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00:00I married into the Ashford dynasty on a Friday.
00:02By Sunday, my husband had dragged me into his bedroom
00:04and kept me there for seven straight days.
00:07The second the pregnancy test showed two pink lines.
00:10He let go, packed a bag, and flew to London.
00:13He never came back, not once, not for ten months.
00:16Everyone in our circle envied me.
00:18A million-dollar monthly allowance tends to shut people up.
00:21When the ultrasound confirmed twin boys, the envy got louder.
00:25I let myself believe the fantasy.
00:27Then I gave birth.
00:28And now I'm barricading the door,
00:30refusing to let Reid Ashford see what's inside this room.
00:33He's standing in the hallway.
00:35What?
00:36You pushed out someone else's bastards?
00:39Bastards would have been a blessing.
00:41I gave birth to two snakes.
00:43The ink on the marriage certificate wasn't dry
00:45before Reid booked his flight back to London.
00:47Ten months abroad, zero visits.
00:50He finally agreed to come back for the delivery.
00:52Then the due date moved up without warning.
00:54The morning I went into labor,
00:56my entire private medical team went stone silent.
00:59Nobody reached for the babies.
01:00My brain cycled through worse cases.
01:03Stillborn.
01:03Deformed.
01:04Something worse.
01:05I couldn't make myself look down.
01:07The attending physician had gone completely white.
01:10He shook his head slowly.
01:12Then something cold and slick pressed against my inner thigh.
01:15I looked.
01:16One black, one white.
01:18Two small snakes coiled between my legs.
01:21I screamed and hit the floor.
01:23I grabbed the doctor by his coat sleeve.
01:26Where are my babies?
01:28Mrs. Ashford.
01:29We watched it happen.
01:31It's all on the monitors.
01:33The footage was crystal clear.
01:35I passed out.
01:36Thank God the due date moved up.
01:38If Reid had arrived on schedule and seen what came out of me,
01:41he would have wrapped his hands around my throat.
01:42I would have taken bastards.
01:45Two different fathers.
01:46Two different bloodlines.
01:48Anything.
01:49Just not two snakes.
01:50Two human babies.
01:52And at worst, he throws me out.
01:54Too proud to chase down the money.
01:56Two snakes?
01:57That's not a scandal.
01:58That's a declaration of war against the entire Ashford name.
02:01I wrote six-figure checks until every member of that medical team forgot what they'd seen.
02:06Every recording.
02:07Wiped.
02:08I stood over the glass tank and stared at them sleeping.
02:10Coiled together like a braid.
02:12They had to go.
02:14I still don't understand how a human woman delivers two reptiles.
02:17But what I understood perfectly was this.
02:19Reid's reputation was my financial lifeline.
02:22Official story.
02:23Complicated labor.
02:24Neither baby survived.
02:25I said it.
02:26I signed it.
02:27Done.
02:28That night I drove out past the city limits.
02:31Found a quiet stretch of woods.
02:32And set them free in the dark.
02:37I came home.
02:38Fell into bed.
02:39And didn't move.
02:40Something cold grazed my fingertips.
02:42Thermostat.
02:43I reached for the nightstand remote.
02:44And touched something long.
02:46And scaled.
02:52One black.
02:53One white.
02:53One coiled on the nightstand.
02:55One coiled on the bed.
02:57Who told you to come back?
02:59I released you.
03:00How did you even find this place?
03:02The white snake turned and headbutted the thermostat button.
03:05Twice.
03:05Hard.
03:06Room temperature climbed two degrees.
03:08Then the white one coiled back.
03:09And launched itself into the air.
03:10I slapped both hands over my face.
03:12Nothing landed.
03:13I opened one eye.
03:14I couldn't move.
03:14Both of them sat in front of me.
03:16Side by side.
03:17And between them, a pair of thick wool socks.
03:19The brothers pressed their heads together with a soft, deliberate thwop.
03:22Like a fist bump.
03:23I reached toward the socks.
03:24Both tails exploded into motion.
03:26I snatched my hand back.
03:27Tail vibration means they're locking onto prey.
03:29That's a hunting signal.
03:30The second I pulled away, both went perfectly still.
03:32I reached again, slower.
03:34They just stared at me.
03:35Unblinking.
03:36Waiting.
03:36The moment I pulled those socks onto my own feet, both tails went completely berserk.
03:40I was watching two snakes experience joy.
03:43That is, textbook golden retriever behavior.
03:45I extended one hand, slow, shaking.
03:47The white one pressed its head against my wrist and held it there.
03:49I didn't pull away.
03:50It wound itself up my arm like a white jade bracelet.
03:53The black one's tail went nuclear.
03:55I offered my other hand.
03:56He wrapped himself around it without hesitation.
03:58Two living bracelets.
03:59I watched them sway back and forth, and I swallowed hard.
04:02Then I knocked lightly on each of their tiny little dog, snake heads.
04:05Both of them squinted, slow and satisfied.
04:08I exhaled.
04:08Long.
04:09Defeated.
04:10Fine.
04:10I made them.
04:11I'll keep them.
04:12It's not like I can abandon them twice.
04:14I downloaded a reptile care guide.
04:17Turns out they'd eat anything.
04:19Wagyu, gas station pizza, cold leftovers, didn't matter.
04:22Tougher than they looked.
04:23Easier than I expected.
04:25Somewhere along the way, I stopped thinking of them as snakes.
04:27And then I forgot the one thing I shouldn't have forgotten.
04:30Reed was coming home.
04:37I found her outside the maternity ward, a woman who'd just delivered twin boys.
04:45Blank check.
04:46Blank check.
04:46Any number you want.
04:47Let me adopt your sins.
04:51The afternoon Reed came home.
04:53I stashed the snakes in the basement.
04:58He sat on the bed holding two borrowed babies.
05:01He walked in exactly as I'd imagined.
05:03Cold, immaculate, untouchable.
05:05But when he saw my face, powder white, hollowed, genuinely wrecked, he set a black card on the
05:10nightstand.
05:12You went through a lot.
05:13The babies had just enough of both our features to pass.
05:16The Ashman line continues.
05:20You've given this family everything.
05:22Oh, it was nothing.
05:24Do not go to the basement.
05:25Vivian.
05:26Reed's voice dropped an octave.
05:28Are you certain these are mine?
05:30Every nerve in my body went cold.
05:32His mother froze mid-sob.
05:38Viv, are these Reed's children?
05:44I want to be clear about something.
05:46I had contacts stationed at every major hospital maternity ward within a 20-mile radius.
05:51Every candidate was personally vetted.
05:53The twins I chose were the best match out of everyone delivered that week.
05:56My eyes, his jaw, his forehead.
05:59Of course they're yours.
06:01You're certain.
06:03Reed's tone dropped half a degree.
06:05I swallowed.
06:06Before the wedding, I'd heard the stories.
06:08Cold, ruthless, no exceptions.
06:10But in nine months of marriage, my actual contact with Reed consisted of exactly two things.
06:16Seven days in his bedroom and a monthly wire transfer.
06:18I had never been on the receiving end of his full attention before.
06:21Absolutely certain.
06:23Good.
06:24I'll have my assistant schedule a paternity test.
06:28What?
06:31I couldn't work it out.
06:32Those babies were a near-perfect match.
06:34Brow line, bone structure, colouring.
06:37I had done everything right.
06:38So why had he looked at me and suspected infidelity within 30 seconds of walking through the door?
06:43I glanced sideways at him.
06:44He was leaning back in his chair.
06:45Bored to any outside observer.
06:47Suffocating.
06:48My phone buzzed against my palm.
06:50Unknown number.
06:51Medical team.
06:52I exhaled through my nose.
06:54I deleted the message.
06:55The results came back 20 minutes later.
06:57Eternity confirmed.
06:58I let go of the breath I'd been holding for three hours.
07:01Reed studied the document.
07:02I told you.
07:03He looked at me.
07:05Tore it cleanly down the middle and dropped both pieces into the trash.
07:08He was already walking toward the exit.
07:10Not even a sorry.
07:10I grabbed my bag and followed him out.
07:12His car was idling at the curb.
07:13He stepped forward and pulled open the passenger door.
07:16I moved to follow.
07:17And a woman slipped past me first.
07:19Silk blouse.
07:21Dark hair.
07:21The kind of effortless that costs a lot of money.
07:24Reed leaned down to say something to her through the window.
07:27The same face that had looked at me like I was a liability.
07:29Softer now.
07:30Different.
07:31I stopped walking.
07:32It clicked.
07:32All at once.
07:33There were a rumour I'd heard before the wedding.
07:36Reed Ashford had someone.
07:37A woman his mother refused to accept.
07:40Not the right type, they said.
07:41Not built for carrying on the family line.
07:44There had been fights.
07:45Loud ones.
07:46Over a long time.
07:47Eventually Reed had backed down.
07:49And I was what backing down looked like.
07:51At the time, I hadn't cared.
07:53I was in it for the money.
07:55But standing on that curb, I finally understood what the paternity test had actually been about.
08:00Reed didn't care whose children they were.
08:02He just wanted a reason to prove to his mother that I was exactly what she'd always assumed.
08:07A woman who couldn't be trusted.
08:09One clean, public discrediting.
08:11Seven days and seven nights, I thought.
08:14And this is what it was for.
08:15The humiliation of it settled somewhere cold and quiet in my chest.
08:19Not enough to break me, but enough to feel.
08:22I flagged a cab and went home.
08:25Four children met me at the door.
08:27Two of them I didn't recognize.
08:33One had jet black hair.
08:36One had white.
08:37I ran straight to the basement.
08:39Empty tank.
08:41Both snakes, gone.
08:42The black-haired and white-haired children crashed into me at full speed.
08:48Mom, we shifted.
08:49We can hold you in form now.
08:52Serpent Bloodline apparently doesn't waste time.
08:55The borrowed babies were still in their cribs.
08:57Barely weeks old.
08:59My sons looked like healthy, energetic three-year-olds.
09:02Thank God Reed wasn't home yet.
09:04I brought them upstairs.
09:06Listen to me.
09:07I held both their hands.
09:09Now that you can shift, you can't stay here.
09:12If Reed finds you, none of us walk away from this.
09:16I'm putting you in a house.
09:18Tonight.
09:20You're leaving before he gets back.
09:22The bedroom door swung open.
09:23A woman in a silk blouse stood in the frame,
09:26twisting a key between her fingers.
09:28Howard didn't know my house!
09:30Reed gave this to me before you two were ever married.
09:34If you think about it, you're the newcomer here.
09:36I stepped in front of the boys.
09:38Oh, there they are.
09:40Bastards, just like I thought.
09:43Old enough to walk around.
09:46No wonder Reed ran a paternity test.
09:49You really did bring another man's children into this house.
09:54Mrs. Ashford!
09:57Wait, don't...
09:59Mrs. Ashford!
10:01She was already on the stairs.
10:03I spun, desperate to hide the boys.
10:05But the hallway was already filling with footsteps from both directions.
10:09His mother coming down.
10:11Reed walking up.
10:12Every exit closed.
10:18I planted myself in the doorway and did not move.
10:21Nothing Cecilia said made a difference.
10:25Get out of the way!
10:26She grabbed a fist of my hair.
10:28I caught her wrist and shoved.
10:30Just enough force to break her grip.
10:31Not enough to do real damage.
10:33But she went down like I'd hit her with a chair.
10:35Reed, it hurt!
10:36His hand closed around my arm and yanked.
10:38I stumbled and Cecilia's foot shot out from the floor.
10:41My forehead caught the corner of the banister railing on the way.
10:44The world went white, then red.
10:45Blood ran into my eye before I could lift my hair.
10:51Reed had his back to me, pushing the bedroom door open.
10:54The door swung wide.
10:55The room was empty.
10:56No children.
10:57No snakes.
10:58Nothing.
10:58That's...
10:59That's impossible!
11:01I saw them.
11:02One with black hair, one with white.
11:03About three years old, she was telling them that if you found them, none of them would survive.
11:08I saw the empty room and felt something in my chest finally let go.
11:14When I came to, Reed was sitting at the edge of the bed.
11:19Doctor says mild concussion.
11:21You'll recover with rest.
11:22I touched the bandage at my temple.
11:24Thank you, Mr. Ashford.
11:26He was quiet for a moment.
11:28I didn't mean for that to happen.
11:31You can have her.
11:33Your first love, whoever she is, I'll step aside.
11:36But what you did today?
11:38That's not her fault.
11:39That's not my fault.
11:40They didn't work out.
11:40That has nothing to do with me.
11:42Vivian, I...
11:44Please leave.
11:45I closed my eyes.
11:46A long silence.
11:48Then the door clicked shut.
11:49The moment his footsteps faded down the hall,
11:52two small bodies launched themselves onto the bed.
11:56We should have stayed.
11:57We wouldn't have run if we knew you'd get hurt.
12:00I have fangs now.
12:02Let me go back and bite her!
12:05I looked at both of them.
12:06Tear-streaked.
12:07Furious.
12:08Guilty.
12:08I exhaled.
12:11We're leaving.
12:15I married Reid Ashford for money.
12:17He needed an heir.
12:18I needed financial security.
12:20Clean transaction.
12:21No illusions.
12:22But absorbing collateral damage for a deal I never agreed to.
12:25That's not in the contract.
12:26I was done.
12:27The two borrowed babies were easy enough to arrange.
12:29I hired a nanny and had them moved out first.
12:32Then I told the boys to shift back.
12:33They coiled into the suitcase without argument.
12:35I zipped it shut, called a car, and walked out of the Ashford estate with everything I'd earned and zero
12:40regret.
12:41The car pulled away from the gate, then took a wrong turn.
12:44Every nerve in my body snapped to attention.
12:47Excuse me, where are you taking me?
12:54That's my question.
12:56Where exactly are you planning to take them?
12:58I grabbed the suitcase and went for the door handle.
13:00One hand shot back over the seat and caught me by the collar.
13:02Reid Ashford is stronger than he looks.
13:04I was pinned against his thigh before I could process the movement.
13:07Who told you Cecilia was my first love?
13:09Something pressed against my leg.
13:11Warm, specific, impossible to misidentify.
13:13My brain, mid-excuse, went completely offline.
13:16Wait, is that... are there two?
13:21I must be losing my mind.
13:23Seven days and seven nights with this man.
13:25And now there are two?
13:26I checked again.
13:27My entire body broke out in goosebumps.
13:29Kai, Cole, run!
13:31Easy.
13:32Reid pressed me back down, unhurried.
13:35Your boys were swapped before you got in the car.
13:38They're at the estate right now, being fed extremely well.
13:41My throat tightened.
13:42Don't touch them.
13:44I don't know why they came out the way they did, but I didn't cheat on you.
13:48Even if I had, the children are innocent.
13:53Please, don't punish them for what I can't explain.
13:56He stared at me.
13:58You've been raising two serpent children for months, and you never once looked into serpent biology?
14:03What?
14:04I had opened the reptile guide exactly once, read the table of contents, and fallen asleep.
14:08The boys practically raised themselves.
14:10I had no reason to investigate further.
14:14Foolish girl.
14:17Serpents are born with two.
14:19Does that answer your question?
14:22He kissed me before I could finish the...
14:26Sentence.
14:27Same as the first seven days.
14:29Except this time, accounting for the new information.
14:31Call it 14 days, 14 nights.
14:33I lost track of how many times the sun went down, when I finally surfaced.
14:37I was in a bed I didn't recognize.
14:39Cecilia is my cousin.
14:40Not my first love.
14:42Never was.
14:43The rumors about me are garbage.
14:45Half of them are planted.
14:46You could have just asked me.
14:48I didn't push you that night.
14:50I grabbed your arm and you lost your balance.
14:52I didn't see Cecilia's foot in time.
14:54I didn't see you fall until it was too late.
14:58I'll handle Cecilia.
15:00You don't need to worry about her anymore.
15:01Something pressed against my forehead.
15:03A kiss.
15:04Soft.
15:04Deliberate.
15:05I remembered, distantly, that he'd done this during the first seven days.
15:09Not like this, though.
15:10Never this careful.
15:11I'm dreaming.
15:16Reid's product launch was that afternoon.
15:18I slipped into the back of the venue to get a look.
15:20Tall.
15:21Broad.
15:22Eight visible abs through the fitted shirt.
15:24I looked lower.
15:26Nothing about him suggested a man with extra anatomy.
15:29I exhaled.
15:30Then every hair on the back of my neck stood up at once.
15:33I looked up.
15:34Reid's gaze had cut through a crowd of 200 people and landed on me with surgical precision.
15:39I checked my mask.
15:41Still on.
15:41Still covering everything.
15:43I didn't know why his eyes always did that to me.
15:45Then it came to me.
15:46Later.
15:46That look.
15:47The exact patient focus of a snake.
15:48I turned and walked out of the venue.
15:50My phone buzzed.
15:51Reid.
15:52Wait for me.
15:53We'll go back together.
15:54I found a seat in the lobby and sat down to wait.
15:57Two hours passed.
15:59I fell asleep in the chair.
16:01When I woke up, I grabbed my phone.
16:04Nothing.
16:05Not a single follow-up message.
16:07Didn't he say to wait?
16:08I made my way up to his office.
16:10Reid!
16:10Wait.
16:12Mr. Ashford left with Miss Cecilia about an hour and a half ago.
16:15You didn't know?
16:19Men are, without exception, the worst.
16:22Three missed calls from unknown numbers.
16:24I rejected all of them and drove quite a full rage.
16:26Ma'am, please.
16:27Mr. Ashford said the house isn't safe right now.
16:30I've lived here for a year.
16:31How is it not safe?
16:32His instructions were very specific.
16:35Talk with me.
16:37Just go have another child with your cousin.
16:39What's the problem?
16:41We're human passing now, which means we follow human social norms.
16:46Cecilia and I share a bloodline.
16:48That's not something I'm willing to cross.
16:50You're willing to let our entire line die out over human scroobishness?
16:54Mom, I already have Vivian.
16:57You've forgotten what you actually are!
17:01What is wrong with you people?
17:03Vivian.
17:09How did you get back?
17:11I had people calling you.
17:12Those were your people.
17:14Then I remembered the unknown numbers.
17:16The ones I'd rejected on pure spite.
17:21Vivian.
17:22I assume you heard all of that.
17:25Our bloodline ends with Reed.
17:27Two children is not enough.
17:28You don't get to apply human rules to what we are.
17:33And if you choose not to understand that...
17:36The next instant, Reed stepped in front of me.
17:39Move.
17:40Kill her, and you go through me first.
17:42Reed, we're your kind.
17:45She and I are compatible.
17:47I opened my mouth.
17:48Closed it.
17:49Compatible.
17:50You're willing to throw away pure bloodline for compatibilities?
17:55Our sons shifted before they were four weeks old.
17:58My own record was 14 months.
18:00Look at what she gave us and tell me again what she's worth.
18:03His mother said nothing.
18:03Then slowly, the scales began to rise along her cheekbones.
18:07If you won't listen to reason...
18:09Then I'll make it simple.
18:11Reed, stop!
18:13His mother lunged.
18:14Too late.
18:15A life bond?
18:16You bound yourself to a human?
18:18If she dies...
18:20Then I go with her.
18:22Still want to try?
18:27We were asked to leave the estate that same evening.
18:30She's not going to quietly let this go.
18:33She'll find a way.
18:34She won't touch you.
18:35If you die, I die.
18:38She's angry.
18:39She's not stupid.
18:40After that, Reed stopped disappearing.
18:42It caught me off guard.
18:44The man who'd left the country the moment I confirmed the pregnancy was now apparently
18:48attached to my side.
18:49He explained it eventually.
18:50The original plan had been simple.
18:52Find someone easygoing enough not to panic if something felt off.
18:55Have children.
18:57Preserve what was left of the bloodline.
18:58Then I started sending messages.
19:00Every day.
19:01Even when he never replied.
19:05Sending you 30 million reasons to smile.
19:0810 million stay happy.
19:0910 million stay healthy.
19:1110 million stay mine.
19:12I covered my face.
19:13I had run out of ideas after the first week and outsourced the whole thing to an AI.
19:18Set it to generate one per day and forgot about it.
19:21I lowered my hands.
19:25The boys.
19:28I know.
19:32You knew from the beginning?
19:34Newborns can't hold human form.
19:36The moment I saw them, I knew they weren't the originals.
19:40But I also knew mine were somewhere in that house.
19:43I was waiting to see how far you'd go to protect them.
19:48A human woman.
19:49No supernatural ability.
19:51No leverage.
19:51No backup plan.
19:53Willing to be called a cheater before she'd hand over her children.
19:56He hadn't expected that.
19:58He hadn't expected a lot of things, apparently.
20:01The boys integrated into the estate without much drama.
20:04Reid and I started travelling.
20:05Somewhere over the Atlantic, he pulled me close.
20:08We could have another one.
20:09Thought about my labours.
20:11No pain.
20:11Either time.
20:12Suspiciously smooth.
20:14Probably a compatibility thing.
20:16The serpent bloodline lives for a thousand years.
20:18We have time.
20:22My mother and I argued constantly, not over a first love, over Cecilia.
20:26She was convinced that a pure blood pairing was the only way to preserve what little remained
20:30of our line.
20:32After years of pressure, she agreed to let me choose someone else, provided she was suitable
20:36for children.
20:41I was new enough to human society to still be learning its patterns.
20:45A woman who was too perceptive would notice things, ask questions, potentially panic.
20:49I needed someone adaptable.
20:51Out of everyone presented, I chose the one who seemed the most unguarded.
20:54Straightforward people are underestimated.
20:56They notice things too.
20:56They just don't catastrophize.
20:58I was still concerned about frightening her during the pregnancy.
21:01So I stayed in London.
21:02She texted me every single day.
21:04I assumed at first it was a performance, maintaining the optics of a devoted wife.
21:09Then I actually read the messages.
21:11Wishing you ten thousand blessings.
21:13May your spreadsheets be ever in your favor.
21:15May your enemies trip on flat surfaces.
21:20I later found out this was AI generated.
21:22She had been too lazy to write them herself.
21:24Fed the wrong demographic information into the mom.
21:26Sent the results anyway, without proofreading a single one.
21:28For reasons I cannot fully articulate, I found this extremely funny.
21:31I started paying attention.
21:32When she delivered and the children weren't mine, I wasn't angry.
21:34I was impressed.
21:35No pure blood infant holds human form at birth.
21:37I spotted it within seconds, dripping blood onto the floorboards before she would give up an inch
21:41of ground.
21:41The night I intercepted her car, I was not being strategic.
21:44I did not want her to leave.
21:45I did not have better reasoning than that.
21:47I have since learned that humans call this falling in love.
21:50I am still not entirely sure how the mechanism works.
21:53But somewhere between the AI generated blessings, she has since given me many categories.
21:57I care very little about what happens to the bloodline in the long run.
21:59What I care about is this.
22:00Vivian and the years still ahead of us.
22:02That is more than enough.
22:03Vivian, don't give you any questions.
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