The Billionaire's Mistake

Chapter 249

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.

her with that lingering smirk, the unflappable confidence of a man who believed he had the world eating out of the palm of

prey. "Well in that case,

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

dangerous, but the degree to which he was toying with her was swiftly venturing into unconcerned territory. Part of her had naively hoped that being bedridden in a hospital would temper some of his more grandiose delusions, not embolden them

like venom, Hazel felt her consuming fear of the man warring against her rising fury and desire to scream back

irrevocably since they'd last shared a room all those months ago.

curses and tried to

amused Marcus who quite enjoyed teasing her He had seen pictures of the carnage she unleashed at

that she should leave

and surged to her feet. She had to get out of this room, away from his overpowering presence before he demolished what little composure she had left

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

rigid. Hazel held her breath, half expecting Marcus to call out one last

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 brutes appraised her dispassionately, awaiting

is to escort you home, Ms. Greyson," the one named

bubbled beneath her

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

her teeth in 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

many scathing rebukes, so many profanity-laced salvos

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