Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother novel Chapter 354 read online

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.

“Don’t…” I held out my hand, palm trembling, warding him off. Don’t you dare come near me.” I choked.

He froze mid–step, “Baby, he was going to…”

“Just stop it, Kester!” I yelled at him, “How many more people will you kill just because of me? How many

re?!”

I 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 could rewind time. As if I could bring him back.

His skin was still warm.

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Chapter 354

“He didn’t deserve this.” My voice barely came out, choked and broken. “Why, Kester? Why?!”

The agony splintered through my body like lightning. It left nothing whole Inside me.

Jake is the bad guy, Kasmine. 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. I didn’t want

to hear them anymore. I was done.

“Stop!” I yelled at the top of my lungs, “You are nothing but 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 something real tonight.

And I would never forgive him for it.

“Just when I was still trying to deal with what you did to Blaine then you go ahead to do this?” I let out a sharp, bitter