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.

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

many more people will

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 could rewind time. As

was still

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

splintered through my body like lightning. It left nothing whole

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. I

anymore. I was

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

I would never forgive him for

Blaine then you go ahead

shook my

find me, huh?" I looked up at him,

didn't say a

to my feet. "How did

a tracker in it," he explained as if it was the most normal and obvious thing in the

head slowly

put a tracker in something you gave me. Something you told

a gift."

conversation like he always did. "Jake works for Nagel Vale.

for a moment... a fleeting, fractured heartbeat... I almost believed

unbelievably as more tears streaked down my cheek. "What other

talk about this at home. Nagel probably knows you're here already.

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

his feet.

now, You "So, this is

never had a shred of privacy for s dug a hole in the wall, watched me every day and night...” I scoffed as the realization was beginning to look

phones, laptops, everything... And you had the effrontery to also

It's control. And it's unhealthy,

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