TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 44

CHAPTER 28: MY BABY GIRL–2

“Spill.”

So I do.

Not everything–not the graphic details of what happened at 4 AM against the window–but enough.

The intensity followed by the ice. The forehead kiss that felt more like a dismissal than affection. The three hours of being ignored while he took calls like I wasn’t even in the room.

“And the worst part,” I say, staring at the ceiling, “is that I know better. I know this is fake. He’s told me repeatedly that it’s fake. I’m the idiot who’s developing feelings for someone who sees me as a business arrangement.”

Queenie is quiet for a moment.

“Can I be honest with you?” she finally asks.

“Please.”

“Nathaniel told me the same thing when we first got together. Men like them sometimes push others away because they believe they are protecting them. Nate was scared his job makes me a target for harm. We started off as just physical. He said that he didn’t do the relationship thing even though we were mates. He told me that I shouldn’t expect anything beyond what we’d agreed to.”

I turn my head to look at her. “And?”

“And we’ve been mated for two years now. He proposed six months after telling me not to catch feelings.” She smiles softly. “Sometimes men don’t know what they want until they’re terrified of losing it.”

“Knox isn’t terrified of losing me. Knox is terrified of wanting me at all.”

“Same thing, different packaging.”

The masseuses return before I can respond, and we lapse into silence. But Queenie’s words sit with me, turning over and over in my mind.

Sometimes men don’t know what they want until they’re terrified of losing it.

Maybe.

Or maybe I’m just the latest in a long line of women who’ve convinced themselves that a man’s bland disinterest is actually secret devotion in disguise.

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After the massages, we move to facials, then manicures. By the time we’re finished, I feel more human than I have all morning.

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