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.

rotting around me - because

that dry, unimpressed laugh you let slip

Jaden:

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

I promise not to interrogate you like you're applying to be my next

I wore something decent tonight. No cape.

least, judging from the fact that things between us had turned this sour and he was finally getting engaged to June, soon

rotted past the point of repair, and even if they hadn't,

Jaden. He was nothing more than a means to an end tonight. A temporary distraction dressed in bad apologies and

more into

for him. And I think I love now my boyfriend, wasn't he? And who knows?

wild storms, but something close to calm waters. That

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though it seemed like they were fast asleep or in a coma. They had to learn to flutter whenever I thought about Jake. They

gradually take my mind off him and whatever these stupid feelings are that have vehemently

conversations were 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

around his made nausea rise to my throat, but I gulped it down with the glass of

I checked the time.

8:04 PM.