Chapter 166
JESSICA
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If Grayson can only open his eyes, he would surely see how much I’m inlove with him.
It’s dangerous how much this alpha can hurt and make love to me at the same time.
He was infuriating.
Yes.
He knew it too.
Other omegas would’ve crawled away, head bowed, tail tucked. Not me. Maybe that’s why he never holds back, why he can be rough with me and not lose sleep over it. Because I won’t break. I’ll break him first.
I’d die for this man. I’d live for him. If he only let me.
Grayson gasps between punches, sweat dripping down his chest as he finally stops. He must’ve felt me staring, because his eyes snap open and land straight on me. A small smirk curves his mouth–one of those cruel ones that always make me want to scream or kiss him bloody.
“Want to join me, baby?”
“Nope,” I shake my head, curling my knees tighter to my chest. “I’m still sore.”
He laughed, stalking towards me and dropping to get his towel. “Then do you mind?”
I stare at the towel he’s giving me and frown. “I’m not here to serve you either. alpha.”
His grin widens. He drops the towel right into my lap like he’s just claimed me in front of the whole world. “Funny,” he murmurs, leaning closer, sweat still glistening on his jaw. “Because last night, you didn’t mind serving me at all.”
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Heat spikes up my neck. My fingers curl around the stupid towel before I can stop myself. “That was different,” I hissed.
“Was it? Come on, baby. Please?”
Shit.
Memories rush in before I can block them out. The nights when he wasn’t like this. When there was no power play, no pack politics, no claws hidden behind every word.
Just us.
His hands tangled in my hair. His laugh breaking into mine.
For a second, I see him the way he was before the darkness swallowed everything. Before the bruises and the fights, before my ambition for power ruined us.
Grayson was still crouching in front of me when I leaned forward and kissed him. Hard enough to steal his breath, soft enough to keep him guessing. We had all the time in the world if we wanted to. But right now, I wanted to ruin him the way he ruins me.
“I thought you’re sore?” he murmured, gasping against my mouth like the taste of me was dragging something feral out of him. His eyes darkened, that battle he always fought to cage his wolf flickering across his face. I’d seen that struggle before. I’d even caused it. And I knew exactly what it meant–he was one breath away from losing control.
“How bold of you, omega, to kiss your alpha like this, hmm?”
I smirked, dragging my nails down his sweaty chest like I was mapping out every muscle he tried so hard to keep under my rule. He thought I’d shy away. That I’d fold like every other girl who melted under his growl. But not me.
Not after last night anyway.
“Why… is it wrong?” I whispered, my lips brushing his jaw as I pulled back just enough to stare him down.
His nostrils flared. “Don’t tempt me, baby.”
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For a second, I swore he might actually break. His shoulders tightened, his breath came sharp, his lips parted–then he scoffed, low and dark, like he’d caught himself at the edge of a cliff and chose not to fall.
“Goddess, you’re trouble,” he muttered, dropping down beside me. He dragged the towel across his chest and I yanked it so I could do it myself. “Good girl.”
“Tss. Why are you even training today, Grayson?”
“Because I don’t want to rot in our bed and claim you over and over again.”
Grayson guided my hands on his body and leaned in for a kiss. I was tempted to submit to him but we really need to control ourselves.
“You don’t have plans with the others?”
Grayson was unknowingly trying to play it lowkey. Jack was sent to some mission and I wasn’t informed either. I think I pissed Grayson too much but it’s his fault anyway.
“I still want to talk about freeing Logan.”
My fingers curled against the grass, grounding myself because I know how he feels about this topic.
“Don’t push it, Jessica.”
I wasn’t the type to let things go especially when I really want it but this time, I wasn’t confident enough to win over his conviction.
Everything that he decides is already solid and absolute. There’s no way of questioning it or appealing to it.
Grayson dared to lift my chin, giving me a glare. “Let’s have a fucking deal.”
“What deal?”
He leaned closer, lips ghosting my cheek before sliding to the shell of my ear. His breath was hot, dangerous. “You’ll stop running your mouth. Stop testing me. You’ll be my omega in more than name. Claimed. Mine.”
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“Claimed?” My voice betrayed me, breathy, uneven. “You mean controlled.”
His mouth curved against my skin, fangs just grazing the edge of my throat. Not deep. Not yet. Just enough to make my back arch and my knees weaken.
“Same thing, baby,” he whispered, dragging the points along my pulse. “You give me loyalty. I give you protection. That’s the fucking deal.”
“And if I don’t?”
Grayson chuckled darkly. His hand slid from my chin to my throat, not squeezing, just holding–like the mere weight of it branded me. His eyes burned, shifting gold, wolf bleeding through.
“Baby,” he murmured slowly, lips ghosting my skin, “Is this life not enough for you?”
My fingers twitched at his wrist, not pulling him off, not exactly. I should have been begging him to stop, but the only sound that left me was a broken little whimper.
His mouth brushed my ear. “I was serious about my words last night, Jessica. I’m okay not having you then burying your dead body because of your stubborness.”
Was he serious? Was he actually saying he’d rather cage me than let me burn myself alive?
Grayson took a deep breath before he let go.
The sudden absence made me stumble, my own breath crashing back into me like I’d been drowning.
He didn’t wait for me to speak. Didn’t even give me a chance to argue.
“Meet me later for dinner.”
That was it. That was all.
He didn’t even look back when he tossed his words over his shoulder. Just walked away like the ground would part for him, like I’d trail after him no matter how many times I swore I wouldn’t.
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Did I really hurt him that bad?
Did I really ruin us?
I don’t fucking know.
I’m so scared to know.
