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00:00Someone had spiked my fiancé's drink.
00:02When he started tearing open Serena Blackwood's dress at the Blackwood Gala,
00:06I did not rush in to stop him the way I had in my last life.
00:08Back then, I had been terrified he would offend Marcus Blackwood,
00:11a man famous for protecting his own at any cost.
00:14I threw myself between them,
00:17drugged out of his mind,
00:19dragged me into a guest room, and raped me.
00:21From that night on, the entire pack's old money circle said I had climbed into his bed on purpose.
00:26After I married him, the torment only got worse.
00:28In five years, I got pregnant seven times.
00:31Every baby was lost in another convenient accident.
00:34They called me a slut, a used-up whore,
00:36a woman who must have been passed around by half the men in town before she ever wore Evan's ring.
00:41My parents poured everything they had into making my life survivable in the Brooks household.
00:45They helped push Evan onto the council.
00:47And on the night I went into labor,
00:49Evan and Serena held me down and forced drug-laced water down my throat.
00:52I bled out on the birthing bed.
00:54If you hadn't stuck your nose in that night,
00:55Serena and I would have completed our mate-hound years ago.
00:58You ruined my fated mate.
01:00This is what you owe us.
01:02Then he smothered the baby I had nearly died delivering,
01:05right in front of me.
01:06Blood and tears soaked my face.
01:08When my last breath left me,
01:10there was nothing left in me but hatred.
01:12Then I opened my eyes again.
01:13I was back at the Blackwood Gala.
01:15Back on the day someone spiked Evan's drink.
01:17This time, I would let them finish the bond they had spent a lifetime blaming me for.
01:22Evan, please, don't-
01:23Serena Blackwood's breathy, embarrassed moan slipped out of the Lakeview guest suite.
01:27It sounded soft enough to pass for refusal,
01:29and loud enough to be meant for everyone in the hall.
01:32I stood outside the door, and my stomach dropped.
01:35Through the crack, Evan Brooks' eyes were bloodshot.
01:37Evan Brooks' eyes were bloodshot.
01:39His bow tie hung crooked at his throat as he pinned Serena against the floor-to-ceiling window,
01:43and tore open her custom silver-green gown.
01:46Clara, we have to go in and save her.
01:48Her knuckles white.
01:49Grace Miller grabbed my sleeve.
01:51I looked at the two tangled shadows inside.
01:53Then at Grace, who looked desperate to rush in on my behalf.
01:56I almost laughed.
01:58Save who?
01:58The woman who, in my last life,
02:00helped Evan drug me and leave me bleeding out on a birthing bed?
02:03Or the monster who smothered my child with his own hands?
02:06Evan comes from a minor pack branch.
02:10If he really hurts Serena tonight,
02:12Marcus Blackwood will never let him walk away.
02:14Clara, what are you waiting for?
02:16Did you forget what Mr. Ashford said?
02:17Evan's father had old ties with the Ashford's.
02:19You were supposed to look out for him.
02:21If Evan is ruined here, your father will blame you.
02:24Grace kept her voice low,
02:25but every word came faster than the last.
02:27She had wanted Evan for years.
02:29She could not wait for me to sign a mate contract with him,
02:31just so she could follow us into the Brooks household
02:34and become his hidden mistress.
02:35In my last life,
02:36when I crawled toward the door covered in blood
02:38and tried to call for help,
02:39Grace was the one who pinned my hands and feet down.
02:42She stepped on my bleeding stomach again and again,
02:44smiling as she said,
02:51I clenched my fingers and swallowed the urge
02:53to strangle her on the spot.
02:55I'll go in and hold him off.
02:56I lowered my eyes.
02:57My voice shook.
02:58I'll go in and hold him off.
02:59You go to the front hall and get my mother in security.
03:02Remember, don't alarm the other guests.
03:03Remember, don't alarm the other guests.
03:05The excitement in Grace's eyes almost broke through her act.
03:08She agreed at once and hurried away.
03:10She moved like someone who had just been handed an exclusive scandal.
03:13It had been the same in my last life.
03:14The whole thing could still have been buried by the Blackwoods.
03:17But Grace had dragged over the council spouses,
03:19old money heiresses, and donors from the front hall.
03:22They all saw me half-dressed, pinned under Evan on the bed.
03:25My mother fainted on the spot.
03:27My father spent half a lifetime building his reputation.
03:30And that night, it was dragged through the mud.
03:32Even the Ashford girls became cocktail hour gossip because of me.
03:35Since Grace was so good at gathering an audience,
03:37I would let her.
03:38Let every important guest in that front hall
03:40come watch the live sex show already waiting for them.
03:43And let my dear husband from my last life have exactly what he deserved.
03:46A ladder straight into the Blackwood family.
03:48I crouched outside the Lakeview guest suite,
03:50and a savage kind of relief ran through my whole body.
03:53Patricia Brooks had not yet forced my face toward the fireplace,
03:56and burned a scar into me that no powder could hide.
03:58I had not yet smelled infected flesh mixed with burned salve.
04:02My knees had not yet been ruined from kneeling on the Brooks household stone floor
04:05until the tissue died.
04:06The Brooks household stone floor until the tissue died,
04:09turning me into the crippled whore everyone whispered about.
04:11My belly felt lighter too.
04:13It was not aching every hour from baby after baby being taken from me.
04:16My nails dug into my palm.
04:18The sharp pain told me this was not a dream.
04:20When footsteps sounded down the hall,
04:23I lifted my hand and slapped myself hard across the face,
04:26again and again.
04:27This face, still untouched by the ruin of my last life,
04:30swelled red almost at once.
04:32I had been slapped so often in the Brooks household that even now,
04:35when I split my own lip and felt blood drip down my chin.
04:38It barely hurt.
04:39Clara, why are you still here?
04:41Grace came rushing over with a crowd of donor wives and council spouses in evening gowns.
04:45The moment she saw me still guarding the door,
04:47panic flashed across her face.
04:49I pinched the soft inside of my thigh as hard as I could.
04:52My eyes went red at once.
04:53Then I rushed forward with tears all over my face
04:56and threw my arms out in front of the sweet door.
04:58The corridor's crystal light spilled over me.
05:00The handprints on my face and the blood at the corner of my mouth
05:03landed clearly in every pair of eyes.
05:05The handprints on my face and the blood at the corner of my mouth
05:08landed clearly in every pair of eyes.
05:10One woman's champagne glass froze halfway to her lips.
05:13Someone cursed under her breath.
05:14The daughter of the Ashford family was an old blood heiress.
05:17On any other day,
05:18even a scraped finger would have been enough
05:20to send the whole family office into a panic.
05:22Now half my face was swollen,
05:24and blood was still running from my mouth.
05:26Catherine Blackwood was the first to frown.
05:28Tonight was the Blackwood Gala.
05:29If a guest was injured in her family's private wing,
05:32it was the Blackwoods who lost face.
05:34She had just started toward me
05:35when I pressed myself flat against the door.
05:37Please leave all of you to go somewhere else.
05:38Don't go in.
05:39Please don't go in.
05:41The warmth Catherine had been wearing for the room
05:43went cold at once.
05:45Clara, this is the private wing of the Blackwood Estate.
05:48It is not an Ashford doorway for you to go.
05:49She lifted one hand,
05:50and two house staff members immediately stepped forward
05:53to pull me away.
05:54I acted as if the lightest touch might shatter me.
05:56I was trembling hard,
05:58but I clung to the doorframe and would not let go.
06:01No, you can't go in.
06:02House staff and security came together to pry my hands loose.
06:05In the chaos,
06:06someone's stiletto came down hard on the back of my hand.
06:09Something in the bone shifted one.
06:11Something in the bone shifted one.
06:13I screamed before I could stop myself.
06:16Helena Ashford had stayed silent
06:17because this was the Blackwoods house,
06:19but now pain and fear broke across her face.
06:21She grabbed my arm.
06:22Clara, what are you doing?
06:23Making a scene at someone else's gala like this,
06:26what do you expect the Ashford family to do?
06:28I looked at my mother standing in front of me,
06:30alive and whole.
06:31Her hair not yet turned white overnight
06:33because of my scandal.
06:34Mom, don't make me...
06:35Tears flooded my eyes.
06:36I have a reason.
06:38I really can't let them go in.
06:40Helena's voice changed with panic.
06:41What are you even saying?
06:43My knees gave out,
06:44and I dropped directly in front of Catherine.
06:46Catherine, please.
06:47Don't.
06:48The whispers in the crowd finally broke loose.
06:50What is wrong with Clara Ashford?
06:52There isn't really something shameful behind that door.
06:55Is there?
06:55I curled up at the threshold,
06:57holding up the hand that was already swelling,
06:59my whole body shaking so hard I could not stop it.
07:02Catherine's face went completely dark.
07:04Very good.
07:05A perfectly decent Blackwood gala,
07:07and somehow Ashford's daughter is blocking my door.
07:10Since she has made this much of a scene,
07:12I will not be the only one deciding what happens next.
07:16Go to the front hall.
07:17Bring Marcus and Richard here.
07:19Go to the front hall.
07:21Bring Marcus and Richard here.
07:23I pressed down the smile tugging at my mouth.
07:25Those slaps had not been wasted.
07:27At last, the scene was big enough.
07:29Tonight was the Blackwood Alliance gala.
07:31Marcus Blackwood and my father, Richard Ashford,
07:34were not the only powerful men in the front hall.
07:37Several Whitmore High Council candidates were here, too.
07:39Evan and I had been husband and wife for an entire lifetime after all.
07:42This time, of course I had to make sure he and his beloved Serena had a full audience.
07:46Within minutes, Marcus arrived with a crowd of councilmen and donors at his back,
07:51security following close behind.
07:52Richard Ashford moved the fastest.
07:54The moment he saw me covered in mud and blood,
07:57guarding the door as if my life depended on it,
07:59his face changed.
08:00The next second, he lifted his hand and slapped me hard across the face.
08:04I've always known how to behave.
08:05Have you lost your mind tonight?
08:07The council spouses around us shook their heads.
08:09In the East Coast Pac Circle, I had always been the Ashford family's most proper daughter.
08:14Now I was crying and making a scene at the Blackwood Gala,
08:17blocking the private wing and refusing to let anyone through.
08:19Half the obedient reputation I had built over the years was already gone.
08:23Half the obedient reputation I had built over the years was already gone.
08:27Marcus's expression darkened.
08:29He gave me one cold glance.
08:30Then he simply raised his hand.
08:32The security men at his side stepped forward,
08:35lifted me away like they were removing an out-of-control guest,
08:37and threw me down near the rain-soaked edge of the lawn.
08:40It had rained two days ago.
08:42The Blackwood Estate's stone path had been scrubbed spotless,
08:45but the grass beside it was still full of mud.
08:47The hem of my pale lavender gown sank into the muck,
08:50filthy enough to make me look as if I had crawled out of a service alley.
08:53Everyone walked around me and headed straight for the sweet door.
08:56Helena's tears fell in a rush.
08:58How are you supposed to stand in fact society after this?
09:01I wiped the muddy water from my face and smiled at her.
09:04The crowd had barely reached the door when every step stopped at once.
09:07A woman's moan, soft and sticky, slid through the crack,
09:11tangled with a man's low, restrained panting.
09:13The sound was so obscene it made heat crawl up people's faces.
09:16Then came the dull thud of a headboard hitting the wall, again and again.
09:20No one needed to go in to know exactly how lively it was inside.
09:23Several donor wives who had brought young daughters with them
09:26immediately covered the girls' ears and ordered house staff to take them away.
09:30Then the woman inside let out another honey-sweet sound.
09:32Her voice stretched thin and breathless at the end.
09:35The guests looked from one face to another, each expression uglier than the last.
09:39The Blackwoods had humiliated themselves completely tonight.
09:42In broad daylight, in a guest wing, doing something this lewd,
09:45an outspoken council wife clutched her evening back.
09:48Her voice was low, but every word landed clearly.
09:51The way everyone looked at Marcus and Catherine now carried an unmistakable edge of mockery.
09:55Marcus's face flushed dark purple.
09:57Beneath his beard, his jaw clenched tight.
10:00I pushed in from the edge of the crowd and caught his sleeve with trembling fingers.
10:03I shouldn't go in.
10:05At least think of the reputation of whoever is inside.
10:09Marcus's gaze cut quickly across the guests.
10:11The Whitmore heir stood behind him in immaculate black formal wear.
10:14He was not afraid of offending some irrelevant guest.
10:16But whoever dared to do this at the Blackwood Alliance Gala
10:19had dragged the Blackwood name through the mud on purpose.
10:22There was no dignity left for him to protect.
10:24Marcus ripped the Brass Master key from the house steward's heavy key ring.
10:27The metal keys clattered hard against the doorframe.
10:30Move.
10:30His voice came out in a low growl.
10:32He shoved me aside without mercy and jammed.
10:35The brass key into the iron lock.
10:36With a violent crash, the frame of the Lakeview guest suite split open.
10:40Half the door hung crooked, then dropped hard onto the carpet.
10:43The sky outside had not gone fully dark, but the suite blazed with light.
10:46The white wall scouts lit up the mess on the floor.
10:48I kicked a side gown, a shirt, and a piece of red lace ongerary.
10:52The whole room reeked of sex and sweat, sharp and fishy like Bradford blossoms in spring,
10:56strong enough to tighten the back of the throat.
10:57Some council spouses covered their mouths, others cried out.
11:01Marcus was already past reason.
11:03He overturned the frosted glass screen with one brutal shove.
11:06On the king bed, Evan Brooks was completely naked, with a woman's bare thighs hooked over
11:10his shoulders.
11:11The red lace lingerie was still clenched in his hand.
11:14The air went dead silent.
11:16Even the sound of high heels sinking into the carpet seemed loud.
11:22He fumbled for the comforter, trying to drag it over the woman beneath him and hide her
11:27from view.
11:27To Marcus, that looked less like shame than provocation.
11:32Evan might have been a rising pack attorney this year.
11:34But in Marcus's eyes, he was still nothing more than a lower pack legal associate, with
11:39no real power and no real bloodline.
11:42A scholarship-born climber like him would not even have been allowed near the Blackwood
11:45side door on an ordinary night.
11:47And now he had dared to turn the Blackwood guest wing into this kind of debauchery.
11:51It was uglier than spitting in Marcus Blackwood's face.
11:54Low-born trash!
11:56Marcus's eyes went bloodshot.
11:57He grabbed the iron poker from beside the fireplace and swung it down hard at the bedpost.
12:02Evan clutched the woman against himself and scrambled naked across the bed, trying to dodge.
12:06The sight of him stumbling bare in front of every important guest nearly drove Marcus
12:10and Catherine mad.
12:11One council space after another looked away, stepping back on their heels.
12:15Catherine's chest rose and fell with fury.
12:17She had no polished hostess mask left to wear.
12:20At this point, the Blackwoods had no dignity left to protect.
12:24I want to see which little slit dared go into heat in my house!
12:28Catherine, for my sake, don't.
12:32But Evan Brooks had no sake to speak of in the Blackwood house.
12:35Catherine let out a cold laugh and pulled with both hands.
12:38With one harsh rip, she tore the entire comforter away.
12:41A completely naked woman was exposed in front of everyone.
12:44She covered her face with both hands, her legs pressed tightly together, too afraid to lift her head.
12:49Several bright red hickeys stood out on her pale shoulders.
12:52Her hair was damp and tangled, as if she had just been dragged out of the sheets.
12:56The Blackwood female aides beside Catherine reacted first.
12:59They stepped forward, pinned the woman's wrists and ankles, and yanked her hair back,
13:02forcing her face up for everyone to see.
13:04Little slut, still trying to hide?
13:06And that beautiful, sweat-damp, painfully familiar face was shown to every person in the suite.
13:11A glass knocked against a serving tray with a bright, brittle sound.
13:14The entire room seemed to explode.
13:16Serena Blackwood was there, naked and exposed,
13:18helplessly displayed in front of every council witness.
13:21Catherine Black froze on the spot.
13:22She looked as if someone had struck her straight between the eyes.
13:24One hand flew to her head as she staggered back.
13:26The guests looked from the scandal pair on the bed to me.
13:29My eyes reddened, and tears rolled down my face at exactly the right moment.
13:33I did not need to say anything anymore.
13:36Everyone had already put the story together for themselves.
13:38I was an old-blood Ashvind heiress.
13:40Who would dare put a hand on me so easily?
13:43The answer seemed obvious.
13:45I must have stumbled onto Serena's filthy secret.
13:47Serena must have slapped me,
13:49and then she must have forced me to stand outside and guard the door for the two of them.
13:53Bastard!
13:54He tightened his grip on the fireplace poker and brought it down hard across Ebenbrooks' back.
13:58The iron edge scraped through flesh, and a long, ugly gash split open at once.
14:03I lowered my head and used the back of my mudsteed hand to hide the corner of my mouth.
14:08Ebenbrooks, you deserve that one.
14:10A raw scream tore out of Eben's throat.
14:12He touched the torn skin on his back and tried desperately to explain.
14:16Marcus, listen!
14:17I was drugged!
14:18Someone set me up!
14:20Marcus was beyond listening.
14:21He raised the fireplace panel again and swung it straight for Eben's neck.
14:25Marcus, stand down.
14:26He's still a licensed council attorney.
14:28We investigate first.
14:29I watched coldly, almost regretful.
14:31What a shame.
14:32One cleaner hit, and he might have died right there.
14:35No matter how furious Marcus was, he could not ignore the Whitmerts in front of them.
14:39Investigate!
14:39Tear the Blackwood estate apart if you have to.
14:42Barlogs, cameras, badge swipes, sweet access.
14:44I want everything!
14:47Eben let out a breath of relief, then swept one cold glance over me.
14:50That single look told me everything.
14:52He had come back too.
14:54Those were not the eyes of a newly admitted PAC attorney.
14:57They were Eben Brooks' eyes after years soaked in council politics in our last life.
15:01Still on his knees, he planted both hands against his thighs and slowly straightened his spine.
15:05However I was set up tonight, Serena's public standing is already ruined.
15:09I'm willing to sign a responsibility statement, acknowledge this mate bond scandal, and enter an alliance engagement with Serena.
15:14He thought that sounded noble.
15:15He thought Marcus and Catherine would be grateful that he was offering to clean up Blackwood's mess.
15:20P!
15:20You think you're what exactly?
15:22A no-pittage low-pack cur thinks he can crawl into the Blackwood bloodline?
15:26Eben squeezed his eyes shut.
15:27His entire face flushed red.
15:29In all his years, no one had ever humiliated him like this in public.
15:33After all, in my last life, whenever he dealt with Marcus, Marcus had always clapped him on the shoulder and
15:39called him promising.
15:40Marcus had even said he admired a man who climbed by talent.
15:43What a joke.
15:44In that life, Evan Brooks had been my husband.
15:47My father, Richard Ashford, was the PAC Council's chief legal strategist.
15:50The respect Marcus gave him had never belonged to Evan.
15:53It had belonged to the Ashford family.
15:55I would snap my own daughter's neck and dump her in the Hudson before I let trash like you touch
16:00my bloodline!
16:01In a fresh burst of age, he kicked Evan hard enough to send him crashing into the low table.
16:07Evan coughed up a mouthful of blood on the spot.
16:10You touched a Blackwood daughter, and now you dare use her as your ladder?
16:15Security!
16:16Drag him out!
16:17Beat him until he can't open his mouth again!
16:19Evan had not even managed to get up before Blackwood security prissed his arms and legs.
16:23They dragged him toward the door like a bag of rotting trash.
16:26No!
16:27No!
16:27This isn't how it was supposed to happen!
16:29Marcus!
16:30Serena Rina!
16:30Save me!
16:31Marcus grabbed a whiskey tumbler and smashed it against Evan's head.
16:33Glass splattered.
16:34Evan's scalp slid open at once.
16:36Blood ran down his brow and dripped all over the floor.
16:38Gag him.
16:40A cur like him doesn't deserve to say Serena's name.
16:44Serena Blackwood was completely stunned.
16:46She kept her head down and did not dare say a single word for Evan Brooks.
16:50Marcus!
16:51You can't be this heartless!
16:53She is our daughter!
16:54She was harmed!
16:55How can you tell her to die?
16:57Of course Marcus had spoken in rage.
16:59Serena was still his own blood.
17:01He could not truly bring himself to kill her.
17:03But after saying so much in front of everyone, he could not simply let it go either.
17:07So he slammed one hand down on the coffee table.
17:10Are my investigators dead?
17:11Who dared touch the drinks at a Blackwood gala?
17:14Do I pay security to be useless?
17:15If you can't give me an answer, I will tear apart the entire staff chain.
17:18A security supervisor came in with his shoulders hunched, his voice shaking.
17:22Marcus, the badge log shows that Maya Ellis, Serena's personal aide, handled Evan's glass.
17:26The room broke into low, crackling murmurs.
17:28Every pair of eyes turned to Serena.
17:29A personal aide usually acted on her employer's instructions.
17:31No, it wasn't me.
17:33It was Maya!
17:35Maya wanted to hurt me!
17:37Maya Ellis looked less like a living person than a ghost.
17:40Trembling all over, she collapsed onto the floor.
17:43No, I didn't.
17:46She had just started to defend herself when she looked up and met Serena's eyes.
17:50The rest of the words died in her throat.
17:52If Maya told the truth, the Black Hills had a hundred ways to strip her of her job and
17:57every clean reference she had left.
17:59Serena threw herself at Maya, sobbing as she beat her.
18:02Was I not good to you?
18:03Why would you stab me in the back?
18:05It was me.
18:06I thought Serena favored Tessa Rowe and treated me unfairly.
18:10I lost my...
18:10The guests looked at one another.
18:12The same faint mockery appeared on every face.
18:15That excuse was too weak to stand.
18:17But what else could they do?
18:18Serena was Marcus and Catherine's daughter.
18:20If they did not let Maya take the fall, were they supposed to admit Serena herself had
18:24gone into heat and dragged a man into bed?
18:26Marcus, who had been ready to beat someone to death a moment ago, suddenly looked as if
18:30a dirty rag had been shoved into his mouth.
18:32Serena was still hitting Maya and crying.
18:34Then, from the jacket draped over Serena's shoulders, a sealed clinic pouch slipped out.
18:38Maya had already been beaten weak.
18:40Her body tilted and she landed directly on top of the pouch.
18:43A small blood vial shattered under her weight.
18:45Fresh red spread instantly across the pale carpet.
18:47What is that?
18:48A private pack clinic label was stuck to the clear bag.
18:51Half a sheet of paper, already soaked at the edge with blood showed through.
18:54An ordinary gala guest might not have a clue.
18:56But among the council wives, healer donors and old money maidens here, who hasn't had
19:00to deal with a fertility scandal for the family?
19:02CG blood test results from a private clinic, a forged healer intake form and a fake bond status
19:06file.
19:07All that stuff is enough to rip the mask off Serena as the innocent, wronged Luna candidate.
19:11Most of the gogglers don't know the ins and outs, so they're craning their necks asking
19:14everyone around.
19:14Every time someone asks, Serena's face goes even peeler.
19:17Evan Brooks, beaten bloody and dragged back into the suite, saw the evidence explode at
19:22exactly the wrong moment.
19:23He was still a licensed council attorney.
19:25No matter how furious Marcus was, Blackwood security did not dare beat him to death.
19:30If this had been Evan before the last life, he would have been nothing more than a newly
19:33risen PAC lawyer.
19:34A shattered blood vial and half a sheet of HCG paperwork might not have meant much to him.
19:38But he had lived an entire life already.
19:41In his last life, he had climbed high in council circles.
19:44Paternity fraud, forged healer files, backroom scandal cleanup.
19:48What had he not seen?
19:49One look at the blood on the carpet, the soaked clinic date, and he understood.
19:53Evan was barely holding together from the beating.
19:55Yet somehow he found strength.
19:57He forced himself up and lunged toward the king bed.
20:00With one hand, he ripped back the comforter.
20:02The white fitted sheet was clean.
20:03There was nothing there that could shove the pup in Serena's belly onto tonight.
20:07The truly glaring proof was the blood-soaked paper.
20:10Sample collected, four weeks before gala.
20:12Gestational estimate, five weeks.
20:15Sire pending.
20:16Everyone had just seen Evan naked and pressed over Serena.
20:19But the evidence told them Serena had already been pregnant before tonight.
20:22She had even prepared a forged healer intake in advance.
20:25Ready to frame herself as a Luna candidate ruined by this one night.
20:29Please.
20:29What a perfect little paternity trap.
20:31Too bad it had not closed neatly around Evan's throat.
20:34Even I had not expected the scene to turn this ugly this fast.
20:37In my last life, after I married Evan, I went to a private PAC clinic during my first pregnancy.
20:42There, I happened to see a woman in a hood quietly asking for abortion medication.
20:46The clinic healer warned her that she was already close to 16 weeks.
20:50If she forced a termination at that stage, her body might not withstand it.
20:54The woman had wrapped herself up carefully.
20:55But when she passed near me, I still caught a faint trace of custom scent suppressor.
21:00Across the entire East Coast PAC circle, only Serena Blackwood loved that scent.
21:04At that point, three months had passed since the night at the Lakeview guest suite.
21:08Which meant that when Evan was drugged tonight, Serena already had a pup more than a month
21:12along.
21:12Who dared bring that filthy drug into the Blackwood Gala?
21:15The answer was suddenly obvious.
21:17Serena had wanted to find a public sire for somebody else's pup.
21:20And Evan Brooks was supposed to be the fall guy.
21:23Once I pieced it together, I could only think how ugly this world really was.
21:27In my last life, Evan and I had already been bound by the scandal.
21:30Trying to reopen the Blackwood incident from three months earlier would have been a joke.
21:34So I buried the truth and locked it away.
21:36This time my plan had been simple.
21:38Let Serena and Evan both get what they wanted.
21:40One would find a father for the pup in her belly.
21:43The other would climb the Blackwood old blood ladder at last.
21:45I had not expected Serena's own clinic evidence to tear open first.
21:49Evan's face looked as if someone had slapped him in front of the entire room.
21:52He threw himself at Serena and seized her shoulders.
21:55Serena Blackwood!
21:56Shaking her hard.
21:57You set me up!
21:58You told me you had no registered bond.
22:00You said you wanted me and no one else.
22:02You told me you couldn't hold back your scent.
22:04That you would break council protocol just to give yourself to me.
22:07You used me as a public seer for another man's pup!
22:10You pregnant little whore!
22:12Serena shook in his grip like a silk silk scarf.
22:14As if she might fall apart at any second.
22:16Her mouth opened and closed.
22:18But not a single word came out.
22:20Marcus heard every word.
22:21And his brows drew tight again.
22:23But this time, he had no ground to stand on.
22:26Even if he hated that a low pack liability like Evan had overstepped, he had no reason left to keep
22:31beating him.
22:31Evan Brooks had been beaten too badly.
22:33And the truth had struck him too hard.
22:35Blood surged up his throat and sprayed across Serena Blackwood's face.
22:39Then he fell backward and passed out cold.
22:41The room erupted into chaos again.
22:43No matter how unwilling Marcus was, no matter how badly he still wanted to kill someone, he had to call
22:48in the estate medic and the pack healer.
22:49Several council wives looked at me with pity and tenderness.
22:52How did she get dragged into something like this?
22:55Clara has suffered too much tonight.
22:57One after another, they sighed for me.
23:00They believed I was a young heiress with no registered mate bond.
23:03Dragged for no reason into a sex scandal this filthy.
23:05Even if I was innocent, it was still a stain.
23:08My pack reputation and alliance prospects would take a hit.
23:11After tonight, the main alliances open to me would probably drop by an entire tier.
23:15The Whitmore heirs especially, would never consider me now.
23:19They had no idea.
23:20Compared with my last life, when I married Evan and was slowly ground down inside the Brooks household, this was
23:25already an escape from death.
23:26Later, I heard that when Evan was carried back, he looked as if he had been dragged out of a
23:31pool of blood.
23:32Blackwood security knew Marcus was still furious, so they had put their backs into it.
23:36From the ER surgeon to the pack healer to the spinal specialist.
23:39Every doctor who saw him only shook their head.
23:43Difficult case.
23:44The right leg is especially bad.
23:47Even if it heals, he may need a cane.
23:49If recovery goes poorly, he may never leave a wheelchair.
23:52Some said Evan was pitiful.
23:54A scholarship-born legal climber, ruined like this by the Blackwoods.
23:58Others said Evan deserved it.
23:59If he had not wanted to climb the Blackwood Old Blood Ladder himself, he would never have suffered like this.
24:04The person who reacted most violently inside Ashford House was Grace Miller.
24:08Clara!
24:09If you had gone in and stopped it, Evan would never have ended up like this!
24:14He was perfectly fine and now he's lying in a bed, heartbroken!
24:18How can you still eat?
24:19I held a bowl of chilled almond porridge and took my time swallowing a spoonful.
24:25What reaction should I have?
24:27Should I go mourn at Evan's bedside like he's already dead?
24:30Grace's face flushed with anger.
24:32He is still alive, isn't he?
24:34How can you be so heartless?
24:36She realized she had crossed the line.
24:38Her voice going soft at once.
24:40I only think Evan is pitiful.
24:42I didn't mean it that way.
24:44I looked coldly at Grace, the girl who had grown up beside me.
24:47If you pity Evan so much, then go take care of him.
24:50You don't need to enter my suite again.
24:52Grace snapped her head up as if she could not believe what she had heard.
24:55Marion, pull Grace's staff file, NDA, access badge, and housing agreement.
25:00Suspend her Ashford access immediately.
25:04The Brooks household needs a live-in aid, doesn't it?
25:07Send over her caregiving contract.
25:08If she refuses to leave, have security escort her off the property.
25:12Tell them the Ashford's and the Brooks go back years.
25:15We arrange someone specially to help care for Evan.
25:18After that, she does not come back.
25:21Only then did Grace seem to wake up.
25:24Clara, I was wrong. I shouldn't have said that.
25:26She crawled toward me, sobbing and begging.
25:28For the sake of all the years we grew up together, please forgive me this once.
25:31I almost wanted to forgive her.
25:33But when had Grace ever spared me for the sake of all the years we grew up together?
25:37It was not until the day I died in my last life, after hearing her words, that I finally understood.
25:42Why?
25:43After I became pregnant, after I had been careful and then more careful, I still lost one baby after another.
25:48With Grace at my side, altering my medication and my care records for Evan again and again,
25:53how could any child in my belly have survived?
25:55Of course she did not want to go to the Brooks household now.
25:58Of course.
25:58Evan and his mother, Patricia Brooks, lived in a worn-down duplex outside town.
26:03They were so poor that all they had left was one aging aide.
26:06Now that Evan Brooks' leg was damaged, his council career was as good as over.
26:10On paper, no one could throw him out simply because he might need a cane.
26:13But after the sweet scandal at Blackwood Ridge, with a license review, an ethics complaint,
26:18and a DA inquiry pressing down layer after layer, who would dare put him anywhere near the public eye?
26:23Unless someone with real votes chose to protect him.
26:26And now, who would protect Evan Brooks?
26:28Ashford would not.
26:29Blackwood certainly would not.
26:30He had no family strong enough to lift him.
26:33He did have a handsome face, and at first, a few old-money families had considered him as a potential
26:38son-in-law.
26:38Now, those heiresses probably thought he carried bad luck.
26:41Because the scandal touched the High Council's reputation, Eleanor Whitmore took a personal interest.
26:46The High Council and the DA liaison turned Blackwood Ridge inside out.
26:50As for the pup in Serena Blackwood's belly, no one could say for certain who had fathered it.
26:54The personal aides around Serena had tried to protect her at first.
26:57But once the perjury warnings and immunity deals came down, one after another, they cracked.
27:02A stable hand.
27:03Gate security.
27:04A procurement runner.
27:05A jewelry store sales guy.
27:07Serena had never been picky.
27:09As long as a man had a decent face, she dared drag him into her bed.
27:13After a while, the number of men she had slept with was not just 10 or 12.
27:17It was more.
27:17If the pup in her belly had actually been born, only a DNA panel could have sorted out the father.
27:22After a disgrace like that, how could Marcus allow her to give birth to another man's pup?
27:26I heard he found some dirty private clinic and forced Serena through a termination.
27:30At first, Marcus even wanted them to prepare an overdose of sedatives.
27:34Only after Catherine cried, begged, and nearly threw herself over a balcony was Serena's life spared.
27:40Her life was spared.
27:41The rest of her did not.
27:43After that forced termination, Serena's bleeding would not stop.
27:46Her periods never settled.
27:48She grew thin very quickly.
27:49Her face pale.
27:51Her legs too weak to hold her steady.
27:53Marcus lost the old lift of his chin in council rooms.
27:55He had been proud his whole life.
27:57And now one daughter had dragged the Blackwood name through filth.
28:00People said he spent his days drinking himself senseless.
28:02When he finished drinking, he would go to Serena's room.
28:06Smell.
28:09Every day, Blackwood Ridge was full of screaming, breaking glass, and the sound of guard's footsteps.
28:14Less than three months later, Serena, driven past the edge, grabbed a kitchen knife, and stabbed her own father to
28:21death.
28:21A roomful of aids and guards watched it happen.
28:23She could not run from that.
28:25Once the murder charge landed, it was enough to seal her fate.
28:28That same day, the high council stripped her of every inheritance rate.
28:32When the criminal court sentenced her, she was sent to a women's prison for life without parole.
28:36On the day Serena was sentenced, I was having tea at the newly opened laurel room in the city.
28:41Mrs. Ashfield, this is from a gentleman downstairs.
28:44He said he would like to see you and say a few words.
28:47A server brought over a hibiscus chestnut tea cake I had not ordered.
28:50I looked at the small pastry and suddenly found it funny.
28:53During my marriage to Evan, he had bought the same thing for me a few times.
28:56After I lost our first child.
28:58After Patricia Brooks forced me to kneel every few steps in the name of pack discipline until I passed out.
29:03Until my knees split open and festered.
29:06Evan probably always believed that as long as he handed me this one sweet little cake,
29:09I should calm down.
29:11I should forgive him.
29:12I should make peace with him.
29:13But to me, it had never recorded comfort.
29:16It recorded every injury Evan and the Brooks household had dealt me again and again.
29:20Please return it to the gentleman downstairs.
29:23Tell him I don't dare eat it.
29:25I'm afraid there might be something in it.
29:26The server quickly carried the tea cake back.
29:28But Evan did not leave.
29:30When I stepped out of the laurel room, he was waiting at the entrance.
29:33Clara.
29:34His voice broke and he reached for the edge of my coat.
29:37Mr. Brooks, step back.
29:39Don't touch her.
29:40Harper Lane, the new aide at my side, immediately stepped between Evan and me.
29:44Evan's face twisted with misery.
29:46Clara, I treated you terribly before.
29:49I let people lie to me.
29:51I misunderstood you.
29:52I thought that scandal was something you set up so you could marry me.
29:55I never meant to hurt you.
29:57Evan, were you lied to or did you choose to lie to yourself?
30:00I am an old blood Ashford heiress.
30:02You?
30:03If I had wanted it, even the Whitmore line would have been within reach.
30:07Why would I need to scheme my way into marrying you?
30:09The color drained from Evan's already ruined face.
30:12He had once been handsome in a clean, refined way.
30:15After all these days of pain, he had wasted down until he was almost nothing but bone.
30:20Whatever dignity he once had was gone.
30:22He was lucky.
30:23Really.
30:23At least both legs had not been ruined.
30:25Only his right leg would never be steady again.
30:28From now on, he could not walk without a cane.
30:31My gaze swept once over his right leg.
30:33Evan immediately pulled it back.
30:34Maybe he remembered my last life, when he and Patricia Brooks had ruined my leg.
30:39Maybe he remembered how many times he had sneered at me, and called me a crippled little liability.
30:43One of the Ashford House staff hurried toward me.
30:45Mrs. Ashford, we've been looking everywhere for you.
30:48Please return at once.
30:49The High Council just sent word.
30:51Sebastian Whitmore has been confirmed as High Alpha Elect.
30:54The Whitmore line has also filed a Maid Alliance statement.
30:57Once you personally confirm it, the Council will publicly recognize you as Luna Elect.
31:01Evan's mouth fell open.
31:03He looked as if he could not believe what he had just heard.
31:05In my last life, Sebastian had become High Alpha too.
31:08Only then, he had never publicly recognized a Luna.
31:11Even after he took full power, he never brought anyone to stand beside him.
31:15So that was why.
31:18Sebastian likes her, doesn't he?
31:20Evan muttered the questions to Grace Miller beside him.
31:22They were together already, weren't they?
31:25Bracing him like a cane, and Patricia had worn her down until she barely looked human.
31:29No secret dates.
31:31No private gifts.
31:32Nothing improper.
31:34Only...
31:35Only what?
31:37Only that every time Sebastian saw her, he smiled.
31:41For the decades that followed, Sebastian proved Grace right.
31:44He was a good husband.
31:45A very good one.
31:47As for Evan, I never saw him again for the rest of my life.
31:50The last time I heard news of him was before I moved into the Whitmore Council residence.
31:54I heard there was no path left for him back to the Council.
31:57He could not stay in the East Coast Pack Circle either.
31:59So he took Grace and Patricia back to that low pack hometown of his.
32:02Maybe Blackwood Ridge had damaged more than his leg.
32:05Later, Patricia arranged engagements for him and pushed a few dependent girlfriends into his life.
32:10But in this life, no one ever carried his pup.
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