Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates-Chapter 567-Pinned Me Against The Tree Trunk

Helanie:

"Sydney, you are expelled with the ’worst student ever’ certificate," Maximus announced, while my eyes were on Penn, who was grabbing a weapon from the table on the side to follow Norman.

"Did we make a mistake? Why is your husband angry with us?" Jenny whispered in my ear, her anxiety peaking as she watched her brother with teary eyes.

"Let me deal with it," I grunted, giving Norman a look—but he didn’t even want to acknowledge me. It had to be something else.

I wanted to stand here and enjoy Sydney crying, but this husband of mine—the cheater, the liar, the heartbreaker—ruined it for me.

I began to quickly make my way towards Norman, causing Maximus to stop and look at me. Kaye snatched the black ink out of his hands and slapped it over Sydney’s face with a sharp jerk of his hand.

"This is what you deserve for hurting Helanie," Kaye hissed, not even caring that the students were watching him.

"But—why? Why am I being insulted?" Sydney cried, her face blackened. That kind of treatment was rarely given to any student—only when they had done something really bad.

But my steps stopped when Maximus explained her actions.

"I found your personal diary. Not a very good secret keeper, huh? You wrote about how you wanted Rhiz to do the same thing to Helanie that she says he did before. You wanted Helanie to get in trouble when he confronted her in a locked room. You just didn’t expect Helanie to survive."

I stared at Sydney, who was now avoiding my eyes.

"But I was just saying—" she mumbled into her hands, not even lifting her face.

"Well, screw you, Sydney," I slapped the back of her head, and she moved her hands from her face to stare at me, shocked.

I had hoped no one would mess with me today—but of course, that wasn’t possible. So now I was angry and taking it out on everyone who messed with me.

"Come on. We’ll sign your resignation letters and then talk to your father. He’s coming over. Let’s tell him what a psycho his daughter is," Kaye said, signaling Sage to grab Sydney by the arm and take her to the office. Maximus followed but gave me a quick glance before leaving.

Maximus walked past me a little too close, close enough that his scent made me lose my mind. He smelled so damn good.

Now that everyone was out of sight and the students were dismissed, I was staring at Norman.

"Come on, Penn! What’s going on, didn’t you pick a weapon yet?" Norman looked over my shoulder to call for Penn, then scoffed, "I’ve never seen an alpha so weak."

I was standing right in front of him, and he was looking everywhere but at me, acting like I didn’t exist. I wished I hadn’t acted like an idiot last night. Now he wouldn’t even look at me. He probably won’t ever respect me again.

Screw it.

"Stop it. Why are you making Penn suffer?" I snapped at him, and he finally looked down, a look of disbelief on his face.

"You’re still a student here, Helanie. Watch your tone and definitely don’t stand here defending your boyfriend in front of your trainer," he hissed, making the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

"Penn, you can go. I think I know what Professor Norman’s problem is," I turned and called out to Penn, who stopped checking a weapon and looked at me, then at Norman.

"What are you doing? You can’t make him go against my orders!" Norman’s body looked so massive when he stepped toward me.

"Penn, go back to the hostel!" I shouted again, this time looking straight into Norman’s eyes. I wasn’t going to let him take out his anger on Penn. I can date whoever I want. He doesn’t have to fight for his brothers.

"And you!" I hissed, taking a step toward Norman, who stepped back like he was actually scared of me. What an actor.

I grabbed his arm as I walked past him and kept dragging him along. I was so angry I could have hit him just to knock the arrogance out of him.

"What is this behavior? Where are you taking me? Won’t your boyfriend be jealous that you’re—" I didn’t know what was wrong with Norman. He wasn’t acting like himself.

He shut up when I stopped in the middle of the woods and turned to glare at him.

"What are you punishing Penn for?" I yelled, pushing him and surprising him. "And why the hell are your buttons open?" I shouted and made a face.

He looked down and then scoffed, "Why? Is it too sexy?"

I frowned, completely lost. What the heck was wrong with him?

"Look—I don’t know what you’re trying to do, but it’s none of your business. Your brothers and I are not together," I started explaining, just because I felt like I needed to make that clear.

Not that I didn’t feel anything for them, but I didn’t want them thinking I cheated in any way when we weren’t even together right now.

"Oh, so that’s why you think you can go and kiss Penn," he nodded, making my jaw drop.

"What?" I nearly yelled, and he put a finger in his ear.

"What the hell did you just accuse me of?" I was in shock at his audacity to lie about me. It didn’t sit well with such a big man to start rumors. As I screamed louder, Norman started gesturing for me to lower my voice.

"No! Don’t tell me to lower my voice when you’re accusing me of making out with Penn!" I shouted even louder, and he looked around, his cheeks turning red.

"What? Say something!" As I tried to slap his chest again, he reacted differently this time and let me bewildered.

He suddenly grabbed my hand and pulled me closer, then slammed my back against a tree and came at me. It all happened so fast, I was left in complete shock.