Chapter 72. Guarded Secrets

BELLE

“You’re terrible at Go Fish,” Liam told me. “Seriously, I’ve played toddlers better than you.”

Throwing my cards down on the coffee table in front of me, I dropped my head to my knees with a groan.

Grayson had left several hours before, leaving me alone with Liam, who wouldn’t let me out of my apartment no matter how many times I threatened to kill him, his family, and his future children.

It was absolutely infuriating.

“Might as well stop trying, Belle,” Liam had said the fifth time he had pinned me against a wall after trying to sneak past him when he wasn’t looking and make a mad dash for the front door. “Even if you did somehow manage to get past me, there are two more wolves on the other side of this door, tasked with keeping you inside. No one is getting in, and there will definitely be no one getting out.”

I couldn’t care less about stupid Go Fish. My eyes kept straying to the front door, my heart squeezing a little tighter with every