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Revenge The Witch He Buried ENGSUB Reborn Witch Returns
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00:14I died on our third wedding anniversary. He had a dinner reservation at Ciel d'Ore. Yasmin, his adopted sister,
00:25his real choice, was already waiting at the table.
00:29Steak, red wine, candlelight, while I was dying in the dark. My name is Rowan. I am the only true
00:38witch alive. For three years, I spoke to the dead and carried their final words back to the living. I
00:47used that gift to hand Grayson Ashford a billion-dollar empire, séance by séance, sacrifice by sacrifice.
00:57He said he was grateful.
01:02During my final séance, he moved my tool. He reversed my blue crystal wand, the anchor my mentor spent six
01:09months making, the one she pressed into my hands the morning of my first séance.
01:15This wand will always bring you home, little one, no matter how deep the dark pulls you.
01:20With the wand reversed, my soul couldn't find a way back. The underworld swallowed me. And Grayson burned my sanctuary
01:29to the ground. My mentor died in that fire.
01:33In the underworld, the death guardians beat my soul 99 times with a soul-breaking staff. By the last strike,
01:41there was nothing left of me. Each one had his voice in it.
01:46What sacred coven? I see nothing but a den of frauds. You're a true witch. Surely you can find your
01:53own way home.
01:54But some things refused to stay dead. Back. All the way to the very first day.
02:06Grayson didn't waste time.
02:10The crack echoed off the buildings. Three seconds of silence. Then every phone on the block came up.
02:17Money. Don't you dare dream of marrying into this family. Don't you dare touch money that isn't yours.
02:23Yasmin hanging from his arm. Wide eyes. One hand pressed to her mouth. The performance of a woman surprised by
02:31something she arranged.
02:32Without her tools, she's nothing. Just a fraud with a pretty face. The door behind me exploded open. Men poured
02:39in. My altar overturned.
02:42The sealed jars my mentor spent 30 years filling smashed against the floor. Then the sound that stopped my blood
02:49cold.
02:50A high, sharp crack. Crystal on stone. My blue crystal wand. The last thing she ever made me.
02:57Grayson crouched over the pieces. Picked up the largest shard. Turned it in his fingers. Then slid it into his
03:05breast pocket. Like a trophy.
03:09I dropped to my knees. Reached for the pieces. A polished shoe came down on my fingers. His shoe. Slow.
03:18Deliberate.
03:19He leaned his weight into it. Degree by degree. He wanted me to feel every second. Four fingers. One clean
03:27crack.
03:28He scooped Yasmin into his arms and lifted her away from the blood on the floor.
03:32New dress. Don't let the trash stain it.
03:36I did not scream. I did not cry. Through four broken fingers and the blue dust of everything my mentor
03:43made me, I looked up at Grayson.
03:46You should burn incense for your grandfather tonight, Mr. Ashfield.
03:50The spirit guides have reached death's threshold. His soul will scatter. Very soon.
03:56His face went white. Good.
04:00Boots and fists came from every direction. It hurt.
04:04I'd already survived 99 soul-breaking strikes in the underworld.
04:08These men were nothing.
04:12A man stepped through the doorway. Not rushing. Walking.
04:16The walk of someone who has never needed to run to make a room obey.
04:21His eyes swept the space and found me immediately.
04:25The way Sebastian Stone looked at me was not pity.
04:28It was something steadier. The kind that takes years to build.
04:32He crossed to Grayson. Took the pointing finger. Bent it backward. Clean. No hesitation.
04:40Grayson's scream split the air. Sebastian knelt on the floor beside me.
04:45He helped me stand. His hand closed around mine.
04:49And his fingers touched the blue crystal dust still caught in my cuts.
04:53He looked at it. Then at me.
04:57Who made this wand?
04:58I didn't answer. He already knew it mattered.
05:04Miss Rowan. Are you alright?
05:07Grayson, cradling his broken finger, sneered.
05:10Bastion didn't turn. He bowed toward me. Slow. Deliberate.
05:15The bow of someone who has made a decision.
05:18My grandfather died. My family is in chaos.
05:25Miss Rowan. For Rowan. I'm asking you. Please.
05:32Sebastian. I agreed. Two steps toward the door. Yasmin's hand shot out.
05:38Her nails found my wrist above the broken fingers, landing on the bruise like she'd measured for it.
05:44Right at this angel.
05:45One bet, Rowan.
05:47Spirit realm. First back with the real will will wins.
05:52Loser cow couldows a hundred times before both families. And quit senesis. Forever.
05:57She glanced at Sebastian. At my broken fingers. At the blue dust on the floor. And her voice dropped half
06:04a note. Warm. Rehearsed.
06:07Of course. If Miss Rowan and I isn't feeling well, there's no shame in saying so now. Better to admit
06:14it here than embarrass herself in front of everyone.
06:17She didn't offer me a way out. She offered Sebastian a reason to doubt me.
06:23Thirty million dollars. I bet Yasmin loses.
06:27The laughter died.
06:30Grayson stepped in front of Yasmin and looked me up and down. Slowly, like I was something he'd found stuck
06:36to the bottom of his shoe.
06:39Can you even afford the bet? Or will you be taking out loans?
06:44The live stream hit twenty thousand. I let them laugh. Every second was footage that would outlive Grayson's fortune.
06:53Sebastian moved. One step forward. That was all. The laughter stopped. Sebastian.
06:59Eighty million. Every cent I have. I'm backing Miss Rowan.
07:05The counter hit fifty thousand. He turned and looked at me. One brief glance. Quiet, steady, asking nothing.
07:14All my stone shares. Everything I own.
07:20Shall we go, Miss Rowan?
07:23I signed the contract. The live stream hit fifty thousand. Comments scrolled. She's done. Pay up.
07:30Can't look away. He thought I was walking into a trap. He'd built the trap himself.
07:39The crematorium was cold enough to see your breath. Even in summer. I walked to Mr. Stone's body. Touched his
07:46still warm hand. Bowed. Full formal respect. Every angle correct.
07:53I placed my spare blue crystal wand beside his feet. One end forward. One end back. Life. And death. Aligned.
08:02Last time. Grayson reversed it. Not this time. I turned to Sebastian. He was already watching.
08:07The wand is my guide home. No one touches it.
08:11He nodded once. He nodded once. I believed him. I closed my eyes. And fell.
08:20Cold. Total. The underworld took me like a fist. Wind from every direction. The scent of crimson flowers. Thick. Sweet.
08:31Wrong.
08:31Two shapes. One black. One white. The death guardians. I bowed. Deep. Formal. Every movement exact.
08:41I am the ninety-fourth great generation witch of the Blackwood family. The soul Michael Stone has unresolved ties to
08:49the living world.
08:50They examined my charter. Something shifted in their faces. Then chains erupted from the void. Tight. Burning cold. Rapping before
08:59I could move.
09:01Death energy scorched my skin. I looked down. Cracks spreading up both arms. Porcelain breaking from the inside out.
09:11Death guardians. I knew that staff.
09:14Forged documentation. Illegal entry. Ninety-nine strikes with the soul-breaking staff.
09:21I had died from it once already. Terror shut down language for one full second. Then, through it, one clear
09:29thought.
09:31Her charter never failed. Not once in forty years. If the document has a problem, the problem is not the
09:39document.
09:40Someone switched it. I yanked my head off and screamed into the dark, going,
09:44I know. I know who did this. And I can prove it.
09:48In the silence after my scream, I heard breathing. Behind me. Shallow. Afraid.
09:55I turned my head as far as the chains allowed. There. Crouched between the crimson flowers. Pressed flat against the
10:03dark.
10:04Yasmin.
10:06She had followed me in. Without authorization. Without merit. And the death guardians had already turned toward her.
10:17Someone switched my charter. But spiritual merit is written into the soul itself. And a soul cannot be forged.
10:26The death guardian pressed two fingers to my chest. A long night. Then the chains fell. Mr. Stone was brought
10:34forward. He told me everything. Every location. Every coordinate. Every final wish.
10:40I sealed each word into memory. As I turned to leave, I saw her. Yasmin. Crouched between the crimson flowers.
10:49Pressed flat.
10:50Barely breathing. No authorization. No merit. Nothing real. The death guardian stood directly between her and everything she came for.
10:59I looked at her for one breath. Then I turned and walked toward the return path. Some lessons can only
11:07be learned in the dark.
11:13When I opened my eyes, Grayson was already celebrating. The livestream was past 100,000.
11:22Rowan. You lost. Get on the ground and transfer the money.
11:26I felt Sebastian watching me from across the room. Not anxious. Patient. Certain. I lay still. One breath. Then I
11:35sat up. Straightened my spine. Looked Grayson in the eye.
11:39Mr. Ashford. You seem to have forgotten something. My sister and I are the only living relatives of the deceased.
11:46We have every right to be here.
11:47Every head turned to Yasmin. She was staring at the floor. Hands in her lap. Completely still.
11:54Whatever she'd seen in the underworld was still on her face.
11:58Grayson grabbed her shoulder.
12:00Tell me you got the coordinates.
12:02She didn't answer. Then a calm voice filled the room.
12:06Every number. Every coordinate. Flawless.
12:10It was my voice.
12:12The livestream hit 200,000.
12:18The livestream detonated. The counter blew past 200,000.
12:23Yasmin collapsed forward, sobbing. Then she lifted her head and pointed at me.
12:27She blocked me deliberately.
12:29Grayson turned to me, jaw working.
12:32I looked at him without expression.
12:34Grayson, are you asking me seriously?
12:36Whatever she whispers you believe, you have always believed her over every shred of evidence.
12:39And now you have nothing because of that.
12:41Name your price. Any price. Just perform the Ashford seance on you.
12:44I'm begging you.
12:45Isn't this called welking on a bet, Mr. Ashford?
12:47You can't cover one tenth of what you owe.
12:48One movement. Absolute.
12:50Grayson went down on the marble.
12:51You want to talk about what I enjoyed?
12:54Enjoying watching you and Yaston at our own wedding?
12:57Enjoying being bled drow seance after seance for a family that hated me?
13:02Enjoying the underworld?
13:03Alone? While my sanctuary burned with my tenter inside it?
13:06Total silence. 200,000 viewers. Not one comment moved on the screen.
13:13Grayson's legs gave out.
13:15He went down onto his knees.
13:17On the marble.
13:18On camera.
13:20In front of everyone.
13:22I was wrong. I know that now.
13:24Please, just save the family. I'm on my knees. I'm begging you.
13:28I looked down at him.
13:30The man who burned my sanctuary.
13:32Who broke my fingers.
13:34Who took a shard of my mentor's wand and kept it in his pocket like a trophy.
13:39Who smiled while my soul was beaten to pieces.
13:42Your grandfather has crossed the final bridge.
13:44He has already been reborn.
13:46You cut off your own path, Grayson.
13:48And I won't be the one to rebuild it.
13:50I held out the contract.
13:52His hand was shaking when he signed.
13:54Every share.
13:55Every asset.
13:57Every asset.
13:57Gone.
13:58The pen on paper was the only sound in the room.
14:01When he looked up.
14:02I was already turning.
14:04I didn't look back.
14:06Not once.
14:07I heard later.
14:09After I left, Grayson sat on that marble floor for 11 minutes.
14:13200,000 people watched.
14:15Nobody moved.
14:17Then he reached into his breast pocket.
14:19Took out the blue crystal shard.
14:21And looked at it.
14:23His other hand came up slowly.
14:25And he struck himself across the face.
14:27Hard.
14:28In the silence.
14:29The sound was identical to the sound of his shoe on my fingers.
14:34The empire unraveled in real time.
14:37Shareholders pulling out before sundown.
14:41Mrs. Ashford rushed in crying.
14:46Grayson, alone in a room that used to be his.
14:51Raised his hand and slapped himself.
14:53Hard.
14:54No cameras.
14:56No audience.
14:57Just the sound of it.
15:06Grayson.
15:06I'm scared.
15:07I'm sorry.
15:08It was Rowan.
15:09He ripped the prayer beads from her wrist.
15:11Ground them underfoot.
15:12Sure.
15:13Drive the price up.
15:15We split the extra the usual way.
15:18Did you really think I learned anything real from your family?
15:21Your mother adopted me for my spiritual sight.
15:24Then had my wrists bled for blessing rituals.
15:26Over and over 20 years.
15:29While you lived clean and comfortable.
15:30After all that.
15:32Yes.
15:32I want the money.
15:33All of it.
15:34And I feel nothing about that.
15:39Yasmin escaped three days later.
15:44Posted everything.
15:45Every fraud.
15:47Every cover up.
15:48Every debt.
15:49Ashford group collapses amid fraud elations.
15:53Grayson Ashford missing.
15:55I thought that was the end.
15:59Then I stepped out of the sanctuary gate one morning.
16:06I woke to the smell of desperation.
16:13Grayson.
16:16His hand on my throat before I could move.
16:19The world went black.
16:32His hand closed around my throat.
16:34Something in the air was chemical.
16:36My arms went heavy.
16:38A drug.
16:39He thought that broken thing could call me back.
16:42One more seance.
16:43That's all.
16:44Half the Ashfield fortune.
16:46Yours.
16:47A real wedding.
16:48Only you.
16:49For the rest of my life.
16:51Just say yes.
16:52I bit through my lower lip.
16:54Pain.
16:55Clarity.
16:56Why should I die for him a second time?
16:58Why should this broken shard be the last thing I see?
17:02No.
17:05Grayson fell.
17:07His hand left my throat.
17:08Blood spread slow and dark beneath him.
17:11He looked up at me.
17:12Eyes clouding.
17:15Rowan.
17:17I'm sorry.
17:18I turned my face to the wall.
17:20Some apologies arrived too late.
17:25Then Sebastian was through the door.
17:28Face wide.
17:29He dropped beside me.
17:31Hands searching my face.
17:32My arms.
17:34Rowan.
17:34I'm here.
17:36Thank God.
17:37I let him hold me.
17:39Neither of us said anything.
17:41For a while that was enough.
17:43He came every day during recovery.
17:46Always the lunchbox.
17:48The same quiet knock.
17:51Some mornings he sat beside me without speaking.
17:54Just there.
17:55Giving me something I didn't know I needed.
17:58The memories loosened.
18:00The 99 strikes.
18:02The burning sanctuary.
18:04Still there.
18:05But smaller.
18:07Held down by the weight of now.
18:10One morning I walked to the window.
18:13Sebastian was already at the gate below.
18:16Lunchbox.
18:17Looking up.
18:19When he saw me he smiled.
18:22No performance.
18:23No calculation.
18:25A man seeing the person he chose.
18:27And his face doing what it naturally does.
18:30And I was finally choosing him back.
18:34The sun through the glass was warm.
18:36The kind you don't have to earn.
18:39Grayson never got his apology.
18:41Yasmin never got her empire.
18:44I lost everything.
18:45Twice.
18:47And ended up with more than I thought to want.
18:49Some people are built for winter.
18:52I had finally stepped into spring.
18:544th Now for me.
18:555TH
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