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