Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 249

KESTER.

Terrifying...

She meant it.

Her eyes locked onto mine, and I swear I saw something fold in her

"You know what?" She wiped her eyes, "I want to be able to look at the father of my child and not wonder what he's capable of. But I can't. So, just leave. I never want to see you anywhere near me or my baby. Leave!"

That broke me.

She could threaten me with anything, but not our baby.

"Baby... What do I do to make you know how much I love you and that everything

I do, I do for you? Kasmine..." I didn't recognize my voice anymore, and the way

my emotions spiraled from anger to hurt surprised even me.

"This isn't love, Kester. It is control. I don't want it. Just... Go..." She sobbed, her lips trembling so hard.

"Kasmine... please." My words came out as a whisper, trembling with a vulnerability I had never shown to anyone except her. "Please just love me back. What does it take to love me? Baby?" I swallowed, closing the distance between us, "Just-just love me." I begged.

I could feel my heart wrenching out of my chest.

My hands trembled as they reached for her, brushing against her arms as if afraid she might vanish if I held her too tightly.

She looked at me like I was something pitiful, something broken-and maybe I was.

"No! I can never love a selfish monster like you!" She let out a bitter scoff, wiping off the tears from her eyes with her trembling hands before letting them slump beside her as if she were tired of fighting.

"You don't need love, Kester. You need help," she stared at me weakly with those green orbs of hers, and I didn't like the look I saw there... It was that of pity. Not love. Not the love I expected.

wanted her to love me, not pity

I always choose you. I'm. Still. Choosing. YOU!" I counted my words ever so slowly, ignoring the crack in my voice, "I gave up so much for you. I am going through this whole mess right now because of you and you

selfish?"

us. "Every drop of blood on my hands is there because of you! Everybody I have and will take down is because of you! Don't you get it? Everything I've

her face blurry? Was I

Fuck. Yes.

I was crying.

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down my cheeks, blinding me as the words tumbled out, unfiltered and raw. "I've bled for you, Kasmine. I'll bleed again if that's what you want. I'll change. Tell me. What do you want me to do? I'll

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with the warmth of her skin. I held

my life loving. This was the only time I ever felt what love was. I wasn't

mine. "You say this isn't love. But you-

in closer, needing her to

wake up every morning, and it's oxygen keeping me alive?" Haughed, bitter and broken. "No. It's you. It's the little pieces of love you've thrown at me like

Her eyes flickered.

"You remember what you said to me while you were shaking under me, your legs wrapped around me while I was inside you? You promised me forever, baby. You said you'd stay. You looked me

an inch. "I bought it. I bought every word you said to me. I believed it with every goddamn

I waited.

again. To say she still loved me. That she

lips curled bitterly. And she stared

said what you wanted to

It was so quiet.

So calm.

she was putting down a

single sentence carved through my chest like a serrated knife. I

my hands drop from her face.

Something inside me buckled.

a step