Chapter 120

GRAYSON

I don’t fucking know what I’ll do anymore.

Fuck it.

have run through the woods for almost ten times now but I still get my head intact as to what i should do next to recover from this

mess.

Pierce is right.

Whatever is happening is partly my fault. I trusted her too much when I knew she had rogue blood in her. It’s a ticking bomb for everything that happened ‘till this day.

Somehow, it’s been weeks of trouble and I have no fucking clue what kind of god I’ll pray on to surpass this.

Should I just let Riot have the pack?

I should just leave the village under his regime and run away with Jess. I can make her safe and mine. I’ll seek for whatever healer

there is to find a cure to whatever is in her.

But even that sounds like a fucking fantasy. Jess doesn’t want to be kept. She doesn’t want soft hands and safe houses. She wants blood on her tongue and chains she can break through. She wants war in her belly.

She wants to burn, and I keep trying to build her a cage made of calm.

I’m a fucking idiot.

My boots hit the dirt again, and I push harder, faster, like if I run fast enough the past week will rewind and I’ll catch her before Riot

touches her.

Personally, I don’t care about Theo either. I’m glad Jess got her revenge but him shifting into something means I’ve lost another man and now it’s just me and Pierce.

I slow, finally, panting, fingers flexing open and shut. My claws want to come out again. My wolf is restless–pacing inside my ribs, snapping at the walls of my chest.

Find her.

Claim her.

Drag her back.

But, I can’t.

walking toward me, boots crunching through leaves, jaw

“I’ve got news.”

already. Hope and rage

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shakes his head and

because I didn’t see this coming–but

about it?” My voice comes out

he’s hoping I’ll put it together myself, save him the burden. But I’m already

splintering,” he says finally. “Some of the younger betas–Liam, Hart, the twins–they’re talking about following Riot. He’s promising them power.

that doesn’t reach

Pierce doesn’t answer.

won’t kill his own mate. Who chained

that. My words bite

he says. “They don’t know where we are, and some of them are accepting the fact that you’re

Gone.

that’ll ever be an

get this kind of

eyes flash, something primal lurking behind them. He takes a step forward, nostrils

to that gravelly tone that reminds me what

my teeth before I can stop myself.

me now, shoulders hunched forward, movements fluid

hand shoots out, grabbing his

feeling my canines elongate slightly against

breath hot

harder than necessary. He stumbles but recovers with inhuman grace, crouching slightly, fingers splayed on the ground. The sight triggers something ancient in

muscles coil and release with each

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body swaying with mine,

a second–and a

black. He drops

“I’m not betraying you but I’m not tolerating you either. Some of the warriors are coming to discuss

“What move?”

enough to know my beta

my palm. “You will still need an alpha,” I hiss, feeling my claws extend, pricking the skin at his throat. A thin line of blood wells up, the

lips curl into a smile that’s all teeth–teeth that sharpen as I

me in the stomach. I double over but don’t release him. Instead, I drag him down with me, both of us

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