TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 209

CHAPTER 145: TWO HUNGRY LYCANS–2

I don’t answer. Well, don’t know how to answer. My mind is still reeling from what I heard, fragments of conversation rattling around in my head.

The 2016 deal. Knox doesn’t know. Her wolf isn’t normal. Destroy them.

My head spins.

What did they mean? What does Nathaniel know? How does any of it connect to Gale and Knox and something from 2016? What is Knox hiding from me?

What did Nathaniel mean by war – by bloodlines and predators and things none of them can contain?

What exactly did Knox do the night Celeste died that required weeks of scrubbing blood and burying bodies no one could find out about?

And what flash drive is Logan still hunting for like a bloodhound?

“You’re shaking,” Rafael observes.

I am. I hadn’t noticed until he said it, but my hands are trembling, my whole body vibrating with something

caught between fear and fury.

“I’m fine.”

“You’re getting worse at lying.” He steps closer, studying my face with an intensity that makes me want to

step back. “You heard something that scared you. Something about Knox, I’m guessing.”

My jaw tightens. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Your face went white the moment you heard them talking. And now you’re shaking like a leaf and pretending everything’s fine.” His voice gentles, which somehow makes it worse. “I’m not your enemy,

Ember.”

“Aren’t you?”

The question comes out sharper than I intend. Rafael pauses, something shifting across his expression.

“I’ve never kept a single secret from you since we met,” he says quietly. “My cards have always been yours

to see.”

I look at him properly for the first time. Really look, taking in the careful neutrality of his expression, the way he’s standing just close enough to feel intimate but not threatening.

“No,” I say. “You’re not excluded. The Summit closing ceremony. What you did with the dinner invitation, making sure Knox found out in the worst possible way. Making it look like I was hiding something from him.” I hold his gaze. “I don’t forget.”

“That was poorly done,” he admits. “I wanted to create space between you. I didn’t think about how it would affect you personally.”

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“You didn’t think. or you didn’t care?”

“Both, probably” He’s honest, at least. Always honest about being dishonest. “I’m not going to pretend I’m a good person, Ember saw something I wanted and I tried to take it. That’s what I do.”

“And what do you want?”

“Right now?” His gaze holds mine. “I want to understand why my wolf responds to you the way it does. Why you feel like something I’ve been waiting for my whole life.”

The confession hangs between us, raw and unvarnished.

But I let out a dry chuckle, not the least taking his bait.

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