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,

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 strong. Kind.

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use a

tomorrow. Mum had called and texted and said all manner of threats to

stead.

she'd cover for me. She made me promise her that I'd

do you rest when your world

feels

hadn't moved in hours. Just curled up sideways on the couch, a blanket bunched near my

screen lit up against the dimming room, its glow stabbing through the semi-dark room. I blinked, then slowly reached over, arm sluggish as if my bones had

one last

saw wasn't either of

UNKNOWN NUMBER.

hovered over the screen. Something about it made my

I opened the message.

And my soul dropped.

disgusting little bitch. You think no one knows about your little secret with your brother? Well, I do.

than you

it felt like I'd been punched

down, and I gasped audibly when I saw

of me and Kester in his

threaded into my hair. My eyes shut. His thumb brushed the side of my neck while his

my dress.

my mouth.

floor with a soft

no, no..." I whispered, curling

This couldn't be happening.

That night

in his office. No one had

swept through me, and I clutched my

scrambled for answers,

Karina?

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

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face.

No

who had more

But who?

hugging my knees to my chest, rocking slightly with my eyes closed in an attempt

I couldn't breathe.

I couldn't even think.

playing out like a movie behind my eyes... The photos sent to my parents. To the pack