Mated 319

Chapter 319

My heart sank.

"So... you stopped because it was her idea?"

He looked back at me, and there was something cracked in his gaze stopped because there's nothing wrong with me, Kasmine. I'm not some broken, messed

case. I didn't need help. I don't need help."

I swallowed the ache in my throat. "Kes..."

"All I ever needed and would ever need is you," he whispered, "Can't you see what you're doing to me? How much you've already changed me? You're the only help I'll ever need."

My throat tightened.

This wasn't a man in denial. No, This was a man gripping tightly to the only thing that's kept him afloat me. It broke something in me. It made my next words tremble on my tongue, but I had to say them.

"No, Kester," I said softly, You're not fine. You're not okay."

His face darkened, but he didn't interrupt me.

won't even let me near," I continued. "Whatever happened to you when

Silence.

containing my emotion, "And I know you better than you know yourself. You can lie to the world, Kes. But don't lie

glaze over as if he wasn't here anymore. As if a part of him had slipped behind the walls he'd spent years

breathing changed, becoming shorter and

"Kester?" I whispered.

wouldn't

arm. His

you

a long pause. Then he

he rasped,

moment. Was he going to talk

that part of his life must have

the moment. But he

talk

he said, eyes fixed ahead, "She was at her vanity. Doing her

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He swallowed.

didn't even pause-just said to. I stood there thinking maybe she'd look at me... maybe she'd change

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