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They bullied her child and mocked her humble appearance, thinking she was just a helpless single mother. They made the biggest mistake of their lives. They didn't know she is the legendary 'Dragon Queen' of the business world, with enough power to crush their empires in a single day. Watch the epic moment she reveals her true identity to protect her little one. When it comes to her child, she is a fire nobody can put out! ✨👑
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They bullied her child and mocked her humble appearance, thinking she was just a helpless single mother. They made the biggest mistake of their lives. They didn't know she is the legendary 'Dragon Queen' of the business world, with enough power to crush their empires in a single day. Watch the epic moment she reveals her true identity to protect her little one. When it comes to her child, she is a fire nobody can put out! ✨👑
#DontMessWithMyDragonMommy #DragonMommy #IdentityReveal #EngSub #Billionaire #ShortDrama #FullMovie #Venganza #JefeRico #Empowerment
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00:02¡Suscríbete al canal!
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01:00He had Lyra with him, plus a few of his clansmen, all craning their necks toward the treeline.
01:05Hey, isn't that Ryan's obsessed ex? Isn't that Ivara?
01:09Rylan looks surprised to see me. He covered it fast.
01:12Told you she'd come crawling back.
01:16Ivara vanished without a trace. Now she sees Rylan is in a higher rank.
01:20She probably cries herself to sleep every night.
01:24Ivara, if you're gonna fake a random run-in, why show up like this?
01:29Couldn't you at least put on some makeup?
01:31Without Rylan, you can't even buy a nice outfit.
01:34Look pathetic.
01:35It was true. I used to make myself perfect every time I knew I'd be near Rylan.
01:41Sharpest claws, finest scales on display. Best version of me.
01:46Not anymore. No point.
01:48Because I'm carrying, and my mate refused to let me be uncomfortable.
01:52He had this soft traveling wrap, custom-tailored for me.
01:56Listening to them mock me, it suddenly clicked.
01:59They only knew my alliance name.
02:01They had no idea the one they were here to collect was me.
02:04Ivara, hey, it's good you're back.
02:07Rylan's been asking after me for years.
02:08Yeah, our son is entering the young training cohort, so now I'm in charge of the drama.
02:12He was still so incredibly arrogant, but I wasn't that naive girl anymore.
02:17I didn't want to waste another second on them.
02:19I was just about to tell them exactly who I was.
02:22I am-
02:22Please don't blame Rylan. He's just trying to take care of you.
02:25You disappeared for three years.
02:27Who knows what kind of shady stuff you had to do to survive.
02:30Don't worry.
02:31Caring for my son is a respectable role.
02:34No one will look down at you.
02:36Rylan caught my expression and thought I was jealous.
02:39Something flickered in his eyes.
02:41All right, Ivara, drop the attitude.
02:43You clearly can't survive out there, so stop throwing tantrums, take care of the kid, and learn your place.
02:51Damn, Ivara, look how good Rylan is to you.
02:53He's given you free room and board.
02:55Isn't babysitting better than whatever trashy life you're living now?
02:59Hurry up and say thank you.
03:01Don't worry, dear.
03:02If my son acts up, I'll handle him myself.
03:05You won't be mistreated.
03:07Why would she be mistreated?
03:09She ran away over a tiny little misunderstanding.
03:12If she hit rock bottom out in the wilds, a little humility is good for her.
03:16My heart actually skipped a beat.
03:18Three years had passed, and he still thought it was a small matter to dump me and married Lyra?
03:23The Rylan who used to love me was truly gone.
03:27He wasn't the young warrior who'd carried me, wounded, across three territory borders in the dead of a moonless night.
03:33But whatever.
03:34It was all in the past.
03:36None of it mattered anymore.
03:37Besides, I was about to carry my second patchling anyway.
03:41I looked at Rylan calmly and said,
03:43Aren't you here to pick me up?
03:44Let's go.
03:45Silence fell over the clearing.
03:47Then someone left.
03:49Pick you up?
03:51Please.
03:52Read it carefully.
03:54We are here for Hela.
03:56Do you even know who that is?
03:58Hela is the mate-bonded consort of the Frostridge line.
04:01She is blood-bonded to Lord Kale.
04:04Kale is a living legend.
04:07Coldest dragon alive in the field, but completely devoted to his wife.
04:12Rumor has it he refused all alliances for years.
04:16Just waiting for Hela.
04:17Everyone knows the rule.
04:18If you want Kale's favor, go through Hela.
04:22She is his entire world.
04:24Listening to them gossip about my marriage, I couldn't help it.
04:28A genuine happy smile spread across my face.
04:31We had been married for three years.
04:34Kale's reputation as a fiercely devoted husband had spread everywhere.
04:38To claim Hela as his, Kale went to the ancient exchange and paid down a legendary artifact.
04:43The Eternal Fang Bracelet.
04:45Just to give to Hela.
04:48She's the most envied female in every territory.
04:55That bracelet!
04:56That's it!
04:58It's a pretty good fake.
05:00Which a lowborn Klansman bought you that?
05:03Buying you a cheap imitation.
05:05Absolute trash.
05:08Wow!
05:09It really is high quality for a fake.
05:11Way better than the replica I had made.
05:13But I'd never actually wear mine in public.
05:16These outer territory emmucations, though?
05:18The craftsmanship is something else.
05:20The weight actually feels real.
05:24Or what, Evora?
05:26Are you gonna tell us you're Hela?
05:28Are you Lord Kale's bonded mate?
05:32Of course they did.
05:34It was absurd to them.
05:36Kale was a living legend across all territories.
05:39Cold.
05:41Absolute.
05:42Untouchable.
05:43And three years ago, I was just the girl Rylan had left standing outside the Sacred Hall.
05:48There was no version of reality where those two things connected.
05:55Just give it to me, Evora.
05:57I'll pay double whatever you traded for.
06:00Give it back.
06:02Kale gave me that.
06:06Shut your mouth!
06:07Rylan looked furious.
06:09Evora, do you have any idea what you're saying?
06:12You think you can just casually invoke Lord Kiel's name?
06:16Are you trying to get me killed?
06:18His clansmen piled on immediately.
06:21Do you know how hard we fought for this pickup assignment?
06:23Get on a trine for this pickup of season.
06:24Kale absorbed Rylan's clan faction last season.
06:26Our entire livelihood depends on him now.
06:28Are you two trying to ruin Rylan entirely?
06:31I wiped the blood from my lip, slowly turned back to Rylan.
06:35Whatever he saw in my eyes made him flinch.
06:38Lyra caught it.
06:39She stepped forward and pointed a claw at my face.
06:43You ungrateful snake.
06:45Rylan offered you a place and you throw it back at him?
06:47I know you're still bitter about the past.
06:49Trying to sabotage his standing out of petty spite?
06:52That's sick.
06:53Hearing her say that, it felt exactly like three years ago.
06:57No matter what I did, Lyra would twist it.
07:00Feed her poisonous version of the story to Rylan.
07:03In the early days, he used to defend me.
07:06By the end, he always took her side.
07:08Just like now.
07:10Jealous shrick.
07:12For old time's sake, I'll let this go.
07:16Take these, get yourself proper clothes.
07:19If you really don't want to tend Lyra's hatchling,
07:21I'll find you something tolerable next season.
07:23Don't worry.
07:24Ever since Kale absorbed us, this kind of thing cost me nothing.
07:27No thank you.
07:28I don't take things from strangers.
07:37Not three steps out, Rylan grabbed my arm.
07:41You won't take what I'm offering?
07:45What does that mean I'm a stranger to you?
07:47I kept walking and said evenly,
07:50We dissolved our bond.
07:53Better not to stay tangled in each other's lives.
07:56Others might get the wrong impression.
07:58I was thinking of Kale,
08:00who had a very particular dislike of misunderstandings.
08:04My faction is hosting a tribute feast for Kale in three days.
08:07I was going to bring you,
08:08show you something real,
08:09but you'd need to present yourself properly.
08:12Can't embarrass me.
08:13I'm fine, but thank you.
08:16Fine, I'll take Lyra.
08:17I won't let you down.
08:19I didn't look back.
08:20Hope you're still this confident in three days.
08:23Fresh air.
08:24I stood there for a moment,
08:26breathing it in.
08:27The nausea faded.
08:29My mind flashed back to three years ago.
08:32My family had arranged an alliance overseas.
08:35I'd gone to Rylan for the first seven years together.
08:39I wanted to seal our bond before the journey.
08:42Force the decision.
08:43He agreed.
08:44But at the Sacred Hall,
08:46it wasn't just Rylan waiting.
08:48Her hatchling needs to be registered under my bloodline.
08:52I'll dissolve her bond claim in a month.
08:54Then I'll bond with you.
08:56This is just about hatchling.
08:58I watched him take her inside.
09:00That was the last thing I needed to see.
09:02I crossed the border that night,
09:04met Kale,
09:05bonded with him a month later,
09:07had our son the year after.
09:09Now I was carrying it again.
09:10And the only reason I was even back in the reach
09:13was to attend a clan ancestral rite with Kale.
09:17Honestly, if it wasn't for the rite,
09:19I never would have set foot back here.
09:20And I definitely wouldn't have run into Rylan.
09:23Three days later,
09:24I painted on a light adornment,
09:26threw on comfortable traveling leathers,
09:28and made my way to the feast grounds alone.
09:31The second Rylan saw me enter the clearing,
09:33his eyes lit up.
09:35A smug smirk spread across his face.
09:38You said you weren't coming,
09:39but here you are.
09:40Listen,
09:41if you want me back,
09:42you need to at least present yourself properly
09:45to match my standing.
09:46I walked past him without a word.
09:48Evara, I'm talking to you.
09:50Our circle is here.
09:51Where do you think you're going?
09:52I pulled free and said simply,
09:55That's your circle.
09:56Mine is up there.
09:57He followed my gaze to the head circle,
10:00the raised dais reserved for lords
10:02and their bonded mates.
10:03His face went pale.
10:05Lyra spotted my bracelet from across the ground.
10:08Evara, how did she get in here?
10:09She's here to cause chaos.
10:11How dare she wear that pendant tonight?
10:14Of all nights,
10:16tonight is the first time Kale
10:18is bringing his bonded mate out publicly.
10:20Is she trying to humiliate Hela?
10:22She slipped past the sentinels.
10:25She's trying to make us look disloyal
10:26in front of Lord Kale.
10:28Rylan?
10:29Is this female with you?
10:31Rylan straightened.
10:32No.
10:33Take that bracelet off and get out.
10:35I looked at her with a faint smile.
10:37You sure you want me to leave?
10:39Lyra realized others were watching.
10:41Her eyes went vicious.
10:43Stop acting like you're something.
10:45Take it off now!
10:47She lunged forward to rip it from my wrist.
10:50I swatted her claw away and stepped back.
10:53Someone behind me tripped me.
10:54I hit the ground hard.
10:56Lyra stepped on my arm
10:57and ripped the bracelet off my wrist.
10:59Treating this like it's something sacred?
11:02Trash.
11:03My wrist was bleeding,
11:04but I just sat there,
11:06staring at the bracelet lying broken on the ground.
11:09Pick her up and throw her out.
11:11A few sentinels moved toward me.
11:14They reached for my arms.
11:15Stop!
11:16I struggled.
11:17I am Kale's-
11:18Lyra struck me across the face before I could finish.
11:21Are you going to start spreading rumors
11:23that your Lord Kale's kept female?
11:27You wish.
11:30She struck me again.
11:32When I came back to the reach,
11:34I hadn't planned to make a scene.
11:35It had felt beneath me,
11:37but now she had made it worth it.
11:40Rylan crouched down in front of me,
11:42reached for my wrist.
11:44I pulled back instinctively.
11:46Are you done throwing your fit?
11:48Huh?
11:49You show up wearing the bracelet,
11:52dressed down on purpose.
11:53You wanted me jealous.
11:55Just say it,
11:56and I'll give you what you want.
11:57I laughed.
11:59I laughed.
12:00Sharp.
12:01Rylan,
12:02you're finished.
12:04He frowned,
12:05opened his mouth,
12:06and then the clearing went dead silent.
12:09Guests began to straighten themselves,
12:12drifting toward the entrance path.
12:14Kale is here.
12:16Behave yourself.
12:21Lyra and I have dissolved our bond,
12:23by the way.
12:24I stared at him.
12:25I was cradling my nearly broken wrist,
12:27looking at the male in front of me,
12:30thinking,
12:30how did I spend seven years on this person?
12:33What did his dissolution have to do with me?
12:36At that exact moment,
12:38Kale walked in with our son in his arms.
12:41Once they reached the feast grounds,
12:43our son squirmed and climbed down.
12:45He hit the stone path,
12:47all soft cheeks and small clawed boots.
12:50And every eye in the clearing went straight to him.
12:54His guardian scrambled after him.
12:56Rylan hadn't noticed who the cub was yet.
12:59If you stop being jealous of Lyra,
13:01I'll forgive you for disappearing three years.
13:03I'll give you another chance.
13:05Carry my hatchling,
13:07a real one,
13:08ours.
13:09Just come back and tend to my son.
13:11I'll get rid of Lyra.
13:13I didn't say a single word to him.
13:15I just looked past him into the crowd,
13:17trying to catch Kale's and our son's eyes.
13:21Then it happened.
13:22Kale followed the cub's small,
13:24clumsy steps,
13:25straight to where I was.
13:27The second my son saw me,
13:29something broke open in his face.
13:32He threw himself into my arms.
13:38Why is there so much blood?
13:41One word.
13:42Mom.
13:44Every dragon in that clearing turned from the cub to me.
13:47The ones who have watched me get knocked around without doing a thing.
13:51All of them staring.
13:53My son's warmth in my arms washed away everything that had been pressing down on me.
13:57I crouched down to his level,
13:59cupped his cheek.
14:01He took my hand.
14:02Cuffs.
14:03They see something hurting someone they love,
14:05and they just fall apart.
14:09Who did this to you?
14:12Protecting you is mom's job, too.
14:16Before I could say anything more,
14:17the air in the clearing changed.
14:19A heavy, suffocating stillness washed over the crowd.
14:23Kale was walking toward us.
14:24That quiet, controlled walk that made the air around him feel different.
14:28Dragons moved aside without knowing why.
14:31I felt him before I saw him.
14:33I picked up our son and turned around.
14:35The blood on my wrist looked stark against his white wrap.
14:38Our son looked up at Kale immediately.
14:42Father.
14:43Someone hurt mother.
14:44We have to make them pay.
14:47Kale stepped forward and very carefully lifted my arm.
14:50His face was unreadable,
14:52but his voice was quiet.
14:53Ivara.
14:55What happened?
14:57I'm right here,
14:58but you're already hurt.
14:59I can't take my eyes off you.
15:01Whoever did this.
15:13Looking at this cold, absolute lord
15:15turn into a fiercely protective mate
15:18made my heart ache.
15:19He was always like this.
15:20A mosquito bite.
15:22A bruise from sleep.
15:24Even just eating half a portion,
15:25he'd be beside himself with worry.
15:28The feast hall's ambient light was low,
15:30low and dim,
15:31but our son felt something hard beneath his boot.
15:34Father,
15:35isn't this the bracelet you gave mother?
15:38Kale took it from him,
15:39turned it over,
15:40saw the engraving.
15:41Then I looked at the shards scattered across the ground,
15:44and at my wrist.
15:45The nearest stone pillar cracked in his grip.
15:47He drew me gently into the light.
15:49Bring every torch to the ground over here!
15:52When our eyes met,
15:53his pupils narrowed slightly.
15:54What happened to your face?
15:57They actually dared to do this to you?
16:01I softened my voice.
16:03I'm fine, Kale.
16:05Rivera, I am your mate.
16:07You never have to swallow this kind of treatment alone.
16:10Our son pressed close.
16:13No one gets to hurt mother!
16:15Honestly,
16:16I could have handled Rylan and Lyra myself,
16:18but perhaps it was pregnancy.
16:20Or perhaps it was just finally feeling safe.
16:24My voice cracked.
16:26All the weight I'd been holding for three days broke open.
16:29You weren't here,
16:31and they all came at me.
16:33The feast grounds had gone dead silent.
16:36Rylan's scouts from the border crossing
16:38were somewhere in that clearing,
16:40shaking hard enough
16:41that they needed the standing stones
16:42to hold themselves up.
16:44They didn't expect it either.
16:46The female they'd spent three days
16:48calling Rylan's lovesick cast-off
16:50was Lord Kale's bonded mate.
16:53Every single one of them
16:54was now looking for a way
16:55to disappear into the tree line.
16:57But then Lyra's companion,
16:59a female named Vesa who had arrived late,
17:02strutted out from the crowd.
17:05Ivara,
17:06where did you find these two?
17:07Their performance is impressive.
17:09Do you want Lyra to get them placed
17:11with a traveling troop?
17:12Not that you could afford the placement fee.
17:14Vesa threw her head back
17:16and laughed at her own words.
17:18Usually half the clearing would laugh with her.
17:20But this time,
17:21the entire grounds just stared at her
17:24like she had lost her mind.
17:26Vesa noticed the dead silence.
17:28She doubled down.
17:29She turned to Kale and smirked.
17:32You're actually quite striking.
17:34If you ever want to leave her,
17:37I wouldn't mind taking care of you.
17:39My mouth twitched.
17:40She was propositioning my mate
17:42in front of me.
17:44Vesa finally registered the clearing's energy.
17:47She drifted toward Lyra for backup.
17:49Lyra wanted nothing to do with her.
17:51Before Vesa could even speak,
17:54Lyra spun around and struck her
17:56viciously across the face.
17:57Vesa?
17:58Are you insane?
18:00You just insulted Lord Kale
18:02and his bonded mate.
18:03Do you not be banished?
18:05Do you want to be banished?
18:11The forest healer.
18:15I just told her mate
18:16I'd take care of him.
18:20Oh no!
18:21Then someone near the back of the clearing
18:23made a sound.
18:24Heads turned.
18:26Vesa had lost control of herself entirely.
18:29Her shift reflex had misfired
18:31in the most primal,
18:33humiliating way
18:34a dragon can in public.
18:36Scales broke out
18:37down one side of her neck and arm
18:39in a panicked,
18:41involuntary half-shift.
18:42The kind that happened to hatchlings
18:44who couldn't control
18:45their fear responses.
18:47Kale's jaw tightened slightly.
18:49A sentinel materialized
18:51and quietly escorted her
18:52from the grounds.
18:53Lyra and Rylan went scarlet.
18:56The guests looked at them
18:57the way you look at those
18:58who have shamed themselves
18:59past the point of recovery.
19:01Meanwhile,
19:02a healer Kale had summoned
19:03was tending to my wrist nearby.
19:05I hissed.
19:06Kale and our son
19:07both turned
19:08with the same expression.
19:09Can you perhaps
19:10be a little more careful?
19:12The healer's hands
19:13started trembling.
19:14I shot them both a look.
19:15He's helping me.
19:17Stop.
19:18They immediately turned
19:19identical wounded expressions
19:21on me.
19:22Father and son.
19:23Same face,
19:24same pout.
19:26Okay.
19:27I know.
19:29I'm sorry, keep going.
19:31I told the healer.
19:33He visibly relaxed.
19:34When he finished,
19:35he turned to Kale.
19:37My lord,
19:38your mate is perfectly fine.
19:40The unborn is safe.
19:42The wrist is the worst of it.
19:44I will source the best remedies available
19:46and do everything possible
19:47to ensure no scarring.
19:49Kale said nothing.
19:50I knew exactly
19:51what that silence meant.
19:53It was the one that came
19:54before something irreversible.
19:57Standing in the crowd,
19:58Rylan looked terrified.
20:00But underneath the panic,
20:02he burned with something else.
20:04Jealousy.
20:05Watching how close
20:06Kale stayed beside me,
20:08his old possessiveness
20:09was peaking.
20:10But the survival of his faction
20:12was on the line,
20:13so he had to bite it down.
20:15Kale stood beside me
20:16and surveyed the clearing
20:17with the kind of stillness
20:19that made everyone in it
20:20feel like they'd already been
20:22found guilty of something.
20:24He looked almost cold,
20:26almost lethal.
20:26I actually found it
20:28a little endearing,
20:29especially with our son
20:31standing right beside him
20:32like a tiny,
20:33furious mirror image.
20:35I want to know
20:36exactly what happened.
20:38Everything.
20:40If you speak now,
20:42perhaps you survive this.
20:43If I have to find it out myself,
20:46every single one of you
20:48goes down with it.
20:49It was a naked threat.
20:51These dragons had clawed
20:52for the chance
20:53to attend this feast.
20:55None of them wanted
20:55to burn for Ryland's sake.
20:57Ryland panicked.
20:59He stepped forward.
21:00Lord Kale,
21:01there's been a misunderstanding.
21:04As Evara's,
21:06as her former bonded partner,
21:08I was simply reconnecting with her.
21:11Things got out of hand.
21:12He unexpectedly said
21:14former bonded partner
21:16with a particular emphasis.
21:18God blessed him.
21:19Such an idiot.
21:20The worst possible moment for it.
21:23He actually thought
21:24I had spent three years
21:25keeping myself for him,
21:27waiting for him
21:28to snap his fingers
21:29so I could come running back.
21:31He completely missed
21:32the murderous stillness
21:33crossing Kale's face.
21:35I heard the stone goblet
21:36in Kale's hand crack.
21:39Ryland kept going.
21:40You likely know
21:41she was quite devoted to me
21:42before the disavolition.
21:45Reconnecting after years apart,
21:47it's natural
21:48that emotions would...
21:49The goblet shattered
21:50in Kale's grip.
21:52Stone fragments fell.
21:53Blood ran down his fingers.
21:55I pushed Ryland out of my focus
21:57and reached for Kale's hand.
22:02Stop!
22:03Stop trying to put yourself
22:04between us!
22:05You had your chance
22:06and you threw it away!
22:07Don't flatter yourself.
22:09I have loved exactly
22:10one person my entire life
22:12and it is you.
22:14Everyone here
22:15can hear me say it.
22:16I grabbed a clean wrap
22:18and frantically began
22:19binding Kale's bleeding hand.
22:21Ryland looked genuinely hurt.
22:23Evora,
22:24I know you're bitter
22:25but Lyra and I
22:26have dissolved our bond.
22:28Her hatchling is ready
22:29to call you mother.
22:32You only bonded with Kale
22:34to wound me.
22:35I understand.
22:35I'm not angry.
22:36Just come back.
22:38Whatever he can give you,
22:39I'll work twice as hard
22:40to match it.
22:41Just return
22:42and tend to my son!
22:44If you don't want Leia,
22:46I'll make her disappear.
22:48I honestly could not believe
22:50what I was hearing.
22:51Kale's blood was smearing
22:52onto my wraps
22:53but as I urgently pressed
22:55the binding to his palm,
22:56he suddenly let out
22:58a low, genuine laugh.
23:00I looked up at him,
23:01furious.
23:02Why are you laughing?
23:03Kale reached over
23:04with his uninjured hand
23:05and quietly rested it
23:07on top of my head.
23:08Evora,
23:09you just said
23:10I'm the one you love most.
23:12Our son made a face
23:13and looked away.
23:14His cold, fearsome father
23:16was currently acting
23:18like a lovesick hatchling
23:19all because I'd defended him.
23:22The entire feast grounds
23:23went still.
23:24Half the guests were in shock.
23:25The other half were dying
23:27of quiet and envy.
23:28The whispers spread
23:29through the crowd
23:30like fire through dry grass.
23:31The rumors are real.
23:33He is completely
23:35devoted to his mate.
23:37Rylan stood there,
23:38his knuckles white
23:39with humiliation.
23:40But our son wasn't finished.
23:41He looked Rylan up and down
23:42with open disdain.
23:44Cub tender?
23:45My mother is the most
23:46protected one in our den.
23:48You think you deserve her?
23:50Mother only carries two cubs.
23:52Me and my sister.
23:56You really think
23:57your unacknowledged Hatchie
23:58gets to call her mother?
24:01I know all about you.
24:05You're the one
24:06who broke my mother's heart.
24:07You're not as impressive
24:09as my father.
24:10Not as strong.
24:11Not as well formed.
24:13He tilted his head,
24:14studying Rylan
24:15with the kind of cold disdain
24:17that was entirely
24:18too familiar
24:19on that small face.
24:21And you smell like someone
24:22who peaked too early
24:23and never recovered.
24:24It's making my eyes water.
24:26Is your hatchling
24:27gonna grow up
24:27leeching off others
24:28just like you?
24:30The guests
24:30surrounding us
24:31erupted.
24:32They couldn't help it.
24:34Rylan bit his lip
24:35hard enough to draw blood,
24:36shaking with shame.
24:38Everyone in that clearing
24:39knew the truth.
24:40He had coasted for years
24:42on Lyra's family resources.
24:44It was not a secret.
24:46Hearing all of this,
24:47Lyra had completely
24:48lost her grip
24:49on rational thought.
24:50Her hatchling
24:51was the most important
24:52thing in the world to her.
24:55The most exceptional cub alive.
24:58And this female
24:59was going to replace her.
25:00Rylan had essentially
25:02said so himself.
25:03Lyra grabbed a bone-handled
25:05knife from the nearest table.
25:07You little wretch!
25:08I'll kill you!
25:09I didn't think.
25:10I let go of Kale's hand
25:12and threw myself
25:13entirely over our son.
25:15A blinding, searing pain
25:17ripped through my back.
25:18The color drained
25:19from my face.
25:20Dre, are you?
25:22I didn't finish the sentence.
25:23Everything went black.
25:24I collapsed to the stone.
25:26The last thing I saw
25:27before I lost consciousness
25:29was our son's face,
25:30white with panic.
25:31I wanted to tell him
25:32not to cry.
25:33I didn't get the chance.
25:35I woke to the sharp smell
25:36of healer's den.
25:37Dried herbs,
25:39warm stone walls.
25:40I stared at the ceiling
25:41for a moment,
25:42disoriented.
25:43My best friend Sorin
25:45was in the chair beside me.
25:46The second she saw
25:47my eyes open,
25:48she grabbed my hands.
25:50Oh, thank the ancient fires!
25:52You're awake!
25:53If you had stayed under
25:54any longer,
25:55your mate and your son
25:56were going to tear
25:57this entire territory apart.
26:00What?
26:01She was definitely exaggerating.
26:04Sorin caught the look
26:06immediately.
26:06I reached for my stomach
26:08on instinct.
26:09You're both fine.
26:10The healer said
26:11it was shock and pain.
26:12That's why you went under.
26:13The unborn is completely safe.
26:16That Lyra is something else.
26:18Going after a cub
26:19with a blade.
26:20My chest tightened.
26:23My son!
26:24Kale!
26:25Are they-
26:25Both fine.
26:26Physically,
26:26completely fine.
26:28Slow down.
26:29Drink.
26:31Sorin handed me
26:31a cup of broth.
26:35I drank.
26:36The tightness
26:37eased a little.
26:40You didn't need
26:41to throw yourself
26:41in front of him.
26:42There were six sentinels
26:43in that clearing.
26:44Dre was never
26:44going to get touched.
26:47That's Dre.
26:48I know, I know.
26:49He's your whole heart.
26:50That terrifying
26:51little creature.
26:52He doesn't need protecting.
26:53He's more dangerous
26:54than most full-grown warriors.
26:56I smiled despite myself.
26:58Where are they?
26:59Sorin's eyes lit up.
27:02Getting revenge?
27:03I wanted to come along,
27:04but your mate and your son
27:05are genuinely terrifying
27:07when they operate together,
27:08so I volunteered
27:09to stay with you instead.
27:10She settled in
27:11and began.
27:12When I arrived,
27:13you were already under.
27:15From what I pieced together
27:16from the witnesses
27:17still standing,
27:18your son watched you collapse
27:20and went completely still
27:21for about two seconds.
27:22Then he picked up
27:22the knife Lyra had dropped
27:23and drove it straight
27:24through her hand.
27:25Into the stone beneath.
27:28A cub.
27:30I don't know where
27:30he gets that guy's strength.
27:33Kale found out
27:34about the strike
27:34at the border crossing
27:35three days ago
27:36and the bracelet
27:37and everything
27:38they said to you.
27:39He had his sentinels
27:40hold Rylan down
27:41and they dealt
27:42with the hand
27:42he used to hit you.
27:43I closed my eyes briefly.
27:45Lyra's face
27:46received the same treatment.
27:47And then Kale
27:48had a chest of gemstones
27:49brought into the clearing,
27:50all the shards
27:51from your broken bracelet,
27:52and he told Lyra
27:53that since she loved
27:54taking things
27:55that belonged to you
27:56so much,
27:56she had to swallow them.
28:02You know what Kale said?
28:09You love taking
28:10what is hers.
28:11So here,
28:12I am giving you
28:13everything you wanted.
28:14The stones
28:15and the mail.
28:16She refused at first.
28:18So Kale had her hatchling
28:20brought in.
28:20Then she did it.
28:21She swallowed
28:22a great many shards.
28:24They worked her over
28:24until she was barely conscious.
28:26Then Kale had her drop
28:27beyond the outer borders.
28:28Swallowed shards.
28:30Face first.
28:31Every dragon
28:32who stood around
28:32watching you get hurt,
28:33every single one of them
28:34carries a mark
28:35on their wrists now,
28:35just for doing nothing.
28:37If you weren't
28:37my closest companion,
28:38I'd probably have one too.
28:40I gave her a flat look.
28:41The clan records
28:42were updated,
28:43but the only news
28:43that spread was about
28:44Rylan's faction
28:44being absorbed and dissolved.
28:46Every allied group
28:47in that clearing
28:47with border exposure,
28:48Kale absorbed it.
28:49Some were disbanded entirely.
28:51Some are still
28:51bleeding out.
28:54Rylan was supposed
28:54to go the same way
28:55as Lyra,
28:56but Lyra stopped it,
28:58threw herself in front
28:59of the sentinel's
29:00bottom time to run.
29:03I think she made
29:04a deal with him.
29:05It wasn't hard
29:06to figure out.
29:06The hatchling.
29:07When a mother
29:08is running out of time,
29:09the one thing
29:09she'll trade everything for
29:11is her child's safety.
29:13Rylan must have promised
29:13her something about the boy.
29:15Lyra had swallowed
29:16shards and stones
29:17for the chance
29:18that her son
29:18would be all right.
29:19Kale was precise
29:20and he was cold,
29:21but every time
29:22I so much as bruised
29:23my arm,
29:24he acted like
29:25he personally failed.
29:26He was brutal
29:27because he was afraid,
29:28not of losing power,
29:29of losing me.
29:31And Dre,
29:31my sweet,
29:32sharp,
29:33slightly terrifying cub,
29:34had been shaped
29:35by that same love.
29:36I'd been trying
29:37to counterbalance it,
29:38clearly still working
29:39on it.
29:44Kale,
29:44can you grab my...
29:45Evara,
29:47it's me.
29:48His face
29:48was still swollen.
29:50He'd managed
29:50to find a decent cloak,
29:52the one I'd given him
29:53years ago,
29:54the one he'd told me
29:55was plain
29:55and unworthy
29:57of his rank.
29:57I stayed where I was.
29:59Last time I'd moved
30:00too fast,
30:01it'd cost me.
30:02He seemed to read that.
30:04I'm not going
30:04to hurt you.
30:05I just needed to...
30:08What?
30:11I still love you.
30:13His voice
30:13broke on it.
30:14Every time I think
30:15about you,
30:15I can't breathe.
30:18I know it's too late,
30:19I know what I did,
30:21but I can't just...
30:22Raelynn,
30:23you were with another female
30:24while we were still bonded.
30:26You let me humiliate myself.
30:28You abandoned me
30:29and destroyed me.
30:31And then tonight,
30:33when you had the chance
30:33to do literally
30:34anything else,
30:35you stood in front
30:36of my mate
30:36and told him
30:37I was devoted to you?
30:38You've had seven years
30:40and three more
30:40to figure out
30:41what you want.
30:41What you want
30:42keeps shifting
30:43based on what you can reach.
30:44That's not love.
30:46Ryland's jaw worked.
30:47He wanted to argue.
30:48I was always
30:49your contingency.
30:51And you were never mine.
30:52Not really.
30:53He looked at me
30:54for a long time.
30:55Then he looked
30:55at the cloak.
30:56You gave me this
30:56for the winter solstice.
30:58I told you
30:59it was plain.
31:02I know.
31:05I kept it.
31:06I didn't say anything.
31:08He left quietly.
31:10Kale came in
31:10with his hand
31:11newly wrapped,
31:12Dre right behind him.
31:13They both stopped
31:13when they saw
31:14I was awake.
31:15Then they were both
31:15in front of me
31:16at the same time.
31:17Ivara.
31:18Kale's voice
31:18was unsteady.
31:19You're up.
31:20Are you...
31:21Does anything hurt?
31:22Do you need...
31:23Father,
31:24she was fine
31:25two minutes
31:25before you got here.
31:27She was talking
31:28and everything.
31:28Kale ignored him.
31:29Are you okay?
31:31Tell me you're okay.
31:32I'm okay.
31:33You say that every time.
31:35Because it keeps being true.
31:36Dre tucked himself
31:37under my arm,
31:38spoke very quietly.
31:39Mom,
31:40are you upset
31:41that father
31:42raised his voice at me?
31:43Did he raise
31:44his voice at you?
31:46I am fine.
31:47He didn't yell.
31:48Dre said very firmly.
31:50Kale.
31:53He was scared.
31:55We both were.
31:56He wasn't really yelling.
31:58He was just...
31:59loud.
32:01I kissed the top
32:02of his head.
32:04Protecting you
32:05is also my job.
32:06I'm not sorry.
32:09I know.
32:10I know, Mom.
32:16Sorin eventually
32:17took Dre to find food
32:18and it was just
32:19the two of us.
32:20Kale sat by the bedside,
32:22not quite touching.
32:23Like he was still afraid
32:24something would break
32:25if he moved too fast.
32:27He wanted to look
32:28at my wrist.
32:29I let him.
32:29I'll do better.
32:30He said.
32:32You won't be alone
32:33like that again.
32:35Kale,
32:36this wasn't your fault.
32:38You were alone
32:39and you got hurt.
32:40I was in a clearing
32:41full of dragons
32:42and I got hurt.
32:43That's not the same thing
32:44as being alone.
32:45He looked up.
32:46I'm not made of glass.
32:48I'm also not leaving.
32:49You understand that?
32:51I'm here.
32:52I chose this.
32:54You chose it
32:55because your family
32:55arranged the alliance.
32:56I chose to stay.
32:59Every single day
33:00for three years,
33:01I chose to stay.
33:02That's not an arrangement.
33:04That's me.
33:05He didn't answer
33:06but something
33:07in his face shifted.
33:08I thought about
33:09the hidden chamber
33:10behind the clan tapestry.
33:12His quiet,
33:13years-long devotion
33:14that he'd never once
33:15spoken aloud.
33:16The young,
33:17unblooded dragon
33:18eating alone
33:19at the edge
33:19of the training grounds
33:20every day.
33:21The young,
33:22unblooded dragon
33:22eating alone
33:23at the edge
33:24of the training grounds
33:25every day.
33:26While I stuffed
33:26a pouch of resource tokens
33:28into his pack
33:29and told him
33:30he was my honorary
33:31younger clansman.
33:32He'd loved me
33:33before he knew
33:34what to do with it.
33:35Before I even
33:36knew his name.
33:37I reached over
33:38and took his
33:38uninjured hand.
33:40You want to know
33:41what I was thinking?
33:42Every time
33:43things got hard
33:44and someone told me
33:45I'd bonded
33:46with the wrong dragon?
33:47He waited.
33:48But they'd never seen
33:49you bring me
33:50whomp stones
33:50when the cold fever
33:51took me.
33:52Or stay awake
33:53beside me
33:54through three full nights
33:55because I was homesick
33:57and couldn't sleep.
33:58Or look at me
33:59the way you look at me
33:59when you think
34:00I'm not watching.
34:01They were comparing you
34:03to whoever they
34:03assumed you were.
34:05I know who you
34:06actually are.
34:07Kale didn't show
34:08weakness easily.
34:09He was showing it now.
34:11I don't need you
34:12to be fearless.
34:13I just need you
34:14to stop assuming
34:15I'll leave.
34:18I'm not going anywhere.
34:19He brought my hand up
34:21and held it
34:21against his face.
34:22Didn't speak.
34:23Didn't need to.
34:24They kept me
34:25in the healer's den
34:26two extra days.
34:28The morning
34:28they finally let me
34:29return to our den.
34:31I walked back
34:31through the entrance
34:32and stopped in front
34:33of the bonding tapestry.
34:35We were both
34:36so young in it.
34:37I lifted the tapestry
34:39and I found
34:40the wall behind it.
34:42Image
34:43after image
34:44after image
34:45etched in the old way.
34:47Dragon memory stone.
34:52me at 19
34:55me at 16
34:57me at 14
34:58in a clan corridor.
35:00He'd loved me
35:01across a decade
35:02before I'd ever
35:03said his name.
35:04I heard the den
35:06entrance behind me.
35:07Kale froze
35:08in the corridor.
35:14Evira, I can explain.
35:15You noticed me first.
35:19I gave you
35:19resource tokens
35:20at the training grounds
35:21because I thought
35:21you couldn't afford
35:22to eat.
35:24I told you
35:25that you were
35:26my honorary
35:27younger clansman
35:28and I never
35:28even asked your name.
35:31I didn't know
35:32it was you
35:32until I found these.
35:34I'm a little upset
35:35it took us
35:35this long.
35:39Think about
35:40all the time
35:40we wasted.
35:42You're not...
35:43Upset about
35:44the stones?
35:44No.
35:46I'm glad.
35:47I'm glad you
35:48kept looking.
35:48Kale crossed
35:49the den in four
35:50strides and pulled
35:51me in before
35:51I could say
35:52anything else.
35:53I never thought
35:53you'd say that.
35:55I know.
35:56That's the problem.
35:57You've been waiting
35:58for me to leave
35:59since the day
35:59I arrived.
36:01I'm not leaving.
36:02I've told you.
36:03I'll keep telling
36:04you.
36:05For how long?
36:07I thought about it.
36:09As long as it takes
36:10for you to actually
36:11believe me?
36:12Dre appeared
36:13in the den entrance,
36:14took one look at us
36:15and silently backed away.
36:18Kale held on
36:18a little tighter.
36:20Outside,
36:21the ancient forests
36:22of the abyssal reach
36:23kept moving.
36:24Wind through the canopy.
36:26The distant sound
36:27of wings.
36:28The slow pulse
36:29of a territory
36:30that had stood
36:31for 10,000 years.
36:33And I stayed
36:34exactly where I was.
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