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?

get any worse after finding out that an important document containing our acquisition proposal for my investors

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my technologies and

been leaked

already had the one person I suspected in

had more moles in

intelligence and pride.

to deal

of the voices, and to my greatest disappointment, I saw Karina having breakfast

almost slipped

anything about this

something so perfectly absurd about walking into my own house and

she hadn't spent the

against me.

And beside her?

be

they found so

My spine went rigid.

a few

notice. She turned her head,

she even

too, sunshine.” Her voice dripped

I didn't acknowledge her.

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