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.

fuck! No one told me June had

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the table-fingers

CRACK.

wall. Pieces

The. Fuck. Out." I counted my

tensed. The stupid, desperate look in her eyes flickered, replaced

Perfect.

your

corpse won't even make it home for a funeral," I

she sucked in

She trembled so

had lifted my hand to grab her by her throat when suddenly,

"Kester!"

It was Kasmine.

ice. I jerked, my momentum halting just before

frantically taking in the room-the shattered phone,

lips parted, a

My stomach dropped.

No. No, no, no.

younger. I lost control and ended up locked away

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depth of my

smiled, when I nodded, when I played

that a little bit

me on

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