TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 364

CHAPTER 29444 BON’T CARE

CHAPTER 291:1 DON’T CARE

EMBER’S POV

“Knox-”

“I’m not finished.” His thumbs press against my jaw. “And if your plan to save her starts to look like it’s going to take you with it – if I see it coming, if I get even a breath of warning – I will stop it. I will sabotage it. I will lie to you, I will move her, I will burn the drugs and break the doors and turn this whole house against you if that’s what it takes to keep your heart beating, and I will not feel one second of guilt about it. So you can train, and you can learn, and you can chase Sapphire all you like. But understand that I am not on the table. You are not allowed to spend yourself to save her. That’s the one thing in this world I will not let you do.”

The grey lawn is very quiet.

My face is sticky with drying blood, and my knees are soaked through, and I’m looking up at the man I love telling me, in the gentlest voice he has, that he will betray me to keep me alive.

And the worst part, the part that closes my throat, is that I understand it. I understand it completely.

Because if it were him on the table – if it were Knox dying and me with the power to stop it – I would burn

the world down too.

I would lie and sabotage and break every door.

We are the same in this, exactly the same, and that’s precisely why we can’t agree, because neither of us

will be the one who survives the other.

“That’s not fair,” I whisper.

“No,” he agrees. “It isn’t. I don’t care.”

I step back, my legs trembling but holding my weight, and we stand there in the scorched, smoking grass.

doesn’t soften. It just

We don’t look at each other. The argument doesn’t resolve, and the air between us do

sits there.

It is a huge, unmovable disagreement where both of us are right, both of us are terrified, and neither of us is going to concede.

“I have to bury it,” I say finally, looking down at the pulverised bird.

“Leave it. I’ll have someone-

“I have to bury it, Knox.”

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He goes quiet. Then he nods, once, and steps back, and lets me have that much.

I bury the dove at the edge of the tree line with iny bare hands in the half frozen dirt, and Knox stands a

little distance off with his arms crossed and his jaw like stone and his eyes never leaving me.

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Neither of us says another word, and when it’s done I walk back to the house alone and he lets me go alone, watching from a distance with a war of emotions.

Does he really not believe in me? He stood in that storage room and watched me drag a man back from the dead. He saw what I am capable of. Why can’t he trust me now?

I just need time. I just need to understand Sapphire and learn the shape of this strange golden power.

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