TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 354

CHAPTER 281 SLEEP MY LOVE

CHAPTER 281: SLEEP, MY LOVE

EMBER’S POV

Then she is gone, and the room lets its breath out, and I realize my hand is shaking around the fork.

Knox takes it. The fork, then the hand. Pries my fingers open gently and folds them up in his.

“I’m sorry,” he says. Low. Just for me. “She’s- she was always strange. Lonely kid, strange grown woman, in and out of this house her whole life with no one to tell her how to be around people. didn’t think she’d-” He stops. His jaw works. “I should have warned you. I didn’t think. I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine.” It isn’t fine. My skin still feels wrong where she’d touched it.

“It’s not.” He brings my knuckles to his mouth. “But it will be. I’ll handle it. Not tonight. Tonight you

eat something, because if you don’t, Marjorie cries, and I cannot take two crying women in one

evening, I’m only one man.”

He nudges my plate toward me, and the grin comes back, careful, coaxing, pulling me back from

the cold place Hale put me in.

“Eat. It’s good. She’s been cooking since Nathaniel called to say we were coming. There’s a pie somewhere. There is always a pie. Marjorie believes pie solves international incidents.”

And it works, a little. I eat. The food is unbelievable.

Knox keeps up a low steady stream of nonsense about the house and the

Staff and the time

Marjorie chased a visiting alpha out with a rolling pin for tracking mud on b

floors, and slowly the

warm comes back into the room, into him, into me, until Hale at the doorway feels like a bad dream I’ve half-woken from.

By the time he carries me back upstairs, I am asleep before we hit the landing, more or less, face in his neck and a whole impossible day finally catching up with me all at once.

my

I half-surface when he lays me down. The bed is warm. The room is warm. Everything is warm in a house that runs cold, and I am too tired to think about why.

“Sleep, my love,” he says somewhere above me, and the mattress dips as he settles in behind me and pulls me back into him, one heavy arm banded over my middle like even sleep isn’t allowed to take me anywhere he can’t follow. His mouth touches the back of my neck. “The house can have its queen tomorrow.”

“Knox,” I mumble, already going under.

“Mm.”

CHAPTER 281 SLEEP MY LOVE

“The cousin’s not right.”

A pause. His arm tightens, just slightly.

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