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.

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

with its cornered prey. "Well in that case, I insist you move into my estate once I'm released. No more of this...quaint little flat you're

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

every fiber of her being that Marcus Green was unhinged, dangerous, but the degree to which he was toying with her was swiftly venturing into

consuming fear of the man warring against her rising fury and desire to scream back her outrage. If she opened her mouth, would she be lashing out...or inadvertently

a stark reminder of how the scales had tipped irrevocably since they'd last shared a room all those months ago. Back then, she'd been captor...but now? She was

tried

quite enjoyed teasing her He had seen pictures of the carnage she unleashed at the club tonight,

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

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 what

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

exit, shoulders rigid. Hazel held her breath, half

a shuddering breath and came face-to-face with Marcus's personal security detail looming in the hallway. The two hulking

home, Ms. Greyson," the one named Dutch

through her veins. Simmering fury bubbled beneath her

in Marcus's domain, the new world order where he pulled the strings from his hospital bed like some

let them herd her toward the awaiting caravan of black SUVS in the parking lot: As they traveled through the bustling city streets, Hazel sat in stony silence - her fists clenched so tightly atop her thighs, her knuckles turned

many profanity-laced salvos found themselves scorching the

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