Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 245

Chapter 245

KASMINE,

I swear I had no idea how to navigate my life at this point. I stared blankly at my phone, my eyes dry from too much scrolling, too many tabs open, and a lot of funny search history" not just in the browser, but in my mind.

Do women die from abortion?

What are the chances of dying during an abortion?

Is childbirth easy?

Pregnancy symptoms and how to live through them for nine months

How to run away while pregnant.

Can shame kill you before labor does?

I couldn't tell if I was more afraid of the answers or the fact that I was even asking them. Every question felt like a war drum against my chest.

I was stuck between two impossible roads - risking my life to get rid of it and actually keeping it but running far away from the pack to a place where no one knew me, where no one would look at me and call me a disgrace.

Because that's what this was, wasn't it?

An abomination. A secret sin growing inside me.

My parents would never recover from this. The pack would shame me until I wished for death.

And my friends?

No.

I couldn't face them.

I stared blankly at the TV, which had been showing a news station for hours now

without the volume. I was totally uninterested in whatever was being said or shown, but images on the screen made me feel a bit safe, almost like a reassurance that I wasn't home alone.

Claire had been nothing short of amazing since I came here to stay with her. Thank God her parents have been away on a vacation. It's their anniversary, and they sure knew how to celebrate it.

Although she's been begging me to tell her what's wrong with me, and I've refused, she's been taking care of me nonetheless.

She saw the haunted look in my eyes, the sudden nausea, the way I'd stare off into space like I was trying to crawl out of my own

skin.

And though I saiding, she still made me tea. Held my hair back when I threw up. Gave me her silence instead of pressure.

She was the kind of safe I didn't think existed anymore,

birthday was in a few hours. By tomorrow night, I should get my wolf... My companion. I couldn't wait to meet her. I hoped she'd be

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I could really use a close companion

to go and help Mum out with the preparation for tomorrow. Mum had called and texted and said all manner of threats to me, asking me to come home and, at

stead.

told me not to worry that she'd cover for me. She

you rest when your world is slowly caving in around

feels like

moved in hours. Just curled up sideways

its glow stabbing through the semi-dark room. I blinked, then

Or maybe one last guilt-tripping paragraph from

what I saw wasn't

UNKNOWN NUMBER.

thumb hovered over the screen. Something about it made my heart

I opened the message.

And my soul dropped.

"You disgusting little bitch. You think no one knows about your little secret with your brother?

closer than you

felt like I'd been punched from the inside. I

scrolled down, and I gasped audibly

me and Kester in

My eyes shut. His thumb brushed the side of my

my dress.

hand over my mouth. The phone

floor with a

no..." I

This couldn't be happening.

That night

had been alone in his office. No one had been there

nausea swept through me, and

answers, Who could have

Karina?

She just got back. She'd barely been around. And if it was her, she'd be louder and dramatic. She'd want

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face.

No

and smarter. Someone who had more

But who?

eyes closed in an

I couldn't breathe.

I couldn't even think.

playing out like a movie behind my eyes... The photos sent to my