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