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00:01the night i was to tell him about our baby my merman cut my heart open seraphina needs your
00:06blood see this as your payment for tearing us apart when i woke up again i was at the auction
00:14with seraphina the mate claim is our clan's law a woman standing rises and falls entirely with
00:19the merman she's bonded to so last life when i was maneuvered into taking seraphina's leftover
00:24a merman whose tail hung in broken scales i had no choice i bled my heart essence for
00:2949 days before he was barely healed i hunted abyssal cores at every turn pouring them into him
00:35to elevate his bloodline yet the first thing he became the siren king was to kill me his mate as
00:40well as our unborn baby this is my second chance i won't make the same mistake i want this one
00:45seraphine's voice cut me back to the present she pointed towards the enormous tank in front of us
00:50she chose silas my eyes found silas instantly cowering at the very back of the holding tank
00:56a merman's greatest pride is his tail every other tail in that water prison shimmered rippling like
01:02silk ribbons in a dark current silas's tail was stripped nearly bare scales shed down to raw
01:07ragged flesh seraphina pack heiress and eldest daughter exactly as she had in our last life
01:14gestured lazily toward the two mermen at the back
01:22alara let's just take those two shall we side fast before someone else snaps up the good one
01:30in my last life i had believed every word mermen didn't come cheap and i had assumed even seraphina
01:38wouldn't deliberately choose the most broken creature in the tank but she had she had actually
01:43purchased the barely breathing silas our father had erupted in fury over it father alora picked him
01:51herself you know how she is i only paid i chose the strong one i'm taking mine now and just
01:59like that
01:59the half-dead wreck called silas had been handed to me this life i would not fall for a single
02:04word and
02:04called my bid before she could speak take what you want seraphina i pointed at the stone-faced
02:11merman in the corner i want that one
02:19it didn't matter who i chose if i turned the broken helpless silas into a siren king
02:24i could do it with anyone every creature in this tank would surpass him with the right hand guiding
02:29them this time i just wanted one who would be loyal seraphina's smile thinned when she realized
02:34the hook hadn't landed alara you gave us a fixed amount if you use it all what's left for me
02:38i gave
02:38her a single flat look how had i spent an entire lifetime missing how well she could perform she had
02:44engineered this from the start push the broken merman onto me keep me weak keep herself on top her trap
02:49had been set the moment we walked through these auction doors i stared straight at silas who was
02:53pressing himself against the tank wall performing desperately for any buyer that one doesn't look bad
02:58feed him right and he might amount to something if you really can't afford your pick
03:03buy him seraphina laughed sharp and incredulous i wouldn't want him to warm my bed i smiled but
03:09there was nothing warm in it or silas in our last life he had actually believed i was the one
03:13who
03:13separated them he had never known that seraphina wouldn't have had him on a bet as in our last life
03:18seraphina claimed her merman jace without hesitation but as i walked out with my merman kailyn
03:23something slammed against the walls of the holding tank silas thrashing is he trying to get someone's
03:28attention a broken thing like that i glanced at silas's frantic movement then at seraphina who had
03:34gone very still had silas also been reborn his panic made sense the woman he had spent his whole life
03:41loving had just walked away without him i caught the fractured blue of his eyes through the water and
03:45smiled when a dream you've chased for a lifetime shatters in an instant that has to hurt this life no
03:51one punished me for leaving silas behind kailyn stood before me his tail slapping the floor in slow
03:56rhythmic strikes can you shift to human form he pressed his lips together and pulled the tail in
04:02obedient but clearly reluctant unlike the others there was no relief on his face no gratitude for
04:10being purchased looking closer his blue eyes held something else entirely cold detachment and a pride
04:16that hadn't been broken yet you don't want to come home with me kailyn glanced at me once and said
04:20nothing as
04:21far as i know the holding tanks run on hierarchy without a buyer you fight every day just to hold
04:26your rank i can protect that rank right now he moved to the chair farthest from me and sat i'm
04:32not the
04:32wreck who got his tail beaten to pieces one sentence and i was already smiling he was right for a
04:37merman to
04:37have his tail destroyed like that what was that if not useless if you don't want to stay the door
04:43is open
04:47something flickered in kailyn's blue eyes he was tempted i could see it before he could act on it i
04:52stood
04:52up what are you doing since you don't want to be here i'll go select a different merman i'm building
04:59a
04:59siren king i have no room for someone with a divided heart in my peripheral vision kailyn looked at me
05:04with
05:05something new on his face becoming the siren king was every merman's deepest ambition he had the raw
05:10power but raw power could be cultivated in anyone a backstabber like silas wasn't worth the investment
05:15the auction is over i turned and smiled at him a family that can afford a merman a senelmest in
05:21the
05:21first place you think we worry about finding another one the next several days i left early and returned
05:29late kailyn hadn't left but i needed my own contingency plans what i didn't expect the moment i stepped onto
05:37the street that afternoon silas came staggering toward me lara why didn't you take me he threw his
05:45arms around my legs take me with you please you were always supposed to choose me my heartbeat stuttered
05:53exactly once what did you just say lara look at me are you really not choosing me silas gripped my
06:01legs tightly with both hands that confirmed it silas had been reborn too but if he got a second life
06:07why
06:08was he coming to me instead of running straight to seraphina i shook him off without expression what are
06:12you rambling about who is your owner don't come grabbing at strangers in the street i turned to walk
06:19away but silas chased after me recklessly following closely in haste i was half a second from losing
06:24my composure then i caught sight of kailyn following at a distance behind me my eyes shifted calculating
06:38your tail is badly damaged did the other mare shifters in the tank do this to you
06:44silas blinked then nodded quickly in my peripheral vision kailyn had drawn several steps closer
06:51i ran my fingers along silas's damaged tail the same way i had in our last life every wound on
06:57his
06:57body had been healed by my hand i knew exactly where the pressure felt good and where it burned
07:02so when i pressed just right a shutter rolled through silas's entire body he kept leaning into me
07:08breathless master will you take me home i curved my lips of course before i could finish kailyn
07:18launched forward smashed silas away with its tail he slammed him violently onto the street five meters
07:23away he planted himself in front of me jaw set i haven't left yet the pavement and couldn't get back
07:30up
07:31several failed attempts then stillness
07:36i blinked at kailyn with wide eyes
07:39was that really necessary
07:43didn't you say you were leaving
07:46why stop me from finding another merman
07:48the hands hanging at kailyn's sides curled into slow fists
07:51i'm not leaving
07:53satisfaction curved my mouth upward mermen had their own will every one of them needed to be won
07:59not forced he had taken the first step i would accept the olive branch
08:05as for silas he dragged himself upright and crept forward again
08:12master you agreed just now
08:15you were going to take me i slung my arm over kailyn's shoulder and gave silas a bright little wave
08:21sorry i changed my mind silas opened his mouth to protest and moved one step forward
08:27kailyn's tail cracked down onto the pavement directly in front of him
08:31one more step and the next thing that breaks will be your bones
08:35when the tail lifted i looked at the cracked stone beneath it
08:38kailyn was without question in another league from silas
08:41another betrayal i forced kailyn through the blood bond ritual
08:45you can actually make me siren king
08:47i said nothing a master speaks she doesn't explain herself in my last life i had poured
08:52everything into making silas a king and forgotten to make myself stronger first
08:56if kailyn performed the title was his if he showed one flicker of divided loyalty
09:01he would spend this lifetime as nothing but a bed warmer
09:03if you don't want to walk out then don't
09:05i turned to leave but before i'd taken a single step
09:08kailyn drew a blade across his own tail and pressed the blood from it
09:13i'll do it after the bond sealed kailyn stood beside me stiff and stilted
09:17i'm your merman now up close a faint flush had crept across his pale face
09:24oddly endearing i tilted my chin toward the bed go lie down just to watch his reaction
09:31kailyn's face went a deeper red he shuffled to the bed one careful step at a time and let his
09:36bleeding
09:36tail hang off the edge so it wouldn't stain the sheets what are you doing the crimson flooding
09:41his face nearly made me laugh all that menace and this was what was underneath it i ran a deliberate
09:46hand along his tail you know the custom when our family brings home a mermond there's a mate claim
09:51which means technically you're my husband now kailyn said nothing but the moment my fingers made
09:57contact his tail gave a small involuntary shiver our eyes met and something in his expression
10:02shifted a quiet resignation and he closed his eyes a soft laugh escaped me as i turned and reached for
10:09the medical kit with his eyes still shut i leaned in and blew a gentle breath across his bleeding wound
10:14does it hurt kailyn's tail began to sway side to side in small helpless arcs in merman body language
10:21that meant only one thing pleasure i packed the wound and settled back into my chair stay out of water
10:27for
10:27a few days it'll heal less painful now the flesh hadn't left kailyn's face he darted one glance at me
10:32and turned to look pointedly at the wall hiris doesn't belong on my tail then why was it still
10:39swaying once his tail healed we fell into a daily training rhythm unlike my last life this time i
10:44trained too what kind of woman builds a siren king and leaves herself defenseless we hadn't been at it long
10:51when seraphina arrived with her merman jace my little sister so committed you've thrown yourself
10:55into the sparring too you spent so long choosing at the auction i expected something impressive but
10:59honestly he's not even half of what my jace is i stopped and looked at seraphina and jace without
11:04expression jace was built impressively yes but in our last life he had been thoroughly ordinary and
11:09seraphina was no handler after her mate claim our father had handed house authority to me instead
11:14i said nothing but kailyn stepped in front of me huh a merman challenging me let me make this clear
11:21i am this family's pack heiress and when the time comes i run this house jace teach him jace lunged
11:30kailyn moved without urgency he even had time to guide me to a clear position before turning to face the
11:36attack good i wanted to see what he could actually do the two of them clashed hard but within a
11:42handful of
11:42exchanges it was obvious jace was losing ground seraphina who had opened with absolute confidence
11:48kill him just kill him why are you holding back finish him and i'll take the blame jace showed no
11:53visible improvement but kailyn had stopped pulling his strikes he was half a second away from crushing
11:59jace's shoulder completely no seraphina screamed how dare you alara look at what your pet did to my
12:05immersion i smiled seraphina weren't you the one who let jake start it you were screaming at him to kill
12:12kailyn everyone present heard you seraphina couldn't win the argument so she crossed the floor and put
12:17herself in my face if jace is injured i will have father come down on you so hard you cost
12:21a fortune
12:21i held her gaze for a long moment then told kailyn to let jace go smart girl eldest is eldest
12:29no matter what this house will never be yours to run she snatched jace by the arm and swept out
12:34erling curses the entire way i should have finished him what's the rush seraphina had taken her first
12:39loss she would come back with real hatred now let her rage let her spiral the one who goes mad
12:45first loses
12:46everything seraphina began watching me the way a predator watches an open wound i had expected her
12:51to undermine me in front of our father what i hadn't expected she had brought silas home and put
12:56into work as a house servant the moment he blocked my path in the corridor and begged my step stuttered
13:02how are you here seraphina stepped out from around the corner smiling with our father right behind
13:07her so the rumors are true i stared at her what rumors father's expression was stoned elora you
13:15already have a mate claim why are you still tangled up with him your sister was fortunate enough to run
13:20into him today she brought him here to keep him quiet otherwise your reputation would be ruined i had no
13:25words seraphina strolled toward me with pure delight on her face hooking silas's chin up with the toe of
13:32her shoe little sister he's been asking around outside trying every connection he has to get
13:36through our gates to reach you you should have said something if there was something between you two
13:40you could just bought him at the auction why bother bringing kaylin home the more she talked the darker
13:47father's face became lara clean this up or get out of this house he turned and left without another word
13:53seraphina beamed at me my capable little sister take your time sorting it out
14:04silas knelt half on the floor his face tilted up toward mine his eyes full of naked wanting you love
14:11being near me that much then stay better to keep him where i could watch him than to throw him
14:16out
14:16blind in this life without my heart essence silas surviving at all was already uncertain he started
14:22drifting through every room i occupied kaylin on the other hand had gone cold on me again when i
14:27cornered him in the back garden one morning you're coming to me right now shouldn't you be with that
14:31pathetic silas that whole scene on the street was staged you two tricked me into the blood bond
14:37kaylin's tail hit the ground in sharp irritated slaps i watched him with genuine interest you already
14:42bonded there's no running from that the real question is do you still want to be siren king
14:49he gave me a flat suspicious look like i was setting another trap there's a merman tournament in
14:54two months whether you become searing king depends entirely on what you do with that time
14:59really there's truly nothing between you and that merman i was half a breath from swearing on it
15:05kaylin finally let out a grudging huff and fell into step beside me we drilled repeatedly in the
15:09draining field while silas kept finding reasons to wander past let me break his tail see how he walks after
15:18that kaylin i have plans for him all that heart essence i'd fed him in our last life was not
15:25going
15:25to be wasted he walked right up to us what happened next was on him that evening i had silas
15:31called
15:31to my room to serve the siren king of my last life was now on his knees at my feet
15:36cradling a basin
15:37of water his injuries were severe enough that he swayed every few minutes barely holding himself upright
15:42you're not well i kept my voice casual almost bored the annual merman tournament was weeks away silas had
15:48to be crawling out of his skin in our last life with my help he had claimed the siren king's
15:53title a man
15:54who had sat at the top of the world does not quietly accept kneeling on someone's floor so no matter
15:59what
15:59it cost him he would endure because he still needed my heart essence silas sad sideways onto the floor his
16:05voice then my tail was damaged in the holding tank it never healed properly what would it take to fix
16:14it
16:14this house doesn't keep idle staff silas looked at me testing the water a human's heart essence 49 days
16:21taken in doses only then will i heal i said nothing right now he was nothing but a servant when
16:30i didn't
16:30react he coughed twice i know i'm useless all i ask in this life is to stay near you i
16:38would never
16:39dare dream of your heart essence why are you so set on staying near me silas studied my face searching
16:47for the lie my expression was open guileless there was nothing for him to find once he was certain i
16:52wasn't performing he shook his head with a face full of grief you don't remember me you saved my life
16:58once
16:59merman repay their debts and that is why i stay even knowing that you and kaylin as long as i
17:06can see
17:06you live well i have no regrets i dug my fingernail into my own palm hard enough to leave a
17:12mark and i
17:13did not slap him gratitude and loyalty he had taken my trust and stabbed me with a knife and here
17:19he was
17:20performing it with shining eyes and a breaking voice if i didn't still carry every memory from our last life
17:27i might have believed him i ranged my face into something soft and moved just 49 days of heart
17:32essence and you'd be fully healed silas's eyes lit up the hunger behind his eyes was obvious
17:40but he was working hard to swallow it yes but alara it hurts to draw heart essence i let a
17:50pause stretch
17:51then spoke carefully i can save your life but once you're healed you will not come near me again
18:01something flickered across silas's face a flash of injury but he agreed almost immediately agreed
18:09i won't come near you he bowed his head and behind his back i finally allowed myself to smile my
18:16heart
18:16essence is not so easily given starting the next morning i sent kaylin out each day to buy fresh
18:23chicken blood from the market diluted with water the smell was manageable to make sure he couldn't
18:28detect the switch i dissolved several herbs into the mixture he needed to see results or he wouldn't
18:33keep believing silas drained bowl after bowl his brow creasing tighter every time alara this heart
18:39essence tastes strange i immediately let hurt flood my expression blood is never going to taste good
18:44i cut open my own chest for you if you don't like it i'll just throw it out silas did
18:49not dare he
18:50tilted the bowl back and licked it clean alara this kindness is something i'll carry forever i wish i
18:54were the one you'd chosen i could spend my life at your side repaying this i pulled my face into
18:58something pained and troubled it's already a significant problem for me you heard what father
19:03and seraphina said that day i kept talking watching him in my peripheral vision when i mentioned seraphina
19:08not a trace of longing crossed his face what appeared instead was something close to hatred
19:12i had died in our last life before seeing what came after but judging by his face now the siren
19:18king's reign had not ended well for him either still none of that is your fault seraphina has
19:24always had it out for me she's simply using your situation to make me look bad the hand silas had
19:29rested on the table tightened into a fist without him noticing looking at the locked muscle in his jaw
19:34i knew i'd guessed right alara don't worry i won't be a burden to you good because in this life
19:42he
19:42didn't come close to deserving to be my problem silas stopped haunting my rooms as much lately he'd
19:47been gravitating towards seraphina's wing instead he had taken what i said to heart if he could be a
19:51blade i aimed at her that was at least partial penance for the last life to keep him from noticing
19:56anything off kaylin and i had shifted our training sessions to my room at night faster every merman in
20:04that tournament fights to kill if your speed isn't there you'll walk in and get carried out i finished
20:10and waved him over come on spa with me kaylin smiled and it was absolutely contemptuous get over here
20:21before the words finished leaving my mouth he was already in front of me fast enough that i couldn't
20:27track how he'd moved before i could finish he pressed the attack i dodged twice barely and then my footing
20:35slipped and i went backwards kaylin's sharp inhale his hand caught my waist i was fairly certain he did it
20:42on purpose the momentum carried us both down onto the bed together pinned beneath him my heartbeat stopped
20:47being something i could control those blue eyes flickered and without a word he locked both my
20:52wrists above my head silas gets to come to your room at night why don't i he had found out
20:57about silas
20:58coming every night to drink simus has business kaylin didn't move the heat of his breath spreading
21:07across my neck his tail reached out and drew the bed curtain closed he said low and certain master
21:14you're the one who said i'd be your husband by the time my legs had gone completely weak kaylin was
21:21still murmuring in my ear asking whether i wanted him or silas i gave some incoherent answer while
21:28internally screaming about how unfair it was that this infuriating merman had a body like that a month
21:34later jace's tail collapsed seraphina tore through the house like something feral jace lay on the bed the
21:42color of ash how does something like this just happen jace did you eat something where is your tail
21:51how are you supposed to compete with no tail are you even a mermaid anymore father please find someone
21:58to look at him the tournament troll is almost here and i've put everything into him father's brow furrowed
22:04but he nodded the merman physician examined jace set down his wrist and left shaking his head
22:10tail looks intact from the outside but they've already begun to dissolve within three days his
22:15skeleton will be nothing but fluid jace threw himself at the physician in a frenzy so violent
22:20he rolled off the bed seraphina stared at the wall repeating impossible to no one after she sent the
22:26physician out she lunged straight at me and kaylin stepped between us before she got close
22:36alotta this was you wasn't it you've always been jealous of jake's talent terrified he'd become
22:42siren king and you'd never get above me so you did this to him you destroyed my merman i will
22:47ruin
22:48you you can father walked in on those exact words enough enough father's voice cracked like a whip
22:53and seraphina went silent seraphana i genuinely have no reason to hurt your mermint whoever ends up as
22:59siren king kaylin outwells jace so completely that jake was never a competitor we even considered so
23:05why would i bother seraphina tried to erupt again and father shut her down what's done is done stay in
23:13your rooms and rest you're not competing in the tournament as for that useless mermaid that's your
23:19problem to solve both jace and seraphina went white a merman without a tail turned out of this house
23:25what were the odds of survival and seraphina without a merman had just lost every card she held
23:34when silas came to drink that evening the good mood was written all over him he looked at me like
23:38he was offering something seraphina won't be able to take anything from you anymore i handed him the bowl
23:43he was nearly through the full course now i had increased the herbal dose recently and silas did
23:48look genuinely better visibly stronger but it was all surface the herbs were keeping a thread of life
23:53taught the moment he exerted himself past a certain point the crisis would hit without warning when it
23:58did a hundred days of true heart essence wouldn't save him that business with jace that wasn't you
24:04was it i let my eyes go wide with something that looked like awe how did you manage it so
24:09cleanly he
24:09just fell apart i asked he turned coy for your sake there's nothing i wouldn't do i turned away and
24:17let
24:17out a quiet cold laugh the only reason he knew how to do any of this was because he had
24:21been siren king
24:22once before his body was a wreck but the dirty knowledge that had stayed he drained the bowl
24:27and licked his lips with slow satisfaction behind him his tail flicked out in a slow arc showing off
24:33after he left kalen stepped out of the shadows his expression was set and watchful alara he's dangerous
24:40why are you helping him i stared at the red stained bowl and let the question hang before i turned
24:45it
24:45back on him what makes you think i'm helping him kalen paused and i pressed immediately the tournament
24:52is in three days do you believe you can take the crown he reached back and closed his hand over
24:56mine
24:57if my master wants it this badly i'll throw my life on the line to win it that genuinely
25:02inconveniently made my face go red i had assessed every merman in that tournament as long as kalen
25:06fought at his actual level this was already decided on the day of the tournament father came with us
25:11along with seraphina i hadn't seen silas at the house since the day before he had entered then he
25:17had to have kalen this match carries the family's name and standing give everything you have understood
25:23father's voice was low and firm seraphina twisted her mouth to the side but unusually she said nothing
25:29i glanced at her sideways with the particular unease of someone who knows a quiet snake is worse than a
25:34loud one right before kalen was called to the arena floor seraphina pulled a handkerchief from her
25:39bodice and moved to wipe his face kalen never allowed strangers close to him he stepped back
25:44immediately seraphina's hand hung in empty air the moment crystallizing into something awkward and ugly
25:50little sister look at this merman of yours i'm just wiping some sweat if he becomes siren king
25:59it reflects on all of us doesn't it how petty
26:05huh helpful i laughed hollow and bright and took the handkerchief out of her hand and dragged it across
26:11father's face stop the way seraphina's words failed completely confirmed what i already suspected about
26:18that cloth so i scrubbed harder what's wrong the tournament matters but father has been standing in
26:23the heat for us it's only right that i take care of him while i was still talking i pushed
26:27kalen
26:27toward the arena entrance two months of work no one was going to dismantle it in the final seconds
26:32seraphina began shifting her weight watching her eyes kept cutting to father when he started to sway
26:38i understood a sedative she'd laced it with a sedative father are you all right father pressed
26:44a hand to his temple fine beads of sweat were already breaking out across his forehead you were
26:48fine a moment ago one wipe of a handkerchief and now this i was still asking when seraphina's composure
26:55cracked what are you insinuating father is just unwell what does my handkerchief have to do with
27:05anything father was already too disoriented to speak i turned to seraphina with a pleasant smile
27:10whether there's a problem or not we'll find out when we test it this time the drug had landed on
27:16father
27:16i couldn't see how he could look away from that seraphina's goal was simple enough her own merman
27:21was finished she simply refused to let kalen compete but she had forgotten as long as someone
27:26brought glory to the family father never cared who that person was once the tournament started
27:30kalen tore through the brackets and into the final rounds without breaking a sweat father was barely
27:35conscious neither seraphina nor i had time to tend to him when silas appeared on the arena floor
27:41seraphina's jaw dropped his tail was ruined he was a house servant why is he here then she seemed to
27:48grab hold of something his tail can heal does that mean jake still has a chance that was you wasn't
27:54it
27:55how did you heal him i tilted my head want to know feed him your own heart essence every day
28:01for 49 days
28:03i told her the method with complete sincerity but the moment seraphina heard the words
28:07your own her entire face changed for a merman i'll just buy another one but alara
28:15you healed simus just to watch him fight kalen in the ring seraphina looked at me like she was
28:19watching something too stupid to pity i fixed my eyes on the arena and said nothing before we'd arrived
28:25i had given kalen one instruction if you face silas in that ring don't stop until he can't get up
28:37all that chicken blood and herbs had been worth every drop silas and kalen finally stood face to face
28:44kalen rolled his shoulders once and charged without a word silas had looked formidable against everyone
28:50else but against kalen he shattered instantly kalen lifted silas over his head and brought him down
28:55hard onto the arena floor the scream that tore out of silas split the air of the entire stadium i
29:01was
29:02smiling in my peripheral vision seraphina had stopped being able to how was kalen this strong
29:07less than a quarter of an hour into the match silas could barely crawl
29:13was still waiting waiting for the moment he pushed too hard and the blood came he spent everything he had
29:19just dragging himself back upright first thing he did when he was standing again was look for me in
29:25the crowd i turned my gaze away cold that manufactured devotion in his eyes was nauseating
29:32silas threw his head back and gathered himself for one total all or nothing strike at kalen and then
29:38his hand flew to his own chest a rush of blood spilled from his mouth kalen didn't need to finish
29:44him
29:44silas put himself on the ground seraphina kalen won again by the end of the final matches his title
29:54as siren king was absolute across the crowd kalen found me and held my gaze seraphina's back molars
30:01were going to crack under the pressure of her clenched jaw back at the house it took until the
30:07following morning for father's head to clear when he heard that kalen had won the tournament and claimed
30:12the siren king title father was overcome he said good three times in a row it seems i can rest
30:20easy
30:20leaving the family in your hands before i could respond seraphina erupted father i am the pack high
30:28rest this house should pass to me my merman was sabotaged otherwise the siren king would have been
30:34ours father delivered a few mild words of rebuke and seemed prepared to let the matter go i reached into
30:41my bodice and drew out the handkerchief father yesterday before kalen's match seraphina tried to
30:48wipe his face with this cloth it contains a heavy sedative you only came to yourself this morning
30:53because of it this concerns the family's future seraphina's intentions are unforgivable
31:04father's expression went still and then ignited thank god kalen stepped back if that cloth had touched
31:10him the siren king's crown would have gone somewhere else entirely you have spent your entire life
31:13competing with your sister and i have spent your entire life looking the other way but it is clear
31:18to me now that this family cannot be given to you are you really fanning over alara just because her
31:23merman won a tournament how dare you get back to your room seraphina you are forbidden from keeping a
31:34merman from this day forward seraphina was dragged out that last sentence had sealed every exit she
31:39had left without a merman what did she have left to use against me kalen and i rose to a
31:44new position
31:45in the household one that would hold that night kalen's tail moved in restless arcs across the bed are you
32:04known for him he'd been drinking chicken the whole time
32:06you
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