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00:30No one moved. By the time the hall went quiet, my gown was torn, my skin was burned, and my
00:35soulstone core had been ripped open, its faint light spilling out through the wound. My parents saw everything and collapsed
00:42on the spot. My brother Gareth carried me back with shaking hands. Then he went straight to the crown court
00:47gates and dropped to his knees. He begged the beast king to let him hunt down the outcasts. He begged
00:53the court shamans to save me. Even through the fever, I heard him outside my room.
00:57You left her there. I got Serena out. Evelyn is your wife. Keep your voice down. Cassian's voice was low.
01:05Gareth went silent. His voice shook. Serena saved your life. And she's carrying your child. Serena was my first love.
01:12I gave her my word the child comes first. Serena, her child, and my pain had already been decided.
01:17What about Evelyn? Evelyn is still mine. She'll have protection. Comfort. She only loses the title.
01:23They spoke like my life was already settled. Like my pain was just the price of Serena's crown. With the
01:29last strength in my fingers, I ripped off the vowstone clasp. I threw it against the floor.
01:34This love was fake. This family was fake. Even that friendship had been fake. I wanted none of it.
01:40The court shamans rushed in, sweating through their robes.
01:46Her core, how is it? If she rests well, the core can still recover.
01:50Cassian's face tightened. The shaman thought he was afraid for me. The room went dead silent. Cassian drew his dagger.
01:57He shoved the shamans aside and drove the blade into my lower belly.
02:02Your highness! The healer screamed. Even Gareth stared at Cassian like he had become a monster. Cassian's knife hand shook.
02:09But he still finished what he started. I could not move. The medicine held me down. But it did not
02:15kill the pain.
02:16I cannot leave her any chance to carry another crown hair!
02:19Outside the chamber, the feral beasts caught the scent of blood. He rushed it. He was starving.
02:25Get away from her!
02:27Come closer and I will gut you. Hold them back. I need more time.
02:31Gareth drew his sword. Cut it down.
02:33What have you done to her?
02:35The healer's face turned white.
02:37If we fail tonight, she will not survive the year. Save her. Do it. Now.
02:44How could I ever despise Evelyn? I promised Serena.
02:49I will give her everything she wants.
02:50She said she wants her pup to be my only pup.
02:54I absolutely cannot break that promise.
02:56I will not lose her.
02:57He wiped the sweat from my forehead like a lover.
03:01Evelyn, forgive me.
03:03Gareth looked at the healers.
03:04If any of you lake a single word about today, I will rip your throats out.
03:10Facing Gareth's threat, no one dared speak.
03:14Hurry up and put her under! Can't you see she's in agony?
03:20Cassian pulled me into his arms.
03:22Evelyn, I will never let anyone hurt you again.
03:26Don't be afraid, Evelyn.
03:29Cassiel and I will protect you.
03:31Tears slid down my face.
03:32The two people holding me were the ones who had hurt me most.
03:36Then a maid came to the door.
03:39Your Highness, Lady Serena is trying on the official bond gown.
03:44She hopes you and Lord Gareth will see it.
03:47Both men stopped breathing.
03:53How funny.
03:54One second ago, they swore they would stay with me.
03:56Then Serena's maid mentioned the gown.
03:58Both men went quiet.
04:00No, I'm not going.
04:01Cassian looked away first, but his voice changed.
04:04It got soft.
04:05I drew that gown for Serena myself.
04:07Every line, every piece of lace was chosen for her.
04:10There's no need.
04:11I'll see her wearing it at the ceremony next week anyway.
04:13I'm not going either.
04:14I had her beast crown custom made for her.
04:16I know exactly what it looks like.
04:17Cassian gave a small smile.
04:19Tell Serena to stop worrying.
04:20She's carrying my air.
04:21She needs rest.
04:22And tell her the treasury is handled.
04:24Ten years of my war rewards.
04:25No one at court will laugh at her.
04:26Then they both looked back at me.
04:28Evelyn's still fighting for her life.
04:29We should stay.
04:30For the first time, they chose me, but I only felt sick.
04:34They knew exactly how to make a woman feel cherished.
04:37Cassian designed her gown himself.
04:39Gareth spent ten years of blood money on her crown.
04:42And together, they gave her a grand procession and a private treasury.
04:46And me?
04:47For a whole year, Cassian told me not to make the wedding too big.
04:50Gareth said I was being spoiled.
04:52I only had a few old jewels my mother left me.
04:55The noble ladies laughed and called me a poor little snow leopard bride.
04:59Even my gown was something I had to arrange myself.
05:02I remembered showing it to Cassian.
05:04He barely looked.
05:05Was it because he knew the feral outcasts would tear it apart anyway?
05:08Or was he already thinking about Serena in white?
05:11Blood kept spilling from my womb.
05:13I passed out to the sound of their panicked, broken screams.
05:17When I woke up again, Cassian and Gareth were guarding my bedside.
05:20Evelyn, you finally awake.
05:27When I woke up, Cassian and Gareth were sitting by my bed.
05:30Both of them looked like they had not slept in days.
05:33The second I opened my eyes, their faces lit up.
05:36I'm sorry.
05:36I failed you.
05:38I should have protected you.
05:39Cassian Blackthorne, the crowned beast prince who never cried in front of anyone, had tears in his eyes.
05:45Gareth looked even worse.
05:47I couldn't even save my own sister.
05:49He pulled out his dagger and pressed it against his wrist.
05:51These hands are useless.
05:53I closed my eyes and swallowed the bitterness in my throat.
05:57I gave them a weak smile.
05:58I don't blame you.
05:59I can only blame my bad luck.
06:01I blamed myself for loving the wrong man and trusting the wrong brother.
06:06Their faces grew even sadder.
06:08But I saw no guilt.
06:09Cassian held my hand carefully.
06:11Evelyn, the shaman said those feral raiders destroyed your soulstone core.
06:14You may never carry a child again.
06:16He lowered his voice.
06:17Nothing that happened changes how I see you.
06:19You're still the only woman I've ever loved.
06:21He looked at me like he was afraid I would break.
06:23Heal first.
06:23If we still want a child later, we can adopt one.
06:25Adopt one?
06:26Serena's child?
06:27I could not even keep my own child.
06:29Why would they ever let me claim hers?
06:32I looked at them.
06:33My voice was almost gone.
06:34They froze.
06:36Give what back?
06:37Tears blurred my eyes.
06:39My soulstone core.
06:41Please, give it back to me.
06:43Cassian's face filled with confusion.
06:45Evelyn, the feral raiders destroyed it.
06:47There was nothing left to bring back.
06:49Please don't think about it anymore.
06:50I swear nothing like this will ever happen again.
06:53I kept staring at them.
06:54Then, let this be the last thing I ever ask of you.
06:57Please.
07:01Cassian touched my hair.
07:03Don't say that.
07:04There won't be a last request.
07:05Whatever you want, I'll bring it back to you.
07:07They coaxed me into drinking the medicine.
07:09Rest first.
07:09We'll take care of everything.
07:11I closed my eyes and pretended to sleep.
07:13They thought the medicine had knocked me out.
07:15It had not.
07:16Pain had already burned through every dose they gave me.
07:19I already sent word to my mother and the High Beast Council.
07:21I told them Evan went willingly with those feral raiders during the vow rite.
07:25The High Beast Council won't be gentle.
07:26I can't bear to watch her suffer through that.
07:28I'll leave before they arrive.
07:29Their voices dropped beside my bed.
07:31My fingers twitched under the blanket.
07:33Gareth was quiet for a moment.
07:34Then he spoke.
07:35I told our parents too.
07:36Ashbring House.
07:37They believe Evelyn disgraced Ashbring House.
07:40They'll support removing her from the official bond.
07:42He sounded pain.
07:43Like this hurt him.
07:44If the Crown Court didn't have to approve it, I would never let my sister face this kind
07:48of trial.
07:49My heart felt like it split open all over again.
07:51They were still calling it pain, still acting like they were protecting me, but they had
07:56already decided to bury me alive.
07:59After they left, the doors opened again.
08:01Queen Mother Victoria walked in with members of the High Beast Council.
08:05The whole Beast Court had heard my scandal by now.
08:08Victoria stopped beside my bed and covered her nose.
08:10So this is what my son brought into Blackthorne Crown House.
08:14She looked me over like I was filth on her floor.
08:16You let border trash touch you during the Vowrite?
08:19You shamed my son, Blackthorne Crown House, and the Crown.
08:23Her voice turned cold.
08:24Evelyn Ashbur, you should have died in that hall.
08:29Victoria, please don't be angry.
08:31Serena stepped forward, one hand on her belly.
08:34Her eyes were already red.
08:35Evelyn did something awful.
08:36She embarrassed Cassian and the whole Crown House.
08:39But those raiders hurt her too.
08:41She can't even have children now.
08:42She's already pitiful enough.
08:44Victoria's face turned colder.
08:46Pitiful?
08:46She looked at me like she wished I were already dead.
08:49If those filthy bases had torn her apart in the hall, at least Blackthorne Crown House
08:52would be clean.
08:52Serena lowered her head.
08:54I knew that look.
08:55She was hiding a smile.
08:56From this moment on, Evelyn Ashburne's official bond with Crown Prince Cassian is void.
09:01She is no longer protected by Blackthorne Crown House.
09:03Drag her out.
09:05The guards came for me.
09:07I tried to pull back, but my body had nothing left.
09:10I want everyone to see what happens to a woman who shames royal blood.
09:13They dragged me through the corridors and out to the Crown Tower gates.
09:17The courtyard was packed with onlookers.
09:19I screamed until my throat tore.
09:21Help me.
09:21Please.
09:22Somebody help me.
09:23No one moved.
09:24They only stared.
09:25So this is the Ashburgr Snow Leopard Bride?
09:28A noblewoman covered her mouth and laughed.
09:30I heard she always followed soldiers to the border.
09:32Said she was helping the war.
09:33Looks like she was just chasing men.
09:37Someone spat near my face.
09:39She ruined the vow ritual in front of half the beast court.
09:42No wonder her parents collapsed from shame.
09:44I lay in the dirt, shaking.
09:46Then the crowd suddenly went quiet.
09:48A black carriage stopped outside the gates.
09:51My father, Arthur Ashburne, stepped down with a face like stone.
09:55Hope rose in me so fast it hurt.
09:57Father, please save me.
10:02For one second, I really thought my father had come to save me.
10:06Arthur Ashburne had once said I was the pride of our house, so I reached for him.
10:10Father, please.
10:11I didn't do it.
10:12He looked down at me.
10:13There was no warmth in his eyes.
10:14Only shame.
10:15Then the whip cracked across my face.
10:17Pain split my skin open.
10:19The last bit of hope inside me shattered.
10:21Do not call me father.
10:23The crowd went silent.
10:24Ashburne house raised a disgrace.
10:26You shame the crown prince, the beast court, and your own bloodline.
10:30I crawled toward him.
10:32I'm innocent.
10:33Please, just believe me once.
10:35My blood dripped into the dirt.
10:37Arthur stepped back like I was filth.
10:39From this day on, your name is removed from the Ashborough registry.
10:42I stared at him, barely able to breathe.
10:45You are no daughter of mine.
10:46If you still have any honor left, Evelyn, then die.
10:49Tears blurred my vision.
10:50They blurred his back as he walked away.
10:52Should I die?
10:53But what did I even do wrong?
10:55I only thought I was marrying the man I loved.
10:58Then the crowd split open.
10:59Cassian rushed through the crown tower gates.
11:01His crown roar rolled over the courtyard.
11:04The guards backed off at once.
11:06He dropped beside me and pulled me into his arms.
11:09Who gave you permission to touch her?
11:10His face was twisted with fury.
11:12For anyone watching, it looked like my pain truly tore him apart.
11:16He looked up at Victoria.
11:17Victoria, what do you want from me?
11:19I only love Evelyn.
11:20No matter what happened to her.
11:21No matter what mistake she made, I still love her.
11:24You've lost your mind.
11:26Victoria grabbed the whip from a guard.
11:28She is nothing but a ruined woman.
11:30Why are you still holding on to her?
11:32Cassian held me tighter.
11:33If you won't accept Evelyn and me, then punish me with her.
11:40His voice shook like he meant every word.
11:42If I had not heard the truth myself, I might have believed him.
11:45Victoria's face twisted with anger.
11:47She grabbed the whip from a guard.
11:49She is a disgrace.
11:49A ruined woman.
11:50Let her go.
11:51No.
11:51Then suffer with her.
11:53The whip came down.
11:54Cassian turned his back and covered me with his body.
11:56The leather cracked against him again and again.
11:59He did not move.
12:00The crowd gasped.
12:01He looked down at me, eyes red, breathing hard.
12:03Don't be scared.
12:04I'm here.
12:05I looked at his face.
12:06So sincere, it almost looked real.
12:08The man protecting me now was the same man who had pushed me into hell.
12:12My heart was already dead.
12:13I shoved him away with the last strength I had.
12:16Cassian froze.
12:17Evelyn?
12:17Another whip landed across my body.
12:19Pain tore through me, but my voice stayed clear.
12:22Evelyn Ashbold is not fit to remain your official bond.
12:25The courtyard went silent.
12:26Cassian's face changed.
12:28Don't say that.
12:28I looked past him.
12:30I asked the crown court to end my bond with crown prince Cassiad Blackthorn.
12:34My blood dripped onto the stone.
12:36He and Serena Vos love each other.
12:38Let her take my place.
12:39Serena's eyes lit up before she remembered to hide it.
12:42Evelyn, stop.
12:43Everything I did was to protect you.
12:44I smiled.
12:45There was nothing left in it.
12:46Then protect me by letting me go.
12:48I looked at him one last time.
12:50Congratulations, your highness.
12:52You finally got what you wanted.
12:53Cassian pulled me into his arms.
12:55His whole body trembled.
12:57I couldn't tell if it was guilt or because Serena Vos could finally become his official bond.
13:02Evelyn, trust me.
13:04Serena changes nothing.
13:05You are the only woman I love.
13:07I did not move.
13:08Forever meant nothing to me now.
13:10I was done loving him.
13:11Once my final gift was ready, I would leave this place for good.
13:17When I woke again, I was no longer in my old chamber.
13:20I was lying in a dark storage shed.
13:22The air smelled of dust, mildew, and old wood.
13:25I coughed until my chest tore open and blood seeped through the wound under my dress.
13:29I called for help for a long time before a maid finally pushed the door open.
13:34What are you screaming for?
13:36Where am I?
13:37My wound opened again.
13:39Please, I need medicine.
13:40She rolled her eyes.
13:42You are a kept woman now.
13:43If you die, they'll dump you outside in a sack.
13:46Why would anyone waste medicine on you?
13:48She looked me up and down, her face full of contempt.
13:51Then she laughed.
13:52Lady Serena is with his hydeness tonight.
13:54They've called for bathwater five times and no one is allowed near them for three days.
13:58Don't pretend you're dying just to pull him away.
14:00My heart felt as if thousands of ants were chewing through it.
14:03She still thinks she is Lady Ashbur.
14:05Another servant laughed outside the door.
14:07Everyone at court knows what she did.
14:09Even Ashbur house erased her name.
14:11The room was as cold as an ice cellar, but their voices were colder.
14:15I curled under the thin blanket and kept coughing.
14:18Blood rolled up my throat.
14:19The door opened.
14:20Mira was shoved inside.
14:21Her face was covered in bruises.
14:23One side of her mouth was split.
14:25The moment she saw me, her eyes turned red.
14:28She dropped beside my bed, crying.
14:29My lady, I'm sorry.
14:31I couldn't get medicine or cold.
14:33They locked us away because his highness is celebrating tonight.
14:37No one is coming.
14:39What do we do?
14:41I coughed and pointed at the pile of old things stacked in the corner.
14:48It was deep winter.
14:50If this went on, even if my wounds did not kill me, the cold would.
14:53Mira carried the things over one by one.
14:56Then her face changed.
14:57My lady.
14:57Every piece was painfully familiar.
15:00They were all gifts I had once given Cassian.
15:02The short blade I had chosen for him.
15:04The riding gloves I had sewn by hand.
15:06The cloak I embroidered for his winter campaigns.
15:09Even the little charm I had carved from Snowbone before his first court hunt.
15:13They were all here, faded under years of dust.
15:16Just like the love we once had.
15:18For a moment, I almost could not breathe.
15:20No wonder, all these years, I had never seen him carry anything I gave him.
15:24He always said my gifts meant too much to use, so he kept them safe.
15:28Everything had become trash in a storage shed.
15:30What is the difference between me and these things?
15:32Then I whispered.
15:33Burn them all.
15:34Mira threw them into the fire one by one.
15:37The flames rose.
15:38The last thing she picked up was a portrait.
15:40Cassian had drawn it himself on the year I came of age.
15:44Back then, he carried it with him every day.
15:46Now it had been crushed into a ball.
15:48On the bottom, his handwriting was still there.
15:51To Evelyn, may we grow old together.
15:53What a lie.
15:54I snatched the portrait from Mira's hand and threw it into the flames.
15:58The fire lit my pale face.
16:00Mira finally broke down, cried.
16:03Everyone says His Highness favors Serena because she saved him from silverthorn poison.
16:07But that blood deep was never hers.
16:09Mira looked at me, tears shaking in her eyes.
16:11My lady, it was you.
16:15You saved His Highness from silverthorn poison.
16:19Her voice broke.
16:20You carried that poison for three months.
16:23Serena took the credit.
16:25I watched the portrait burn.
16:27Cassian's painted smile twisted in the flames.
16:29They say Lord Gareth protects Serena because she took a silver blade for him.
16:34That is not true either.
16:36Her tears hit the floor.
16:37She never took that blade.
16:39My brother had believed that lie for years.
16:41You did.
16:43You stepped in front of Lord Gareth and no one remembered.
16:46Serena, my childhood friend.
16:47The girl I had protected inside Ashbourne House from every court rumor.
16:51She had not just taken Cassian.
16:53She had stolen my blood, my dead child, and the life that should have been mine.
16:58My lady, we have to tell them.
17:00If His Highness and Lord Gether know the truth, they will regret everything.
17:04I laughed softly.
17:06It hurt my chest.
17:07Regret?
17:08Mira froze.
17:09Even if Serena had saved them, would that make this right?
17:12Would that give Cassian the right to destroy my soul stone core?
17:15Would that give Gareth the right to erase me from my own house?
17:18Mira went pale.
17:19They did not want the truth.
17:21They wanted permission.
17:22The fire cracked.
17:23Serena gave it to them.
17:28Mira had no words.
17:29Then I saw a chest against the wall.
17:31It was the only thing Gareth had sent with me.
17:34Mira pulled it over with shaking hands.
17:36My lady, do you want me to open it?
17:38I nodded.
17:39The lock was already broken.
17:40Inside, there was nothing but rough cloth, old sacks, and torn servant linen.
17:45Not one real gift.
17:46I touched the cloth.
17:47Dust stuck to my fingers.
17:49I got a box of trash.
17:50Serena got a beast crown made from his war honors.
17:53This cannot be right.
17:55Lord Gareth would never...
17:56Her voice died.
17:58Even she could not finish that lie.
18:00I remembered Gareth when we were children.
18:02He promised no one would ever make me cry.
18:05He said his sword would always protect me.
18:07Now that sword protected Serena and left me to die.
18:10Burn it.
18:11My lady.
18:12Burn all of it.
18:13Mira threw the cloth into the fire.
18:15The flames climbed higher.
18:17I watched the last piece of Ashbourne house turn to ash.
18:20Maybe they thought I was made of stone.
18:22That no matter how many times they threw me down, I would stay.
18:25But I was not stone.
18:27I could hurt.
18:28I could bleed.
18:29And I could leave.
18:32When I woke again, Cassian was beside my bed.
18:35His hand rested on my forehead, as if he had any right to touch me.
18:39You set fire to the storage shed.
18:41His voice was low.
18:42Serena is close to labor.
18:44The smoke nearly scared her into early labor.
18:46I pushed his hand away.
18:48My eyes moved to his throat.
18:49Fresh marks covered his skin.
18:51He saw me looking and pulled his collar higher.
18:53It was one night.
18:56Serena needed me beside her.
18:57The whole court is watching her.
18:59I had to make her feel safe.
19:01I stared at him.
19:02I was freezing.
19:03I burned old Juck so I would not die.
19:05His face tightened.
19:06Do not call those things junk.
19:08I almost laughed.
19:09Then why were they in the shed?
19:11He had no answer.
19:12Then he picked up the medicine bowl.
19:14I know you hate Serena, but you need to understand.
19:16When Silverthorne poison almost killed me, she saved my life.
19:19She took the poison into her own body.
19:21Her reputation suffered because of me.
19:23I owe her.
19:24My blood went cold.
19:25Her reputation suffered?
19:27What does that have to do with me?
19:28She paid a price.
19:30So I had to be destroyed?
19:31His hand tightened around the bowl.
19:33Enough!
19:34The hot medicine spilled across my wound.
19:36Pain flashed white.
19:37You are not the woman I knew.
19:39Serena would never speak to me like this.
19:44I bit my lip until my mouth filled with blood.
19:47Cassian looked disappointed.
19:48Like I had let him down.
19:49I stood up for you before the council.
19:51I took those lashes for you.
19:53I begged my mother not to send you to the feral camps.
19:56And you still act like I am the enemy.
19:58He stood.
19:59His shadow fell over the bed.
20:00Serena would have died for me.
20:02Where were you when I was poisoned?
20:03I slowly turned my face away.
20:05Did you ever ask?
20:06He frowned.
20:07I was gone for three months.
20:09Did you ever ask where I went?
20:11His eyes went cold.
20:12Do not do this.
20:14Do not try to rewrite what happened.
20:15You want me to believe you saved me?
20:17You?
20:17He gave a short laugh.
20:18You would rather lie than admit Serena did something good.
20:21The door slammed behind him.
20:23The room went quiet.
20:24Then another door opened.
20:26Serena walked in wearing pale silk.
20:28Her hair was loose.
20:30Her smile was sweet.
20:31Her eyes were not.
20:32Evelyn, you look even worse than I imagined.
20:35She waved the maids out.
20:37Then she came closer.
20:38He used to look down on everyone.
20:40Now look at you.
20:42Hidden in a storage room like something he is ashamed of.
20:45I closed my eyes.
20:46Do not ignore me.
20:48From now on, you eat when I say you eat.
20:51You kneel when I tell you to kneel.
20:53And every night, you will know Kassan is choosing my bed over yours.
20:58Or you could make this easier for everyone.
21:01You could just die.
21:02She clapped once.
21:04The back door opened.
21:05Feral outcasts stepped inside.
21:10Their smell hit me first.
21:12Dirt.
21:12Blood.
21:13Then I saw their faces.
21:14The same faces from the Vauru.
21:15The same eyes from my nightmares.
21:17My whole body started shaking.
21:19Be nice to our former future queen.
21:22Her smile grew.
21:24Actually, don't.
21:25Make sure she remembers every second.
21:27We remember her.
21:28Pretty little snow leopard cried real nice last time.
21:31One of the outcasts laughed.
21:33I dragged myself backward.
21:34My legs would not work.
21:36Serena, please.
21:36I will leave Crown Tower.
21:38I will never come back.
21:39I will not fight you for Kassian.
21:41For the first time, I begged her.
21:42Not for pride.
21:43Not for love.
21:44Only to stay alive.
21:45Footsteps sounded outside.
21:46Kassian and Gareth.
21:47Hope cut through me before I could stop it.
21:49Who is in there?
21:50Evelyn?
21:51Serena was faster.
21:52She ran to the door.
21:53The door flew open.
21:54She fell straight into Kassian's arms.
21:56I came to bring Evelyn medicine.
21:58But she brought these outcasts here.
22:00She wanted them to hurt me too.
22:02She said if I was ruined, you would never want me again.
22:05Gareth's face changed.
22:07Evelyn.
22:07I shook my head.
22:08She is lying.
22:11His sword sheath slammed into my ribs.
22:14Blood filled my mouth.
22:15You cruel little monster.
22:17Serena is bearing the crown hair.
22:18And you still tried to destroy her.
22:20Please.
22:21I reached for Gareth.
22:22His eyes were colder than winter.
22:24Don't touch me.
22:27Then he raised his blade.
22:33Then Gareth brought the blade down.
22:36Do not reach for me.
22:37Look what you made him do.
22:38Kassian held Serena tighter.
22:40Serena hid against his chest.
22:41But I saw her smile.
22:43Lock her in here with them.
22:44My blood went cold.
22:45Kassian, please.
22:46She brought them here to hurt Serena.
22:48Let her taste her own plan.
22:49He did not answer.
22:50The door shut.
22:51The lock turned.
22:52The outcasts moved closer.
22:53Then smoke slid under the door.
22:55At first, I thought I was dying.
22:57Then fire climbed the wall.
22:58The outcasts panicked.
22:59They ran for the back door.
23:00It was locked from outside.
23:01My body gave out.
23:02Through the smoke, I saw a white raven at the window.
23:05Dr. Elias Hart.
23:06He had come.
23:07Evelyn.
23:08Meera had found him.
23:09Stay awake.
23:10He lifted me through the broken window.
23:12Behind us, a burned decoy body took my place on the bed.
23:14The roof cracked.
23:16The storage wing collapsed into fire.
23:19Outside, Gareth ran in too late.
23:21Kassian followed.
23:22They saw the body.
23:23They saw the ruined arms.
23:27Gareth dropped to his knees.
23:30Evelyn.
23:31Kassian went white.
23:32For the first time, neither of them had anything left to say.
23:37I'm sorry.
23:38At dawn, the guards caught one outcast alive, half burned, still breathing.
23:42Gareth grabbed him by the collar.
23:43Who sent you?
23:44Not her.
23:45The white fox woman.
23:46Kassian froze.
23:49Same as the Vowrite.
23:50She paid us in royal gold.
23:52She told us which door would be open.
23:54Gareth stumbled back.
23:55No!
23:56Meera stepped out of the smoke.
23:57Her face was covered in ash.
23:59Yes.
24:00She threw a leather satchel at their feet.
24:02Evelyn knew everything.
24:03She heard you plan it.
24:05She heard you decide her future like she was nothing.
24:07Cassian stared at the satchel.
24:09His hands shook.
24:10Inside were letters.
24:11Healer records.
24:12Payment marks.
24:13Serena's messages.
24:15Gareth pulled out a blood-stained report.
24:17Then the war medic stepped forward.
24:19Serena never took that silver blade for you.
24:21Gareth stopped breathing.
24:23Evelyn did.
24:24She almost died for you.
24:27Gareth's knees hit the ground.
24:29Cassian tore open another record.
24:31His face changed.
24:32Keep reading.
24:33That one is yours.
24:34The next page carried Dr. Elias Hart's seal.
24:37Silverthorn poison.
24:38Three months of treatment.
24:39A lost child.
24:40Cassian's child.
24:41Cassian covered his mouth.
24:42No.
24:43Yes.
24:43And you destroyed the only part of her that could ever heal.
24:55Serena screamed from the main suite.
24:57The baby.
24:58He ran inside.
24:59Gareth followed like a ghost.
25:00Serena lay in bed.
25:01Pale and sweating.
25:02Cassian, I'm scared.
25:04Please stay with me.
25:05Cassian stood at the door.
25:07He did not move closer.
25:08Is the child mine?
25:09Serena froze.
25:10What?
25:11Answer me.
25:12Her eyes filled with tears.
25:13How can you ask me that?
25:15Your highness, the child does not carry Blackthor blood.
25:18What?
25:19You lied.
25:19Serena shook her head.
25:21I did it because I love you.
25:22Both of you.
25:23Cassian laughed once.
25:24Evelyn lost our child saving me.
25:26And I killed her for yours.
25:27Mira stepped into the room.
25:29Evelyn left one more thing.
25:30She opened the satchel.
25:31It was a small, black vial.
25:32Silver throne toxin.
25:33She told me to open the satchel in front of both of you.
25:36Cassian looked at his bleeding palm.
25:37The toxin had already entered their skin.
25:40Mira smiled through tears.
25:41She did not want your regret.
25:43She wanted you to live with it.
25:50Serena did not become official bond.
25:52The council stripped her name before sunrise.
25:54Her child was not a crown heir.
25:56Her lies had no crown left to hide behind.
25:58Save me!
25:59Cassian sent her to the feral slums.
26:01Gareth did not stop it.
26:03For years, people whispered about a white foxwoman there.
26:05Broken, faceless.
26:06Begging under the same gates she once wanted to rule.
26:09Her own son grew up cruel.
26:11He hated her more than anyone.
26:13One winter night, he set fire to the slums.
26:18Serena died in the smoke.
26:20No one mourned her.
26:20Ashbourne house broke next.
26:22Arthur Ashbourne read my letter and collapsed.
26:24Marianne wandered the halls calling my name.
26:27Gareth took 100 lashes before the house council.
26:30Then his sight began to fail.
26:32Silverthorne toxin moved slowly.
26:33So did guilt.
26:34Cassian lost his crown roar first.
26:36Then his strength.
26:37Then his sleep.
26:38Every night, he saw the fire.
26:39Every night, Gareth heard me scream.
26:41They knelt outside Havenridge Sanctuary through snow and rain.
26:45Take my life.
26:46Bring Evelyn back.
26:47They believed I was dead.
26:48They believed old healer myths could trade one life for another.
26:52They were willing to die for me.
26:53Always too late.
26:58I watched them from the hill above Havenridge.
27:00Gareth leaned on a cane.
27:02Silverthorne had eaten their bodies slowly.
27:04Guilt had done the rest.
27:05Mira stood beside me with a basket of herbs.
27:08They are unreeling again.
27:09I looked down at the two shadows outside the gate.
27:12They say they will trade their lives for yours.
27:14I smiled.
27:15Their lives are not worth mine.
27:16Mira laughed softly.
27:17I used to think you only wanted them to regret it.
27:20Regret is cheap.
27:20I looked back at the sanctuary.
27:22The children were waiting in the garden.
27:24Most of them had no one before Havenridge took them in.
27:26I could never carry a child again.
27:28But I had raised them, healed them, and loved them as my own.
27:31Dr. Elias once saved my life.
27:33Mira didn't call the understanding.
27:34Then he taught me how to save others.
27:36Down below, Cassian lifted his head.
27:38For one second, I thought he saw me.
27:41Then the gate closed between us.
27:42I turned away.
27:43The children were calling my name.
27:45I picked up my healer's bag.
27:48Class is about to start.
27:49Mira smiled.
27:50Together, we walked home.
27:58My half-sister and I both chose a shifter mate.
28:01In our previous life, she picked first and chose the hot clan heir
28:05with the perfect looks and powerful family background.
28:08She left me the lowly serpent.
28:10Three years into her marriage, the hawkshifter's mistress and illegitimate son
28:14knelt before my sister and humiliated her completely.
28:18Meanwhile, I took control of the entire serpent clan and earned my husband's devotion.
28:23She pushed me off a cliff out of jealousy.
28:26When I opened my eyes, I was back on the day we chose our mates.
28:29My sister barely concealed the excitement in her voice as she rushed to wrap her arms around
28:34the serpent's tail.
28:35I knew then that she had been reborn, too.
28:37The serpent clan are lustful by nature.
28:40I wonder how long she'll last.
28:41When Victoria threw her arms around that serpent tail, face flushed with open adoration,
28:47even Lady Hargrove went still.
28:49Everyone knew the serpent clan was considered the lowest of the shifter races, cold-blooded in
28:54every sense.
28:55The hawk clan, by contrast, made it for life.
28:58One wife, no exceptions.
29:00Loyalty written into their bones.
29:02And the hawk male standing in the room today was the future clan leader.
29:06Sharp-eyed, broad-shouldered, the kind of man every woman in the room had been silently hoping
29:11to catch.
29:12Victoria still wouldn't let go of that tail.
29:14Lady Hargrove's expression curried.
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