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00:02my throat slit i was pushed off the cliff but the last seen before me was my devoted mate over
00:09there
00:09kissing the hand of my dear sister reborn i had returned to the day i chose my beast the little
00:14fox looked at me eagerly his crimson eyes glistening i raised my hand and under his
00:20expectant gaze pointed past him to the frail white snake behind him i want him you don't want me
00:28anymore i had returned back to the day of the choosing vendors shouting in the black market
00:32voices clashing with the snarls of caged beastmen the truth is clear i had returned to the day
00:38father had brought us to the black market to choose pax unspoken blood lot every young man and woman
00:45three years before coming of age personally select an equally young beastman as their future mate
00:51bonded for life no betrayal no abandonment beastmen matured much quicker than humans
00:57a puppet's love was to prevent a bonded beastman from growing into a resentful predator but i had
01:03never fully understood why beastmen ranked beneath humans caged and passive waiting to be claimed like
01:09livestock so why would our bloodline insist on binding us to them weren't they afraid of us
01:16being betrayed suddenly i locked with kale's eyes still young and naive memory of my past life
01:21resurfaced the stinging pains of my throat being slipped are so vivid
01:26god i bit it back and steadied myself with a fist pressed hard against the pain of my chest
01:31and looked around the massive holding cage ahead contained no fewer than 20 beastmen unsurprisingly
01:38every one of them bore fresh wounds my gaze locked instantly on kale hunched in the corner arm torn by
01:44bite
01:45marks his fox ears and tail no longer able to stay hidden he caught my gaze and something lit in
01:51his
01:51eyes then he moved toward me alara which one do you like seraphina appeared at my shoulder her smile
01:57perfectly gentle she was father's daughter from his first wife a woman who had bled out in labor
02:03and never held her child father had remarried and my brother and i came after for years seraphina had
02:10maintained a flawless image gracious and elegant to the outside world warm and devoted sister within
02:16the walls in truth she burned with rabid jealousy convinced that my brother and i had stolen father's
02:22attention and her birthright so she had delayed her own choosing father i'd like to wait a bit before
02:27choosing an orc i want to go with my sister
02:32laying a trap she'd been tightening for years watching seraphina now poised as a flower i understood
02:39perfectly this was the moment kale had first set his sights on her seraphina spotted kale too and
02:46murmured you've always had a taste for pretty things that fox suits you pretty and nothing else
02:52the color drained from kale's face in my last life those words had fallen from seraphina's lips
02:59and they had shattered him on the spot this time was no different he stared at me ashen his eyes
03:06flooding with disbelief a question stirred in my gut seraphina gave a small smile drifted away and
03:12began her own careful selection just as in my last life she chose the powerfully built shadow wolf now
03:19i was the only one who hasn't chosen few beast men remained in the cage a quick sweep found kale
03:25watching
03:26me with naked hope my gaze moved past him and settled on the beast man behind half human half serpent
03:32coiled and utterly still if memory served no one had chosen him in my last life but a beast man
03:38had
03:38risen in this city after that a name that made even hardened predators go still silas single-handedly
03:45he had dismantled the black market led a mass exodus of captive beast men and years later stood across a
03:51negotiating table from the humans and won equal rights for every last one of his kind i had crossed
03:57pads with silas once and that white serpent tail was burned into my memory right now silas could
04:03barely hold his human form every inch of him fragility made up your mind father's voice cut
04:09through the noise yes
04:13i want him kale's expression cracked he spun around to stare at the frail serpent in disbelief
04:20you're not choosing me i didn't acknowledge kale behind him silas cracked open his eyes a pair of
04:26serpent slit pupils fixing on me without a flicker of warmth i held that gaze my voice steady with
04:32conviction come with me and i'll heal you silas pressed a palm to the floor crawled toward me he
04:37stopped at my feet i crouched down and pressed a palm to his cheek i'm taking you with me
04:42kale lunged forward and seized my wrist choose me you're supposed to choose me he's half dead already
04:49why would you pick him that settled it kale had been reborn too before i could react silas's
04:56brow furrowed and the blood streaked serpent tail uncoiled and snapped around kale like a whip
05:01kale hit the wall hard enough to rattle the iron bars silas's eyes were cold slit come closer again
05:08and i'll kill you watching kale clutch his ribs i felt something close to joy rise in my chest and
05:14i
05:15rewarded silas with an approving pinch of his cheek that was impressive silas's lashes trembled he dropped
05:21his gaze fast after father paid and sent us home with our chosen beastmen kale's voice chased me out of
05:28the black market shouting my name with a fury that echoed off the iron i glanced sideways at the bodyguard
05:34beside me and as if deeply inconvenienced he's so irritating understood i let the corner of my mouth
05:42curl in the black market every unchosen beastman was sent to the fighting pit a place where survival
05:48was measured in blood and screaming iron i was very much looking forward to that the good mood carried
05:53me all the way home father spared no resources on beastman care manuals medicinal compounds and supply
06:00crates flowed into my room like a tide silas's wounds weren't deep but a congenital defect in his body
06:06slowed his recovery to a crawl it made me only more curious how had he survived the fighting pit in
06:12his
06:12last life dragging that broken body through it all my stare must have been too obvious because a slow
06:18flush crept up silas's neck mistress do you need something in my last life kale had never once called
06:27me anything but my name saving reverence for seraphina being called mistress had a strange
06:32particular weight to it i tossed the medicine kit onto his lap dress your own wounds silas caught it
06:39and nodded docile as still water a few days of rest and silas had reclaimed his fully human form
06:46taller too his frame filling out overnight like a plant after rain beastman really did grow at an
06:52inhuman pace that morning father tracked me down a beastman healer had come to the city he said
06:58a merkin named mira she could treat both beastmen and father wanted me to take silas to see her
07:06the merkin carried innate healing gifts from birth the strength of which scaled with individual talent
07:11even the weakest among them could mend their own bodies but the most gifted could restore life to the
07:17near dead father turned to leave i stopped him with the question that had been sitting in my chest
07:22for days status over beastmen is absolute so why does the pack law bind us to them as mates
07:29he paused let out a long breath elara remember this a beastman's loyalty is something no human being
07:36can replicate whether you earn that loyalty that depends entirely on you he waved the conversation
07:43closed and walked away i knew as well as anyone how rare a beastman's loyalty was but in the mess
07:49i'd inherited from my last life rare felt like a polite word for impossible wasn't this just gambling
07:55with our lives i watched father go then turned back and called silas from his room leading him out
08:02into the city for the first time mistress what's that ice cream he cataloged everything stall signs
08:09storefronts passing vehicles with wide hungry eyes mistress what's that an amusement park
08:17mistress when we get back i'll teach you to read then you'll figure it out yourself
08:22okay silas beamed falling into step just behind my shoulder out of the corner of my eye i caught him
08:29eating the ice cream with total indifference he didn't like it at all while his gaze moved in quick
08:34methodical sweeps across the street around us the carefully performed helplessness had cracked
08:40just for a second he didn't trust me not even close and beneath the docile surface he was calculating
08:47of course he is i thought we arrived at the address father had given me i had expected something
08:52imposing a high-rise gilded signage because a beastman healer of rare power commanded human
08:59respect as much as fear instead i found the most unremarkable courtyard i'd ever seen i
09:04identifiable only because it was packed shoulder to shoulder with people waiting inside i spotted
09:10kale he was slumped against a girl's shoulder barely breathing more absent than present as if
09:16he sensed me kale opened his eyes and found mine instantly that one look was packed with a lifetime
09:23of grievances he pushed himself upright from the girl's arms eyes red rimmed and fixed me with an
09:29expression that begged without words then a hand closed over my eyes don't look at him glamour rat
09:37i laughed and pulled his hand down get in line of course i could feel kale's fox allure threading
09:45through the air but it couldn't touch me now not with only hatred and wariness where softness used to
09:51live and not when his glamour was still this juvenile silas gave me one more uncertain look
09:58then moved to join the queue what was kale even doing here but i wasn't the only one questioning it
10:04a fox and an heiress whose family treats beasts like dirt the pair drew everyone's attention someone
10:10gossiped among the crowd on kale's first day in the fighting pit he had weaved his fox allure around
10:16a girl named talia making her desperate to buy him her father was a business partner of fathers
10:22and when the black market saw how badly she wanted kale they drove the price up
10:26talia didn't have enough went home to scrape together the rest and spent several days doing it
10:31during those days on the bodyguard's quiet instruction every beast man kale faced in the pit
10:38was as brutal as they came taria had come back just in time to pull him out at death's door
10:43i understood now kale was wounded badly enough that talia had brought him here i took a proper
10:49look at talia peach bloom skin wide eyes all open sincerity not a calculating bone in her body by the
10:56look of it no wonder kale had reeled her in so easily he never does change suddenly kale tore free
11:03of talia's grip and lurched toward me hey where are you going talia reached for him and he shoved her
11:09hand away viciously don't touch me he glared at her with an expression i knew by heart revulsion
11:16the specific kind reserved for things that had already served their purpose he was certain talia
11:22couldn't live without him so he treated her with careless cruelty something sour moved through me
11:28and i set my jaw silas's brow creased his weight shifted i stopped him with the look kale staggered to
11:35me in a few short steps those steps costing him everything his legs gave he dropped to one knee
11:41barely catching himself before he hit the ground entirely he forced his chin up and his eyes were
11:47sincere in a way that made my skin crawl i'm sorry i know what i did he reached out small
11:54and careful
11:55can you forgive me so he'd guessed i'd been reborn too i didn't move and a flicker of relief crossed
12:02his face he was almost close enough to take my hand i looked past him at talia instead let me
12:08show
12:08you how to handle a beastman who won't behave the next second i drove my boot into the center of
12:13kale's chest with every bit of force i had he flew back and crashed through a low stone table in
12:19the
12:20a choked sound then a mouthful of blood hit the flagstones kale sat in the wreckage white-faced hand
12:27pressed to his chest talia sprinted over and rounded on me what do you think you're doing he's my
12:33beastman even if he's mishaving that's between us who gave you the right i tilted my head you can't
12:40control him and i don't like fox beastman getting too close to me they carry a certain musk kale coughed
12:47up another mouthful of blood and stared at me with the expression of someone whose world had just inverted
12:52talia flushed scarlet there's no there's no musk you're making that up that's beastman discrimination
12:59careful statements like that tend to offend my beastman silas looked at talia then let his gaze
13:05drop to the barely breathing kale you should be grateful it was my mistress who hit him he said
13:10his voice carrying the disinterest of someone announcing a weather forecast otherwise i would
13:15have killed him the undisguised kill intent sat in the air like a blade you sputtered at him
13:22then whipped around to stare at me at last she made a disgusted sound hoisted kale up with visible
13:28effort and marched straight for the door out of the way can't you see he's dying everyone in the queue
13:38had been waiting far longer and had no interest in being cut talia ended up wedged at the entrance
13:44kale sagging against her she raised her voice in desperation miss mira please i'm begging you save
13:51him he really is from inside the room came a voice smooth as river water
13:58he won't die wait your turn i raised an eyebrow i liked this mira already talia had no choice but
14:06to
14:06stand there seething kale was losing his grip on his human form the fox ears and tail slipped
14:12free trembling she glared daggers at me this isn't over i looked at her does your father know how much
14:19you
14:19paid for that beastman the talia family and mine were nothing alike our bloodline maintained some
14:25measure of regard for beastmen the talias treated them like livestock if her father found out she'd
14:31spent a small fortune on a useless fox the fallout would be spectacular talia blinked you know my father
14:38then her eyes went wide you're threatening me i just smiled talia's lip trembled tears spilled down
14:45her face and she cried openly chest heaving i hadn't expected the waterworks a headache bloomed behind
14:51my eyes stop crying your beastman isn't worth it i won't let you say that about him he's weak yes
14:57but to
14:58me he's worth a thousand times more right i had nothing left to say to that the queue crawled forward
15:05for several more hours before it was finally mercifully kale's turn i had arrived later and stood behind
15:11them by the time talia helped kale out of the treatment room an hour had passed and his color
15:17had returned he looked at me and the wounded helplessness was gone replaced by something close
15:23to resentment you're heartless alaxa i made a dry sound i can't compete with you stop wasting breath
15:29on her let's go steering kale away with a huff in my direction behind me silas spoke quietly you know
15:37them
15:40i pointed toward the treatment room door your turn silas pressed his lips together said nothing and stepped
15:48inside i followed and watched mira work the merkin were extraordinary no instruments no diagnostic tools
15:56only a touch and she already knew i said it without thinking that's remarkable mira looked at me with a
16:02faint smile nothing special there are dozens in my bloodline more gifted than i am and the greatest
16:09among them is her expression dimmed a shadow of grief crossed her face and she let the sentence die
16:15his body has a congenital gap it's why he appears far weaker than other beastmen and it will shorten
16:22his lifespan the hand resting at silas's side closed into a fist and his voice came out tight help me
16:29then he turned to me and the look in his eyes said everything money is no obstacle but mira shook
16:37her head
16:37her smile faint and tired a congenital gap is beyond my reach i can't mend what was never formed silas's
16:46face fell in a way that was visible to the naked eye thank you anyway he turned to leave and
16:53mira looked
16:53at me if you happen to know lucian miss alara there may still be a chance i was caught off
16:59guard not only
17:00because mira had recognized me but because of the name itself lucian was the most gifted and most
17:06ungovernable of the vos bloodline the family's golden heir known to everyone as their little
17:12crown prince we had attended the same school once i knew him after a fashion but his health had
17:18declined and he'd withdrawn from classes years ago we hadn't spoken since does lucian keep someone gifted
17:23near him the merkin are born with healing in our blood it's simply a matter of degree
17:30even the least gifted of us can mend our own bodies through instinct alone but the rarest among us
17:35the ones born with song they can restore the dead to life i stared at her that sounds impossible
17:42i've never heard of anything like it it isn't surprising our bloodline hasn't produced that
17:47level of gift in centuries then her voice shifted quiet deliberate but in the past 20 years one
17:53american was born carrying that gift from her very first breath something clicked into place at the back
17:59of my mind what is her name lyra of course i understand thank you mira i set a payment card
18:08on the table
18:09and left with silas the moment we were outside he asked barely containing himself are we going to
18:15find lyra his eyes were bright with something almost desperate if it's possible i'll take you to her
18:21i had heard lyra's name once in my last life lyra she had been offered to the voss bloodline by
18:28the
18:28merkin as a gesture of protection her extraordinary healing talent the price of her bloodline's safety
18:35and with her lucian had finally been free she seemed to care for him or so the rumors said lucian
18:41cared
18:41for someone else entirely and treated her accordingly what happened after that i didn't know
18:48because by that point i was already dead given lucian's erratic temperament approaching him directly
18:55and asking for lyra would be met with a flat refusal no matter how i framed it the better path
19:01was to go
19:02around him reach lyra herself silas must have sensed my hesitation because some of the heat faded from his
19:09expression mistress doesn't need to worry i'm fine as i am that word mistress
19:16spoken aloud on a public street turned heads up and down the block a flush crept up the back of
19:23my
19:23neck i cleared my throat twice in public you don't have to use that just call me by my name
19:30silas
19:31adapted without hesitation all right alara when i got home i sent talia's father an anonymous letter
19:38a quiet detailed account of exactly how much she had spent on kale at the black market i didn't want
19:44talia to become what i had been it took less than two days before the news here talia had been
19:51confined
19:51to the house but the money was already spent and her father was too proud to return kale to the
19:57black
19:57market which meant he would find ways to extract that investment from kale's skin the talia household
20:03would be its own kind of hell i was still turning that over when a servant came running something's
20:09wrong silas simus and raven are fighting raven was seraphina's beast man i was on my feet before the
20:16sentence finished i followed the servant to the garden outside where silas had been pinned beneath
20:22the flowering hawthorn tree and raven's massive fists were falling on him again and again each blow
20:29landing like a hammer miss alora please you have to help him he'll be beaten to death
20:35the servant pulled at my arm i raised a hand silence my eyes stayed fixed on silas after days of
20:42recovery
20:42his body was mostly healed and this was the silas who in his last life had survived the fighting pit
20:49on a
20:49broken frame which meant there was no possible world in which he was simply being dominated by
20:55raven right now he was hiding what he could do because he didn't trust me so i wouldn't save him
21:01i had no use for a beastman who might drive a blade into my back this first step towards trust
21:06he would have to be the one to take it silas still didn't move arms folded over his head the
21:12crack of
21:12breaking bone cutting through the garden like a gunshot he turned his head spat blood onto the flagstones
21:18and through the gap in the flowering branches saw me disbelief in his eyes hurt a silent furious
21:25question why aren't you coming my hand clenched at my side and my jaw locked raven scenting blood found
21:32the animal in himself rising to the surface both ears pushing through his hair every muscle lit up with
21:39predatory excitement barely a step from the edge of a full feral shift i held my breath my entire body
21:46strung tight as a wire and stared at silas just take this one step towards me and i swear i
21:52will
21:52never stop protecting you silas's pupils elongated the calm human iris collapsing into serpent slit
21:59in the moment before raven lunged to bite him silas moved his legs dissolved into a white serpent tail
22:06that coiled around raven's body in one fluid motion and then his fangs long and curved and appearing from
22:13nowhere drove into the side of raven's neck without hesitation raven screamed and thrashed every muscle
22:20in his body convulsive silas's tail contracted like a closing vice i watched raven's face shift from red
22:27to violet in the span of seconds and understood instantly silas's fangs were venomous so he's a viper
22:33i thought seraphina arrived then late and unhurried and when she saw what was happening simus
22:40you dare kill him i stepped forward without hesitation what if he does seraphina's fierce
22:48expression shifted through several versions of itself when she saw me she drew a breath
22:54steadied herself alara tell silas to stop raven will die i smiled my brother keeps his head
23:02don't worry seraphina i glanced at raven's still in body with meaning i won't let my sister become
23:08a widow this early alara seraphina finally snapped one finger leveled at me aren't you afraid father
23:14will punish you for this i put on an expression of perfect innocence silas has always been fragile and
23:20obedient he wouldn't provoke raven without reason this was self-defense and you know it why would
23:26father punish me my voice cooled shouldn't the punishment fall on the one who started it you
23:31enough everyone stop father's voice rolled through the garden from somewhere behind me
23:37heavy with displeasure before seraphina could arrange her face into something pitiable i got there first
23:43and let tears spill down my own father she started it and now she's turning it around on me
23:49seraphina went pale i didn't father please save raven he'll die father let out a cold sound
23:56spared seraphina one flat look a lesson he needed to learn and you don't think i don't know what
24:02you've been doing the handbook i gave you covers how to suppress a beast man's feral instincts what
24:07exactly have you been doing with it father's voice rose seraphina's chin dropped i was wrong father
24:13seraphina raven is going to be your mate your work isn't only to team it's to build him otherwise
24:20his gaze cut across her cold and quiet and said nothing more seraphina dropped to her knees yes
24:27father as raven finally went still the desperation broke through seraphina's composure and tears ran
24:33down her face father please save him he's still going to be my husband one day please only then did
24:40father look at me i nodded at silas let him go silas released the coil raven's limp body hit the
24:47earth beside the hawthorn tree scattering petals across the flagstones i moved quickly to catch silas
24:54he had burned through everything he had the serpent tail refusing to retract his legs unable to carry him
25:00his full weight dropping into my arms father made a sound of pure displeasure you beast men to bond with
25:06not to put them against each other if it happens again you're both out of this bloodline
25:13understood father
25:16quick carry raven inside
25:22i looked at raven's violet face and asked will the venom kill him i don't make problems for myself
25:30look at him and found his face stripped of everything he usually wore around me the deference
25:36the careful performance all of it gone what remained was cold and still the slit pupils unmoved
25:42this is who he actually is then silas went boneless against my shoulder head lolling as if the last of
25:48his strength had left him at once but i didn't believe it then again a performance was only worth
25:54running to its end so i slid an arm around that ice-cold tail settled my other hand at his
25:59waist
25:59and lifted him silas stared at me startled into actual surprise a flush climbing fast up his neck
26:07i carried him back to his room where the physician was already waiting the broken ribs were set silas
26:16endured it with his face gone paper white the scales along his tail rippling open and closed with every wave
26:22of pain until the sight made my own skin crawl i turned away and rubbed the goosebumps down my arms
26:28when the physician finished and left with a list of instructions i looked at the pale expanse of
26:33serpent tail silas pressed his lips together and under my gaze drew it back in the tail dissolving into
26:42human legs again oddly fascinating and met those still unrecovered slip pupils blinking at me without
26:50looking away he was asking why i'd stood there and watched i smiled have you ever heard the saying
26:57which one real trust is earned in kind you didn't trust me so don't expect me to trust you first
27:04after
27:04i left silas's room i did a quiet round of inquiries and pieced together what had happened silas had
27:10developed a fondness for the hawthorn tree in the garden it was full bloom and he'd been spending idle
27:15hours beneath it he'd had the misfortune of crossing paths with raven who was wound tight and looking
27:21for something to hit seraphina's standard for a beast man was raw power and since a beast man who
27:27had learned to suppress their feral instinct lost much of that she had never taught raven to pull
27:32back from the edge instead she trained him to his limits and then patched him up herself with careful
27:37gentle hands two sessions of that and raven was completely devoted to her if i hadn't been blinded by
27:44kale's fox allure in my last life heart given over to him every alarm in me silenced i wouldn't have
27:50died so stupidly speaking of which i wonder how kale is doing in the talia household i asked and promptly
27:57had to swallow a laugh the talia patriarch had been putting kale's fox allure to work entertaining guests
28:03with it men and women alike sparing no categories kale had always been beautiful with his glamour on top of
28:10that more than a few people had wanted him in my last life to protect him i had taken on
28:15damage i
28:16never should have absorbed and every time he had one thing to say that's what you're here for that's
28:22what i'm here for as if i were furniture a plan began to form in the back of my mind
28:27i was humming
28:27to myself on the way back to my room when i heard voices inside silas's and pressed myself quietly to
28:34the
28:34the wall seraphina's voice all warmth and remorse silas i'm so sorry i should have kept raven under
28:41control you're hurt so badly can i help you with your bandages i raised an eyebrow and leaned closer
28:47silas's voice came back flat as a locked door get out where's alara didn't she stay with you with
28:53injuries this serious isn't this your future husband's work silas said and the chill in his
28:59voice could have frosted glass i bit down on a laugh hard enough to hurt seraphina had clearly
29:04caught a glimpse of what silas was capable of and immediately wanted to pull him into her orbit
29:09when it didn't work she said a few perfunctory words of concern and prepared to leave i moved
29:15quickly back to my own room but the next second there was a knock on my door and silas was
29:20standing
29:20in the frame eyes dark and steady looking at me i was genuinely surprised he'd looked critically
29:26wounded moments ago and he was already on his feet beast man healing was fast but not that fast
29:33something you need you said you'd teach me to read i'd completely forgotten about that
29:38sorry we can start now silas pressed his lips together and stepped inside i started from the
29:44very beginning the phonetic alphabet and we sat across from each other until he looked up and said
29:49am i what you expected i blinked hmm silas raised his eyes earlier was it worth watching
29:56he meant why didn't you come in i smiled honestly it was silas's brow drew together immediately he
30:03looked genuinely displeased the question in his voice coming out sharper than he probably intended
30:08you have history with her he'd picked up on the tension between seraphina and me of course he had
30:14i let my lashes fall yes that history he was quiet for a moment i can that one i genuinely
30:21hadn't seen
30:21coming and then my father kills you in return silas's gaze didn't waver you said it yourself real
30:27trust is earned in kind for the first time i saw it actual sincerity in his eyes but still why
30:35trust for
30:36trust was one thing but i hadn't done anything to earn it yet a flicker of tension moved through his
30:41expression i want lyra to treat me if i had a body that worked the way it should i wouldn't
30:48have had
30:48to spend today looking as pathetic as i did i softened my voice anything pathetic today in your
30:55last life you survived the fighting pit using exactly that feign weakness let them close in then coil and
31:01bite through their throats thinking that i reached up without meaning to and touched my own neck learn what
31:07need to learn first lyra i'll find a way okay for the first time the usually cold boy let a
31:16genuine
31:16smile break across his face a few days later word came that the voss family's grandmother was turning
31:2380 and the voss household had sent a formal invitation to ours because of the garden incident father took
31:30only me and left seraphina behind beast men were barred from formal events so i left silas at home
31:37in the banquet hall i found talia beaming at guests with practiced ease until she caught sight of me
31:43and her expression went flat as stone i fell and stepped beside her after the gift presentation
31:50where's kale you have a nerve asking this is all your fault you know talia do we have a problem
32:00i don't know you're the one who's headed out to me from the start i've never had a problem with
32:05you
32:05only with kale if you don't believe me
32:13i don't believe he'd do that to me
32:17then test him while the crowd was distracted talia guided me quietly toward the cellar below the manor
32:25go in and remember don't look directly at his eyes talia wrinkled her nose gripped her composure
32:33and clicked into the cellar on high heels i slipped in behind her it took a while before the light
32:39reached kale's cage he was chained at the neck like livestock locked behind bars filthy and broken
32:46looking a picture of wreckage i stayed back around the corner out of sight kale had his eyes closed the
32:52fox ears flat and still if his chest hadn't been faintly moving he could have passed for dead
32:59kale
33:02kale
33:02talia's voice barely reached a whisper he opened his eyes slowly and when he saw her something
33:09electric came back into his face the chain snapped and rang at his sudden movement
33:16you came to get me out i can't get you out yet my father is still angry he's still angry
33:25then she rushed to add it but i promise i'll come back for you i will
33:33talia look at me just look at me i'm begging you i'm getting me out the way you did in
33:41the fighting pit
33:43you were everything to me then you were the only light please just look at me
33:48talia kept her chin down listening kale ran out of patience fast
33:54talia get me out now why not why can't you you did it fine at the fighting pit you were
34:03falling over
34:04yourself to help me then why is now any different you're blaming me when you were the one begging me
34:10to save you who even gave you permission to be that gullible you were practically throwing yourself
34:16at me just like alara alara alara you've done this to her too
34:30do you see it now he barely had to try and you couldn't hand yourself over fast enough talia turned
34:36to look at me and you ended up being the one blamed for it i rested a hand on her
34:41shoulder go wait outside
34:44she glanced back at kale uncertain but
34:51you'll be fine talia looked over her shoulder three times on the way out and then the cellar
34:56was just the two of us kale watched me something testing in his voice what do you want
35:03i'm curious how were you reborn let me guess after i died in our last life you went to seraphina
35:11but
35:11your fox allure never worked on her did it she kept her guard up she knew what you were and
35:16what
35:16you were capable of so she was always watching but your gift was too valuable to waste so she put
35:22it
35:22to use until the very end when you'd served your purpose completely and her shadow wolf finished you
35:28the same way he finished me that's not true she cared about me she cared about me you don't know
35:32anything then why were you hoping i'd choose you in the black market elara elara you have to
35:42take me back why won't you choose me why i stepped back just out of reach the chain snapped
35:48taut around his neck i'll give you something
35:55one chance to take back what was done to me
36:02when i came up from the cellar talia was still outside eyes raw i almost sighed i told you he
36:10wasn't worth it why are you this upset sorry for what i was i was so stupid before
36:22i thought it was destiny
36:28i thought we'd be this epic human and beast man love story she broke into full shuddering sobs
36:36i rubbed a spot on my temple even if you wanted an epic love story you'd need your father's blessing
36:42first come on let's go she wept okay after managing talia back to some level of composure
36:52i asked is lucian on the guest list that was the second reason i'd come tonight
36:59did he bring anyone with him i didn't pay attention he sent a gift and went to rest
37:05his health isn't great where is he resting i'll take you talia led me to the vip lounge and before
37:12we'd even reached the door we both heard it a melody rising and falling like water over stone
37:18the music moved through the air and straight into my chest
37:24i feel like someone just told me it's going to be okay
37:27i could go back in there and stab him about 15 times right now i turned to look at her
37:32surprised
37:33it had that effect too then this was lyra it had to be walking up to lucian directly and asking
37:41for
37:41her was out of the question he was far too volatile for a frontal approach better to reach lyra herself
37:49i sent talia off opened the door directly across from lucian's suite sat down in the frame and listened
37:57the melody flowed without pause and something in my bones began to unknot the grief of a whole past
38:04life starting to quiet i yawned biting it i kept my eyes open by force and waited what i hadn't
38:12counted
38:13on waiting the entire night lyra's voice never stopped once when i realized how angry i was on her behalf
38:20the feeling surprised me the morning meal arrived for delivery i opened the door at the right moment
38:27lyra was stepping out of lucian's suite waving off the breakfast tray i raised a hand hi lyra
38:35turned at the sound of my voice and smiled she was genuinely beautiful skin that caught the light like
38:41satin eyes clear and bright but what stayed with you was something underneath the beauty something that
38:48made you want to draw closer and stay her voice came out sand rough that made the next part awkward
38:54she seemed to read the awkwardness on my face and gave a small tired smile do you need something for
39:01me i stepped aside and gestured would you mind coming in for a moment lyra nodded and walked in
39:06i poured her a glass of warm water first let her settle then said i have a beastman he was
39:13born with a
39:13congenital gap i took him to see mira she can't mend it but she directed me to you lyra listened
39:20and
39:20nodded mira is my aunt i blinked mira looked barely older than lyra lyra checked the time i have about
39:28two hours you can bring your beastman to a nearby hotel the fee for a congenital repair is two million
39:35she said it with her lashes lowered the expression beneath them hidden what i was thinking about was her
39:42voice right now your throat it doesn't matter every day is like this if you're waiting for it to
39:50recover you'll be waiting forever something dropped in my chest every day is like this
39:58is lucian that ill i said he isn't then why lyra's smile went pale at the edges cruelty mostly i
40:08thought of
40:08the rumors i'd heard once in another life you don't have to stay devoted to one tree you're overthinking
40:14it get the hotel sorted if lucian wakes and finds me gone there won't be another chance i booked the
40:19nearest suite fast then contacted silas after i hung up i turned back to lyra she was working through
40:26breakfast and small unhurried bites every movement neat and somehow restful to watch but there was
40:33something about that narrow back that made the chest ache for no clear reason i sat down across
40:39from her words rising and dying on my tongue in the end i said nothing silas arrived minutes later he
40:46had
40:46clearly run the whole way sweat still at his temple lyra extended her hand he glanced at me first and
40:52only
40:52after i nodded did he approach with any care lyra laid her palm over his and her brow began to
40:59draw
40:59together i felt the tension move up through my own spine i was desperate to intervene but i forced
41:06myself to stay back lyra wasn't faring any better than silas every note she sang seemed to tear something
41:14loose in her throat slowly blood appeared at the corner of her mouth i started forward she stopped me
41:23with a look and a small shake of her head an hour later the singing stopped silas and lyra folded
41:31to
41:32the floor at the same moment i moved fast to catch lyra wiped the blood from her mouth sorry i
41:39didn't know
41:40it would be like this are you all right she was breathing hard paid i gave what was asked
41:49there's nothing to apologize for let me take you back lyra looked at silas still on the floor
41:56catching his breath one moment the gap is sealed but he'll need a course of medicine to follow
42:08and because the deficiency has held his body back he's been presenting as a juvenile
42:14but he's actually an adult beastman grown beastmen enter a heat cycle
42:20be careful don't let him hurt you i understand rest for a moment i nodded fast
42:29lyra let her eyes close and went quiet i arranged transport and personally saw her back to the talia
42:36estate my plan had been to slip her back to her suite unnoticed
42:45but standing at the front entrance when we arrived was lucian jaw set an expression like incoming weather
42:52behind him talia red-eyed and we'd been found out i moved to step out of the car with lyra
43:03she stopped me with a hand on my arm go home i shook my head i wrote i went to
43:10school with lucian
43:11he should give me at least a little room lyra smiled if he were the type to give you room
43:18he wouldn't have had to come to me directly i'm all right he still needs me go trust me
43:28i gritted my teeth in the end i pressed the payment card into her hand she gave it back give
43:35it to my
43:36aunt she'll know what to do with it i can't use it there's nowhere it would go
43:45she pushed the door open the moment lucian's eyes found her his face darkened in a way that
43:52was visible from a distance on the drive back to the hotel i couldn't settle what had happened i
44:00asked talia and she told me lucian had woken 30 minutes ago couldn't find lyra anywhere and had
44:05made a scene everyone knew how much lyra mattered to him so they'd all started searching too eventually
44:13someone reviewed the security footage and traced it to me under pressure from lucian's people talia
44:19had been forced to give up the whole story of how i'd spent the night waiting outside his door
44:24and caught a thorough dressing down for it i had a feeling i was out to receive one too but
44:30my worry
44:30about that was smaller than my worry about lyra i gripped the payment card in my hand and pushed
44:36into the hotel room ready to call silas and head home when he launched himself at me the second the
44:42door opened his usual cold was gone he was burning and he was bigger taller broader the change in him
44:49unmistakable then lyra's warning came back to me in a rush grown beastmen enter a heat cycle
44:54be careful be careful don't let him hurt you heat cycle not this fast surely not this fast
45:03simus it's me look at me look at me i pushed against his chest with scorching hands closed
45:09around my waist his forehead pressed down to mine mistress mistress that word in a voice dropped three
45:16registers a fully adult male's voice i had vastly underestimated lyra
45:23let go of me you can't do this it isn't right silas tilted his head just slightly and the tip
45:28of
45:28his nose grazed my cheekbone the heat off his breath landed against my face and waves i threw
45:34every bit of strength into pushing him away he didn't move an inch that hurts the grip at my
45:40waist drawing tighter my waist was flesh not iron silas buried his face at my shoulder and his breath
45:46came out ragged help me please i had absolutely no idea how to help with this all right okay i'll
45:54help just let go of me first silas loosened his hold by a fraction the next second i spun for
46:00the door
46:00my fingers were almost on the handle when a serpent tail coiled around my waist and reeled me back i
46:06turned the slit pupils had bled fully through and faint scales had begun appearing along his cheekbones
46:12full shift starting that was a catastrophically bad sign help me the vertical pupils went deep and still
46:21you promised okay okay okay i'll help in my last life kale had gone through heat and made it very
46:30clear he wanted nothing from me he was saving himself for seraphina so this particular experience
46:35was new territory my hand trapped in silas's grip had lost all sensation by the time we made it back
46:43to the estate night had fallen i felt deeply and specifically guilty about several things father
46:51was in the main hall waiting i walked in dropped to my knees on reflex and grabbed silas down with
46:59me
47:00his voice shook the walls elara have i been too lenient with you is that why you act like there
47:10are no
47:10rules if you wanted lyra to treat simus you could have come to me instead you took her without permission
47:18did it ever occur to you what would happen if lucian collapsed while she was gone if that had ended
47:25badly how would i face the boss bloodline father's chest heaved with every word i bent my head lower
47:33i was wrong father please don't stress yourself over it
47:41if your brother were here i wouldn't have to be more like your sister she's composed well-mannered and
47:48makes no trouble i kept my head down and let the rest of it wash over me then silas tapped
47:56my hand twice
47:57i looked up seraphina was coming in from outside with kale behind her looking considerably less like
48:05something dragged through gutters so kale had made his move i couldn't stop one corner of my mouth you think
48:12this is funny i flattened my expression instantly
48:20no father seraphina came to father's side and made all the right soothing gestures elara
48:25what did you do this time to upset him this badly
48:30so father ran through all of it again from the beginning thanks for that seraphina in the retelling
48:36she managed to look concerned while adding fuel to every sentence the verdict one month's house
48:41confinement when you're done go back to your room don't leave without permission yes father
48:45when father finally released me and i turned to go seraphina said
48:53elara is this silas i looked back silas was nearly the same height as me now his features sharpened and
49:01settled into something older the boyishness almost entirely gone yesterday he had still looked like
49:08a boy of 12 but that whole development was connected to the heat cycle and i was not going to
49:15explain the
49:15heat cycle to anyone in this room enough i know go yes
49:25i turned and walked quickly back to my room naturally i did not miss the flash of jealous
49:31hatred in seraphina's eyes as i left back in my room
49:41i crooked a finger at silas more the look on his face was entirely too knowing silas
49:49he laughed then easy unbothered what does mistress require
49:55i took a breath steadied myself all of this was exactly what you planned wasn't it
50:03the body that looked like a boys had hidden a mind that had never been a boys at all
50:08which meant from the beginning i had been played no
50:14you choosing me that was the thing i didn't plan for
50:23he looked at me and his eyes were level and serious
50:27so everything else he had i can't even be surprised the beast man who dismantled the black market and
50:34negotiated equal rights for his entire species of course he was always three moves ahead i was
50:40gnashing my teeth silas smiled just slightly you came out ahead didn't you mistress he drew that
50:47last word out deliberately i turned away please leave my room i could take the loss but i wasn't
50:54staying in the same space as his satisfaction the month of confinement passed i had the bodyguard route
51:00the payment card to mira with a note she would know what to do with it during that time i
51:04searched
51:05every channel i could find for news of lyra and found nothing every thread dead the silence worried
51:11me meanwhile silas had grown at a pace that defied any reasonable measurement two days gone and he was
51:18noticeably taller the ease of a predator settling into his posture with every passing hour father
51:24approved of the development in ways that visibly extended to me since seraphina had brought kale
51:29into the house kale had been reporting to me daily small details careful observations while his fox
51:36allure went to work on seraphina drop by patient drop everything i had suffered in my last life i was
51:43going to make her feel every inch of seraphina had been resistant at first but with raven diminished
51:49after his confrontation with silas and with my own quiet efforts pulling her reputation apart from the
51:54seams her composure was starting to fracture she was getting volatile reaching for kale's attention
52:00at any hour storming when she didn't get it kale was doing to her exactly what he had done to
52:06me
52:06and she was falling piece by piece the ugly incidents mounted scenes in public a shouting match that had
52:13left witnesses unsettled a round of self-pity so deep it had shaded into something worse the worst
52:19incident she had nearly used a blade on her own wrist a servant had caught her in time and run
52:25for father
52:25father arrived home from the office to find her and the fury on his face was something i had never
52:31seen before he slapped her once open-handed
52:39for a beastman have you lost your mind
52:44isn't this exactly what you wanted father
52:46you were the one who said we had to bond with beastmen one mate one life no betrayal
52:53so why is it wrong now father's fury and grief fought each other visibly wake up
53:03seraphina surfaced for a moment blinking father pressed his fingers hard into his temple i know you've
53:10resented me for a long time you think i failed you that i shouldn't have remarried that alada and
53:18her brother took something from you that the bloodline's legacy belongs to you alone but seraphina
53:23have i ever actually neglected you he looked at her and something wet moved through his eyes you're
53:29older than alira by a few years you know as well as i do why this bloodline requires us to
53:33choose a
53:33beastman companion at 18 it isn't cruelty it is what gives us the right to lead i spoke up from
53:38the side
53:39genuinely confused what does that mean father looked at me and let out a long slow breath
53:46it's the old law the founding rule to inherit and hold the family's work you must must be in true
53:52accord with the beastman seraphina you've always known the bloodline standard leadership goes to the
54:00most capable regardless of birth order or gender three years ago was when you should have begun
54:06chosen your beastman prepared yourself entered the business with intent instead you waited and while
54:13you were waiting you were building a trap
54:18don't dress it up father answer me honestly did you treat us the same ever i was born with no
54:26mother
54:28you were busy you gave me to the nurses you gave me everything material i asked for yes
54:33but how many hours did you spend with me how many times did you hold me or come to quiet
54:39me when i was
54:40scared after you remarried you held alira you came when alira cried you gave her the pair because she
54:48wanted the pair you gave me what you thought i should want not what i asked for
54:54every one of those small things you thought didn't matter they were scars father every single one
55:00this bowl was never level you just couldn't see it seraphina i'm sorry you were right to feel it
55:10i failed you sorry doesn't fix it i want alira dead i want all of them dead
55:20she lunged for me hands in my collar and her face had gone somewhere i hadn't seen it go before
55:26alada alada i had a dream i dreamed you died the fully shifted raven bit you right through the
55:35throat you were dead you were dead the blood in my veins turned to ice water and stopped it wasn't
55:44a
55:45dream it happened father couldn't watch anymore he had her removed and confined to her rooms
55:52when kyle came to me later pleased with himself i took him directly to seraphina's door in the
55:59cellar of the talia estate i had made him a single offer his freedom in exchange for his obedience
56:06seduce seraphina and do it until she broke he'd agreed and she had broken so now it was his turn
56:14through the door seraphina's voice rose and fell cresting and breaking kail why aren't you answering
56:21me don't you love me anymore you said i was the one person who mattered most to you you said
56:28you'd
56:28never leave you said you'd give me anything i wanted seraphina you've gone insane alara open this
56:35door open it i stood still and listened to what was happening on the other side the frantic banging and
56:42then gradually silence i went to father's room instead i've sent for your brother i should never
56:49have sent him away little alara everything she said it was true or you wouldn't have done what you did
56:58that's on me it's all on me father didn't punish me he showed me the bloodline's founding records
57:03and without exception every paired name on the page was a human and a beast man long ago the family's
57:11founding grandmother had a beast man against all opposition and the world had denied them both
57:17a disaster came and the beast man gave his life to save her out of grief and out of conviction
57:24she
57:24had used her authority to set the law that had governed every generation since so that one day
57:30humans and beast men might live in peace when i came out of father's study silas was in the hallway
57:35leaning against the wall all of it handled i nodded he had been busy this past month i'd barely seen
57:42him
57:43and i was starting to recognize in the way he moved and held a room the shape of who he
57:47was going to
57:48become father had warmed to him in ways he hadn't bothered to hide since kale had moved into the house
57:54as seraphina's beast man he'd been reporting to me faithfully while in the background seraphina's image
58:00had been quietly and methodically demolished she had done to herself everything kale once did to me
58:06then father had stepped in my brother came home took over the business under father's guidance and
58:11the household found its footing again as for silas the heat cycles kept coming back more and more
58:17frequently as it happened every deep night a cold serpent tail would find its way around my ankle silas
58:26i have a knife the tail withdrew as i thought he had been exaggerating all along silas explain yourself
58:34he leaned in and grazed his lips against the shell of my ear is it really so hard to understand
58:40i turned on him plain words he was quiet for a long moment in my last life you buried me
58:47i jolted
58:49upright you you also silas sat up unhurried after that my spirit wouldn't leave i stayed and i watched
58:59you grieve for kale suffer for kale and finally die for nothing and then with you i came back
59:07remarkable and then he spoke again alara do you remember the bloodline's founding law
59:15what he smiled and the look in his eyes held something that had been there for a long time choose
59:22a
59:22beastman to raise bond with them for life no betrayal no abandonment his voice dropped low you chose me
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