Chapter 208

Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 208

KASMINE.

"She doesn't need to be disturbed. Bring her breakfast here. Clean the room later." I thought I heard those in my subconscious.

My body ached, every inch of me sore and sluggish as if I had been wrung dry and left to mend on its own. A sharp ache pulsed through my temples, cutting off the remnants of

sleep.

My body felt so foreign.

The door clicked shut, but the sleep still kept me under until I heard another set of words from the same voice.

"Lock him up in the basement."

With those words, my lashes immédiately fluttered, forcing my vision into focus.

Kester.

He was strolling back into the room, bare-chested, wearing only his trousers, the dim morning light casting shadows across the ridges of his toned frame. He looked every bit the man who had unraveled me last night.

He had his phone in his hands.

"Who are you locking up in what basement?" I whispered, as that was all my voice allowed me to do.

My heart picked up speed at once.

I tried to sit up, only for a sharp, searing pain to lance through my thighs, my core, and my bones. A startled whimper escaped my lips as I collapsed back onto the pillows.

"Didn't I say you wouldn't be using your legs for two days, baby?" His voice was deep, edged with satisfaction.

"Who..." I tried to ask again, but he only smiled.

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trust me."

for any more

"But..."

worry about." He said through gritted

my throat parched. "Kester..." My voice came out

more than a rasp.

softened as he settled beside me on the bed, fingers threading gently through my hair. "You're finally awake," he murmured as if we hadn't just almost gotten into an argument and

last night... I just—” He exhaled, jaw tensing.

forced a weak chuckle, though even that small effort made my body protest. "I asked for it,” I admitted, my lips curling faintly.

amused, but the expression didn't quite reach his

me, his thumb still tracing

today,"

too drained to say

were silent for a while before

you find

voice was even, but I wasn't fooled. There was a tightly coiled restraint beneath it,

sheer force of will. And something told

have been this calm if it were someone else who had made him this

to see

my spine at the topic he decided to choose for

this eventually, but why did it have to

were still in the Maldives," I

through his hair, his expression darkening before

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"Fuck."

control himself. Then, he turned his gaze back to me, pinning me under

did you go on a date with him?" His tone was eerily calm, his fingers still threading through my hair, but the edge beneath his words made my breath hitch. "You

tell me

way he physically controls his anger

was

the most dangerous

busy lately, Kes. Your

too sour. I couldn't bring myself to anger you more..." I

but there was not even a crack in his expression. He just stared

me.

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