His Trouble Maker

Chapter 96

Chapter 96

Grayson POV

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Her breathing is wrong. She’s shivering, hurting–and I can’t do a damn thing. Fuck. What kind of mate does that make me?

I scrub my hands down my face for the fiftieth time. Try to blink the image of her out of my head–But she’s still there. Broken. Bleeding. Looking at me like I wasn’t enough to stop it.

Because I wasn’t.

Because I left her.

If I hadn’t been stupid enough to walk away from that damn cabin, if I’d just stayed–if I’d listened to my instincts instead of trying to give her space like some civilized fuckin‘ coward-

None of this would’ve happened. She wouldn’t have been taken. Wouldn’t have had to shift to survive. Wouldn’t be lying there now, half–human, half- wolf, half something else I can’t name.

“You okay?” Theo asks from the corner, voice low.

I don’t look at him.

I haven’t looked at him since we got her out.

Since I saw the bruises on her hips and smelled the rot of magic and wolf–scent clinging to her skin.

I’m not done being angry with him.

I’m not sure I ever will be. But he’s the one who got me out. He’s the one who pulled me from Aria’s grip before they could shatter something I couldn’t rebuild.

So I don’t answer.

“You want a smoke?”

I grit my teeth. “Fuck you.”

He shrugs. “Sorry, man. I don’t do guys.”

Prick.

What is he doing here anyway? After Jessica’s unexpected shift last night, we were forced to run for our lives. She wounded Riot’s but I know what he did.

He killed the alpha and our father. While I am the rightful heir by name, him, killing the alpha, the power is already transferred to him.

I also knew the councils are snakes. I just didn’t know all of them would turn their back on us.

Those fucking assholes.

When I am done with my revenge, I will gut all of them and dance in their graves.

“She’s strong,” Theo says eventually, like that changes anything.

“I know.”

“She shifted. That’s rare for–“–

sound like a good thing. “We’re not

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doesn’t light it. Just move to the window, keeping watch. There

haven’t discussed.

And he didn’t stop him. Didn’t warn me. Didn’t say a goddamn word while

he was right. But he still chose silence. He

glance at Jessica

should’ve killed him,” I say quietly, more

I repeat when he doesn’t answer. “I should’ve torn his throat out that night in the ring.

weren’t ready,”

I just didn’t know he’d already bought

Silence again.

his

“You realize that?

looks over his shoulder. “You think I give a shit about

“It was ours.”

“Was.”

and roll my shoulders. The

forgiveness,” I say. “I’ll gut you

Theo doesn’t argue. “Fair.”

were in that argument when the door

Pierce.

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know what else–his shirt torn, knuckles scabbed over, a fresh claw mark across his neck that doesn’t

I

you were

Pierce grins. “Disappointed?”

“I’m not celebrating either.”

come bearing gifts, and

hell do you want?”

tracking dirt across the floor, and glances over at Jessica.

says. “Half the woods are whispering about the girl

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burn anyone,”

lifts a brow. “No? Then you should see what’s left of

That stops me cold

off his jacket and tosses it over a broken

They’re sniffing close to the eastern ravine.

for what?”

glinting.

feel it then–like a heartbeat in my spine. Riot is no longer a shadow

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