The Snake I Saved Loved My Best Friend is a mesmerizing fantasy romance short drama filled with supernatural secrets, heartbreaking betrayal, and emotional redemption. After rescuing a mysterious snake with a hidden identity, a young woman believes fate has brought them together. But everything falls apart when he chooses her best friend instead. As ancient powers awaken and painful truths come to light, love, jealousy, and destiny collide in an unforgettable battle between the heart and fate. Watch the Full Episode for an emotional fantasy romance packed with shocking twists, magical mysteries, and unforgettable characters.
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00:00Five years ago, my best friend and I took a trip out to Arizona and got caught in a dust
00:05storm.
00:05We ducked into a cave where we found a badly wounded little snake curled up in the dry grass.
00:10Is it hibernating?
00:11I'd never seen a snake before.
00:13Scared, but curious, Chloe smacked the back of my head and pointed at the wounds.
00:18In the middle of summer? Are you serious?
00:21Look at it. It's dying.
00:24Hot weather like this, it's brutal out there for wild animals.
00:27Snakes will eat their own kind when they're starving.
00:28Survival of the fittest.
00:30Look at the bite marks. That's another snake for sure.
00:32I stopped hearing her after that.
00:34One sentence kept echoing in my head.
00:36They eat their own kind.
00:38So you got thrown out by your family too, huh?
00:41Yeah, same here.
00:43Tell you what, come home with me.
00:45I'll take care of you.
00:46Chloe tried to talk me out of it.
00:47I picked up the half-dead snake and brought it home anyway.
00:50Then I blew a month of my paycheck on the best heated terrarium I could find
00:55and spent hours setting it up just right.
00:57Why are you wasting your money on this thing?
00:59Even if it shifts someday, it's going to be a lesser shifter.
01:03If you want a shifter that bad, just go to the black market and buy an alpha tier one.
01:07I traced my finger along the glass, over the snake still recovering inside.
01:12It's not the same.
01:14I want this one.
01:16When I look at him, I see myself.
01:18Maybe what I'd saved wasn't the snake.
01:21Maybe it was the version of me from years ago.
01:24The one my family had broken into pieces.
01:26The second I mentioned my biological family, Chloe went quiet.
01:31Okay, whatever makes you happy.
01:34Then she changed into a tight little dress and went out to have her fun.
01:38I stayed home alone and looked after the snake.
01:40Every day after work, I stopped at the butcher and brought home fresh poultry to drop into the
01:45terrarium. And one morning, two years later, it finally happened.
01:49My snake shifted.
01:51I opened my eyes that morning and met a pair of deep black ones.
01:55They looked cold, distant.
01:56But to me, they pulled like a magnet.
01:58I swallowed hard.
02:00My eyes drifted down without permission.
02:02Naked male body.
02:03Technically, he wasn't 100% shifted yet, but all the human parts were there.
02:08Add a face that hit every single one of my buttons, and my own face went tomato red.
02:15The scream woke Chloe in the next room.
02:18She came running.
02:19When she pushed the door open, she saw me with my head buried under the covers and a
02:23man stark naked, fresh out of his shift.
02:26She got the picture instantly.
02:28I was mortified.
02:29Chloe was not.
02:30She looked him up and down, head to toe.
02:33No shame at all.
02:34Then she started rating.
02:35Face 100%, pecs and ams 85%.
02:38Working equipment down there looks about a 95%.
02:41Damn, Emma.
02:41Lesser shifter or not, that face and that package, worth every penny.
02:46You've got an eye.
02:47Saying that kind of stuff out loud, in front of him?
02:50Was that legal?
02:51I quickly tossed a blanket over him.
02:53Looking back, if I'd kept my head for two seconds, I would have noticed how weird he
02:58got around Chloe.
02:59Not like the cool, blank face he gave me after I'd seen everything.
03:02While Chloe rattled off her commentary, my snake boy actually blushed.
03:06But I was too busy being thrilled and embarrassed.
03:10I missed it.
03:11Once a shifter takes human form, the hardest part is fitting in with the rest of the world.
03:15I took on the role of teacher, walking him through every rule of human society.
03:20Then I dropped half a paycheck on a class for new shifters so he could pick it up faster.
03:24You'll need a name to enroll.
03:26You don't have one yet, right?
03:27I can give you one.
03:29How about you take my last name?
03:30You could go by-
03:31I won't lie.
03:32There was a tiny selfish part of me that wanted him to take my last name.
03:36I kept my eyes on the floor, too chicken to look at him.
03:39I had the surname.
03:40I was working on the first name when he cut me off.
03:43I have a name.
03:44It's Simus Thorne.
03:46I closed my mouth fast.
03:47A little disappointed, but I shoved it down.
03:50Simus Thorne, that's a great name.
03:52The days went by.
03:53Adding Silas to the apartment didn't make anything weird.
03:56If anything, it made things warmer.
03:58I taught him to cook, and he picked it up.
04:01Eat more, Chloe.
04:02Silas made all of this.
04:03I beamed across the dinner table, hyping him up.
04:06Silas sat there like a good kid, waiting patiently for the praise.
04:10He cooked this?
04:11It's actually edible?
04:13I kept giving her looks until she finally gave in and tried a bite.
04:16She chewed.
04:17Her eyes went wide.
04:19Then she went all in.
04:21Not bad, Simus, baby.
04:23Look at you.
04:24Cooks like a dream.
04:25You're gonna make some lucky girl a great house ham in one day.
04:28Chloe wagged her eyebrows at him.
04:30Silas' face burnt.
04:31He felt his body doing something it shouldn't.
04:34He slammed his fork down and walked off to his room.
04:38Simus?
04:38I called after him.
04:40He was probably mad.
04:41I rushed after him to smooth things over.
04:43Silas, don't be mad.
04:45Chloe didn't mean anything by it.
04:47She really did love your cooking.
04:49You can't be teasing people like that.
04:51Now look, you upset Silas.
04:53I put on the fake mad face and scolded Chloe.
04:56My bad.
04:57Silas finally answered.
04:59I'm not mad.
05:00Leave me alone.
05:01What I didn't see was the scales on his body.
05:03The ones that hadn't fully shifted away.
05:05They were flickering with a strange light.
05:07After that, Silas threw himself into cooking like his life depended on it.
05:12And me, like a complete idiot, I taught him every single thing I knew.
05:15Then, a year later, the quiet life shattered.
05:18I came home from work that day to find every light in the apartment off.
05:23Silas?
05:24Did he go out?
05:25My stomach started doing something nervous.
05:27I pushed his door open and by the moonlight I saw him on the bed, restless, agitated.
05:32Why are the lights off?
05:34I stepped closer.
05:35There was a strange smell in the air and it sent heat through my whole body.
05:39Silas was twisting on the bed, like he couldn't get comfortable.
05:43Silas, what's wrong?
05:44Was he sick?
05:45I leaned down to feel his forehead, burning up.
05:48I turned to go grab medicine and his hand shot out and caught my arm.
05:51It's so hot.
05:53I'm so hot.
05:54Help me.
05:55Please.
05:56Silas?
05:57I swallowed.
05:58The smell in the room was getting stronger.
06:00Then, he had me pinned against his burning chest.
06:03He had no clothes on.
06:04I could feel the shiver of skin meeting scales, hot and cold all at once.
06:30There was nowhere to run.
06:32I lost track of time.
06:34When it was over, the whole room was a wreck.
06:36The next morning, Chloe found me in Silas' bed.
06:40Damn.
06:41The boy's first heat and you sealed the deal.
06:44That's my girl.
06:45I couldn't help it.
06:46My face went bright red.
06:48I turned to look at Silas and walked straight into his ice-cold expression.
06:52The smile I'd been hiding died before it could land.
06:55I couldn't read him.
06:56Was he embarrassed?
06:57Pissed?
07:00I told Chloe quick, before she said anything else he wouldn't like.
07:04Chloe didn't care.
07:05She didn't have to walk on eggshells around Silas the way I did.
07:08Simus?
07:09Sweetie?
07:10You're bonded to my girl Emma now.
07:12No cheating on her, you hear me?
07:13Bonded shifters and their keepers get the mate bond.
07:16Telepathy the whole thing.
07:17You're hers for life now.
07:19The more Chloe talked, the colder Silas' face got.
07:22His eyes had gone arctic.
07:24After that night, I could tell Silas was going through something.
07:27After class, he'd rather stay at school than come home on time.
07:31He'd roll in late at night, often reeking of liquor.
07:34I'd text him.
07:35Five, six times a day.
07:37Calls too.
07:38He never answered.
07:39I knew he was pulling away.
07:40I didn't have the guts to ask why.
07:42Same as when I was a kid.
07:44Quiet, scared.
07:45I told myself the same thing I always did.
07:48It's fine.
07:48As long as Silas is still here, I can deal with this.
07:52Chloe had been out a lot too lately.
07:54Barely home.
07:54She finally suggested we all do dinner that night.
07:57So Silas actually came straight home from class for once.
08:00Chloe didn't show up till past seven.
08:02And she walked in with a bombshell.
08:07Emma's off the market.
08:08So I figured I should catch up.
08:10Everybody, meet my new wolf shifter.
08:12Chloe had gotten herself a bee shifter too.
08:15Hey, Emma.
08:16So good to finally meet you.
08:17Chloe talks about you all the time.
08:19You're even prettier than she said.
08:20I greeted the cute wolf, warm as I could, and introduced Silas.
08:24Silas just glanced at him.
08:26Ignored the hand the wolf held out.
08:28Off to a great start.
08:29Don't take it personal.
08:30He's a snake.
08:31They're just like that.
08:32Cold.
08:34Emma, I know plenty of snake shifters.
08:36They aren't like that.
08:36He's just rude.
08:37But hey, no hard feelings.
08:39Lesser shifters can't really control their bodies.
08:41Makes sense they can't manage their manners either.
08:43I tried to cover for Silas.
08:45So they had ranking issues over in the shifter world too?
08:48The wolf kept stacking food on Chloe's plate, calling her babe every five seconds.
08:52Even I was getting secondhand awkward.
08:54Chloe, I thought you said he was bonded to you.
08:57Why is he not even serving you?
08:59A pet shifter that doesn't earn his keep, you should ditch him.
09:02This wolf knew exactly how to stir.
09:05I sighed, ready to defend Silas.
09:07Then a piece of shrimp landed in my plate.
09:09Silas had put food on my plate.
09:12First time.
09:13I sniffed once, fighting it back, and put the shrimp in my mouth.
09:16For the first time in my life, shrimp tasted sweet.
09:20Hey, we're all meeting for the first time.
09:22Let's keep it civil.
09:23Chloe stepped in to cool things down, signaling the wolf to back off.
09:27It backfired.
09:28Civil how?
09:29When this little snake is into you, how am I supposed to stay civil?
09:32The air froze.
09:34I felt the blood in my body turn to ice.
09:36My hands shook around my fork.
09:38Everything I'd been pushing down for months.
09:40Everything I'd been pretending not to see.
09:42A stranger said it out loud like it was nothing.
09:45Silas kicked his chair back and ran out the door.
09:49See?
09:49I called it.
09:50Embarrassed himself and now he's pissed.
09:53Ungrateful little snake.
09:55Chloe took in the wreck on the table.
09:56And this time, she sided with the wolf.
09:58Chloe brushed him off, careful for my sake.
10:01Emma, I swear I didn't lead him on.
10:03You're not going to cut me off over some heartbreaker, right?
10:06I'm going to find him.
10:08It's pouring out there.
10:10Let me come with you.
10:11Chloe started to follow, but the wolf caught her.
10:13Babe, don't.
10:14The snake's already obsessed with you.
10:16You go out there, it'll just make it worse.
10:18When you bond with a shifter, you can sense roughly where they are.
10:22I could tell where Silas was.
10:24I followed the pole through the rain for a long time.
10:26It led me to a wild hill near the edge of town.
10:29Silas!
10:30The bond only got me close.
10:32The rest was on me.
10:33I pushed through brush and scrub with my bare hands, scanning every inch.
10:37I finally spotted him behind a big rock.
10:39Silas, come home.
10:41The wolf was just nervous about Chloe.
10:43That's why he said all that.
10:44Let's just go home and forget him.
10:46I reached out to help him up.
10:48He shoved me away, hard.
10:50Stop lying to yourself!
10:52It was the first time he'd ever yelled at me.
10:54He's right.
10:55I do like Chloe.
10:57I like how loud and bright she is.
10:59I don't like how you tiptoe around me, how you act small all the time.
11:02Is that a crime?
11:03How many times have I sat there wondering why she wasn't the one who picked me up,
11:06why it was you?
11:07How many times have I regretted not locking the door that night, letting you touch me?
11:11I didn't want to bond, not with you.
11:12I had a chance.
11:13She told me on the day I shifted.
11:15She liked my face.
11:16She liked my body.
11:16Why did I have to be bonded to you instead?
11:19She's into alpha-tier shifters.
11:21That's why she doesn't want me.
11:23I don't want these scales.
11:24Get off!
11:25Get off!
11:26Get off my body!
11:27Heart.
11:28Blood started peeping out.
11:29Silas, stop!
11:31Don't hurt yourself.
11:33This is on me.
11:34I forced you.
11:35I'm the one who did this.
11:37But he didn't hear me.
11:38He just kept going.
11:39He didn't stop until his arms gave out.
11:41Until he lost too much blood and passed out.
11:43I looked at his torn up body and I was so numb.
11:47I couldn't tell if my face was wet from rain or something else.
11:50I pushed the dirt off his face and pulled his unconscious body into my arms.
11:54My chest hurt so bad I couldn't breathe.
11:56I always thought we were the same kind of person.
11:59I was dropped at a group home the day I was born.
12:02When I was six, a couple adopted me.
12:04For a little while, I thought I'd finally found a real home.
12:07Then I figured out the deal.
12:08I was a living medicine cabinet for their daughter.
12:11Every time their daughter got sick, they hauled me to the hospital to test for matches.
12:15Blood transfusions, bone marrow.
12:17It was just routine.
12:19Then she got better.
12:20I thought I was finally going to be a normal daughter in a normal family.
12:23They took me on a road trip and dumped me on the side of the road.
12:27Silas, I really thought once you opened your eyes, you'd love me back.
12:30We'd been through the same things.
12:31Bitten by your own kind.
12:33Thrown away by your own kind.
12:34We were so alike.
12:36But I get it now.
12:36It's because we're alike.
12:38Both of us grew up small, scared, scraping for scraps.
12:41People like us, of course we'd fall for the loud, sunny ones.
12:44They feel like daylight.
12:45I love Chloe too.
12:47Falling for her isn't your fault.
12:48I just don't get what why you hate me so much.
12:50Falling for you isn't mine either.
12:52It was the middle of the night by the time I got home.
12:56Emma, why are you soaked through?
12:58Chloe was still up.
13:00Her eyes filled with worry the second she saw me.
13:03Where's Simus?
13:04Why isn't he with you?
13:05She scanned around me, then spotted the wounded little snake curled up in my arms.
13:10Wait, why is he back like that?
13:13That's lesser shifters for you.
13:14Hurt them bad enough, they revert.
13:16Total dud.
13:17The wolf hadn't left.
13:18He was still there, throwing fuel on the fire.
13:21I ignored him.
13:22I went to my room, plugged in the terrarium I'd kept around for a year just in case, and
13:27put Silas back inside.
13:29What are you gonna do when he shifts back?
13:31Yeah, what was I going to do?
13:34I don't know, Chloe.
13:36He doesn't love me.
13:37What am I supposed to do?
13:39Silas's body did its job.
13:41In less than a month he was healed, except for a few ugly scars on his stomach where the
13:45scales used to be.
13:46The day he shifted back, Chloe sat him down and shut him down clean, told him there was
13:52no version of reality, with or without me, where they happened.
13:56To my surprise, Silas didn't cry, didn't argue, he just took it.
14:00After that, by some unspoken agreement, none of us mentioned what had happened.
14:05Life went on, day after day.
14:06The only thing different was Silas himself.
14:09What's up with the snake?
14:10He's clinging to you all of a sudden.
14:12He finally see the light?
14:13Chloe leaned over at dinner while Silas was up pouring some juice.
14:18Drop it.
14:20I've got someone looking into how to break the bond.
14:22A month had been enough time.
14:24I'd worked some things out.
14:25It was time to let go of Silas.
14:27When are you going to tell him?
14:29Not yet.
14:30Don't set him off.
14:32Once he's a little stronger, I'll let him go.
14:34The air shifted right after I said it.
14:36I looked up.
14:37Silas was standing behind us.
14:38He was holding his glass.
14:40His lips pressed in a thin line.
14:42I had no idea how much he'd heard.
14:44But honestly, I didn't care anymore.
14:46So what if he heard?
14:47He was leaving anyway.
14:49Don't just stand there.
14:50Sit down and eat.
14:51So what if he was upset?
14:53Not my problem.
14:54Chloe waved him over.
14:55Things got weird.
14:56But Silas didn't ask about what we'd said.
14:59Same as the past few days.
15:00He just quietly put my favorite shrimp into my plate.
15:03I didn't push it away.
15:05If there was food, I'd eat it.
15:06No need to waste.
15:07If you like it, I can make it every day.
15:13Don't bother.
15:14Hey, we haven't been to the mall in forever.
15:17Come home early tomorrow.
15:18I'll get you some new clothes.
15:19Call it a parting gift.
15:21Are you giving up on me?
15:23I know I screwed up.
15:25There's never going to be anyone who treats me the way you do.
15:27I figured it out.
15:28I won't make you mad anymore.
15:30He came to the mall with me anyway.
15:31I took him straight to the designer floor.
15:34It was a parting gift after all.
15:36I'm not cheap.
15:36He was getting the good stuff.
15:38I held a few outfits up against him and finally picked two.
15:42At the register, he tugged on my sleeve.
15:44I don't want them.
15:44So snakes weren't always cold after all.
15:47I peeled his hand off and paid anyway.
15:49Chloe was clearly thrilled by how unbothered I looked.
15:52She dragged me up to the fourth floor to check out an exhibit.
15:55In a great mood.
15:56Silas trailed behind us.
15:58That's when it happened.
15:59A loud bang.
16:00The crowd erupted.
16:03Stay with me.
16:04Someone's stealing a painting.
16:05Silas was the first to notice.
16:07He tried to get us out.
16:08We were already in the middle of the chaos.
16:10Too late.
16:11Something tore through the air toward Chloe and me.
16:14Fast.
16:14Trying to grab us.
16:15In that split second, Silas's tail shot out at us.
16:19Long and snapping.
16:20There was no time.
16:21He could only save one.
16:23He chose Chloe.
16:24So even now, in a crisis.
16:26On instinct.
16:27Chloe was still the one he reached for.
16:29I clenched my fist.
16:30My nails cut into my palms.
16:32I didn't feel any of it.
16:33The feeling of being thrown away again still ate me alive.
16:36I couldn't breathe.
16:37The dark figure seized me.
16:40I'm not going to hurt you.
16:41I just need a favor.
16:43Then the mall security.
16:45Don't follow.
16:46He's got a hostage.
16:47The next thing I knew, my body went weightless.
16:50I was airborne.
16:51The man who'd grabbed me was a bat shifter.
16:53His goal was clear.
16:54He was after a painting.
16:55I don't know how long we flew.
16:57He landed at a manor out in the middle of nowhere.
17:00Looked like it was his place.
17:01Is the painting that valuable?
17:05I looked at the canvas in his hand.
17:07A girl chasing butterflies.
17:08Nothing famous.
17:09Nothing worth a fortune.
17:11I didn't get it.
17:12Why was a guy with a manor this big risking his neck for a painting like that?
17:17It's not.
17:18But my dad gave it to my mom.
17:20As a love token.
17:22The girl in the painting is my mother.
17:25My mom's not doing well lately.
17:27If I can't bring her to it, I had to bring it to her.
17:30I followed him up to the sunroom on the top floor.
17:33The second he opened the door, I saw his mother.
17:35She had to be pushing 60.
17:37But she still wore her hair in two pigtails.
17:40Just like the girl in the painting.
17:41She looked dim until he handed her the canvas.
17:45Then her face lit up.
17:46Adrian, you're back.
17:48But the second she said it, he turned and walked out.
17:51Your mom's calling you.
17:52Why are you walking away?
17:54Adrian was my father's name.
17:55I'm Dorian.
17:56Then where's your father?
17:57And why does your mom think you're him?
17:59Same as you.
17:59My mom got dumped.
18:01Hold on.
18:02Me?
18:02What did I have to do with this?
18:04I'm a bat.
18:05I can see in the dark.
18:06I saw the whole thing.
18:07You're bonded snake.
18:08When I was about to grab you and your friend, he chose your friend.
18:11You're his keeper.
18:12And he picked her.
18:12He had a gift for finding the soft spots and stabbing them.
18:16Honestly, after getting that wound ripped open one more time, I think I'd gone numb.
18:21He saw me go quiet and figured I was still drowning in heartbreak.
18:25He started trying to comfort me.
18:29Let me tell you about my parents.
18:32You can see this place.
18:33This whole estate belongs to my mom's shifter family.
18:36She was supposed to marry into another shifter family.
18:38But one day, by complete bad luck, she found my dad in the woods.
18:41Hurt.
18:41She brought him home, took care of him.
18:43To thank her, my dad painted her portrait.
18:45And my idiot mother fell in love because of that painting.
18:47He felt like he owed her, so they got together.
18:50Then they had me.
18:51But you can't fake love.
18:53When I was six, my dad walked out anyway.
18:55My mom lost it.
18:56She tried to overdose.
18:57Our staff caught her in time.
18:59My mom lost it.
19:00Brain went too long without oxygen.
19:01Now she's like that.
19:02Don't pretend I didn't see.
19:04When I grabbed you on that rooftop before I took off, you were thinking about jumping,
19:08weren't you?
19:09I didn't answer, so he kept going.
19:11You women are unreal.
19:13Always trying to die for some guy who doesn't love you.
19:15Like he's gonna feel bad about it after.
19:17I twisted my ankle, dude.
19:19I'm a grown woman with a college degree.
19:21I'm not killing myself over a breakup.
19:24Go now.
19:25I don't host lovesick women.
19:27After you leave, do whatever you want with your life.
19:29Just don't die in my house.
19:31So now he was kicking me out.
19:33If he was offering, I was taking it.
19:35I turned for the door.
19:36Right as I lifted my foot.
19:38You're not actually gonna do something stupid, are you?
19:40It's just a sprained ankle.
19:42Three hours into a forest hike, staring at a wall of green that didn't end, I broke down.
19:47How far out in the boonies did this bat live?
19:49Right when I was ready to give up, my body lifted off the ground.
19:53Oh, now you decide to take me back.
19:55He had no idea how exhausted I was.
19:57I'm doing you a favor.
19:58Don't get used to it.
20:00After I drop you, don't go talking trash about me.
20:02He really cared about his rep.
20:04Who out here even knew him?
20:05I got home the next day.
20:07I'd stopped by a witch on the way and finally got the answer I wanted.
20:10I pushed the door open and saw Chloe sitting in the living room with two giant black circles under her
20:16eyes.
20:17Are you okay?
20:18Did he do anything to you?
20:21I'm fine.
20:22He's not a bad guy.
20:23My eyes landed on the figure crouched in the corner.
20:26I went straight to the kitchen and grabbed a knife.
20:28You've lost it!
20:29You're gonna off yourself over him?
20:31Are you serious?
20:32So you're gonna kill him?
20:33Oh, the guy is heartless, ungrateful.
20:35I mean, but maybe he doesn't deserve to die?
20:37Calm down.
20:38The witch told me how to break the bond.
20:40He just has to drink three drops of blood from my hand.
20:43Why is it your blood that has to spill?
20:45She frowned.
20:46Then she remembered I was finally cutting Silas loose and she relaxed.
20:50I walked over to Silas with the knife.
20:54You smell like him?
20:55Smell?
20:56The bat?
20:56When I didn't answer, he kept pressing.
20:59Did you touch him?
21:00Did he touch you?
21:03You don't want me anymore?
21:05He sounded like a husband catching his wife mid-affair.
21:08Except he had no right to that tone.
21:10I didn't bother answering.
21:11I sliced my finger and held it out to him.
21:14Drink it.
21:15After that, we're done.
21:16When he saw I wasn't softening, he panicked.
21:18He grabbed my arm and started shaking it.
21:20Emma, the other day, I didn't mean to leave you.
21:24It was just instinct.
21:25I screwed up.
21:26The second I saw him take you, I knew.
21:27The day he took you, I tried to track you.
21:29The trail went cold.
21:30I lost you.
21:32Don't bother.
21:33Just drink.
21:34What was the point?
21:35Instinct doesn't lie.
21:37I shoved my bleeding hand at him again.
21:39It was my blood.
21:40I cared about it, even if he didn't.
21:42If he didn't drink soon, it'd clot.
21:44I didn't want to cut myself again.
21:46No.
21:47Drink it or don't.
21:48Silas, this is the first and last time I bleed for you.
21:50Shifters only ever bond with one keeper.
21:52Humans can bond with as many shifters as we want.
21:54You still don't get what you did wrong, do you?
21:56Fine, let me spell it out.
21:57Not loving me wasn't either.
21:58Your crime was sitting there happily your crime,
22:00taking everything I gave you while pining for Chloe at the same time.
22:03People who won't say yes and won't say no,
22:05who just want to keep all their options open.
22:07Those are the worst kind of people.
22:08The light finally went out of his eyes.
22:10He opened his mouth, expression blank, and took it.
22:13Knew it!
22:14Selfish little punk!
22:15Chloe ranted on my behalf after I fed him the blood and threw him out.
22:20Real talk though, you're not even a little sad.
22:22You raised him for years.
22:24Honestly, not a bit.
22:26I wasn't lying.
22:27That's my girl.
22:28You know when to walk away.
22:29Chloe pulled me into a hug, thrilled.
22:31While Silas was healing, Chloe had stopped bringing the wolf around because she didn't
22:35want to set him off.
22:36Now that Silas was gone, the wolf moved back in.
22:39He turned out to be the perfect shield against Silas, who kept coming back to bother me.
22:44Oh, you again?
22:45Here for Chloe today or Emma?
22:46Please, just let me see her.
22:48Which her?
22:49Emma.
22:50Wow, that was quick.
22:51Emma, the deadbeat couldn't find a new place to land.
22:53He's back.
22:54That's not it.
22:55I just didn't know my own heart before.
22:56I had to lose her to figure out who I really love.
22:59Shut the door.
23:01Okay.
23:03Snake, save the romance act.
23:05If you really didn't want to leave Emma, why'd you drink her blood and break the bond?
23:09Selfish, that's why.
23:11Silas didn't quit.
23:12He came back to bang on our door every day.
23:15I finally lost it.
23:16I yanked the door open, ready to threaten him with a restraining order, and walked into
23:21a face I knew.
23:22Dormian, what are you doing here?
23:26Are you hell-bent on getting rid of me because of him?
23:29You're the snake who turned on his keeper?
23:31Give her back to me.
23:33Just because he's an alpha-tear, you suddenly don't want me?
23:35I had nothing to say.
23:37Backstabbers also got a smart mouth.
23:39Let me handle this for you.
23:41The second Silas got knocked around, I understood what an alpha-tear shifter could do to a lesser
23:46one.
23:47Turned out, Silas really was just a face.
23:50Nothing else.
23:50Silas got beaten back into snake form.
23:53I looked at him, half dead, and asked Dorian for one favor.
23:57Dump him back in the woods.
23:58Wherever I'd picked him up, that's where he was going.
24:01Dorian was 100% on board.
24:04He promised the job would get done.
24:06So that's why you came to me?
24:07For your mom's funeral?
24:08Are you sad?
24:09Sad about what?
24:11For her, leaving was probably a relief.
24:13And you?
24:13Are you free now?
24:15You're not gonna end up like my mom, are you?
24:18Using death as the way out?
24:19Why are you looking at me like that?
24:21Don't go falling for me.
24:23Look at the wreckage you all left.
24:24I'm never doing love.
24:29When I got home, there was a group of people standing at my door.
24:33Even from behind, even after all these years, I knew them.
24:37My foster parents.
24:38I had no idea how they'd tracked me down.
24:40I had zero interest in being part of their lives again.
24:43Emma, it's me.
24:46My foster mom stepped forward, all warmth.
24:49I ignored her and went for my keys.
24:51She cut to the chase.
24:52Your sister.
24:53She's gotten worse.
24:54She needs a kidney to make it through.
24:57Wait, is your little blood-sucking daughter still alive?
25:00Don't that stop!
25:00What do you remember in any mean?
25:02My foster dad lost it the second she insulted his real daughter.
25:05Family?
25:06He had the nerve to use that word.
25:08My voice came out cold.
25:09What kind of attitude is that?
25:10We raised you.
25:11You owe us.
25:12Owe you what?
25:13For dragging me to the hospital those years to keep your daughter alive?
25:16For dumping me in the woods?
25:17Or for showing up now to take a kidney?
25:19Enough talking.
25:19You're coming with us.
25:21Donating a kidney to your sister, you should be grateful.
25:23When my foster dad realized words weren't working, he switched tactics.
25:27That's why he'd shown up with a crew.
25:29He'd planned it from the start.
25:30If I said no, they were dragging me out by force.
25:33Help!
25:34They're trying to kidnap me to harvest my organs!
25:37In the chaos, sirens started wailing downstairs.
25:40How are the cops here already?
25:42The second they heard the sirens, every one of those big tough guys panicked.
25:47I called them.
25:47I told them, smiling for the first time since they'd ever taken me in.
25:52Illegal adoption of a minor, illegal trafficking of blood and organs.
25:56We're going through every single one of those charges.
25:59My former parents, sending you to prison to retire is the most kindness I've got left.
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