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.

into his arms

"That shooter... he... he was there for

of me like I was being stabbed

say that, Mine," Kester murmured into my hair, his breath warm against my temple. "He wasn't there for

back just enough to see his face, "He was there for me. I saw it, Kes. I saw the way he looked at me. If I hadn't pul! Claire to run... if I'd hesitated for even

"But..."

has no enemies, Kes. You do. A lot of them," I sniffed, and for some reason, my instinct kept pushing one name

June.

be wrong. But this instinct was way too strong that I couldn even shake

of things that should have gotten me worried. She looked at me like I was something

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them off, thinking she'd take it out with Kester and

hurt. Maybe she wanted

your mind?" Kester asked suddenly, watching me like

I blinked. "Huh?"

were you pondering about?"

nothing, Kes.

what if was wrong? What if it wasn't June? What if I told him, and he went after her, killed

trie

had to be certain before letting

Alpha Kex. Or Wes. Or any of the other enemies Kester had made just

for