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You Killed My Dragon Eggs. Now You Want Me as Your Queen EP ENGSUB Dragon Romance, Rebirth ASM
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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,
00:15then 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
00:22and threw me into the bottomless abyss.
00:24I thought I was falling straight into hell.
00:26I'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, right in the center of the room, Silas.
00:36This 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
00:43won't be some mere king.
00:44He's a god, an ancient, a golden dragon,
00:47waiting to claim me
00:48and take the heirs that Monster never deserved.
00:50I am Silas.
00:51I 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
00:59like a blade left in the sun.
01:01Your majesty!
01:01I'll give you a clutch of god dragon eggs!
01:03Choose me!
01:04My bloodline is the purest in the clan!
01:06A hundred girls, all elbowing each other,
01:08screaming their bloodlines like livestock at auction.
01:11I press my back flat against a marble pillar
01:13and don't breathe.
01:14They have no idea.
01:15Behind that beautiful face
01:16is something cold, bloodthirsty.
01:18Something our clan could never hope to control.
01:20I have to get out of this room.
01:21Lyra!
01:23Come 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.
01:46Father, 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
01:57was 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
02:02is 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
02:08where 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
02:15in 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,
02:28every moment of my last life came tearing back at once.
02:34In my past life,
02:35the first time I saw Silas,
02:37I fell hard.
02:37He was gorgeous.
02:38I never stood a chance.
02:40So when my father offered me up,
02:41I 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
02:48was by mating with us.
02:50Green dragons.
02:51We heal.
02:52We breed.
02:53It's our gift.
02:53And my bloodline was the strongest of all.
02:56So Silas spoiled me rotten.
02:57Every night in my bed,
02:58he couldn't get enough,
03:00pouring his raw heat deep inside me.
03:02Under six months,
03:03I was pregnant.
03:04But the closer I got to my due date,
03:06the more he changed.
03:07He'd stare at my stomach
03:08with this dark look I couldn't read.
03:10Then he locked me in the highest tower.
03:12It was for the baby's safety.
03:13Cut me off from everyone.
03:15I sent message after message
03:17begging him to explain.
03:18Nothing came back.
03:19Until one afternoon,
03:20I was napping
03:21when his hand closed around my throat.
03:23Traitor.
03:23He slammed me into the cold stone wall,
03:26tore my nightgown off.
03:27His hand twisted into a dragon claw
03:29and drove toward my stomach.
03:31They don't deserve to live.
03:33Right through my skin,
03:35he crushed my eggs.
03:36All three,
03:37one by one.
03:38The broken shells
03:38tore me open from the inside.
03:40I screamed until my throat bled,
03:42pressed a red-hot iron to my collarbone
03:44and branded one word into me.
03:46Traitor.
03:47Then he filled his bed with other women,
03:48made me kneel beside it
03:50and listen.
03:50Every night,
03:51every sound.
03:52When they were done,
03:53I carried in the water
03:55and washed them clean
03:56with my own hands.
03:58And the cruelest part,
03:59he murdered my babies.
04:00Then made me wash his mistresses clean
04:02with my own hands
04:03and nurse them
04:04through their pregnancies.
04:05I carried their water.
04:06I warmed their beds.
04:08I smiled when they screamed his name.
04:10I did all of it.
04:12And I will never do it again.
04:14Because this time,
04:15I know exactly how he kills.
04:17Which means I know exactly
04:19how to kill him first.
04:21Your Majesty,
04:23I'm already in love with someone else.
04:25And I'm carrying his child.
04:28The whole hall freezes.
04:30Gasps everywhere.
04:31My sisters stare at me
04:33like I've lost my mind.
04:34Like turning down a king
04:35is something only a crazy woman would do.
04:37My father shoots me a look
04:39that could kill.
04:39But in front of Silas,
04:41he swallows its distremely men-child
04:43and forces a smile.
04:44Your Majesty,
04:45Lyra is far too pampered.
04:47Perhaps you should consider
04:48the other ladies...
04:49No need.
04:49My heart stops.
04:51Did he come back too?
04:53My father wipes the cold sweat
04:55off his forehead.
04:56A noble daughter getting pregnant
04:58before marriage isn't unheard of.
04:59But not for me.
05:00I was groomed from birth
05:02for the crown.
05:03So finding out
05:04I've been harboring a secret lover,
05:06he's livid.
05:06To avoid a scandal,
05:08my father hosts Silas
05:09at our estate
05:10while a replacement is chosen.
05:11Me?
05:12Straight to house arrest.
05:13But here's the part
05:14that makes my skin crawl.
05:15They put Silas in the suite
05:17right next to mine.
05:18I can't leave my room.
05:20Doesn't matter.
05:21I feel it anyway.
05:23That dark, heavy stare
05:24tracking every move I make.
05:26Silas needs control.
05:27Over everything.
05:28Over everyone.
05:29Which means
05:30I can't let him dig
05:31into my little pregnancy lie.
05:33So I have my maid
05:34skeek someone in for me.
05:35A lover.
05:36Liam.
05:38Liam feeds me grapes
05:39and rubs my shoulders.
05:40All sculpted muscle
05:41and easy smiles.
05:43But that stare
05:43keeps crawling over my skin.
05:45Heavier every minute.
05:46Fine.
05:47If he's watching,
05:48let's make it good.
05:48I take Liam's hand
05:49and lead him into my bedroom.
05:51We barely reach the bed.
05:52The door explodes
05:53off 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?
06:02The green dragons
06:03aren't yours to command.
06:06So this is how
06:07the princess spends her nights?
06:10I'm having fun
06:11with someone
06:12I actually like.
06:13Jealous?
06:14Go find your own mistress.
06:16Who I entertain
06:17in my chambers
06:18is none of your concern.
06:19I don't see
06:20what comes next.
06:21He half-shifts.
06:22A massive black tail
06:23snaps out,
06:24wraps around Liam
06:25and hurls him
06:26clean out the window.
06:27My stomach drops.
06:29Liam was only here
06:30to play along
06:30and now he could be
06:31dead on the rocks below.
06:33Before I can move,
06:34Simus grabs my wrist
06:35and throws me
06:36onto the bed.
06:39His full weight
06:40comes down on me.
06:41Get off me!
06:43He pins my hands
06:44above my head.
06:46His mouth
06:47drags down my neck.
06:48You let him touch you.
06:51Why not me?
06:52His eyes are rimmed red.
06:54The words tear
06:55out of his throat,
06:57stripped of all
06:57his usual arrogance,
06:59leaving only raw,
07:01bleeding desperation.
07:02Lyra,
07:05just let me.
07:06I'll fuck him
07:07right out of your head!
07:08He's lost his mind.
07:09I fight with everything.
07:11Biting,
07:12kicking,
07:13cracking my head
07:14into his.
07:15He doesn't stop.
07:16I shut my eyes.
07:18I'd rather die
07:19than let him have me again.
07:20Then the weight is gone.
07:22My father's magic
07:23blasts Silas
07:24clear across the room.
07:29The two of them
07:30stand there,
07:31glaring like the room
07:32might catch fire.
07:33Silas!
07:35I said you could
07:36choose anyone
07:37from my clan
07:38to be your queen.
07:40I never gave you
07:41the right
07:42to take my daughter
07:43against her will.
07:50cross that line
07:52again
07:52and I will
07:53burn the treaty
07:55to ashes.
07:58And we will end
07:59this in blood.
08:00Simus tightens
08:01his jaw,
08:02knowing he overstepped.
08:04One wrong move
08:05and he loses
08:06the black dragon's
08:07only hope of an heir.
08:08But before he
08:09turns to go,
08:10he looks back
08:11at me.
08:13He looks back
08:14at me.
08:14The obsession
08:15burning in his eyes
08:16makes every hair
08:17on my body
08:17stand up.
08:18Lyra,
08:19this is my fault.
08:21I almost let him
08:22hurt you.
08:24It's not your fault,
08:25father.
08:27I need to get
08:28out of his territory.
08:29I'll come back
08:30once he's chosen
08:31a queen.
08:32He presses
08:33an old amulet
08:34into my palm,
08:34forged from secret gold.
08:36Take this.
08:38Go to the
08:38Dragonbone Abyss.
08:40Something far stronger
08:41than the black
08:41dragon king
08:42sleeps there.
08:43Silas won't dare
08:44set foot near it.
08:46I don't waste
08:47a second.
08:49The abyss
08:50is filled
08:51with the bones
08:51of ancient dragons.
08:53They tower over me.
08:54The air is heavy
08:55with old power.
08:57The amulet
08:58parts the barriers
09:00as I walk.
09:00I just need
09:01a quiet corner
09:02to disappear into
09:02for a while.
09:04Then I step
09:05into an underground palace
09:06and I freeze.
09:07The air is drenched
09:08in the scent
09:09of an apex dragon.
09:10A man appears
09:11in front of me.
09:13Impossibly beautiful
09:14and from the waist down
09:15a thick
09:16blazing tail
09:17of pure gold.
09:18The old legends
09:19come rushing back.
09:20Your scales
09:21they're gold.
09:23You're an ancient.
09:24His gold eyes
09:25flick to me
09:26for half a second
09:26then wrench away.
09:28Leave!
09:30Before I lose control.
09:32The mating bond
09:33is killing him.
09:34I could stop it
09:35but he's holding back.
09:36Silas would have
09:37taken what he wanted.
09:38This dragon won't.
09:39That alone is enough.
09:41I climb the steps
09:42to the throne.
09:43Under his
09:43sushrocked
09:44furious stare
09:45I throw myself
09:46into his arms
09:47and kiss him.
09:49I'll help you
09:49survive your heat.
09:51In exchange
09:51you give me
09:52a pure blood air.
09:54Deal?
09:55He frowns.
09:56His hands come up
09:57to push me away.
09:58Then his eyes
09:58catch the golden scale
09:59on my collar stone.
10:00He stills.
10:01Shock giving way
10:02to pure joy.
10:03His tail locks
10:04around my waist.
10:05One savage move
10:06and I'm prinned
10:07against the throne.
10:08Legs parted
10:09by his knees.
10:11Buy one
10:11get one free.
10:12Take the father too.
10:14What do you say?
10:14My answer drowns
10:16in his kiss.
10:16By the time it's over
10:17he's marked me
10:18deep permanent.
10:19His magic
10:20threaded through me
10:21down to the bone.
10:22For the first time
10:23since I came back
10:24the knot in my chest
10:25finally loosens.
10:26This life
10:27I'll carry the strongest
10:28dragon heirs alive
10:29and I'll make Silas
10:31pay back
10:31every single thing
10:32he owes me.
10:33The stronger the bloodline
10:34the worse the mating cycle.
10:36I spend seven days
10:37and nights
10:37with Callum
10:38in the abyss
10:39before the worst
10:39of it finally breaks.
10:41Lyra
10:41I'll give you
10:42the grandest wedding
10:43this continent
10:43has ever seen.
10:44I'm too wrecked
10:45to lift a finger.
10:46Sweet talk
10:47after the fact
10:47I figure.
10:48I don't think twice
10:49about it.
10:49I sleep for a long time.
10:51When I open my eyes
10:52the crystal my father
10:53gave me is flashing red.
10:56Something's wrong.
10:57The clan's in danger.
10:58Callum left
10:59to find me food.
11:00I can't wait
11:00for him to come back.
11:01I throw on my clothes
11:02and rush back
11:03to my family's great hall.
11:04My father pulls me aside
11:05the second he sees me.
11:07His face is grim.
11:08Silas says he'll burn
11:09our territory to the ground.
11:11Take every woman
11:12we have as breeding stock.
11:14I know exactly
11:14what this is.
11:15He's backing me
11:16into a corner.
11:17I find him
11:17by the garden fountain.
11:18He holds out a glass
11:19like nothing's wrong.
11:21Try it.
11:21Holy spring water.
11:22Your favorite.
11:23I take it
11:24and smash it
11:25into his face.
11:26Glass and all.
11:27He doesn't even flinch.
11:28Water dripping off
11:29his lashes.
11:29He just smiles.
11:30The green dragons
11:31have bred heirs
11:32for the Black Throne
11:33for centuries.
11:34It's law.
11:34Break the treaty
11:35and your whole clan
11:36dies with it.
11:37We are nothing
11:38to each other.
11:39Why does it have to be me?
11:40He stands,
11:41towers over me.
11:42His eyes go strangely soft.
11:44What if I told you
11:44we're bound by fate?
11:45Would you believe me?
11:46That's insane.
11:47If you were my fated mate,
11:48my heart would have jumped
11:49the first time I saw you.
11:50I'd have wanted to be near you.
11:51Not this.
11:52Not pure disgust.
11:53He stood frozen in place.
11:54Like the words
11:55actually cut him.
11:57Behind him,
11:57that black tail
11:58whips back and forth.
11:59Do the right thing
11:59for both our clans.
12:00Don't force me.
12:02And if I force you anyway,
12:03three days,
12:04I come for you myself.
12:05Wear the dress
12:05or bury your entire clan
12:07beside you.
12:07I trust the princess
12:08will choose wisely.
12:09Fineless!
12:10Shameless!
12:11How did I miss it last life?
12:12Playing at love
12:13while he twists my arm.
12:15He really thinks
12:16he's something.
12:17But cursing
12:17won't save anyone.
12:19I go straight
12:19to my father to plan.
12:21Three days later,
12:23Silas returns
12:23with a full
12:24black dragon procession.
12:28Under my father's
12:29furious glare,
12:30he claims
12:30his veiled bride,
12:32Princess Lyra.
12:35And he rides off
12:36into the distance.
12:39The second they're gone,
12:40the sky cracks open.
12:42A massive golden dragon
12:43pours out of the clouds.
12:47He lands in human form,
12:48draped in gold-thread silk.
12:50Aurora's spill across the sky
12:51wherever he steps.
12:52The next to him,
12:53Cymus is like nothing.
12:54He snaps his fingers
12:55and hundreds of chests
12:56crash down.
12:56My father,
12:57finally smiling,
12:58takes the real me
12:58by the hand
12:59and places me
13:00into Callum's arms.
13:01By the next morning,
13:02two stories are tearing
13:03across the entire
13:03dragon continent.
13:04Bait and Switch,
13:05King Siloist's maid
13:06instead of princess.
13:07Gold dragon returns,
13:08reigns treasure
13:09and marries Princess Lyra.
13:10Meanwhile,
13:11I'm in the ancient palace
13:12telling Callum I'm pregnant.
13:13I'm really going
13:14to be a father?
13:14He scoops me up
13:15like I'm made of glass
13:16and sets me down
13:17on the soft down bed.
13:18You need rest now.
13:20Anything you want,
13:21just say it.
13:21I don't know
13:22whether to laugh
13:23or cry.
13:23They're barely
13:24a cluster of cells.
13:26You don't have to panic.
13:27For once,
13:28he ignores me completely,
13:29treats me like
13:30the most fragile thing
13:31in the world.
13:31Healing potions,
13:32elven spring water,
13:34thousand year old herbs,
13:35it all flows in
13:36like a river.
13:36You're this good to me
13:37because I got you
13:38through your heat?
13:38He smiles
13:39and points to the golden scale
13:41on my colicone.
13:42This is the divine dragon's
13:43mate bond.
13:44You really don't remember?
13:45800 years ago,
13:46a magic disaster
13:47nearly killed me.
13:48You saved me.
13:49You wanted a powerful,
13:50mateful,
13:51handsome.
13:51Badgered me into
13:52a soul contract.
13:53You made me promise
13:53to marry you.
13:54Falling for a pretty face
13:55and refusing to let go?
13:57Yeah,
13:57that racks.
13:58That's exactly something I'd do.
13:59His eyes crinkle
14:00as he kisses the back
14:01of 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,
14:09didn't you
14:10already find out
14:11the other night?
14:12I meant your age.
14:13Oh,
14:14don't really remember.
14:15Maybe 9,000?
14:16Maybe over 10?
14:17You're that old?
14:17Turns out teasing a dragon
14:19about his age
14:20is a big mistake.
14:21For the next few days,
14:21he doesn't let me
14:22out of bed once,
14:23proving over and over
14:25exactly how young
14:26and strong he still is.
14:27I almost forget
14:28I used a shifting spell
14:29to fool Simus
14:30until he traces
14:31the scent of the wedding dress,
14:32the one I put on the maid,
14:34all the way
14:34to the dragon bone abyss.
14:35Lyra,
14:36you put a lowborn servant
14:38in my marriage bed?
14:39I'm back at the estate,
14:41lying out in the sun.
14:42Callum flew 100 miles
14:43to the Elton city,
14:45off to buy the fruit
14:45I've been craving.
14:46So when Simus
14:47comes storming in
14:49for his revenge,
14:50there's no one
14:50to stop him.
14:52I run.
14:53He corners me
14:54in seconds.
14:55Lyra,
14:56you're this cruel to me?
14:58You really can't see
14:59even a shred
14:59of what I...
15:00He stops.
15:00His eyes have landed
15:01on my stomach,
15:02the swell of it.
15:07Who?
15:08What Mongol
15:09touched you?
15:11I'll burn his soul
15:12with dragon fire.
15:13The Green Dragons
15:14honored the treaty.
15:15We sent you a bride.
15:17This child isn't yours.
15:19It's none of your business.
15:20His chest heaves.
15:22Claws push through
15:23his fingertips.
15:23Black magic bleeds off him,
15:25thick and suffocating.
15:26You belong to me.
15:27How dare you carry
15:29another man's child?
15:30How dare you let him
15:32touch you?
15:32His tail lash out,
15:34wraps my waist,
15:35yanks me hard
15:36against a marble pillar.
15:37His cold hand
15:37presses flat to my stomach,
15:39and the nightmare
15:40of my past life
15:41crashes over me
15:42all at once.
15:42I'm shaking.
15:44I can't stop.
15:45The scream rips out of me
15:47before I know it's coming.
15:48No!
15:49Don't touch my baby!
15:50Silas!
15:51Stop!
15:52Stop!
15:53It hurts.
15:54It hurts so much.
15:57Why did you do that to me?
15:59I did nothing.
16:01The babies were innocent.
16:03They were yours,
16:04your own blood.
16:05How could you...
16:05Silas goes still.
16:07The shock passes,
16:08and what rises in his eyes
16:09is something sick.
16:10A twisted,
16:11desperate joy.
16:13He pulls me into his chest,
16:15holds me too tight.
16:16It's all right, Lyra.
16:17You remember.
16:18You remember me,
16:19don'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
16:25of a past life.
16:26Children I already lost once,
16:28crying until I'm
16:28I can't tell what's real
16:30and what's the dream.
16:31And that's how he takes me
16:32back to the obsidian castle.
16:36Behind its walls.
16:38I wake up in the bed
16:39from my past life.
16:40There you are.
16:42You finally remembered me.
16:43So that's it.
16:44That's why he's been
16:45so 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,
16:54the 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
16:59that means I'm done.
17:00Then I slap him hard twice.
17:02The sound of both
17:03ray through the room.
17:04Where do you find the nerve
17:05to 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
17:14with other women.
17:16Made me serve them
17:17on my knees.
17:19You made death
17:20look like mercy.
17:21And you think,
17:22let's move past it?
17:24Wipes all of that clean?
17:31Lira, 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
17:46to pay for it.
17:48I'd still never forgive you.
17:50He opens his mouth
17:51to say more.
17:52I lie back down
17:52and pull the blanket
17:53over my head.
17:54Get out,
17:55I want to look at your face.
17:56Silas lets out
17:57a long breath.
17:58Stands.
17:58Walks to the door.
17:59Miserable.
18:00Rest then.
18:01I'll come see you tomorrow.
18:02The second Silas leaves,
18:03I call a magic messenger bird.
18:05I send Calium word
18:06that I'm safe.
18:07Tell him not to make a move yet.
18:08And I tuck in a map
18:09of the Black Castle's
18:10magic defenses.
18:11The next morning,
18:12Silas walks in
18:13carrying the elven fruit
18:14I loved in my past life.
18:15I have no appetite.
18:17I cut him off flat.
18:18I don't need anything from you.
18:19I'm fine.
18:19I'm going home.
18:20Lyra,
18:21my regret is real.
18:23I want to make it up to you.
18:25I don't move an inch.
18:26So he forces me down
18:27to the dungeon instead.
18:28A beautiful red-haired
18:29dragon woman
18:30hangs chained to a cross.
18:32Broken.
18:33Branded.
18:33The word traitor burnt black
18:34into her collarsbone.
18:36Lyra,
18:36in our past life,
18:37she's the one who turned us
18:38against each other.
18:39She's why we lost everything.
18:40When I came back,
18:41I threw her down here.
18:42I've made her pay,
18:43day and night.
18:44This life,
18:45no one will ever come
18:45between us again.
18:46I avenged you.
18:47Surely now,
18:48even your worst grudge
18:48can finally rest.
18:49What exactly did she tell you?
18:52What made you turn on
18:53your own kind like this?
18:54His gaze skizz away.
18:56He won't answer.
18:56That guilty silence
18:58tells me everything.
18:59She wanted you.
19:00She was jealous
19:01of my place as queen.
19:02So she lied.
19:04Said I was sleeping around.
19:06Said the child in me
19:07wasn't yours.
19:08That's it, isn't it?
19:10No!
19:11Stop!
19:11I pick the bloody dagger
19:12up off the floor
19:13and drive it straight
19:14into his shoulder.
19:15The one to blame
19:16has always been you.
19:17Paranoid little tyrant.
19:19Too insecure
19:19to think straight.
19:21It doesn't matter
19:22what lies she told.
19:23You were the king
19:25and you never asked me once.
19:27Never checked.
19:28You just swallowed
19:29her poisoned children
19:30and went to wipe out
19:31me and my children.
19:32Pinning it on her now?
19:33Spinless.
19:34Gutless.
19:35Trash like you
19:35doesn't deserve
19:36to be forgiven.
19:37Silas clutches
19:37his bleeding shoulder.
19:38He sways like the soul's
19:39just been drained out of him
19:40and dropped the heartbroken act.
19:42It makes me sick.
19:43I don't look at him again.
19:44I turn
19:44and I walk up the stairs.
19:45When the gifts
19:46and the begging
19:47don't move me,
19:48Silas switches tactics.
19:49A hand-carved rocking horse.
19:51Baby clothes
19:51stitched by elves.
19:52The finest potions
19:53on the continent.
19:54I back away.
19:55Hands wrapped around my stomach.
19:57Something heavy and sad
19:58flickers in his eyes.
19:59Lyra, don't be afraid.
20:01Even if the child isn't mine,
20:02I won't hurt them.
20:03I'll raise them as my own.
20:04I'll make you the most
20:05honored queen this whole-
20:06Are you out of your mind?
20:07I stare at him
20:08like 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.
20:14I don't need you
20:15playing some noble stepdad.
20:17Or what?
20:17You've got a thing
20:18for raising other men's kids?
20:19Lyra, I'm the black dragon king.
20:21Our kind lives forever.
20:22I have a whole eternity
20:24to wait for you to forgive me.
20:25And when you come around,
20:26I'll crown you.
20:27We'll have a dozen
20:28pure-blood heirs of our own.
20:30At first I fire back,
20:31but pretty soon
20:32I don't waste a single word on him.
20:34Lucky for me,
20:34the days of babysitting
20:36a lunatic end fast.
20:37Callum hits the Obedian castle.
20:39He arrives just as
20:41Silas is kneeling at my side.
20:42I'm treating him like furniture.
20:44Eyes shut,
20:44ignoring him completely.
20:46Callum tears through the barrier
20:47and walks in
20:48right as Silas
20:49leans in toward him.
20:50Dragon fire decanates
20:51loud enough to split the sky.
20:53My eyes fly open.
20:54Silas is gone.
20:55Blasted dozens of feet back,
20:57smashed clean
20:57through a low-tearing wall.
20:59Callum!
20:59You came!
21:00He catches me,
21:01checks me over head to toe,
21:03slow and careful.
21:04Only once he's sure
21:05I'm not hurt
21:05does that world-ending
21:06blood rob pull back a little.
21:07I'm sorry.
21:08I shouldn't have left you alone.
21:10Let this piece of garbage
21:11find an opening.
21:12He slides an arm around my waist,
21:14ready to take me home.
21:15That's when Simus
21:16drags himself out of the rubble,
21:17blood all over his face.
21:18He sees me tucked against Callum
21:20and his eyes go red with jealousy.
21:22This is the stray
21:23you found out there?
21:24We swore a soul contract
21:26under the gods.
21:26He's my lawful mate,
21:28so 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
21:33and smirks.
21:34Lyra, an old man
21:35who won't even show
21:36his true form
21:37and this is who you settle for?
21:38I quietly let go of Callum's hand
21:39and step back to safety.
21:40Silas thinks he's hit a nerve.
21:42He starts to smile.
21:42Then Callum's fist,
21:43wrapped in thunder,
21:44slams him straight back
21:45into the ground.
21:45They both drop the pretense,
21:47shift into raw dragon form
21:48and tear into each other.
21:49Turns out Callum holds
21:50a serious grudge
21:50about the words
21:51old man.
21:52The almighty tyrant
21:52gets battered across the sky,
21:53barely able to stay airborne.
21:55I don't lift a finger
21:56to stop it.
21:56Not until Callum comes back,
21:58untouched.
21:59Let's go, sweetheart.
22:00I'm hungry.
22:00Alright,
22:01let's get you home.
22:02He folds me against him
22:03and spreads those huge
22:04golden wings to launch.
22:06Then Silas,
22:06losing his mind all over again,
22:08screams after us.
22:09Lyra,
22:10speak hard,
22:10I'm a king.
22:11I can give you power
22:11and riches beyond imagining.
22:13He's just a rogue dragon
22:14with nothing.
22:14Follow him
22:15and all you'll get
22:16is suffering.
22:17A vein jumps
22:17at Callum's temple.
22:18I press down his urge
22:19to shape and turn around.
22:21I look at Silas
22:21with something close to pity.
22:23You should read more
22:24dragon history
22:24in your spare time,
22:25or one day you'll provoke
22:26an ancient Anster
22:27and never even know
22:28what killed you.
22:29Callum barely leaves my side.
22:31I don't know whether
22:31to laugh or cry,
22:32but deep down,
22:33it warms me.
22:34Then Simus shows up again,
22:36won't take no for an answer.
22:37It's only been a few days,
22:38but he looks wrecked.
22:39Sunken eyes,
22:40days of stubble,
22:40the picture of a man
22:41falling apart.
22:42I lean back on the couch.
22:43Don't even bother
22:43opening my eyes.
22:44Well, let me guess.
22:45You finally dug up
22:46who Callum really is,
22:47realized you're outmatched,
22:48came crawling to beg.
22:49He stares at me,
22:50raw with resentment.
22:50So he's a golden dragon.
22:52So what?
22:52Ancient blood or not?
22:53How long have you
22:54even known him?
22:54It's nothing next to
22:55what we had.
22:56We made children together.
22:59Your nerve could put
23:00a castle wall to shame
23:01if I'd love to carve you
23:02into a thousand pieces
23:03counts as feelings.
23:04Then sure,
23:06you're number one.
23:07Callum walks over.
23:08Top-tier dragon pressure
23:09rolls off him,
23:10thick enough to flatten
23:11the room.
23:12What's this?
23:13Looking for another beating?
23:14You've just lived
23:15a few thousand years
23:16longer than me.
23:17Don't act like
23:18some ancient god.
23:19A few thousand years
23:20longer is all I need.
23:21I could crush,
23:22crush your drag crystal
23:24whenever I feel like it
23:25and wipe the black throne
23:27off the map.
23:27You wouldn't dare.
23:29Try me.
23:29Callum lays his warm hand
23:31flat over the swell
23:32of my stomach.
23:33Keep buzzing around
23:34Lyra like a fly.
23:36Disturb my air
23:37one more time.
23:38And I promise you,
23:39by tomorrow,
23:40your throne is rubble.
23:41I know Silas
23:41better than anyone.
23:42He's a tyrant
23:43and what he craves
23:44is most is power.
23:45Last life,
23:45that red-haired mistress
23:46came from a family
23:47with serious clout.
23:48That's the real reason
23:49he swallowed her lies
23:49about me so easily.
23:50And sure enough,
23:51faced with real death,
23:52the end of his entire
23:53bloodline,
23:53Silas crushes his own
23:54fifth white.
23:55He leaves one thing
23:56behind.
23:56This isn't over.
23:58Then he slinks out
23:58of the abyss
23:59with his tail
24:00between his legs.
24:01Moving is nearly
24:02impossible now.
24:03All I can do
24:04is lie in bed
24:04and rest.
24:05That night,
24:06a sharp dragging pain
24:07tears through my belly.
24:08At the same moment,
24:09magic detonates
24:10outside the abyss,
24:11loud enough
24:11to shake the walls.
24:12Something's wrong.
24:13I force myself up
24:14to look.
24:15Out there,
24:15Callum is surrounded.
24:16Hundreds of elite
24:17black dragon soldiers
24:18locked in formation
24:19around him.
24:20I open my mouth
24:21to warn him.
24:21Pain explodes
24:22at the back of my neck.
24:23A hand clamps
24:24over my mouth.
24:25Thin moonlight catches
24:26the wild red
24:27of Saiva's eyes.
24:28I fight with everything.
24:29My nails dig deep
24:30into his skin.
24:31He doesn't even flinch.
24:32Not until a scream
24:33rips out of me.
24:34Raw, agonized.
24:35That stops him cold.
24:36It's coming.
24:37The baby's coming.
24:37The pain folds me
24:38to the ground.
24:39Cold sweat soaks
24:40through my dress.
24:41Silas completely
24:41loses his nerve.
24:42Why is it happening
24:43so fast?
24:44I bite through my own lip.
24:45Divine dragon blood
24:46is overwhelming.
24:47The pregnancy runs
24:48nothing like a common dragon's.
24:49How would this fool
24:50ever understand that?
24:51His plan's in pieces.
24:53With no other choice,
24:54he carries me
24:54into a hidden cave.
24:55What is it you actually
24:56want from me?
24:57He doesn't answer.
24:58He just stares
24:59at my swollen tongue.
25:00I grint through the pain,
25:01grab a rock off the ground
25:02and hurls it at him.
25:04What?
25:04You're going to do it again?
25:05Crush my children
25:06with your own hands
25:07just like last time?
25:08He lets the rock
25:09split his forehead open.
25:10Blood runs down.
25:11His face is frantic,
25:12unhinged.
25:13I won't!
25:14I'll wait for you
25:15to deliver them.
25:15Then I'm taking you away.
25:17I'll throw the children
25:18to that old monster.
25:19I only want you.
25:20I just want you
25:21to stay with me!
25:21You can see
25:22completely out of his mind.
25:24I shut my eyes,
25:24breathe deep,
25:25force everything I have
25:26away from this lunatic
25:27and onto bringing
25:28my babies into the world.
25:29But I underestimated
25:30what it means
25:30for divine dragon blood
25:32to enter the world.
25:32This birth is worse
25:33than the last time.
25:34Far worse.
25:34Raw power tears through me.
25:36Wild and uncontrolled.
25:37My whole body
25:38tear to bosses.
25:38I'm slipping towards death.
25:40Silas sees my lips go white,
25:41sees the life draining
25:42out of my fast,
25:43and pure terror takes me.
25:44He pours his own
25:45dragon power into me.
25:46Desperate.
25:46It's useless.
25:47It's useless.
25:48Our power's too weak.
25:49It can't hold back
25:50the backlash.
25:51I'm going to die
25:52any second now.
25:53He shakes his head,
25:54frantic.
25:54Tears and blood
25:55drip onto my face.
25:57No.
25:57No.
25:58I won't let you die.
25:59I was wrong, Lyra.
26:01I was wrong.
26:02In the end,
26:03even the strength
26:04to breathe
26:04is drained out of me.
26:05And right before
26:06the dark takes me,
26:07for the first time,
26:08I see it on
26:09Silas' face.
26:10The look of a man
26:10losing his entire world.
26:12Little by little,
26:13I hear it.
26:13Heavy,
26:14stumbling footsteps
26:15fading away.
26:16I can't help
26:16the bitter laugh.
26:17The coward.
26:18He must be terrified
26:19Callum Weston
26:20will find my body
26:20so he's running.
26:21I sink into the dark.
26:22I don't know for how long.
26:24Then a pure,
26:25overwhelming warmth
26:26floods into my heart.
26:27Golden dragon power,
26:29gentle and fierce at once,
26:30threading through my body,
26:32smoothing away
26:33the agony
26:33tearing me apart.
26:34When I open my eyes,
26:36there's a soft,
26:36woven basket
26:37beside my pillow.
26:38Inside,
26:39lined up neat
26:40and careful
26:40over a dozen dragon eggs,
26:42each glowing,
26:44faint gold.
26:45The moment I stir,
26:46a pair of warm hands
26:47closes tighter
26:47around mine.
26:49Callum's eyes are bloodshot.
26:50He lets out a long,
26:51shaking breath.
26:52Thank the dragon gods.
26:54Lyra,
26:56I made it in time.
26:57I follow his gaze.
26:59Not far off,
27:00Simus lies crumpled
27:01in a pool of blood,
27:02barely breathing,
27:03like a dog left for dead.
27:04I left him alive.
27:06He wasn't quite stupid enough.
27:07Scared you'd die in labor,
27:08so he dropped the barrier himself
27:10and let me in.
27:11So that's what happened.
27:12I touched my chest.
27:13There's a heartbeat there now.
27:15Scorching,
27:16powerful,
27:17and not my own.
27:19You gave me your dragon crystal?
27:21Are you going to die?
27:22He leans down
27:23and kisses the tears away,
27:24soft and doting.
27:26I'm a god who's lived
27:27ten thousand years.
27:28A dragon crystal
27:29is just a trinket to me.
27:31Only then do I laugh
27:32through the tears.
27:33I close my eyes
27:34and sink into sleep,
27:36finally at peace.
27:36We rest in the cave
27:38one more day.
27:39Then Calium lifts me
27:40into his arms
27:40and carries me back
27:41to the palace.
27:42Before we leave,
27:43he looks down at Silas,
27:44still slumped on the ground.
27:46Ancient dragon pressure
27:47rolls out of him
27:48all at once
27:48and snaps Silas's spine.
27:50Show your face
27:51in front of her again
27:51and I'll peel off
27:52your scales myself.
27:53Silas's bones
27:54shatter through his body,
27:55but he bites down
27:56and doesn't make a sound.
27:57He only looks at me,
27:57those dead red eyes,
27:59deep and hopeless.
28:00When I turn away
28:00without a flicker of feeling,
28:02he finally shuts them for good.
28:03The month of recovery
28:04passes like a stretch of heaven.
28:06My dad sends mountains
28:07of blood-restoring elixirs
28:09and rare beast meat.
28:10Cali simmers it
28:11into rich broth himself
28:13and feeds it to me
28:14spoon by spoon.
28:15My body's fully healed.
28:17My dragon power's
28:19even stronger than before.
28:20You should take
28:21the crystal back.
28:22There's no taking back
28:23a wedding gift
28:23once it's given.
28:24He's playing with one
28:26of the newly hatched
28:27little dragons
28:27and he kisses my forehead.
28:29With it protecting you,
28:31I can finally breathe easy.
28:33Otherwise,
28:35I can't even imagine.
28:38If I ever lost you,
28:39I'd go mad
28:40and burn this whole
28:42continent to the ground.
28:43By the time the children
28:44all hatch and grow
28:45their first soft gold scales,
28:47I haven't seen Silas once.
28:49Only sometimes,
28:50walking the edge
28:51of our territory,
28:52I catch it,
28:53a faint, pitiful gaze
28:54watching from the dark.
28:55But one cold scarf
28:57from Callum
28:57and it scrambles away
28:59in an instant
29:00at the full moon feast
29:01for all 18
29:02of our dragon babies,
29:04my dad shows up
29:05with a pile of rare
29:06bone relics
29:06and land deeds
29:07worth a fortune.
29:10Dad,
29:11who did you rob?
29:12You could sell
29:12the entire green dragon
29:13crandrab
29:14and not afford
29:14one piece of this.
29:16It takes me a while
29:17to get the truth
29:18out of a maid.
29:19All of it came
29:19from Silas.
29:22He sold off
29:23the royal treasury
29:23to put it together,
29:25compensation for me.
29:26He knew that
29:27if he sent it himself,
29:28I'd throw it
29:29straight into the moat.
29:30So he swallowed
29:31every last shred
29:32of a king's pride
29:33and knelt outside
29:34the green dragon castle,
29:35begging my dad
29:36to take it.
29:38Callum's first instinct
29:39was to torch the whole pile,
29:40but then he saw
29:41the hatchlings happily
29:42gnawing on the relics
29:43and got so worked up
29:44he downed two whole barrels
29:46of vinegar.
29:46A couple days later,
29:48the ancient old man
29:48digs a stack of god-tier
29:50artifacts out of some ruin
29:51somewhere.
29:51Kids, toss that scrap metal.
29:53Look how shiny
29:54dad's holy sword is.
29:55I watch him show off
29:56like an overgrown child
29:57and laugh so hard
29:58I can't sit up straight.
30:00Two more years pass.
30:01Around the time
30:02I'm pregnant
30:03with our second,
30:04the outside world
30:05erupts with shocking news.
30:10The obsidian throne
30:11has fallen.
30:12The tyrant Silas
30:13lost his mind,
30:15slaughtered several
30:16of his own noble mistresses
30:17during a mating cycle,
30:19lost every scrap of support,
30:21and was dragged
30:21off his throne.
30:22The rival families
30:23he'd once persecuted
30:25laid a trap
30:25on the road
30:26to his exile.
30:27They cut his dragon tendals,
30:28branded the word slave
30:30into the tale
30:30he'd been so proud of,
30:32and kicked him
30:33into a bottomless chasm.
30:34No body,
30:35no bones,
30:36nothing left.
30:37I hear all of it
30:38leaning against
30:39Callum's broad chest,
30:40eating grapes
30:40he's peeled for me.
30:41I feel nothing at all.
30:43Silas did unspeakable things
30:44in his past life.
30:45In this one,
30:46he nearly cost me my babies.
30:47An end like this,
30:48he earned every bit of it.
30:49As for me,
30:50I left the shadow
30:51of my past life
30:52behind a long time ago.
30:54In this era,
30:55full of magic and sunlight,
30:56I have a powerful mate
30:58who spoils me rotting,
30:59and a brood of gifted,
31:01extraordinary children.
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