Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 117

Chapter 117

KESTER.

I went for a run. Something I hadn't done outside the confines of my home gym in

a long time. But today, it felt like the whole house was closing in on me, and I needed a breath of fresh air.

I ran until my lungs burned, until the early morning air felt like razor against my skin, until the world blurred into nothing.

Two days.

Forty-eight fucking hours.

And Kasmine hadn't stepped foot outside her room, neither had she opened the door for me or anyone else aside from her favorite maid who takes her meals to her and comes out with them untouched.

I was losing my mind.

It was just five more days until I was shackled to an engagement I didn't even want, and I wasn't even prepared for it.

When Kasmine barged into my room and found me and June in that awkward

position, I heard her saying something about picking a date. She must have come across the whole engagement thing on social media, all thanks to June.

If only she'd let me explain myself, she'd see that it's all just a big

misunderstanding.

I pushed the door open and stopped in my tracks when I heard familiar voices coming from the dining area.

The fuck?

They were actually laughing?

Just when I thought my morning couldn't get any worse after finding out that an important document containing our acquisition proposal for my investors for the acquisition of the Elvric systems - One of the best multi-million Dollar artificial intelligence that would boost my technologies and gadgets for a better user experience has been leaked to Kex.

How did it happen when I already had the one person I suspected in my basement?

I didn't want to believe I had more moles in my company than one. It would hurt my intelligence and pride.

I had to deal with that later today.

As I stepped into the living room, I turned in the direction of the voices, and to my greatest disappointment, I saw Karina having breakfast in my fucking house.

A laugh almost slipped out.

Not because anything about this was funny, No.

But because there was something so perfectly absurd about walking into my own house and finding her sitting at my dining table, sipping coffee like it was her birthright.

spent the better part of her miserable

And beside her?

my father... Eating, Laughing.

My spine went right

a few long strides and stopped before

was the first to notice. She turned her head, a smirk already curling at

she even

you too,

I didn't acknowledge her.

Not even a glance.

She wasn't worth it.

on the man across from

"Explain."

One word. Flat, Cold.

coffee down carefully, "Karina has some

calm as ever. "She'll be staying here for a little

I scoffed loudly.

a chair, crossing my arms over my chest. "Of course," I drawled. "Because nothing screams good decision-making like inviting a woman who has been fighting for my Alpha position into the pack.

face, but it was gone before

word on

the kind of family who stab us in the

sighed dramatically, tapping a manicured nail

I am right here."

1 ignored her again.

won't be staying here,"

mine, "This is still my

Silence

Long, thick silence.

as if the conversation was already over. And with a casual sip of his coffee, he said

Karina is also my

that had been bubbling

Amused. Poisoned at the

to my full height,

with something between pity

and disbelief.

Chapter 11

are a fool, old

of what was come for his beloved daughter. I hard all it takes to get her out of this house. I could have snapped my fingers and had her dragged out before she even had the chance to

Where is the

things easier for me. Brought my plans Hight to my doorstep, wrapped in the golden opportunity of

And Karina?

too blinded by arrogance, too drenched in self-importance, to see the noose tightening around

where I knew Karina would be at the moment. There was just a

teetered on the edge of devotion