Watch You Killed My Dragon Eggs. Now You Want Me as Your Queen Full Episode (ENGSUB), an emotional short drama where betrayal, rebirth, and destiny collide. After the Black Dragon King destroys her precious dragon eggs, Lyra dies filled with regret—only to awaken before the tragedy begins. Determined to rewrite her fate, she refuses to trust the man who shattered her heart and instead embarks on a path of revenge, self-discovery, and unexpected love. Filled with dragon romance, rebirth, hidden identity, royal intrigue, emotional twists, and fantasy adventure, this captivating drama series is impossible to stop watching.
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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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