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

each rise and fall of her chest soothed the raw ache inside

though she didn't have a choice here, I was beginning to enjoy the fact that

for her to wake

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

life, all revolved around

a moment, she just lay there, blinking in confusion as if she had forgotten when

Chapter 69

to my absolute fucking relief-she smiled. A small, lazy thing. Barely there. But real. "I

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 smelled like herself-warm,

she peered up at me, her

"So... where is it?"

ghost of a

I teased, forcing myself to cheer up because my heart

beautiful face, she lifted

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

Silence.

breathless sound, like the air

turn. I just let

found me first. She was hesitant and

her hands traced down the detailed lines, following the

wolf that sprawled

nestled right in the center of

sound escaped

again, and then-her forehead pressed against my spine. Her body shook as she exhaled, and

Tears

and my gut twisted painfully

but before I could, she reached up and cupped my face

tears, wide and disbelieving. Her lower lip trembled as she searched my face

cheekbones, "How?" she whispered. "Why

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