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

tickled my collarbone, and each rise and fall of

have a choice here, I was beginning to enjoy the fact that she was

waited eagerly for her to wake up because

like she did. Even if I have to break you to keep you with me, I will." I whispered to her while she

life, all revolved

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

Chapter 69

lazy thing. Barely there. But real. "I thought I had ruined the surprise you had for

"Not even a hundred of you can ruin this surprise, love." I pressed a lingering kiss to her forehead, letting my lips rest there for

away, she peered up

"So... where is it?"

her gaze, letting the ghost of a smirk play on my lips. You're laying right

myself to cheer

face, she lifted

bed. My fingers found the hem of my white shirt,

Silence.

a gasp.. A sharp, breathless sound, like the air had been stolen from

turn. I just let her take it

first. She was hesitant

traced down the detailed

massive wolf that sprawled

nestled right in the center of

sound escaped her

my spine. Her body shook as she exhaled, and

Tears

my gut twisted painfully at

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

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

"How?" she whispered. "Why would you

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