Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

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.

desk. Your shirt off.

She stepped closer.

that wasn't

said nothing, but she

two 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 room? You fucked her the night I

forgot about that hole. I thought it was hidden in plain sight. But of course, she found it. And I hoped she enjoyed the

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

finally looked up at her. Her eyes were

"Even when everything in me said I shouldn't. Even when I saw the tattoo on your back that night. You remember,

too exhausted to

said. "That once we were engaged, you'd forget her. That you'd finally see

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1. me.

I was quiet.

June," I said

I loved you either way," She looked at

shrugged, but something in my expression must've changed because her smile twisted

cruel.

press-if you

She leaned in.

your precious little empire will survive that?" Her

then reached for

done?" She blinked. “Because I've had more

hissed. "I sent

My blood went still.

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

head like a fucking villainess out of a slow-burn drama who just drew blood. "Just to shake her up a bit,