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.

she's been begging me to tell her what's wrong with

way I'd stare off into space like

she still made me tea. Held my hair back when I threw up. Gave me her

of safe I didn't think

she'd be strong. Kind. Beautiful. Pierce. Everything

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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 in

that she'd cover for me. She made me

when your world

feels like a

moved in hours. Just curled up sideways on the couch, a blanket bunched near my

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

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

UNKNOWN NUMBER

thumb hovered over the screen. Something about it made my heart twitch.

I opened the message.

And my soul dropped.

one knows about your little secret with your brother? Well, I do. Tick-tock,

been punched from the inside. I couldn't move.

trembling fingers scrolled down, and I gasped audibly when I saw the photo that

of me and Kester in his office... Kissing.

my hair. My eyes shut. His thumb brushed the side of my neck while his other hand

clapped a trembling hand over my mouth. The phone slipped from my grasp

thud.

I

This couldn't be happening

night we had been alone in his office. No

of nausea swept through me, and I clutched

scrambled for answers. Who

Karina!

was her, she'd be louder and dramatic. She'd want to

smarter. Someone who had more access

But who?

I whispered, hugging my knees to my chest, rocking slightly with my eyes

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stop

torrent of tears already flooding

I couldn't breathe.

I couldn't even think.