TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 483

CHAPTER 406 HOW DO WAKE HER?

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CHAPTER 406: HOW DO I WAKE HER?

EMBER’S POV

Silas lets out a violent growl, his chair scraping viciously against the stone as he steps forward, ready to tear her throat out for even suggesting it.

But Knox holds up a single hand, stopping Silas dead in his tracks.

Knox lets out a dark chuckle. It’s a sound entirely devoid of humour.

“Nice try, Devika.” Knox shakes his head in dry amusement. “But I don’t negotiate for or with trash. Keep the name. I don’t need you to find the snake in my house. In fact, I’m far more delighted to know one exists. Espionage happens to be one of my favourite parts of being King.”

Devika watches his face, and something almost like humour passes through her eyes.

“Aren’t you even a little curious about Esmerelda, at least? She was quite fond of your house, you know. At the time, I couldn’t care about the Volkovs, but Isolde and her handpicked spies were more than interested. They were a part of the house.” A small, cruel shrug. “But I find I rather enjoy watching a king realise he’s been sleeping in a nest of snakes all this while. Could even your own shadow be trusted? Could any mate bond you’ve witnessed ever been real?”

“Enough,” I snap before Knox can answer, because I can feel him readying to strike. I fold my hand over his fist under the table. Later. Not here.

Silas has been silent a long time, returning to his seat and watching his sister with a repulsion that was never there before. And when he speaks, it’s low, and it’s rough, and it’s a brother’s voice.

“Was it worth it?”

Devika blinks. “What?”

“Him.” Silas doesn’t look away from her. “Rhovan. All of it. The palace, the designers, the child you put through hell, the hunt, the years running. You gave up your family, your home, everything you had, and you nearly died chasing a man who handed you to a queen to save his own skin.” His jaw works. “So I’ll ask my sister one thing, and the house can keep its scale out of it. Was he worth it?”

And for the first time all night, Devika’s face turns murderous.

“If I ever lay eyes on that bastard again,” she says softly, “I will drive a stake through his filthy, faithless heart and I will smile while I do it. I will make it slow. I will not let him die until he feels exactly what it’s like to be butchered by the only person you ever loved.” Her voice shakes. “So, no, brother. He was not worth it. He was never worth a single thing I gave him. But I was young, and I was starving, and he was the first beautiful thing that ever looked at me like I mattered, and I would have set the whole world alight to keep him looking.” She wipes her face hard. “That’s the truth the house wants. I loved a man who was worth nothing, and it cost me everything, and I would tear his throat out tomorrow. Both of those things are true. They have always been true. That is what it is to be a fool.”

Silas holds her eyes a moment longer.

Then he nods once and looks away, and something old and grieving passes between the two of them that

CHAPTER 406 HOW DOTWAKE HER?

has nothing to do with me.

1 let us sit with the silence for a while.

And then I ask the most important thing on my mind.

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“So. What now? You’ve told me what I am. You’ve told me about our past. You’ve told me what’s coming. But you haven’t told me the one thing that matters.” I lean in. “How do I wake her? My wolf. Sapphire. If she’s a god, if she’s the only thing that stands between a queen who wants me dead and me – then how do I reach her? Because I’ve tried, Mother. My whole life since I left you, I’ve reached and reached, and it’s just empty space. Sometimes I get a spark, just for a split second, and then it dies. She only comes when she decides to come. Our connection is thread-thin. She calls me pathetic and unworthy, and then she’s gone again. How do I make her mine?”

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