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.

hand, palm trembling, warding him off. Don't you dare come

yelled at him, "How many more people will you kill

what was left

skin was

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didn't deserve this." My voice barely came

through my body like lightning.

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

hear them anymore. I

I hate you, Kester! I hate you!" I was enraged. And for once, I didn't care what

never forgive him for

still trying to deal with what you did to Blaine then you go

and shook

I looked up at him, my chest

say

snapped, surging to my feet. "How

explained as if it was the most normal and obvious thing in the

stomach twisted. I scoffed, shaking my head slowly as

a tracker in something you gave

a gift."

for Nagel Vale. He's

fractured heartbeat... I almost believed

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

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

stunned. My laugh cracked on the way out. "So this is what that looks like? Obsession disguised as

neck. It felt like fire in my hands. With a sharp tug, I ripped the necklace off and

his feet.

You

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

my phones, laptops, everything... And you

control. And it's unhealthy, and I can't deal with

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