TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 152

CHAPTER 101: RUN!-1

EMBER’S POV

The shift happens all at once, violent and instantaneous, his clothes shredding, his body growing, bones cracking and reforming faster than my eyes can track. The arrows snap and fall away as his body expands, pushed out by the sheer force of the transformation.

I scramble backward on instinct, palms scraping against snow and rock, heart slamming against my ribs so hard it hurts.

The beast rises to its full height.

Eight feet tall. Maybe more. Fur darker than the night around us, matted with blood but somehow still terrifying instead of wounded.

Claws like curved daggers. Teeth that could crush bone without effort. And those eyes – those burning gold eyes looking down at me with an intensity that pins me to the frozen ground.

I can’t move. Can’t breathe. Can’t do anything but stare up at the monster that used to be the man I was begging to come back to me.

He takes a step toward me and the ground shakes.

A sound comes from his throat – not quite a growl, not quite a word. Something in between. Something I feel more than hear, vibrating through my bones, through the frozen earth, through every cell in my body.

“RUN.”

I don’t move. Can’t move.

My brain is still trying to catch up, still processing that this is Knox, my Knox, this is the man who kissed me in the car, who made me promise to stay safe, who took fifteen arrows to shield me from harm-

“RUN!”

The second time is a roar. Loud enough to shake snow from the trees. Loud enough to echo off the mountains. Loud enough to make my ears ring and my chest vibrate with the sheer force of it. Something snaps loose in my brain and I’m on my feet and running before I consciously decide to move.

Behind me, the massacre begins.

I hear it as I run toward the car the brutal unleashing of Knox’s howl that has the birds flying off, footsteps that shake the earth, screams that cut off way too fast, wet tearing sounds I don’t want to think

about.

I don’t look back. Can’t look back. If I look back I’ll freeze and if I freeze I’ll die.

The car is fifty feet away. Forty.

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Something is wrong.

My legs are getting heavy. Too heavy. Like someone’s filling tny bones with sand while I’m not paying

attention.

My vision blurs at the edges, tunneling down to a narrow point with the car at the center.

What the fuck is happening to me?

Thirty feet. Each step harder than the last.

Twenty feet. My knees try to buckle and I force them straight through sheer willpower.

My thoughts are moving slow, sluggish, like I’m trying to think through mud.

The dinner. The food. We ate at the restaurant before any of this happened. Harrison arranged that dinner. Harrison who planned the breakout. Harrison who would have known Knox would follow because he was smart. They both were.

He drugged us.

The realization hits me like a truck, even through the fog clouding my brain. Harrison drugged the food.

Knew Knox would come after Gale. Planned for both of us to be here, compromised and weak.

Knox’s Lycan metabolism must have burned through it faster than mine, but me – I’m a fucking omega.

Fifteen feet. The world tilts sideways and I stumble, barely catching myself.

Ten feet. I’m on my hands

anymore.

knees now, crawling through the snow because my legs won’t hold me

Five feet. The sounds of slaughter behind me have stopped. Silence, broken only by the wind and my own. ragged breathing.

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