TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 161

CHAPTER 107: LET THAT WOMAN GO–2

Images flash behind my eyes, fragmented and wrong. Blood on my hands. Screaming that might have been mine. A room painted red.

I release Nathaniel and stagger back, pressing the heel of my hand against my forehead like I can physically push the agony away.

“There’s this itch in my head,” I hear myself say, and my voice sounds far away. “I don’t remember much about that night. But I know I won’t hurt Ember. I know I would never→→”

“Are you so sure?” Nathaniel hasn’t moved from the wall, but his eyes are tracking me with an intensity that makes my skin crawl. “If you’re so certain, then tell me, Knox. What happened that night? How much do you actually remember?”

The pain ROARS.

I hear myself make a sound that’s closer to an animal than a man, my knees nearly buckling as the

headache splits my skull in two.

More flashes – hands covered in blood, the taste of copper on my tongue, Celeste’s face twisted in

something that might have been fear-

“I thought as much.” Nathaniel’s voice cuts through the agony, quiet and knowing. “I was there, Knox. I found you that night. And I don’t think you’re ready to handle what you’re truly capable of.”

The pain recedes slowly, leaving me shaking and sick and more confused than I’ve ever been.

I straighten up, forcing my body to cooperate through sheer force of will, and fix Nathaniel with a look that should make him tell me everything.

“What do you know?” My voice is hoarse, scraped raw. “Logan said something at the dinner. About that night. Things I don’t remember. How does he know about Celeste?” The fragments are swirling in my head, refusing to form a complete picture. “I remember bathing that room in blood. I remember you finding me. What else happened, Nathaniel? What else am I missing?”

For a long moment, he just looks at me.

Then he shakes his head, turning away to move toward a small cabinet against the wall. He pulls out a bottle of wine and a glass, his movements too casual, too deliberate. A deflection.

I round on him before he can pour.

“You’re hiding something.”

“I’m not.” He doesn’t turn around.

“Bullshit.” I grab his shoulder and spin him to face me, and the glass nearly slips from his fingers. “You’re fucking hiding something, and I want to know what it is.”

K CHAPTER JAPAN THAT WOMAN GO–2

Something shifts in my chest. A suspicion I’ve been trying to ignore for weeks, ever since that recording played in the council chamber and everything I’d built with Ember nearly came crashing down around us.

“Tell me, Nathaniel.” My voice drops to something deadly. “How did my arrangement with Ember get recorded and sent to that court? How did Logan get his hands on a private conversation that happened in my own home?”

Nathaniel’s face goes carefully blank.

“Did you do that?” I take a step closer, and I can see his pulse jumping in his throat. “Was that your attempt at removing Ember from the picture? Getting her sent back to Gale sò she’d be out of my life for good?”

He doesn’t answer. His silence is damning.

“Answer me.” It comes out as a growl, low and dangerous. “ANSWER ME, NATHANIEL.”

He sets the bottle down slowly, deliberately, and turns to face me head–on. When he speaks, his voice is steady as stone.

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Remi Winters

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