Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates
Chapter 630-Dreaming Of Her Dreams

Chapter 630: 630-Dreaming Of Her Dreams

Norman:

"Don’t leave him alone for one second," I told Lamar and Penn, who had their eyes red and swollen. Of course, they had all lost a good friend, and we had lost a good student.

Ever since we called Gavin and he arrived at the morgue where her dead body had been taken, Gavin had been sitting with her and crying. I didn’t even want to be there anymore. The loss of a mate was something I couldn’t even imagine.

I had to wipe my tears in secrecy every few minutes. Sydney and Alpha Diaz had been informed, and from what I heard, Sydney had a mental breakdown too.

"I can’t see this anymore," Kaye walked up to me and whispered, turning his face away. I couldn’t imagine how Gavin’s friends must be feeling since they would have to do their best to take care of him.

"Maximus is off too," Kaye mentioned, and I noticed Maximus rubbing his face in his hands. His eyes were glistening with tears while he was listening to the warriors.

"How was Helanie when you left her at the mansion?" Kaye questioned, and my skin tightened. I recalled her behavior, and it was so odd.

"Odd," I said in one word. "Something was not right with her."

"Maybe the trauma of finding her friend did that to her?" Kaye uttered, and I began to shrug. I had no clue what had gotten into her.

As Maximus started to walk toward us to get ready to leave, I received a text from Helanie, and my whole attention was drawn to my phone’s screen.

"Dear Norman," the way the text started made my heart skip four beats, "I am Cora, Helanie’s wolf."

I narrowed my eyes, which made my brothers notice me. The way I was glued to my cellphone must have been the reason they realized something was wrong.

"What is it?" Kaye asked, and I started reading the text out loud to them.

"Dear Norman, I am Cora, Helanie’s wolf. Earlier today, when Helanie and Rune were having a face-off, he put his fingers into her temples and stole her dreams–her hopes—from her. She cannot talk about it, so I am taking over. She will be angry when I add this last sentence. It isn’t in my head. I am not losing my mind. It happened, but Helanie is not ready to admi—"

The text cut off as if Helanie had tried to take control back, so Cora hit the send button before she lost control. I saw the text getting deleted, but I had already read it.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Kaye panicked, and I was panicking too.

I knew it.

The way she was behaving, I knew something was wrong. He had done something to her.

"What are we going to do now? You said you noticed the change too," Kaye was the only one talking while Maximus looked like he was thinking hard about something.

"We need to go home first. Make sure none of you talk about Cora’s text to Helanie, just act like we’re clueless," I informed my brothers as we briskly made our way back to our cars. I was extremely worried about Helanie being left alone with Emmet.

What if she opens his cage and he attacks her? Or he runs away again?

With so many thoughts swirling around in my head, we finally arrived home after hours. However, the minute we entered the mansion, I found Helanie sleeping on the couch in the living room. She had brought out her pillow and blanket too.

"I’ll go check on Emmet," Kaye said, his eyes suggesting he wanted to comfort her. So did I.

The fact that we were expecting a nineteen-year-old, traumatized mate to do a better job than us when it came to emotions proved how idiotic we were. Not to mention, I was the one who kind of pushed her into it last night.

I lied to her about being in pain because I knew damn well she would never do anything for herself. And just like I had expected, she didn’t care about her own pain but cared about mine.

’Yet you broke her innocent little heart,’ Rome groaned at me.

"She’ll be fine," Maximus brought my attention back to him.

"What do you know about helping her get her dreams back?" I asked Maximus as I turned to him. He and Kaye had studied Rune a lot, so I had good hopes they’d be able to help me out somehow.

"He’s sleeping peacefully," Kaye informed. "What were you two talking about? You guys looked lost," he noticed, his eyes moving to Helanie, and the same sad look took over his face again.

"He wanted me to tell him how we can help Helanie get her dreams back," Maximus told Kaye, and I found it odd that he did. It was as if he was asking Kaye to tell me. And I was right, because Kaye started to respond to me.

"We will have to make her dream come true and give her hope," Kaye responded, now staring back at Maximus.

"And how will we know what her dream is if she doesn’t even have one anymore?" I shrugged, fearing what would happen now. I wouldn’t let Rune play with Helanie’s mind. She had just gotten the power of her life. No way I would let anyone steal that away from her.

"I mean, ask someone who was in the dream prison with her. He would know what her dreams are," Maximus stated in an understanding tone, making me and Kaye both turn to look at him. Why was he referring to himself in the third person?

"Tell us, what is her dream?" I demanded to know, confused why he was playing word games with us when we needed to hurry up and help her out.

"Well, to be shared by her mates," as soon as he said that, my face hardened, "and her husband should be there too," he added to help us understand why her dream didn’t come true last night.

I was just numb at the thought of her really wanting that all this time.