TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 380

CHAPTER 306 WE FOUND DEVIKA

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CHAPTER 306: WE FOUND DEVIKA

EMBER’S POV

Knox sits up properly now, and there’s something almost careful in how he does it, the way you move when you’re about to set something down that might break.

“We found Devika.” He says it plain. “Your mother.”

The whole world tilts. I’m gripping his arm before I’ve decided to.

“You – what? Where? How? Is she-”

“Found is a strong word.” He covers my hand with his, steadying. “We haven’t got her. But Nathaniel’s been working it since before we left Alaska, and he turned up a pattern/There’s a place stre’s been circling. A casino, in the next city over, big and ugly and exactly the kind of golden trap a woman like your mother can’t stay away from. She’s there every Friday, regular as a tide.” His jaw sets. “I intend to go and collect her.”

“I’m coming.”

“And that-” Knox drops his head back with a groan, “-is exactly why I didn’t want to tell you yet.”

“Knox.”

“There’s a plan, Ember. Nathaniel has eyes on the place; he’s got the patterns; we don’t just walk in the front door and grab a woman who’s spent your entire life being impossible to catch. We do it right, or we

spook her, and she vanishes for another decade.” He levels a look at me. “Which means you do what I say, when I say it, the entire time.”

“When do we go?”

“You’re not even going to pretend to consider staying behind.

“When do we go, Knox?”

He sighs the sigh of a man who already knows he’s lost.

“Friday.”

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I deflate so fast it’s almost physical. Because Friday. Friday is I do the math, and the math is bad.

“Rayana doesn’t have until Friday.”

And just like that the warmth goes out of the room again, and Knox sobers too, and I brace for him to say know in that gentle, terrible voice; it might be her time, my love –

But instead he says, slowly:

“Which brings me back to the thing I actually meant to tell you. Before the casino. Before I freaked out over the bird.” He searches my face, and there’s a reluctance in him, like he’s handing me a knife he’s not

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CHAPTER 306 WE FOUND DEVIKA

sure I strould hold. “Hale’s grandmother kept a few books in our library.”

There it is again. Hale. Her grandmother.

I go still. “Go on…”

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“She didn’t stay here often, the old woman. But every time she came, she brought books for Hale. Crates of them, actually. Histories, old crafts, herbcraft, healing — and records of the East.” His voice drops. “I never went near them. Half the family thought she was mad, and the things she kept weren’t the kind of things you read for pleasure. But they’re still here. Locked in the old east library, gathering dust.” He pauses. “There might be something in them, Ember. About the East. About Caelora. Even about this – Maiden of the Long War your wolf named herself. Maybe… Maybe even something that might help with healing Rayana.”

My heart is pounding. “You’d let me—”

“I will let you.” He says it like the words physically hurt. “I planned to tell you yesterday. Then I watched you nearly burn a hole through my lawn over a dove, and the panic blocked off everything else. I told myself I would do whatever it takes to protect you, even if it meant burying the one piece of information that could actually help.”

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