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.

out what I really felt for him...

I didn't want to wake up one day and realize I'd given my heart to a wound dressed

be a mistake to offer him my heart when what he truly needed was

always had a way of making me see how much he claimed to love me. But his love

easy. It wasn't the kind that wraps you in warmth and tells you everything's going

No.

fierce, consuming obsession that made me feel

that made me

to reach his elbow, did he really love me? Or he just

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had was control over other people and the situations. around him... He did everything within his power to ensure

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

really young then, I always heard Mum and my late father talk about it when they thought I

my perspective changed when Mum married Kester's father and

rarely argued. Barely raised voices

agreed to open up or answer any of my curious questions about it