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.

God, it was exhausting trying to figure out what I really felt for him... Was it

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

would be a mistake to offer him my heart

way of making me see how much he claimed to love me. But his love was the strangest

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

No.

and possessive. A kind of fierce,

made

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

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life. All he had was control over other people and the

sad and

after being maltreated by his father. Although was still 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 they seemed so in love with each

rarely argued. Barely raised voices at each other. And I started to think maybe the rumors were wrong. Maybe people just loved to

my curious questions about it and why he and his father