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.

palm trembling, warding him off. Don't you dare come near me." I choked. He froze mid-step, "Baby, he was

at him, "How many more people will you kill just because

dropped to my 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

skin was still

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came out, choked and broken. "Why,

my body like lightning. It left nothing

to get out of here now. It's not safe. He's working with... Kester tried to speak. "He never ran out of lies. His excuses. His rehearsed lines, always conveniently timed to justify his violence. I didn't

anymore. I was

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. Let it destroy him. Let it unravel whatever twisted fantasy he'd built around me. Because he destroyed

I would never forgive him

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

shook my

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

didn't say

my feet. "How did you find

baby. I put a tracker in it," he explained as if it was the most normal and

stomach twisted. I scoffed, shaking my head slowly

tracker in something you gave me. Something you told

a gift."

did. "Jake works for Nagel Vale. He's been working with him all along. He never loved you,

fractured heartbeat... I almost believed him.

I said softly, looking at him unbelievably as more tears streaked down my cheek. "What

talk about this at home. Nagel probably knows you're here already. They might be coming. I need

cracked on the way out. "So this is what that looks

for the chain at my neck. It felt like fire in my hands. With a sharp tug, I ripped

his feet.

now, You

a hole in the wall,

tracked my phones, laptops, everything... And you had the

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

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time to catch my breath when Kester's expression shapped into something wild and dangerous. "We don't