" Kaye’s voice cut off when I heard something hit him. Then there were just sounds of a struggle.

"What is happening?" I asked myself before speeding to the bar. At this point, I had no clue where Helanie might have gone, but I knew where my brother was. And him acting out after Helanie had gone missing gave me an ick. It gave me a feeling that something had happened after we, their brothers, left. Maybe Helanie and Emmet had a confrontation about the pregnancy?

But Emmet wasn’t the type to upset her so much that she’d leave. I ran straight to the bar, where I was met with disappointment.

"Ah, he used to be such a gentleman before. But look what he has done to my bar," the owner was crying, standing among the broken furniture. So many customers were huddled on the side, wounded and scared.

"He was so viciously attacking his own brothers," one of the customers said to her partner, still shaken by the violent scene.

"Take their statements and pay double the damage," I told my warrior while leaving the bar to call Maximus this time.

"Yeah? We left after Emmet. He ran out of the bar, so we were worried he might hurt others on the way. Norman, he has lost his mind. It doesn’t seem like he remembers anything at all. And you know what’s the scariest part? He started to lose his connection to his human side right before our eyes. He kind of lost his ability to speak and was only making noises like growls and howls," Maximus’s words shook me to the core. This is what I’ve feared all my life, and now it was happening.

"Tell me, where are you guys? I’ll be there," I asked Maximus, who started giving me directions to where they had seen him go.

"Keep following him. I’ll be there in a few minutes," I hung up and let my wolf take over to run faster. We could smell the tension in the air and could tell they had been anxious. The entire air was thick with stress.

Finally, I arrived at the top of the mountains, where I joined Maximus and Kaye running after Emmet.

"He’s headed towards the nearest pack’s border. If he gets inside, they’ll attack him to protect their people," Kaye told me while breathing heavily.

"We should stop him before that happens," I said, leaning forward and speeding up after Emmet. "Maximus, you take that cut and catch him from the side. Kaye, go up there and come down the slope to confront him from the front," I gave the instructions to trap him while I followed him on the same path.

After a while, our plan worked, and as soon as Kaye ran down the slope and came in front of him, Emmet stopped.

He tried to turn to his left, but Maximus was already there. Behind him was I.

"Emmet, we are your brothers," I said to him, my hands aching to hold him.

Seeing him so anxious and lost crushed my soul. He was panicking, looking around while his fingers were all spread, ready to attack. The worst part was that he was in his mid-shift, so his bones were cracking and breaking but still staying in human form. However, only his animal side was awake.

He howled and tried to attack Kaye to get him out of the way when Maximus jumped on him, rolling him over to the side. Once on the ground, Emmet kicked Maximus off so easily.

But now the three of us were watching him.

"We’re sorry," I said as I lunged at him. I quickly put him in a chokehold while the others started to freeze his legs and arms.

Since he didn’t remember us, he was using all his strength to fight us. We were struggling, but I needed to make him pass out.

After a while, and many struggles, he passed out but I knew it would only be for a short time.

"Quickly, get the restraints," I said to Kaye, still keeping Emmet in a chokehold because I was afraid he’d wake up any second.

"We’ve come way too far into the woods. It’ll take us some time. Why don’t we use something from around here and try to take him home first?" Kaye suggested, making me nod in agreement.

"Then make a rope from the vines and whatever we have around us," I said to the two, but Maximus had an even better idea.

"Kaye, why not use some herb to get him to pass out? You know the herbs so get to work," Maximus suggested, and Kaye got to his feet.

The next ten minutes were hard to bear. I had Helanie on my mind while I was holding my brother in such a painful grip.

After a while, Kaye returned with a lot of wolfsbane.

"How did you manage to get that in these woods?" I asked Kaye.

"I have my ways of spotting the hidden locations of herbs," he replied, forcing Emmet’s mouth open to shove the herb in. He groaned in pain and probably burned his tongue.

After that, I carried Emmet home to leave him behind so I could go find Helanie. But I still had no idea where she could be.

However, after leaving Emmet in the basement, I ran to his bedroom to find some new clothes for him when my eyes landed on the papers scattered around.

I picked one up and my heart started to beat faster.

"In order to have Azura back, I have to sacrifice Helanie in the well. It is a life for a life."

My heart missed all its four beats when I realized what it was.