Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Mated 317

Chapter 317

KASMINE.

It was a strange, dizzying feeling-like standing between sunlight and shadow. Elation laced with sadness.

For the first time, I caught a glimpse of the life Kester might have wanted if things were different in his world. And it was a bit tempting.

Watching him hand out the food exactly how I'd asked him to, did something to me. Something warm uncurled in the pit of my stomach, like morning light slipping through curtains. It shouldn't have meant so much. But it did. It really did.

Because Kester doesn't do things like this.

Not even if the Moon Goddess herself descended from the clouds and begged him.

So, the fact that he did it for me spoke louder than any love confession ever could.

Everyone has the ability to be human. It just depends on who is asking.

was exhausting trying to figure out what

and you mistake tragedy for romance. I didn't want

him my heart when what he

he claimed to love me. But his love was

tender or easy. It wasn't the kind that wraps you in warmth and tells you

No.

sharp-edged and possessive. A kind of fierce, consuming obsession that made me feel both treasured

made

elbow, did he really love me? Or he just had the aching

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control over other people and the situations. around him... He did everything within

the little I know, his childhood was... sad and fragmented. But that was all I

nothing about how his mother finally died after being maltreated by his father. Although was still really young then, I always

when Mum married Kester's father

kissed Mum's forehead and brought her flowers for no reason. They rarely argued. Barely raised voices at

of my curious