Tasting All My Mates by Alexis Dee
Chapter 237

Tasting All My Mates By Alexis Dee Chapter 237

237 Perfect Mate, Wrong Timel

“I don‘t understand,” I whispered to myself, trying to get myself together. The accusations he wasmaking towards Maynard were extreme.

“I didn‘t either,” Marcellus muttered as he tried to hold his breath. “She had his metallic chain in her gripwhen she escaped him. Even when she died, she had Maynard‘s chain in her fist. He was jealous ofhis brother for getting all the attention. He wanted everything his brother had. Sadly, my daughter paidfor whatever feud the brothers had.” His tears seemed genuine when remembering his daughter Olivia.

It didn‘t look like he was lying to make Maynard look bad, but I was still shocked by his revelations.Could Maynard really be this horrible?

Did I miss all the red flags? Are my mates that sinister?

I was swimming through a sea of thoughts when Marcellus pulled me back to reality with a bothersomecough.

“We figured out from the sea that his demise would be at the hands of his mate. So here you are!” Hegot up from his chair after he was done telling me everything. I haven‘ t said anything yet. I was tooshocked to think of what would come next after such a horrible crime was committed.

“Billy! What did he say?” Marcellus made me frown when asking his son something.

“I gave him a call and a few hours‘ time to decide if he wanted to surrender to save his mate, or wouldhe want us to deliver her head to him?” That cheeky smile Billy passed

gave me goosebumps. Were they going to kill me?

“This is all absurd. I am not invalidating your feelings, but if you want justice to be served, you need tobring this attention to the counselors. So that every part gets an equal opportunity to defendthemselves.” It petrified me of everything. If they bring him here and demand I kill him, and I won‘t, theywill kill me and my child. I haven‘t even formed a connection with the child because I wasn‘t given achance.

“We tried.” Poppy said, with teary eyes. I can only imagine how hard it must have been for her to watchMaynard every day and not think about her deceased sister.

“And it didn‘t go well. They accused my daughter of stealing weapons. If she did steal those weapons,where are they and where is my daughter? Oh right! She is dug deep in her grave.” Marcellus closedhis eyes as a tear tried to escape again.

“He will come here eventually, if not for you, then for your baby.” Marcellus then added. My bodyshivered.

“I am sure your daughter has told you he has rejected me.” I reminded them I was no longer his mateanymore.

“Huh! That doesn‘t count if you have his baby.” Poppy snickered, acting as if she had caught me. “And Iknow you have been accepting other mates, but you are not letting them touch you.” I assumed she gotit all wrong.

“I heard Thiago and Zander fight about some rules. Zander isn‘t even allowed to kiss you. So mysecond best guess was, it has to be Maynard.” She confidently stated, “That day when you wentmissing in the hotel room, you were actually hooking up with Maynard, weren‘t you? You just didn‘twant your mates to know you and Maynard had been fucking in the basement.”

That‘s where she messed up. She saw Maynard and me arguing nonstop on the trip and assumed wehad unfinished business.

I didn‘t say anything because I feared they would get rid of me and bring Christina here if I told them itwas Thiago‘s child. I have to think of ways to be sneaky and survive in this big of a mess.

But what about Olivia? Why did Maynard lie to me about her demise? Looking around at these people,I could tell they were devastated and mourning Olivia‘s demise even years later.

They cannot be faking it.

Everything aside, he will never come here for me. He finally got the mate of his choice and the peacehe wanted from his life. Why would he throw it away for someone he desperately wanted to reject? Notto mention, why would he willingly walk into the same mess he started years ago?

“I got a message,” Billy said excitedly, raising his hand to show us his phone.

“Well then read it, you dumbass,” Poppy rolled her eyes at him, shifting on her left leg.

“He is surrendering!” Billy‘s words brought a joyful smile to everybody‘s lips. The relief on their faces atfinally getting their hands on him after years of waiting was visible. I was speechless and stunned.

He was surrendering? Did I hear that right?

“Good, drug him and get him here,” Marcellus ordered.

“I‘m sure the others will show up as well.“And if that is not in sight, then they definitely have a backupplan.” Poppy knew too much about our group, and that was the saddest part.

With her help, they disguised many of their people and asked them to stay on the lookout while Billycovered his face to go receive Maynard.

I was worried to the point that I was shaking now. I had no clue how they wanted me to end his life, butit was going to be one hell of a sinister way.

“Why do you look worried? It‘s not like he is the only mate you are ever going to have. You have beenblessed by the Moon Goddess to have so many mates. It‘s the omegas like us who need to beconcerned,” Poppy said, and for the first time, while talking to me, she wasn‘t hissing at me or smirking.

“You had the perfect mate. Oswin is the best one could ask for. Why did you let revenge come into yourrelationship?” I reminded her of how much Oswin did for her. He shielded her from bullying and teasing.He was the type who didn‘t do anyone wrong, yet she wronged him.

“All I could say is,” she paused, “Perfect mate, wrong timing.” A tear appeared on the

surface of her eye, suggesting she did love him but chose her family over him.

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