Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 186

Chapter 186

KESTER.

"Leave us," I said to Lance, James, and Dylan.

They hesitated for a fraction of a second-perhaps debating whether it was wise to leave me alone with her. But one deathly look from me sent them moving. The door clicked shut behind them.

I leaned back, studying her as she moved with that aura about her-the kind that suggested she belonged anywhere she pleased.

She sat down.

Bold of her.

I hadn't even offered her a seat.

"It's been a while," she mused, tilting her head just slightly, her gaze raking over me. "You've grown into a fine young man, Kester."

Her voice was smooth, like fine silk wrapped around a blade.

Her short, blonde hair still looked as silky as I remembered, only, this time, it was more well taken care of. Because the last time I had that hair wrapped in my hands, it took a good number of able-bodied men to tear her away from my grip. I left it in a mess.

"Good thing you've had your hair fixed, Karina," I murmured, my tone as empty as my patience, “I see your hair isn't the only thing you've fixed. Your audacity is back in perfect

condition as well."

"There isn't a single thing money can not fix, little brother," She replied smoothly. Little brother.

The words grated like rusted steel against my ears.

I wasn't little.

I wasn't her brother.

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She was my father's bastard. A stain on our family. Born two years before me to

the whore who had poisoned my parents' marriage beyond repair.

I hated her with every fiber of my being. She was as cunning and soulless as the

woman

who birthed her.

the last word,. relishing the look of anger on her face. "Too

smile I remembered from years ago,

a room, waiting to

I wasn't seventeen

she said in

casual reunion between long-lost

slow smirk to curl my lips. "Oh, I'm surprised, Karina,” I said, watching the

with the buttons of her blazer. "I was under the impression that corpsest didn't just stroll into my office

corner of her mouth twitched, but she

to

Funny," she murmured, "Seventeen years old, shaking with rage, your hands wrapped around my throat, the other around my hair- what

said to me that night?" She tapped a finger to her lips,

My jaw clenched.

what I'd said to her like it

told her that she should never have been born. That her existence

And that I would do what my father hadn't had the balls

-erase her.

And I had tried.

her before I could finish what

vanished.

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Until now.

said, my voice low and smooth. "But then again, I suppose you would. Dying tends to be a memorable

head. "Kester, Kester, Kester," she tsked, leaning forward. "Still the same cruel little boy, aren't

psychiatry."

Fuck.

again. Stirring my demons and

one who always, always pushed me.

her, and I'd kill her even before she had the chance

my pack.

her insults, "And you're

with just her presence. "I barely made it out that night. I had to crawl my way out of this

I said nothing.

look at me now," she continued, dragging her fingers along the armrest of the chair. "Alive. Thriving. And back

didn't say a word. I watched her make a

has already started the process, Kester. The pack has