Chapter 25 Eve Seeks Revenge

Jane

“Jane!” Ethan’s deep bass echoes in my ears, sending shiv ers down my spine and making my knees shake. At first I tell my self I only imagined it, but then the palpable silence hanging be tween us becomes too heavy to deny.

| stop in my tracks, trying to act nonchalant. “Who is Jane?” || ask, not bothering to turn around.

“You’re really going to keep playing this game?” He de mands, sounding as angry as I’ve ever heard him.

“I’m sure I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I insist, dig

ging in my heels.

“Like you don’t know what happened last night?” Ethan drawls, his footsteps drawing nearer.

“I’ve already told you, you fell.” I remind him, determined to stick to my story at all costs. The last thing I need is for him to re member I attacked him. I hadn’t even thought about what I was

doing in the moment. It was only after, when I saw his blood, that | truly processed what i’d done: I attacked the Alpha. Yes he kissed me without asking, but I let him. I was kissing him back every bit as passionately as he was kissing me and then I turned on him out of nowhere.

I can only imagine what the punishment would be. He cer tainly wouldn’t turn me over to law enforcement. I’m sure he’d de vise some creative and completely twisted revenge to which he could subject me.

“Bull.” He snaps, refusing my assertion point blank.

“You had a lot to drink.” I argue, hating how hyperaware I am of the man. I know exactly where he stands without looking, and I feel his nearness like a drug. “Not even Alpha’s are immune to drunken accidents.”

“The strange thing is how I happened to fall here, outside your door.” Ethan replies, his hot breath fluttering over my ear.

“Maybe you were stalking me.” | suggest, shifting restlessly from foot to foot.

“No, I seem to remember you being there.” He announces, sending my heart plummeting into my stomach.

No, oh no, he remembers. He knows what I did!

“That doesn’t mean you weren’t stalking me.” I reason, trying to keep my voice steady.

Ethan’s huge, calloused hands land on my waist, pinning me to the spot and terrifying me to the core. “What happened last night, Jane?”

“Stop calling me that.” I beg.

“Why?” He growls, “What bothers you about it so much?”

“It isn’t my name.” | lie, “Why wouldn’t it bother me?” || breathe, “And all I know about last night, is what Linda told me. She found you unconscious in her hallway, and called me to fill me in before I got home, that’s all.”

The Alpha’s hands tighten, sending pulses of heat straight to

my core. “Then why can I still taste you?” He rumbles.

me?!” | exclaim, passing off my shock

tion.

prompts, purring

brush his muscular

| confirm, “But I’m giving you the chance to

your words.”

taunts, “I don’t say anything I

once before not to

hiss.

clarifies, “Affectionately? If my memory

then it’s more than

it isn’t, correct.” I insist, “I don’t know what you imagined happened last night, but I assure you that you have

me that

I could

I’m not going to forget that anytime soon. And I’m not going to rest until you’re

from, this is called harassment.” | inform

icily.

call

head even harder than I realized.” | gulp. feeling myself slowly melting in his

an escape.

anything

seen everything I want to

free of his grip.

and holding me still

“you’ve mistaken

This is your concussion

Ethan contends, his heated

half-drowned me in the tub trying to cuddled me. Then I realize he’s not merely pressing me close, he’s very subtly rubbing his body against mine, intentionally covering

scent.

him. The nerve! I think in

“Stop what?” He smirks.

know what you’re doing!” | accuse fiercely, heaving in a few panting breaths. “You need to leave, Ethan.” I finally

nounce.

He replies,

got

having a complete mental breakdown. As strong as I feel when we’re apart, as firm as my resolve may be, when we’re together the entire world seems to turn on its head. I’m no longer powerful

I’m weak and vulnerable and at his

to kick me out after midnight?” He asks, adopting a beleaguered

don’t give an inch, “You’re a big boy,

I’m injured.” He attests, making every

pitiful and failing abysmally.

walks in from the hall. I wonder how long she’s been up, I wonder how much she

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