Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates
Chapter 627-No Dreams

Chapter 627: 627-No Dreams

Helanie:

’Huh, they thought they could show me attitude? Last night I went along with it because I didn’t want Norman to suffer, because I felt bad that they had suffered. So I killed my self-esteem, and then they killed my dignity.’ I had been rambling while turning around like crazy.

I had no clue which direction was the right one. I just wanted to find Salem.

’You’ll see, when I find Salem, she’ll agree with me. She’ll be there to support me and cheer me on for ignoring these idiots,’ I hissed, almost missing a step but quickly catching myself.

’And that husband of mine, how did I forget that just because we’re in love doesn’t change the fact that he’s still a jerk?’ I continued, and this time, I almost ran into a tree.

’Ouch! Salem would be so mad,’ I added, until I stopped and took a deep breath when I heard my wolf finally react to my rambling, for almost two hours now.

’You’re worried about her.’

She was right. I was worried about her. Rune! how the hell did Rune get access to her phone? I had a theory, and I was completely sure it was true.

’But I’m sure she’s fine. She lost her phone, or Rune somehow stole it. If not, wouldn’t her sister and father be looking for her everywhere with us? They’re just relaxing, attending the dinner with Alpha Diaz.’ I didn’t know who I was trying to comfort at this point, myself or my wolf.

’But Gavin told me her sister came to pick her up. Then there’s no way Salem would be in the woods. She must have lost her phone,’ that was the only logical explanation for her phone being with Rune.

"You’re even prettier in the real world."

My body jumped, and I turned around to see the man himself. I didn’t expect to see him so soon. But he was real. He was in the real world, and I had no idea what kind of powers he had.

"Rune," I muttered, clenching my fists.

"I thought the world was under our army, your people are running around scared. Most of them don’t even leave their homes or go near the woods. But here you are, the Alpha Queen, walking around without any guards or warriors. You must really feel powerful enough to take such risks."

He was wearing a black suit and a round black hat.

I remembered him so clearly, and I hated the fact that he had been freed now.

"What? This remind you of my world? That wasn’t my world. I was trapped in a purple flower—ah! It hurt when I woke up here and found out that the other victims who had been trapped in my world had finally woken up too. It felt like a defeat."

He placed his hand on his chest and rubbed it, acting like he was actually capable of feeling anything.

"Why do you have my friend’s phone?" I avoided his rambling. I didn’t have time for it. He was not that important to me. My friend was.

"Oh, you mean this?" He slipped his hand into his pocket, and I noticed how bony and long his fingers were. He pulled out her phone, holding it up, and my jaw clenched harder.

"Where did you get this?" I demanded.

"On the ground. She must have dropped it." The moment he said that with a shrug, I felt like my theory was right.

But why would she have dropped it? Wasn’t she in the car with her sister?

"Oh, my army, the Zharns, you’ve met them and even killed them," he paused, rolling his eyes to show his disapproval of me killing his ugly Zharns, "they told me that her sister tossed it out of the car."

That was it.

The missing piece of the puzzle. The sisters had an argument, and Sydney tossed her phone out. Salem isn’t a fool. She wouldn’t leave the car to look for her phone, not when she knows how dangerous the woods are now for someone walking alone.

"Let’s talk about you," he continued. And now that I was comforted by the fact that Salem was fine, I began to wonder what he had planned for me.

"You look so beautiful but so sad here. I bet if you had arrived a few days later, you would’ve wanted to stay there with me. These rogue king brothers don’t deserve you," he said in a hushed tone, walking toward me.

That’s when I heard snarling and hissing from behind me. My hand slipped into my bag, and I pulled out a dagger. In a swift move, I spun around and cut the throats of the Zharns ganging up behind me. Their heads dropped and rolled onto the ground as I faced Rune again. He was about to lunge at me when I pressed the knife against his throat.

"Welcome to my world, Rune. As you may already know, I’m no ordinary werewolf either. As for being happy in your world, it wasn’t yours either. You were a prisoner, just like the rest of the people who were trapped there."

I could tell he hated the tone I used with him. But then he forced a smile onto his lips.

"Do you even know what I’m capable of doing here?"

That’s what I wanted to know. But before I could threaten him, he suddenly put his fingers to my temples. Those bony long fingers had turned into even longer claws, and each index finger pressed into my temples.

Within seconds, I pushed him back and started rubbing them.

"What the fuck did you do to me?" I yelled.

What felt like seconds might’ve actually been minutes, time had blurred.

"I took away your dreams, so now you can live happily and aimlessly," he smirked. When I lunged at him to stab him, he dodged to the side. I landed on my knees in a pile of leaves.

Not just a pile of leaves,there was something underneath. His words numbed me as he said,

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, the phone wasn’t the only thing tossed out of the car. Your friend came out looking for it, and, well, these Zharns, my naughty boys, got her."