His Trouble Maker

Chapter 127

JESSICA

“We’re getting out of here before dawn.”

Riot instinctively untie my ropes as if the name I’ve said said made me scared as fuck. Theo is my wolf. I’ve turned him and made him into a monster for me. He’s my monster but why is Riot reacting like this?

There’s no explanation.

I’ve succeeded.

I created the first hybrid and he’s going to be loyal to me. Faithful. He’s going to crouch down to the ground and kiss the floor just so he can obey me.

I let Riot yank me by the arm, drag me through wet moss and root–knotted earth like I’m weightless, like he’s in a rush now and I’m the bag he forgot to pack. His breath is short. His eyes won’t meet mine. He’s scared and trying not to look it, and that’s the part that makes me grin.

I did that.

I made something worse than him.

And now he thinks it’s coming.

“You think Theo’s going to hurt you?”

He’s not taking me back to the pack. He can’t. He’s just trying to hide now.

I laugh. Loud enough to echo.

He whips around and grabs me by the throat. Hard. Shoves me against a tree. “What the fuck did you do to him?”

I choke on the pressure but I don’t stop smiling. I let the heat rising in my gut.

fear slip out from my eyes just enough to bait him, just enough to mask the

“You turned him into a thing,” Riot says. “He’s not yours. He’s not even a wolf anymore.”

“He’s mine,” I rasp. “You saw it. You felt it.”

Riot’s hand tightens. My feet lift half an inch off the ground. “You created a monster you cannot tame.”

so scared or something else happens. “What did

I will feel. I did what I had to do to save the pack from Riot. The pack and everyone in it. And also, because I had something to

this violent world.

So what?

that made Riot this scared as hell? What is going on? And also,

me all of the answers I needed. For long minutes, I watch as he ties me

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like he’s erasing everything including our

and watch him do it with feral

glares at me and smirk. “Why would I ease

you tell

rope. I jerk forward so hard the bark cracks

“Where’s Grayson?! Where’s Pierce?! Why aren’t we moving–why are you scared?! Tell me, you piece of

kick at nothing. My body is fire and my brain is worse. I can’t think. I don’t want to. I just want him to break–just say it–just say the words–say what the fuck went

what I’ve done. I don’t know what I made. I don’t know what Theo is anymore. I’m not even sure if it will kill

want to own it. I want every single fucking one of them to kneel. I want Riot dead. I want him wrecked and choking and dragged by the same rope that’s cutting into my skin. I want him to feel

and makes me his whore. “What did he do to you?” I whisper. “Did he

Free.

fast–my head cracks back against the tree. I spit blood and keep smiling. “You can’t stop

And you know it.”

Riot never ties me

smirks and I don’t know why cold drops into my stomach, stirring it deeply into my guts.” Do you know what you

wounded. His hand comes up and he drags the back of his knuckles across my cheek, gentle. Mocking. I try to jerk away but he grabs my chin hard and forces me

to hear this right,” he

hits

“He ate them.”

cold. I stare straight ahead like if I don’t look at him, it won’t be true. He’s lying. He

I built him to tear first and think later.

chin. Teeth flashing red. I see his face tilted to the sky and howling with bone between his jaws. I see him lapping brains from the dirt like it’s soup I made for him. He’s

I did that.

I think I’m going to throw up, but it catches

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