Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother novel Chapter 194

Chapter 194

KESTER.

“Step away from her, Kex.”

My voice came out steady, but the restraint behind it felt like a noose tightening around my throat. Every muscle in my body coiled, ready to snap, but I held firm.

I already had too much blood on my hands.

I didn’t want to add Kex’s to it.

But then he smirked.

That smirk.

Like he wasn’t standing in front of death itself. Like he didn’t give a damn that I could rip him apart where he stood.

The arrogant bastard.

I felt like ripping his face in half for even as much as smiling around Kasmine..

“You don’t have to beat yourself up, Kester,” he said, sounding so casual and unbothered. He shifted his weight, hands slipping into his pockets like we were discussing soccer. “We were just…” His gaze slid back to Kasmine, and something about the way he looked at her

made my blood burn.

His eyes dragged over her body, and my fingers curled into fists.

“Getting to know each other. Isn’t that right, beauty?” he finished, and then, as if he wasn’t already toeing the edge of death, he tilted his head and made to lay his filthy hands on her when I moved with the speed of light and in a second, my fingers were

wrapped around his wrist.

Kasmine sucked in a breath beside me, her body so still, I knew she was holding it together by a thread.

“Don’t you dare, Kex,‘ I gritted out, struggling to see through the blur of red that had

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already blinded my vision.

Kex let out a low chuckle, completely unfazed. “Damn, you’re fast. Shame you can’t move

that quick in business–maybe then you wouldn’t be drowning as fast as you are, you

know?”

I took a slow breath, forcing my fingers to loosen before I did something I wouldn’t regret -but damn if Kex didn’t make it hard.

I tried all I could to ignore his taunts, too.

“You’re going to stay away from my sister,” I said with a lethal calmness.

Kex didn’t flinch. If anything, he looked amused, like I was some overprotective fool throwing a tantrum.

I ignored the urge to snap his wrist in half and turned to Kasmine. She was still stiff beside me, her arms wrapped around herself like she could shrink away from this moment. I reached for her, pulling her toward me. “We’re leaving.”

Kex exhaled dramatically. “Oh, come on, Kester. Don’t be so predictable. We were just

talking.”

“And to think you have been rejecting your only way out shows how foolish you are, man,” He added, and fuck… I tensed. I was going to murder someone today. I felt it so strong.

Kex staggered, but to my fury, he didn’t fall.

Instead, he wiped the blood from his nose, examined it for a second, and then laughed.

“Damn,” he muttered, grinning through red–streaked teeth. That was a good one.” He tapped the bridge of his nose, wincing playfully. “Think you broke it.”

“The next time you speak that way about my sister ever again, you won’t be going home

with just a broken nose.”

As I dragged Kasmine toward the car, a storm raged inside me. My pulse thundered, my

grip on her wrist tightening.

The image of Kex’s filthy hands reaching for her and the smug glint in his eyes played over and over in my head, stoking the fire of my fury. If I had arrived a second later… Thoughts of how things would have quickly spiraled into something else if I hadn’t shown up when I did, plagued me.

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“You seem to have a thing for getting into trouble with the opposite gender, Kasmine, I bit out, shoving her into the passenger seat with more force than I intended as I slammed the door shut.

Kasmine gasped, but I was already moving, rounding the car with long strides.

I wrenched the driver’s side door open and slid inside, fingers gripping the wheel. My chest rose and fell with heavy, barely controlled breaths.

“Kes…”

My hand shot up, a single fing