TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 148

CHAPTER 99: A NEW MONSTER–1

EMBER’S POV

The first thing I register is Knox’s hands on the steering wheel – white–knuckled, veins standing out, gripping so hard the leather creaks.

We’re moving fast, too fast, and the world outside is nothing but darkness and snow and mountains I don’t

recognize.

I don’t remember falling asleep. The last thing I remember is sobbing like a baby because of my father

before everything went to shit.

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Now my head is pounding and my mouth tastes like copper and we’re tearing through the night like death

itself is chasing us.

“Wait. What’s going on?” My voice comes out rough, still thick with sleep. “What’s happening?”

Knox doesn’t look at me. His jaw is clenched, eyes fixed on the road. There’s blood on his collar, and I’m

pretty sure it isn’t his.

“Harrison’s breaking Gale out.”

Nothing wakes me up faster than

Mat.

“What?” I sit up straighter, heart pounding. “Why would Harrison break him out? He hates Gale. He could barely stand to look at him tonight.”

“Been asking myself the same thing.” His grip tightens on the wheel. “Doesn’t make sense. The man spent the whole dinner looking at his son like he was something stuck to the bottom of his shoe.”

“So why would he-”

“I don’t know, Ember.” There’s an edge to his voice now, frustration bleeding through. “I don’t know what he’s planning. I don’t know why he’d risk everything to break out a son he despises. All I know is that I put a tracker on Gale at the dinner, the transport went off–route twenty minutes ago, and I’m pot letting that bastard escape what’s coming to him.”

My mind races, turning over possibilities, each one worse than the last.

“What if it’s a trap? What if Harrison knows you’d follow and this whole thing is designed to-”

“Then it’s a trap.”

“Knox, I’m serious. What if he has men waiting? What if this is some kind of ambush? What if-

“Then I’ll handle it.”

“You can’t just “I stop myself, because I can hear how I sound. Panicked. Spiraling. My thoughts keep jumping to worst–case scenarios – Knox walking into an ambush, Knox getting shot, Knox bleeding out in the snow while I watch helplessly from the car. “What if they have silver? What if there’s wolfsbane? What

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if Harrison hired hunters or- or brought in some kind of-”

Knox laughs.

The sound catches me completely off guard. Soft, warm, and so out of place in this moment that I just stare at him.

He glances at me, and there’s something in his eyes that makes my chest ache amusement, yes, but also tenderness. Like my ridiculous spiraling is somehow endearing to him.

“What?” I demand. “What’s funny?”

“You.” He shakes his head slightly. “Listing every possible way this could go wrong like you’re reading from

a script.”

“This isn’t a joke, Knox. Harrison is dangerous and we don’t know what he’s-”

“I know.” His voice softens. “I know he’s dangerous. But Ember, I’m the Lycan King. I’ve walked into worse

than whatever Harrison Crawford has waiting for me.”

I want to argue. Want to tell him that arrogance gets people killed, that being powerful doesn’t make him invincible, that I’ve already lost too much in my life to lose him too.

But the words stick in my throat, tangled up with feelings I’m not ready to name.

The car slows. Through the windshield, I can make out the faint shapes of vehicles in the distance – three black SUVS crawling along a mountain pass. The convoy.

Knox pulls off the road into a cluster of trees and kills the engine. The sudden silence feels heavy, loaded with everything we’re not saying.

He turns to face me, and his expression has shifted to something more serious.

“Stay in the car.”

“Knox-”

“Whatever you hear, whatever you see, you stay in this car.” His eyes hold mine, unyielding. “I need you to promise me.”

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