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 the only

said nothing, but she

In this house... You forgot there is a fucking hole on your

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

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

up at her. Her

voice rising again. "Even when everything in me said I shouldn't. Even when I saw the tattoo

you."

night, I was too exhausted to notice she was

she said. "That once we were engaged,

I was quiet.

Chapter 148

didn't ask for your love, June," I said coldly,

either way," She looked at me

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

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

She leaned in.

that? Her perfume

slowly, then reached for the

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

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

still. And she leaned in like a fucking predator. She tilted her head

shake her bit, and I am certain as

ringing in my ears came like a freight

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