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00:00Someone had spiked my fiancé's drink.
00:02When he started tearing open Serena Blackwood's dress at the Blackwood Gala,
00:05I did not rush in to stop him the way I had in my last life.
00:08Back then, I had been terrified he would offend Marcus Blackwood,
00:11a man famous for protecting his own at any cost.
00:13I threw myself between them.
00:16Evan!
00:17Drugged out of his mind, dragged me into a guest room and raped me.
00:20From that night on, the entire pack's old money circle said I had climbed into his bed on purpose.
00:25After I married him, the torment only got worse.
00:28In five years, I got pregnant seven times.
00:31Every baby was lost in another convenient accident.
00:33They called me a slut, a used-up whore,
00:36a woman who must have been passed around by half the men in town before she ever wore Evan's ring.
00:41My parents poured everything they had into making my life survivable in the Brooks household.
00:45They helped push Evan onto the council.
00:47And on the night I went into labor,
00:49Evan and Serena held me down and forced drug-laced water down my throat.
00:52I bled out on the birthing bag.
00:53If you hadn't stuck your nose in that night,
00:55Serena and I would have completed our mate-hand years ago.
00:57You ruined my fated mate.
01:00This is what you owe us.
01:02Then he smothered the baby I had nearly died delivering,
01:05right in front of me.
01:06Blood and tears soaked my face.
01:07When my last breath left me,
01:09there was nothing left in me but hatred.
01:11Then I opened my eyes again.
01:13I was back at the Blackwood Gala.
01:14Back on the day someone spiked Evan's drink.
01:17This time, I would let them finish the bond they had spent a lifetime blaming me for.
01:21Evan, please don't...
01:23Serena Blackwood's breathy, embarrassed moan slipped out of the Lakeview guest suite.
01:27It sounded soft enough to pass for refusal,
01:29and loud enough to be meant for everyone in the hall.
01:31I stood outside the door, and my stomach dropped.
01:34Through the crack, Evan Brooks' eyes were bloodshot.
01:37Evan Brooks' eyes were bloodshot.
01:38His bowtie hung crooked at his throat as he pinned Serena against the floor-to-ceiling window,
01:43and tore open her custom silver-green gown.
01:45Clara, we have to go in and save her.
01:48Her knuckles white.
01:49Grace Miller grabbed my sleeve.
01:50I looked at the two tangled shadows inside.
01:53Then at Grace, who looked desperate to rush in on my behalf.
01:56I almost laughed.
01:57Save who?
01:58The woman who, in my last life,
01:59helped Evan drug me and leave me bleeding out on a birthing bed?
02:02Or the monster who smothered my child with his own hands?
02:05Evan comes from the minor pack branch.
02:10If he really hurts Serena tonight,
02:12Marcus Blackwield will never let him walk away.
02:14Clara, what are you waiting for?
02:15Did you forget what Mr. Ashford said?
02:17Evan's father had old ties with the Ashfords.
02:19You were supposed to look out for him.
02:21If Evan is ruined here, your father will blame you.
02:23Grace kept her voice low,
02:24but every word came faster than the last.
02:27She had wanted Evan for years.
02:28She could not wait for me to sign a mate contract with him,
02:31just so she could follow us into the Brooks household
02:33and become his hidden mistress.
02:35In my last life,
02:36when I crawled toward the door covered in blood
02:38and tried to call for help,
02:39Grace was the one who pinned my hands and feet down.
02:41She stepped on my bleeding stomach again and again,
02:44smiling as she said,
02:50I clenched my fingers and swallowed the urge
02:53to strangle her on the spot.
02:54I'll go in and hold him off.
02:56I lowered my eyes.
02:57My voice shook.
02:58I'll go in and hold him off.
02:59You go to the front hall and get my mother in security.
03:01Remember, don't alarm the other guests.
03:03Remember, don't alarm the other guests.
03:04The excitement in Grace's eyes
03:06almost broke through her act.
03:07She agreed at once and hurried away.
03:09She moved like someone
03:10who had just been handed an exclusive scandal.
03:12It had been the same in my last life.
03:14The whole thing could still have been buried
03:15by the Blackwoods.
03:16But Grace had dragged over the council spouses,
03:19old money heiresses,
03:20and donors from the front hall.
03:21They all saw me half-dressed,
03:23pinned under Evan on the bed.
03:25My mother fainted on the spot.
03:26My father spent half a lifetime building his reputation,
03:29and that night,
03:30it was dragged through the mud.
03:31Even the Ashford girls became cocktail hour gossip because of me.
03:34Since Grace was so good at gathering an audience,
03:37I would let her.
03:38Let every important guest in that front hall
03:40come watch the live sex show already waiting for them.
03:42And let my dear husband from my last life
03:44have exactly what he deserved.
03:45A ladder straight into the Blackwood family.
03:47I crouched outside the Lakeview guest suite,
03:49and a savage kind of relief ran through my whole body.
03:52Patricia Brooks had not yet forced my face toward the fireplace,
03:55and burned a scar into me that no powder could hide.
03:58I had not yet smelled infected flesh mixed with burned salve.
04:01My knees had not yet been ruined from kneeling
04:03on the Brooks household stone floor until the tissue died.
04:05The Brooks household stone floor until the tissue died,
04:08turning me into the crippled whore everyone whispered about.
04:11My belly felt lighter too.
04:12It was not aching every hour from baby
04:14after baby being taken from me.
04:15My nails dug into my palm.
04:17The sharp pain told me this was not a dream.
04:20When footsteps sounded down the hall,
04:22I lifted my hand and slapped myself hard across the face,
04:25again and again.
04:26This face, still untouched by the ruin of my last life,
04:29swelled red almost at once.
04:31I had been slapped so often in the Brooks household
04:33that even now, when I split my own lip
04:36and felt blood drip down my chin, it barely hurt.
04:38Clara, why are you still here?
04:40Grace came rushing over with a crowd of donor wives
04:42and council spouses in evening gowns.
04:44The moment she saw me still guarding the door,
04:47panic flashed across her face.
04:48I pinched the soft inside of my thigh as hard as I could.
04:51My eyes went red at once.
04:53Then I rushed forward with tears all over my face
04:55and threw my arms out in front of the sweet door.
04:57The corridor's crystal light spilled over me.
05:00The handprints on my face and the blood at the corner of my mouth
05:02landed clearly in every pair of eyes.
05:04The handprints on my face and the blood at the corner of my mouth
05:07landed clearly in every pair of eyes.
05:09One woman's champagne glass rose halfway to her lips.
05:12Someone cursed under her breath.
05:14The daughter of the Ashford family was an old-blood heiress.
05:17On any other day, even a scraped finger would have been enough
05:19to send the whole family office into a panic.
05:22Now half my face was swollen and blood was still running from my mouth.
05:25Catherine Blackwood was the first to frown.
05:27Tonight was the Blackwood Gala.
05:29If a guest was injured in her family's private wing,
05:31it was the Blackwoods who lost face.
05:33She had just started toward me when I pressed myself flat against the door.
05:36Please, all of you, go somewhere else.
05:37Don't go in.
05:38Please, don't go in.
05:40The warmth Catherine had been wearing for the room went cold at once.
05:44Clara, this is the private wing of the Blackwood estate.
05:47It is not an Ashford doorway for you to go.
05:49She lifted one hand,
05:50and two house staff members immediately stepped forward to pull me away.
05:53I acted as if the lightest touch might shatter me.
05:56I was trembling hard,
05:57but I clung to the doorframe and would not let go.
05:59No, you can't go in.
06:02House staff and security came together to pry my hands loose.
06:04In the chaos,
06:05someone's stiletto came down hard on the back of my hand.
06:08Something in the bone shifted one.
06:10Something in the bone shifted one.
06:12I screamed before I could stop myself.
06:15Helena Ashford had stayed silent because this was the Blackwoods house,
06:18but now pain and fear broke across her face.
06:20She grabbed my arm.
06:21Clara, what are you doing?
06:23Making a scene at someone else's gala like this,
06:25what do you expect the Ashford family to do?
06:27I looked at my mother standing in front of me,
06:29alive and whole.
06:30Her hair not yet turned white overnight because of my scandal.
06:33Mom, don't make me...
06:34Tears flooded my eyes.
06:35I have a reason.
06:37I really can't let them go in.
06:39Helena's voice changed with panic.
06:41What are you even saying?
06:42My knees gave out,
06:43and I dropped directly in front of Catherine.
06:45Catherine, please.
06:46Don't.
06:47The whispers in the crowd finally broke loose.
06:49What is wrong with Clara Ashford?
06:51There isn't really something shameful behind that door.
06:54Is there?
06:54I curled up at the threshold,
06:56holding up the hand that was already swelling.
06:58My whole body shaking so hard I could not stop it.
07:01Catherine's face went completely dark.
07:03Very good.
07:04A perfectly decent Blackwood gala,
07:07and somehow Ashford's daughter is blocking my door.
07:09Since she has made this much of a scene,
07:12I will not be the only one deciding what happens next.
07:15Go to the front hall.
07:16Bring Marcus and Richard here.
07:19Go to the front hall.
07:20Bring Marcus and Richard here.
07:22I pressed down the smile tugging at my mouth.
07:24Those slaps had not been wasted.
07:26At last, the scene was big enough.
07:28Tonight was the Blackwood Alliance gala.
07:30Marcus Blackwood and my father, Richard Ashford,
07:33were not the only powerful men in the front hall.
07:35Several Whitmore High Council candidates were here, too.
07:38Evan and I had been husband and wife for an entire lifetime after all.
07:41This time, of course I had to make sure he and his beloved Serena had a full audience.
07:45Within minutes, Marcus arrived with a crowd of councilmen and donors at his back,
07:49security following close behind.
07:51Richard Ashford moved the fastest.
07:53The moment he saw me covered in mud and blood,
07:56guarding the door as if my life depended on it,
07:58his face changed.
07:59The next second, he lifted his hand and slapped me hard across the face.
08:03Always known how to behave.
08:04Have you lost your mind tonight?
08:06The council spouses around us shook their heads.
08:09In the East Coast Pack Circle,
08:10I had always been the Ashford family's most proper daughter.
08:13Now I was crying and making a scene at the Blackwood Gala,
08:16blocking the private wing and refusing to let anyone through.
08:18Half the obedient reputation I had built over the years was already gone.
08:22Half the obedient reputation I had built over the years was already gone.
08:26Marcus's expression darkened.
08:28He gave me one cold glance.
08:29Then he simply raised his hand.
08:31The security men at his side stepped forward,
08:34lifted me away like they were removing an out-of-control guest,
08:37and threw me down near the rain-soaked edge of the lawn.
08:39It had rained two days ago.
08:41The Blackwood Estate's stone path had been scrubbed spotless,
08:44but the grass beside it was still full of mud.
08:46The hem of my pale lavender gown sank into the muck,
08:49filthy enough to make me look as if I had crawled out of a service alley.
08:52Everyone walked around me and headed straight for the sweet door.
08:55Helena's tears fell in a rush.
08:57How are you supposed to stand in packed society after this?
09:00I wiped the muddy water from my face and smiled at her.
09:03The crowd had barely reached the door when every step stopped at once.
09:06A woman's moan, soft and sticky,
09:09slid through the crack,
09:10tangled with a man's low, restrained panting.
09:12The sound was so obscene it made heat crawl up people's faces.
09:15Then came the dull thud of a headboard hitting the wall,
09:18again and again.
09:19No one needed to go in to know exactly how lively it was inside.
09:22Several donor wives who had brought young daughters with them
09:25immediately covered the girls' ears and ordered house staff to take them away.
09:28Then the woman inside let out another honey-sweet sound.
09:31Her voice stretched thin and breathless at the end.
09:34The guests looked from one face to another,
09:36each expression uglier than the last.
09:38The Blackwoods had humiliated themselves completely tonight.
09:40In broad daylight, in a guest wing,
09:42doing something this lewd,
09:44an outspoken council wife clutched her evening back.
09:47Her voice was low, but every word landed clearly.
09:50The way everyone looked at Marcus and Catherine now carried an unmistakable edge of mockery.
09:54Marcus's face flushed dark purple.
09:56Beneath his beard,
09:57his jaw clenched tight.
09:58I pushed in from the edge of the crowd and caught his sleeve with trembling fingers.
10:02We shouldn't go in.
10:04At least think of the reputation of whoever is inside.
10:07Marcus's gaze cut quickly across the guests.
10:10The Whitmore heirs stood behind him in immaculate black formal wear.
10:13He was not afraid of offending some irrelevant guest.
10:15But whoever dared to do this at the Blackwood Alliance Gala
10:18had dragged the Blackwood name through the mud on purpose.
10:20There was no dignity left for him to protect.
10:23Marcus ripped the brass master key from the house steward's heavy key ring.
10:26The metal keys clattered hard against the doorframe.
10:29Move.
10:29His voice came out in a low growl.
10:31He shoved me aside without mercy and jammed.
10:33The brass key into the iron lock.
10:35With a violent crash,
10:37the frame of the Lakeview guest suite split open.
10:39Half the door hung crooked,
10:40then dropped hard onto the carpet.
10:42The sky outside had not gone fully dark,
10:43but the suite blazed with light.
10:45The white wall scouts lit up the mess on the floor.
10:47A kicked-a-side gown,
10:48a shirt,
10:49and a piece of red lace ongerary.
10:50The whole room reeked of sex and sweat,
10:52sharp and fishy like Bradford blossoms in spring,
10:55strong enough to tighten the back of the throat.
10:56Some council spouses covered their mouths,
10:58others cried out.
11:00Marcus was already past reason.
11:02He overturned the frosted glass screen with one brutal shove.
11:04On the king bed,
11:05Evan Brooks was completely naked,
11:07with a woman's bare thighs hooked over his shoulders.
11:10The red lace lingerie was still clenched in his hand.
11:13The air went dead silent.
11:15Even the sound of high heels sinking into the carpet seemed loud.
11:20He fumbled for the comforter,
11:23trying to drag it over the woman beneath him and hide her from view.
11:26To Marcus,
11:27that looked less like shame than provocation.
11:30Evan might have been a rising pack attorney this year,
11:33but in Marcus's eyes,
11:35he was still nothing more than a lower pack legal associate
11:37with no real power and no real bloodline.
11:40A scholarship-born climber like him would not even have been allowed near the Blackwood side door
11:44on an ordinary night.
11:46And now he had dared to turn the Blackwood guest wing into this kind of debauchery.
11:49It was uglier than spitting in Marcus Blackwood's face.
11:53Low-born trash!
11:54Marcus's eyes went bloodshot.
11:56He grabbed the iron poker from beside the fireplace
11:58and swung it down hard at the bedpost.
12:01Evan clutched the woman against himself and scrambled naked across the bed,
12:04trying to dodge.
12:05The sight of him stumbling bare in front of every important guest
12:08nearly drove Marcus and Catherine mad.
12:10One council space after another looked away,
12:12stepping back on their heels.
12:13Catherine's chest rose and fell with fury.
12:16She had no polished hostess mask left to wear.
12:19At this point,
12:20the Blackwoods had no dignity left to protect.
12:22I want to see which little slit dared go into heat in my house!
12:27Catherine,
12:27for my sake,
12:30don't.
12:31But Evan Brooks had no sake to speak of in the Blackwood house.
12:34Catherine let out a cold laugh and pulled with both hands.
12:37With one harsh rip,
12:38she tore the entire comforter away.
12:40A completely naked woman was exposed in front of everyone.
12:43She covered her face with both hands,
12:45her legs pressed tightly together,
12:46too afraid to lift her head.
12:48Several bright red hickeys stood out on her pale shoulders.
12:51Her hair was damp and tangled,
12:52as if she had just been dragged out of the sheets.
12:54The Blackwood female aides beside Catherine reacted first.
12:57They stepped forward,
12:58pinned the woman's wrists and ankles,
13:00and yanked her hair back,
13:01forcing her face up for everyone to see.
13:03Little slut,
13:04still trying to hide?
13:05And that beautiful,
13:06sweat-damp,
13:07painfully familiar face
13:08was shown to every person in the suite.
13:10A glass knocked against a serving tray
13:11with a bright, brittle sound.
13:12The entire room seemed to explode.
13:14Serena Blackwood was there,
13:15naked and exposed,
13:17helplessly displayed in front of every council witness.
13:19Catherine Black froze on the spot.
13:20She looked as if someone had struck her straight between the eyes.
13:23One hand flew to her head as she staggered back.
13:25The guests looked from the scandal pair on the bed to me.
13:28My eyes reddened,
13:29and tears rolled down my face at exactly the right moment.
13:31I did not need to say anything anymore.
13:34Everyone had already put the story together for themselves.
13:37I was an old-blood Ashvind heiress.
13:39Who would dare put a hand on me so easily?
13:41The answer seemed obvious.
13:43I must have stumbled onto Serena's filthy secret.
13:46Serena must have slapped me,
13:47and then she must have forced me to stand outside
13:49and guard the door for the two of them.
13:51Bastard!
13:52He tightened his grip on the fireplace poker
13:54and brought it down hard across Evan Brooks' back.
13:57The iron edge scraped through flesh,
13:58and a long, ugly gash split open at once.
14:01I lowered my head
14:02and used the back of my mudsteed hand
14:04to hide the corner of my mouth.
14:06Evan Brooks, you deserve that one.
14:09A raw scream tore out of Evan's throat.
14:11He touched the torn skin on his back
14:13and tried desperately to explain.
14:15Blame.
14:15Marcus, listen!
14:16I was drugged!
14:17Someone set me up!
14:18Marcus was beyond listening.
14:19He raised the fireplace panel again
14:21and swung it straight for Evan's neck.
14:23Marcus, stand down!
14:25He's still a licensed council attorney.
14:26We investigate first.
14:28I watched coldly, almost regretful.
14:30What a shame.
14:31One cleaner hit,
14:32and he might have died right there.
14:33No matter how furious Marcus was,
14:35he could not ignore the Whitmerts in front of them.
14:37Investigate!
14:38Tear the Blackwood estate apart if you have to.
14:40Bar logs, cameras, badge swipes,
14:42sweet access.
14:42I want everything!
14:45Evan let out a breath of relief,
14:47then swept one cold glance over me.
14:49That single look told me everything.
14:51He had come back too.
14:52Those were not the eyes
14:53of a newly admitted pack attorney.
14:55They were Evan Brooks' eyes
14:56after years soaked in council politics
14:58in our last life.
14:59Still on his knees,
15:00he planted both hands against his thighs
15:02and slowly straightened his spine.
15:04However I was set up tonight,
15:05Serena's public standing is already ruined.
15:07I'm willing to sign a responsibility statement,
15:09acknowledge this mate bond scandal,
15:10and enter an alliance engagement with Serena.
15:12He thought that sounded noble.
15:14He thought Marcus and Catherine would be grateful
15:16that he was offering to clean up Blackwood's mess.
15:18P!
15:19You think you're what exactly?
15:21A no-pittage low-pack cur
15:22thinks he can crawl into the Blackwood bloodline?
15:24Evan squeezed his eyes shut,
15:26his entire face flushed red.
15:27In all his years,
15:29no one had ever humiliated him like this in public.
15:31After all, in my last life,
15:33whenever he dealt with Marcus,
15:35Marcus had always clapped him on the shoulder
15:37and called him promising.
15:38Marcus had even said he admired a man
15:40who climbed by talent.
15:41What a joke.
15:42In that life,
15:44Evan Brooks had been my husband.
15:45My father, Richard Ashford,
15:46was the pack council's chief legal strategist.
15:49The respect Marcus gave him
15:50had never belonged to Evan.
15:51It had belonged to the Ashford family.
15:53I would snap my own daughter's neck
15:55and dump her in the Hudson
15:56before I let trash like you touch my bloodline.
15:59In a fresh burst of age,
16:01he kicked Evan hard enough
16:02to send him crashing into the low table.
16:05Evan coughed up a mouthful of blood on the spot.
16:08You touched a Blackwood daughter
16:10and now you dare use her as your ladder?
16:14Security, drag him out.
16:15Beat him until he can't open his mouth again.
16:17Evan had not even managed to get up
16:19before Blackwood security
16:20prissed his arms and legs.
16:21They dragged him toward the door
16:23like a bag of rotting trash.
16:24No!
16:25This isn't how it was supposed to happen!
16:27Marcus!
16:28Serena Rina!
16:28Save me!
16:29Marcus grabbed a whiskey tumbler
16:30and smashed it against Evan's head.
16:32Glass splattered,
16:32Evan's scalp slid open at once.
16:34Blood ran down his brow
16:35and dripped all over the floor.
16:37Gag him.
16:38A cur like him
16:39doesn't deserve to say Serena's name.
16:42Serena Blackwood was completely stunned.
16:44She kept her head down
16:45and did not dare say a single word
16:46for Evan Brooks.
16:48Marcus!
16:49You can't be this heartless!
16:51She is our daughter!
16:52She was harmed!
16:53How can you tell her to die?
16:55Of course Marcus had spoken in rage.
16:57Serena was still his own blood.
16:59He could not truly bring himself to kill her.
17:02But after saying so much in front of everyone,
17:04he could not simply let it go either.
17:06So he slammed one hand down on the coffee table.
17:08Are my investigators dead?
17:10Who dared touch the drinks at a Blackwood gala?
17:12Do I pay security to be useless?
17:13If you can't give me an answer,
17:15I will tear apart the entire staff chain.
17:16A security supervisor came in
17:18with his shoulders hunched,
17:19his voice shaking.
17:20Marcus, the badge log shows that
17:22Maya Ellis, Serena's personal aide,
17:23handled Evan's glass.
17:24The room broke into low, crackling murmurs.
17:26Every pair of eyes turned to Serena.
17:27A personal aide usually acted
17:28on her employer's instructions.
17:30No!
17:30It wasn't me!
17:32It was Maya!
17:33Maya wanted to hurt me!
17:35Maya Ellis looked less like
17:36a living person than a ghost.
17:38Trembling all over,
17:39she collapsed onto the floor.
17:41No.
17:43I didn't.
17:45She had just started to defend herself
17:46when she looked up and met Serena's eyes.
17:49The rest of the words died in her throat.
17:51If Maya told the truth,
17:52the Blackhilds had a hundred ways
17:54to strip her of her job
17:55and every clean reference she had left.
17:57Serena threw herself at Maya,
17:59sobbing as she beat her.
18:00Was I not good to you?
18:01Why would you stab me in the back?
18:03It was me.
18:05I thought Serena favored Tessero
18:07and treated me unfairly.
18:08The guests looked at one another.
18:10The same faint mockery
18:11appeared on every face.
18:13That excuse was too weak to stand.
18:15But what else could they do?
18:16Serena was Marcus and Catherine's daughter.
18:18If they did not let Maya take the fall,
18:20were they supposed to admit
18:21Serena herself had gone into heat
18:23and dragged a man into bed?
18:24Marcus,
18:25who had been ready to beat someone
18:26to death a moment ago,
18:27suddenly looked as if a dirty rag
18:29had been shoved into his mouth.
18:30Serena was still hitting Maya
18:31and crying.
18:32Then,
18:33from the jacket draped over Serena's shoulders,
18:35a sealed clinic pouch slipped out.
18:36Maya had already been beaten weak.
18:38Her body tilted
18:39and she landed directly on top of the pouch.
18:41A small blood vial shattered under her weight.
18:43Fresh red spread instantly
18:44across the pale carpet.
18:45What is that?
18:46A private pack clinic label
18:47was stuck to the clear bag.
18:49Half a sheet of paper,
18:50already soaked at the edge
18:51with blood showed through.
18:52An ordinary gala guest
18:53might not have a clue.
18:54But among the council wives,
18:56healer donors
18:56and old money maidens here,
18:58who hasn't had to deal
18:59with a fertility scandal for the family?
19:00CG blood test results
19:01from a private clinic,
19:02a forged healer intake form
19:03and a fake bond status file.
19:05All that stuff is enough
19:06to rip the mask off Serena
19:07as the innocent,
19:08wronged Luna candidate.
19:09Most of the gogglers
19:10don't know the ins and outs,
19:11so they're craning their necks
19:11asking everyone around.
19:13Every time someone asks,
19:14Serena's face goes even peeler.
19:15Evan Brooks,
19:16beaten bloody
19:17and dragged back into the suite,
19:18saw the evidence explode
19:20at exactly the wrong moment.
19:21He was still
19:22a licensed council attorney.
19:23No matter how furious Marcus was,
19:25Blackwood security
19:26did not dare beat him to death.
19:28If this had been Evan
19:29before the last life,
19:30he would have been nothing more
19:31than a newly risen pack lawyer.
19:32A shattered blood vial
19:34and half a sheet of HCG paperwork
19:35might not have meant much to him.
19:37But he had lived
19:38an entire life already.
19:39In his last life,
19:40he had climbed high
19:41in council circles.
19:42Paternity fraud,
19:43forged healer files,
19:44backroom scandal cleanup.
19:46What had he not seen?
19:47One look at the blood
19:48on the carpet,
19:49the soaked clinic date,
19:50and he understood.
19:51Evan was barely holding together
19:52from the beating,
19:53yet somehow he found strength.
19:55He forced himself up
19:56and lunged toward the king bed.
19:58With one hand,
19:58he ripped back the comforter.
20:00The white fitted sheet
20:01was clean.
20:01There was nothing there
20:02that could shove the pup
20:03in Serena's belly
20:04onto tonight.
20:05The truly glaring proof
20:06was the blood-soaked paper.
20:08Sample collected,
20:09four weeks before gala.
20:10Gestational estimate,
20:12five weeks.
20:13Sire pending.
20:14Everyone had just seen
20:15Evan naked
20:15and pressed over Serena,
20:17but the evidence told them
20:18Serena had already been
20:19pregnant before tonight.
20:20She had even prepared
20:21a forged healer intake
20:22in advance,
20:23ready to frame herself
20:24as a Luna candidate
20:25ruined by this one night.
20:26Please.
20:27What a perfect
20:28little paternity trial.
20:29Too bad it had not
20:30closed neatly around
20:31Evan's throat.
20:32Even I had not expected
20:33the scene to turn
20:34this ugly this fast.
20:35In my last life,
20:36after I married Evan,
20:37I went to a private
20:38pack clinic during
20:39my first pregnancy.
20:40There,
20:41I happened to see a woman
20:41in a hood quietly
20:42asking for abortion medication.
20:44The clinic healer warned her
20:45that she was already
20:46close to 16 weeks.
20:48If she forced
20:48determination at that stage,
20:50her body might not
20:51withstand it.
20:51The woman had wrapped
20:52herself up carefully,
20:53but when she passed near me,
20:55I still caught a faint trace
20:56of custom scent suppressor.
20:58Across the entire
20:59East Coast pack circle,
21:00only Serena Blackwood
21:01loved that scent.
21:02At that point,
21:03three months had passed
21:04since the night at the
21:05Lakeview guest suite,
21:06which meant that when
21:07Evan was drugged tonight,
21:08Serena already had a pup
21:09more than a month along.
21:10Who dared bring that
21:11filthy drug into the
21:12Blackwood gala?
21:13The answer was suddenly
21:14obvious.
21:15Serena had wanted to find
21:16a public sire for
21:17somebody else's pup,
21:18and Evan Brooks was
21:19supposed to be the fall
21:20guy.
21:20Once I pieced it together,
21:22I could only think how
21:23ugly this world really was.
21:25In my last life,
21:26Evan and I had already
21:27been bound by the scandal.
21:28Trying to reopen the
21:29Blackwood incident from
21:30three months earlier would
21:31have been a joke,
21:32so I buried the truth and
21:33locked it away.
21:34This time,
21:34my plan had been simple.
21:35Let Serena and Evan both
21:37get what they wanted.
21:38One would find a father for
21:39the pup in her belly.
21:40The other would climb the
21:41Blackwood old blood ladder
21:42at last.
21:43I had not expected Serena's
21:45own clinic evidence to
21:46tear open first.
21:47Evan's face looked as if
21:48someone had slapped him in
21:49front of the entire room.
21:50He threw himself at
21:51Serena and seized her
21:52shoulders,
21:53Serena Blackwood!
21:54Shaking her heart.
21:55You set me up!
21:56You told me you had no
21:57registered bond.
21:58You said you wanted me and
21:59no one else.
22:00You told me you couldn't
22:01hold back your scent.
22:02That you would break
22:03council protocol just to
22:04give yourself to me.
22:05You used me as a public
22:06seer for another man's
22:07pup, you pregnant little
22:08whore!
22:09Serena shook in his grip
22:10like a soaked silk scarf,
22:12as if she might fall apart
22:13at any second.
22:14Her mouth opened and
22:15closed, but not a single
22:17word came out.
22:17Marcus heard every word,
22:19and his brows drew tight
22:20again.
22:21But this time, he had no
22:23ground to stand on.
22:23Even if he hated that a
22:25low-pack liability like
22:26Evan had overstepped, he
22:27had no reason left to
22:28keep beating him.
22:29Evan Brooks had been
22:30beaten too badly, and the
22:31truth had struck him too
22:32hard.
22:33Blood surged up his throat
22:34and sprayed across
22:35Serena Blackwood's face.
22:36Then he fell backward and
22:38passed out cold.
22:38The room erupted into
22:40chaos again.
22:41No matter how unwilling
22:42Marcus was, no matter how
22:43badly he still wanted to
22:44kill someone, he had to
22:45call in the estate medic and
22:46the pack healer.
22:47Several council wives
22:48looked at me with pity and
22:49tenderness.
22:50How did she get dragged
22:51into something like this?
22:52Clara has suffered too
22:54much tonight.
22:55One after another, they
22:56sighed for me.
22:57They believed I was a
22:58young heiress with no
22:59registered mate bond.
23:00Dragged for no reason
23:01into a sex scandal this
23:02filthy.
23:03Even if I was innocent, it
23:05was still a stain.
23:06My pack reputation and
23:07alliance prospects would
23:08take a hit.
23:09After tonight, the
23:10mate alliances open to
23:11me would probably drop by
23:12an entire tier.
23:13The Whitmore heirs,
23:14especially, would never
23:15consider me now.
23:16They had no idea.
23:17Compared with my last
23:18life when I married Evan and
23:20was slowly ground down inside
23:21the Brooks household, this
23:22was already an escape from
23:23death.
23:24Later, I heard that when
23:25Evan was carried back, he
23:27looked as if he had been
23:28dragged out of a pool of
23:29blood.
23:29Blackwood security knew
23:30Marcus was still furious, so
23:32they had put their backs into
23:33it.
23:33From the ER surgeon to the
23:34pack healer to the spinal
23:36specialist, every doctor who
23:37saw him only shook their
23:38head.
23:50Some said Evan was pitiful.
23:51A scholarship-born legal
23:53climber, ruined like this by
23:54the Blackwoods.
23:55Others said Evan deserved it.
23:57If he had not wanted to climb
23:58the Blackwood old blood
23:59ladder himself, he would
24:00never have suffered like this.
24:02The person who reacted most
24:03violently inside Ashford House
24:05was Grace Noah.
24:05Clara, if you had gone in and
24:08stopped it, Evan would never
24:10have ended up like this.
24:11He was perfectly fine and
24:13now he's lying in a bed
24:14half broken.
24:15How can you still eat?
24:17I held a bowl of chilled
24:18almond porridge and took my
24:19time swallowing a spoonful.
24:22What reaction should I have?
24:24Should I go mourn at Evan's
24:25bedside like he's already
24:26dead?
24:27Grace's face flushed with
24:29anger.
24:29He is still alive, isn't he?
24:31How can you be so heartless?
24:34She realized she had
24:35crossed the line, her voice
24:36going soft at once.
24:38I only think Evan is pitiful.
24:40I didn't mean it that way.
24:41I looked coldly at Grace, the
24:43girl who had grown up beside me.
24:44If you pity Evan so much, then
24:46go take care of him.
24:47You don't need to enter my
24:49suite again.
24:50Grace snapped her head up as
24:51if she could not believe what
24:52she had heard.
24:53Marion, pull Grace's staff file,
24:55NDA, access badge, and housing
24:56agreement.
24:57Suspend her Ashford access
24:59immediately.
25:01The Brooks household needs a
25:03live-in aid, doesn't it?
25:04Send over her caregiving
25:05contract.
25:06If she refuses to leave, have
25:07security escort her off the
25:09property.
25:10Tell them the Ashfords and the
25:11Brooks go back years.
25:13We arrange someone specially to
25:14help care for Evan.
25:15After that, she does not come
25:16back.
25:19Only then did Grace seem to
25:20wake up.
25:21Clara, I was wrong.
25:22I shouldn't have said that.
25:23She crawled toward me,
25:24sobbing and begging.
25:25For the sake of all the years
25:26we grew up together, please
25:27forgive me this once.
25:28I almost wanted to forgive
25:30her.
25:30But when had Grace ever spared
25:32me for the sake of all the
25:33years we grew up together?
25:34It was not until the day I
25:36died in my last life, after
25:37hearing her words, that I
25:38finally understood.
25:40Why?
25:40After I became pregnant,
25:42after I had been careful and
25:43then more careful, I still
25:44lost one baby after another.
25:46With Grace at my side, altering
25:47my medication and my care
25:49records for Evan again and
25:50again, how could any child in
25:51my belly have survived?
25:52Of course she did not want to
25:54go to the Brooks household now.
25:55Of course.
25:56Evan and his mother, Patricia
25:57Brooks, lived in a worn down
25:59duplex outside town.
26:00They were so poor that all
26:01they had left was one aging
26:03aide.
26:03Now that Evan Brooks' leg was
26:04damaged, his council career
26:06was as good as over.
26:07On paper, no one could throw
26:09him out simply because he
26:10might need a cane.
26:11But after the sweet scandal at
26:12Blackwood Ridge, with a license
26:14review and ethics complaint and
26:16a DA inquiry pressing down
26:17layer after layer, who would
26:19dare put him anywhere near the
26:20public eye?
26:20Unless someone with real votes
26:22chose to protect him.
26:23And now, who would protect
26:24Evan Brooks?
26:25Ashford would not.
26:26Blackwood certainly would not.
26:27He had no family strong enough
26:29to lift him.
26:30He did have a handsome face,
26:31and at first, a few old-money
26:33families had considered him as a
26:34potential son-in-law.
26:36Now, those heiresses probably
26:37thought he carried bad luck.
26:39Because the scandal touched the
26:40High Council's reputation,
26:41Eleanor Whitmore took a personal
26:43interest.
26:43The High Council and the DA liaison
26:45turned Blackwood Ridge inside out.
26:47As for the pup in Serena
26:48Blackwood's belly, no one could say
26:50for certain who had fathered it.
26:51The personal aides around Serena
26:53had tried to protect her at first.
26:54But once the perjury warnings
26:56and immunity deals came down,
26:57one after another, they cracked.
26:59A stable hand.
27:00Gate security.
27:01A procurement runner.
27:03A jewelry store sales guy.
27:05Serena had never been picky.
27:06As long as a man had a decent face,
27:08she dared drag him into her bed.
27:10After a while, the number of men
27:12she had slept with was not just
27:1310 or 12.
27:14It was more.
27:15If the pup in her belly had
27:16actually been born, only a DNA
27:18panel could have sorted out the
27:19father.
27:19After a disgrace like that,
27:21how can Marcus allow her to give
27:22birth to another man's pup?
27:24I heard he found some dirty
27:25private clinic and forced Serena
27:26through a termination.
27:27At first, Marcus even wanted them
27:30to prepare an overdose of sedatives.
27:31Only after Catherine cried, begged,
27:34and nearly threw herself over a balcony
27:35was Serena's life spared.
27:37Her life was spared.
27:38The rest of her did not.
27:40After that forced termination,
27:42Serena's bleeding would not stop.
27:43Her periods never settled.
27:45She grew thin very quickly.
27:47Her face pale.
27:47Her legs too weak to hold her steady.
27:50Marcus lost the old lift of his chin
27:52in council rooms.
27:53He had been proud his whole life,
27:54and now one daughter had dragged
27:56the Blackwood name through filth.
27:57People said he spent his days
27:58drinking himself senseless.
28:00When he finished drinking,
28:01he would go to Serena's room,
28:03smash whatever he could reach,
28:04and curse her until security came out.
28:06Every day, Blackwood Ridge was full
28:08of screaming, breaking glass,
28:10and the sound of guards' footsteps.
28:12Less than three months later,
28:13Serena, driven past the edge,
28:15grabbed a kitchen knife,
28:16and stabbed her own father to death.
28:18A roomful of aides and guards
28:20watched it happen.
28:20She could not run from that.
28:22Once the murder charge landed,
28:24it was enough to seal her fate.
28:25That same day,
28:26the High Council stripped her
28:28of every inheritance rate.
28:29When the criminal court sentenced her,
28:31she was sent to a women's prison
28:32for life without parole.
28:34On the day Serena was sentenced,
28:35I was having tea
28:36at the newly opened Laurel Room
28:38in the city.
28:38Mrs. Ashfield,
28:39this is from a gentleman downstairs.
28:41He said he would like to see you
28:43and say a few words.
28:43A server brought over
28:45a hibiscus chestnut tea cake
28:46I had not ordered.
28:47I looked at the small pastry
28:48and suddenly found it funny.
28:50During my marriage to Evan,
28:51he had bought the same thing
28:52for me a few times.
28:53After I lost our first child,
28:55after Patricia Brooks forced me
28:56to kneel every few steps
28:58in the name of pack discipline
28:59until I passed out,
29:00until my knees split open
29:02and festered.
29:02Evan probably always believed
29:04that as long as he handed me
29:05this one sweet little cake,
29:06I should calm down.
29:08I should forgive him.
29:09I should make peace with him.
29:10But to me,
29:11it had never recorded comfort.
29:13It recorded every injury Evan
29:14and the Brooks household
29:15had dealt me
29:16again and again.
29:17Please return it
29:18to the gentleman downstairs.
29:20Tell him I don't dare eat it.
29:21I'm afraid there might be
29:23something in it.
29:23The server quickly carried
29:24the tea cake back,
29:25but Evan did not leave.
29:27When I stepped out
29:27of the Laurel Room,
29:28he was waiting at the entrance.
29:30Clara.
29:31His voice broke
29:32and he reached
29:33for the edge of my coat.
29:34Mr. Brooks,
29:35step back.
29:36Don't touch her.
29:37Harper Lane,
29:37the new aide at my side,
29:39immediately stepped
29:39between Evan and me.
29:41Evan's face twisted
29:42with misery.
29:43Clara,
29:43I treated you
29:44terribly before.
29:46I let people lie to me.
29:48I misunderstood you.
29:49I thought that scandal
29:50was something you set up
29:51so you could marry me.
29:52I never meant to hurt you.
29:54Evan,
29:54were you lied to
29:55or did you choose
29:56to lie to yourself?
29:57I am an old blood
29:58Ashford heiress.
29:59You?
30:00If I had wanted it,
30:02even the Whitmore line
30:02would have been within reach.
30:04Why would I need to
30:05scheme my way
30:05into marrying you?
30:06The color drained
30:07from Evan's
30:08already ruined face.
30:09He had once been handsome
30:10in a clean, refined way.
30:12After all these days of pain,
30:13he had wasted down
30:14until he was
30:15almost nothing but bone.
30:16Whatever dignity
30:17he once had was gone.
30:19He was lucky,
30:20really.
30:20At least both legs
30:21had not been ruined.
30:22Only his right leg
30:23would never be steady again.
30:25From now on,
30:26he could not walk
30:26without a cane.
30:27My gaze swept
30:28once over his right leg.
30:30Evan immediately
30:30pulled it back.
30:31Maybe he remembered
30:32my last life
30:33when he and Patricia Brooks
30:34had ruined my leg.
30:35Maybe he remembered
30:36how many times
30:37he had sneered at me
30:38and called me
30:39a crippled little liability.
30:40One of the Ashford House
30:41staff hurried toward me.
30:42Mrs. Ashford,
30:43we've been looking
30:44everywhere for you.
30:45Please return at once.
30:46The High Council
30:47just sent word.
30:48Sebastian Whitmore
30:49has been confirmed
30:50as High Alpha Elect.
30:51The Whitmore line
30:52has also filed
30:53a Maid Alliance statement.
30:54Once you personally confirm it,
30:55the Council will publicly
30:56recognize you
30:57as Luna Elect.
30:58Evan's mouth fell open.
31:00He looked as if
31:00he could not believe
31:01what he had just heard.
31:02In my last life,
31:03Sebastian had become
31:04High Alpha too.
31:05Only then,
31:06he had never publicly
31:07recognized a Luna.
31:08Even after he took
31:09full power,
31:10he never brought
31:11anyone to stand
31:11beside him.
31:12So that was why.
31:15Sebastian likes her,
31:16doesn't he?
31:17Evan muttered the questions
31:18to Grace Miller
31:19beside him.
31:19They were together
31:20already, weren't they?
31:21Bracing him like a cane,
31:23and Patricia had worn her down
31:24until she barely looked human.
31:26No secret dates.
31:27No private gifts.
31:29Nothing improper.
31:31Only...
31:31Only what?
31:34Only that every time
31:35Sebastian saw her,
31:36he smiled.
31:37For the decades that followed,
31:39Sebastian proved Grace right.
31:41He was a good husband.
31:42A very good one.
31:43As for Evan,
31:44I never saw him again
31:46for the rest of my life.
31:47The last time I heard
31:48news of him was before
31:48I moved into the
31:49Whitmore Council residence.
31:50I heard there was no path
31:52left for him back
31:52to the Council.
31:53He could not stay
31:54in the East Coast
31:55Pack Circle either.
31:56So he took Grace
31:57and Patricia back
31:57to that low-pack
31:58hometown of his.
31:59Maybe Blackwood Ridge
32:00had damaged more than his leg.
32:02Later,
32:02Patricia arranged
32:03engagements for him
32:04and pushed a few
32:05dependent girlfriends
32:06into his life.
32:07But in this life,
32:08no one ever carried his pup.
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