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.

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

taking on an unmistakable edge; like a lioness toying with its cornered prey. "Well in that case, I insist you move into

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

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

every blistering remark that dripped from his lips like venom, Hazel felt her consuming fear of the man warring against her rising fury and desire to scream back her outrage. If she opened her mouth, would

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?

her curses and tried

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 one more

her feet. She had to get out of this

she bit out in clipped tones,

Hazel held her breath, half expecting Marcus to call out one last parting taunt - but thankfully the room. remained silent behind

with a hollow thud, Hazel exhaled a shuddering breath and came face-to-face with Marcus's personal security detail

escort you home, Ms. Greyson," the one named Dutch rumbled, gesturing for her to

bristled at the imperious command, her back going ramrod straight as defiance flared through her veins. Simmering fury bubbled beneath her skin like dragon-fire

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

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

so many profanity-laced salvos found themselves

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