Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 138

Chapter 140

KASMINE.

"Hey babe," A voice sounded behind me as a warm hand wrapped around my waist from behind.

I almost jumped out of my skin.

"Jake! You scared me!" I sighed, placing my hand against my chest.

He chuckled softly, brushing a loose strand of hair from my face. "Why would you be scared in a hall full of people?" he teased, cocking his head with that soft smirk he always wore when he was trying to make me forget how broken things really were. "No one can hurt you here. Relax."

I tried. I really did.

He looked cute tonight, in that signature Jake style-white trousers, snug black T- shirt... Casual. Clean Boy-next

door handsome. The kind of look that once made me feel butterflies just from catching his scent.

Now? The butterflies were barely breathing. Limp-winged Exhausted.

I forced a smile. Forced the ache in my gut to turn into warmth, to find something-anything-in me that still fluttered for him.

"Cheer up, babe," he said gently, his thumb brushing the side of my arm. "You look gorgeous tonight."

His voice dipped, "I wish I could kiss you right now." There was something raw in the way he said it-like he knew time was a thief waiting to snatch me from him.

He sounded nervous... Anxious. And I knew why. Tonight was the night the Moon could decide that I belonged to someone else.

He hated this part of our world.

So did I.

possibility of finding my mate today had been a concern for a few days now. But I kept assuring him

change any..."

already at my side, her hands smoothing down

me, or did the whole world hear the thud my heart made? It sounded like

my knees wobbled with the

on and change," Mum added, pushing me off to the maids who stood waiting

so nervous that if you looked closely, you might see me trembling

hand slipped from

turn back to look

Because if I did-

saw the way he was looking

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might not

cold against my neck

cold that made you shiver. The kind that crawled into your skin and sat there, reminding you that this moment wasn't yours anymore that your body, your future, your soul-belonged to the Moon

Hundreds of wolves, all watching and right now,

of the circle in my ceremonial

I now stood, dressed in the same long robes they always had on when they carried

echoing across the crowd, "we honor Selene's design.

Selene.

feared and loved and worshipped-even when she tore people apart in the name of

the other she-wolves turning twenty-one. There were five of us

hands were ice. Every inch

if anyone said my name too

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