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 to unmake

tickled my collarbone, and each rise and fall of her

said she wanted out. Even though she didn't have a choice here, I was beginning to enjoy the fact that

for her to wake up

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

world, my life, all

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

Chapter 69

Barely there. But real. "I

faintly amused. "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 a heartbeat longer than necessary. She still smelled

up at me, her

"So... where is it?"

gaze, letting the ghost of a smirk play

teased, forcing myself to cheer up because my heart was

beautiful face,

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

Silence.

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

speak or turn. I just let her

found me first. She was

hands traced down

that sprawled across

nestled right in the center of the tattoo,

choked sound

bed shift again, and then-her forehead pressed against my spine. Her body shook as she exhaled, and something wet hit my

Tears

and my gut twisted painfully at the

up and cupped my face in her hands,

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

my cheekbones, "How?" she whispered. "Why would you

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