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CHAPTER FORTY SIX

Penulis: Wren Gray
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-07-08 22:05:45

"YOU CAN HAVE IT BACK."

MAYA.

I had to leave, I did not plan to, I never did.

That was the thing I wanted to be clear about, even just to myself, sitting in the back of a cab with a bag I had packed in eleven minutes while both men were somewhere in the apartment and Vivienne was in her room and nobody was watching the front door.

I did not plan to leave.

I just started moving and could not stop.

It had started an hour after the confession.

Yulian had gone quiet in the way that was different fr
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  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER SIXTY TWO

    “WHY CHOOSE ONE WHEN YOU CAN HAVE BOTH”MAYA“Get in here,” I said.Yulian stepped inside and shut the door behind him with a soft, deliberate click. He didn’t look angry. He looked amused, a little hungry, and completely unsurprised, like he had known exactly what he would walk into the moment he decided to leave the pack house early. He crossed the empty living room in three long strides and stopped just close enough that I could feel the heat of him, the familiar pull of the bond that had once been only his and was now something larger, something shared.“I leave you two alone for one morning,” he murmured, voice low and warm, “and this is what I find?”Kayden’s hands were still on my waist. He didn’t move them. I didn’t want him to. The bond between the three of us hummed—warm on both sides now, no more deliberate distance, no more closed doors.“You’re late,” I said, turning fully so that I stood between them, Kayden at my back, Yulian in front of me. I could feel the steady thru

  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER SIXTY ONE

    “THE MATTERS OF THE HEART ARE VERY COMPLICATED"MAYA.I woke up reaching for him. Not Yulian — he was already gone, I could feel that through the bond before I even opened my eyes. Busy, focused, the particular quality of his attention when he was in Alpha mode and the world had his full concentration. Somewhere across the city, doing the things that had been piling up for weeks while his soul was in the wrong body.I reached for the other one.Kayden. And found — distance. Not absence. He was there, the bond was there, warm and real and permanent in the way it had been since the blood moon. But there was something over the top of it. Deliberate. Like a door that was not locked but had been pulled mostly shut and someone was leaning against the other side of it.He was trying not to think about me.I could feel him trying.I sat up in the hotel bed and looked at the empty room and felt Kayden deliberately not thinking about me from across the city and I said out loud to nobody:"You'r

  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER SIXTY

    "WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE BOUNDED TO TWO SOULS."KAYDEN.The apartment was empty when I got there.That was the point. I had signed the lease three days ago, the morning after the blood moon, standing in the building manager's office in clothes I had slept in with a mating bond I had not yet fully processed humming in the back of my chest like a radio left on in another room. The building manager had not asked questions. I had paid three months upfront and taken the keys and that had been that.It was a good apartment. Clean lines, decent light, high enough up that the city noise was manageable. Furnished enough that I did not have to think about furniture. Nothing on the walls yet. Nothing in the kitchen except what had come with it.Mine.Completely mine, which was not something I had had in a while. The penthouse had been Yulian's. The hotel had been temporary. Before that I had been in a body that was not mine doing a life that was not mine and even the room I slept in had bel

  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER FIFTY NINE

    “DO YOU THINK IT IS POSSIBLE TO LOVE TWO PEOPLE AT THE SAME TIME?’YULIAN.Maya walked in and I crossed the room and I put my arms around her before she had finished closing the door behind her.No words.Not yet.Just her, in my arms, in my actual arms, my own body finally back where it belonged, and she pressed her face into my shoulder and I felt her exhale — long and slow and unsteady — and I held on and let her have however long she needed.She had been crying. I could tell from the way she held herself, slightly depleted, the particular exhaustion that came not from physical tiredness but from the kind of hurt that used up something deeper than energy. I did not ask what happened yet. I already knew enough from the phone call and the rest could wait until she was ready.I just held her.After a while she pulled back. She looked up at me and her eyes were swollen and her face was completely open in a way Maya's face was rarely completely open, all the careful management gone, jus

  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER FIFTY EIGHT

    “LIES TELL ME LIES BABY TELL ME HOW YOU HATE ME.”MAYA.I sat in the car for a long time.The engine was off. The road was quiet. The house was somewhere behind me and I was not looking at it and I was not going back to it and I was just sitting with both hands in my lap and letting the tears do what they were doing because there was nothing else to do with them.I was useful.The word kept coming back. Not dramatically, not with the force of something new — with the quiet weight of something that had always been true and had simply never been said out loud before. Like hearing the name for something you had been living with for so long you had stopped noticing its shape.Useful.Not loved. Not chosen. Not our daughter who we worried about and wondered about and hoped for. Useful, in the specific way of something that served a purpose and was appreciated for the serving and nothing beyond that.I pressed my head back against the headrest and looked at the ceiling of the car.My phone

  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN

    "THEY SAME TIME HEAL ALL WOUND BUT YOUR WOUNDS CUT SO DEEP…."MAYA.I packed light.One overnight bag, the small one, just enough for a day or two. I moved around the hotel room folding things neatly and putting them in and tried not to think too hard about where I was going because thinking too hard about it made my hands do the shaking thing and I needed my hands to be steady for this. Yulian sat on the edge of the bed and watched me.He did not say anything for a while. He just watched with that quiet attentiveness he had, the kind that did not demand anything from you but that you always felt."You don't have to do this today," he said finally."Yes I do," I said. "If I wait I'll talk myself out of it.""That's not necessarily a bad thing."I looked at him. "Sera didn't do this alone, Yulian. She's not — she's not the kind of person who operates without information. She knew things she should not have known. About the arrangement, about the timing, about how to move pieces in a wa

  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER SIX

    “REAL EYES, REALIZE, REAL LIES.”MAYA."When you look at me." He gestured at himself, at Yulian's face, Yulian's body, all of it. "You do this thing where you—" He paused. "You know which one you're talking to. It shows. Not a lot but it shows if someone is paying attention.""I'll work on it," I s

  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER FIVE

    “WE ALL EAT LIES, WHEN OUR HEARTS ARE HUNGRY.”MAYA.The next day.Okay.So.My husband and his best friend had swapped souls overnight because of a orb that was delivered to our home by our pack shaman. My husband was now in Kayden's body. Kayden was now in my husband's body. I was the only person

  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER FOUR

    “THE THOUGHT OF YOU CONSUMES ME LIKE AN UNCOMMITTED SIN.”MAYA.“What’s going on?” Yulian aksedHis eyes moved to me first, the way they always did."Nothing," I said, and I bent down and grabbed a dish towel off the hook on the cabinet and crouched down to press it to the small spill on the floor.

  • THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body)   CHAPTER THREE

    “PARALLEL LINES WERE NEVER MEANT TO MEET.”MAYAI did not turn around immediately.I gave myself exactly three seconds. One, two, three — counted in my head while I kept my eyes on the wine glasses in front of me and kept my hands steady on the bottle and kept my face doing absolutely nothing. The

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