His Trouble Maker

Chapter 100

Chapter 100

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JESSICA

Grayson is sleeping beside me. He looks so peaceful. I rested my hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat as quickly as my own.

Maybe we’re both pretending to be okay. Maybe that’s enough for tonight.

His fingers twitch where they rest at my hip–instinctive, possessive even in sleep. He stirred, like he felt me watching him. His lashes fluttered, but his eyes didn’t open. Instead, he exhaled quietly and kept his hand firm on my waist.

“What are you thinking?” he murmured, voice rough from sleep.

“Hm?” I let my head rest on his chest, hoping he couldn’t hear how my pulse was going wild. “Nothing.”

A lie because I’m thinking about everything.

His thumb moves, slow drag along my waist, drawing small circles over the fabric of my shirt. It’s nothing. It’s everything. I close my eyes and try to memorize the weight of his hand–because part of me still thinks this won’t last, and I want to keep something when it ends.

“Jessica,” he says again, softer this time, and I don’t know if it’s a question or a reassurance.

I shift slightly, angling my body toward him. “I missed this,” I say, barely a whisper.

His eyes open at that. Dark, heavy with sleep and something else–something older, aching.

“I know,” he says, voice raw. “I’ve missed you too, baby.” Grayson rolls halfway on top of me, pinning my body between the mattress and the full weight

of him. “I’ve missed us.”

I tilt my head just enough for my mouth to graze his jaw. “Do you think…” I start, then pause, wetting my bottom lip with a flick of my tongue. “Do you think after this… everything will go back to normal?”

“There’s no such thing as normal after you,” he says, voice low and rough, like it’s dragging truth straight from his chest.

That makes me bite down on a pout. I turn my face slightly, cheek brushing the pillow. “That sounds like a no.”

“It sounds like I don’t want normal if it means pretending we didn’t happen.”

1 close my eyes for half a second–just to breathe, just to not let everything show on my face. The part of me that wants to believe him, to trust this, to let go of every reason I built for keeping him at arm’s length.

But it’s also the part that’s terrified.

“Since…” My voice is soft, my words catching like thorns in my throat. “Since when did you know I’m your mate, Grayson?”

long time now. Turning it over in my head, over and over again like a stone in my

goes still above me.

“I want to know”

I need

know about it or I lose my

was always you,” he says after a beat. “From the

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His eyes are open now, fully.

and raw. “Why were you such an asshole to me back then, Grayson? You were cruel. You bullied

voice trembles but I don’t stop

Pecause ill stop now, the

didn’t belong near you. Like I was just some annoying little girl you couldn’t

he says finally. “You think I wanted to look at you every day and act like you weren’t already under my goddamn

if we ever had this conversation between us but then Grayson always lies to me before. He kisses me and tells me lies and then kisses me some more as if he’s trying to

Jess. You were fearless and bright and wild and… good. Too good. You walked into a room

stops, swallows. His voice

was already

My pulse trips

myself even look at you the way I wanted

My hands curt slightly

away?” I ask, “You didn’t have to torture me, Grayson. You didn’t have to make me feel like–like I was

he growls. “God,

“Then why didn’t you?”

eyes blazing. “Even then. I couldn’t

was always me- If he knew–If the bond was there

stare up at the ceiling like it

whisper before

trying to read me,

going to fester. “How can

moving through myd His hand drags down his face. I should stop. I should shut up. But the words keep

my bones

silence. Nothing. I keep waiting to feel something when you touch me. A spark. A tug Anything” My voice shatters “But it’s not

looks like i stabbed him But I can’t stop. This conversation

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“God, I want it to be you. Do you know how many nights I

Pain. Fury.

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