Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 318

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Chapter 321

I didn't know whether to cry harder or hold him tighter.

So, I did both.

I leaned in and kissed his forehead, right in the center, like sealing a promise and

an assurance there. I held his face in my palms and whispered, "I see you, Kester. I've always seen you."

His eyes fluttered shut like those words hurt and healed him, at the same time.

"I don't remember that day, admitted, my voice shaking. "But if I had known what you were going through... if I had known what that house was like for you... God, I would have climbed that window just to sit beside you."

His breath hitched.

"I would have stayed until you didn't feel so alone."

His arms came around me again, tighter this time, like I'd said something sacred. We stayed like that for a while, just holding each other as if time could be rewound if we pressed close enough.

more I needed to

mattered

just enough to meet his gaze. "Kester... what you went through, the things you buried so deep for so long... they've shaped the way you

He tensed.

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way his arms stiffened around me like I was about to slip

face again, "And it's not your fault. None of it is. But you need to finish your

He said nothing.

so loud

the first time, I realized what terrified him wasn't the past -it was the idea that even trying to fix it could cost him

Me.

softly. "I'm saying it because love you. Because

free. Truly free."

Still nothing.

bobbed like he was holding

pressed my forehead to his, my voice barely more than a breath. "If you truly love me, Kester... if you want us to last... then I need you to get the help you need. Not just

I felt it... I

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