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.

man stripped down to his

again, choking on the words,

caved in. I couldn't breathe past the knot

something else. Something colder and harder. It broke pieces of me that I never

he was afraid I'd disappear

cracking wide open, "you didn't just fill the spaces she left behind - you built new ones. You made me believe I could be more than the wreckage she

slid down his face. He

voice dropped to a shattered whisper, There won't be anything left of me worth saving." Another tear. Then another. "I'll still be breathing,"

hands,

only thing in this whole damn world that ever felt like home, Like peace. Like something pure I wasn't meant to

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couldn't see him anymore through the blur of

he was carrying. "Please don't leave me little sister. Please don't take the only good thing

and before I could think, before I could

It was soft.

Broken.

Shattering.

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

He just clung to me like I was life itself.

moment I let him kiss me. I let him pour all the pain,