Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 142

KASMINE

My legs propelled me before my brain had the time to think I ran as fast as I could into the crowd.

All I could feel was him. That magnetic, horrifying pull closing in like a vice around my ribs.

I reached for Jake and pulled him by his arm. He was the closest person I could find. Claire was nowhere to be found.

"Jake. Jake. Come." I couldn't even form the words I wanted to say.

"What-babe, what's going on?" he stammered, confused, half-turning toward me.

1 didn't answer. I just yanked him with everything I had, dragging him out of the crowd and into the parking lot like the devil himself was behind us.

Because he was

I felt Kester's presence closing in on us like smoke. It was so fast that my heart almost jumped out of my mouth. His scent grew stronger, too. And it was mixed with fury and danger.

Panic clawed up my throat.

"Jake!" I practically threw myself into the passenger seat of his car-the old, beat- up piece of junk his uncle barely lets him drive. I didn't care. I slammed the door shut like it might keep a monster out.

"Drive! Just drive!" I screamed.

hands were shaking as he fumbled the keys, his heart pounding so loudly that I could hear it. "Okay okay, okay, okay," he muttered, more

yanked the car out of the lot and

out the rear windshield, expecting to see a

1. US.

I knew him

wouldn't just

came for us he'd catch

Jake asked, panic threading through his nervous words. Poor Jake. Always caught in

a broken voice, Just drive, Jake. Please. Anywhere. Just take me far away

was crying until

was trembling so

hands clenched my thighs. My

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bitchy than I had ever heard it to be. Despite myself, I

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me to deal with. And for the first time in my life, I didn't know how far I could nun

Because the truth was-

I had ever really escaped him at

an hour as Jake

deserted stretch of road. The Oval Motel. Nothing but gravel

of security, knowing that it was

name. Just in case, somehow, Kester finds the motel. He wouldn't know I was there. 1 Inside, I collapsed onto the worn-out bed. My limbs felt like stone,