Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 342

KESTER.

PRESENT.

After the tragic incident that took place two days ago, I had become the villain to my pack members. Everyone suspected me. And of course, I'd have suspected me, too, if I were to be in their shoes.

Now, I had to sit here and listen to the council members ramble on about the incident, tossing around theories and speculations, while I waited quietly like a lamb whose fate was being decided at the slaughter.

All these weren't really so much of a concern to me at the moment. My only concern was the fact that Kasmine thought I lied to her. She hadn't even let me anywhere close to her room for the past two days

now.

Mum even told me she was sick yesterday Pregnancy stuff, I guess. She called in the family doctor and handled everything without telling me until it was over.

That didn't sit right with me.

The amount of time Kasmine was being exposed to Mum recently made me fucking worry. And when she's in that vulnerable, emotional state, she listens too easily. She absorbs things she shouldn't. Mum knows exactly how to play people like her, especially when she's hurt and unsure.

And especially now that she thinks that I killed Blaine. The last thing I needed was for Kasmine to take a decision she

couldn't walk back from.

had zoned out briefly, "What do you have to say

were on me, waiting

adjusted in my seat,

think I am a coward," I began, doing all I could to hide the disgust

me in

beside me when I became Alpha." I paused, taking in their expressions. "Now tell me, in all those years, have I ever struck you as a man who would choose the coward's way of taking down an enemy? Am I one who hides behind

the question sink in,

cowards to do what my fists can handle. If I wanted Blaine dead..." I paused, letting the words burn, "...'d have killed

one of

There was silence.

But what pisses me off the most is that while you all sit here looking for

who made up the opposition was

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the slate clean, that was the moment," Elder Ben said, And to think that you were in the

murmurs erupted and some

you learned anything

in all my years of leading you?" I snapped,

perfect