His Trouble Maker

Chapter 172

Chapter 172

Chapter 172

GRAYSON

“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.”

of caution now. “Oh? Still

into the mattress near her, feeling her tremble under my gaze. “She’ll shift when she’s ready. And

can 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 one raging

did you tell

like he’s daring me to snap. “Relax, big guy. I

“You were the last one she saw. Every word out of your mouth,

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that sometimes it’s fun to run, to play a little. To see who’s

wolf growls low, tail bristling inside me, and my teeth grit. “She’s mine, Jack. Don’t

a fraction. “Okay, okay…point taken. Don’t need

it in wolf form?” His tone is

my chest. “What the fuck are

back just out of reach, clearly loving my reaction. “You know…wolf you, wolf her. The chase, the…

dare,” I hiss, voice low and feral. “She’s not

anymore. All I can think about is her–fur slicked with rain, muscles coiled, golden eyes sharp, defiant, wild. My wolf growls in my

Damn it.

rattles the walls,

what I thought,” he

I’m already shoving him away from the bedroom door and into

she’s damaged,

frown. “What

took the one in front of me. “She told me I was

Riot. That name.

replaced with a touch of guilt. “She… she compared me to him. Said I reminded her of him, the

my

and I think he got her

up his hands,

fury and fear. I can’t let him see it. That tiny, unbearable fear: that one day she’ll wake up and realize it’s always been Riot. That all this… all my chasing, all my

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