Chapter 30

JESSICA

Grayson is so fucking late. That asshole. He told me to wait in this spot and now he’s nowhere to be found. I was silently cursing him in my

head when I heard a familiar voice.

“Jessica…”

Huh?

“Jessica…”

What the fuck. I sit up so last the room tits. Did 1-1 Was 1-7 My eyes dart, frantic. I scan the room and realize I’m in my own fucking bed. But why am I here? The last thing I remember is I was waiting for..

“Shit,Grayson.”

I quickly jump off the bed and grab my phone, dialing his number. It’s past midnight already, and this is beyond ridiculous. What the hell happened? The phone rings. Once. Twice.

“Pick up, you asshole…

A third ring and I’m already out of my room, finding Pierce so he can come with me to check for Grayson instead I stop in the middle of the hall, blink like because that is weird. Our kitchen’s light is on. Mom is not around, and Pierce is probably sleeping at this hour. Something feels… wrong. So, I tiptoe and walk near our kitchen. I spot Pierce and Grayson standing by the kitchen island, beers in hand. I lean in closer, trying to catch every word.

“50, you and Aria are back, huh?”

I feel the ground slip out from under me. My stomach drops, a wave of nausea rushing over me.

Aria. Grayson’s fucking ex?

I barely breathe, pressing my back to the wall, my chest tight, as if I’ve just been punched. My eyes burn, the sting of tears threatening to spill, but I don’t let them fall W What does he mean by that?

Pierce’s voice, quieter now, almost too calm. “So what are you gonna do about it!”

Grayson laughs, and the sound claws at my insides. It’s rough, like he’s trying to mask something, but it only makes it worse. “Don’t know

yet. But my father wants her to be my Luna.”

Luna. His

been holding back surge, but I force them down, biting the inside of my cheek

I can’t. I can’t breathe. My lungs feel like they’re

hold it together. But the pressure inside me builds, and for a moment, everything spins. Grayson…

I

fuck am I? Just a fucking

and I freeze, straining to catch every word, to understand how I’ve gotten

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think?” Grayson’s voice is rough, but there’s something else in it, something that

next, calm but pointed. “Does it matter

widening, my heart

dirty the old man plays. He threatened me that if I don’t do what he wants, he’ll give it

to make sense of it. The name sounds familiar but I

lets out a harsh laugh, one that’s empty. “I don’t

goddess, it

More tears stream down my cheeks and I feel so fucking pathetic. Everything hurts. Every single fucking part

relentless, like they know what I can’t even admit to myself. I was such

the one using him for my own

even thinking there was something

will the ache, the one gnawing

just

that it really happened. I woke up with my eyes hurting because I couldn’t stop crying. The tears had soaked

never felt

Grayson would change for me! That he’d somehow

but it’s bitter, like

was past noon when Logan come barging into my room. He was practically pulling the cover out of

let him.

like he’s afraid to see what’s so fucking obvious, but when they

is, like he’s trying to piece me

“No

gaze hardens, like he knows exactly what’s going on in my head, like he can see the

on, Jess,” he mutters, a tone so masculine I almost thought he’s a

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