TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 133

CHAPTER 89: OVER A DECADE–2

“So you didn’t care,” Harrison concludes. “You were too lost in your bottles to care about anything, including the child you were supposed to protect.”

My father flinches like he’s been struck.

“Moving on,” Harrison says, turning to Logan with a smile that doesn’t reach his eyes. “Mr. Reeves. How long have you been fucking my son?”

Logan goes rigid, his hand tightening around Gale’s until his knuckles turn white.

“That’s none of your-”

“It became my business when it became public knowledge,” Harrison interrupts smoothly. “When photographs of you and Gale appeared in every werewolf publication from here to Europe. When our family name became synonymous with scandal and perversion.” The disgust in his voice is barely concealed. “So I’ll ask again. How long?”

Logan’s jaw works, muscles twitching with the effort of holding back whatever he really wants to say.

“Over a decade,” he finally grits out.

Over a decade.

Gale was sleeping with Logan for over ten years. Our entire relationship was a lie before it ever began.

“So you were there first,” Harrison says, his voice deceptively casual. “Before the marriage. Before my son ever took a wife. A home–wrecker, through and through. Tell me, Mr. Reeves – when I arranged Gale’s marriage to Ember, did you encourage him to go through with it? Or did you beg him not to?”

Logan’s jaw tightens. “I told him to do what he needed to survive.”

“How noble of you. Sacrificing a seventeen–year–old girl’s future so you and my son could continue your…

arrangement.”

“We both knew you’d never approve,” Logan spits out, something raw ripping through his composure.” You’d never have let him be alpha if you knew. You’d have destroyed him before you let him lead your precious pack as a-”

“I’m aware of what my son is.” Harrison cuts him off, his tone cold enough to freeze fire. “I’ve always been aware. I had hoped marriage would cure him of his… affliction. Clearly, I was mistaken.”

“Gale never loved her.” Logan’s voice is sharp, defensive. “He couldn’t love her. He’s not-”

“Not what?” Harrison tilts his head. “Not capable? Not wired that way? Not man enough?” His lip curls with disgust. “Spare me the justifications, Mr. Reeves. My son is a deviant. That much has always been clear.”

He says it like being gay is a disease. Like loving another man is something shameful that needs to be cured rather than accepted.

CHAPTER 29–OVER A DECADE 2

And suddenly I understand something I never understood before.

Gale tearned the shame of his identity from his father.

He learned that who he was, who he truly was, was something disgusting and wrong and unworthy of love.

He learned to hide, to lie, to construct elaborate facades to cover the truth of his nature.

And when those facades started to crack, when the pressure of pretending became too much to bear, he took it out on the only person he could.

Me.

I’m not excusing what he did. I will never excuse what he did. But for the first time, I’m starting to understand it.

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