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–“–

I cut him off before he could make it sound like a good thing. “We’re not friends. I

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pack. He doesn’t light it.

haven’t discussed.

That he always fucking knew Riot was rising. And he didn’t stop him. Didn’t warn me. Didn’t say a goddamn word while

he was right. But he still

glance at

killed him,” I say quietly, more to

should’ve torn his throat out that night in the ring. When he challenged me

weren’t ready,” he

was ready. I just didn’t know he’d already

Silence again.

shifts his weight.

realize that? You, me… her. Outlaws. Exiled.

“You think I give a shit about the pack brand? That name means nothing if it bends to

“It was ours.”

“Was.”

The fire in my chest hasn’t cooled–it’s just

forgiveness,” I say. “I’ll gut you myself the second

Theo doesn’t argue. “Fair.”

that argument when the

Pierce.

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and gods know what else–his shirt torn, knuckles scabbed over, a fresh claw mark across his neck

I

were dead,”

Pierce grins. “Disappointed?”

“I’m not celebrating either.”

come bearing

do you

in fully now, boots tracking dirt across the floor, and glances over at Jessica. Something flickers

woods are whispering about the

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burn anyone,” I

Then you should

That stops me cold

jacket and tosses

sniffing close to the

what?”

eyes glinting. “To start

a heartbeat in my spine. Riot is

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