Page 72 of Tainted Romance

Sighing and giving up, I grabbed my purse and decided we should leave before someone noticed it and thought I had stolen it.

"So, where do you live?"

I riddled off the pack house address and followed him up the street.

"Isn't that a group house?" Jace questioned. "Why do you live there?" He didn't hide his dislike for the idea, but I guess that was all he had, an idea of what the house was. He didn't know the truth.

"So, you parked here?" I changed the subject. "Bit of a walk to the library from here."

He seemed to not want to answer my question, or at the very least not tell me any more details of his night so he changed the subject and started talking about the weather.

I smiled to myself. Jace had secrets, and he sucked at not showing he had them, but who was I to judge, after all,I was half wild animal.

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Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump.

"OPEN THE DOOR, ALLIE!"

I stirred in my bed, groaning at the sound of the loud, demanding voice.

"ALLIE!"

Throwing the blankets back, I tumbled out of bed, tripping over a few things before finally making it to my bedroom door.

"What? What's happened?" I threw the door open.

I had expected anemergency.I wasn't expecting Zane.

"You better have one hell of a good reason to get me out of bed," I snapped up at him, still squinting from the brightness of the hall.

"Glad to see you're alive." His voice dripped with sarcasm. "Thought you had gone and got yourself killed."

"Oh God forbid I do that." I really wasn't in the mood for this. In fact, I wasn't in the mood for anything apart from sleeping which I was doing until this ape ripped me out of bed. "I'm going back to bed." I tried to close the door, but he slapped it back open.

"Like hell you are." The anger that consumed his face was unexplainable. "Not until you tell me what the hell you did. What did you do? Did you drink Ryder's poison?"

I looked up at him dumbfounded; now wide awake. "Are you insane? Seriously, Zane? What the hell has got into you?"

"Into me! What the hell did you expect, Allie? I wake up to you being…GONE!" He roared at me. "If you were going to block me out, you should have fucking told me! I was ripping this place apart thinking you had gotkilled!"

"What are you talking ABOUT?!" Blocking him out? Getting myself killed? Where did he come up with this rubbish?

"Did you take Ryder's potion shit?" Zane's face hardened, and the glare he was giving me could scorch the devil. "DID YOU?!"

"NO!" I yelled out of fright. "I didn't do anything!"

Never, not once, has Zane scared me, but right now he was.

"Don't fucking lie to me, Allie!" His rage going up another level.

"I'm not lying." I lowered my voice, in effect to speak calmer to him. "Zane, I really have no idea what you are talking about."

Seeing as his behavior was all over the place, I wasn't sure what to expect next. His eyes ran over my face, and I watched his furious expression slowlymelt until it turned to one of confusion.

"You really don't, do you?"

I shook my head. "No, Zane, I have noidea what you are talking about."

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