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

stare off into space like

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

safe I

meet her. I hoped she'd be

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had decided to go and help Mum out with the preparation for tomorrow. Mum had called and texted and said all manner of threats to me, asking me to come home and, at least, join them in the preparation, but I didn't reply. So Claire had to go

to worry that she'd cover for me. She made

how do you rest when your world is slowly caving in around

your body feels

sideways

up against the dimming room, its glow stabbing through the semi-dark room. I blinked, then slowly reached over, arm sluggish as if my bones had

last guilt-tripping paragraph from Mum, warning

UNKNOWN NUMBER

over the screen. Something about it made

I opened the message.

And my soul dropped.

little bitch. You think no one knows about your little secret with your brother? Well, I do. Tick-tock, sweetheart. I'm

chest tightened so fast it felt like I'd been punched from the inside. I

and I gasped audibly when I saw the photo that

and Kester in

threaded into my hair. My eyes shut. His

a trembling hand over my mouth. The phone slipped from my grasp and landed on the

thud.

no, no..." I whispered, curling

This couldn't be happening

his office. No one had been there except

nausea swept through me, and I clutched

answers. Who could have taken

Karina!

just got back. She'd barely been around. And if it was her, she'd be louder and dramatic. She'd want

was someone quieter and smarter. Someone who had more access to us than

But who?

hugging my knees to my chest,

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stop

tears already

I couldn't breathe.

I couldn't even think.