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Reborn as My Ex's Stepmom EPS
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00:01no please forgive me mom and dad i don't know i'm reborn this time i'll make this too bastard call
00:09me mommy in my last life vivian had no patience for her husband's needs while pregnant so she
00:16found her husband a mistress herself 30 maids knelt in the front of the grand entrance each
00:22balancing a crystal bowl on their head inside each bowl coiled a small snake move even a fraction
00:29and it drops down your collar my knees ached against the cold stone one snake slithered over
00:36the rim and into my sleeve i bit my lip bloody and didn't flinch one by one the others gave
00:42up
00:43i didn't i was the last one standing that night they sent me to ethan's room a few months later
00:50vivian delivered twins a boy and a girl i was two months pregnant myself
00:58ethan i have a good news
01:01the assistant shoved me into the swimming pool i struggled under the surface vivian has been
01:07nothing but devoted to me i'm not letting some whore use a pregnancy to climb her way up
01:11the assistant held me under until i stopped moving after that the two of them remained
01:16the picture of a perfect couple everyone admired them no one asked about me or the child i was carrying
01:24then i opened my eyes i was back before any of it happened this time i would rewrite everything
01:33i knew his father marcus hargrove the ceo had been alone since his wife died years ago
01:40no girlfriend no mistress in his private residence i would find a way to get out security once i was
01:48his not even ethan and vivian could touch me by then i was afraid they'll all start calling me mom
01:58mr marcus will be back tomorrow that's great i'll tell ethan right away
02:06marcus was ethan's adoptive father his father died on an overseas deal gone wrong
02:13his mother didn't survive the grief ethan was only a child marcus took him in gave him a home and
02:21a title
02:21within the company raised him as his own but marcus had never named ethan as his formal successor
02:28vivian was already instructing her personal maid sophie to help her prepare to welcome marcus home
02:35once you give him a grandson he'll finally get ethan named official heir you'll be a billionaire's
02:40wife untouchable i said nothing i'm afraid she was going to be disappointed in my past life
02:47marcus had gone straight to a dinner with the business partners the night he returned
02:52vivian waited all evening for nothing this time was going to be different but the outcome for her
02:59would be the same i spent the rest of the day quietly i had been saving for three years i
03:06used
03:06every bit of it to find out which route marcus's car would take back to the estate after dark i
03:12stood
03:12in the corridor he would pass through wearing the thinnest blouse i owned when a draft came through
03:18i shivered my nerve was failing me marcus hargrove had turned down women from every level of society
03:25there were rumors women had staged encounters before all of them were let go and they would
03:32probably never find a job in their lifetime marcus i honestly didn't know what my chances of success
03:39are but i had to do this no other choice i heard footsteps he came around the corner and the
03:46moonlight
03:47caught him mid-30s i let myself stumble i fell against his chest he was solid it hurt i made
03:55a small
03:56involuntary sound and my eyes watered he looked down at me who are you
04:04who are you let go of me my blouse was already thin the struggle made it worse
04:12brave girl think you can play me i was built for seducing i had spent months with ethan in my
04:20past
04:20life i knew exactly what men responded to i had downed two glasses of plum wine before coming i let
04:27the
04:27wine do its work let the fear look like desire turned three parts drunk into something that looked
04:33like seven he didn't take me back to his room he took me somewhere smaller a guest suite on the
04:39far
04:40side of the estate i didn't sleep until almost dawn i slipped out before he woke and went straight to
04:47vivian's wing to begin my morning duties ethan had stayed the night the two of them were still in bed
04:53when i arrived laughing softly since her pregnancy he had barely visited something had shifted between
05:00them overnight i noticed it immediately the way ethan looked at me had changed hotter more urgent when i
05:08helped him with his jacket he caught my hand for just a moment he smiled at me it meant nothing
05:14good
05:15vivian watched from across the room her fingers tightening around a handkerchief mr marcus is coming back
05:22you carry a bowl of hot soup to him with me the bowl was crystal part of a set marcus
05:28had been
05:28gifted by his friend if i dropped it no salary in the world would cover the cost the handle was
05:34burning
05:35but i didn't show it on my face halfway down the hall sophie turned on me look at you walking
05:41around
05:42like that your blouse is practically indecent you think we don't see what you're doing you know
05:48believe in here vivian told her to stop gently sweetly with a freak smile sophie's right to correct
05:56me i'm grateful for it vivian's smile deepened sophie kept muttering a wave of it hit the back of my
06:04hand
06:05i stood completely still while my skin went red and then white i did not put the bowl down when
06:13we
06:13reached marcus's wing there were security staff stationed outside any progress finding her before
06:21anyone could answer mrs hargreth right this way i hadn't expected marcus to still be home in my past
06:30life he had left early that morning i kept my eyes down and followed vivian inside the moment i crossed
06:37the threshold i felt it a heavy focused gaze targeted i placed the bowl on the table and began to
06:44step back
06:45stop marcus was staring at me expression unreadable eyes steady i had left before he woke up he hadn't
06:55asked my name that night and i hadn't told him who i really was mr hargreth i'm so sorry what
07:07is this
07:07about is something wrong marcus marcus marcus stood he walked toward me slowly he stopped in front of me
07:14and said in front of everyone so it's you it's nothing look at her hand she'd take a burn
07:25sophie stared after me with pure hate vivian's expression was composed but her eyes were cold
07:32once my hand was wrapped i followed vivian back to her wing without a word from anyone that night sophie
07:39hit me again you are nothing marcus had said he would have had you removed from the estate if not
07:46for vivian's presence i was heartbroken he wasn't going to keep me i had failed was i really going to
07:55end up in ethan's bed after all this sophie made me kneel for two hours it was vivian who eventually
08:03stopped her concerned that obvious marks would make ethan think poorly of her management she even
08:09had sophie apply something to the swelling on my face and hand by evening my face had cleared up
08:16ethan arrived for dinner i served alongside sophie while vivian and ethan ate dinner ethan's eyes kept
08:23finding me across the table the hunger in them turned my stomach vivian smiled throughout the meal
08:30sophie glared at me every time ethan looked my way ethan set down his tableware and took vivian's hand
08:39what more could a man want with a wife like this i watched the two of them perform their devotion
08:45and felt nothing but cold clarity in my past life i had mistaken that warmth for real i had thought
08:53vivian genuinely liked me i had thought her graciousness was protection the smile she wore
08:58tonight was the same one she wore when she watched me carry that burning bowl it was the same one
09:04she
09:04wore at the bottom of the pool ethan grew restless after about 15 minutes his eyes drifted back to me
09:11that
09:12look urgent and adhesive vivian noticed
09:18i wasn't feeling well tonight but i had made sure the guest suite next door was prepared for you darling
09:27oh you are always so thoughtful lily show ethan to the suite i walked out ahead of ethan moving toward
09:37the east wing we were almost at the door when he lunged forward and pulled me hard against him
09:43i went rigid what are you doing let go vivian gave you to me you're mine tonight stop fighting i
09:55shouted
09:56the only thing i could think of no way i already belong to marcus harger the guest suite and vivian's
10:05room shared a courtyard down carried vivian had not expected ethan to make a move on me before even
10:12getting inside she was already irritated she heard what i said
10:19i hate messes she came out moments later with sophie behind her ethan went still he released me
10:35ethan's expression shifted to something dangerous he looked at vivian vivian had not expected this either
10:42the gracious composure she maintained so carefully was visibly straining what on earth you are saying
10:50how dare you spout such nonsense sophie jumped in immediately she told ethan about that morning
10:55how i had apparently thrown myself at marcus and been disciplined for it
11:03mr ethan you have no idea this grasping maid has no shame just this morning she actually threw
11:10herself at mr marcus she tried to seduce him and was heavily disciplined for her disgusting behavior
11:15with sophie's version of events on the table the story wrote itself neatly vivian was the gracious
11:21wife i was the grasping maid who had already tried to seduce the ceo and failed then tried to lie
11:28my
11:28way out of being handed to ethan ethan wasn't marcus's biological son marcus had never formally named him
11:35successor in the company charter in my past life after i died he and vivian had sat in their room
11:42and talked about getting rid of marcus entirely they resented him they called him ungrateful they
11:48called him a man with no loyalty who expected theirs and something dark rose in him he hit me across
11:56the
11:56face i hit the floor he told his staff to tie me up and lock me in the room the
12:02staff moved toward me
12:03i looked at sophie's smirk i looked at the ice behind vivian's smile in my last life i went quietly
12:10not
12:11this time please talk to him vivian you love him you didn't want ethan near other women so you tried
12:19to use me to manage it you sent me to marcus because you saw that he'd already noticed me you
12:24got jealous
12:24you wanted me gone but i know the truth i am already his now i belong to marcus vivian's face
12:32went white
12:33she started to speak by then mr hayes appeared at the gate
12:40i had come on marcus instruction he was there to collect lily i exhaled and let myself go soft my
12:50legs barely held me i kept my head down to hide how relieved i was i had gambled everything on
12:57one move
12:58and it had paid off the night before had been worth every sleepless hour the staff member who had
13:05bandaged my hand that morning was hannah mr hayes's daughter i had let something slip to her casually
13:11while she worked just enough the right words by evening mr hayes knew that vivian had planned to
13:18pass me to ethan as a personal arrangement as i walked out vivian looked at me one last time
13:23you really are lucky lily i owe it all to you mrs hargrove
13:31sophie sat on the ground the venom on her face was almost satisfying i moved into marcus's wing of the
13:37estate that evening hannah was assigned to look after me marcus had left on urgent business and
13:43would be gone for several days i had the quiet to myself i used it i learned his kitchen i
13:49practiced
13:49the dishes he reportedly liked going through three failed attempts at a black truffle broth before
13:55getting it right i read everything i could find about him not the press profiles the patterns what he
14:01valued what he ignored when he returned i brought soup to his private office he looked at the bowl
14:08and then at me he drank it without speaking are you bored here lily when i wasn't cooking
14:13i spent my time counting down the days until you came back i had also been reading
14:25your cooking has improved i have always admired you sir the chance to take care of you personally
14:32it feels like something i've spent years working toward without even knowing it
14:38every bowl of soup i make for you feels like a privilege he looked at me for a moment then
14:44he picked
14:44me up and carried me to the inner room his heart was steady under my ear his arms were very
14:52solid
14:53i closed my eyes that night was not gentle the next morning i spent the entire day in bed
15:02marcus was not a man who cared much about romance he didn't keep women he didn't pursue them he came
15:09home from deals that would have destroyed lesser men now that he had discovered there was something worth
15:14coming back to him he came back more often but i was still just a household companion unofficial
15:20known within the estate not acknowledged outside it there were others who tried to replicate what i
15:26had done word gets around in a place like this two women staged their own encounters marcus had them
15:32both escorted out with their ndas and their luggage the same day two months passed the east wing where
15:39ethan and vivian lived was getting louder the performance of a happy marriage had collapsed
15:45marcus's indifference to naming ethan as his official successor had always been a source of bitterness
15:51now the bitterness had company sophie found out she was pregnant before i did in this life she told
15:58vivian immediately still loyal even after everything it was the last loyal thing she ever did vivian gave her
16:05something in the water sophie lost the baby and nearly her life in the same afternoon by evening
16:12vivian had her removed from the estate even an elevated mistress is still staff a principal's wife
16:19can terminate a contract for cause
16:25ethan came home to an empty room and a signed removal notice he had a screaming fight with vivian
16:31vivian went into early distress and almost lost the pregnancy after that ethan started bringing other
16:38women into the estate one after another he stopped trying to keep it subtle two months after i arrived
16:45my private doctor confirmed i was pregnant marcus didn't care much about an heir but he acknowledged
16:51it he gave me a formal household title an allowance and a suite of my own if i carried this
16:58to term
16:59ethan would no longer be marcus's only child in the household if it was a boy even a child without
17:05a
17:06formal succession claim it changed the math entirely a blood air however informal standing next to an
17:13adopted vp ethan went to vivian's room that night they fought he hit her she went into distress again
17:21and spent the next week in bed recovering once she was on her feet she came to see me she
17:26was thinner
17:27her face was powdered heavily and it still wasn't enough she smiled the whole time she told me she
17:34had always known i was lucky i smiled back and said i owed it all to her she had one
17:39of her staff bring
17:40in a gift bag designer items supplements a bracelet cream colored resin set in gold described as a calming
17:48piece something to wear close to the skin she didn't stay long her eyes kept going to my stomach
17:54after she left i told hannah to throw everything out i had seen that bracelet before in my past
18:01life vivian gave it to me when i became ethan's companion i wore it for months it was only after
18:07it broke that i was able to conceive later i understood what it was the resin had been soaked
18:13in a compound that interfered with pregnancy worn consistently it prevented conception in someone
18:19already pregnant it could cause a loss she had come here to finish what the fight couldn't i threw it
18:25all away the supplements too my pregnancy continued without incident five months in vivian went into
18:33labor one of ethan's newer companions a woman he had brought in from a club with no understanding of
18:40how households like this operated started a conflict with vivian in the corridor the stress sent vivian into
18:47early labor she was in the delivery suite for a day and a night she came out with a daughter
18:54the boy did
18:55not survive vivian collapsed she was taken to her room and didn't come out again ethan did not visit
19:03when i was five months along my doctor told marcus he believed the baby was a boy marcus was pleased
19:10in
19:11the restrained way he was pleased by most things he was not a man who had spent years dreaming about
19:17fatherhood he pulled my hand into his and said that if it was a boy he didn't want me raising
19:23him soft he wanted a son who could handle real pressure real stakes the kind ethan had never been willing
19:32to face if my son grew up to be even a fraction of what marcus was i told him i
19:38would consider my life
19:40well spent marcus laughed then he got quiet for a moment you should know that i had no
19:47intention of naming any child mine as my formal successor in the company charter
19:52the position had too much visibility too much danger everyone who had ever been near that designation
19:59had spent their lives as a target he would not do that to a child i sat with that for
20:06a moment in my
20:07past life that was the reason not cruelty not indifference to ethan i understood i would follow
20:15your lead he looked at my stomach and said i would give the boy everything i could teach him
20:21what the boy did with it was his own affair he wouldn't be writing his father's name
20:30i pressed my hand over his and agreed some people could not accept this the next day ethan came to
20:37marcus's office i was bringing soup i heard them through the door before i could knock
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