Chapter 510-He Is Obsessed With Gigi

Chapter 510: 510-He Is Obsessed With Gigi

Jenna:

I had been completely stunned ever since I found out what was going on.

The fact that Verity had turned out to be mates with all three brothers was shocking enough, but what surprised me even more was that Ragnar had actually chosen her.

I couldn’t wrap my head around it.

"So much had been happening right under our noses, and none of us had the slightest idea."

My mother kept shaking her head as she talked about it, still struggling to believe what she’d heard.

"Well, it’s not like mates go around discussing their relationships with everyone before deciding what they want to do," I pointed out, trying to make her understand that it really wasn’t about us.

Verity hadn’t told me anything either, but that was probably because she didn’t even know whether the brothers wanted her to share the news with me.

"But still, how can one girl be the mate of so many Alpha Kings?" my mother exclaimed, striking her fist against her open palm.

I knew how much my mother loved gossiping.

Sometimes, I even wondered whether she talked about me behind my back with my father.

And speaking of my father, he was, as expected, too busy playing a game on his phone to pay much attention to either his wife or his daughter.

"Whatever the case, there’s going to be a huge problem when that witch of a girlfriend finds out. Goddess knows what she’ll do to innocent Verity," my father remarked without even lifting his head from the screen.

"You think she’s so innocent?" my mother hissed.

"Isn’t she, Mom? Didn’t she help me?" I questioned, annoyed by how suddenly bitter she had become towards Verity.

"Yes, fine, she helped you. But look at what she got in return. The Alpha Kings! And then there’s you. You found yourself such a beta for a mate, yet you couldn’t even get him to say he’d accept you."

The moment my mother brought up Bruno, my mood soured.

She had been pressuring me to not accept a beta, and now that she had learned Verity had ended up with the Alpha Kings, I could tell she wasn’t particularly pleased.

Of course, she couldn’t resist reminding me that I hadn’t even managed to hold on to one mate, let alone someone as powerful as an Alpha King.

"Your mother’s right. And if you’re entertaining some ridiculous idea that you’ll end up with two or three mates yourself, you might as well forget it," my father chimed in, looking even more intently at his phone.

"Maybe if you lifted your head from that phone for once, we could actually have a proper conversation," my mother snapped at him. "Besides, there are still the other brothers."

The moment those words left her mouth, I started shaking my head.

My father was sitting on the edge of the bed with his legs hanging over the side, his head lowered towards his phone, while my mother paced back and forth between us.

I remained seated on the couch against the wall, growing increasingly frustrated with the conversation.

"Don’t ever say that again," I warned my mother, lifting my head to look at her.

Of course, she had no idea that the mistake I’d made had been because of my blind love for Theodore.

There were certain things I’d kept hidden from my family, and regardless of everything that had happened, I was still incredibly grateful to Verity.

"Why shouldn’t I? You’re going to marry one of those brothers, and just look at her! Look where she came from and how far she’s managed to climb. And stop praising her every chance you get. Fine, she did something good, but any decent person would’ve done the same. It’s not like she accomplished some extraordinary feat."

My mother had completely changed her opinion of Verity ever since discovering that she had three Alpha Kings as her mates.

"Mom, I’m not going to repeat myself. Don’t ever try to pair me up with Theodore or Jaguar again."

With that, I grabbed my phone, looked her straight in the eyes with a glare, and marched out of the room.

"Did you see the look on her face? Of course you didn’t! Did you see how rudely she walked away from me? After everything she’s done, how does she even have the nerve to look me in the eye?"

My mother’s voice followed me down the hallway, while my father merely grunted in response.

"Just look at that shameless girl! She certainly wasn’t ashamed when she was getting naked and letting someone ruin her!"

Those words stopped me dead in my tracks.

Hearing my own mother throw something like that in my face hurt more than I could ever explain, and unfortunately, she knew exactly how to do it.

She hadn’t allowed me a single day to heal, even though she was always talking about how important my recovery was and crying over my suffering in front of other people.

Whenever her friends came over, she somehow managed to steer the conversation towards what had happened to me.

She would ask every single one of them whether they had those videos on their phones, warning them that they could be arrested if they did.

I couldn’t understand why she kept bringing it up, reopening wounds that had barely begun to heal.

It was as though she couldn’t bear to let the pain fade, constantly dragging me back to something I was desperately trying to move past.

As soon as I returned to my room, I knew it wouldn’t be long before my mother came stomping in, determined to humiliate me all over again.

I checked my phone and found a message from Bruno.

Lately, talking to him has become something I genuinely enjoyed.

In fact, I felt more comfortable speaking to Bruno than I did to my own mother.

Bruno: Wait a second. Verity is mated to all three of them? I had my suspicions!

Another message followed almost immediately.

Bruno: Ragnar chose her? Does that mean Gigi has been rejected? Does Gigi even know about this? Should I tell her, or should we tell her together? Why don’t you tell her?

For some reason, reading those messages and seeing how excited Bruno seemed made me increasingly uneasy.

His growing fixation on Gigi had been bothering me lately, and this conversation was only making it worse.

Me: No, Bruno. This isn’t our business, and we’re staying out of it.

I texted back before setting my phone aside.

I couldn’t quite explain why, but Bruno’s obsession with Gigi had started raising all sorts of questions in my mind, leaving me more confused than ever.

And the only thing I could think about was who I could possibly share those concerns with.

Only one name came to mind.

Verity.

She was the only person I felt I could truly trust.