MISTAKE 249

Chapter 249: To tease her

The hospital room was thick with tension as Marcus Green's piercing gaze bored into Hazel Greyson. She struggled to maintain an air of nonchalance, focusing intently on the plate of institutional cafeteria food in her lap. But she could feel the weight of his stare like a

physical force, making the hairs on the back of her neck prickle.

Even confined to a hospital bed, injured and swathed in bandages, Marcus still radiated an unmistakable aura of danger that set Hazel's nerves on edge. There was something feral, something unrestrained simmering behind those pale blue eyes that made her instincts want to recoil.

"So..." His low rumble of a voice shattered the loaded silence. "Where will we be staying after I'm discharged from this place?"

Hazel's head snapped up, her brow furrowing as she met his intense gaze across the dingy hospital room. "Excuse me?"

Marcus regarded her with an expression equal parts amusement and challenge, corners of his mouth quirking ever so slightly.

"Well, we are married, are we not?" He stated this with such casual ease, such unabashed certainty, that the words felt like a lead weight dropping into the pit of Hazel's stomach.

"We most certainly are not," she countered through a tight smile, struggling to keep her tone measured despite the growing impulse to scream at this insufferable, arrogant man.

fazed whatsoever by her retort, he gave no outward indication. He simply continued to watch her with that lingering smirk, the unflappable confidence of a man who believed he had the world eating out of the

edge; like a lioness toying with its cornered prey. "Well in that

words hung heavy in the stagnant air, audacious and utterly brazen in their audacity. Hazel felt her tenuous grip

was unhinged, dangerous, but the degree to which he was toying with her was swiftly venturing into unconcerned territory. Part of her

her rising fury and desire to scream

since they'd last shared a room all those months ago. Back then, she'd been captor...but now? She was the one metaphorically

curses and tried to keep

expression amused Marcus who quite enjoyed teasing her He had seen pictures of the carnage she unleashed at the club tonight, so he knew she had a temper. Seeing her holding it in amused him

tired. She felt that she should leave now before he says

her features, Hazel pushed her plate aside and surged to her feet. She had to get out of this room, away from his overpowering presence before he demolished

need to do," she bit out in clipped tones, refusing

and strode briskly toward the exit, shoulders rigid. Hazel held her breath, half expecting Marcus to call out one last parting taunt - but thankfully the room. remained

hospital door fell shut with a hollow thud, Hazel exhaled a shuddering breath and came face-to-face with Marcus's personal security detail looming in the hallway. The two hulking

Greyson," the

her back going ramrod straight as defiance flared through her veins. Simmering fury bubbled beneath her skin

did she have, really? This was the way things were in Marcus's domain, the new world order

seething resentment, Hazel forced one stiff nod at the bodyguards and let them herd her toward the awaiting caravan of black SUVS in the parking lot: As they traveled through the

profanity-laced salvos found themselves

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