TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 338

CHAPTER 266: I WILL FIND A WAY

EMBER’S POV

Queenie’s hand tightens on Rayana’s so hard I can see the knuckles whiten.

“No. No, no, no. You told everyone six months. You SAID six months, Rayana.”

“Six months was the number from three months ago. The disease didn’t get the memo about pacing itself, and my body has been less than cooperative with the ‘fighting it’ part of the programme.” She looks between us and the smile she attempts doesn’t land anywhere near where she aimed it. “Dr. Patel used the phrase ‘aggressive trajectory,’ which is medical speak for start saying your goodbyes. And that was twelve days ago. So whatever’s left of those two weeks is..” She waves her free hand vaguely. “Not two

weeks.”

“Days,” I say, and my voice comes out smaller than I want it to. “You’re talking about DAYS.”

“I’m talking about whatever the ‘aggressive trajectory’ has left me, which at this point is less of a timeline and more of a countdown.” She looks at Queenie, who is crying silently with both hands wrapped around Rayana’s fingers like she can physically hold her to this earth. “Oh, stop that. Both of you. I didn’t tell you this so you could drown me in tears. I told you because I’m tired of lying about it and you both deserve

better than a number I made up three months ago to avoid this exact conversation.”

“How can you be so CALM about this?” Queenie’s voice cracks down the middle.

“Because I’ve had twelve days to not be calm about it and I’ve run out of ways to scream into my pillow

that don’t wake the nurses.” The deflection wavers and for half a second, the mask slips and what’s under

is not calm at all. It’s scared. It’s terrified. Then she puts it back on, her voice going high. “On the bright

side, I’ve always been fashionably early to everything. Why should dying be any different?”

The ice cream melts in its plastic cup on the bedside table. I would give anything to go back and tell my past self the truth: Rayana’s cruelty was always just pure terror.

She wore those icy masks and played her manipulative games to trap the one thing she believed could

rewrite her horrible life-Knox. She played the villain perfectly.

But sitting here in this hospital room, the act is gone. She is just scared, She is alone. And she has finally realized that a happy ending exists beyond the man she loved and lost.

It exists in genuine friendship. in shared ice cream, sharp banter, and the absolute mess of whatever the

three of us have become.

Queenie and I carry the heavy baggage of the past. Rayana and I share the wreckage of her villainy

We are an impossible, unconventional trio. And I refuse to lose this.

i will not let Rayana slip away before she gets a second chance to live the life she is finally trying to build

At least, not without a fight.

CHAPTER 266 WILL FIND A WAY

“I’m going to find a way to heal you,” I say.

Rayana blinks. “What?”

+25 Points

“Yesterday I brought a man back from the dead. His heart stopped and whatever lives inside me restarted

1. I don’t understand how. I don’t understand what Sapphire responds to or why she erupted in that

moment or whether I can do it again. But she DID it, Rayana. She dragged Maurice back from wherever he was going and she held him there until the ambulance arrived, and if she can restart a dead man’s heart, there has to be something – some version of this power that I can learn to direct, to control, to use for more than accidental miracles in storage rooms.”

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