Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 346

KASMINE.

I'd been living a sad, dejected life for the past week, wandering through the wreckage of my life.

Maybe I was irrational for shutting Kester out. Maybe I was ever stupid for not believing him when he said he had nothing to do with Blaine's death.

A part of me really wanted to believe him, but, knowing Kester, that was one of his signature solutions to problems. He doesn't reason with threats. He just... Erases them.

I asked for space, and he respected it. I hadn't seen him for the past three days now, especially after hearing that Norlan regained consciousness yesterday. He'd spent the whole of yesterday at the hospital, only dashing back to the house to get a change of clothes before running off again.

Lucky him... His bestfriend survived. Mine didn't.

Claire's funeral was set to take place in two days and I'd been praying to the Moon Goddess to give me the strength to be in attendance. I was too heartbroken and guilty to feel like I had any right to stand beside her casket, let alone say goodbye.

I missed her. God, I missed her so much it felt like breathing glass.

Knock. Knock.

The sound snapped me out of my misery. I slowly sat up on the bed, placing my palm on my forehead as if it could calm the wicked ache I felt in my skull.

"Come in," I said, wincing a little.

The door pushed open and I saw Mum walk in.

"Not again, Mum. I told you my stance already. I will not reject him. Quit trying," I rolled my eyes, flopping back against the pillows.

Since I returned home after Claire's death, Mum had made it a point of duty to pester me on the matter of my bond with Kester. Every conversation we've had was just a new version of the same push - reject him, reject him, reject him.

I was already getting scared of eating or drinking anything in this house. I kept second-guessing everything offered to me, to avoid being fed with abortion pills unknowingly.

more, I

1. be.

coming a little rushed, "Here," she handed her phone

brows, sitting up again, "Who is

shoved

the screen before I finally

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croaked, watching my inum walk out

was a pause before I heard

heart skipped

Oh, God.

know why I instantly felt this way. Perhaps it was gullt. Or sadness. Maybe

inside me

I hated how it made my breath

I whispered. That was all I could

Another pause followed.

you, babe?" He asked ever so softly as if sounding firmer

hesitated before murmuring,

to my chest. It suddenly

called Jake after

I was too busy trying

putting myself

had treated someone who once meant so much to me like

even mattered

I felt like

didn't still

I actually