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.

No staff. Not even the driver's annoying

Way too silent.

off every now and then-but all of them? Never. My feet

voice

No answer.

I stepped inside. "Mum?"

Still nothing.

stairs. The door to their room was halfway open. I didn't

But I shouldn't have

my room, taken a long pull from Mum's favorite whisky-the one that had somehow become my favorite too-and passed out, praying

I stepped in, the world-my world-ripped

stains everywhere. On the bed, the floor, everywhere.

didn't breathe. I

at the

with his

"Dad?" I whispered.

90

his hands tangled in his hair like he was trying to rip the thoughts

on?" I asked, softer this

He didn't answer.

throat burned. I took a slow step forward. My shoes made a

If I looked, I'd see. And if I

voice cracked. "Where

a little like my words physically

slowly, he looked up at

someone had taken a torch to it from the inside. His eyes... They were red, but not from

seen my father cry.

moved, but no sound came out at first. He

he couldn't believe I was