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Chapter ten

Author: Valerie Ray
last update publish date: 2026-03-24 23:11:29

The scrape of bare feet against the hardwood floor was the only warning she got.

Hazel heard him push off the kitchen island. His footsteps were quiet, unhurried, deliberate. Each step sounded like a countdown in her ears. Three. Two. One.

He stopped directly behind her.

He was so close that the ambient temperature of the air around her spiked. He didn't touch her—he rarely ever initiated actual physical contact, preferring to torment her with proximity—but he was close enough that she could fe
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  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fifty six

    Hazel povThe moment the front door clicked shut behind us, the air in the entryway shifted, turning thick and heavy with a tension I couldn't name but felt vibrating in my very bones. I didn't even have time to take a step toward the stairs before Silas moved. He was a blur of sudden, predatory motion, his large hands slamming around my waist with a grip that brooked no argument, hauling me flush against the hard planes of his body. The impact knocked the wind out of me, leaving me breathless and staring up into eyes that looked like they wanted to devour me whole. He didn't let go; instead, he tightened his hold, his fingers digging into the soft flesh of my hips, anchoring me to him as he forced me to face him fully."Is that the only thing you remember?" he asked, his voice a low, dangerous rumble that seemed to echo inside my chest.I froze. Every muscle in my body locked up, and my heart began to hammer against my ribs with such violence that I was genuinely afraid it might burs

  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fifty five

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  • TANGLED:,Crazy For You   Chapter fifty four

    HazelShe did not move.She stood in the cubicle with her bag pressed against her side and her hand flat on the door and she listened to every word.Tiffany's voice carried the way it always did — not loud, just precise, the kind of voice that expected to be heard and did not bother adjusting its volume for the room it was in. She was in the middle of something when they came in, and she picked it back up without pausing.Claire was with her. Hazel knew that voice too now. She had spent three weeks hearing it in corridors and classrooms, laughing at the right moments, asking the right questions, sitting at the right lunch table."Didn't I tell you to get closer to her?" Tiffany's tone had an edge to it. Not a raised voice — just the specific flatness that meant someone was not happy with what they were hearing. "Get closer and find out something useful.""I tried." Claire. Quieter. "She was cautious. From the beginning she was careful around me. I couldn't get much.""You were suppos

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    Silas Fuck, Hazel. I whispered it low as she squirmed on my lap in the back seat. Her body twisted against mine, hips grinding without control, and my cock stiffened instantly, pressing up into her heat. The drug coursed through her, turning every shift into pure torment for me. I gripped her wais

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    Silas He got the message at ten forty-three. The address came through two minutes after. He was already moving before he finished reading it. The drive should have taken twenty minutes. He made it in twelve. He sat in the back with his jaw set and his phone in his hand going over what he knew.

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