TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 239

1. CHAPTER ZAR FURN THE PLANE ARÓMNU Z

CHAPTER 173: TURN THIS PLANE AROUND–2

She pulls her handkerchief away from her mouth and there’s blood on the cloth. A lot of blood.

The flight attendant moves toward her and Rayana waves her off with automatic irritation – we’d gone from the helicopter to this jet in under an hour and she’d already snapped at the crew twice before we reached cruising altitude./

“How bad.” My voice comes out flatter than I intend. Or exactly as flat as I intend – I can’t tell anymore.

“It’s nothing. Turbulence irritates the-”

“Rayana. How bad.”

She looks at the blood on her hand and something in her face dulls, but she is fast enough that she keeps

it away.

“Bad enough that you should be with Ember right now instead of flying me to a graveyard.”

“That’s not what I asked.”

“And yet it’s the answer you need.” She wipes a part of her stained hand on the blanket, leaving a dark smear that neither of us acknowledges. “Turn the plane around, Knox.”

“No.”

“Why?”

“Because you said Switzerland or never. And I don’t make promises I don’t keep.”

“You make promises you don’t keep all the time. You promised Ember honesty and you kept 2016 from her for months. You promised Nathaniel your trust and you slashed his face open this morning. You promised me a lifetime and you let me walk away without fighting for it.” She turns to face me and her eyes are bright with something sharper than pain. “The only promise you’ve never broken is the one you made to yourself – that you’d rather run than stay. That you’d rather destroy something beautiful than risk watching it destroy you first.”

“Are you finished?”

“We should turn around.”

“We’re not turning around.”

“Because you’re scared.”

“Because you asked me to take you to your mother’s grave and unlike every other promise I’ve apparently broken tonight, I intend to keep this one. So sit back, stop bleeding on my upholstery, and let me be a decent man about one single thing before the entire world confirms that I’m not.”

She holds my gaze for a long moment, reading me the way she’s always been able to read me, down to the thing under that is shaking and wrecked and trying so hard to hold itself together that the effort is visible

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in my jaw and my hands and the rigidity of my shoulders.

“You know my mother’s grave is on the Volkov grounds,” Rayana says quietly.

“I’m aware.”

“Which means going there means going to the house.”

“I said I’m aware, Rayana.”

“And you agreed to that. This morning. In the middle of the worst day of your life, you voluntarily agreed to

go back to that house.”

“I’m beginning to regret a number of this morning’s decisions, yes.”

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