Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 135

Chapter 135

KASMINE

I swear I had no idea how to navigate my life at this point. I stared blankly at my phone, my eyes dry from too much scrolling, too many tabs open, and a lot of funny search history

Do women die from abortion?

What are the chances of dying during an abortion?

Is childbirth easy?

Pregnancy symptoms and how to live through them for nine months.

How to run away while pregnant.

Can shame kill you before labor does?

not just in the browser, but in my mind.

I couldn't tell if I was more afraid of the answers or the fact that I was even asking them. Every question felt like a war drum against my chest.

I was stuck between two impossible roads - risking my life to get rid of it and actually keeping it but running far away from the pack to a place where no one knew me, where no one would look at me and call me a disgrace. Because that's what this was, wasn't it?

An abomination. A secret sin growing inside me.

My parents would never recover from this. The pack would shame me until I wished for death.

And my friends?

No.

I couldn't face them.

I stared blankly at the TV, which had been showing a news station for hours now

without the volume. I was totally uninterested in whatever was being said or shown, but images on the screen made me feel a bit safe, almost like a reassurance that I wasn't home alone.

Claire had been nothing short of amazing since I came here to stay with her.

Thank God her parents have been away on a vacation. It's their anniversary, and they sure knew how to celebrate it.

me to tell her what's wrong with me, and I've refused, she's been taking care of

my eyes, the sudden nausea, the way I'd stare off into space like I was trying to

nothing, she still made me tea. Held my hair back when I threw up. Gave

of safe I didn't think

wait to meet her. I hoped she'd be strong. Kind. Beautiful. Pierce. Everything I didn't feel like right now. I needed her. I could really use a close companion at this point in

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manner of threats to me, asking me to come home and, at least, join them in the preparation, but

me not to worry that she'd cover for me. She made

how do you rest when your world

body feels

curled up sideways on the couch, a blanket

up against the dimming room, its glow stabbing through the semi-dark room. I

check-in from Claire. Or maybe one last guilt-tripping paragraph from Mum, warning me about the sanctity" of tomorrow. But

UNKNOWN NUMBER

over the screen. Something about

I opened the message.

And my soul dropped.

little secret with your brother? Well, I do. Tick-tock, sweetheart. I'm closer than you

felt like I'd been punched

and I gasped audibly when I saw

Kester in his office... Kissing. No. Not

my hair. My eyes shut. His thumb brushed the side

The phone slipped from

thud.

no..." I whispered, curling

This couldn't be happening

been alone in his office. No one had been there except

fresh wave of nausea swept through me, and I

scrambled for answers. Who could have

Karina!

if it was her, she'd be louder and dramatic. She'd

and smarter. Someone who had

But who?

hugging my knees to my chest, rocking slightly with my eyes closed

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stop

of tears already

I couldn't breathe.

I couldn't even think.