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,

couldn't wait to meet her.

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could really use a close companion at this point in

called and texted and said all manner of threats to me, asking me to come home and, at least, join them in the preparation, but I

stead.

she'd cover for me. She made me

rest when your

body feels like

in hours. Just curled up sideways

semi-dark room. I blinked, then slowly

a check-in from Claire. Or maybe one last guilt-tripping paragraph from Mum,

I saw wasn't either

UNKNOWN NUMBER.

screen. Something about it made my heart twitch. I

I opened the message.

And my soul dropped.

"You disgusting little bitch. You think no one knows about

than you

it felt like I'd been punched

fingers scrolled down, and I gasped

was a clear picture of me and Kester in his

hand threaded into my hair. My eyes shut.

my dress.

a trembling hand over my mouth. The

the floor with

no, no..." I whispered,

This couldn't be happening.

That night

in his office.

through me,

thoughts scrambled for answers,

Karina?

barely been around. And if it was her, she'd be louder and dramatic. She'd want to confront me

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face.

No

who

But who?

chest, rocking slightly with my eyes closed in

I couldn't breathe.

I couldn't even think.

scenario started playing out like a movie behind my eyes... The photos sent to my parents. To