TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 418

CHAPTER 343 AGAIN

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CHAPTER 343: AGAIN

EMBER’S POV

The training room still wears the crack I put in the floor yesterday.

Hale sees it the moment we walk in, and her gaze snags on it, and something moves across her face, hunger, interest, gone before I can name it.

She rolls her narrow shoulders and steps onto the mat like a woman lowering herself into a warm

bath.

“Rules?” I ask.

“No rules.” She lifts her hands. She’s small. Elegant. Not the least trained for a fight. “That was rather the whole point, wasn’t it, dove. Whenever you’re ready.”

I go in.

And she’s gone.

I don’t even see how she does it. One second I’m closing the distance the way Knox drilled into me

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centre of gravity, weight back, eyes on the chest – and the next I’m flat on the mat with the

breath knocked clean out of my lungs, and she’s three feet away, exactly where she was standing, hands loose at her sides, looking down at me with mild interest.

“Oh, dear,” she says. “That was quick.”

I get up.

“Again.”

I go in smarter this time.

I go in the way I took Knox down – looking for the trick, the angle, the thing that breaks – and she reads it before I’ve even committed to it, reads it like she’s watched a thousand girls try the exact same thing, and she turns my own weight against me, and I hit the mat harder, my shoulder shrieking.

“You fight the way the boy taught you,” Hale observes, circling now, unhurried, hands clasped behind her back like she’s touring a garden “Which is charming He fights like a hammer, our Knox Everything head on Everything honest Everything enormous.” She tuts softly “But I’m not enormous, am I. And I’m not honest And you keep swinging at me like I’m a wall, dove, when I am simply a breeze You can’t hit a breeze it simply goes around you and shuts the door at your back She stops. “Up Again And do stop announcing what you mean to do three full seconds before you

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do it. It makes this incredibly boring.”

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I get up. My whole body’s ringing like a struck bell.

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At the wall, I can feel Knox going tense, arms crossed, the frown carving deeper, the coach in him

wanting to call it – that’s enough, you’ve made your point — but I am not stopping, because something hot and vicious has caught fire in my chest, and I am not going down to this smug little woman and staying down.

I reach for Sapphire.

I do it the way Knox taught me-deliberately. A thread, not a flood. I feel the cold begin its climbu

my arms, the silver gathering in my hands.

And then Hale does something.

It isn’t a physical strike. I don’t even understand it. It feels like a steel door slamming shut inside m

chest.

A cold, smothering weight drops out of nowhere, clamping down violently over the place where Sapphire lives. The silver in my palms snuffs out like a candle under a glass.

I gasp out loud. It feels inherently wrong-an absolute violation. It’s like a hand closing around my throat from the inside, reaching a place nothing should ever be able to touch.

And while I am still reeling, Hale steps in, sweeps my legs, and drops me for the fourth time.

This time, I stay down. I just lie on the mat, chest heaving, staring up at her in pure shock.

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