Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 190

"Alright, I said finally, rising to my feet. "But we're talking later. In your room. Don't think I'm letting this slide."

She nodded, but her eyes flickered briefly toward my father before she looked down again.

My irritation spiked.

I turned toward the staircase, deciding that I'd get to the bottom of this later, but before I could take a single step-

"Have you scheduled a meeting with June's father yet?"

was the

His voice was smooth and indifferent, but the way he said it-like it only thing that mattered at this point-sent a slow wave of ice down my spine.

I scoffed, turning back to face him, my lips curling into something between amusement and disgust.

"That's what you're concerned about?" I tilted my head slightly, mockery dripping from every syllable. "Not the bastard daughter who just showed up out of nowhere?"

His frown deepened, but he said nothing.

Typical.

I let out a low chuckle, shaking my head. "You should have really learned to handle your women better, old man. You got sloppy even before growing old."

My father's grip on his glass tightened, the fine crystal barely containing the force behind his knuckles. His jaw clenched, and for a second, I almost hoped he'd throw the damn. drink at me.

break his jaw and some other vital joints in

out a slow, controlled breath-the kind he always took when he was barely keeping himself together. "Kester," he

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a slow step

a wounded prey. "You'll finally grow a spine and do something about it? Please."

his eyes cold enough to burn. "You don't get to speak to

that way."

"And the

quiet. As he should

you one of the fools entertaining that nonsense,

into something between irritation and genuine disgust.

for him to continue, but he didn't. He simply took another sip of his whiskey like the conversation

supporting her, why does she have enough balls to think she

beat too long. He

finally-"Because she

I stilled. "From who?"

taking another slow

mate."

through me. "She has a mate?" I was

rage that I

"Alpha Wes."