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.

the fucking desk. Your shirt off. Her dress

She stepped closer.

wasn't the

said nothing, but

more times than I can count. In Maldives. In this house... You forgot there is a fucking hole on your wall that leads to her

sight. But of course, she found it. And I hoped she enjoyed the spectacle of

just to touch her. Her voice dropped to a bitter murmur, "I loved you, you piece of

at her.

she, her voice rising again. "Even when everything in me said I shouldn't. Even when I saw the tattoo on your back that night. You remember, don't you? You were bare. Stupid enough

night, I was too exhausted to notice she

told myself... I'd win you over," she said. "That once we were engaged, you'd forget her. That you'd finally see me and

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1. me.

I was quiet.

for your love, June," I said coldly, and

either way," She looked

something in my expression must've changed

cruel.

this to the press-if you

She leaned in.

your precious little empire will survive that?" Her perfume was cloying, and it

reached for the whiskey

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

a performance?" she hissed. "I sent that recording to Kasmine already,"

My blood went still.

inside me

drew blood. "Just to shake her up a bit, and I am certain as

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