TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING novel Chapter 86

CHAPTER 57: YOU b***h!-1

EMBER’S POV

“And did you honor that request?”

“¡ honored her request not to report to authorities–protocols were different then, and I believed forcing a

report against her wishes would put her in more danger.” Dr. Moreau pauses. “But I kept my own records.

Personal notes. Backup files that weren’t part of the hospital’s official system. I kept them because

something about her case haunted me. Because I suspected she would need proof someday, when she

finally found the courage to leave.”

She reaches into her bag and produces a folder.

“I have those records here. Detailed notes from my examination. Photographs of the bruising that I took

with her consent. Documentation of everything I observed that night.”

The gallery explodes.

Gale is on his feet before anyone can stop him.

“She’s lying!” His voice cracks with desperation. “This is a setup! Ember must have paid her to fabricate-”

“Alpha Crawford,” James snaps, “you will sit down and-”

“The bruising pattern,” Dr. Moreau continues, raising her voice over the chaos, “was specifically consistent

with a shove from behind. The angle suggested the assailant was significantly taller than the patient. The force was considerable–enough to cause her to fall forward down a flight of stairs, based on the secondary injuries I observed.”

“This is LIES!” Gale is screaming now, his composure completely shattered. “She’s making this up! That

baby was-”

He stops.

The chamber goes dead silent.

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Gale’s face has gone white. He realizes–a second too late–what he just said. What he just admitted.

That baby was.

He knew about the baby.

“Please continue that sentence, Alpha Crawford,” Catherine says softly. “That baby was what?”

Gale’s mouth opens and closes.

His eyes are wild, darting around the chamber like a trapped animal looking for escape.

Logan Reeves is trying to pull him back into his seat, hissing something urgent in his ear, but Gale is beyond hearing.

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“She shouldn’t have kept it anyway,” he snarls, and the words come out like venom. “She was going to ruin everything. I barely touched her. I barely–if she’d just stayed down like I told her-”

The silence is one of multiple held breaths.

“If she’d just stayed down,” Catherine repeats slowly. “Like you told her. After you pushed her.”

Gale’s face crumples with the realization of what he’s done. What he’s admitted. In front of the entire

council. In front of hundreds of witnesses.

In front of the woman he’s been trying to drag back into his control.

He just confessed to killing our baby.

my

“You BITCH!” He lunges toward me, and for a moment I see death in his eyes–real, genuine intent to end life right here in this chamber. “You’ve ruined everything! You’ve destroyed me! I’ll fucking KILL you—”

Council guards intercept him before he makes it three steps. He’s fighting them, thrashing and screaming,

his face contorted with rage that’s finally been allowed to show its true face.

“You’ll pay for this! Both of you! I’ll make you suffer–I’ll make you wish you’d never been born—”

They drag him toward the exit. He’s still screaming threats as the doors close behind him, his voice

echoing through the corridor until distance finally swallows the sound.

The chamber sits in stunned silence.

Elder James looks like someone has punched him in the stomach. His carefully orchestrated victory has

just collapsed.

His alliance with Devika–who has gone ghost–pale in the gallery–has just become a liability instead of an

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