Chapter 248

My Stepbrother 248

KESTER.

I knocked again. Harder this time. The kind of knock that wasn't asking permission it was a warning.

I swear to fuck, I was seconds away from tearing this damn door off its hinges. I didn't care if it splintered. I didn't care if Claire came home to a crime scene of wood and rage.

But Claire was so lucky that Kasmine opened it before I could make that mistake.

She barely got the words out. "What the hell are you-

I pushed through the doorway, slammed it shut behind me, and crashed my mouth against hers.

God, her taste.

Fuck. I missed her.

I was losing my mind. Couldn't concentrate on anything else until I saw her. Fuck,

I wouldn't have survived another night away from her.

But she shoved hard at my chest, and I let her go. I had to. I wasn't about to add stress to her... not with our baby growing inside her.

"You manipulative bastard!" she hissed, trembling with fury. She scrubbed her lips like I'd stained them. "How dare you step foot in

this house?"

Her voice... Her eyes.

crying the entire

could spend some time with Mine and make sure she didn't cry

Stop this..." I took a step toward her, but she took five steps

child. She needed all the care and understanding she could

back!" she shouted. "God, you are so sick, Kester! don't even know who you are

but it wasn't fear. It was disillusionment. Rage.

many layers of carefully constructed masks do you have on, hmm? How many lies do you coat your

I exhaled, dragging a hand down my face, aching. "Look... just sit down.

I stopped.

weren't of

locked onto the

Wide and haunted.

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she turned

My stomach dropped.

Shit.

Not now.

Not fucking now.

His voice was calm, almost smug, like he'd been waiting his whole career for this kind of

CEO of the Crown Foundation and known political patron to several humanitarian causes,

pale but trying to keep that arrogant smirk in place as reporters swarmed

leak of a flash drive containing detailed records of offshore accounts, tax evasion, and links to illegal trafficking operations operating

being stuffed into the back of

like it was bleeding... Her eyes were wide, her lips parted slightly, and it was as if her brain was trying to catch up to what her eyes were seeing. And then-slowly-like

turned her head.

eyes landed on

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