Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 219

Chapter 219

Because for the first time in a long time, I realized something I hadn't wanted to admit.

I had fallen for Kester.

And now, there was nothing I could do but watch as he slipped away.

A rapid knock jolted me from the light haze of sleep I'd been slipping into.

I groaned and rolled over, pressing the heel of my palm to my forehead. The

pounding behind my eyes had only gotten worse like someone was hammering nails through my

skull from the inside out.

Who the actual hell?

Another knock-harder and more impatient this time.

お

If that was Mum coming to talk about Jaden again, I swear, I'd slam the door in her face

just like I did the last time. I'd rather let a pack of wolves eat me alive than sit through

another minute with that conceited asshole. The audacity he had to ask for a second date

after humiliating me on the first... Men like him belonged in a museum of red flags.

I dragged the duvet over my head, barely mustering the strength to raise my voice.

"Who..." I was about to ask but paused abruptly when I heard the voice behind the door.

you don't

Kester.

He sounded angry.

there

again, quieter this time... That quietness from him that

before the storm.

chest

could do was stare at the

the headache or the nausea that hit me harder... or the

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Chapter 219

settle back into the bed, I heard

What the hell?

loud I nearly fell off

in sheets and my small, casual wear – a gown that

the entire

a jolt of electricity. I just recalled now that Mum and Dad weren't home, and

Thud.

rushing to the door, my bare feet smacking against the floor as dizziness swirled in

it and yanked it open, fury hot in my

even finished leaving

hard enough to steal my breath and slammed the

with an echoing click.

Then he locked it.

He locked it.

"What the-"

he turned around with dark eyes and

he was holding back

I hissed, trying to keep it together even though my

ribs. "You can't just-bust