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00:00I was Ivy, the true-born heiress of the Thornwood pack, on the night of my initiation.
00:05I drank too much, and ended up in bed with a rogue Derek.
00:09My parents were furious.
00:10They cast us both out of the pack's lands.
00:13Only my adopted sister, Selina, came to me.
00:15If you ever need anything, come find me.
00:18I'll help you.
00:19Three years of Derek's cruelty had broken my body.
00:22I fled back to the pack.
00:24I needed Selina's help.
00:26She was the Luna now, leaning into Kale's embrace like she'd always belonged there.
00:30You never figured it out, did you?
00:33That wine at your initiation, the one I handed you, it was spiked.
00:37That's why you ended up in bed with that rogue wolf.
00:43I died on the roadside, abandoned, alone.
00:46Then I opened my eyes.
00:48It was my initiation day again, Selina.
00:51That practiced smile on her lips, she held out a goblet to me.
00:54I took the wine, my fingers closed around the cold metal.
00:58Little did she know, this time, her poisoned cup would lead me straight into the bed of
01:02the man she loved.
01:03Selina was clever.
01:04She'd smeared the heat potion right on the goblet's rim.
01:07In my first life, she'd smashed that goblet right after the toast, leaving no trace.
01:12So the first thing I did, reborn, was switch out that goblet.
01:15I made sure the drugged goblet found its way to Kale.
01:18Then, right in front of Selina, I drank her wine, while the drugged one was already in Kale's
01:22hand.
01:23I was waiting in the castle gardens, on the path he always took.
01:27And sure enough, he stumbled right into me, breath ragged.
01:31Cheeks flushed.
01:32The same desperate heat I'd felt in my first life.
01:35Now burning through him, I guided him into a secluded side chamber.
01:39He roughly shoved me onto the bed.
01:41Selina.
01:42My sister's name, on his lips, as he pressed me down.
01:45I bit back.
01:46My fangs finding his alpha gland, pulling the heat from his blood.
01:49The heat potion bled from him through the wound into me.
01:52I met Kale's eyes and pressed my lips to his.
01:54Kale woke.
01:55His hand flew to my throat.
01:59You drugged me?
02:00Fingers closing tight.
02:01I didn't fight.
02:02My eyes brimming with tears.
02:04You're the one who broke in.
02:05I begged you to stop.
02:06But you didn't.
02:08I said.
02:08My voice hoarse.
02:09My eyes red.
02:10Guilt flashed in his eyes.
02:11He released me.
02:12Kale glanced down at himself.
02:14His own body covered in marks I'd left behind.
02:16A raw bite mark on his neck, throbbing faintly.
02:18The color drained from his face.
02:20No way.
02:21My tolerance is too high for this.
02:23We each had one drink.
02:24I whispered, tears sliding down my cheeks.
02:26Both poured by Selina, and you were completely out of control.
02:29Could she have set us up?
02:31Don't.
02:32His voice went cold.
02:33Selina would never do something like this.
02:35Just then, footsteps sounded outside the door.
02:38My mother Helena's voice, sharp with urgency.
02:40Where is Ivy?
02:41She's the lead for the initiation.
02:42The queen is about to announce Ivy's betrothal to Prince Kale.
02:46Selina's voice followed, soft and concerned.
02:48Mom, I'm not sure I should say this, but a servant saw Ivy go into a room with a rogue
02:52can be found, and now do you think she might have run off with him?
02:55Helena's tone hardened.
02:57Which room?
02:57Show me.
02:58Selina knocked, her voice sickly sweet.
03:01Ivy, are you in there?
03:03If you don't open this door, I'm coming in.
03:07Ivy, last chance.
03:09Outside the door, Selina led Helena and a gaggle of noblewoman.
03:13They were here to expose my illicit tryst.
03:15Behind the door, Kyle and I were a mess of marks.
03:17Me and the man Selina loved.
03:20Go through the window.
03:21I whispered, shoving a cloak into his hands.
03:24I'll handle this.
03:25Don't worry, I won't breathe a word.
03:26He looked at me, hesitating.
03:28What about you?
03:29I blinked up at him, wide-eyed.
03:31Don't worry.
03:32I'll just say I was drunk.
03:33My sister wouldn't make trouble over nothing.
03:35I never wanted anything from this.
03:37I promise.
03:38The footsteps grew closer.
03:39Kale darted, disappearing behind a tall folding screen.
03:42I threw on my dress and opened the door.
03:46Selina stood in the doorway.
03:48Behind her, my mom Helena, the royal physician.
03:50Four noblewomen, all close friends of hers.
03:53And Derek, the rogue who'd tortured me to death in my first life.
03:56I let my eyes go wide.
03:58Selina, I was just resting off the wine.
04:00Why is everyone here?
04:01Selina smiled and stepped inside.
04:03Your voice is so husky, Ivy.
04:05Does drinking do that to you?
04:06I coughed softly.
04:08Maybe I caught a chill.
04:10In that case, I must come in and check on you.
04:13What were you doing in here?
04:15Sobering up.
04:16Sobering up?
04:18Her gaze swept over the disheveled bed.
04:20That's not the scent of someone sobering up.
04:23Her gaze drifted toward the screen.
04:25Then her finger followed.
04:26Derek understood.
04:27He moved toward it.
04:28I stepped in front of him.
04:30Don't.
04:31Selina's smile stayed sweet.
04:32Her tone didn't.
04:34Ivy, why are you blocking the way?
04:36Hiding something?
04:37Today is my initiation.
04:39It should be a joyous day.
04:41Yet you bring mom here to search my room.
04:43I met her gaze.
04:45You came to expose me.
04:46Are you really that confident you'll find something?
04:49Her smile faltered.
04:50She didn't answer.
04:51Derek circled past me.
04:52His hand touched the screen.
04:53The door burst open.
04:54Two guards stormed in.
04:55They dragged a shivering rogue.
04:57Milana!
04:58He caught this man in the gardens.
04:59He was carrying the heat poison.
05:01The man on the ground trembled.
05:02Derek hired me.
05:04He told me to wait in the gardens for a girl.
05:06Said to take her to the storeroom.
05:08But then I saw the guards and I panicked.
05:10That's a lie!
05:12Derek's voice cracked.
05:14You paid me twenty gold goins.
05:16I still have them on me.
05:17Selina went pale.
05:18She glanced at me.
05:19Then at the screen.
05:19Search this room!
05:20Behind the screen!
05:22Helena frowned.
05:23Selina, perhaps...
05:24Don't just stand there!
05:26Search it!
05:30S...
05:33Ivy!
05:33With a rogue!
05:35Wasn't Ivy supposed to be betrothed to Prince Kale today?
05:38And she's been sneaking around with someone else!
05:41Ivy!
05:42Who is this adulterer?!
05:43Selina's lips nearly curved into a triumphant smile.
05:46She truly believed I'd brought some random man here.
05:48Turn around!
05:49Handing her the perfect chance to ruin my engagement.
05:51Did you hear me?!
05:53Selina, this is all my fault!
05:54I'll take my own life if I must!
05:56Just leave him out of this!
05:58Get off!
06:02The man you're looking for is me.
06:06Selina's head snapped towards me.
06:08Her eyes burned with pure hatred.
06:10Weren't you curious why my voice is so shrump, Selina?
06:13Prince Kale was quite...
06:16rough with me.
06:17She lunged at me.
06:18Kale's arm wrapped around my waist,
06:20drawing me close against his chest.
06:22His gaze fell on Selina, cold as if she were a stranger.
06:26Selina froze.
06:28Your Highness!
06:29I was only worried someone drugged you.
06:31I lost my composure.
06:34My eyes burned.
06:35Selina, how can you say such things about me?
06:39Your Highness, please believe me.
06:42I'm innocent.
06:44Someone set me up!
06:45Selina was shaking.
06:46Ivy, you're still pretending!
06:48Summon the royal physician.
06:50Kale cut her off.
06:51The physician arrived quickly.
06:52Both were drugged with an heat poison.
06:54By my estimation, Lady Ivy's dosage was significantly higher than His Highness's.
06:59He turned to Kale.
06:59Your Highness, Miss Ivy is a victim in this as well.
07:02Selina looked like she might be sick.
07:04She shrieked.
07:05Impossible!
07:06She's faking it!
07:07She's acting!
07:08Ivy must have bribed the physician!
07:10I looked up at Kale.
07:11Your Highness, do you remember what I said?
07:14Tonight, the only wine either of us drank was poured by Selina herself.
07:19The wine was fine.
07:20I didn't drug it.
07:22Selina's voice cracked.
07:23I told Kale a-
07:24The drug might not have been in the wine, but on the goblet itself.
07:28The servant brought the goblets.
07:29The physician examined them and confirmed it.
07:33The goblet was indeed laced with heat potion.
07:35As if something had just come to him, the captured rogue cried out.
07:39Derek and Selina are working together!
07:41Selina is the mastermind!
07:44Kale frowned and ordered the guards to drag the rogue away.
07:48Enough.
07:49This ends here.
07:50Kale's voice was firm.
07:51Derek, for drugging and entrapping a noble and a royal, you will be thrown in prison.
07:55As for Ivy, I will marry her.
07:57The wedding will be in one month.
07:59The crowd dispersed.
08:01I hid in the shadows of the garden, watching Kale and Selina face each other.
08:05She knelt at his feet, shaking as she wept.
08:08Kale!
08:09We grew up together.
08:11You know I wouldn't do this.
08:13Kale didn't look at her.
08:14You drugged my wine.
08:17That was meant for Ivy!
08:18You wanted to destroy her, didn't you?
08:20I never realized how cruel your heart truly was.
08:23Kale stepped back, out of her reach.
08:25All the evidence points to you.
08:27He paused.
08:28I will destroy that evidence.
08:30I won't hand it over to the royal court.
08:32His voice dropped.
08:32Consider it an end to all these years between us.
08:36From this day forward, you and I are nothing.
08:38He turned and walked away.
08:39Late that night, the execution grounds.
08:42Derek was bound to a stake.
08:43Kale stood beside me.
08:45Derek plotted against a prince and members of the nobility.
08:48He is sentenced to public execution.
08:51I stepped forward.
08:52Wait.
08:53Can I be the one to do it?
08:55Kale reached out to stop me.
08:57I met his gaze.
08:58Please.
08:59He was silent for a moment, then lowered his hand.
09:01I drew my dagger and walked toward Derek.
09:03He stared at me, his face pale with terror.
09:06Ivy, I was wrong.
09:07I'm so sorry.
09:08Selina forced me.
09:09She's the one who wanted to hurt you.
09:10I just lost my head.
09:12I wasn't thinking straight.
09:13I should have died in my first life.
09:15His screams echoed, loud enough for everyone to hear.
09:17I straightened, dropping the dagger to the dirt.
09:20My expression unreadable.
09:22Kale stood three paces away, watching me with new eyes.
09:25What's wrong?
09:26I asked.
09:27Nothing.
09:27He held out a hand.
09:28Let's go home.
09:29I took his hand.
09:30Later that night, I lay in bed, plotting my next moves.
09:34Selina was still alive.
09:35Kale was still soft on her.
09:37He knew she had drugged us.
09:38Yet he chose not to have her executed.
09:40He still clung to their past.
09:42My parents hadn't truly punished Selina, too.
09:45Just a few token words of reproach.
09:47No.
09:47I needed to make them completely despise her.
09:50Three days later, the royal decree of betrothal arrived.
09:53Kale came to the estate himself, to present the betrothal gift.
09:56A royal gem set ring.
09:58He just picked up the ring, about to slip it onto my finger.
10:01When a scream rang out from outside.
10:03Lady Selina has tried to take her own life!
10:05Kale dropped the ring and bolted, without a backward glance.
10:08The ring clattered to the floor.
10:10I looked down at it.
10:11Then I picked it up myself, and put it on.
10:14By the time I arrived, Selina was sobbing in Kale's arms.
10:18A dagger lay beside her.
10:19Not a drop of blood.
10:21Not a single scratch marred her skin.
10:23Clearly, it was a performance.
10:25And not even a convincing one.
10:26Yet everyone was fussing over her.
10:28My father, Evander, pleaded.
10:30Why would you do something so foolish?
10:32Helena cried.
10:33Selina, you have us.
10:35We treat you like our own daughter.
10:37You made a mistake.
10:37We'll help you through it.
10:39My brother, Ronan, chimed in.
10:40That's right.
10:41No matter what happens, I will be there to hold it up for you.
10:45In my first life, when my reputation lay in ruins, and I was banished from Thornwood,
10:49not one of them said a single word like this.
10:52They had been itching to throw me out.
10:54Kale looked at her and sighed.
10:55What you did doesn't deserve death.
10:57You don't need to do this.
10:58He always looked at me like I was something pitiable.
11:01But when he looked at Selina, there was a tenderness there.
11:04He couldn't quite bring himself to abandon.
11:06I stood by the doorway, utterly unnoticed.
11:08I slipped away, silent as a ghost.
11:11Three days before the wedding, I was in the gardens, looking at samples for the wedding
11:15pastries.
11:16Ronan stormed over and knocked the tray out of my hands.
11:19The pastries tumbled across the ground.
11:21Why would you send her pastries?
11:23Are you trying to hurt her feelings on purpose?
11:25I innocently explained.
11:26Ronan, please.
11:27I only wanted Selina to try them.
11:29I heard she was feeling down.
11:30Sweets cheer people up, you know.
11:32Don't you dare play innocent with me.
11:33Just behave yourself and stop getting on Selina's nerves.
11:35He spat the words, then stormed off.
11:38I called a maid over.
11:39Go tell mom and dad that Ronan and I had a fight.
11:41That evening, Selina came to me.
11:43Her eyes were still swollen, but her smile was soft, gentle.
11:47Ronan shouldn't have treated you like that.
11:48I've already scolded him, I said.
11:50Such devotion.
11:52Almost enough to make me feel like the outsider.
11:54I've been part of this family for 18 years.
11:56Of course we're close, she said, squeezing my hand.
11:59I know I haven't been fair to you, but I've come around.
12:02Ronan is waiting for you in the garden.
12:04He wants to apologize.
12:05I eyed her, feigning hesitation.
12:07What are the two of you scheming now?
12:08She smiled sweetly.
12:10This is your home.
12:11What, are you scared of me?
12:13I stared at her for a moment.
12:15Fine.
12:15I'll go with you.
12:17Deep in the garden, no one was around.
12:20Just at the door, my steps faltered.
12:22The distinct, sickly sweet scent of the heat poison seeped through the crack of the door,
12:25faint but unmistakable.
12:27Ronan was inside, drugged waiting for me.
12:29Go on in and see Ronan.
12:32Selina's hands stretched to my back, ready to push me inside.
12:34Then she'd lock the door from the outside and call everyone to catch us in the act.
12:38Unforgivable crying.
12:39This trick.
12:40I knew it all too well.
12:41I spun around, chopping her hard on the back of the neck.
12:44She crumpled to the ground.
12:46I dragged her, opened the door, and shoved her inside.
12:48I closed the door.
12:49Ronan's bestitial snarls and growls came from within.
12:52Selina's surprised cry quickly turned into a shriek.
12:55Then I urgently told a maid.
12:57Go inform the royal palace that Lady Selina has gone missing again.
13:00I fear she may be attempting to take her own life, and inform my parents as well.
13:03The maid nodded and ran off.
13:05I stood outside the door, listening to the sounds within, waiting for an whole hour.
13:10When the crowd arrived, I casually emerged from the side.
13:14Your Highness, have you found Selina?
13:16Just as I spoke, a muffled, intimate moan drifted from deep within the room.
13:20Helena's expression shifted.
13:21She stepped forward to block the way.
13:23Your Highness, please, let me handle this family's affairs myself.
13:27Ronan...
13:27Her words were cut off by Ronan's guttural growl.
13:30Everyone surged up the steps.
13:31The moment the door swung open, everyone saw the bed, Ronan and Selina, entwined.
13:36Helena rushed forward, trying to pull Ronan away, but he was immovable.
13:40Ronan was completely lost to reason, like a wild beast.
13:43Helena trembled, spinning to glare at Selina.
13:46Seduce my son!
13:47Is this how you repay our kindness?
13:49Selina scrambled up, then saw Kaol standing at the doorway.
13:53All the color left her face.
13:54You're hiding.
13:55No, please, let me explain.
13:58Her legs giving out as she fell to the ground.
14:00Kaol stood in the doorway.
14:01He glanced at her.
14:02Then he turned and walked away.
14:04Three steps.
14:04Steady.
14:05Five steps.
14:06Still no hesitation.
14:07Ten steps.
14:08Then he clutched his chest and spat blood.
14:10Rage.
14:10Turned inward.
14:12I lowered my eyes, thinking, this time, whatever feeling he had left for Selina.
14:16It was dead.
14:17Completely.
14:17Utterly dead.
14:18Two hours later, Ronan and Selina were on their knees in the hall.
14:21A physician stood nearby.
14:23The examination confirmed Ronan had been drugged with a heat poison.
14:26Selina had not.
14:27Who had seduced whom was plain for all to see?
14:29I walked into the hall.
14:31Selina immediately lunged at me.
14:32Ivy, it was you!
14:34You ruined me!
14:35I dodged.
14:36Ronan was drugged.
14:37That kind of heat poison.
14:38Only you have it, Selina.
14:40You used it on Kaol and me, too.
14:41My expression was nothing but innocent.
14:43It seems, Selina, that since you couldn't marry His Royal Highness,
14:47you decided Ronan would do just as well.
14:49So you arranged all of this yourself, didn't you?
14:53You framed us!
14:55This house has been nothing but chaos since you came back!
14:58Ronan sprang from the ground, pushing me hard.
15:01I stumbled from the shove.
15:02On steady, I only looked at Evander and Helena.
15:05Do you see how worried Ronan is about Selina?
15:08They're not blood relatives anyway.
15:09Why not just let them be together?
15:12Let her be my sister-in-law.
15:14Evander's expression was thunderous.
15:16He'd navigated the pack's politics for decades,
15:19staking everything on his children's marriages to climb one step higher.
15:22Now, an adopted daughter had utterly destroyed it all.
15:25Selina also realized marrying Ronan was her only good option left.
15:28Dad, Mom, I am willing to marry Ronan.
15:30She said it as though she were doing everyone a favor.
15:33Helena slapped her with everything she had.
15:35From childhood until now, I never once dared to lay a hand on you.
15:39Helena trembled.
15:40You were nothing but a rogue wolf's daughter.
15:42We took you in, gave you 18 years of luxury,
15:45treated you like you were our own flesh and blood,
15:46and this is how you repay us?
15:48At the initiation, you drugged the prince,
15:50nearly destroying our entire family!
15:52And now you've destroyed my son.
15:54She pointed to the door.
15:56You ungrateful wretch!
15:59I should never have been soft-hearted!
16:01I should have cast you out long ago!
16:03Ronan threw himself in front of Selina.
16:06If you cast her out, then cast me out too!
16:09Evander kicked Ronan, sending him sprawling.
16:12Then he clutched his chest, vomited blood, and fell backward.
16:15Another one felled by his own rage.
16:17In the early hours, Ronan and Selina were made to kneel in the courtyard as punishment.
16:22The cold was brutal.
16:23Both of them were shivering.
16:24I carried medicine into Evander's room.
16:26Dad, drink this.
16:28He looked at me, suddenly gripping my hand.
16:31His eyes red rimmed.
16:34Ivy, I was wrong.
16:36Helena wiped her tears nearby.
16:37They finally knew what pain felt like.
16:39Not because they felt any remorse for me,
16:41but because their son was ruined,
16:43and I was the only card they had left to play.
16:45A future princess.
16:46I smiled and didn't pull away from their hands.
16:49I have an idea.
16:50I finished serving Dad his medicine, then spoke.
16:53Tell his highness to send Ronan to the border.
16:55Two years.
16:56It'll toughen him up.
16:57Good for his future, and he'll come back with a lot more respect in the pack.
17:00Helena looked at me.
17:02What about Selina?
17:03Arrange a marriage for her.
17:05Marry her off far away.
17:07Keep her far from us.
17:08That way, our Thornfield family will have shown her the utmost mercy.
17:12Dad's eyes lit up with pride.
17:14That's my girl.
17:15An airtight plan.
17:17Who will Selina marry?
17:18Do you have someone suitable in mind?
17:19Father continued.
17:20I smiled.
17:21Rook.
17:21The rogue who identified Derek that day.
17:23Humble beginnings, but he seemed honest enough, stepping forward like that.
17:26A man of integrity.
17:27Helena instinctively worried Selina would suffer,
17:30but quickly hardened her heart.
17:31She came from humble origins anyway.
17:33It's a fitting match.
17:35The matter was settled.
17:36The very next morning, Ronan was transferred to the border.
17:39He left immediately.
17:40Rook, upon receiving news of the marriage, came specially to thank me.
17:44Lady Ivy, you truly kept your word.
17:47Rook was no good man.
17:48In my first life, Selina herself picked the worst possible man to ruin me.
17:52Now I was giving her exactly the same in return.
17:54The day before the wedding, I went to see Selina alone.
17:57She was trying on her wedding gown.
17:59Her face glowed with excitement, believing she was marrying Ronan.
18:02Ivy, you dare to show your face here?
18:04Why not?
18:05I sat down.
18:06I'm not the one with a guilty conscience.
18:08Drugging Ronan was your doing, wasn't it?
18:10You deliberately sent him to provoke me, then lured me in under the guise of an apology.
18:15Ronan was drugged.
18:16The moment I stepped into that room, you would have locked the door.
18:20Then you'd call everyone, and I'd be branded as the girl who slept with her own brother.
18:24Ruined.
18:24My engagement to Kale would be destroyed, and my own parents would cast me out in disgust.
18:28I looked at her.
18:30Selina, your heart is truly cruel.
18:32Her face cycled through a dozen colors, shifting and unsteady.
18:36How did you know?
18:37I've seen this trick before.
18:39I stood up.
18:40Besides, for someone as malicious as you, I naturally take extra precautions.
18:46She raised her hand to strike me.
18:47I caught her wrist and slapped her back, hard.
18:50Selina, remember this.
18:53Every single thing you've done to me, I will give it all back to you.
18:56The day of the wedding, Kale himself lifted me into the luxurious carriage.
19:00Everyone smiled, offering blessings.
19:02For Selina, only a few servants went through the motions.
19:05Her carriage was barely held together.
19:07Her wedding dress faded and threadbare.
19:09There wasn't even a proper procession to send her off.
19:12She didn't realize the groom wasn't Ronan until she was inside the carriage.
19:16Impossible!
19:17I'm supposed to marry Ronan!
19:19The accompanying servants sneered.
19:21He left for the border three days ago.
19:22You were nothing but an adopted rogue wolf.
19:24No one in this territory will protect you anymore.
19:27Be smart.
19:27Get in.
19:27Don't waste our time.
19:28She was roughly bound and shoved into the carriage.
19:31As they passed the estate gates, she desperately craned her neck out.
19:35She saw Kale carefully lifting me from wedding carriage, like I was something irreplaceable.
19:39She wrenched free of her bindings and tumbled out of the carriage, crashing to the ground,
19:43blood streaming down her face.
19:45Selina screamed with everything she had.
19:47Kale!
19:48Kale!
19:48Kane did not glance back.
19:50The first year of our marriage, Kale ascended to become the king of the pack, and I his queen.
19:56I gave birth to our little prince Theron.
19:58At his naming ceremony, Selina's three former friends, Lady Fae, Lord Ashton, and Lord Callum,
20:05arrived with lavish gifts.
20:07In my first life, they'd tricked me into the most expensive tavern, then abandoned me halfway
20:11through, leaving me to foot the enormous bill.
20:14In my first life, they called me astray.
20:17Said I came from nothing worth keeping.
20:19Now, they lined up, practically tripping over themselves to fawn over me with smiles.
20:23Lady Fae, long time no see.
20:25Fae bowed deeply, smiling.
20:27Just Fae, your majesty, please.
20:29Lord Ashton.
20:30Oh, no, no, your majesty, just Ashton is perfectly fine.
20:33Callum knelt directly before me and bowed his head to the floor.
20:35We were blind fools back then, your majesty.
20:37Please, please don't hold it against us.
20:40I sat in the seat of honor, watching them, finding it far more entertaining than any play.
20:44The second year.
20:46Ronan returned from the border, covered in glory.
20:48Two years of hardship on the border had left him noticeably leaner.
20:52He knelt before me, apologizing sincerely.
20:54Two years ago, I was foolish.
20:57I'm truly sorry.
20:58There's no need for that, brother.
20:59It's all in the past.
21:01On my way back, I passed Selina's dwelling.
21:03She's not doing well.
21:04She's covered in sores and Rook beats her daily.
21:06You didn't bring her back?
21:08She's no longer family.
21:10My queen, could you help me find a suitable match?
21:13I smiled.
21:14Even Ronan had finally woken up.
21:16Selina truly had nothing left.
21:18The third year winter, a woman, covered in festering sores, arrived at the palace gates.
21:23She knelt in the snow, refusing to leave.
21:25Let me see the king!
21:27I know him!
21:28We were lovers once!
21:30Kale glanced out, not recognizing Selina.
21:33Who is this mad woman?
21:36It's cold out.
21:37Go inside.
21:37I'll check on Theron.
21:38I stood by the entrance, watching her.
21:40She suddenly looked up and she threw herself at me, wild-eyed.
21:44Ivy!
21:45It's me!
21:46It's Selina!
21:47Her face was so ravaged it was utterly unrecognizable.
21:50Only her eyes.
21:51They were still as beautiful as ever.
21:53She began to wail, detailing how Rook beat her, stole her money, and passed some sickness
21:58on to her.
21:59I tried to stop Ronan's procession, but he ignored me.
22:02I went back to Thornwood, but Dad and Mom refused to see me.
22:06I had nowhere else to go but you, Ivy.
22:08She held out her hands, rotted down to little more than skin and bone.
22:13Please, give me something.
22:15Even a single gold coin.
22:17Let me live.
22:18Is this enough?
22:20She reached out, a flicker of viciousness in her eyes.
22:23Then she twisted her wrist, driving the hairpin straight at my heart.
22:26A guard drove a kick into her, sending her sprawling into the snow.
22:29The hairpin flew, landing on the ground covered in snow and mud.
22:33She scrambled for it, snatching it up and clutching it in her fist.
22:37Like a madwoman, she shrieked.
22:39This isn't right!
22:40It wasn't like this in my dream!
22:42In my dream, I was queen!
22:46You stole my alpha and my crown!
22:49You stole everything from me!
22:51I watched her.
22:52She touched the scar on her forehead.
22:53The day I was married, I hit my head.
22:57And then I remembered everything.
22:59I thought about it so much I'd cough up blood every night.
23:03Suddenly asked her.
23:04Selina, do you dare to kill Rock and run away?
23:08She froze, because she didn't dare.
23:11If you don't dare, then I'll send you back.
23:13After all, it was I who suggested your marriage to Root to our father.
23:17She snapped her head up.
23:17It was you?
23:19She spotted Kale nearby, grabbed the hairpin and jabbed it into her own chest.
23:23Not deep, just a trickle of blood.
23:25Then she collapsed into the snow, her voice suddenly soft and aggrieved.
23:29Your Majesty, Kale, I am in so much pain.
23:34She was waiting for Kale to save her.
23:35In my first life, Selina and Kale had been devoted mates for years.
23:39She thought he must still care.
23:40I waved the guards back.
23:42Leave her.
23:43Kale glanced at her, then turned away, wrapping an arm around me as we walked through the grand
23:46gates.
23:47In the study, the candlelight cast a warm golden glow.
23:51Dad!
23:51Dad, look!
23:53How's this word?
23:54Three-year.
23:54Old Theron ran towards Kale, holding up a piece of parchment.
23:57It was covered in wild, tangled lines.
24:00Even he couldn't tell what any of it was supposed to be.
24:03Magnificent, Therion.
24:04Kale clapped, his face perfectly straight.
24:06He saw me enter and hoisted our son onto his shoulders.
24:11Come on, come on.
24:12Show your mother.
24:14Kale and Theron pulled me to the desk.
24:17On the parchment, my name was scrawled, wobbly.
24:19Mama's name.
24:20Theron clapped his hands, wanting a hug.
24:23He cooed his voice soft and warm.
24:24I picked him up and kissed him.
24:26Theron is so clever.
24:28I taught him.
24:30Aren't I clever?
24:31Kale pouted for attention.
24:34Clever too.
24:35I gave him a quick, careless kiss.
24:38But he just hugged me tighter, unwilling to let go.
24:42The laughter of our family in the study.
24:44The warmth of it was enough to hold the winter at bay.
24:47That night, I lay in bed, Kale, beside me.
24:50Selina stabbed herself, then lay out in the snow, calling your name.
24:55I said,
24:57What do you think of that?
24:59You tell me, is this writing any good?
25:01It's perfect.
25:03You didn't even look.
25:05If my alpha says it's perfect, then it is perfect.
25:08Kale smiled and kissed me.
25:10I placed my hands on his chest, pushing him back slightly.
25:13Kale, are you truly not going to check on her?
25:16Check on what?
25:17It's too cold outside.
25:19I said,
25:25Kale, I was trying to get married.
25:25I thought he was coming.
25:29I'm trying to get married.
25:29I'm trying to get married.
25:30You know what?
25:36I worked with You.
25:36You
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