LOGINEMBER’S POV
King Knox doesn’t stop, not even when the flight attendant keeps knocking and demanding to know if everything’s alright.
If only she knew that the Lycan King is currently buried deep inside me, fucking me like he owns me.
I bite down hard on my bottom lip to contain my moans, watching the feral hunger blazing in Knox’s golden eyes. His thrusts keep getting deeper, harder, more brutal—each one hitting something inside me that makes my toes curl and my vision go white.
Then he closes the distance between us and captures my lips in a devastating kiss, swallowing my desperate whimpers as he drives in one final time, so deep I swear I can feel him in my throat.
His teeth sink into my shoulder—not quite a mating bite but close enough to leave a mark—and he groans against my skin as his cock pulses inside me.
I come one last time, clenching around him as he fills me, both of us frozen together, panting.
The flight attendant pounds on the door again, more insistent this time.
Knox pulls out slowly and I whimper at the loss, immediately feeling his cum start to leak down my inner thighs. He calmly zips up and smooths his suit like he didn’t just rail me in an airplane bathroom, then helps fix my skirt with surprising gentleness.
He picks up my destroyed panties from the floor and pockets them with a smirk.
“You’re not wearing these for the rest of the flight,” he says, his voice still rough with satisfaction. “I want you to feel my cum leaking out of you and remember exactly who fucked you properly.”
My face burns. This man has absolutely no shame.
Knox opens the door to face the mortified flight attendant. The woman’s eyes go wide when she recognizes him—everyone knows what the Lycan King looks like—and her face goes completely white.
Knox slips her several hundred-dollar bills without blinking. “For your discretion and excellent service.”
Then he walks back to his seat without looking back at me, leaving me standing in the bathroom doorway, thoroughly fucked, pantyless, and realizing I just had sex with the most powerful alpha in North America.
Oh my god. Oh my god. What did I just do?
This isn’t happening. This can’t be happening.
I just fucked the Lycan King. In an airplane bathroom. Without protection. And now his cum is literally dripping down my thighs and I have no underwear because he ripped them off and pocketed them like some kind of trophy.
I return to my seat on shaky legs, acutely aware of Knox’s warm cum.
The businessman in 3B is definitely smirking like he heard everything. The flight attendant won’t make eye contact and keeps her distance.
I collapse into my seat, face burning with mortification.
I refuse to look across the aisle where Knox has calmly returned to his seat and is reading something on his phone like he didn’t just fuck me senseless thirty seconds ago.
How can he be so calm? How can he act like nothing happened?
Meanwhile I’m over here trying not to hyperventilate because I just cheated on my husband—even though my husband was literally in an orgy—with the most dangerous man in the werewolf world.
The Lycan King.
Gale’s boss.
The man who could destroy both our packs with a single word.
I need to process this. Need to think. Need to figure out what the hell I’m going to do now.
My phone buzzes in my bag.
I pull it out and see an unknown number calling.
My finger hovers over the decline button, but something makes me answer.
“Ember! Thank god you picked up!”
Gale’s voice makes my entire body go rigid with rage.
He’s calling from someone else’s phone since I blocked him. Of course he is. Of course he found a way around my boundaries.
“Don’t hang up, please, just listen to me for one second—”
“I have nothing to say to you,” I snap, but he talks right over me like he always does.
“What you saw wasn’t what you think!” His voice is high-pitched, hysterical, manic. “I love you, Ember. I swear to god, I love you. Those men meant nothing. It was just stress relief, it doesn’t count as cheating—”
Doesn’t count as cheating?
DOESN’T COUNT AS CHEATING?
I can hear Logan Reeves coaching him in the background.
“Tell her you’ll go to therapy. Tell her you’ll change. Women love that. Tell her it’ll never happen again.”
The audacity. The absolute fucking audacity of both of them.
“You’re calling me from Logan’s phone?” I gasp. “The same Logan whose dick was in your mouth two hours ago. Do you see the irony here, Gale? Do you?”
“Baby, please, you have to understand—”
“Don’t. Call. Me. That.”
“I was confused! I didn’t know what I wanted! But I know now, I know I want you, I want our marriage—”
“What you want,” I interrupt, my voice shaking with barely contained fury, “is for me to keep playing the perfect little omega wife while you fuck whoever you want behind my back. That’s what you want.”
“No! That’s not—where are you right now? Just tell me where you are and we can talk about this face to face. We can work through this together like adults—”
“Work through this? You want to work through the fact that I caught you in a full gay orgy in our living room?”
“It wasn’t—you’re making it sound worse than it was—”
“How am I making it worse? There were three of you! You were on your knees! They were laughing about how pathetic I am!”
Gale’s voice shifts, becomes harder, more calculated. “Our marriage is a pack treaty, Ember. If you leave me, you destroy both our packs. Is that what you want? To be responsible for a war? Think about your parents. Think about everyone who depends on this alliance—”
“Oh, so now you’re threatening me?”
“I’m not threatening you, I’m just being realistic. You can’t just run away because you’re upset. You have responsibilities. We both do. This is bigger than us—”
A large, warm hand suddenly wraps around my wrist.
I startle and look to my left to find Knox has moved from his seat across the aisle and is now sitting in the empty seat right beside me, his blue eyes fixed on mine with an intensity that steals my breath.
When did he—how did I not notice him moving?
Before I can ask, before I can protest, he plucks the phone from my hand with the casual dominance of someone who’s used to being obeyed without question.
My eyes go wide. “What are you—”
Knox puts the call on speaker.
Gale’s pathetic pleading fills the quiet first-class cabin.
“—I know I hurt you, but running away isn’t the answer. Come home and we’ll figure this out. I promise I’ll be better. I’ll be the husband you deserve. I’ll do whatever it takes—”
Then Knox does something that makes my brain completely short-circuit.
He slides his hand up my thigh, under my skirt, and pushes two fingers inside my still-sensitive pussy.
Right there.
In my seat.
With other passengers nearby.
With my husband on the phone.
I open my mouth to protest but only a strangled gasp comes out. Knox’s eyes meet mine and there’s pure wicked amusement in them as his fingers curl inside me, finding that spot that makes me see stars.
“What the—are you okay, Ember? Why are you breathing like that?” Gale’s voice sharpens with suspicion. “Who’s there with you? Is someone there?”
I can’t answer. Can’t speak. Knox’s thumb finds my clit and starts circling it with maddening precision while his fingers pump slowly in and out of me.
This is insane. This is absolutely insane.
I’m furious—how dare he answer my phone, how dare he touch me like this in public, how dare he interfere—but I’m also getting dangerously close to coming and I can’t find the words to tell him to stop.
My hand grips the armrest so hard my knuckles turn white. I bite down on my lip to keep from making noise.
Gale is still talking. “Ember, answer me! Who’s breathing like that? Are you with someone? Tell me right now!”
Knox leans down, his lips brushing my ear as he whispers just loud enough for me to hear.
“Should I tell him? Should I tell your pathetic excuse for a husband that you’re currently dripping wet and clenching around my fingers?”
I shake my head frantically, eyes wide with panic and arousal.
Knox chuckles darkly and straightens up, his fingers never stopping their devastating rhythm inside me. Then he speaks into the phone, his voice cold and commanding.
“She heard you clearly, Gale. She’s done.”
Silence on the other end. Complete, dead silence.
Then—
“Who the fuck is this?”
“The divorce papers are already being prepared by my legal team,” Knox continues smoothly, like he’s discussing the weather and not currently finger-fucking me. “And I assure you, they’re very thorough. Very expensive. You won’t like the settlement terms.”
His thumb presses harder against my clit and I have to bite my fist to keep from crying out.
“Is that... no. No way. Is that King Knox Volkov?” Gale sounds like he’s choking. “What the fuck is going on? Ember, what did you do? WHAT DID YOU DO?”
“What she did,” Knox says, his voice dropping to something dark and possessive, “is realize she deserves better than a closeted alpha who can’t even make her come.”
Oh my god. He did not just say that.
“You son of a bitch! You think you can just swoop in and—”
“I don’t think anything,” Knox interrupts. “I know. And here’s what I know: Ember will be far too busy screaming my name to take any more of your pathetic calls. So stop calling.”
“You’re fucking her? You’re fucking my wife?! How long?!” Gale is screaming now. “I’ll destroy you! I’ll go to the Council! I’ll—”
Knox hangs up and drops the phone in my lap.
His fingers never stop moving inside me. In fact, they speed up, curling harder, hitting that spot over and over while his thumb works my clit with devastating precision.
I’m right on the edge, trembling, trying desperately to stay quiet. The businessman a few rows back has headphones in but the flight attendant definitely knows what’s happening and is pointedly facing away, her face bright red.
“Come for me,” Knox murmurs, low enough that only I can hear. “Come on my fingers while you think about how much better this feels than anything your husband ever gave you.”
His words push me over the edge.
I come hard, biting down on my fist to muffle the sound, my pussy clenching rhythmically around his fingers, my whole body shaking with the intensity of it. Knox works me through every wave, drawing it out until I’m boneless and gasping.
Slowly, he withdraws his fingers. I watch in horrified fascination as he brings them to his mouth and licks them clean, his eyes locked on mine the entire time.
“Delicious,” he says softly.
Then he calmly returns to his seat across the aisle like he didn’t just make me come in the middle of a commercial flight.
I sit there trembling, unable to move, unable to think, my mind completely blank except for one repeating thought:
What the hell just happened?
EMBER’S POVDinner comes together faster than I expected — some kind of pasta dish with roasted vegetables and garlic bread that fills the safehouse with smells rich enough to make my stomach cramp with hunger.I didn’t realize how empty I was until the food was in front of me.We eat at the small table, all four of us crammed together, and for a little while it almost feels normal.Like we’re just friends sharing a meal, not fugitives hiding out in a safehouse while enemies circle and conspiracies unravel.Queenie chatters about the Summit, about Rayana holding down the fort, about a hundred small pieces of gossip that don’t matter but help fill the silence.She’s good at that — filling silences. Making spaces feel warmer than they are.Knox sits close to me, his thigh pressed against mine under the table.Every so often his hand finds my knee, squeezes, like he needs to keep reminding himself I’m here. That I’m real. That I didn’t disappear while he wasn’t looking.And I lean into h
EMBER’S POVThe break-in at the penthouse. The flash drive Logan was searching for. The recordings that got leaked to the council — recordings that almost got me sent back to Gale.Nathaniel knowing something about that night, something from years ago, something that Logan now knows too.Something he doesn’t want Knox to be aware of.What is Nathaniel hiding? Did he sell Knox out to Logan? And if so — why? What could possibly be worth betraying the man he’s served for over a decade?My heart hurts for Knox. For this man who trusts so few people and might be about to discover that one of the few he does trust has been lying to him all along.I can’t sit on the other end of the couch anymore. Can’t keep this distance between us when he’s hurting like this.Against his resistance, I crawl across the cushions and into his lap, straddling him before he can stop me.“Ember—”I kiss him, soft and slow, swallowing whatever protest he was about to make.My hands find his jaw, thumbs stroking a
EMBER’S POV“Unless a few council members tattled to Harrison over the years, and Gale got wind of it. Then Gale told him.” He shakes his head. “It’s possible. Gale and Logan were close. But still — the things Logan implied he knew… those aren’t things that should have made it outside that room.”I freeze inside.Because I remember Logan’s break into the penthouse. Tearing through Knox’s office. Searching for something — a flash drive, Nathaniel had said.And suddenly I’m wondering if it’s all connected. The break-in, the secrets, whatever Logan knows that Knox doesn’t.“Is there anything else that happened that night?” I ask slowly, carefully, trying to keep my voice neutral even as my heart pounds. “Anything that could be… damning? Something someone might want to use against you?”Knox shakes his head, frustration bleeding into every line of his body.“I can’t remember. That’s the whole fucking problem, Ember. I don’t even know how Logan knows what he knows, or what exactly he knows
EMBER’S POVIt’s bigger than I expected — industrial, clearly some kind of converted warehouse, but someone has made an effort to make it livable.There’s a couch, a kitchen area, a table covered in papers and tablets and what look like security reports.Knox is standing at the counter with his back to me, dressed in fresh clothes, his hair still damp. He’s gripping the edge of the counter hard enough that his knuckles have gone white.He turns when he hears me.And stops.His gaze travels down my body slowly — the oversized shirt, the bare legs, the obvious lack of anything underneath — and when his eyes meet mine again, they’re burning gold.Then he bolts across the room.One second there’s space between us, and the next he has me pinned against the wall, his hands slamming on either side of my head, his body caging me in completely.“What are you doing?” His voice is a low growl. “Nathaniel is around. You’re going to put on some shorts right now, Ember.”I look up at him through my
EMBER’S POVThe kiss is desperate, consuming, nothing like the gentle comfort from before. This is need. This is hunger.This is two people who almost lost each other trying to prove that they’re still breathing.I reach between us and wrap my hand around his cock and fuck — he’s bigger than usual.Thick and hard and so swollen the veins are bulging under my fingers, the tip flushed and angry and dripping precum down my knuckles.The sound he makes against my mouth is filthy — a tormented sound between a growl and a groan that vibrates through my whole body — and his hips jerk forward, shoving more of that fat cock into my grip like he can’t help himself.I stroke him slowly, feeling every ridge and vein drag against my palm, feeling him pulse and throb in my hand like he’s got a heartbeat there.He’s so big my fingers barely wrap around him. So hard it looks almost painful.“Ember.” My name sounds like a prayer and a warning all at once, his voice tortured. “We shouldn’t—”“Shh.” I s
EMBER’S POVI remember the way he launched himself toward me. The way his body curled around mine, shielding me completely.The way he took arrow after arrow into his own flesh just to keep them from reaching me.“I know,” I whisper. “Thank you. You saved me. You somehow always do.”We sit in the quiet for a while, just breathing together. Then I ask a question that has been at the back of my mind.“What happened after I went out? Where is Harrison? Is he…”Goddess. I hope he was.“Harrison went off the cliff,” he says, his voice hardening slightly. “We haven’t found a body. He might still be alive.”My heart drops.“And Gale?”Something dark and satisfied flickers through his expression.“Well, you handled that yourself, didn’t you? He’s in the basement, and he is barely breathing.”Good, I think, and the coldness of it doesn’t even surprise me anymore.“There’s more.” Knox’s jaw tightens. “The transfer wasn’t random. Harrison didn’t act alone — the custody guards handed Gale over wi







