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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