Chapter 252

Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 252

KASMINE.

"Hey babe," A voice sounded behind me as a warm hand wrapped around my waist from behind.

I almost jumped out of my skin.

"Jake! You scared me!" I sighed, placing my hand against my chest.

He chuckled softly, brushing a loose strand of hair from ply face. "Why would you be scared in a hall full of people?” he teased, cocking his head with that soft smirk he always wore when he was trying to make me forget how broken things really were. "No one can hurt you here, Relax."

I tried. I really did.

He looked cute tonight, in that signature Jake styfe-white trousers, nug black T- shirt... Casual. Clean. Boy-next-door handsome. The kind of look that once made me feel butterflies just from catching his scent.

Now? The butterflies were barely breathing. Limp-winged. Exhausted

I forced a smile. Forced the ache in my gut to turn into warmth, to find something- anything-in me that still fluttered for him.

“Cheer up, babe," he said gently, his thumb brushing the side of my arm. "You look gorgeous tonight."

His voice dipped, "I wish I could kiss you right now." There was something raw in the way he said it-like he knew time was a thief waiting to snatch me from him.

He sounded nervous... Anxious. And I knew why. Tonight was the night the Moon could decide that I belonged to someone else.

He hated this part of our world.

So did I.

a concern for a few days now. But I kept assuring

worry.

before. Don't worry about it. It won't change any..." My words were cut midway by my

It is time." She was already at my side,

world hear the thud my heart made? It sounded like a judge slamming a

tell. But my knees wobbled with the reality of everything I was pretending not

and change,” Mum added, pushing me off to the

nervous, that if you looked

hand slipped from

I didn't dare turn back

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Chapter 252

Because if I did-

way he

might not

cold against my neck as I stepped

The kind that crawled in your skin and sat there, reminding you that this moment wasn't yours anymore-that your body, your future, your

gathered. Hundreds of wolves, all watching. And right now, it felt like every one of them was staring straight

1. me.

center of the circle in my ceremonial

dressed in the same long robes they always had

Selene's design. Her timing. Her matchings. Her divine will." Elder Alric said as he began the

Selene.

when

the other she-wolves turning twenty-one. There were five

My hands were ice. Every inch of me was

snap if anyone said

reassuring smiles at me, but it didn't help calm

nerves.

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