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00:00Silas! What are you-
00:01They don't deserve to live.
00:03No! No! Silas!
00:05I was the Green Dragon Clan's most fertile princess.
00:08But to my husband, I was nothing but a breeding vessel.
00:11He could destroy when I stopped being useful.
00:14He killed our children, then made me kneel by his bed for three days
00:17and watch him take woman after woman into his arms.
00:20Then he grabbed my throat.
00:22Traitor.
00:23And threw me into the bottomless abyss.
00:25I thought I was falling straight into hell.
00:27I'm back.
00:27Back in my family's great hall.
00:29Back before any of it happened.
00:30Before I ever said yes to the monster who murdered my babies.
00:33And there he is.
00:34Right in the center of the room.
00:36Silas.
00:37This time, I will never be the Black Dragon's queen.
00:39I don't know it yet.
00:40But the one who'll give me everything that Monster destroyed won't be some mere king.
00:44He's a god.
00:45An ancient.
00:46A golden dragon.
00:47Waiting to claim me.
00:48And take the heirs that Monster never deserved.
00:50I am Silas.
00:52I offer a hundred chests of enchanted gold.
00:54To claim a green dragon princess as my queen.
00:56Those blood-red vertical eyes radiating danger like a blade left in the sun.
01:01Your majesty!
01:02I'll give you a clutch of god dragon eggs!
01:04Choose me!
01:04My bloodline is the purest in the clan!
01:06A hundred girls, all elbowing each other, screaming their bloodlines like livestock at auction.
01:11I press my back flat against a marble pillar and don't breathe.
01:14They have no idea.
01:15Behind that beautiful face is something cold.
01:17Bloodthirsty.
01:18Something our clan could never hope to control.
01:20I have to get out of this room.
01:22Lyra!
01:24Come here and greet the king.
01:25My father's voice pins me to the floor.
01:27I drop into the smallest cursi I can manage.
01:29But he points at me anyway.
01:31Smiles like he's presenting a prize horse.
01:33This is my daughter Lyra.
01:35Strongest bloodline in the entire green dragon clan.
01:37Trained since childhood.
01:38Her fertility is unmatched.
01:40I wanted to sink into the marble and vanish.
01:43He was coming for me.
01:44So I grabbed my older sister and shoved her in front.
01:47Father, I'm too young.
01:48I'm not ready.
01:50Lilith is perfect for this.
01:51She's everything he's looking for.
01:53My father's face goes dark.
01:54Lilith is his second wife's daughter.
01:56The throne of the obsidian castle was supposed to be my prize, not hers.
01:59He isn't going to let me throw that away.
02:01But the memory of my past life is screaming in my skull.
02:04Silas's claw through my stomach.
02:06My eggs crushed one by one.
02:07There is no version of this where I become his queen again.
02:10Your majesty, both girls are yours.
02:12Whichever you prefer.
02:13Thank the gods.
02:14I just rejected the king in front of his whole court.
02:16His pride alone should send him to Limith.
02:18But he doesn't even glance at her.
02:19He walks straight up to me and stops.
02:22Princess Lyra, you'll do.
02:23My mind goes completely blank.
02:25And the second my eyes locked onto those blood-red pupils, every moment of my last life came tearing back
02:30at once.
02:34In my past life, the first time I saw Silas, I fell hard.
02:38He was gorgeous.
02:39I never stood a chance.
02:40So when my father offered me up, I practically ran to the altar.
02:43The black dragons were a cursed bloodline.
02:45They couldn't carry children on their own.
02:47The only way they survived was by mating with us.
02:50Green dragons.
02:51We heal.
02:52We breed.
02:53It's our gift.
02:54And my bloodline was the strongest of all.
02:56So Silas spoiled me rotten.
02:58Every night in my bed, he couldn't get enough.
03:00Pouring his raw heat deep inside me.
03:02Under six months, I was pregnant.
03:04But the closer I got to my due date, the more he changed.
03:07He'd stare at my stomach with this dark look I couldn't read.
03:10Then he locked me in the highest tower.
03:12It was for the baby's safety.
03:14Cut me off from everyone.
03:15I sent message after message begging him to explain.
03:18Nothing came back.
03:19Until one afternoon, I was napping when his hand closed around my throat.
03:23Traitor.
03:24He slammed me into the cold stone wall.
03:26Tore my nightgown off.
03:27His hand twisted into a dragon claw and drove toward my stomach.
03:31They don't deserve to live.
03:34Right through my skin, he crushed my eggs.
03:36All three, one by one.
03:38The broken shells tore me open from the inside.
03:40I screamed until my throat bled.
03:42Pressed a red hot iron to my collarbone and branded one word into me.
03:46Traitor.
03:47Then he filled his bed with other women.
03:49Made me kneel beside it and listen.
03:51Every night.
03:51Every sound.
03:52When they were done, I carried in the water and washed them clean with my own hands.
03:58And the cruelest part?
03:59He murdered my babies.
04:00Then made me wash his mistresses clean with my own hands and nurse them through their pregnancies.
04:05I carried their water.
04:06I warmed their beds.
04:08I smiled when they screamed his name.
04:11I did all of it.
04:12And I will never do it again.
04:14Because this time, I know exactly how he kills.
04:17Which means I know exactly how to kill him first.
04:21Your majesty, I'm already in love with someone else.
04:25And I'm carrying his child.
04:28The whole hall freezes.
04:31Gasps everywhere.
04:32My sisters stare at me like I've lost my mind.
04:34Like turning down a king is something only a crazy woman would do.
04:37My father shoots me a look that could kill.
04:40But in front of Silas, he swallows its distremely men-child and forces a smile.
04:44Your majesty, Lyra is far too pampered.
04:47Perhaps you should consider the other ladies-
04:49No need.
04:50My heart stops.
04:51Did he come back too?
04:54My father wipes the cold sweat off his forehead.
04:56A noble daughter getting pregnant before marriage isn't unheard of.
05:00But not for me.
05:01I was groomed from birth for the crown.
05:03So finding out I've been harboring a secret lover?
05:06He's livid.
05:06To avoid a scandal, my father hosts Silas at our estate while a replacement is chosen.
05:11Me?
05:12Straight to house arrest.
05:13But here's the part that makes my skin crawl.
05:16They put Silas in the suite right next to mine.
05:19I can't leave my room.
05:20Doesn't matter.
05:21I feel it anyway.
05:23That dark, heavy stare tracking every move I make.
05:26Silas needs control.
05:27Over everything.
05:29Over everyone.
05:30Which means I can't let him dig into my little pregnancy lie.
05:33So I have my maid skeek someone in for me.
05:35A lover.
05:36Liam.
05:38Liam feeds me grapes and rubs my shoulders.
05:41All sculpted muscle and easy smiles.
05:43But that stare keeps crawling over my skin.
05:45Heavier every minute.
05:46Fine.
05:47If he's watching, let's make it good.
05:49I take Liam's hand and lead him into my bedroom.
05:51We barely reach the bed.
05:52The door explodes off its hinges.
05:54Silas storms in.
05:55Blade in hand.
05:56Murder in his eyes.
05:57I shove Liam back.
05:58A second too late.
05:59The blade catches his arm.
06:01Have you lost your mind?
06:03The green dragons aren't yours to command.
06:06So this is how the princess spends her nights?
06:11I'm having fun with someone I actually like.
06:14Jealous?
06:14Go find your own mistress.
06:16Who I entertain in my chambers is none of your concern.
06:19I don't see what comes next.
06:21He half shifts.
06:22A massive black tail snaps out, wraps around Liam, and hurls him clean out the window.
06:27My stomach drops.
06:29Liam was only here to play along, and now he could be dead on the rocks below.
06:33Before I can move, Simus grabs my wrist and throws me onto the bed.
06:39His full weight comes down on me.
06:41Get off me!
06:43He pins my hands above my head.
06:46His mouth drags down my neck.
06:48You let him touch you.
06:51Why not me?
06:53His eyes are rimmed red.
06:55The words tear out of his throat, stripped of all his usual arrogance, leaving only raw,
07:01bleeding desperation.
07:03Lyra.
07:05Just let me.
07:06I'll fuck him right out of your head!
07:08He's lost his mind.
07:09I fight with everything.
07:11Biting.
07:12Kicking.
07:13Cracking my head into his.
07:15He doesn't stop.
07:17I shut my eyes.
07:18I'd rather die than let him have me again.
07:20Then the weight is gone.
07:22My father's magic blasts Silas clear across the room.
07:29The two of them stand there, glaring like the room might catch fire.
07:33Silas!
07:35I said you could choose anyone from my clan to be your queen.
07:40I never gave you the right to take my daughter against her will.
07:50Cross that line again, and I will burn the treaty to ashes.
07:58And we will end this in blood.
08:00Simus tightens his jaw, knowing he overstepped.
08:04One wrong move, and he loses the black dragon's only hope of an heir.
08:08But before he turns to go, he looks back at me.
08:13He looks back at me.
08:14The obsession burning in his eyes makes every hair on my body stand up.
08:18Lyra.
08:19This is my fault.
08:21I almost let him hurt you.
08:24It's not your fault, father.
08:27I need to get out of his territory.
08:29I'll come back once he's chosen a queen.
08:32He presses an old amulet into my palm, forged from secret gold.
08:36Take this.
08:38Go to the Dragonbone Abyss.
08:40Something far stronger than the Black Dragon King sleeps there.
08:43Silas won't dare set foot near it.
08:46I don't waste a second.
08:50The abyss is filled with the bones of ancient dragons.
08:53They tower over me.
08:54The air is heavy with old power.
08:58The amulet parts the barriers as I walk.
09:01I just need a quiet corner to disappear into for a while.
09:04Then I step into an underground palace.
09:06And I freeze.
09:07The air is drenched in the scent of an apex dragon.
09:11A man appears in front of me.
09:13Impossibly beautiful.
09:14And from the waist down, a thick, blazing tail of pure gold.
09:18The old legends come rushing back.
09:20Your scales.
09:21They're gold.
09:23You're an ancient.
09:24His gold eyes flick to me for half a second, then wrench away.
09:28Leave!
09:30Before I lose control.
09:32The mating bond is killing him.
09:34I could stop it, but he's holding back.
09:36Silas would have taken what he wanted.
09:38This dragon won't.
09:40That alone is enough.
09:41I climb the steps to the throne.
09:43Under his sushrocked, furious stare, I throw myself into his arms and kiss him.
09:49I'll help you survive your heat.
09:51In exchange, you give me a pureblood heir.
09:54Deal?
09:55He frowns.
09:56His hands come up to push me away.
09:58Then his eyes catch the golden scale on my collar stone.
10:01He stills, shock giving way to pure joy.
10:03His tail locks around my waist.
10:05One savage move, and I'm prinned against the throne.
10:08Legs parted by his knee.
10:11Buy one, get one free.
10:13Take the father too.
10:14What do you say?
10:15My answer drowns in his kiss.
10:17By the time it's over, he's marked me.
10:19Deep, permanent.
10:20His magic threaded through me, down to the bone.
10:22For the first time since I came back,
10:24the knot in my chest finally loosens.
10:26This life, I'll carry the strongest dragon heirs alive.
10:29And I'll make Silas pay back every single thing he owes me.
10:33The stronger the bloodline, the worse the mating cycle.
10:36I spend seven days and nights with Callum in the abyss,
10:39before the worst of it finally breaks.
10:41Lyra, I'll give you the grandest wedding this continent has ever seen.
10:44I'm too wrecked to lift a finger.
10:46Sweet talk after the fact, I figure.
10:48I don't think twice about it.
10:49I sleep for a long time.
10:51When I open my eyes, the crystal my father gave me is flashing red.
10:56Something's wrong.
10:57The clan's in danger.
10:58Callum left to find me food.
11:00I can't wait for him to come back.
11:01I throw on my clothes and rush back to my family's great hall.
11:04My father pulls me aside the second he sees me.
11:07His face is grim.
11:08Silas says he'll burn our territory to the ground.
11:11Take every woman we have as breeding stock.
11:14I know exactly what this is.
11:15He's backing me into a corner.
11:17I find him by the garden fountain.
11:19He holds out a glass like nothing's wrong.
11:21Try it.
11:22Holy spring water.
11:23Your favorite.
11:23I take it and smash it into his face.
11:26Glass and all.
11:27He doesn't even flinch.
11:28Water dripping off his lashes.
11:30He just smiles.
11:31The green dragons have bred heirs for the black throne for centuries.
11:34It's law.
11:35Break the treaty and your whole clan dies with it.
11:37We are nothing to each other.
11:39Why does it have to be me?
11:40He stands, towers over me.
11:42His eyes go strangely soft.
11:44What if I told you we're bound by fate?
11:45Would you believe me?
11:46That's insane.
11:47If you were my fated mate, my heart would have jumped the first time I saw you.
11:51I'd have wanted to be near you.
11:52Not this.
11:52Not pure disgust.
11:53He stood frozen in place.
11:54Like the words actually cut him.
11:57Behind him, that black tail whips back and forth.
11:59Do the right thing for both our clans.
12:01Don't force me.
12:02And if I force you anyway?
12:03Three days, I come for you myself.
12:05Wear the dress or bury your entire clan beside you.
12:07I trust the princess will choose wisely.
12:09Fineless!
12:10Shameless!
12:11How did I miss it last life?
12:13Playing at love while he twists my arm.
12:15He really thinks he's something.
12:17But cursing won't save anyone.
12:19I go straight to my father to plan.
12:21Three days later, Silas returns with a full black dragon procession.
12:28Under my father's furious glare, he claims his veiled bride, Princess Lyra.
12:35And he rides off into the distance.
12:39The second they're gone, the sky cracks open.
12:42A massive golden dragon pours out of the clouds.
12:47He lands in human form, draped in gold-thread silk.
12:50Aurora's spill across the sky wherever he steps.
12:52The next to him, Silas is like nothing.
12:54He snaps his fingers, and hundreds of chests crash down.
12:56My father, finally smiling, takes the real me by the hand, and places me into Callum's arms.
13:01By the next morning, two stories are tearing across the entire dragon continent.
13:04Bait and Switch.
13:05King Siloist's maid instead of princess.
13:07Gold dragon returns.
13:08Rain's treasure and marries Princess Lyra.
13:10Meanwhile, I'm in the ancient palace, telling Callan I'm pregnant.
13:13I'm really going to be a father?
13:15He scoops me up like I'm made of glass, and sets me down on the soft down bed.
13:19You need rest now.
13:20Anything you want, just say it.
13:22I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
13:24They're barely a cluster of cells.
13:26You don't have to panic.
13:27For once, he ignores me completely.
13:29Treats me like the most fragile thing in the world.
13:31Healing potions, elven spring water, thousand-year-old herbs.
13:35It all flows in like a river.
13:37You're this good to me because I got you through your heat?
13:39He smiles and points to the golden scale on my colicone.
13:42This is the divine dragon's mate bond.
13:44You really don't remember?
13:45Eight hundred years ago, a magic disaster nearly killed me.
13:49You saved me.
13:49You wanted a powerful, mateful, handsome.
13:51Badgered me into a soul contract.
13:53You made me promise to marry you.
13:54Falling for a pretty face and refusing to let go?
13:57Yeah, that racks.
13:58That's exactly something I'd do.
14:00His eyes crinkle as he kisses the back of my hand.
14:02Thank the dragon ancestors.
14:03I found you again.
14:04Then something occurs to me.
14:06Wait.
14:07Exactly how big are you?
14:08You, didn't you already find out the other night?
14:12I meant your age.
14:13Oh, don't really remember.
14:15Maybe nine thousand, maybe over ten.
14:17You're that old?
14:18Turns out, teasing a dragon about his age is a big mistake.
14:21For the next few days, he doesn't let me out of bed once.
14:23Proving, over and over, exactly how young and strong he still is.
14:27I almost forget I used a shifting spell to fool Simus until he traces the scent of the wedding dress,
14:33the one I put on the maid, all the way to the dragon bone abyss.
14:36Lyra, you put a lowborn servant in my marriage bed?
14:40I'm back at the estate, lying out in the sun.
14:42Callum flew a hundred miles to the Elton city, off to buy the fruit I've been craving.
14:46So when Simus comes storming in for his revenge, there's no one to stop him.
14:52I run.
14:53He corners me in seconds.
14:55Lyra, you're this cruel to me?
14:58You really can't see even a shred of what I...
15:00He stops.
15:01His eyes have landed on my stomach, the swell of it.
15:07Who?
15:08What mongol touched you?
15:11I'll burn his soul with dragon fire.
15:13The green dragons honored the treaty.
15:15We sent you a bride.
15:17This child isn't yours.
15:19It's none of your business.
15:21His chest heaves.
15:22Claws push through his fingertips.
15:24Black magic bleeds off him, thick and suffocating.
15:26You belong to me.
15:28How dare you carry another man's child?
15:30How dare you let him touch you?
15:33His tail lash out, wraps my waist, yanks me hard against a marble pillar.
15:37His cold hand presses flat to my stomach.
15:39And the nightmare of my past life crashes over me all at once.
15:43I'm shaking.
15:44I can't stop.
15:45The scream rips out of me before I know it's coming.
15:48No!
15:49Don't touch my baby!
15:51Silas!
15:51Stop!
15:52Stop!
15:53It hurts.
15:54It hurts so much.
15:58Why did you do that to me?
15:59I did nothing.
16:02The babies were innocent.
16:03They were yours, your own blood.
16:05How could you?
16:06Silas goes still.
16:07The shock passes.
16:08And what rises in his eyes is something sick.
16:11A twisted, desperate joy.
16:13He pulls me into his chest.
16:15Holds me too tight.
16:16It's alright, Lyra.
16:17You remember.
16:18You remember me, don't you?
16:20I'm your husband.
16:21I'm taking you home.
16:22Don't be afraid.
16:23Don't be afraid of me.
16:24I'm drowning in the grief of a past life.
16:26Children I already lost once.
16:28Crying until I can't tell what's real and what's the dream.
16:31And that's how he takes me.
16:33Back to the obsidian castle.
16:36Behind its walls.
16:38I wake up in the bed from my past life.
16:40There you are.
16:42You finally remembered me.
16:43So that's it.
16:44That's why he's been so strange this whole life.
16:47He came back too.
16:48He's carrying the memories.
16:49Same as me.
16:51What is it you actually want?
16:53Lyra, the tragedy of our last life is over.
16:56I want to love you again.
16:57I want to start over.
16:58I laugh.
16:59The kind of laugh that means I'm done.
17:01Then I slap him.
17:02Hard.
17:02Twice.
17:02The sound of both ray through the room.
17:04Where do you find the nerve to say that to me?
17:07You slaughtered my children.
17:09Stripped my title.
17:11Branded me like a slave.
17:13You made me watch you with other women.
17:16Made me serve them on my knees.
17:19You made death look like mercy.
17:21And you think, let's move past it?
17:24Wipes all of that clean?
17:31Lyra, let me explain.
17:34The witch deceived me back then.
17:37That's why I...
17:40I don't want your excuses.
17:42The damage is done.
17:45You could give me your life to pay for it.
17:48I'd still never forgive you.
17:50He opens his mouth to say more.
17:52I lie back down and pull the blanket over my head.
17:54Get out, I want to look at your face.
17:56Silas lets out a long breath.
17:58Stands.
17:58Walks to the door.
18:00Miserable.
18:00Rest then.
18:01I'll come see you tomorrow.
18:02The second Silas leaves, I call a magic messenger bird.
18:05I send Callium word that I'm safe.
18:07Tell him not to make a move yet.
18:08And I tuck in a map of the Black Castle's magic defenses.
18:11The next morning, Silas walks in carrying the elven fruit I loved in my past life.
18:16I have no appetite.
18:17I cut him off flat.
18:18I don't need anything from you.
18:19I'm fine.
18:20I'm going home.
18:21Lyra, my regret is real.
18:24I want to make it up to you.
18:25I don't move an inch.
18:26So he forces me down to the dungeon instead.
18:28A beautiful red-haired dragon woman hangs chained to a cross.
18:32Broken.
18:33Branded.
18:33The word traitor burnt black into her collars bone.
18:36Lyra, in our past life, she's the one who turned us against each other.
18:39She's why we lost everything.
18:40When I came back, I threw her down here.
18:42I've made her pay.
18:43Day and night.
18:44This life, no one will ever come between us again.
18:46I avenged you.
18:47Surely now, even your worst grudge can finally rest.
18:50What exactly did she tell you?
18:52What made you turn on your own kind like this?
18:55His gaze skizz away.
18:56He won't answer.
18:57That guilty silence tells me everything.
18:59She wanted you.
19:00She was jealous of my place as queen.
19:02So she lied.
19:04Said I was sleeping around.
19:06Said the child in me wasn't yours.
19:09That's it, isn't it?
19:10No!
19:11Stop!
19:11I pick the bloody dagger up off the floor and drive it straight into his shoulder.
19:15The one to blame has always been you.
19:17Paranoid little tyrant.
19:19Too insecure to think straight.
19:21It doesn't matter what lies she told.
19:24You were the king.
19:25And you never asked me once.
19:27Never checked.
19:28You just swallowed her poisoned children and went to wipe out me and my children.
19:32Pinning it on her now?
19:33Spinless.
19:34Gutless.
19:35Trash like you doesn't deserve to be forgiven.
19:37Silas clutches his bleeding shoulder.
19:39He sways like the soul's just been drained out of him.
19:41And drop the heartbroken act.
19:42It makes me sick.
19:43I don't look at him again.
19:44I turn and I walk up the stairs.
19:45When the gifts and the begging don't move me.
19:48Silas switches tactics.
19:49A hand-carved rocking horse.
19:51Baby clothes stitched by elves.
19:53The finest potions on the continent.
19:55I back away.
19:55Hands wrapped around my stomach.
19:57Something heavy and sad flickers in his eyes.
19:59Lyra, don't be afraid.
20:01Even if the child isn't mine, I won't hurt them.
20:03I'll raise them as my own.
20:04I'll make you the most honored queen this whole-
20:07Are you out of your mind?
20:08I stare at him like he's insane.
20:09Because he is.
20:10I have a husband.
20:11A real one.
20:12Bound by contract.
20:13The baby has a real father.
20:15I don't need you playing some noble stepdad.
20:17Or what?
20:17You've got a thing for raising other men's kids?
20:20Lyra, I'm the black dragon king.
20:21Our kind lives forever.
20:23I have a whole eternity to wait for you to forgive me.
20:25And when you come around, I'll crown you.
20:27We'll have a dozen pure-blood heirs of our own.
20:30At first I fire back.
20:31But pretty soon I don't waste a single word on him.
20:34Lucky for me, the days of babysitting a lunatic end fast.
20:38Callum hits the Obedian castle.
20:39He arrives just as Silas is kneeling at my side.
20:43I'm treating him like furniture.
20:44Eyes shut, ignoring him completely.
20:46Callum tears through the barrier and walks in right as Silas leans in toward me.
20:50Dragonfire detonates loud enough to split the sky.
20:53My eyes fly open.
20:54Silas is gone.
20:55Blasted dozens of feet back.
20:57Smashed clean through a low-tearing wall.
20:59Callum!
21:00You came!
21:00He catches me.
21:01Checks me over head to toe.
21:03Slow and careful.
21:04Only once he's sure I'm not hurt does that world-ending blood rob pull back a little.
21:07I'm sorry. I shouldn't have left you alone.
21:10Let this piece of garbage find an opening.
21:12He slides an arm around my waist, ready to take me home.
21:15That's when Simus drags himself out of the rubble.
21:17Blood all over his face.
21:19He sees me tucked against Callum and his eyes go red with jealousy.
21:22This is the stray you found out there?
21:25We swore a soul contract under the gods.
21:27He's my lawful mate, so watch your mouth.
21:29Silas won't quit.
21:30He steps closer.
21:31Sizes Callum up and down.
21:32Wipes the blood off his lip and smirks.
21:34Lyra, an old man who won't even show his true form and this is who you settle for?
21:38I quietly let go of Callum's hand and step back to safety.
21:41Silas thinks he's hit a nerve.
21:42He starts to smile.
21:43Then Callum's fist, wrapped in thunder, slams him straight back into the ground.
21:46They both drop the pretense, shift into raw dragon form and tear into each other.
21:49Turns out Callum holds a serious grudge about the words, old man.
21:52The almighty tyrant gets battered across the sky, barely able to stay ever.
21:55I don't lift a finger to stop it.
21:57Not until Callum comes back, untouched.
21:59Let's go, sweetheart.
22:00I'm hungry.
22:01All right.
22:02Let's get you home.
22:02He folds me against him and spreads those huge golden wings to lunch.
22:06Then Silas, losing his mind all over again, screams after us.
22:09Lyra, speak hard.
22:10I'm a king.
22:11I can give you power and riches beyond imagining.
22:13He's just a rogue dragon with nothing.
22:15Follow him and all you'll get is suffering.
22:17A vein jumps at Callum's temple.
22:18I press down his urge to shape and turn around.
22:21I look at Silas with something close to pity.
22:23You should read more dragon history in your spare time.
22:25Or one day you'll provoke an ancient Anster and never even know what killed you.
22:29Callum barely leaves my side.
22:31I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
22:32But deep down, it warms me.
22:34Then Silas shows up again.
22:36Won't take no for an answer.
22:37It's only been a few days, but he looks wrecked.
22:39Sunken eyes.
22:40Days of stubble.
22:40The picture of a man falling apart.
22:42I lean back on the couch.
22:43Don't even bother opening my eyes.
22:44Well, let me guess.
22:45You finally dug up who Callum really is.
22:47Realized you're outmatched.
22:48Came crawling to beg.
22:49He stares at me, raw with resentment.
22:51So he's a golden dragon.
22:52So what?
22:52Ancient blood or not, how long have you even known him?
22:54It's nothing next to what we had.
22:56We made children together.
22:59Your nerve could put a castle wall to shame if I'd love to carve you into a thousand pieces
23:03counts as feelings.
23:05Then sure, you're number one.
23:07Callum walks over.
23:08Top-tier dragon pressure rolls off him, thick enough to flatten the room.
23:12What's this?
23:13Looking for another beating?
23:14You've just lived a few thousand years longer than me.
23:17Don't act like some ancient god.
23:19A few thousand years longer is all I need.
23:21I could crush your drag crystal whenever I feel like it and wipe the black throne off
23:27the map.
23:28You wouldn't dare.
23:29Try me.
23:30Callum lays his warm hand flat over the swell of my stomach.
23:34Keep buzzing around Lyra like a fly.
23:36Disturb my air one more time.
23:38And I promise you, by tomorrow your throne is rubble.
23:41I know Silas better than anyone.
23:42He's a tyrant.
23:43And what he creases most is power.
23:45Last life, that red-haired mistress came from a family with serious clout.
23:48That's the real reason he swallowed her lies about me so easily.
23:51And sure enough, faced with real death, the end of his entire bloodline, Silas crushes
23:54his own fifth wife.
23:55He leaves one thing behind.
23:57This isn't over.
23:58Then he slinks out of the abyss with his tail between his legs.
24:01Moving is nearly impossible now.
24:03All I can do is lie in bed and rest.
24:05That night, a sharp dragging pain tears through my belly.
24:08At the same moment, magic detonates outside the abyss.
24:11Loud enough to shake the walls.
24:13Something's wrong.
24:13I force myself up to look.
24:15Out there, Callum is surrounded.
24:16Hundreds of elite black dragon soldiers locked in formation around him.
24:20I open my mouth to warn him.
24:21Pain explodes at the back of my neck.
24:23A hand clamps over my mouth.
24:25Thin moonlight catches the wild red of Scythe's eyes.
24:28I fight with everything.
24:29My nails dig deep into his skin.
24:31He doesn't even flinch.
24:32Not until a scream rips out of me.
24:34Raw, agonized.
24:35That stops him cold.
24:36It's coming.
24:37The baby's coming.
24:38The pain folds me to the ground.
24:39Cold sweat soaks through my dress.
24:41Silas completely loses his nerve.
24:43Why is it happening so fast?
24:44I bite through my own lip.
24:45Divine dragon blood is overwhelming.
24:47The pregnancy runs nothing like a common dragon's.
24:50How would this fool ever understand that?
24:51His plan's in pieces.
24:53With no other choice, he carries me into a hidden cave.
24:55What is it you actually want from me?
24:57He doesn't answer.
24:58He just stares at my swollen tongue.
25:00I grint through the pain, grab a rock off the ground, and hurls it at him.
25:04What?
25:04You're going to do it again?
25:05Crush my children with your own hands just like last time?
25:08He lets the rock split his forehead open.
25:10Blood runs down.
25:11His face is frantic, unhinged.
25:13I won't.
25:14I'll wait for you to deliver them.
25:16Then I'm taking you away.
25:17I'll throw the children to that old monster.
25:19I only want you.
25:20I just want you to stay with me.
25:22And see.
25:22Completely out of his mind.
25:24I shut my eyes, breathe deep, force everything I have away from this lunatic and onto bringing
25:28my babies into the world.
25:29But I underestimated what it means for divine dragon blood to enter the world.
25:33This birth is worse than the last time.
25:34Far worse.
25:35Raw power tears through me.
25:36Wild and uncontrolled.
25:37My whole body tears through us.
25:39I'm slipping towards death.
25:40Silas sees my lips go white.
25:41Sees the life draining out of me fast.
25:43And pure terror takes me.
25:44He pours his own dragon power into me.
25:46Desperate.
25:47It's useless.
25:47It's useless.
25:48Your power's too weak.
25:50I can't hold back the backlash.
25:51I'm going to die any second now.
25:53He shakes his head, frantic.
25:54Tears and blood drip onto my face.
25:57No.
25:58No.
25:58I won't let you die.
26:00I was wrong, Lyra.
26:01I was wrong.
26:02In the end, even the strength to breathe is drained out of me.
26:05And right before the dark takes me, for the first time, I see it on Simus' face.
26:10The look of a man losing his entire world.
26:12Little by little, I hear it.
26:14Heavy, stumbling footsteps fading away.
26:16I can't help the bitter laugh.
26:17The coward.
26:18He must be terrified Callum Weston will find my body, so he's running.
26:21I sink into the dark.
26:23I don't know for how long.
26:24Then a pure, overwhelming warmth floods into my heart.
26:27Golden dragon power, gentle and fierce at once, threading through my body, smoothing
26:32away the agony tearing me apart.
26:35When I open my eyes, there's a soft, woven basket beside my pillow.
26:38Inside, lined up neat and careful, over a dozen dragon eggs, each glowing, faint gold.
26:45The moment I stir, a pair of warm hands closes tighter around mine.
26:49Callum's eyes are bloodshot.
26:50He lets out a long, shaking breath.
26:52Thank the dragon gods.
26:54Lyra.
26:56I made it in time.
26:58I follow his gaze.
26:59Not far off, Simus lies crumpled in a pool of blood, barely breathing, like a dog left
27:04for dead.
27:04I left him alive.
27:06He wasn't quite stupid enough.
27:08Scared you'd die in labor, so he dropped the barrier himself and let me in.
27:10So that's what happened.
27:12I touched my chest.
27:13There's a heartbeat there now.
27:15Scorching.
27:16Powerful.
27:17I'm not my own.
27:19You gave me your dragon crystal?
27:21Are you going to die?
27:22He leans down and kisses the tears away, soft and dodo.
27:26I'm a god who's lived 10,000 years.
27:28A dragon crystal is just a trinket to me.
27:31Only then do I laugh through the tears.
27:33I close my eyes and sink into sleep, finally at peace.
27:37We rest in the cave one more day.
27:39Then Callum lifts me into his arms and carries me back to the palace.
27:42Before we leave, he looks down at Silas, still slumped on the ground.
27:46Ancient dragon pressure rolls out of him all at once and snaps Silas's spine.
27:50Show your face in front of her again, and I'll peel off your scales myself.
27:53Silas's bones shatter through his body, but he bites down and doesn't make a sound.
27:57He only looks at me, those dead red eyes, deep and hopeless.
28:00When I turn away without a flicker of feeling, he finally shuts them for good.
28:03The month of recovery passes like a stretch of heaven.
28:06My dad sends mountains of blood-restoring elixirs and rare beast meat.
28:11Callie simmers it into rich broth himself and feeds it to me, spoon by spoon.
28:16My body's fully healed.
28:18My dragon power's even stronger than before.
28:20You should take the crystal back.
28:22There's no taking back a wedding gift once it's given.
28:25He's playing with one of the newly hatched little dragons, and he kisses my forehead.
28:29With it protecting you, I can finally breathe easy.
28:33Otherwise, I can't even imagine.
28:38If I ever lost you, I'd go mad and burn this whole continent to the ground.
28:43By the time the children all hatch and grow their first soft gold scales, I haven't seen Silas once.
28:49Only sometimes, walking the edge of our territory, I catch it.
28:53A faint, pitiful gaze watching from the dark.
28:56But one cold scarf from Callum, and it scrambles away in an instant.
29:00At the full moon feast for all 18 of our dragon babies, my dad shows up with a pile of
29:06rare bone relics and land deeds worth a fortune.
29:10Dad, who did you rob?
29:12You could sell the entire green dragon crandrab and not afford one piece of this.
29:16It takes me a while to get the truth out of a maid.
29:19All of it came from Silas.
29:22He sold off the royal treasury to put it together, compensation for me.
29:27He knew that if he sent it himself, I'd throw it straight into the moat.
29:30So he swallowed every last shred of a king's pride and knelt outside the green dragon castle, begging my dad
29:36to take it.
29:38Callum's first instinct was to torch the whole pile, but then he saw the hatchlings happily gnawing on the relics,
29:43and got so worked up he downed two whole barrels of vinegar.
29:46A couple days later, the ancient old man digs a stack of god-tier artifacts out of some ruin somewhere.
29:52Kids, toss that scrap metal.
29:53Look how shiny dad's holy sword is.
29:55I watch him show off like an overgrown child and laugh so hard I can't sit up straight.
30:00Two more years pass.
30:02Around the time I'm pregnant with our second, the outside world erupts with shocking news.
30:10The obsidian throne has fallen.
30:11The tyrant Silas lost his mind, slaughtered several of his own noble mistresses during a mating cycle,
30:19lost every scrap of support, and was dragged off his throne.
30:23The rival families he'd once persecuted laid a trap on the road to his exile.
30:27They cut his dragon tendals, branded the word slave into the tale he'd been so proud of,
30:32and kicked him into a bottomless chasm.
30:34No body, no bones, nothing left.
30:37I hear all of it leaning against Callum's broad chest, eating grapes he's peeled for me.
30:42I feel nothing at all.
30:43Silas did unspeakable things in his past life.
30:45In this one he nearly cost me my babies.
30:47An end like this?
30:48He earned every bit of it.
30:50As for me, I left the shadow of my past life behind a long time ago.
30:54In this era, full of magic and sunlight,
30:56I have a powerful mate who spoils me rotting,
30:59and a brood of gifted, extraordinary children.
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