Darius:
We had been sitting together in my room, drinking and talking about the trial and Helanie. If I needed to get Helanie away from her protectors, I had to separate her from those rogue brothers.
She was their stepsister for only a year—I'm sure they can't be that attached to her.
But why the heck did Norman marry her? There's no way he felt the mate bond with her that night specifically. They planned it.
"We can manipulate Emmet against Helanie," I suggested, watching Romeo shake his head almost instantly.
"That will be nearly impossible. Emmet doesn't really let others influence him. He only believes what he sees and his own judgment. I lived with the brothers for a while when I was little. My mother used to leave me with them during vacations. If anything, Emmet was the hardest one to fool. He wouldn't believe a word coming from someone else."
That was frustrating.
