All Chapters of Fated to my 4 bully Stepbrothers: Chapter 201 - Chapter 209

~Alerion~I stood in the doorway of her room watching the medic finish wrapping fresh gauze around her shoulder. The black lines were gone, thank fuck, but the skin still looked like one wrong move and it would split open again. Every time I blinked I saw that dark smoke punching into her. Every time I breathed I smelled the burnt-sugar stink of shadow-rot. And every time I looked at her sleeping face I wanted to put my fist through a wall.

~Valeria~I waited until the house was quiet. Alerion had finally gone to train in the basement gym. Zane was in the kitchen banging pots around like he was mad at the stove. Lysander was out back running laps to burn off whatever energy he still had. Caius was locked in his room with the ancient book and his screens. I slipped into the small sitting room at the back of the hou

~Valeria~I couldn’t take it. “Stop! All of you! I don’t know who to trust anymore.”I glared at Dad. “You brush off everything like it’s nothing. Caius shows proof and you accuse him of working with Cassian? What the hell?”Then I looked at the guys. “And you, jumping to call him an incompetent? He’s my dad.”“And as for you, dad. So now you’re sending me on a suicide mission? Do you even love me at all? Mom hid this thing knowing it could kill me, and you’re standing here telling me I have to go?”“Why wasn’t you man enough to tell your people about your affair with the maid, my mom? Does that mean I’m illegitimate? That’s why the council members and everybody else keeps accusing my bloodline of being a fraud, and you just stayed quietly without telling me anything? You let them call me fake while you sat back and did nothing!”“I don’t even care about your explanations anymore because you are probably going to lie. So fuck this. I quit. I’m done with all of you.”I turned and storm

~Valeria~Lysander moved first. Spun around the corner fast, dagger raised, and I saw the exact moment he recognized who it was because his arm was already swinging and he had to throw his whole body sideways to stop it.Zane.Limping, Caius's arm around his waist, both of them frozen in the doorway staring at the dagger that had stopped about four inches from Zane's face.

~Valeria~Lysander had been quiet. Which should've been my first clue.While the vines were concentrated on the other three, while the stronghold was busy making its ultimatum, Lysander had been slowly moving to the side of the platform. Watching the way they moved, the pattern of them, where they were paying attention.He looked at me once. The one that meant I know what I'm doin