Chapter 148

Chapter 148

KESTER.

June's laughter followed after the silence.

I didn't react.

But I felt the slow burn crawling up my spine. It wasn't anger or fear. Just a quiet, dangerous fucking fury that pressed like cold steel behind my ribs.

"You think I'm stupid?" she asked, lifting her head, chin tilted with a smirk that told me she thought she'd won.

I didn't answer. I just looked at her.

"I've seen the signs for months, honey," she continued. "Hell, I saw the signs long before you can ever even imagine. But I said nothing"

I tilted my head just slightly. "What signs?"

She laughed again, slowly walking away from the table, pacing like she was giving a TED talk about betrayal. " Don't play dumb, Kester. You know exactly what the fuck I'm talking about.”

My silence was its own kind of answer.

She turned sharply. "You've been fucking your stepsister."

I didn't flinch. I didn't give her the satisfaction. But my hand curled into a fist by my side.

"I saw you," she continued, almost as if she was cutting herself with her own words but enjoying the pain anyway. "In your office. Her knees were on the fucking desk. Your shirt off. Her dress hiked up."

She stepped closer.

wasn't the only

still said nothing, but

seen you two more times than I can count. In Maldives. In this house... You forgot there is a fucking hole on your

hole, I thought it was hidden in plain sight. But of course, she found it. And I hoped she enjoyed the spectacle of watching

her? Like you'd burn the fucking world down just to touch her." Her voice dropped to a bitter murmur, "I loved you, you piece

looked up at her. Her eyes

"Even when everything in me said I shouldn't. Even when I saw the tattoo on your back that night. You remember, don't you? You were

you."

She saw that, too? The night, I was too exhausted to notice

once we were engaged, you'd forget her. That

I was quiet.

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for your love, June,"

loved you either way," She looked at

I shrugged, but something in my expression must've

call this off? No. No, Kester. If you so much as breathe about this to the press-if you even try the

She leaned in.

little empire will survive that? Her

reached for the whiskey

She blinked. "Because I've had more than enough of this

think this is a performance?" she hissed. "I sent that

saw it. That split second where everything inside me went still. And she leaned in like a fucking predator. She tilted her head

"Just to shake her bit, and I am certain as

ringing in my ears came like a freight train. I

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