Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 67

Chapter 69

Chapter 69

KESTER.

I hadn't slept. Not even for a second

I almost lost it. But I didn't because it was Kasmine, after all. She's the one thing that keeps me tethered. My antidote.

If it were anyone else, I swear, I'd have taken their heads off by now. The maids would be scrubbing the blood off the marble floors already.

I had been lost in thoughts all the while she was sleeping on me. Her soft snores broke through the static in my mind, calming my racing heart.

It's always been this way for the past five years now. Her very existence is my calm.

She tames my demons, even without her knowing. Little wonder I kept taking her belongings and stacking them up in my room over the years.

But that fucking slap... Her hurtful words...

It broke something in me.

I felt it snap the moment her palm met my face.

For one breath-for one fucking second- I saw red. She had no idea how hard I fought it. How much it took to keep my hands at my sides when every instinct in me screamed to remind her who the fuck I was.

But I didn't. I couldn't.

Because if I did, I'd lose her. For good. And that? That would fucking destroy me.

So I let it burn. Let the rage curl under my skin. For her. Because she was the only thing that holds me together, and if I break, I don't know if I'll ever put myself back

Every so often, I ran my fingers through her hair, pressing light, absentminded strokes down the length of her back

She had cried herself to exhaustion. Shaken, broken, falling apart right in front of me. And yet, in the end, she had let me hold her. She had let herself fall asleep in my arms.

alone was enough

and each rise and fall of her

she wanted out. Even though she didn't have a choice here, I was beginning to enjoy the fact that she was learning to open up to me willingly and that one day, she'd wholeheartedly accept what I

to wake up because my surprise

I have to break you to keep you with me, I will." I whispered to her while she slept. I'd die if she ever left me. She didn't

world, my life, all

lips, her brows pinching slightly before her lashes fluttered open. For a moment, she just lay there, blinking in confusion as

Chapter 69

small, lazy thing. Barely there. But real. "I

you can ruin this surprise, love." I pressed a lingering kiss to her forehead, letting my lips rest there for a heartbeat longer than necessary. She still

away, she peered up at me,

"So... where is it?"

the ghost of a smirk

cheer up because my

face, she lifted her weight

of my white shirt,

Silence.

sound, like the air had been

or turn. I just let her take

first. She was hesitant and

down the detailed lines,

the massive wolf that sprawled across my

found herself nestled right in the center of

sound escaped

my spine. Her body shook as she exhaled, and

Tears

voice broke, and my gut twisted painfully at the sheer emotion in

she reached up and cupped my face in her hands, forcing me to

tears, wide and disbelieving. Her lower lip trembled as she searched my face like she was trying to find

my cheekbones, "How?"

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