Chapter 172

Chapter 172

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“There. You’re clean now.”

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She whines, soft and raw, tail curling tight around me as I drag the towel over her soaked fur. She hadn’t been able to shift and I don’t know why. Somehow I’m starting to get afraid that something is wrong with her.

I don’t want to think anything and I certainly don’t want her wolf to feel like I don’t want her but this is a first for me.

“Shift, Jessica,” I murmur, voice low, almost desperate. “Let me feel you. Let me bring you back to me.”

Still nothing.

What the fuck is wrong with her?

Her gold eyes flick to mine, wild, confused, vulnerable. “Come on, baby,” I growl, voice rough, teeth bared. “I need you. Don’t make me wait.”

She whines again, nudging my thigh, pressing close.

“Okay. I won’t force you,” I told her as I lifted her fully and carried her on our bed. I set her down gently, pressing her head against the pillow, letting her body sink into the mattress. “What’s gotten into you, anyway?”

I know she’ll never understand what I am saying. I let myself watch her for another minute before I sigh and went to the asshole outside of my house.

Jack steps inside as soon as I open the door. “So…did you find her?”

“Yeah. And she’s mine. Don’t get any ideas, asshole.”

grin widens, but there’s a hint of caution now.

near her, feeling her tremble

feel her focus slowly, dangerously, drifting toward me again. My wolf hums, approving, hungry. I lean closer, inhaling her scent, letting the storm outside match the

you

smirk tugging at the corner of his mouth, like he’s daring me to snap.

were the last one she saw. Every word out of your mouth, she felt it. What did

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laughs, a little nervous now. “Oh…you know. Just reminded her that sometimes it’s fun to run, to play a little. To see

growls low, tail bristling inside me, and my teeth grit. “She’s

faltering, just a fraction. “Okay, okay…point taken.

it? I mean…doing it in wolf form?” His tone is teasing, dangerous, and I can

snapping through my chest. “What the fuck are

reaction. “You know…wolf you, wolf her. The chase, the… claiming. Could

feral.

is her–fur slicked with rain, muscles coiled,

Damn it.

a guttural, feral howl tear out of me, raw and possessive. It rattles the walls, rattles my bones, and

thought,” he shouts between chuckles.

anything else, I’m already shoving him

think she’s

frown. “What do

chair before he took the one in front

Riot. That name.

smirk gone, his usual amusement replaced with a touch of guilt. “She… she compared me to him. Said I reminded her of him, the way I was chasing her.

me made my throat constrict in pain. That’ll be

I think he got her

holds up his hands,

between fury and fear. I can’t let him see it. That tiny, unbearable fear:

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