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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
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2026-06-03 22:26:10
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"NO MORE SECRETS."MAYA.I noticed it before he said a single word.Kayden had a particular quietness when he had made a decision and was working up to telling someone — It made my stomach drop immediately.Does he know? How much does he know?I had been asking myself some version of that question for days now, ever since the strange shift in the way he'd been looking at me, the careful questions about family that I had answered with practiced ease and watched land wrong anyway. I had told myself I was imagining it. Standing in the kitchen that morning, watching him watch me, I knew I hadn't been."Can we talk?" he said.Not dramatic. Just quiet. Direct, the way Kayden always was when something mattered enough that he'd stopped dressing it up."Okay," I said, because there was nothing else to say.We went out to the balcony.The city was doing its midday thing below us, indifferent and loud and completely unaware that my whole life was about to tilt on its axis up here, thirty-two flo
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"YOU WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO HAVE ANY OF THIS."SERA.Four years ago, I sat on the edge of my bed the night before that dinner and I cried in a way I had never let anyone see me cry before.Not because I didn't think Yulian Voss was a good man. He was. Everyone said so. He was steady and serious and exactly the kind of match our families had been quietly engineering for years, the kind of arrangement that made sense on paper and meant nothing to me except the precise shape of the cage I could feel closing around my future.I had worked too hard. I had clawed my way through a medical degree that nobody in my family had thought I could finish, had stayed up countless nights memorizing things that mattered more to me than any dinner, any betrothal, any Alpha's attention. And I looked at Yulian Voss — at the seriousness in his eyes, the weight of responsibility that already sat on him at twenty-six like it had been bolted there — and I did not see a husband.I saw the end of everything I h
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"ONE RULE."YULIAN.The silence after that lasted a while, but it wasn't an uncomfortable one. Something had been set down between us, finally, after five years of carrying it separately, and the kitchen felt lighter for having it out in the open even though nothing had actually been resolved.Then I said: "I have one rule."Kayden looked up."No more lies," I said. "Between any of us. Not about this. Not about anything. If someone's hurting, they say it. If someone's jealous, they say it out loud instead of letting it sit and rot. If something gets discovered, the others hear it from the person who found it." I looked at him steadily. "We've all spent years being careful with each other in exactly the wrong way. I'm done with it."Kayden held my gaze for a moment, then nodded. "No more lies," he agreed.It felt like the first real agreement either of us had made since the orb broke.A practical thought followed close behind it, the kind of thing that should have occurred to us days a
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"WE NEED TO TALK."KAYDEN.I had been avoiding this conversation since the day Yulian married Maya.I want to be honest about that, even just to myself, sitting here in the early grey light with the apartment quiet around me and Maya finally, finally asleep down the hall, her body wrung out from everything the last few weeks had asked of it. Five years. Five years of not talking to my best friend about the one thing that had been sitting underneath every conversation we'd ever had since he married her. I had told myself it was protecting him. I had told myself it was protecting her. Mostly I think I had been protecting myself, because saying it out loud meant making it real in a way I couldn't take back, and I had gotten very good at letting things stay unreal as long as I could manage it.I wasn't managing it anymore.Last night had changed something. Not just between me and Maya, not just between Yulian and Maya — between me and Yulian. I had stood in that room and given him somethi
THE HUSBAND SWAP (bound to the wrong body) CHAPTER THIRTY SIX
"I MISS MY LIFE."YULIAN.I woke up before either of them.That was not unusual — I had always been an early riser, body or no body, and even with Kayden's frame around me the habit had held. What was unusual was the quality of the morning. Maya was beside me, actually beside me, asleep in the deep and unguarded way she had not slept in weeks. Her face was soft. Her breathing was even. For the first time since this curse had taken hold of my life, my wife looked at peace.I lay there and looked at her and felt something that should have been relief.Instead I felt strange.I could not immediately name why. I went back through the night before — not the intimacy of it, though that sat in my chest with its own complicated weight, but the shape of the whole evening. Kayden in the room. Kayden's voice in my own. The blindfold. The way none of it had felt like a violation or an intrusion or anything close to what I would have expected myself to feel if anyone had described this scenario to
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Kayden’s gaze held mine across the kitchen island, steady despite the exhaustion etched into Yulian’s features. “Blindfold,” he said simply. “When you and Yulian want to be together. You don’t have to see Kayden’s face while you’re trying to be with your husband. You just… feel his hands. His voice. The way he actually is with you. None of the visual confusion getting in the way.”I stared at him, the weight of the suggestion settling between us like something fragile and sharp-edged. The practicality of it was so utterly Kayden—direct, selfless on the surface, yet laced with a quiet pain he refused to name. Before I could find words, the hallway door opened with a soft click. Yulian stepped in, still wearing Kayden’s taller, broader frame like an ill-fitting coat. His eyes—those familiar warm depths shining through someone else’s face—found mine immediately.“I agree,” he said, voice low and certain, crossing the room to stand beside his best friend. The two men stood shoulder to sho
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“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.
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“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
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
