Chapter 169

KESTER.

She was still standing there. She fucking

Lood like she could fucking fix me.

The fear in her eyes faded too fast, dissolving into something worse. Something sickly.

Concern.

What was she? Kasmine? My mother? Some fucking saint who thought she could put me back together, piece by piece, like it was her duty?

"Kester," She whispered, ignoring the blood dripping out of her face. She wasn't healing just yet. How would she heal when the pieces of glass were still in her flesh, and all she

cared about was me?

She should have been backing away, pressing her hands to her wounds, pulling the shards. out-something, anything.

But no. She stood there.

She wouldn't move. Wouldn't cry. Wouldn't flinch.

I wanted her to flinch.

I wanted her to stop looking at me like that... Like she could still see something in me that wasn't already rotting.

Blood streaked down her cheek, down her arm, onto the floor-staining the fucking floor.

Like if she tried hard enough, if she held on long enough, I'd give a damn about something other than wanting to tear her apart.

She reeked of rotten desperation.

A muscle jumped in my jaw. My fingers twitched. My skin burned, too tight over my

bones.

and, fuck! No one told me June

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the table-fingers so tight around it my knuckles burned.

CRACK.

hit the wall. Pieces of

Fuck. Out." I counted my words through gritted

step forward, and her whole body tensed. The stupid, desperate look in

Perfect.

your

it home for a funeral,"

and she sucked in a sharp breath, her

sorry..." She trembled so

her by her throat when

"Kester!"

It was Kasmine.

ice. I jerked, my momentum halting just

her worried eyes frantically taking in the room-the shattered phone, the

lips parted, a

My stomach dropped.

No. No, no, no.

ever. Not after the last outburst I had when we were younger. I lost control and ended up locked away

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of my supposed

when I nodded, when I played their fucking game-they signed me off

a little

me on

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