TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 377

CHAPTER 303: A FUC.KING QUEEN

EMBER’S POV

“Ember-”

“And it hurt. Because all this while, I’ve tried so hard to be that one thing. To prove everyone wrong abou what they think I am. I’ve tried to be worthy, Knox.” And here it comes, the real thing, the bottom of it, an the tears are back. “Worthy. Just-worthy. Of being loved properly, for once. Of being a mother someday, good one, not like mine. Of being someone who rose above all of it, the eight years with Gale and all of i someone who mattered. I’ve spent my whole life clawing toward worthy. And this-this thing inside me, this ancient, powerful thing that’s supposed to be the answer to everything-looked at me and called me nothing.” I press my hand to my chest, to the place where she lives, quiet now, probably smug too. “Why give me this if I’m useless? Why put something that enormous inside someone too small to hold it? Wha

is the point of me?”

Knox is quiet for a long moment.

And when he speaks, his voice is low, even, and absolutely certain.

He bypasses comfort entirely, speaking with the same ruthless command he used in the council chambe The tone that makes old wolves lower their eyes.

“Now you listen to me. Because I’m only going to say this once, and I need you to actually hear it, not just let it slide off the place where you keep deciding you’re nothing.” He takes my hand from my chest and holds it between both of his. “My fear was never that you’re weak. Get that out of your head right now because it’s a lie, and I don’t tolerate lies even when they come out of the woman I love.”

His eyes lock on mine.

“My fear is the opposite. My fear is that you’re capable. More than capable. My fear is that I am holding right here in my arms, a woman who could level a nation if she decided to. Who has something inside her so powerful that the question was never “can she”; it was always “does she know when to stop. That’s what terrifies me. Not that you’ll reach for your power and find nothing. That you’ll reach for it to save someone, the way you always do, the way you reached for that bird, and you give and give and give because that’s who you are, until there’s nothing left of you, until you’ve poured yourself out completely for someone else and there’s no Ember left at all” His voice cracks, just slightly. 1 just found you. Do you understand? After Celeste, after everything, after a decade of being certain I’d never have this agai found the one thing I love more than my own life, and I am watching her run toward a cliff at full speed because she can’t bear to let anyone suffer That’s my fear Not your weakness Your heart. The size of it The way it’ll spend you down to nothing if I let it ”

I can’t breathe.

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“But I refuse to be your cage” The words carry the lethal weight of a decree 1 spent yesterday playing the warden, keeping you small just to guarantee your safety, and the taste of my own cowardice sickened me

CHAPTER 303AFUC KING QUEEN

Smothering you is just my terror wearing love’s face.”

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He takes my hand, his grip rough and entirely possessive, and drags my knuckles to his mouth. He presses a hot, heavy kiss against my skin, his golden eyes burning right through me.

“True love demands absolute trust. It demands knowing you are a sovereign force, strong enough to take that ancient power by the throat and command it to heel. I choose to trust you. I choose to watch you burn bright, even when the risk of losing you terrifies me. You are made for immense greatness, Ember, and my only place is standing beside you, feeding that fire instead of stifling it to soothe my own panic You are a fucking queen. You brought your father back from death-that eclipses every act of power I have witnessed in my entire life. And believe me, Ember Aragon, I have seen years of it. You outshine all of it. And I just have to trust that you will wield that fire to conquer the world, and still find your way back to my arms. I hold both of those truths. That is the vow.”

“Knox,” I whisper.

“I have more to say.” Of course he does. “Because Sapphire called you unworthy, and I fully intend to rip that claim apart. She insisted you lack the training, the strength, the muscle, whatever they demand of their hosts out in the East.”

His mouth curves, slow and dangerous.

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