Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 133

Chapter 133

KASMINE.

"Miss? Miss? Are you okay?" A soft, feminine voice filtered into my haze. My eyelids fought me as I forced them open, squinting against the harsh strip lights above. My face was sticky with dried tears, and my throat felt like sandpaper.

“Uh.... Yeah..." I croaked, barely recognizing my own voice, my confusion colliding with panic. Where... Where was

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Oh, shit! I was still in the convenience. I sat on the floor and cried until I dozed off.

"Are you sure you are okay, ma'am?" The lady spoke again, and I took in her appearance. She was a janitor.

She stood a few feet away, mop in hand, her brow pulled together with concern. Her blue uniform looked like it. had seen too many shifts and not enough sleep, but her voice was kind and soft.

I didn't respond. I pushed myself off the floor, wobbling on unsteady legs, ignoring the way she instinctively. reached out like she thought I might faint again. I glanced at my phone.

Fifty-two minutes. I had been out cold for almost an hour.

Fuck

My legs jolted into action. I didn't even acknowledge the janitor as I stumbled past her. My heels clacked awkwardly on the floor as I all but ran out of the

convenience store, heart hammering like it was trying to punch its way out of my chest. 1

'Get out. Just get out. Go home. Go anywhere but here.'

I pushed through the glass doors of the venue and was immediately met with the roar of applause from inside the main hall.

My heart froze when

My heart froze when I saw Kester and June.

He was kissing her.

was on her

up, her lips molded to his, and the crowd clapped louder, some people even standing to cheer. Then she pulled back, giggling

the light and throwing it straight into my fucking face. My stomach lurched. I felt the bile

switched my birth control, you sick fucks! He got

shoulders and shake her. Ask her if she knew what

stood there. Shaking so hard I felt

something cheesy about love being in the air, and people laughed, wineglasses clinking as the music came back on. Rester and June descended from the stage, hand in hand, ready to greet the

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with rough swipes before turning and heading

more than five minutes when I saw Kester just ahead of me, leaning against a

of speed I didn't have

ignored his very presence and tried to walk

what's wrong?" He asked, and my

word. Mine. I hated it now with every fiber in

shaking from the inside out. He had that familiar crease between his brows-concern, confusion, that same stupid calm he wore every time he tried to manipulate me into thinking

say a

side. My palm stung like hell, but I didn't regret

turning back to face me. His

How could you do that to me? You switched my birth control pills, Kester! What the hell is wrong with you?!" I stepped back,

didn't even flinch. His

casually it made me nauseous-he asked in the calmest voice ever, like it was the most natural question in the world,

My heart felt

all you care about?" My voice broke. "You ruin me,

about is if your

His expression

creeping up my throat.

as if he

disgusted to respond. My silence must've

closer, but I

direction," I

to walk away with my heart racing, but his hand