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 hated her for

1. be.

That's not why I am here," she said, her words coming a little rushed, "Here," she handed her phone over

my brows, sitting up again, "Who

to him," She shoved the phone into

screen before I finally pressed it to my

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I croaked, watching my inum walk out of

before I heard

heart skipped

Oh, God.

felt this way. Perhaps it was gullt. Or sadness. Maybe even

something inside me

it made my

was

Another pause followed.

asked ever so softly as if sounding firmer than that

hesitated before murmuring,

pressed a hand to my chest. It suddenly hurt

Jake after

motel: I was too busy

and putting

someone who once meant so much to me

mattered in

like a monster. And

because I didn't still

no. I actually did,