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.

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

"Well in that case, I insist you

her tenuous grip on her restraint slipping as she snapped her jaw shut to keep an outraged

with 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 unconcerned territory. Part of her had naively hoped that being bedridden

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 she be lashing out...or inadvertently

throat, 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 the one metaphorically chained, at Marcus's mercy whether she

tried

enjoyed teasing her He had seen pictures of the carnage she unleashed at the club tonight, so he knew she had a

was tired. She felt that she should

to her feet. She had to get out of this room, away from his

she bit out in clipped

held her breath, half expecting Marcus to call out one last parting taunt - but thankfully the

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 brutes appraised her dispassionately, awaiting orders from their

Ms. Greyson," the one named

defiance flared through her veins. Simmering fury bubbled beneath her skin like dragon-fire at Marcus, at these brutish lackeys of his, at

domain, the new world order where he pulled the strings from his hospital bed like some vulture-headed Machiavellian

SUVS in the parking lot: As they

many profanity-laced salvos found

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