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Reborn as the Sleeping Dragon's Bride Billionaire Romance
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00:00I was born with a blood scent that could make dragon lords lose control.
00:04Pure breeding blood, the rarest kind in 300 years.
00:08At my mating ceremony, I crawled past the sacred gold offerings and grabbed Crown Prince Caelan between his pants.
00:15This little whore could be a clingy breeder in the future.
00:20He was wrong. Caelan and I became enemies.
00:24For 10 years, I watched his dragon eyes learn to hate my scent.
00:27On my 18th birthday feast, the king called me before the throne.
00:31Freya, choose any dragon lord in Valeria. I will grant him to you.
00:36Before I could answer, Caelan's voice cut across the hall.
00:39I would rather be torn apart by wild dragon knees than mate her.
00:44Something inside me broke. Good. Then make him choke on it.
00:47Then I will leave his fate to the gods. Pay for the price, Crown Prince Caelan.
00:51I thought he didn't mean it. Our betrothal ceremony was beautiful, but Caelan never gave me a glance.
00:58Your scent makes me sick.
01:00Years passed. I gave him no air. The court stopped bowing.
01:04Dragonborn ladies spat in my food, ripped my gowns and called me a barren human leech.
01:10Caelan only smiled. Then I heard him say it.
01:12She forced this marriage. She deserves karma.
01:16No one should pity her.
01:18One week later, he threw me into the velvet quarter.
01:20A useless breeder belongs in a pleasure house.
01:24I died there, bloody and left like rotten meat. His figure was the last thing I saw. He never looked
01:30back.
01:30Then light split open. I woke on cold marble, gasping. I was reborn at my mating ceremony.
01:37Freya, choose any dragon lord in Valeria. I will grant him to you.
01:42The royal citadel. The feast. I would not risk my life on Caelan again. I took a deep breath.
01:48Your majesty. I respect the Crown Prince as someone I grew up with. Like a brother. I never wanted him.
01:54Not as a man. Not as a husband.
01:57My heart only belongs to dragon crook Lufician Draenmoor. If I couldn't marry him, I'd go finish myself.
02:03The court exploded. I had refused Valeria's golden prince and chosen his uncle.
02:08The cursed black silver dragon. The most fierce dragon who destroyed wild dragonkins for 200 years.
02:20Lucian Draenmoor fell coma since year ago on the northern warfront.
02:24Hurt by an unseen blade with curse. The healers said he would never wake. I knew they were wrong.
02:30In my last life, Lucian woke during my third year in hellish marriage.
02:34When dragonborn ladies had cornered me in the kitchens, they laughed, tore my sleeves, and called me a barren human
02:40leech.
02:41Then a broken dragon rose from his wheeled chair. Lucian Draenmoor stood between us.
02:46Half crippled, but still terrifying. Back to now.
02:49Little one. Marrying Lucian would waste your gift. Choose another lord. Someone who can speak to you.
02:55I kept my forehead against the marble floor.
02:57Your majesty, I swore before the old gods. It is Lucian Draenmoor or no one.
03:02I hit my forehead on the floor. Once and once again.
03:05The court went quiet. Only left the sound of my bones crack.
03:09Queen Marianne smiled like she had been handed a gift.
03:12If the human girl wants a sleeping dragon, let her have him.
03:15So be it. Your bloodline is gone. Lucian cannot answer for himself.
03:21My queen will arrange the wedding for you too.
03:23I rose my bloody forehead and crumbling stood up.
03:26I am humbled beyond speech.
03:29I did not look at Caelan. I only felt his gold fire burning behind me.
03:33Let him burn. I would never choose him again.
03:36Lucian is way better than Caelan.
03:38Last life, though he's still weak, he's nice to me.
03:40I'll save him this time. We'll claw our way out of this shithole.
03:43Together. For three days, I slept like someone freed from a cage.
03:49Then came the knock at Ashbourne Hall.
03:51The queen commands your presence at the royal citadel tonight.
03:55My blood went cold.
03:57At dusk, Madam Corvin led me through the royal corridors.
04:01Dragonflowers scented the stone.
04:03Then she stopped and bowed.
04:05Your highness, crown prince.
04:07I lifted my head. It's Caelan.
04:20Caelan stepped into the lamplight.
04:21He looked exactly like a future king.
04:24Proud and untouchable.
04:25Beautiful in the cruel Valorian way.
04:27Your highness.
04:28He looked me over from crown to shoes,
04:30as if searching for the girl who used to chase him through these halls.
04:33That's all?
04:34In my last life, I knew his every habit.
04:36I baked honey cakes for him.
04:38I waited outside Crown Tower just to hand them over.
04:40He always tossed them to the palace drakes.
04:43Stop this pathetic chase, Freya.
04:45You are marrying my uncle now.
04:47Try to have some dignity.
04:49You disgust me.
04:50I am not chasing anyone.
04:52I was only telling the truth to your king father.
04:54I do not love you.
04:55Then you wandered into the royal family's private wing by accident?
04:58The queen summoned me.
05:00Ask Madam Corvin.
05:00His gold fire flared.
05:02So it was true.
05:02I had not come for him.
05:05My uncle is a corpse with a title.
05:07You may be a widow before your wedding bed even cools.
05:11Then I will be the happiest widow in Valoria.
05:14His pupils narrowed, then went black.
05:30Queen Marianne heard me out in silence.
05:32And before I had even finished my audience with her,
05:35my wedding to Lucien Dravenmore was set for one week later.
05:40Dravenmore's black silver banners stretched across the road
05:42as Gareth Thorne bowed before me.
05:44Lady Ashborough, Darrenmore receives you with honor.
05:48In my last life, Crown Tower never gave me this much respect.
05:51Some nobles called it widowhood with a title.
05:54I ignored them.
05:55Dravenmore had already given me more honor than Crown Tower ever did.
05:58When I reached Dravenmore Keep,
06:00Gareth Thorne led me straight to the bridal chamber.
06:03Lucien Dravenmore lay on the bed, pale and silent.
06:06But even unconscious, he did not look weak.
06:08His sharp features, silver black hair and quiet dragon pressure
06:11made him seem less like a dying man and more like a sleeping dragon.
06:15My lady, I prepared another room for you.
06:16I looked at Lucien, my heart steady despite the tension.
06:19No.
06:20He is my husband now.
06:22I'll stay here.
06:23The room went silent.
06:24After they left, I sat beside him.
06:26The air itself seemed to hold its breath.
06:29I leaned closer, feeling the subtle warmth of his body beneath the thin sheets.
06:33You're asleep anyway, so this doesn't count.
06:35I lowered my head and kissed him.
06:37His lips were warm.
06:38For a heartbeat, nothing happened.
06:40Then the air broke open.
06:41Dark pressure slammed through the room.
06:43Black silver scales erupted along his neck.
06:46Windows cracked.
06:47His hand shot up and caught my throat.
06:49Not gentle, not soft.
06:50Dragon fire exploded from his body,
06:52scorching the ceiling and bed frame.
06:54I gasped, gripping his wrist.
06:56Lucien.
06:57His fingers burned against my skin,
06:58yet he didn't push me away.
07:27His fingers burned against my skin,
07:32then the fire pulled back.
07:33His hand dropped.
07:34The room went dark.
07:36Outside, Draven Moor Keep erupted.
07:38Shouts, running boots,
07:39dragon flame lighting up the sky.
07:41Gareth broke through the door.
07:43My lady.
07:44I touched my neck.
07:45It was bruised.
07:46Lucien lay still again,
07:47but his breathing had changed.
07:49Deeper, stronger.
07:50The curse had cracked,
07:51but whatever was underneath was not gentle.
07:53I didn't know if I had started to wake him up,
07:55or started something worse.
07:57By dawn, healers filled the hall.
07:59Gareth locked down the entire floor.
08:10No one tells the Royal Citadel what happened last night.
08:14The mate Flyme responded to the marriage bond.
08:16That's all anyone needs to know.
08:18The bruise on my neck was already dark.
08:20A healer offered to treat it.
08:22Leave it.
08:22I went back to Lucien's room.
08:24He was still.
08:25But the black silver scales on his hand had not faded.
08:28His dragon blood was fighting something.
08:29The curse.
08:30The medicine.
08:31Maybe both.
08:32I sat beside him.
08:33I don't know if you can hear me,
08:35but I'm not leaving.
08:37His fingers moved.
08:38Barely.
08:38The news reached Crown Tower before noon.
08:41Caelan was sparring when a servant ran in.
08:43Your Highness,
08:44Dravenmoor's mate Flyme answered Freya last night.
08:47Caelan stopped mid-swing.
08:48The whole northern sky lit up.
08:51Gold fire burst from Caelan's palm.
08:54The training post shattered.
08:55He thought the wedding would humiliate me.
08:57Instead, all of Royal Citadel was talking about
08:59how Dravenmoor's dragon blood had chosen a human bride.
09:02Princess Anya walked in.
09:04So it's true.
09:05She looked at the burn post.
09:07They say Freya looked more like a duchess than a widow.
09:10Careful, Caelan.
09:12People might think you're the one who got left behind.
09:16That afternoon, Caelan called his steward.
09:18The Ashborough war records we archived
09:20move them to the sealed vault
09:21and send a message to the Royal Pharmacy.
09:23Any requests from Dravenmoor go through my office first.
09:35mehr
09:35te determines where'd you have to negotiate
10:03the surrender from the Bundesliga.
10:04Thank you very much for this time.
10:23I put on Dravenmoor black and silver and walked straight into the main hall.
10:27Selene's housekeeper stepped in front of me.
10:29Lady Selene is waiting in the west parlour.
10:31Then she can come here.
10:32The servants froze.
10:33The Davenmoor Keep is not Seliva Lavaz's house, and I am not her guest.
10:37Gareth stood behind me.
10:38He said nothing.
10:39Every servant in the hall understood it.
10:41Gareth supported me as Lady Dravenmoor.
10:43Bring me Lucian's healer records, medicine ledgers, and night watch lists now.
10:46Selene arrived with a soft smile.
10:48Freya, you were married yesterday.
10:50Leave the household matters to me.
10:52This isn't household business.
10:53This is my husband's life.
10:54Selene kept smiling, but her eyes didn't.
10:56By sunset, I found the first problem in the medicine logs.
10:59Some herbs were not healing Lucian.
11:01They were suppressing his dragon blood.
11:03He wasn't too weak to wake.
11:04Someone was keeping him asleep.
11:06I needed the source records.
11:07Where the herbs came from?
11:08Who ordered them?
11:09The trail pointed to the royal pharmacy.
11:11I sent a rider to request the purchase records.
11:13The rider came back empty-handed.
11:15Crown Tower denied the request.
11:17They said all pharmaceutical inquiries from Dravenmoor require approval from the Crown Prince's office.
11:20I understood.
11:21Selene's confidence didn't come from Dravenmoor.
11:24It came from Crown Tower.
11:25That night, Selene heard I had found the local records.
11:28For the first time, she stopped smiling.
11:29Send Rowan.
11:30Let my son teach her what happens to lonely wives in this house.
11:50The third time, she was a man.
11:57Rowan Vos waited outside my chamber door.
11:59He smelled of wine.
12:01Lady Dravenmoor.
12:02I stopped.
12:03Come on.
12:04Your husband can't even open his eyes.
12:06Don't waste your youth on a sleeping man.
12:09He stepped closer.
12:10Selene runs this keep.
12:12I am her son.
12:13You are just the human bride they sent to warm Lucian's bed.
12:16Then I slapped him.
12:17Servants rushed over.
12:18No one dared speak.
12:20Rowan wiped blood from his lip.
12:21My mother will hear about this.
12:23Good.
12:24Tell Lady Selene I saved her the trouble.
12:26His face twisted.
12:28My mother!
12:28Your mother failed to raise you.
12:31That makes it my problem now.
12:32I turned to the hall.
12:34Freya.
12:34Gareth.
12:35Put him in the lower water cell.
12:37By morning, maybe he'll remember whose keep this is.
12:40The guards moved toward Rowan.
12:42That was when the whole keep understood.
12:44I was Lady Dravenmoor.
12:46Below the keep, Rowan shook in freezing water.
12:48My mother knows about Lucian's medicine.
12:51He looked up, shaking.
12:52She knows who kept him asleep.
12:53And Crown Tower knows she knows.
13:16Why iswolan Oooh.
13:35Jim was causing achutz.
13:35So, for fairengo, she's you.
13:35She told her to be scared.
13:36My mother explained aboutďż˝ arm Qing
13:36And it was as old as the Incredible expiration.
13:36He answered something like you tried next to his friend
13:36but still kind of tricks.
13:40I forgot what he was thinking.
13:41When he challenged me to sing Đ·Đ° ale ASS Xing.
14:03At dawn, Gareth brought me Rowan's confession.
14:05He was drunk, but he said the medicine was switched, and he said Crown Tower was involved.
14:10I looked at Lucian.
14:11The black silver scales on his hand had faded, but his fingers were warmer than before.
14:14Bring me every medicine log from the last year.
14:18And find me a healer who doesn't answer to Salona or the Royal Pharmacy.
14:22By breakfast, the hall was full.
14:24Servants stood with their heads down.
14:26Selina sat at the high table, calm as ever.
14:28Freya, you locked my son in a water cell over drunken words.
14:31Now you want to accuse me too?
14:33I want records.
14:35Household records are not toys for a new bride.
14:37I placed the medicine book on the table.
14:39Then explain this.
14:41Her smile stopped.
14:42Lucian's dose changed three months ago.
14:44The healer's seal is missing.
14:46The delivery mark belongs to your steward.
14:48Gareth, step beside me.
14:49From today on, no one touches Lucian's food, wine, or medicine unless I see it first.
14:53You think you can run, Darren Moore?
14:56No.
14:56I already am.
14:58A crash came from Lucian's chamber.
15:00We ran back.
15:01The medicine bowl had split in half.
15:02Black silver fire burned across the floor.
15:04Lucian's eyes were still closed, but his hand had crushed the bed rail.
15:08That evening, a sealed letter arrived from Crown Tower.
15:10Not a personal note.
15:11An official order with the royal stamp.
15:13Gareth read it aloud.
15:14By the authority of Crown Prince Caelan, a royal medical delegation will be dispatched
15:18to Dragan Moore Keep to evaluate Duke Lucian's condition and review all medical arrangements
15:22currently in place.
15:23The room went quiet.
15:24When?
15:26Three days.
15:27I looked at the letter.
15:28If Caelan's doctors walked in here, they would take over Lucian's treatment.
15:31Reverse everything I had changed.
15:33Put Celine's people back in charge.
15:34And I couldn't refuse.
15:35He was using his nephew's health as the excuse.
15:38Then we have three days.
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19:48alone his hand was warm the scales pulsed i need you to wake up silence then his fingers closed
19:53around mine freya his dark gold eyes opened who came into my keep and thought he could question
19:59my wife for protecting me lucian sat up in bed black silver flame tore through the room he looked
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20:15in dravenmore keep lit at once the whole northern sky burned silver in crown tower a rider burst through
20:21the gate your highness dragon own more's fire just lit the northern line all of it cailin stood up the
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23:21The Royal Medical Delegation arrived before noon.
23:24They expected a sleeping duke.
23:26They found Lucian Dravenmore seated in the main hall.
23:29He leaned on a cane.
23:30His face was pale, but black-silver pressure filled the room so hard the candles bent sideways.
23:35The late physician swallowed.
23:37Your Grace, Crown Prince Caelan sent us to review your treatment.
23:40Lucian looked at him.
23:41My nephew sends doctors into my keep without asking me.
23:44No one answered.
23:45The Crown is concerned for your health.
23:48My wife kept me alive while your prince tried to take control of my be-medicine.
23:53From today on, Dravenmore's healers answer to me and Lady Davenmore.
23:56No one else.
23:56The delegation left before sunset.
23:58Caelan watched from the upper hall, white-faced.
24:01That night, she sent a servant through the east gate with a sealed message.
24:04I watched him disappear into the dark road.
24:06I could stop him, but I didn't.
24:08I want to see who will answer.
24:09Later, Lucian found me by the chamber fire.
24:12How much did they make you carry alone?
24:14His jaw tightened.
24:17I'll start carrying it with you.
24:45Since then, Dean?
25:14By God.
25:15His view is racist.
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26:05At dawn, Lucien ordered the ledgers sealed. Gareth brought iron boxes from Selene's office. Taxbooks, supply lists, military payment rolls.
26:13By noon, the truth was on the table.
26:15Northern Rider pay was cut for eight months. Wintergrain was marked as delivered, but the storehouses never received it.
26:21He placed another page down.
26:23And this money went to the Gilded Den.
26:25Rowan's name was written beside the account. Selene gripped her sleeve.
26:28My husband died for this house. I raised my son here. I made sacrifices.
26:33Lucien looked at her.
26:34You sold my soldiers food and called it sacrifice?
26:38I protected Drevenmore while you slept.
26:40No. You fed off it.
26:43The hall went silent.
26:45Rowan was dragged in, bruised and terrified.
26:48Mother, say something.
26:49Selene did not look at him. Lucien tapped the ledger.
26:53Rowan Vos goes to the dungeon until I decide his sentence.
26:56You can't do this to family!
26:57Family does not touch my wife, steal from my riders, or poison my house.
27:02The guards took him away.
27:05Selene Vox is removed from all household authority. She will remain under guard in the East Wing.
27:10Then he turned to me.
27:12The accounts are yours now.
27:13Every servant in the hall dropped to one knee.
27:16For the first time, they were not kneeling because Lucien had woken.
27:19They were kneeling because I had won.
27:40The two-hole palace took him away.
27:44The two-hole was a cult for each other, and it was a cult for Leroy.
27:52The one-walking gentleman was a disposed to be held.
27:52The pimp for me that the Pimp for Leroy does not know me.
27:52The two-hole was a cult for me.
27:55So, I want to close the memory.
27:55I'm only a big one-room.
27:56Go to one-room.
28:02I don't know if you were a cult for me.
37:14It's a scratch.
37:20I wrapped cloth around my arm.
37:22I knew what I was choosing when I married you.
37:24He stared at me for a long second.
37:26You should not only be ready to suffer.
37:29His thumb brushed my bandage.
37:30You should be treated well.
37:32I stopped breathing.
37:33For the first time, he wasn't speaking as a duke.
37:35He was speaking as my husband.
37:37Okay.
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40:20refuse. Gareth read it in the hall. Dragon Duke Lucian Dravenmore and Lady Freya Davenmore are
40:25commanded to attend the royal citadel. The servants looked at me. Lucian took the letter.
40:30So they finally want us in the open. It could be a trap. It is a trap. Then we should
40:35not go.
40:36If I refuse, they call it rebellion. If I go, they have to face me in front of the king.
40:40He looked at me. And I have things to show my brother. That night, I packed the evidence myself.
40:46Selene's ledgers. The medicine logs. The payment trail to the royal pharmacy. Every page that tied
40:52Dravenmore's sickness to crown tower and the royal citadel. Mira tied the case shut. Are you afraid?
40:58I looked at the royal seal. I died in that city once. Mira went quiet. I'm not going back as
41:06that girl.
41:08Before dawn, I found Lucian on the tower. Royal citadel was far beyond the dark hills.
41:15Kaelin will be there. So will the queen. And me. He offered his hand. I took it. This time,
41:22I was not walking into crown tower alone.
41:39We returned to the royal citadel under black silver banners. The streets went quiet first. Then everyone started whispering. Lucian
41:46Dravenmore was not dead. And I was not the ruined girl crown tower once threw away.
41:50Northern dragon riders rode on both sides of our carriage. Gareth led them with one hand on his sword. At
41:55the palace gate, Kaelin stood above the steps.
41:57He looked at Lucian's cane. Then he looked at me. I looked past him. That hurt him more.
42:03Queen Marianne held a welcome feast that night.
42:05Duke Lucian, Valeria is relieved to see you awake.
42:08Relieved enough to send a resuccan?
42:10Her smile tightened.
42:11The king missed his brother.
42:13Then we are happy to answer his majesty.
42:14We brought everything he needs to see.
42:16Her eyes moved to the locked case beside my chair.
42:18How thoughtful. After dinner, Princess Anya caught my sleeve near the corridor.
42:23Madame Corvig has been going to the royal archive every night.
42:26I stopped.
42:27Whatever you brought, she may be trying to burn the matching half.
42:31That night,
42:32Lucian closed our chamber door.
42:35Edric confirmed it.
42:36The original letter about your father's march is still sealed in the archive.
42:40Can we get it?
42:41Only the king can open that vault.
42:46Then we make him want to.
42:49Wow.
42:51That and always.
43:18Thank you so much.
43:18Here I have an idea that he might get for잉 didn't want to.
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44:05The Autumn Court filled the Royal Hall by sunrise, Dragon Lords, Human Nobles, Crown Loyalists. Lucian entered with a cane.
44:12The room still bowed, black silver pressure rolled over the floor. Even House Marianne's men stopped smiling.
44:17Caelan sat in the Prince's seat, gold fire flickering under his skin. A Marianne Lord stepped forward first.
44:23Your Majesty, Duke Lucian has been absent from court for a year. His private Dragon Riders remain under Northern Command.
44:28Valeria needs a royal overseaher in Drevenmoor.
44:30The Hall stirred. So that was their move. Call Lucian weak. Call his army dangerous. Put Crown Tower inside our
44:36key. Lucian handed Gareth's sealed report to the King's steward.
44:39Current rider count, grain stores, border patrols, tax ledgers records for Sir Nervas and her son.
44:44King Alaric read in silence. Reports can be dressed up. So can treason. The Lord froze. King Alaric lowered the
44:51report.
44:52The North appears better managed than half the estates in this room. No oversaw will be sent.
44:58Caelan's jaw tightened. After court, he blocked me on the stone steps.
45:02Did you come back just to parade him in front of me? No. Then why are you here? To speak
45:08to the King.
45:09I stepped around him. This has nothing to do with you. For once, Caelan had no answer.
45:35Let's go.
45:59I'll see you later.
46:02Let's go.
46:02.
46:33.
46:47The next day the court gathered in the Rose Dragon Garden.
46:50I found the old pool behind the Rose Wall.
46:53I had fallen in there as a child.
46:55I remembered cold water, small hands, then a black cloak around my shoulders.
47:00Lucian stopped beside me.
47:02You told me Ashborough girls didn't cry over water.
47:06I turned.
47:07That was you?
47:08You were ten, soaked through, furious at the pond.
47:13And you remembered that?
47:14I remembered you.
47:15For a second the court noise faded, then Queen Marion's voice cut through the garden.
47:19How charming. A human duchess among dragonhounds.
47:23Valeria is becoming very generous.
47:25The noble ladies went quiet. Caelan looked at me. I did not speak. Lucian did.
47:29House Ashborough bled for Valeria before half these dragonhouses learned how to hold a border.
47:34Queen Marion's smile cracked.
47:38Freer's bloodline has earned its place here.
47:40A Marion lady muttered.
47:41Human blood is still human blood.
47:45Lucian turned his dark gold eyes on her.
47:47Then pray you never need human soldiers to die for your comfort again.
47:50No one laughed.
47:51I looked at Lucian for the first time I understood.
47:55His silence all these years had never been indifference.
47:59It had been restraint.
48:44Anas warning was real.
48:46Edric checked the Royal archive records for me.
48:49Three nights.
48:50Three visits.
48:52Madame Corvin entered the sealed wing each time with a Marianne clerk.
48:55The exit list is wrong.
48:57Files went in, fewer came out.
48:59Which files?
49:00Northern Warfront, Ashbington Marching Routes, Dragonblood Curse Reports.
49:04Lucien's hand tightened on his cane.
49:06They are destroying the trail.
49:08Then we split it.
49:09Lucien went to request royal access from King Alaric.
49:12I sent Edric to the old archive clerk who had served my father.
49:16By midnight, Mira came to my room carrying a basket of white roses.
49:31Don't yell.
49:32I know it looks stupid.
49:34She pulled the cloth aside.
49:36Three copied letters lay under the flowers.
49:38My hands went cold.
49:39One letter marked my father's route through the northern pass.
49:42One confirmed the route had been sent before the ambush.
49:45The last carried a red wax seal.
49:47House Marianne.
49:48Mira stared at it.
49:49My lady, that's the queen's family.
49:52I closed the letters.
49:55Not just her family.
49:58Lucien entered before dawn.
49:59The king agreed to open the vault tomorrow.
50:01I handed him the copies.
50:03Good.
50:04His face changed as he read.
50:07Because now we know what they'll try to hide.
50:17We're hanging back.
50:18I'm not going to die.
50:18We're not going to die.
50:18I want to sip baby is I love the pie with my family.
50:31And then they go to the mouth and floor.
50:32It'll be Awes raise.
50:32Aaron's awesome as their daddy comes cool behind me.
50:32And now they be fired.
50:32And then they say,
50:32And then you Logan.
50:36And we've gone too late.
50:39So that we'll try again to get in line,
50:41but we've been ku Tuscarselling.
50:41back to signing in.
50:42.
51:37Don't yell. I know it looks stupid.
51:40She pulled the cloth aside.
51:42Three copies.
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