Mated To My Obsessive Stepbrother novel Chapter 20

Chapter 20

KASMINE.

I searched his eyes for any form of understanding, but there was none. All I saw was a cold, unfeeling man. It felt like I was standing before a stranger… Someone who fed on control.

“Kester!” My voice cracked, raw with desperation, as I tried to twist out of his iron grip. It was useless. He didn’t even flinch, his smirk widening as he watched my futile struggle. His calm, collected demeanor only made my panic worse.

“I’ll do anything you want. I swear. Just let me go,” I cried.

Tears rolled down my eyes.

He tilted his head, “Anything?” He asked so casually, and I nodded frantically, my mind

spinning.

“I’ll never miss work again,” I choked out, the words tumbling over one another in my desperation. “I’ll never disobey you, Kester. I’ll do your laundry. I’ll cook for you… I’ll do anything… anything. Please. Just don’t do this to me.”

Tears streaked my face, my chest heaving with sobs. The thought of my mother seeing me like this, of her finding out what was happening, shattered me. She would be devastated if she ever saw me with a man, let alone my stepbrother. It’ll break her poor heart. She would never forgive me.

“Anything…” he murmured, his gaze a bit distant as if lost in his thoughts.

“Yes. Yes.” I whispered.

I heard my mum opening Kester’s room and calling out his name. My room would be next, and she was just too close to opening my door.

“I noticed you’ve been locking your door a lot lately,” he said, his tone casual, but his eyes told a different story. They pinned me in place as his fingers traced a lazy path down my cheek, “I don’t think you’d want to lock it tonight. Would you, Kasmine?”

My throat closed, my breath catching.

“I-” My voice faltered.

I wasn’t stupid. I didn’t expect him to explain what he meant.

That was him saying, ‘Kasmine, keep your door open tonight.‘

But it terrified me. I didn’t think it was something I’d like to do. What if he… What if…

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Chapter 20

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He leaned closer, his lips brushing my ear as he whispered, “What happens if you lock it? Hmm? Shall we find out?”

I had begun locking my door after I saw the things I had seen in his room two days ago. It was my own little way of shielding myself from him.

“Kester…”

“I guess we don’t have an agreement, then,” He said and dipped his head to kiss me, but I nodded quickly.

“I’ll leave my door open tonight. I swear. I will.” I replied in a hurry, my eyes darting from him to the door, my chest heaving.

The knock I anticipated came. I flinched.

Taking in a deep breath to calm my obviously trembling hands, I unlocked the door and pulled it open.

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