Sharing Beatrice A Luna To Her Stepbrothers by Alexis Dee Book 3
Chapter 568 – Welcome Home Brothers! (Maddox)
“How could you do this to me?” Zane screamed, lunging toward Abilene, who appeared utterly bewildered.
“What’s happening?” she murmured, seeking refuge behind me.
“Don’t worry, I’ll handle this. Just head to your bedroom,” I whispered, ensuring she was out of harm’s way and spared from our turmoil.
She nodded and began to depart, but before leaving, she quickly planted a k*iss on my cheek in front of Zane.
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“Please be careful,” she said softly before darting to the bedroom. Zane seemed to be reeling from what felt like the ultimate betrayal.
“How could you—and how could she casually betray me right in front of me?” Zane yelled, making a move to follow her, but I blocked his path. His eyes welled up with anger, his voice trembling with fury.
“It happened, get over it,” I shrugged, feigning indifference, which only seemed to fuel his rage.
“Get over it? How does one get over betrayal?” he bellowed, seizing my collar and shaking me, yet I offered no resistance. I refused to give him the satisfaction of seeing me succumb to guilt.
“It’s not like I killed you or anything, you’ll be fine,” I rolled my eyes and attempted to grab his arm to lead him away, sparing Abilene from his yelling and screaming. But he broke free and shoved me back.
“You stabbed me in the back, and you expect me to just get over it?” Zane screamed, his face contorted with anger. I looked at him and wondered if betrayal was worse than stealing someone’s wife.
“No! You’re the one who stabbed me in the back, Zane,” I hissed, and he nodded vigorously.
“I know I messed up by sleeping with your girlfriend and cheating on my wife. But I thought you forgave me? Is this your way of getting revenge on me?” He was screaming and crying hysterically, unable to bear the pain of betrayal. If only he knew I suffered even worse.
“Zane! You can’t just stand here and shout until you explode. There’s someone else living here, and I won’t let you terrorize her with your complaints,” I said, pretending to be indifferent. His eyes nearly popped out of their sockets, and his jaw dropped to the floor.
“Do you even care about me?” he gasped.
“I used to,” I muttered.
“You know what, I’m going to confront her too,” obviously, in his mind, he felt betrayed by both of us. But as he tried to rush past me, I grabbed his arm and began leading him towards the exit.
“No! I won’t leave with you!” he screamed, but it was too late. I had a firm grip on him and was dragging him along.
“If you want to know why I did that to you, you’ll have to follow me,” I hissed once his resistance became futile.
After a few seconds of staring at my face, he finally started to follow me. Throughout the journey to the big rocks, he cried and yelled about how much I had hurt him.
The moment we reached the rocks, he straightened his back and seemed to zone out.
“What is this place?” his tone calmed down, and tears no longer filled his eyes as his memory seemed to reset, yet it appeared even messier now. “I was taking you home,” I began again.
That day, I took him to the new grandparents’ house while I took Abilene to the rocks. When she returned, I told her Zane was her husband. I did this multiple times to Zane, and each time, he would come home to discover some devastating truth, leading him to cry until I reset his memory.
It was entertaining to witness him in such agony. Yet, somewhere deep down, it still wasn’t enough. Perhaps because I knew he was already dead, so there was no way I could inflict upon him the same level of betrayal he had caused me when he senselessly took my life.
“Ah!” It must have been the twentieth time I had brought him to the rocks and reset his memory. Slowly, he was losing his sanity. Even with the memory reset, he remained an emotional wreck.
“What happened?” I asked with a smirk on my l*ips, standing tall while he knelt before me. We had just crossed the rocks, and the memory reset caused him pain.
“I just want to know something,” Zane uttered, and I sighed.
“Yes?” I was still contemplating a new reality I had to create today to cause him suffering.
“How many more times will you hurt me until you forgive me?” As he asked that question, my body was covered in goosebumps.
“You think I’m so weak that every time you brought me here, I didn’t remember why you were doing this to me?” he raised his head, and his teary eyes met mine. “I did something to you, and you’re punishing me. I remember my memory resetting, but then I follow the same foolishness over and over again,” his voice broke.
“Then I’m sure you remember the whole thing, Zane,” I hissed, gritting my teeth as I glared into his eyes.
“So it’s true, you’ve been resetting my memory, but why?” he yelled, barely able to straighten his back to face me.
But before I could even answer him, something strange happened.
Both Zane and I shared a glance as the surroundings started to shake. That had never happened before. Why was the ground moving?
What was this loud noise?
Before long, we saw an opening forming, and both of us stood beside each other, staring at it.
“What’s going on??” Zane yelled, stepping back from the opening.
“You need to pass through the opening. It’s happening,” I recognized the voice. It was Reign!
“Reign?” I frowned, having no idea how it was possible.
“Maddox! I don’t have time to explain, but just know that Beatrice is in danger. Everyone is in danger, and in order to bring everyone back to where they belong, you must take Zane and cross the portal,” she screamed, and I could hear commotions behind her.
“Beatrice!” Zane uttered her name and then gasped.
“Reign! What happened to her? I’ll help her alone. I don’t need Zane, but how do I do it? I’m dead,” I stumbled over my words as I watched the portal begin to shrink again.
“We don’t have time, and the brothers must come together or else-Beatrice will be lost forever,”
Reign insisted. I had no clue what she was talking about, but since she mentioned it was for Beatrice, I figured I might have to cross the portal to maybe see them for a while before coming back here.
Without wasting a moment, I leaped through the portal and didn’t even look back, knowing Zane would follow. Once we were done helping Beatrice, we’d return to the dead zone, where I’d do my best to punish Zane some more.
But what was happening? As soon as I entered the portal, my body began to dissolve into darkness. I heard Zane screaming just like I was, but then I began to hear other voices too.
“S*hit! Who else has crossed?” I yelled, but it was too late. It seemed others might have crossed too. I mean, they’d be back in a few hours, so it wasn’t an issue. But where was I being led into the darkness?
And then I landed on something, closing my eyes t*ightly.
“It’s not that bad.”
“You think so? I like the city life more.”
“Just give it a try, you big baby.” “Don’t f*ucking call me that again.”
I heard some chatter and shook my head to wake up. I was in a car with my brothers, entering the town where we had been relocated to.
“Maddox! Did we wake you up?” Akin glanced at me through the rearview mirror, apologizing.
“Ah! It’s okay,” I groaned, sitting up in my seat and stretching a little. Zane sat beside me, my twin, while Helel was in the passenger seat with his twin.
Our brothers were the ric*hest of all and also the most powerful in terms of our connections with higher-ups. So the new town didn’t really sound scary to me. I wondered why I always have such weird dreams where I am falling down a dark tunnel or something.
“Welcome to Leat High Town,” Helal read the sign, and I closed my eyes again to rest until we reached our new home.