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?”

he muttered, a twitch of

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chest–not to push, but just to feel him buckle. He didn’t. He leaned into it. pinning me tighter, like

play games with

chin, jaw locked, daring him. “Out

my mouth, lingering like a curse. “Does

fucking someone

dangerous laugh vibrated against my knuckles. “If I were fucking someone else,

That’s true.

in defiance that tasted too much like

guttural, bone–deep, and the next second, I was pinned so

“Grayson-”

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

where I was?” he rasped, teeth grazing my jaw, lips relentless. “I fucked up, baby.

neck like he could crawl

his shirt. Fury

open, grounding me against the wall with sheer weight. “Out there–blood, teeth, rage–I let the wolf win. I nearly-” His voice cracked, then hardened. “I nearly didn’t come back

Grayson lost control?

clawing at his shoulders. “You nearly… didn’t come back? You’re telling me–what? That you let

“I–I couldn’t stop it. The wolf… he came out,

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

do,” he growled, forehead pressing to mine, teeth brushing mine in warning. “I’ve

didn’t make it

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what…?” I whispered, mind

I sank onto it, trying to catch my

“Yes.”

“What?”

“I’ve visited Logan, Jess.”

seized. I leapt to the edge of the bed, eyes wide.

gone too far. Make sure he

“Grayson… you don’t check. You go

you really think of me as a

Of course not.

jaw fell. “Logan… wants you to kill

“Yes.”

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