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?

document containing our acquisition proposal for my investors for the acquisition of the

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would boost my technologies and gadgets for a better user

been leaked

happen when I already had the

moles in my company

intelligence and pride.

to deal with that later

the voices, and to

laugh almost slipped

about this

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

hadn't spent the better part of

against me.

And beside her?

man who was supposed to be my

they found

My spine went rigid.

room in a few long

the first to notice. She turned her head, a smirk already curling at

even

too, sunshine.” Her

I didn't acknowledge her.

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