Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 147

Chapter 149

hapter 149

KASMINE.

We had to move. There was a tightening in my gut and a pull of dread that refused to loosen.

I didn't trust Kester. Perhaps he must have followed us last night without us

knowing. Or he even had someone do the following. Maybe that was how he got to know our location.

We had left as soon as Jake returned from getting me some new clothes, a toothbrush, toiletries, and little thoughtful things he knew I'd be needing that made me want to cry because he knew without being told.

See why I had to love Jake? He was gentle in ways I didn't know I craved. Attentive in moments most people would overlook. He was so kind, loving and caring.

The new motel was small, almost tucked away from the world, sitting quietly on the edge of nowhere, and it was really far from the previous one.

Since we moved here, I felt more at peace. It was almost seven PM, and there have been no calls or

Kester yet.

Good.

texts from

I shifted beneath the thin motel sheets and winced. My body no longer felt like my own. I was cold and achy. My limbs were heavy like I'd been stitched together with lead. The pressure in my head was building, and my stomach twisted with a cocktail of nausea and hunger.

God, I needed help. Real help. A doctor. A hospital. Something stronger than Jake's kindness and this four-wall cocoon we were hiding in.

“Jake?” I murmured, propping myself up on my elbows. The room tilted slightly. My throat was dry, and my skin felt too tight for my bones.

He didn't answer immediately.

“Uh... yeah, babe," he finally said with his voice far off and his eyes still glued to the phone screen while his thumb froze mid-scroll.

He'd been like that since last night. Completely absorbed in whatever was on that phone-his body here, but his mind... somewhere else.

He hadn't touched me. He barely even offered a smile. Hadn't even looked me in the eye for more than a second. And that hurt more than I was ready to admit.

And worst of it all, he seemed... Troubled?

but it seems my hormones are really messing with me. Maybe it was nothing. Maybe he just had some personal

already. I was at the peak of my

doing? You've been on your phone all night and all day," I asked

too quickly, like he was guilty. "It's nothing Just-personal stuff” He tried to smile, but the comers

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was tense. I could feel

been yourself all day. Talk to me," I sat up and leaned forward, the room spinning just slightly again. “Are you in some kind

and his fingers curled tightly into the edge of

something. And

honey. Let's just... What would you like to eat?" He changed the

respond to Jake's change of subject. I just reached for

trembling a little. The screen lit

notification. A news

I saw one

Read it again. Karina Wes Karmen was apprehended

during a

raid.

ignoring the pounding in

I said slowly, "she was

at me with furrowed brows as he reached for the

breath. "That's...

voice that wasn't shock

bad?" I

drugs, her arrest carme as a

breath. Although I

more like her arrest opening up a

spoke again, "Did you

made my chest

length to take anyone down. One hundred fifty million was fair compared to what

of.

he stared at the wall like it could explain the chaos he was narrating, "No one. knows about it just yet. Kex is keeping it under for now; otherwise, his investors will

know him. "Jake... If it's still

have a source," he said too quickly, as if he had just realized he had said something he shouldn't say. "Reliable. Very close

feeling building behind my ribs. "What kind of source?" I asked.

chuckle. “Babe, please. I have friends in high places. You

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