Chapter 25

GRAYSON

Damn

We’ve got the girl wolfie.

My wolf’s smug pacing like a beast who’s finally cornered his prey–and now doesn’t know whether to lick her wounds or tear her wide open

again.

She gave it to me.

All oth

Her breath. Her body. Her fucking fight..

And I took it slow. Savored every fucking second like I wasn’t starving for it all this time.

I’ve fed; baby.

I’ve fucking fed.

I take every goddamn piece of her she tries to keep. I take her breath–especially the shallow ones, the desperate ones, the ones caught in her throat when she’s trying not to make a sound. I’ll take those like oxygen, like they’re the only thing keeping me alive. I’ll bleed for that fucking breath.

Because I’m ruined now.

Feral.

Unfuckinghinged.

I adjust the collar of my shirt–still wrinkled from earlier and flip open the report my old man handed me this morning

Yeah, Great

Four pages of scribbled corrections, circled names, and notes like: “Double–check Pierce’s numbers.”

The guy’s meticulous as fuck

Annoyingly so.

“Something good happened?”

I stop whistling–didn’t even realize I was doing–and turn my head, jaw already tight. Fucking Pierce. He’s leaning against the doorframe, cigarette burning low between his fingers, smirking like he thinks he knows something I don’t. I hate that look on him. Hate the way it twitches at the comer of his mouth like he’s about to say something smart

smirks like the bastard he is, holding

drop ash near my car again, grind your

drag anyway–provoking on purpose, like he wants to see if snap his spine in half.

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whistling, Gray Smoke slips through his teeth, “You only do that when you’ve fucked someone stupid or gutted something

like he can still smell

“Which was it?”

him right now I just fucked his little sister, there’s no way this doesn’t end with me

do you

raises his brows a slow drag of smoke curling past

but my jaw twitches.

ways I could respond to that, and all of them end with

Poor girl?

You mean your sister?

Yeah. Thought so

My voice is dry. Almost bored. “Should I start sending you

cigarette burning low between his fingers. He’s not stupid. He’s

to know when I’m

shove past him, open the office door. “You coming in or planning to lolter out

the cigarette out against the wall–asshole–then follows me in. Tss. Inside, I toss the folder onto

shit.

and sighs. “Theard something” he says, eyes

twitch. Of course he did. He always hears something. Like the damn walls speak to him. Like the wind

other people’s business like it’s blood in the water. Pack secrets, training rumors, who’s fucking who in the supply shed–Pierce

like a hammer.

arms as lean back against the desk. “Let me guess–more whining from the Delta unit? Or did

snort, one side of his mouth twitching like he’s half–amused, half–sick of me. “It’s pot about

That gets my attention.

spine straightens, breath tightening in my

His voice is clipped. Business. “Near the easter borders. Two packs hit. One’s missing

Fuck

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a hand down my face, every

“When?”

now. Controlled, but fast. Like the movement

Like someone’s

on instinct. “What about the one who went after your mother? Or your sister?” The words come out colder than I mean. I know he won’t stop until he finds the

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