TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 316

CHAPTER 246: HE’S ALIVE

EMBER’S POV

“But if I’d-”

“If you’d WHAT? Figured out on the spot how to control a power that nobody alive seems to understand? Come on, Ember. You shot a man. You fought trained soldiers. You gave Maurice and me a plan that almost worked. You did everything a human being could do in that situation and then some. The fact that you ALSO have a supernatural wolf inside you that operates on its own schedule doesn’t make the things

you DID count for less.”

I lower my hands from my eyes and look at her.

“We need help,” I say. “Someone who understands what Sapphire is and how she works and why she

responds to some things and not others. Because I can’t keep walking into rooms with this thing inside me and not knowing whether she’ll save lives or burn the building down or sit there doing nothing while people die.”

“Do we know anyone who-”

“No. That’s the problem. Nathaniel has theories, but Nathaniel’s theories are what got us here in the first place. The woman with the crest and the twin girls, the one who gave me the suppressants – she might know, but I don’t even know her name. And my mother…” I trail off because the mention of Devika opens a door I don’t have the energy to walk through right now. “Devika knows. She knows who my father is, she knows about the suppressants, and she knows about the woman who came to our house twice a year. She has every answer we need, and she’s somewhere on this planet being Devika, which means she could be anywhere doing anything with anyone.”

“Then we find her.”

“How? She’s been gone for weeks. You heard Maurice. That woman follows the wind.”

“Then we follow the wind too.” Queenie squeezes my hand again. “After. When Maurice is stable, and we’re somewhere safe, and you’ve slept for more than two hours. We’ll figure it out.”

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The door to the waiting room opens, and a surgeon walks in wearing a complicated expression.

“Ms. Aragon?”

I stand so fast the chair rocks behind me.

“Your father survived the surgery. The bullet caused significant damage to the left lung and grazed the pericardial sac, but we were able to repair the tissue and stabilise the internal bleeding. He’s in critical but stable condition.”

“Is he awake?”

“No. He’s in a coma. The trauma to his system was extensive, and his body has essentially shut down

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non essential functions to focus on healing We’re cautiously optimistic about his physical survival, but I can’t give you a timeline for when or if he’ll regain consciousness.”

When or if. The two most brutal words in the medical vocabulary, separated by a slash that contains every parent who never woke up and every family that waited by a bed until the waiting became its own kind of death.

“There’s something else.” The surgeon hesitates, and the hesitation tells me this is the part that doesn’t fit his training. “The paramedics noted in their report that Mr Aragon experienced cardiac arrest at the scene and that his heart resumed beating without medical intervention. They also noted a brief luminescence at the wound site that they couldn’t explain.” He pauses. “We’ve run preliminary tests, and we can’t find a physiological cause for the spontaneous cardiac restart. His heart stopped, and then it started again, and medically, I don’t have an explanation for why.”

“But he’s alive.”

“He’s alive. Whatever happened in that room, it saved his life. The window between cardiac arrest and irreversible brain damage is approximately four to six minutes. According to the paramedics‘ timeline, his heart was restarted within 90 seconds. That’s… remarkable.”

Remarkable. That’s one word for it. Another word would be impossible. Another would be Sapphire.

“Can I see him?”

“He’s being moved to the ICU. A nurse will come get you when he’s settled.”

The surgeon leaves.

I stand in the middle of the waiting room, and the relief and the fear are fighting for space in my chest, and neither one is winning.

I’m so tired that the fluorescent lights above me have started to vibrate at the edges of my vision.

Then the waiting room door opens again, and Knox walks through it.

He came straight here. He still wears the blood from the house, and his broken wrist sits entirely bare

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