Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 236

Chapter 236

KESTER.

It felt like death was licking at my heels.

The sky outside had been brooding all day-clouds thick and grey. Fiting perfectly with my mood. Almost like the universe knew it, too, that this wasn't a celebration. This was like me attending my own funeral.

My room was quiet and tense. The kind of silence you feel in your gut.

Norlan was seated at the edge of the couch, his palms pressed together and his eyes distant. He looked like he'd just walked out of a car crash. And truth? I didn't look or feel any better.

I stood in front of the mirror, fixing my tie with fingers that wouldn't fucking stop shaking. Each tug felt like it was tightening a noose around my own neck.

Fuck.

I'd never been this nervous in my life. Not even when I was wrongly diagnosed and taken to the psychiatric ward years ago. Not when I gave my first speech in front of the board. Not even when I kissed Kasmine for the first time.

This was different.

this wasn't right. Every cell in my blood was screaming

Kasmine.

radiating off of me could burn down an entire city.

the woman I love.

move. "You aren't the one getting engaged to the wrong

like a man who had lost his purpose

one in my place at

just about an hour before the event starts," He stood up, straightened his jacket, and forced a

him through the mirror. Neither of us looked perfect. We just

slowly. My fingers dropped from the tie, hanging limp

get it?" I

he was making sure we were still alone. Then he reached into the inside pocket of his jacket and pulled out a sleek, matte-black flash

between two fingers. "Encrypted, Triple-layered. You'd need a god to crack

didn't look at it yet. I stared at him instead... The man who used to hack into our school's database just to change his grades and prank professors. I used to think it was all fun back then.

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take it to be a

solid?" I

evasion. Proxy companies tied to human smuggling rings in the Balkans. He thought he could scrub it clean. But that dumb fuck hired some of my old crew two years ago. I know their coding like the back of my