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.

enough

soft breaths tickled my collarbone, and each rise and fall of her chest soothed the

I was beginning to enjoy the fact that she was learning to

eagerly for her to wake up because my surprise still

I won't let you leave like she did. Even if 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 know

my life, all revolved around her

left her lips, her brows pinching slightly before her lashes fluttered open. For a moment, she just lay there,

Chapter 69

Barely there. But real. "I

tugging into something faintly amused. "Not even a hundred of you can ruin this surprise, love." I pressed a lingering kiss to her forehead, letting my lips

I pulled away, she peered up

"So... where is it?"

a smirk play on my lips. You're laying right

baby," I teased, forcing myself to cheer up

confusion etched across her beautiful face, she lifted her weight

of the bed. My fingers found the hem of my white shirt, and without a

Silence.

A sharp, breathless sound, like the air had

didn't speak or turn. I just

trembling fingers found me first. She was hesitant

down the

the massive wolf that

of the tattoo, among

sound escaped her

spine. Her body shook as she

Tears

twisted painfully at the sheer emotion in

turn, but before I could, she reached up and cupped

wide and disbelieving. Her lower lip trembled as she searched my face like she was

my cheekbones, "How?" she whispered.

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