Chapter 161
Chapter 161
GRAYSON
Damn it.
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Every instinct in me is begging for blood. Rogues. Their stench is everywhere, crawling into my lungs. scratching at my wolf until he’s clawing against my skin. I should shift. I should tear through them, rip their throats wide, and let the forest drink what spills.
That’s who I am.
That’s who I’ve always been.
The beast that doesn’t hesitate.
But now… now there’s Jessica.
She’s in there, sleeping, breathing soft, the only sound in this rotten world that keeps me tethered. She has no idea how fragile it all is–how one wrong move could end her. The Alphas don’t want her here, the rogues would gut her for sport, and every choice I make is a damn coin toss between saving her and destroying her.
My pack is gone. Burned. Buried. Every life I should’ve protected, taken because I chose her. Because I couldn’t let her go. And I’d make the same choice again, even if it damns me.
But if these rogues scent her? If they know what I’m hiding?
They’ll rip her apart first.
And I’ll follow them straight into Hell just to drag them back out and make them beg for death.
The howl comes again, closer, taunting, and I swear my control fractures. My wolf doesn’t want patience. He doesn’t want reason. He wants slaughter.
And Goddess help me–so do I.
“What can I do for you, dear Roman?” Kade’s voice cuts through the night, smooth, calm, the kind of tone that makes enemies second–guess themselves. He’s standing in the open, welcoming rogues like a snake charming prey.
I’m crouched in the shadows, teeth bared, nails digging half–moons into my palms to
Not my proudest moment.
in me is screaming to leap, to shred, to show them who they’re dealing
But I can’t.
these rogues will know. They’ll smell Jessica on me. They’ll sniff
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breaking my back to protect. And
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thrashes against my ribs, furious at my restraint. He doesn’t care about strategy, doesn’t care about Kade’s games. He only
I want to lunge.
between my jaws. I want to paint the dirt with his blood and
But I stay.
red, every
Word is you’re hiding her. Give her to us, and maybe we’ll leave
laughed, snapping jaws, claws tearing dirt, daring us
went red. My wolf slammed against the cage of my body, claws bursting through my skin, jaw aching with the need to shift. Mine. The word roared through me, relentless, absolute. Mine to
cut. “Rumors. Nothing more. But keep sniffing at my
high, hackles raised, the promise of violence thick in
trembling with the effort to hold back. My wolf howled in my blood, clawing at me to lunge, to
him, yellow eyes glowing, their hunger bleeding into the night air. “Not just any bitch. You’re hiding her.” His nostrils flared as he dragged in
tunneled. My wolf slammed against my skin so
Fuck you, asshole,
cannot have her. You’ll never even say her name
Roman, and I’ll
crows.”
air. The ground itself
into the wind.
soon.”
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