Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

Chapter 354

KASMINE.

Kasmine... baby, step away from him," Kester said, letting Jake's still-beating heart fall from his hand with

a sickening wet thud onto the gravel.

Was he being serious?

He just killed Jake, ripped out his heart with his bare hand, and stood there like nothing had happened.

Like this was just another inconvenience he had taken care of for me.

The world tilted sideways. My ears rang. My skin felt too tight for my bones.

The last few moments with Jake replayed in my head, looping like a cruel punishment being dished out by the Moon Goddess or by Dreagor himself.

Maybe I shouldn't have agreed to see him today.

Maybe I should have just remained in the car without running off the way I did.

Or... I should have just calmed down when he asked me to and listened to him.

Maybe... Maybe...

No.

My hands began to shake. My chest squeezed painfully tight.

All Jake ever wanted... all he asked for... was for me to love him back. And when I couldn't, when I told him the truth, maybe I should've said it differently. All he needed was for me to calmly explain to him why I couldn't love him. I should've seen how broken he already was.

He didn't deserve to die.

If I had acted or reacted differently, Jake would have still been alive. We would have heard or seen Kester coming. I would have been able to stop Kester from killing him.

Tears blurred everything. Jake's body was a still shape against the gravel, the blood around him soaking into the earth.

"Baby..." Kester called again, stepping closer to me.

you dare come near me." I choked. He

him, "How many more people will you kill just because of me?

knees beside Jake's body, sobs catching in my throat. I placed a trembling hand on his chest, or what was left of it, pressing down as if I could stop the bleeding. As if I could rewind

skin was

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My voice barely came out,

body like

here now. It's not safe. He's working with... Kester tried to speak. "He never ran out

hear them anymore.

at the top of my lungs, "You are nothing but an obsessed lair! I hate you, Kester! I hate you!" I was enraged. And for once, I didn't care what it did to him.

would never forgive

with what you did to Blaine then you go ahead to do this?" I

and shook

did you even find me, huh?" I looked up at him, my chest rising and falling. "How,

didn't say a

my

as if it

my head slowly as the

a tracker in something you

a gift."

shifting the conversation like he always did. "Jake works for Nagel Vale. He's been working with him all along. He never loved you, baby. You were just

fleeting, fractured heartbeat... I almost believed

as more tears streaked down my cheek. "What other lies do

home. Nagel probably knows you're here already. They might

on the way out.

fire in my hands. With

his feet.

now, You "So,

shred of privacy for s dug a hole in the wall, watched

laptops, everything... And you had the effrontery to also track my

isn't love. It's control. And it's unhealthy, and

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something wild and dangerous. "We don't have time for all this drama, Kasmine,"