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.

on the fucking desk. Your shirt off.

She stepped closer.

wasn't the only

said nothing,

house... You forgot there is a fucking hole on your wall that leads to her room? You fucked her

I totally forgot about that hole. I thought it was hidden in plain sight. But of course, she found

burn the fucking world down just to touch

finally looked up at her.

the tattoo on your back that night. You remember, don't you? You were bare. Stupid enough to forget I was behind

She saw that, too? The night, I was too exhausted

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

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1. me.

I was quiet.

didn't ask for your love, June," I said coldly, and she

way," She looked at

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

cruel.

off? No. No, Kester. If you so much as breathe about this to the press-if you even try-the entire world will know that the great Kester

She leaned in.

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

for the

I've had

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

My blood went still.

where everything inside me went

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

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