Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 214

KESTER.

I went for a run. Something I hadn't done outside the confines of my home gym in

a long time. But today, it felt like the whole house was closing in on me, and I needed a breath of fresh air.

I ran until my lungs burned, until the early morning air felt like razor against my skin, until the world blurred into nothing.

Two days.

Forty-eight fucking hours.

And Kasmine hadn't stepped foot outside her room, neither had she opened the door for me or anyone else aside from her favorite maid who takes her meals to her and comes out with them untouched.

I was losing my mind.

It was just five more days until I was shackled to an engagement I didn't even want, and I wasn't even prepared for it.

When Kasmine barged into my room and found me and June in that awkward position, I heard her saying something about picking a date. She must have come across the whole engagement thing on social media, all thanks to June.

If only she'd let me explain myself, she'd see that it's all just a big

misunderstanding.

I pushed the door open and stopped in my tracks when I heard familiar voices coming from the dining area.

The fuck?

They were actually laughing?

finding out that an important document containing our acquisition proposal for my investors for the acquisition of the Elvric systems

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boost my technologies and gadgets

leaked

it happen when I already had the

more moles

intelligence and pride.

deal

the direction of the voices,

almost slipped

because anything about this was funny.

was something so perfectly absurd about walking into my own house and finding her sitting at my dining table, sipping coffee like

almost felt like she hadn't spent the better part

against me.

And beside her?

was supposed to be my

found so damn

My spine went rigid.

crossed the room in a few

She turned her head, a

even met

too, sunshine.” Her

I didn't acknowledge her.