Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 43

Chapter 43

KESTER.

My entire body trembled, and I knew she could feel it as my grip on her small wrist tightened by the second.

Why?

Why couldn't she see what she was doing to me? Why couldn't she understand that I was losing my mind over her? That every second she spent clinging to the idea of another than was driving me to the edge of something dangerous- something I wasn't sure even I could control.

Why couldn't she fucking let that magpot po?!

I hadn't killed him yet because it would break her. But she keeps making it difficult for me.

Fuck!

"Fuck it, Kasmine, who gave this to you?" My voice rose slightly, and my heart thundered in my chest.

She wasn't responding, and her silence was killing me.

Why? Was she too scared? Or was this an attempt to save him from what was to come?

She tried to yank her hand out of my grip. The nerve to think she could.

"Kester..." She searched my eyes with those eyes which had held rage and jealousy when she saw June ascending the stairs a moment ago, and I was certain she found nothing but the same rage simmering in mine.

She licked her lips and hesitated for a fraction of a second too long. "L... I got it myself."

Lies.

I sucked in a slow breath, dragging my tongue over my teeth, my jaw clenching so tightly it ached.

"I hate lies," I muttered, my voice low, lethal. "And you know it.”

I thought I was beginning to get her to feel the same way I did, especially after

seeing how she tried her best to conceal her emotions when she saw June today.

I saw the way she clenched her small palms and blinked rapidly. The way her eyes widened when June wrapped her hands around mine.

I had seen her jealousy.

I had felt it.

And I loved it..

It made me believe, for one stupid, fleeting moment, that maybe-maybe she was beginning to feel what I felt. That I wasn't the only one slowly being consumed by this insanity.

So they were all lies?

"It is Jake, isn't it?" Her breath hitched. I smirked. "I might just have to have a conversation with him after all," I murmured, tilting my head slightly to the side, taking in the way her body trembled, how her breathing had turned shallow.

"No Please don't, Kester," she whispered, pressing her lips together to stop their quivering. "It wasn't him. I

swear...

"You swear? With your life?" I dragged the words out, savoring them.

She didn't answer.

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Of course, she didn't.

meant to have the perfect evening tonight," I whispered, leaning down and pressing my forehead against hers, "I

Kes.

and looked into her yes, "And 'sorry' can't fix everything. I wish it could. "I let the silence that followed wrap around is like a blanket before speaking again, "You

you?" I whispered, but

her wrist again, to that

hand higher, running my fingers over the engraving one last

I

it had

She had no idea.

close I was to breaking

To breaking someone.

she wasn't

someone would be

could swear June was already regretting her decision

dinner she

eat, talk, and

topic or two to lighten up the gloomy mood

kept the fuck quiet. Besides, I never asked her to go through all

room over an hour ago, but I sat in the living room, still brooding over Jake. I had to do something about him, but I felt handicapped in this situation. If not for Kasmine, his corps would be

now.

interrupted by the soft footsteps

knew it

come

probably still curled up in her

slowly

for me the

June.

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through my

acknowledge her, she

of that red

something even

could even be

Thin, white lace.

Sheer. Practically see-through.

the hem barely covering anything, and the

dusky peaks pressing against

Desperate.

Pathetic.

by now-I don't

glass in my

to take the hint and leave.

didn't.

herself across my lap, straddling one

The audacity.

was gripping my shoulders now, pressing in closer, her breath warm

it, Kes," she murmured. I exhaled slowly,

couch, my patience wearing thin.

"Not interested, June."

always say that," she whispered, her nails lightly grazing my

actually give

for something-anything-that would tell her

She didn't.

"What do I have to do to