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Revenge The Witch He Buried New Drama
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00:14I died on our third wedding anniversary. He had a dinner reservation at Ciel Dore. Yasmin, his adopted sister, his
00:26real choice, was already waiting at the table.
00:29Steak, red wine, candlelight, while I was dying in the dark. My name is Rowan. I am the only true
00:38witch alive. For three years, I spoke to the dead and carried their final words back to the living. I
00:46used that gift to hand Grayson Ashford a billion-dollar empire, séance by séance, sacrifice by sacrifice.
00:57He said he was grateful.
01:03He said he was grateful.
01:28I found my sanctuary to the ground. My mentor died in that fire. In the underworld, the Death Guardians beat
01:36my soul 99 times with a soul-breaking staff. By the last strike, there was nothing left of me. Each
01:45one had his voice in it.
01:46What sacred coven? I see nothing but a den of frauds. You're a true witch. Surely you can find your
01:53own way home.
01:54But some things refused to stay dead. Back. All the way to the very first day.
02:06Grayson didn't waste time.
02:10The crack echoed off the buildings. Three seconds of silence. Then every phone on the block came up.
02:18Don't you dare dream of marrying into this family. Don't you dare touch money that isn't yours.
02:23Yasmin hanging from his arm. Wide eyes. One hand pressed to her mouth. The performance of a woman surprised by
02:31something she arranged.
02:32Without her tools, she's nothing. Just a fraud with a pretty face.
02:36The door behind me exploded open. Men poured in. My altar overturned. The sealed jars my mentor spent thirty years
02:44filling smashed against the floor.
02:47Then the sound that stopped my blood cold. A high, sharp crack. Crystal on stone. My blue crystal wand. The
02:56last thing she ever made me.
02:58Grayson crouched over the pieces. Picked up the largest shard. Turned it in his fingers. Then slid it into his
03:05breast pocket.
03:06Like a trophy.
03:09I dropped to my knees. Reached for the pieces. A polished shoe came down on my fingers. His shoe. Slow.
03:18Deliberate.
03:19He leaned his weight into it. Degree by degree. He wanted me to feel every second. Four fingers. One clean
03:27crack.
03:28He scooped Yasmin into his arms and lifted her away from the blood on the floor.
03:32New dress. Don't let the trash stain it.
03:36I did not scream. I did not cry.
03:39Through four broken fingers, and the blue dust of everything my mentor made me, I looked up at Grayson.
03:46You should burn incense for your grandfather tonight, Mr. Ashfield.
03:50The spirit guides have reached death's threshold. His soul will scatter. Very soon.
03:55His face went white. Good.
04:01Good.
04:01Thegriff nuts came from head.
04:02The teeth came from every direction. It hurt.
04:04Of course the� AF Hierson.
04:05I'd already survived 99 soul-breaking strikes in the underworld.
04:08These men were nothing.
04:12a man stepped through the doorway not rushing walking the walk of someone who has never needed
04:19to run to make a room obey his eyes swept the space and found me immediately the way
04:25sebastian stone looked at me was not pity it was something steadier the kind that takes years to
04:32build he crossed to grayson took the pointing finger bent it backward clean no hesitation
04:40grayson's scream split the air sebastian knelt on the floor beside me he helped me stand his hand
04:48closed around mine and his fingers touched the blue crystal dust still caught in my cuts he looked
04:54at it then at me who made this wand i didn't answer he already knew it mattered
05:04miss rowan are you all right cradling his broken finger sneered bastion didn't turn he bowed toward
05:12me slow deliberate the bow of someone who has made a decision my grandfather died my family is in chaos
05:25miss rowan for own i'm asking you please sebastian i agreed two steps toward the door yasmin's hand
05:37shot out her nails found my wrist above the broken fingers landing on the bruise like she'd measured
05:43for it one bet rowan spirit realm first back with the real will will wins loser cow couldows a hundred
05:53times before both families and quit sentences forever she glanced at sebastian at my broken
05:59fingers at the blue dust on the floor and her voice dropped half a note warm rehearsed of course if
06:09miss rowan
06:10i isn't feeling well there's no shame in saying so now better to admit it here than embarrass herself in
06:16front of everyone she didn't offer me a way out she offered sebastian a reason to doubt me
06:2330 million dollars i bet yasmin loses the laughter died
06:30grayson stepped in front of yasmin and looked me up and down slowly like i was something he'd found
06:36stuck to the bottom of his shoe can you even afford the bet or will you be taking out loans
06:44the live stream hit 20 000 i let them laugh every second was footage that would outlive grayson's fortune
06:54sebastian moved one step forward that was all the laughter stopped sebastian
06:5980 million every cent i have i'm backing miss rowan
07:05the counter hit 50 000 he turned and looked at me one brief glance quiet steady asking nothing
07:14all my stone shares everything i own
07:20shall we go miss rowan
07:23i signed the contract the live stream hit 50 000 comments scrolled she's done pay up can't look
07:31away he thought i was walking into a trap he'd built the trap himself
07:38the crematorium was cold enough to see your breath even in summer i walked to mr stone's body touched his
07:46still warm hand bowed full formal respect every angle correct i placed my spare blue crystal wand beside
07:55his feet one end forward one end back life and death aligned last time grayson reversed it not this time
08:04i turned to sebastian he was already watching the wand is my guide home no one touches it
08:11he nodded once i believed him i closed my eyes and fell
08:20cold total the underworld took me like a fist
08:24wind from every direction the scent of crimson flowers thick sweet wrong
08:31two shapes one black one white the death guardians i bowed deep formal every movement exact
08:41i am the 94th great generation witch of the blackwood family
08:45the soul michael stone has undersolved ties to the living world
08:50they examined my charter something shifted in their faces
08:54then chains erupted from the void tight burning cold wrapping before i could move
09:00death energy scorched my skin i looked down cracks spreading up both arms porcelain breaking from the inside out
09:11death guardians i knew that staff forge documentation illegal entry 99 strikes with the soul breaking staff
09:21i had died from it once already terror shut down language for one full second
09:27then through it one clear thought her charter never failed not once in 40 years
09:35if the document has a problem the problem is not the document
09:40someone switched it i yanked my head out and screamed into the dark
09:43i know who did this and i can prove it
09:48in the silence after my scream i heard breathing behind me shallow afraid
09:55i turned my head as far as the chains allowed
09:58there crouched between the crimson flowers pressed flat against the dark
10:04yasmin she had followed me in without authorization
10:09without merit and the death guardians had already turned toward her
10:17someone switched my charter but spiritual merit is written into the soul itself
10:23and a soul cannot be forged
10:26the death guardian pressed two fingers to my chest
10:29a long night
10:31then the chains fell
10:33mr stone was brought forward
10:35he told me everything
10:36every location
10:37every coordinate
10:39every final wish
10:40i sealed each word into memory as i turned to leave
10:44i saw her
10:45yasmin
10:46crouched between the crimson flowers
10:48pressed flat
10:49barely breathing
10:51no authorization
10:52no merit
10:54nothing real
10:55the death guardian stood directly between her and everything she came for
10:59i looked at her for one breath
11:01then i turned and walked toward the return path
11:05some lessons can only be learned in the dark
11:13when i opened my eyes
11:14grayson was already celebrating
11:16the live stream was past 100 000
11:22rowan
11:22you lost
11:23get on the ground and transfer the money
11:26i felt sebastian watching me from across the room
11:29not anxious
11:30patient
11:31certain
11:32i lay still
11:33one breath
11:34then i sat up
11:36straightened my spine
11:37looked grayson in the eye
11:39mr ashford
11:40you seem to have forgotten something
11:42my sister and i are the only living relatives of the deceased
11:45we have every right to be here
11:47every head turned to yasmin
11:49she was staring at the floor
11:51hands in her lap
11:52completely still
11:54whatever she'd seen in the underworld was still on her face
11:58grayson grabbed her shoulder
12:00tell me you got the coordinates
12:01she didn't answer
12:03then a calm voice filled the room
12:05every number
12:07every coordinate
12:08flawless
12:10it was my voice
12:12the live stream hit 200 000
12:18the live stream detonated
12:19the counter blew past 200 000
12:23yasmin collapsed forward sobbing
12:25then she lifted her head and pointed at me
12:28she blocked me deliberately
12:29grayson turned to me
12:30jaw working
12:32i looked at him without expression
12:34grayson
12:34are you asking me seriously
12:36whatever she whispers you believe
12:37you have always believed her over every shred of evidence
12:39and now you have nothing
12:40because of that
12:41name your price
12:42any price
12:43just perform the ashford saint on you
12:44i'm begging you
12:45isn't this called welking on a bet mr ashford
12:47you can't cover one tenth of what you owe
12:48one movement
12:49absolute
12:50grayson went down on the marble
12:51you want to talk about what i enjoyed
12:53enjoying watching you and yaston at our own wedding
12:56enjoying being bled drow seance after seance
12:59for a family that hated me
13:01enjoying the underworld
13:02alone
13:03while my sanctuary burned with my tenter inside it
13:06total silence
13:08200 000 viewers
13:09not one comment moved on the screen
13:13grayson's legs gave out
13:15he went down onto his knees
13:16on the marble
13:18on camera
13:19in front of everyone
13:22i was wrong
13:22i know that now
13:23please
13:24just save the family
13:26i'm on my knees
13:27i'm begging you
13:28i looked down at him
13:30the man who burned my sanctuary
13:32who broke my fingers
13:34who took a shard of my mentor's wand
13:36and kept it in his pocket like a trophy
13:39who smiled while my soul was beaten to pieces
13:42your grandfather has crossed the final bridge
13:44he has already been reborn
13:46you cut off your own path grayson
13:48and i won't be the one to rebuild it
13:50i held out the contract
13:52his hand was shaking when he signed
13:54every share
13:55every asset
13:56gone
13:58the pen on paper was the only sound in the room
14:00when he looked up
14:02i was already turning
14:03i didn't look back
14:05not once
14:07i heard later
14:09after i left
14:10grayson sat on that marble floor for 11 minutes
14:13200 000 people watched
14:15nobody moved
14:17then he reached into his breast pocket
14:19took out the blue crystal shard
14:21and looked at it
14:22his other hand came up slowly
14:24and he struck himself across the face
14:27hard
14:28in the silence
14:29the sound was identical to the sound of his shoe on my fingers
14:34the empire unraveled in real time
14:37shareholders pulling out before sundown
14:41mrs ashford rushed in crying
14:46grayson
14:46alone in a room that used to be his
14:51raised his hand and slapped himself
14:53hard
14:54no cameras
14:55no audience
14:57just the sound of it
15:05grace
15:06i'm scared
15:07i'm sorry
15:08it was rowan
15:09he ripped the prayer beads from her wrist
15:11ground them underfoot
15:12sure
15:13drive the price up
15:14we split the extra the usual way
15:18did you really think i learned anything real from your family
15:21your mother adopted me for my spiritual sight
15:24then had my wrists bled for blessing rituals over and over 20 years
15:28while you lived clean and comfortable
15:30after all that
15:31yes
15:32i want the money
15:33all of it
15:33and i feel nothing about that
15:39yasmin escaped three days later
15:44posted everything
15:45every fraud
15:46every cover-up
15:47every debt
15:49ashford
15:50collapses
15:51amid fraud elations
15:53grace and ashford missing
15:55i thought that was the end
15:59then i stepped out of the sanctuary gate one morning
16:06i woke to the smell of desperation
16:13grayson
16:16his hand on my throat before i could move
16:19the world went black
16:32his hand closed around my throat
16:34something in the air was chemical
16:36my arms went heavy
16:37a drug
16:39he thought that broken thing could call me back
16:42one more seance
16:43that's all
16:43half the ashford fortune
16:45yours
16:47a real wedding
16:48only you
16:49for the rest of my life
16:51just say yes
16:52i bit through my lower lip
16:54pain
16:54clarity
16:55why should i die for him a second time
16:58why should this broken shard be the last thing i see
17:02no
17:05grayson fell
17:07his hand left my throat
17:08blood spread slow and dark beneath him
17:10he looked up at me
17:12eyes clouding
17:15rowan
17:17i'm sorry
17:18i turned my face to the wall
17:19some apologies arrived too late
17:25then sebastian was through the door
17:27face one
17:29he dropped beside me
17:30hands searching my face
17:32my arms
17:33rowan
17:34i'm here
17:36thank god
17:36i let him hold me
17:38neither of us said anything
17:41for a while that was enough
17:43he came every day during recovery
17:45always the lunchbox
17:48the same quiet knock
17:50some mornings he sat beside me without speaking
17:53just there
17:55giving me something i didn't know i needed
17:57the memories loosened
17:59the 99 strikes
18:01the burning sanctuary
18:03still there
18:05but smaller
18:07held down by the weight of now
18:10one morning i walked to the window
18:13sebastian was already at the gate below
18:16lunchbox
18:18looking up
18:19when he saw me he smiled
18:22no performance
18:23no calculation
18:24a man seeing the person he chose
18:27and his face doing what it naturally does
18:30and i was finally choosing him back
18:33the sun through the glass was warm
18:35the kind you don't have to earn
18:39grayson never got his apology
18:42yasmin never got her empire
18:44i lost everything
18:45twice
18:47and ended up with more than i thought to want
18:49some people are built for winter
18:52i had finally stepped into spring
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