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CHAPTER 123: PLAYING GAMES
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2026-03-05 11:34:40
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TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 162: THE TRUTH OF 2016
EMBER’S POVRafael’s smile doesn’t phase. “Oh, please. I made it too easy for you last night. You had your chance to kill me and you didn’t take it.” He tilts his head, something cold settling behind those grey eyes. “I don’t intend to make it that easy next time.”Knox lunges forward — fast, violent, closing the distance in two strides with his fist already cocked — but Rafael only looks past Knox’s incoming fury, locks eyes with me, and says it.“Tell her about 2016, Knox. If you’re so interested in forcing secrets into the open, then honour Rayana’s little therapy bullshit and give your woman what she wants. Tell her what you did, bastard. Show her what you really are.” He pauses, letting a wicked smile graze his lips. “If you trust your fucking schoolboy feelings for her, then give her the truth. Or should I?”Knox stops mid-stride, his fist still raised, his whole body vibrating with the effort of not finishing what he started. Because Rafael just changed the game.My breath has
TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 161: OPEN SECRETS
EMBER’S POVThere is something deeply unnerving about it. My stomach squirms, a bad feeling resurfacing and leaving a taste in my mouth I can’t swallow away.Nathaniel feels it too. He turns the slightest fraction toward Knox, catching his stare for a second, and a subtle frown crosses his face — questioning, uncertain.Knox’s grin only widens.A chill runs down my spine. There is trouble here. I can just taste it.“Knox, darling.” Rayana’s voice is carefully bright. “Come sit with us. We’re writing letters — things we’ve been carrying that we want to let go of. We write them, fold them up, and burn them together.” She holds up a blank page and a pen, waggling them in his direction. “I saved you a spot.”“I’m fine here.”“The exercise works better in the circle—”“I said I’m fine.” He takes a drink from the bottle. “Go ahead. Don’t let me stop you.”Rayana watches him for a moment, reading something in his face that makes her expression flicker. Then she turns back to the group.“As I
TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 160: A DIFFERENT MAN
EMBER’S POVRafael’s jaw tightens. Something moves behind his eyes, a strange hurt that twists my chest in the wrong way. Nonetheless, he steps back and raises both hands, palms out.“Fine.” He drops the manila envelope at my feet. It hits the floor with a heavy thud. “I’m not taking it back with me. It’s yours. Your truth. Your choice what to do with it.”He walks to the door and pauses.“But when he breaks your heart today — and he will, Ember, because that’s what he does — don’t say I didn’t try to save you from it.”He leaves. The door clicks shut behind him.I stand there for a long time, staring at the envelope on the floor.The temptation is almost torture. A gravitational pull toward the answers I’ve been chasing since yesterday morning, since I crouched in the snow and heard Nathaniel say words that rearranged everything I thought I knew.I could pick it up. Open it. Read whatever’s inside and KNOW, finally, definitively, what 2016 means and what Knox did and whether the man
TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 159: HIS MANILA ENVELOPE
EMBER’S POVI turn on the shower. The water runs cold for the first few seconds, then scalds, and I step under it and let it burn.“Ember.” Rayana’s voice again, softer now, closer to the bathroom door. “For what it’s worth… I’m here. If you want to talk. I know we’re not—” She pauses. “I know I haven’t earned that. I know I’ve been difficult. Manipulative. Probably awful, if we’re being honest.” Another pause. “But I meant what I said about this trip. I want to learn what it is to be a good friend. Even if that starts from just being a good listener.”Water runs down my face. Possibly tears mixed in. Hard to tell.“I was jealous of you yesterday,” I say, and I don’t know why I’m saying it. “At the clinic. When you were delirious and calling his name and he was standing at your bedside like the world was ending. I was jealous of a woman who was literally unconscious from a medical emergency. That is how pathetic I am.”Rayana is quiet for a moment.Then, very softly: “That’s not pathe
TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 158: WAKEY, WAKEY
EMBER’S POV“Wakey wakey, sunshine.”The voice cuts through my sleep, bright and shrill and entirely too alive for whatever ungodly hour this is.“I said wakey wakey. Rise and shine. Up and at ‘em. Carpe diem. Seize the—”“Rayana.” My voice comes out like gravel dragged across sandpaper. “What are you doing.”“I’m waking you up. Obviously. Now — breakfast. I have options. Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon and capers, or a traditional Finnish porridge with lingonberry compote, or — and this is my personal recommendation — pain au chocolat that Rafael’s chef makes fresh every morning and which I have been reliably informed will change your entire relationship with pastry as a concept.”I pry one eye open.Rayana is standing in my doorway, fully dressed, fully made up, radiating the specific manic energy of a woman who has decided that today will go according to plan by all means.She’s wearing cream cashmere and her platinum hair is swept into something elegant and she looks, by all acco
TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 157: NATHANIEL'S JOURNAL
KNOX'S POVThe door isn't locked.Nathaniel doesn't lock his door on the compound — a small vulnerability from a man who doesn't believe in vulnerabilities, a costly oversight on his path.Fine. I'll bite.The cabin is minimal. Clean lines, no clutter, the living space of a man who keeps everything organized because mess in the external world reflects mess in the internal one.I know this about Nathaniel. I've known it for twenty years. It's one of the reasons I trusted him — a man that disciplined, that controlled, that careful with his surroundings must be equally careful with his loyalties.I was wrong about that.I search the desk first. Operational paperwork — rotations, assessments, manifests. Standard. Boring.The kind of material Nathaniel would leave in an unlocked drawer on purpose, just thorough enough to satisfy a casual search and just boring enough to discourage a deeper one.But the bottom drawer catches. There is something wedged behind it, between the drawer and the b
TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 29: SEVENTEEN AND AUCTIONED
EMBER'S POV My baby girl. Like she didn't cut me off without a second thought eight years ago. Like she didn't ignore every call, every text, every desperate attempt I made to reach her during the worst years of my marriage. "Mother," I say, and even I can hear how flat it sounds. We are alrea
Last Updated : 2026-03-20TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 27: THE ELEVATOR AMBUSH
EMBER'S POVThe penthouse door clicks shut behind me and I stand there for a moment, trying to make sense of the last four hours.At 4 AM, Knox was inside me, calling me his, telling me no one else gets to touch me, fucking me against the window like I was the only thing in the world that mattered.
Last Updated : 2026-03-20TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 30: GOOD BYE, MOTHER
EMBER'S POV "I warned you from the start that marrying that low-class nobody would be your downfall. I had Alphas lined up for you—wealthy, powerful men who could have given you everything. But no, you wanted love." She spits the word like it's dirty. "You chose that spineless pig over the future
Last Updated : 2026-03-20TRADING MY CHEATING HUSBAND FOR THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 28: MY BABY GIRL
EMBER'S POVRafael raises one hand in a pleasant wave, completely unbothered by the murder in my security chief's eyes."Enjoy your spa day, Ember," Rafael says, stepping aside to let me exit. "And remember—Knox collects broken things because he thinks he can fix them. But I don't think you're as b
Last Updated : 2026-03-20
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