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.

dare come near me." I choked. He froze mid-step, "Baby, he was going

many more people will you kill just because

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

skin was

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My voice barely came out, choked and broken. "Why, Kester?

like lightning. It left

And we need 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.

hear them anymore.

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

would never forgive

trying to deal with what you did to Blaine then you go ahead to do this?" I let out a

and shook my

looked up at him, my chest rising and

say a

I snapped, surging to my

it," he explained as if

slowly

trembled. "You put a tracker in something you gave me. Something you

a gift."

"Jake works for Nagel Vale. He's been working with

a fleeting, fractured heartbeat... I almost believed him.

said softly, looking at him unbelievably as more

"Let's just get out of here. We'll talk about this at home. Nagel probably knows

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

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

his feet.

years now, You "So,

of privacy for s dug a hole in the wall, watched me every day and night...” I scoffed as

everything... And you had the

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

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wild and dangerous. "We don't have time for all this