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

nothing, but

I can count. In Maldives. In this house... You forgot there is a fucking

thought it was hidden in plain sight. But of course, she found it. And I hoped she

you look at 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 of

up at her. Her

voice rising again. "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."

night, I was too exhausted to

win you over," she said. "That once we were engaged, you'd forget her. That you'd finally see me and

I was quiet.

Chapter 148

June," I said coldly, and

loved you either way,"

you. Not me." I shrugged, but something in my expression must've

off? No. No, Kester. If you so much as breathe about this to the press-if you even try the entire world will know that the great Kester Hamilton, Alpha of the Blood Crescent pack, has

She leaned in.

precious little empire will survive that? Her perfume was

for the whiskey

blinked. "Because I've had more

this is a performance?" she hissed. "I sent that recording to Kasmine already," she

went still. And she leaned in like

shake her bit, and I am certain as

a freight

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