TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 379

CHAFTER 305: GOOD NEWS

EMBER’S POV

“You’re insane,” I manage, wiping my eyes.

“For you. Comprehensively.” He pulls me back in against his chest, and I go, easy this time, no bracing left in me. “I love you. I should have said it before the candles and the heart attack. I love you, Ember. More than my own life. More than my own sense, clearly”

“I love you too.” I tuck my face into his neck. Then, because I can’t help it: “A little less than you love me,

though.”

He goes still. “Excuse me?”

“It’s just math. You said more than your own life. I love you a normal, healthy amount. Possibly slightly above average.”

“Slightly above-” He pulls back, genuinely affronted, and it’s so funny on his terrifying face that I start laughing again. “I orchestrated a heart attack and a hundred candles and got Marjorie to lie to your face, and you love me a slightly above average amount?”

“The candles were nice,” I concede. “I’ll bump it to moderately above average.”

“Moderately.”

“Don’t push it or I’ll go back to slightly.”

He growls and tips me back onto the blanket, and I’m laughing too hard to defend myself, and he kisses me, soft and slow and warm, and for one long perfect moment there is nothing in the entire world except candlelight and his mouth on mine and the complete, unfamiliar, dizzying absence of dread.

Then I remember.

It comes back all at once, the way it always does, the warmth draining as the weight settles back onto my chest, and I pull back from his mouth with my hand flat on his chest.

“Rayana,” I say quietly. “She doesn’t – the doctor said days, Knox. And Sapphire told me it’s possible. That I could heal her. I’m just not strong enough yet.” My throat tightens. “Does that mean she dies? Is that what this is? I learn, I train, I get strong enough, and it takes too long, and she just – dies anyway?”

Knox’s face sobers. The playfulness drains out of it, and he’s quiet for a moment, and when he speaks, it’s gentle and honest, and it hurts.

“It might be her time, my love,” he says softly. “I don’t say that to be cruel. I say it because you’ve spent your whole life being lied to gently, and I won’t do that to you. She’s very sick. The doctors are very sure. And I would give a great deal to tell you otherwise.”

The tears prick again.

CHAPTER 38 600D NEWS

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“I wish I just had something.” I press my hand to my chest. “Something to buy her time. Anything. Even a little. Just enough to-”

And Knox goes still in a different way. Not the sad stillness. A sharpening. He sits up a little, and there’s something new in his face, and my heart lurches.

“What,” I say. “What is that look? You have a look.”

“I might,” he says slowly, “have something. Good news, for once.” He searches my face. “I was going to tell

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