Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother novel Chapter 136

Chapter 136

KASMINE

It could be the person behind the message and the photo, Maybe they wanted to tell me more. Rub it in. Demand something.

Or maybe…. maybe I could reason with them. Beg them not to tell.

I hit answer.

“Hello?” My voice was thin and raw, like I’d been screaming for hours.

There was a pause. Then, a woman’s warm voice filtered through

“Miss Kasmine?” She called.

I blinked. “Y–yes?”

“This is Melissa from Leropita Hospital. The receptionist. Recall?” She asked.

1 sat up slowly, still clutching the blanket, torn between relief, worry, and disinterest. I rubbed at my face with the heel of my palm, smearing cold tears across my cheek. My eyes were still sore from crying, and my lungs were too tight like they didn’t trust the air around me anymore.

I had begged her the other day I met her at the mall to please let me in on anything she thought I should know about Kester.

I’d even bought her a dress, a stunning blush pink one with soft satin folds and a cinched waist. It was too expensive for a stranger, too generous for someone I barely knew. But I hadn’t cared. Desperation has a way of making you reckless with money, with trust, with yourself,

“Uh… Yes, Melissa. I remember,” I said, trying not to sound as breathless as I felt. My voice sounded like I’d been swallowing gravel.

This might be important, yes, but my guts tell me that whatever she might have to say might just add to my trauma at the moment.

“Yeah I breathed. “I remember.”