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.

his arms again, 'She'll be

my fault," I whispered against his shirt, "That shooter... he... he was there for me. But Claire took the

again, sobs punching out of me like I was

my hair, his breath warm against my temple. "He wasn't

it, Kes. I saw the way he looked at me. If I hadn't pul! Claire to run... if I'd hesitated for even a second... it would've been me. I was the target. Not her." I explained, and a small frown appeared

"But..."

A lot of them," I sniffed, and for some reason, my

June.

But this instinct was way too strong that I couldn even shake it off, no matter how hard I

she was at the house, she said a lot of things that should have

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take it out with Kester and let me be.

to hurt.

mind?" Kester asked

I blinked. "Huh?"

were you pondering about?"

It's nothing, Kes.

if I told him, and he went after her, killed her, and then we found out it

trie

take that risk. I had to be certain before

Or Wes. Or any of the other enemies Kester had made

enemies for my