Chapter 261

Chapter 261

KESTER.

June's laughter followed after the silence.

I didn't react.

But I felt the slow burn crawling up my spine. It wasn't anger or fear Just a quiet, dangerous fucking fury that pressed like cold steel behind my ribs.

"You think I'm stupid?" she asked, lifting her head, chin tilted with a smirk that told me she thought she'd won.

I didn't answer. I just looked at her.

"I've seen the signs for months, honey," she continued. "Hell, I saw the signs long before you can ever even imagine. But I said nothing."

I tilted my head just slightly. "What signs?"

She laughed again, slowly walking away from the table, pacing like she was giving a TED talk about betrayal. "Don't play dumb, Kester, You know exactly what the fuck I'm talking about."

My silence was its own kind of answer.

She turned sharply. "You've been fucking your stepsister."

I didn't flinch. I didn't give her the satisfaction. But my hand curled into a fist by my side.

"I saw you," she continued, almost as if she was cutting herself with her own

words but enjoying the pain anyway. "In your office.

fucking desk. Your shirt off.

She stepped closer.

that wasn't the only

still said nothing, but she kept

a fucking hole on your wall that leads to her room? You fucked her

in plain sight. But of course, she found it. And I

Like you'd burn the fucking world down just to touch her. Her voice

looked up at

the tattoo on your back that night. You remember, don't you? You

The night, I was too exhausted to notice

told myself... I'd win you over," she said. "That once we were engaged, you'd

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1. me.

I was quiet.

ask for your love, June," I

way," She

on you. Not me. I shrugged, but something in my expression must've changed because her smile twisted

cruel.

can call this off? No. No, Kester. If you so much as breathe about this to the press-if you even

She leaned in.

that?" Her perfume was cloying,

reached for the whiskey again and drained

She blinked. “Because I've had more than enough of this performance," I

really think this is a performance?" she hissed.

My blood went still.

That split second where everything inside me went still. And she leaned

slow-burn drama who just drew blood. "Just to shake her up a bit, and I

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