Chapter 177

Chapter 177

JESSICA

“Where. Were. You.”

“Out.”

That was it?

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Three goddamn hours of pacing grooves into the floor, chewing my nails down to nothing while every clock tick scraped my nerves raw, and that’s all he gives me?

Grayson didn’t pause. The bastard stalked past me into the bedroom like he’d crawled out of some pit, jacket still reeking of smoke and sin. My chest burned. I should’ve launched a lamp at his head. Instead, I followed, pulse hammering like it wanted to strangle me from the inside.

“Grayson!”

“Baby, I’m tired.”

Baby. Oh, fuck him. My fists curled at my sides, nails biting into skin. I stepped into the doorway, spine rigid. If he thought he could breeze in with one word and vanish into our sheets, he had another thing coming.

“Don’t you dare ‘baby‘ me.”

I wanted to claw the word out of his throat, even as some traitorous part of me catalogued the sweat at his temple, the heat rolling off him, the loose tie, the way his shoulders carried danger–and something else, something magnetic. My stomach twisted. My thighs pressed tight. Rage and want clawed at each other inside

me.

He dragged a hand down his face like he was swatting an itch he couldn’t shake. “I don’t want to do this tonight.”

“Too fucking bad,” I snapped, shoving at his chest. He didn’t budge. Never did.

Instead, his palm caught my wrist, scorching skin. He tilted his head, eyes cutting me like he could flay me open with one look.

“Careful,” he warned.

“Careful?” I barked a laugh. “You disappear for hours smelling like hell and tell me to be careful?”

He leaned into me, pressing me back, chest crushing mine, grip sliding to my waist. My ribs cinched under him. My breath hitched.

“Where were you?”

muttered, a

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just to feel him buckle. He didn’t.

play games

my chin, jaw locked, daring him. “Out with

gaze flicked to my mouth, lingering like a curse. “Does

you’re fucking someone

I were fucking someone else, you’d know.

That’s true.

in defiance that tasted too much

I

“Grayson-”

in his mouth, swallowed whole. I shoved at his chest with both hands, but all it did was make him grind

teeth grazing my jaw, lips relentless. “I fucked up,

nose buried in my neck like he could crawl inside and stay

clawed his shirt. Fury shook me. “Fucked up

control.” His hand slid higher on my thigh, forcing it open, grounding me against the wall with sheer weight. “Out there–blood, teeth, rage–I let the

Grayson lost control?

you saying?” I snapped, eyes wide, nails clawing at his shoulders. “You nearly… didn’t come back? You’re telling me–what? That you let yourself get

wolf… he came out, and I… I almost didn’t make it back to

my chest. “You’re insane,” I hissed, shoving at him.

teeth brushing mine in warning. “I’ve never lost control of

me he almost… didn’t make it back. Almost lost

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I whispered,

onto it, trying to catch my thoughts. “Did something

“Yes.”

“What?”

“I’ve visited Logan, Jess.”

leapt to the edge of the bed, eyes wide. Grayson’s

Check if he’d gone too

“Grayson… you don’t check. You go in… you- what? Kill

really think of me as

Of course not.

wants you to kill

“Yes.”

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