TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 76

CHAPTER 48: THE AIRPLANE FOOTAGE-2

Second piece?

What else could they possibly have?

Elder James nods to the technical staff, and the screen changes.

Audio only this time. A waveform that pulses as voices fill the chamber.

Knox’s voice. Crystal clear.

“Here’s how this works: we attend every event together for the next seven days. You do as I say in public and in private. You’ll act like my girlfriend-no less, but also no more. When it’s over, you get a check, and if you want a permanent job, you’ll have it. If not, we part ways. I don’t care if you fuck off to Bali or start a

cult.”

My blood turns to ice.

My voice responds, equally clear.

“Say I agree, what do you get out of this?”

“What do you think I get out of this, Ember?”

“Sex.”

“And you’ll enjoy it.”

“Okay. But I have conditions.”

“Let’s hear them.”

“One: You don’t get to treat me like an idiot. If I have to act like your girlfriend, I get to know what’s going

1. No secrets that’ll make me look like a fool.”

“Deal.”

“Two: If this ends in disaster, and I mean real disaster, you help me disappear. No one should have to go back to Gale or face pack exile because their boss wanted to win a pissing contest with his ex.”

“You’d like Australia. Plenty of wild animals. I’ll have you on a flight in under an hour if it comes to that”

“And three… You have to promise to make me come every time. I need to see stars No exceptions. Because Gale never did, and I refuse to go back to being a sad, unsatisfied omega.”

The recording stops.

The silence stretches.

My heart pounds so hard I feel it in my ears, my bones A million questions thundering in my mind.

I can feel the entire room recalibrating.

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The fated máte claim Knox just made exposed as a lie in real time. The sacred bond he invoked-

revealed as a business transaction.

The romance, the destiny the one-in-a-million connection-nothing but performance.

Elder James’s face is coldly vindicated. Cruel mirth touches his lips.

Gale is grinning. The smug satisfaction from earlier has transformed into outright triumph.

My mother’s smile could cut glass.

t know how deep the betrayal goes.

ne, Knox is painfull still. Not a breath in sight.

Tucked.

council demands an explanation,” Elder James says, and there’s barely concealed pleasure in his ce. “The fated mate claim appears to be fraudulent. The relationship appears to be transactional. By ck law, fraudulent fated mate claims carry severe penalties-including imprisonment for the claimant nd mandatory return of the contested omega to her lawful mate.”

Imprisonment.

Mandatory return.

Knox’s hand tightens on mine, but for the first time since I’ve known him, I see something like fear flicker

across his face.

He’s been outmaneuvered. We both have.

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And I have no idea how we’re going to survive this.

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