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00:00She stole my body, my rank, my life.
00:03I died in filth while she wore my face to bed with the Alpha the husband that should be mine.
00:08That was what my husband, the Alpha.
00:11Lock her in the back cell. She's tracking the plague across our floors.
00:14I was rotting alive, and the helpless war orphan he brought home stood next to him,
00:18holding her nose and wearing my necklace.
00:20She wasn't an orphan.
00:22She was a diseased whore who used a cursed pendant to steal my healthy body.
00:26I died in that stinking cell.
00:28Then I opened my eyes again.
00:30I was back.
00:31The exact moment Vivian held that pendant out to me.
00:35A toast to the Alpha!
00:37After this war, the Council is sure to grant him more territory.
00:42He actually survived the bloodbath and made it back?
00:45We should be thanking the Moon Goddess purely for that.
00:48Damien looked like the war had been built around him.
00:51His shirt strained across his chest and shoulders.
00:53His jaw looked carved from stone.
00:55And his scent.
00:56Dark cedar, iron.
00:58And rank male dominance.
01:00Heavy.
01:01Commanding.
01:02Impossible to ignore.
01:07Alpha's the lucky one, huh?
01:09Three months out, killing on the front lines.
01:11And he comes home to not one, but two beautiful women waiting on him.
01:15I'd be jealous too.
01:19I know you prayed for Damien every single day, my Luna.
01:21So I went to the altar for you.
01:23I asked the Moon Goddess myself, may the Moon Goddess return him to you alive, every time.
01:27In my last life, I had been so happy Damien won the war.
01:31So stupidly moved by her little act of devotion.
01:33I let her fasten the chain around my neck that very night.
01:36I had no idea it was cursed.
01:38The second I wore it, the pendant began to work.
01:40Her rot.
01:42My body.
01:43Exchanged.
01:44At first, I was only tired.
01:46Then the pain started low in my body.
01:49Sharp.
01:49Deep.
01:50Wrong.
01:51One healer after another came through Thornwood.
01:53None of them knew what was happening to me.
01:55While Vivian?
01:56Vivian got prettier by the day.
01:58Her skin glowed.
01:59Her body filled out.
02:00And every night, she took out to Damien to bed.
02:03When I woke from the fever, it was already too late.
02:05She must have spread her legs for other men.
02:07That's where filled like this comes from.
02:09Damien's face went black with disgust.
02:12Lock her in the back cell.
02:14Anyone caught sneaking her food gets whipped to the bone.
02:17I tried to speak.
02:18Tried to explain.
02:20Nothing came out.
02:21I could only lie there and watch him straight out the door.
02:25Even as I died in that holding cell, I still couldn't understand it.
02:28The man who marked me under the full moon.
02:31The man who swore to love me for life.
02:33How had he become that cold?
02:35Only after death did I learn who Vivian really was.
02:38Not an orphan.
02:39Not some helpless girl dragged home from war.
02:42A whore.
02:43An enemy pack whore who slipped into our lands after their defeat.
02:47She was already dying.
02:48Already rotting from the inside.
02:50Pure hatred clawed at my throat.
02:52But what good was anger when my body was already rotting in the mud?
02:56I couldn't rip her apart with my own hands.
02:59The sharp ring of crystal snapped me back to the banquet.
03:02Luna.
03:04Let me put it on you.
03:08This time, I took one step back.
03:10The whole table went silent.
03:13Vivian's hand hung in the dare.
03:15Laya.
03:17Is my gift not good enough?
03:19I scrubbed my knees bloody praying for this.
03:22A few of the high betas mates immediately frowned at me.
03:26Lila.
03:26Don't make a scene.
03:28The poor girl meant well.
03:29The alpha dragged her back from the front lines himself.
03:32Of course, they're letting her do as she pleases.
03:35I said nothing.
03:37I said nothing.
03:37Because I smelled it.
03:38That faint sweetness under her perfume.
03:41That rotten, sugary note buried deep in the flesh.
03:44I knew that scent.
03:45I had breathed it for three months in my last life.
03:48I had died in it.
03:49I looked at the foolish women around the table.
03:52Then I forced my lips into a tight smile.
03:54I appreciate the thought, I said evenly.
03:57And I'll keep the gift.
03:58But this dress doesn't suit a rough bone wood pendant.
04:01Then she looked at me with that wounded, trembling expression she wore so well.
04:05I know it isn't expensive, not compared to the diamonds on your throat.
04:09But I begged for it on bleeding knees.
04:11That's what made it precious.
04:13She took another step toward me.
04:15I just want you to try it on.
04:18It would look beautiful on you.
04:21No, she didn't want me to try it on.
04:24She needed that cursed thing around my neck tonight.
04:26Right then, the bank of doors swung open.
04:32A thin omega boy walked in with his head lowered.
04:35He stopped before Damien's seat and stood at attention.
04:38Alpha, High Luma sent me.
04:40She requests Lyra's presence in the capital for the full moon gathering.
04:44My heart clenched so hard it hurt.
04:46Ren, the same omega who dug my body out of the corpse heap in the rain.
04:50The same omega who gave me a grave when no one else would.
04:53I was about to use the summons as my way out.
04:55Vivian moved first.
04:57Like a serpent.
04:58Luna, let me put the pendant on before you go.
05:01You can't appear before High Luna wearing something as flashy as that diamond.
05:11This lady looks familiar.
05:13I saw a transport of unregulared omgas at the Northern Black Market last year.
05:18Wasn't she one of them?
05:19You've mistaken me for someone else.
05:22Alpha rescued me from war.
05:23I've never been near a black market.
05:26Ren closed his mouth.
05:27He didn't push.
05:29And I took the opening.
05:30High Luna is waiting.
05:31I should go.
05:33As for the pendant, we'll discuss it when I return.
05:39Luna, are you avoiding me?
05:41It takes seconds to put on a pendant.
05:43What exactly is the problem?
05:45Then she moved.
05:46She threw herself sideways.
05:49You!
05:49You filthy omega!
05:51You touched me!
05:52Clutching the rip toward the dress.
05:54Tears poured down her face on cue.
05:57Every expression around that table changed.
05:59That sick little Omega's lost his mind.
06:02He touched Alpha's woman?
06:04Rip his throat out.
06:06Break him apart.
06:07And throw him to the dogs.
06:09Vivian trembled like a shattered doll.
06:11Mascara streaked down her face.
06:13Get your filthy paws off me!
06:16I'd rather die than be touched by a lowborn born Omega!
06:22Fun suddenly toward one of the stone pillars.
06:25Vivian!
06:31He caught her by the waist and hauled her against his chest.
06:35Alpha pressure exploded through the room.
06:38The air turned heavy.
06:39Every wolf in that hall felt it.
06:42Ren went white.
06:43His legs gave out under the force of it.
06:45He slammed onto the stone floor so hard I heard the impact in his knees.
06:49I didn't do it!
06:51I swear to the moon goddess, I didn't!
06:54I only put my hands out on instinct!
06:56I didn't even touch the edge of her dress!
06:58I swear it!
06:59I never dishonored her!
07:02Vivian buried her face in Damien's neck.
07:04Crying.
07:05Shivering.
07:06Pressing herself against him on purpose.
07:09Her breasts crushed into his chest.
07:10While she clung to him like prey begging protection, Damien's eyes turned monstrous.
07:16His jaw locked.
07:17Drag that bastard out!
07:22Break his arms.
07:24Break his legs.
07:26Dump him at the border and let the rogues finish what he started.
07:30For a second, I thought I had misheard him.
07:33Damien!
07:34Use your damn head!
07:35He's High Luna's messenger!
07:36If you lay one finger on him inside your territory, you'll answer to the council by sunrise.
07:41Do you want a political war over a liar's tears?
07:45Vivian lifted her head from Damien's chest.
07:48Why are you so upset, Luna?
07:50You're awfully quick to defend a filthy Mega.
07:53Does he normally kneel that close to you?
07:55Or have you grown a little too comfortable with a lowborn's hands straying on your body?
07:59She wasn't just accusing Ren.
08:01She was smearing me.
08:03Publicly.
08:04Painting me as a Luna who let some Omega into her bed.
08:07Damien's head snapped toward me.
08:09His pupils tightened.
08:11That warped alpha possessiveness ignited behind his eyes all at once.
08:14The look he gave me made my skin crawl, like I had just crawled out of another man's sheets.
08:20Say that again.
08:24I almost laughed from the sheer filth of it.
08:27I was ready to throw every ounce of that poison back in their faces, but Ren moved first.
08:31I'll take my punishment, alpha!
08:33His thin body shook like a leaf in a storm, but his voice came out shockingly clear.
08:38I swear it was an accident.
08:40I'd never disrespect the alpha's guest.
08:42I'll accept whatever punishment you give me.
08:44I only ask one thing.
08:45For High Luna's sake, just leave me half alive so I can deliver my message back.
08:49My heart seized.
08:50Moon goddess.
08:51What was he doing?
08:52He was throwing himself into the fire.
08:54If I defended him now, Damien would hear guilt in my voice.
08:57If I stayed silent, Ren would bleed for me.
09:00Ren was sacrificing himself to protect my name.
09:03Rage tore through me so violently my hands started shaking.
09:06My nails dug into my palms, hard enough to break skin.
09:09I barely felt it.
09:10My eyes locked on the bonewood wolf head clenched in Vivian's hand.
09:13And then it came to me.
09:14A brutal, beautiful thought.
09:16This diseased whore wanted my body.
09:18My health.
09:19My rank.
09:20My life.
09:20Fine.
09:21If she loved trading fate so much, I'd play the game with her.
09:24I'd hand her a gift.
09:26A body so unbearable she'd pray for death and never get it.
09:29I lowered my eyes to Ren.
09:30He was still on the floor.
09:32Still trembling.
09:33Still trying to save me with his own blood.
09:35I didn't know yet how I'd do it.
09:37But I knew exactly where I'd begin.
09:39This time, I would ruin her first.
09:41The dungeon sounds carried through the corridor.
09:43A dull crack.
09:44Then another.
09:46Whips tearing through flesh.
09:47In my last life, Ren dug me out of the corpse pit.
09:50Ren buried me when no one else would.
09:52And in this life, Ren was being skinned alive to protect my name.
09:56I needed to move.
09:57Fast.
10:01A maid came running down the hall.
10:03Luna!
10:04The Omega passed out.
10:06The guards want to know if they should keep going.
10:07What did Alpha say?
10:09Alpha is with Miss Viviana.
10:11In his room.
10:12There.
10:13In bed.
10:15He gave no order to stop.
10:16Of course he didn't.
10:17Damien was going to let them beat Ren to death.
10:20And Vivian?
10:21That rotten bitch wanted Ren buried for good.
10:23Anyone who knew what she really was had to disappear.
10:25I turned on my heel and started toward the dungeon.
10:28Laia.
10:29Where exactly are you going?
10:31Vivian stood there.
10:33Her hair was must.
10:34Fresh bite marks bloomed across her neck.
10:36Her whole body reeked of sex.
10:38Of sweat.
10:39Of Damien.
10:40Two warriors stood behind her like guard dogs.
10:42If you go to the dungeon now,
10:44those ugly little rumors from dinner stop being rumors.
10:47Everyone will know.
10:48You were sneaking around with a filthy Omega behind Alpha's back.
10:52I stopped.
10:53Looked at her.
10:54Then I laughed.
10:55Not soft.
10:56Not graceful.
10:57A sharp, ugly laugh that made her blink.
11:02You're absolutely right, Vivian.
11:05If they hacked him to pieces,
11:07he still wouldn't be worth dirtying my shoe.
11:09My gaze dropped to her hand.
11:10To the one clenched tight around that pendant.
11:12That little piece of trash.
11:14Didn't you want me to wear it?
11:18Greed flashed through them so fast she forgot to hide it.
11:21She opened her palm.
11:22There it was.
11:23The bonewood wolf head.
11:24You're finally going to wear it?
11:26I reached out and snatched it from her hand.
11:28Then I let out one slow breath, like I was finally giving in.
11:31Tomorrow is the anniversary of my mother's passing.
11:34I have to pray at the moon temple.
11:35I looked straight into her eyes.
11:37If you're truly sincere, you can come with me.
11:40And under the moon goddess's gaze, you can place it around my neck yourself.
11:46Suspicion flickered across her face.
11:48Then it drowned under naked delight.
11:50She thought she'd cornered me.
11:52Thought I'd folded.
11:53Of course.
11:54Smiling wide.
11:55I'll go with you.
11:56That smile.
11:56It was the exact same smile she wore in my last life after she ruined me.
12:00I gave one cold nod and turned away.
12:03Not going to see your little lover in the dungeon?
12:06To hell with the dungeon.
12:07I shot back without turning.
12:09Because by then, Ren was already unconscious.
12:11And if I ran there now, I still couldn't save Ren.
12:14Worse.
12:15If I begged, Damien would hear guilt in it.
12:17That was exactly the trap she wanted.
12:19But I had a better move.
12:21I went straight back to my room.
12:23Wrote a letter.
12:25Fast.
12:25Then I summoned the one warrior I trusted most.
12:28And sent him writing for the central territory in secret.
12:31High Luna might not care whether some lowborn omega lived or died.
12:34But her pride?
12:35That old woman worshipped her own authority.
12:37A messenger she had sent being whipped half to death on our land?
12:40That insult would reach her before dawn.
12:42And she would not let it slide.
12:46The next morning, we arrived at the moon temple.
12:48I stood before the altar and made my offering.
12:52Vivian clung to my shadow the whole way.
12:55Twice she leaned in to mention the pendant.
12:57What are you so jumpy for?
12:59She clenched her jaw.
13:01Swallowed her temper.
13:03Followed me into the trees.
13:05We hardly ever come here.
13:07Walk with me through the pine grove.
13:09Laya, what is there to even look at in this miserable forest?
13:14Stop wasting time.
13:16I'll put the pendant on you right now.
13:21I stared at her.
13:23At that hungry, desperate face.
13:25I almost smiled.
13:32What are you in such a rush for?
13:34In a rush to dig your own grave?
13:36Before she could answer,
13:38a young priest came hurrying toward us.
13:40Luna!
13:44The elder is waiting in the inner chamber.
13:49You stay here.
13:51I'll be back.
13:52Her hand shot out and grabbed my skirt so hard her nails dug into the fabric.
13:55Lyra,
13:57I'm coming with you.
13:58I slapped her hand away.
14:00The elder invited me.
14:02Not you.
14:03So know your place.
14:05And settle down.
14:09When I come back out,
14:10I'll let you put the pendant on me myself.
14:12Vivian bit down on her lower lip.
14:15Hard.
14:15But she let go.
14:17I walked straight into the temple.
14:20Ren was already there.
14:21His body was covered in lash marks.
14:23Blood had dried stiff across his clothes.
14:25But he was alive.
14:33Thank you for saving me, Luna.
14:35Ren said hoarsely,
14:36trying to kneel.
14:37I sat across from him.
14:38If you hadn't sent word to High Luna last night,
14:40they'd have beaten me into a pump.
14:45Wyn,
14:46listen carefully.
14:49Do you want to leave this back?
14:54Do you want to leave that body behind for good?
14:56He stared at me.
14:57I reached into my pocket and placed a pendant on the table between us.
15:01A bone wood wolf head.
15:03At a glance,
15:04it was identical to Vivian's pendant.
15:09In my last life,
15:11right before I died in that cell,
15:12Ren held my ruined body and cried.
15:14He told me what he wanted more than anything.
15:17He hated what the pack saw when they looked at him.
15:19Hated the cursed body he had been trapped in.
15:21He wanted to be a woman.
15:23A whole one.
15:24He wanted to leave this violent place.
15:26And live somewhere wide.
15:27Somewhere free.
15:28This is a replica.
15:29The real pendant casts the curse.
15:31But this one,
15:32this one intercepts it.
15:34It redirects the rot.
15:35That is how Vivian takes your cursed body.
15:38And leaves you hers.
15:40I had it carved overnight.
15:41Ren's breathing cot.
15:43If you wear this,
15:44you'll trade bodies with Vivian.
15:46I held his gaze.
15:48You'll take her fate.
15:50And she'll be trapped in yours.
15:52Ren inhaled sharply.
15:54His eyes flooded red.
15:56Thank you, Luna.
15:57Tears spilled before he could stop them.
15:59You're the first person in this world
16:03who didn't laugh at what I wanted.
16:05I looked into his eyes.
16:07And I knew.
16:08That same fierce grief.
16:10That same terrible clarity.
16:12Ren remembered.
16:13He had come back too.
16:23Swallow this.
16:27It'll shield you.
16:28When the switch happens,
16:30Viviana's rot won't cross into you.
16:32I wiped the mud and tears from his cheek.
16:36From tomorrow on,
16:37you won't be trapped anymore.
16:39You'll have a woman's body.
16:40And a new life.
16:42Ren closed his fingers tight around the pill.
16:44I pushed open the chamber door
16:45and walked back outside.
16:47Vivian was pacing the pine grove
16:48like a rat cornered on a hot roof.
16:50The second she saw me,
16:51she rushed over.
16:53What took so long?
16:55What were you doing in there?
16:56I curled my mouth into a perfect smile.
16:59Then I reached into my pocket
17:00and pulled out the real pendant.
17:02The cursed one.
17:04The wicked one.
17:11Sorry to keep you waiting, Vivian.
17:13I held it out to her.
17:14Watched greed flood her eyes.
17:20The rough edge of the bonewood pendant brushed my throat.
17:23A sharp sting kissed my skin.
17:26Vivian stood on tiptoe in front of me.
17:28The triumph in her eyes was impossible to hide.
17:31I touched the little wolf head resting against my collarbone.
17:36How thoughtful of you, Vivian.
17:39It looks beautiful on you, Luna.
17:41I'm sure it will keep you and Alpha strong.
17:45Forever.
17:46The second the word left her mouth,
17:48her face changed.
17:49Why does it hurt all of a sudden?
17:52Of course it hurt.
17:54That was exactly how it had begun for me in my last life.
17:57First, the strength bled out of my limbs.
17:59Then came the deep,
18:01twisting pain low in my stomach.
18:03And after that,
18:04the rot,
18:05the disease that had once nested in her original body,
18:08had already started crawling in the opposite direction.
18:11Only this time,
18:12I had done more than turn the curse back on her.
18:14I had sharpened it.
18:16I had forced it to bloom faster.
18:18Vivian's face turned whiter and whiter.
18:21Cold sweat plurled across her forehead.
18:22I don't feel right.
18:24Let's go back to the estate first.
18:25I put on a look of concern
18:26and quickly reached out to study her.
18:28Don't panic.
18:29Maybe you're just overtired from the walk.
18:31Sit down a moment.
18:32No, no.
18:36I need to go back.
18:37I need Damien.
18:38The next second,
18:39Vivian let out a thin,
18:41tearing scream
18:42and collapsed heavily to the ground
18:44like a dead weight.
18:45I didn't move to catch her.
18:47Ren stepped out from the hidden chamber,
18:49wearing Vivian's face.
18:50Her skin was pale.
18:53How do you feel?
18:54I think I'm taller.
18:57A laugh slipped out of me.
18:59Poor thing.
19:00She had gone from a frail,
19:02undersized Omega at the bottom of the pack
19:04to Vivian's tall, lush frame.
19:05Of course the ground felt different under her feet.
19:08Ren looked down at her hands,
19:10then touched her own face
19:12and went still.
19:13She looked at me,
19:14her eyes reddened by degrees.
19:16Anything else?
19:17Luna, I...
19:21In my last life,
19:22her only wish had been to escape
19:24that cursed Omega body.
19:25That body the pack mocked,
19:27used,
19:27and spat on,
19:28and become a woman
19:29the world wouldn't punish for existing.
19:31Now,
19:32she had it.
19:34Ren lowered her eyes
19:35to Vivian's unconscious body
19:37on the ground.
19:38For now,
19:38it still wore Vivian's face,
19:40but not for long.
19:41Soon that skin would split with sores.
19:43Yellow pus would seep through it,
19:45and the body would begin to stink
19:46with that same sweet,
19:49rotten foulness
19:50that had once soaked my sheets
19:51in my blood.
19:52Footsteps sounded through the pine grove
19:54outside the temple.
19:55Miss Vivian?
19:56Where are you?
19:58Vivian's two beta escorts
19:59were looking for her.
20:00I helped Ren to her feet
20:02and sent her out
20:03through the back passage first.
20:11I brushed the hair away
20:13from her face.
20:14My touch was gentle,
20:15careful,
20:16almost sisterly,
20:18softly.
20:20Wake up.
20:21We need to go back.
20:23She opened her eyes slowly.
20:25The moment she saw me,
20:27confusion crossed her face.
20:28Then came terror,
20:30raw,
20:30immediate.
20:32You,
20:33what did you do to me?
20:34I helped her sit up.
20:36What?
20:37What are you talking about?
20:38You fainted all of a sudden.
20:40You scared me half to death.
20:43Come on,
20:43let's get you back to Thornwood.
20:45I'll have the pack healers
20:46look at you properly.
20:46Vivian tried to wrench herself free,
20:48only to realize her arms and legs
20:50had gone weak as water.
20:51The nails were yellowing,
20:52the skin was stretching,
20:53pulling tight over bones
20:54that no longer felt like her own.
20:56She didn't know it yet,
20:57but her nightmare had just started.
20:58I supported her as we walked out.
21:00Behind us,
21:01birds called through the pine grove.
21:03I glanced back once at the hidden chamber.
21:06For a second,
21:07I thought I saw a shadow flicker
21:09behind the temple glass.
21:10Ren was finally free.
21:12And Vivian?
21:13She had just stepped into her own grave.
21:19Back at Thornwood,
21:20I started to play sick.
21:21First came exhaustion.
21:23Bone deep.
21:24I stayed in bed all day
21:25and let my body go slack beneath the sheets.
21:28Then came the pain.
21:29I started clutching low at my belly,
21:31crying out at the right moments,
21:33breathing like every inch of me was failing.
21:35It was almost identical to my last life.
21:38I sent a maid for the pack healer.
21:40He examined me for a long time,
21:42checked my eyes,
21:44felt my pulse,
21:45asked question after question.
21:47In the end,
21:48he gave me nothing.
21:50Stress.
21:51She needs rest.
21:52There was no curse in me now.
21:53No rot.
21:54Just the act.
21:55Vivian came to my room again and again.
21:58Every visit followed the same script.
22:00Her tone said concern.
22:02Her face said victory,
22:03she said,
22:04towering over me.
22:05Oh, Lyra.
22:06You were perfectly fine
22:07when we came back from the moon temple.
22:09What happened?
22:10I gave her a weak little smile.
22:12Maybe I overdid it.
22:14I don't have any strength left.
22:16She let out a fake, tender sigh.
22:18Then rest.
22:19I'll watch over pack matters.
22:21You don't need to worry about a thing.
22:22I'll carry it all for you.
22:24I nodded,
22:25closed my eyes,
22:26and listened to her heels click away across my floor.
22:29I stared up at the canopy and let out a cold little laugh.
22:34She really thought she had one.
22:36She thought a few more days would finish it.
22:38That my lower body would rot like it had last time.
22:41That the smell would come.
22:42That Damien would throw me into the back cell.
22:45That I'd die alone.
22:46And she thought she'd keep the healthy body.
22:48Thought she would spend every night spread beneath Damien.
22:51Take his hands.
22:52His teeth.
22:53His weight.
22:54Wear my rank while I rotted in the dark.
22:56She still thought she had one.
22:58I wasn't the one who had traded bodies with her.
23:01The days passed.
23:02I kept getting weaker.
23:04Sleepier.
23:05More fragile.
23:06Damien never came.
23:08Not once.
23:09He did not cross my threshold.
23:11Did not ask after me.
23:13Did not even pretend.
23:16Vivian, on the other hand, came more and more often.
23:20And each time, she got bolder.
23:22She tugged down her neckline without shame.
23:24Showed me the bruises at her throat.
23:26The bite marks along her collarbone.
23:29Damien was brutal last night.
23:31He pinned me to the wall.
23:33Took me from behind so hard I couldn't breathe.
23:36She fed me every filthy detail on purpose.
23:39She thought it would break me.
23:40Thought I'd cry.
23:41Or rage.
23:42She was wrong.
23:43So wrong it almost made me pity her.
23:45After betrayal.
23:47After death.
23:48After waking up a second time.
23:50I felt nothing for Damien.
23:52My heart had died in that stinking cell.
23:54It died while rats chewed my fingers and I begged for water no one brought.
23:57Whatever love I once had for him, I had torn it out myself.
24:00Stamped it flat.
24:02Left it there to rot.
24:03His muscles.
24:04His strength.
24:06That alpha pressure everyone else worshipped.
24:08Now.
24:09It turned my stomach.
24:13One afternoon, Vivian went even further.
24:15She drifted to my vanity as if she owned the room.
24:18Then lifted the sapphire necklace from its velvet stand and held it to her throat.
24:22My necklace.
24:23The previous Luna's necklace.
24:25A symbol of rank.
24:26Of inheritance.
24:27Of authority.
24:28Lila.
24:29This is gorgeous.
24:31Why don't you lend it to me for a few days?
24:34You're stuck in bed anyway.
24:36You can't wear it.
24:37I looked at her face.
24:39That smug mouth.
24:40That glittering greed.
24:41Then I put on the expression she wanted to see.
24:44Humiliation.
24:45Resignation.
24:46If you like it, keep it.
24:48She actually paused.
24:50She turned left.
24:51Then right.
24:52Admiring the way the sapphire burned against her skin.
24:55Satisfied beyond words.
24:57I didn't bother looking at her again.
24:59By the seventh day, I made sure I could no longer stand from bed.
25:04Anna was frantic.
25:06Brought in one doctor after another.
25:09Three pack healers.
25:10None of them could say what was wrong with me.
25:12I only told Anna to brew calming herbs.
25:15After I drank them, I let myself sink into a heavy, false sleep.
25:19And inside that sleep.
25:20Blood.
25:21The cell.
25:22The smell.
25:23My ruined body from my last life.
25:25That afternoon.
25:27I lay there with my eyes closed when the heavy bedroom door swung open.
25:30Vivian entered first.
25:31My sapphire necklace blazed against her throat.
25:35Her face was caked in powder.
25:36But even through all that makeup.
25:38I could still see the dark half moons under her eyes.
25:41Damien walked in behind her.
25:43His broad frame blocked the light from the doorway.
25:46He scanned the room once.
25:47Then his eyes landed on me.
25:49And stopped.
25:50The disgust on his face wasn't even hidden.
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