Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 228

Chapter 228

KASMINE.

I didn't want to be down here.

God, I really didn't.

Every fiber in me screamed to stay tucked away in the safety of my room, buried under the warmth of silence and solitude. But I threw that choice away the moment I glanced at my phone and saw his name lighting up my screen again.

Jaden.

I'd been ignoring his calls for days-pressing decline like a reflex, almost like breathing. He must've finally gotten the message because he stopped calling and started texting instead.

Persistent bastard.

And maybe whatever deity decided to touch him with a bit of remorse didn't quite finish the job because despite the fact that he was trying to apologize for how our first date went, he still had that sprinkle of arrogance like a perfume he refused to wash off.

It was... irritating.

And oddly entertaining.

was a good distraction reading his texts - a stupid, oddly timed, mildly amusing distraction in a world where everything else felt like it was rotting around me - because they made me laugh, even though his texts weren't

unimpressed laugh you let slip

Jaden:

"Okay, I might've been a bit of an ass. Maybe just a teaspoon. Definitely

to interrogate you like

tonight. No cape. No crown. I

judging from the fact that things between us had turned this sour and he was finally getting engaged to June, soon to have a perfect fairytale ending I would never

us had rotted past the point of repair, and even if they hadn't, this silence and distance between us was enough to bury

Jaden. He was nothing more than a means to an end tonight. A

fit more into him,

wanted, I could settle for him. And I think I

good connection... No fireworks, no wild storms, but something close to calm waters. That had

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even though it seemed like they were fast asleep or in a coma. They had to learn to flutter whenever I thought about Jake. They shouldn't be taught how

the best I could do for myself would be to gradually take my mind off him and whatever these

dry the wine too bitter, the food tasteless, Karina's presence disturbing-but nothing was as nauseating as watching June and Kester sit so close together like it

he cared about my health earlier with June's hands wrapped around his made nausea rise

I checked the time.

8:04 PM.