Chapter 10. One Hundred Percent

Tessa’s POV

Knox goes still.

For a few long seconds, he doesn’t move, doesn’t blink. He just stares at me like his brain is rebooting.

“Cole cheated on you,” he says.

It isn’t a question, but I nod anyway.

“And he said that.” His voice drops. “That no wolf would ever want you.”

“Knox—”

“He said that.” Louder. “To you. After fourteen months.”

The protein shake in his hand cracks. Not the lid. The whole bottle. Chocolate runs down his wrist and drips on the hallway carpet, and he doesn’t even look at it.

“Okay,” I say quickly. “Okay. Can we go inside? Mrs. Delgado from 4B already thinks Wyatt runs a fight club.”

Wyatt steps aside. Knox walks in like he’s walking into a rink before a playoff game, all shoulders and silence, and the second the door closes behind us, he turns around.

“Where is he?”

“Who?”

“Don’t.” His eyes are gold to the edges now. “Where does he live these days? Still the townhouse on