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.

She stepped closer.

that wasn't the

nothing, but she kept

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 slept

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

you'd burn the fucking world down just to touch her. Her voice dropped to a bitter murmur, "I loved

looked up at her.

I shouldn't. Even when I saw the tattoo on your back that night. You remember, don't you?

She saw that, too? The night, I was too exhausted to notice she

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.

ask for your love, June,"

way,"

on you. Not me. I shrugged, but something in

cruel.

breathe about this to the press-if you even try-the entire world will know

She leaned in.

you think your precious little empire will survive that?" Her perfume was cloying,

reached for

She blinked. “Because I've had more than enough of

is a performance?" she hissed. "I sent that recording

My blood went still.

everything inside me went still. And she

head like a fucking villainess out of a slow-burn drama who just drew blood.

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