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 I really felt for him... Was it

thin line between the two. One misstep and you mistake tragedy for romance. I didn't want to wake up one day and realize I'd given my

my heart when what he

he claimed to love me. But his love was

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

No.

and possessive. A kind of fierce, consuming obsession that made

that made me

barely tall enough to reach his elbow, did he really love me? Or he just had the

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control over other people and the

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

young then, I always heard Mum and my late father talk about it when they thought I was asleep in their

Mum married Kester's father

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

my curious questions about it and why he and his father were