Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother

KASMINE.

The place was freezing. I couldn’t stop shaking.

My arms were numb. My legs were worse. I couldn’t feel my toes. Couldn’t even tell if they were still there. My skin burned from the cold, and every breath I drew in scraped my throat like sandpaper.

I was barely holding up.

My stomach twisted from hunger, and I could still taste bile. I’d thrown up whatever they’d tried to shove down my throat earlier. My lips were cracked. My throat was on fire. My wrists throbbed where the chains had bitten through.

I… I am going to die… I know this for sure.

I cried, but the tears no longer felt warm.

And in the middle of it all… There was one thought that kept crawling up my throat like a curse I couldn’t swallow.

I should have listened to Kester.

He was many things – aggressive, obsessive, reckless. But he was never wrong about the people around me.

He warned me about Jake

–

thank Goodness he was dead. He deserved a death worse than the one he had.

my own stupid, stubborn instincts… The same stupidity and stubbornness that had also killed Claire. If I had listened to Kester and maybe let him take me to the pack himself that day, Claire

fucking second of

I wasn’t a Luna.

I wasn’t a friend.

wasn’t even

was a walking disaster that

Kester. Now, look where it got

of hell… and all I wanted was for that obsessed, controlling, maddening

Even though the only thing

the faint sounds of something whooshing. But

best. Because if I were still in my body… then I had to accept what had

in fear. Nagel had tortured

came in here and made me suck his cock, he’d come back for it two more times like

he ever comes, in here again, I’d bite off that excuse of a cock he has, damming all the consequences that

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it.

a sitting position, even though the chains around my wrists and ankles didn’t let me move

to be able to catch the face of the person walking

before you see. This one… this one moved differently with swagger. Like he was

ate up the distance. As the dim light touched him, his features came into focus,