Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

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.

of finding my mate today had been a concern for a few days now.

worry.

change any..." My words

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

or did the whole world hear the thud my heart made?

wobbled with the reality of everything

pushing me off to the maids who

was so nervous, that if you looked closely,

hand slipped from

I didn't dare turn back

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Chapter 252

Because if I did-

I saw the way he was

not

was cold against my neck as I stepped

cold that made you shiver. 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 soul-belonged

wolves, all watching. And right now, it felt like every one

1. me.

the center of the circle in my ceremonial gown that

prime elders stood at the raised alter where I now stood, dressed in the same long robes they always

in a deep, smooth voice echoing across the crowd, "we honor Selene's design. Her timing. Her matchings. Her divine will." Elder Alric said as

Selene.

and loved and worshipped-even when she tore

other she-wolves turning twenty-one. There

stomach was in knots. My hands were ice.

would snap if anyone said my name too

smiles at

nerves.