Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 317

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.

ever go through

that helpless again. I'd never trust anyone to protect what's mine. I'd be the one in control. I'd always be in control. If my father couldn't protect my mother, the woman I loved more than anything, then

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

forehead to his shoulder. His skin was burning with the tension he was trying so hard

"You don't have to hold

Just wrapped his arms around me so tight I could barely breathe, but

Then, he spoke again.

knew it, Kasmine. You might not know this, but

and pulled back just enough to look at him. "You always say

He smiled.

it was my birthday. Not that anyone remembered. I was alone in the house. No cake. No candles. No hugs. Not even a call

as if he could still see the gloom of that lonely room. "I sat beside my

Wondering

My breath caught.

empty... more like he was trying to breathe through the pain. "And

and

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