Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 281

Chapter 281

He took another step, so close how I could feel the heat of him wrapping around

me.

"So no, Kasmine. I can't let you go. I won't let you go. You're not just someone I love. You're the only part of me that's still alive."

His forehead dropped to mine again, his body trembling with everything he wasn't saying.

"You're home." he breathed.

"You're it for me, little sister."

I didn't know who moved first. Maybe it was me. Or maybe it was him. Maybe it was the force of all the shattered pieces between us finally giving way.

But the next thing I knew, I was in his arms with his trembling hand wrapped around my back while the other held me by my waist.

His breath was harsh against my temple.

And then... he broke.

"Kasmine..." he rasped, his voice splintering. "If I lose you..."

He pulled back just enough to look at me, and what I saw in his eyes almost dropped me to my knees.

Raw devastation.

No walls..

No armor.

a man stripped down to his bare

I lose you..." he said again, choking on

breathe past

whispered hoarsely, "but it turned me into something else. Something colder and harder. It broke pieces of me that

like he was afraid I'd

the spaces she left behind - you built new ones. You made me believe I could be more

slid down his face. He didn't even

won't be anything left of me worth

face in his hands, his thumbs trembling against

can ever remember... You're the only thing in this whole damn world that ever felt like home, Like peace. Like something pure I

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see him anymore through the blur of my

from the intensity of everything he was carrying. "Please don't leave me little sister. Please don't take the only

brushed over my lips, and before I could think,

It was soft.

Broken.

Shattering.

said, I'm sorry. I'm scared. I'm yours, even

clung to me like I was life itself. And maybe

him kiss me. I let him pour all the