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.

that wasn't

still said nothing, but she

is a fucking hole

totally forgot about that hole, I thought it was hidden in plain sight. But of course, she found it. And I

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

finally looked up at

I saw the tattoo on your back that night. You remember, don't you? You were bare.

you."

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

win you over," she said. "That once we

I was quiet.

Chapter 148

June," I

you either way," She looked at

something in my expression

press-if you even try the entire world will know that the great Kester

She leaned in.

survive that? Her perfume

reached for the

had

hissed. "I sent that recording to Kasmine already," she said. My

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

who just drew blood. "Just to shake

like a freight train. I didn't think I

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