Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Mated 316

Chapter 316

"My mother is not a whore."

And for the first time in my life, I felt powerful

And completely out of control.

I didn't remember the walk home.

The blood on my sleeves had dried into sticky patch it itched

They told me to bring my fathef tomorrow, or I'd be suspended. I told them I wouldn't, and I meant it. So they suspended me.

Fine. Let them.

I didn't care.

I just wanted to go home. I wanted Mum to still be there. I wanted-God, I don't me. Maybe to say I didn't do anything wrong. That I wasn't a monster.

know what I wanted. Maybe for her to hold

That she was proud of me for once for standing up for myself and not being a

a coward.

I wanted to run into her arms and bury my face in her chest, even if she didn't want to hug me back. I didn't care. I'd wrap my arms around her waist and hold her tight, and maybe-just maybe-she'd remember I was her son.

I had forgotten what it felt like to be loved. The feeling of being loved was slowly fizzling away along with my childhood memories.

The whole place was silent the moment I stepped into the gate.

even the driver's annoying

Way too silent.

now and then-but

my voice shaking. "Mum, are you

No answer.

I stepped inside. "Mum?"

Still nothing.

room was halfway open. I didn't care to knock. I just

But I shouldn't have

gone straight to my room, taken a long pull from Mum's favorite whisky-the one that had somehow become my favorite too-and passed out, praying the whole day would start afresh

when I stepped in, the world-my

everywhere. On the bed, the floor,

breathe.

at the

sitting with

"Dad?" I whispered.

90

elbows rested on his knees, his hands tangled in his hair like he was trying to rip the thoughts out of his skull.

I asked,

He didn't answer.

a slow step forward. My shoes made a sticky sound against

blood. I couldn't. If I looked, I'd see. And if I saw, I'd

voice

jerked a little like my words

he looked up at

to it from the

seen my father cry. Not once.

moved, but no sound came out at first. He swallowed, clenched

me like he