บททั้งหมดของ Brother’s Best Friends Are My Mates: บทที่ 231 - บทที่ 240

MattThe paranoia was starting again. No matter how much I tried to fight it, it kept happening. This storm was getting more and more powerful. But we had to survive it without attacking each other. When giving us the rules the Spiritborn had made this clear.It was the paranoia we had to fight for a certain amount of time without killing each other in the process. I was trying to push the paranoia to the end, but it wasn’t working. All it was doing was making me angry.Rowan was with Colby. Colby took a step back when he saw the angry look in my eyes.“Matt, I do think you need to calm down.”“I don’t need to calm down. I’m fine.”He huffed. “Yeah, you're fine. Do you honestly think I believe that?”“No, but it doesn’t matter as long as I can convince you to believe it.”This was frustrating. Deep down, I knew everything was fine, but I could still see that person from my pack hanging around. He kept looking at Colby, smirking, and then at me. It was trying to convince me that I was

LiaYes, the twins.Gemma and Rowan were stretched out like cats in the sun, completely content, like this bizarre, magical realm was their vacation spot instead of a twisted trial ground. Rowan had even braided a flower crown from some glowing vine-thing we’d found nearby and was now trying to convince Colby to wear it.“You’ll look majestic,” I said, laughing.“I’ll look ridiculous,” Colby replied, though he didn’t move away. “Also, it’s glowing. That can’t be normal.”“Normal doesn’t live here,” Matt muttered, lying back with his arms behind his head. “She packed up and left the minute we stepped through the portal.”Something was going on.Rain kept shifting every few seconds, like the ground was made of thorns or like he was trying to hide something. His eyes darted anywhere but toward me, which only made my suspicion grow.I narrowed my eyes at him. “Rain.”He froze mid-fidget. “What?”“What are you doing?”“Nothing.”“Uh-huh.” I sat up a little. “You look like you’re either abo

LiaTwo days. That’s all the warning we’d had. Two days to figure out what “center stage” meant. Two days to prepare for… whatever this was supposed to be.And now, the moon was rising, and my heart wouldn’t stop pounding.Hard to believe the blood moon was rising.What I wouldn’t give to be home. I wanted to be safe and home and not stuck outside in this strange world that made no sense. The twins were still sleeping right now. They were so innocent and just children.This was what bothered me the most. My children were going through this. The twins had been dealing with it wonderfully. Gemma and Rowan took everything in stride never complaining. I wished softly, brushing the curls out of one of their face.Behind me, I heard footsteps. Colby’s voice, light as always.“You know, staring at it won’t make it blink first, right?”I didn’t turn. “You’re not funny.”“Didn’t say I was. Just charming.”Rain plopped down on the ground behind me, stretching out like a cat with too many limbs.

ColbyWe thought everything was over and done with until a second wave of enemies seemed to pop out of nowhere, attacking us without warning. I heard this sound and turned, freezing when I felt something lashing out at me.Then someone jumped out at me. Actually, it was Jesse who jumped in front of me to take the blow, taking me by surprise. I couldn’t believe that he was doing that or had done that.Jesse hit the ground like a sack of bricks, smoke curling up from the singed edges of his jacket. The spell had cracked through the air like lightning—fast, bright, and fatal. He’d shoved me out of the way just in time, and now he was the one gasping on the ground like his lungs had forgotten how to work.As much as I wanted to drop ot my knees and see if he was okay, I had to ensure that we wouldn’t get attacked again.The rest of us still standing, attacked however had fired at us. It was touch and go for awhile but we were able to kill them. They fell to the ground, letting out this no

MattThe twins stood at the edge of the circle, their eyes glazed over with that eerie, glowing light that always meant trouble.While the Spiritborn said the curse was lifted, I wasn’t able to be happy about what it said, because the twins looked more than a little eerie. They weren’t just glowing, they were... buzzing. Like their magic couldn’t quite figure out how to sit still inside them, like something way too big was rattling around in bodies way too small.And look, I’m not an expert in mystical prophecy aftermaths, but when someone starts levitating slightly off the ground, that usually means something didn’t go according to plan.“Um,” I said, gesturing with both hands toward the twins like a confused game show host, “this doesn’t look like a ‘curse lifted’ situation. This looks like a ‘curse evolved into something worse’ situation.”Lia stepped forward, slow and cautious. “Guys? Can you hear me?”They didn’t answer.One of them—honestly, I still couldn’t tell them apart when