Mated 320

Chapter 320

KASMINE.

By the time Kester was rounding up his story, I had forgotten how to stop crying. The tears wouldn't stop falling. They slipped down my cheeks silently, like they didn't want to interrupt him. Like they understood that his pain was finally finding a voice.

He looked at me again, and his expression-God, it was worse than tears.

"Kester," I breathed, shaking my head slowly. I didn't even know what to say.

It was like I was staring at the little boy he used to be-the one who needed love more than anything in the world but got none in

return.

Even though I knew he hadn't told me everything and hadn't laid out the full horror of what his childhood looked like, the little pieces he had shared tore through my heart, shattering it to pieces. His parents. His loneliness. That house that never felt like

home.

child should ever go

anyone to protect what's mine. I'd be the one in control. I'd always be in control. If

entire body. Like the weight of everything he'd carried alone was suddenly breaking

shoulder. His skin was burning with

have to carry that alone," I whispered. "You don't have to hold all of

anything right away. Just wrapped his arms around me so tight I could barely breathe,

Then, he spoke again.

been saving me long before you knew it, Kasmine. You might not know this, but you are the reason

him. "You

He smiled.

remembered. I was alone in

gloom of that lonely room. "I sat beside my window for hours,

fall. Wondering

My breath caught.

was trying to breathe through the pain. "And then I saw you.

white dress and ribbons in

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