Sharing Beatrice A Luna To Her Stepbrothers by Alexis Dee

129-Becoming Her Target

“Akin! Wait!” Helel dashed after him, stopping him from ruining the entire plan for us.

“You too, Helel? I understand she hates Gwen because she feels threatened, but you were supposed

to help her un- derstand the doctor told us not to put Gwen under any stress.” Akin stopped to argue

with his brother. I kept stand- ing with the car and watching them disagree with each other.

“I don’t care if you fall deeply in love with her, Akin!” I said in a raised voice, “I’m not jealous of her, at

least not anymore,” I added, and Helel closed his eyes to let out a sigh. I could tell he felt bad for me.

“Then explain all this,” Akin walked over to the car again so that he can point at the chains.

“That’s to capture her,” I repeated myself, only to piss him off. He was staring at me as if he wanted to

yell at me for not explaining anything to him, and I did it on purpose. After he made me seem like a

jealous person, I wanted to piss him off for a little bit.

“You can’t be serious,” Helel complained, tracking his brother’s footsteps and approaching him. “Gwen

is not what she seems like,” Helel said since I didn’t say much to help Akin understand why we brought

them here.

“I will need a better explanation than just a few words to believe you, Helel. I’m not going to let you

chain someone un- til you tell me why we are doing that.” Akin interrogated his brother while giving me

his back.

“Your beloved Gwen is a weredragon!” I said that just when Akin thought I wouldn’t interrupt the

brothers again.

“What?” Akin turned to me this time, frowning at my claims.

“Not only that, but she is also displaying all the evidence of being the Mistress Of The Doomsday,”

Helel added, com- pelling his brother to swirl to him this time. Akin had to step back from us in order to

stare at us in one frame without con- stantly turning around.

“I am speechless,” Akin struggled to find the right words. I could tell that the information was too much

for him. He was blankly staring at the chains until he shook his head and asked, “How did you find out

about it? I mean, what makes you so certain of it?” he asked as he raised a question about our

research.

“She wears a pendant. If she takes it off and gets trig- gered, she can no longer prevent her dragon

from transition- ing and taking over her.” I explained whatever I have learned from Colt.

“Full dragon form,” I added, just in case he was wonder- ing.

“You assumed it from a pendant?” Akin narrowed his eyes in my face to question my intelligence.

“Those are the pendants the weredragons used to wear,” I argued when he wasn’t still believing me.

“And we kept whatever was left after the weredragons were defeated. Some of the pendants were

stolen by the lo- cals. Some even made new pendants inspired by the original ones. That proves

nothing,” Akin debated loudly, even making Helel zone out for a moment.

I watched his face and then averted my stare away from him. What if he was right?

When did I become so certain of it?

“A weredragon?” Zane’s arrival was unexpected. We didn’t think he would hear us. Maddox had left to

look around with Dream when she started drinking too much and getting on everybody’s nerves.

Akin sighed as he shifted his body weight onto one foot and stared at all of us one by one.

“I don’t mean to be rude, but now that she has mentioned it, the pendant on her neck is not something I

have seen be- fore.” Zane pitched in, siding with Helel and me. Akin shook his head at us, as he

seemed to think we were drawing con- clusions without any proof.

“If we have not seen a pendant like that in the inventory, then how can we be so certain that it is the

pendant a were- dragon wears? It could be anything, a simple piece of jewelry,” Akin stated, and for a

minute, everybody went silent again.

“How about I get on a call with my beta and ask him to show me around the inventory? If this pendant

is some- where—,” Zane, who wasn’t previously included in the plan, was in the midst of making a new

plan, got interrupted by me.

“We don’t have that much time,” I said, and it made Zane roll his eyes at me.

“So you want to chain her without proof?” Akin argued, but his body language was not so threatening. I

believe he was certain his brothers will not follow my lead until he was on board and I was not going to

allow that. I didn’t spend days and almost got killed in the woods for them to not take this matter

seriously.

“I know how we can prove she is a weredragon.” I stomped my foot on the ground and walked past

them to where Gwen would be.

“Wait! What are you doing?” Zane and Akin followed me, both asking me the same questions while I

refused to stop.

“Gwen!” I yelled as I approached her. She was sitting by the fire and opening a marshmallow bag when

she spotted me and rushed to her feet.

“What!” She could tell she was being threatened by the way I rushed in her direction.

“Take this thing off—,” As soon as I tried reaching for her pendant, she stepped back and struck my

hand with the hot skewer stick.

“Ouchhhh!” I winced, holding my hand, and stepped back from her.

“Gwen!” Zane grunted as he stepped between us. “Give me that!” he yelled as he grabbed the skewer

stick out of her hand and tossed it aside.

“I am sorry. I was afraid she was going to hurt me,” Gwen panicked, but I could tell it wasn’t because I

was going to harm her but because she didn’t want to take off that pen- dant.

“Don’t fucking argue with me,” Zane clenched his jaw while he turned around to hold my hand and

grunt some more.

“Take off that pendant.” I ignored the pain and called her out once again.

She looked hysterical when looking at Akin and me.

“Why?” she asked, keeping her hand on her pendant and not removing it.

“Gwen! Just take it off,” Akin came forward to softly tell her to take off the pendant.

“No! It is not about the pendant; it is about power. She wants me to see how she can make me do

anything.” Gwen raised her voice before the brothers for the first time as she kept stepping away from

us.

The panic in her voice was making my heart flip inside my chest, and then I heard Ace inside me.

‘If they didn’t kill her today, she will come after you.’