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.

exhausting trying to figure out what I

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

a mistake to offer him my heart when what

much he claimed to

wasn't the kind that wraps you in warmth and tells you everything's going to

No.

sharp-edged and possessive. A kind of fierce, consuming obsession

made me

love me? Or he just had

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never had control over his own life. All he had was control over other people and the situations. around him... He did everything within his power to ensure he stayed in control every single

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

father. Although was still really young then, I always heard Mum and my late father talk about it when they thought I was asleep in their arms after dinner. Cóntent

Kester's father and they seemed so in love

Mum. The kind of man who kissed Mum's forehead and brought her flowers for no reason. They rarely argued. Barely raised voices at each other. And I

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