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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him buckle. He didn’t. He leaned into it. pinning me tighter, like he liked my

games with

where?” I tipped my chin, jaw

lingering like a curse.

fucking someone

knuckles. “If I were fucking

That’s true.

I said, throat bare in defiance that tasted too much like surrender. “Say where. Say who.

bone–deep, and the next second, I was pinned so hard the drywall cracked behind

“Grayson-”

at his chest with both hands, but all it did was make him

know where I was?” he rasped, teeth grazing my jaw, lips

like he could crawl inside and

his shirt. Fury shook

with sheer weight. “Out there–blood, teeth, rage–I let

Grayson lost control?

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

mine, black, dangerous, raw. “I–I couldn’t stop it. The wolf… he came out, and I… I almost didn’t make it back to

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

teeth brushing mine in warning. “I’ve

almost… didn’t make it

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what…?” I whispered,

bed. I sank onto it, trying to catch my thoughts. “Did something else

“Yes.”

“What?”

“I’ve visited Logan, Jess.”

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

if he’d gone too far.

between fury and disbelief. “Grayson… you don’t check. You go in… you-

me. “Do you really

Of course not.

“Logan… wants you

“Yes.”

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