TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 446

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CHAPTER 369: DID SHE ASK YOU TO DO THIS?

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CHAPTER 369: DID SHE ASK YOU TO DO THIS?

KNOX’S POV

“She’s the lady of this house now. It falls to her. That’s simply how it is.” I keep my voice even. “But you’ll attend. As the guest of honour. The whole gala will rise and toast you, and it will be a farewel fit for a Volkov. A proper one. Grand. Everything you’re owed for the years you gave this place.” And I mean it, and I need her to hear that I mean it. “That’s my gift to you, Hale. We say our

goodbyes at the feast, in front of everyone, with honour and with witnesses. And then you go to

your new life with your head held high. But until then-” and here my voice hardens.”-you stay away from Ember.”

Her chin comes up.

“Away from her.”

“I don’t understand everything that’s happened between the two of you,” I say. “I don’t understand why you took her to Celeste’s room. I don’t understand the things she’s told me or the way the two of you look at each other like there’s a war already declared. I don’t have the energy for this, and I’ve made my peace with the fact that I may never get it. But I know my fiancée, Hale. And I know the exact difference between when she’s being dramatic and when she is genuinely worried. And she is concerned about you. So whatever this is-it stops. You keep your distance. You don’t seek her out. You don’t corner her in hallways; you don’t offer her tea; you don’t take her anywhere; you don’t teach her anything. You leave her be until the gala, and at the gala, you are civil, and then you are gone. Those are the terms, and they aren’t the kind I negotiate.”

The look she levels at me could strip the paint off the walls.

“Did she ask you to do this?” Hale’s voice has gone very quiet. “To throw me out. Was it her doing?”

“No,” I say. “This was my decision. Mine alone.”

“But she influenced it.”

I don’t lie to family, even when the truth costs.

“She’s part of why I finally saw that it needed doing. Yes.”

Hale laughs, short and bitter, and turns back to the window.

“Of course she is. Of course.” She’s quiet for a moment, and when she speaks again, her voice has gone smooth and pleasant and strange. “You’ll see, cousin. One day you’ll see her clearly, the way I’ve seen her from the very first moment she crossed that threshold. I only hope, for your sake, that it isn’t too late when the scales finally fall from your eyes.”

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CHAPTER 369: DID SHE ASK YOU TO DO THIS?

I do not like that, Phantom says flatly. Not one word of it.

Neither do I. But I’ve said what I came to say, and standing h both of us, so I don’t rise to the bait.

“The dower house will be lovely, Hale,” I say instead. “Give i there than you’ve ever managed to be here.”

And I leave her standing at the window with her grandmo because if I look back I’ll see her crying again and I’ll do s

back-and I can’t.

Because Ember is afraid, and Ember’s fear is the only co

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