Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 335

KASMINE.

The tears had finally stopped. Not because the ache in my chest had lulled but because I had nothing left to give. My body had wrung out every drop.

I sat there with hollow eyes, shivering inside a hoodie I didn't remember putting on.

Perhaps I should thank Kester and his brutal, explosive outburst. It had jolted something in me and snapped me out of the spiral.

Thank Selene, Lwas here to stop him. Otherwise, he would have killed Cole,

We were still waiting for Claire. The doctors were still with her in the ER. I had been praying, begging, promising, and bargaining with Selene and every god that might exist since the moment she got shot that nothing ever happens to her. Otherwise, I would never forgive myself

I already couldn't. My chest felt like it was folding in on itself, rib by rib.,

I was already drowning in a pool of regrets. I should've called her. God, if I had just picked up the damn phone instead of making it about me, maybe we wouldn't have been here. I wouldn't have had the need to stop her by the roadside just to apologize for not being in touch with her.

I was a bad friend. And look where it had gotten me. All she needed was to be in touch with me. But no. I pushed her away. And

now...

God.

I could feel my chest tightening again.

me into his

whispered against his shirt, "That shooter... he...

out of me like I was being

temple. "He wasn't there for you. He

saw it, Kes. I saw the way he looked at me. If I hadn't pul!

"But..."

Kes. You do. A lot of them," I sniffed,

June.

But this instinct was way too strong that I couldn even shake it off,

she was at the house, she said a lot of things that should have gotten me worried. She looked at me like I was something she wanted

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just brushed them off, thinking she'd take it out with Kester and let me be. But maybe I was

she hadn't wanted Kester to hurt. Maybe she wanted

on your mind?" Kester asked suddenly,

I blinked. "Huh?"

you pondering about?" He

nothing, Kes. I

if I told him, and he went after her, killed her, and

trie

take that risk. I had

Kex. Or Wes. Or any of

too many enemies for my guess to even