Helanie:
I let her words sink in for a while before I gathered courage to dissect her statement.
"Charlotte--what does she mean by that?" I asked, my voice shaking. I was not dumb to not know what she meant, but what would it do?
"You probably know by now that the brothers are cursed. Their pain will start accelerating with time. And how long can someone live a normal life in such extreme pain? There's a way to stop their pain from getting worse--if they find their fated mates and get marked. They must be marked before they--" she stopped, rubbing her palms nervously.
"But I'm so worried now. What if Maximus killed his mate in the woods? That's why nobody came forward to tell the rogue brothers they saw a lycan in the woods and felt the mate bond with him," she rambled, rubbing her face with her hands anxiously.