Chapter 27. It Changes Nothing

BELLE

Grayson stepped forward. “Yes, you can—”

“No, I can’t!” I interrupted. “Not after everything you did to me, and especially not when I know what you’re really capable of.”

I wrapped my arms around myself, shaking my head and sniffling through my runny nose.

“What you’re doing right now is cruel. Acting like you care about me when you and I both know you don’t. It has got to be one of the most horrible things a person could do to another person.”

“I’m not acting, Belle,” Grayson said, a muscle sliding up and down his throat. His eyes were back to their normal green, boring into me like he wanted to make me permanently drown in his gaze. “I do want you. I want you more than anything in this entire world.”

I angrily wiped at my tears, hating that I was letting him see me cry once again. I didn’t want him to know how much of a hold he still had on me.

“You mated with someone else. You rejected me. You-you left me on my own during the worst