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Reborn as the Stepmother of My Ex-Husband - New ⬆️
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00:00The serpent heir was dying from a deadly heat drug.
00:05I'm a rabbit shifter, born fertile,
00:08so they stripped me bare and threw me into his bed as the cure.
00:12I saved him and became his mate.
00:20He was barren, yet I bore him three sons and secured his throne.
00:28But the day he became Lord, he threw me and our sons off the cliffs
00:34and let the exiled beasts tear us apart.
00:39You drugged me.
00:40You forced me to claim you!
00:44If not for you, Korra would never have been married off.
00:48You sent her to her death!
00:52Turned out he'd loved my maid all along.
00:58Reborn, I was back on the day the heat drug took him.
01:01This time, I let Korra be his cure.
01:04And I walked toward his serpent lord father's chamber instead.
01:09When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the night Kyus was drugged.
01:13The male panting over me was the one I'd loved for a lifetime.
01:17Kyus, heir to the Serpent Veil clan.
01:20He kept muttering about protecting virtue.
01:23Crimson marks spread across his lower abdomen.
01:26The telltale sign of a potent heat drug.
01:29Last life, I thought he just wouldn't mark me before the mating rite.
01:32I was wrong.
01:33The one he wanted was my maid, Korra.
01:36Thinking that, I shoved him off hard.
01:39I was a rabbit shifter, and the only one of my kind blessed with the gift of extraordinary fertility.
01:45When our clan nearly collapsed, my father left me in the care of the neighboring Veil clan.
01:51So, I grew up with Kyus.
01:54Everybody knew I loved him.
01:58Your highness has been dosed with a powerful aphrodisiac.
02:00If it's not dealt with, he'll die.
02:03My lady, his highness has always loved you.
02:05Please save him.
02:07I loved him for ten years, so I said yes.
02:11Afraid I'd lose my nerve, they drugged me too.
02:14That night, he claimed me roughly.
02:17The men of the Veil clan were cursed with infertility.
02:20But to become the Serpent Lord, one had to carry on the Veil bloodline.
02:24I was the one who gave him three sons, securing his claim to the throne.
02:29But what I got was ten years of suffering, and his blade into my heart.
02:36I fought down the draft's heat and dragged myself up.
02:40Cora, come in.
02:42If those two wanted each other, fine.
02:44This time, she can be his cure.
02:48Take off your clothes.
02:50Sleep with him.
02:52Cora's eyes flushed pink with delight.
02:54Then, like she feared I'd see too much, she squirmed and refused.
02:59But, my lady, don't you love your highness?
03:03How could I take your place?
03:05Even now, she wanted to play me.
03:07She'd been a beggar, half starved by the roadside.
03:10I saved her, and kept her close.
03:13I never guessed she was planning to take my mate.
03:18Your highness said it himself.
03:20You're the one he wants.
03:22You've just whamming Lysidus fat.
03:25You can be with him.
03:27I'd like to see how Caius manages to keep his throne this time round without my fertility.
03:33Soon the moans came through the wall, and the heat drug in my blood started to burn.
03:38Heat coiled between my thighs, wave after wave.
03:42My whole body was shaking.
03:43I needed to get through my heat.
03:45In all the estate, there was one other male besides Caius.
03:49The lord himself.
03:50Cael.
03:51Cael was barren.
03:52And I was a rabbit, built to conceive.
03:55Caius was his adoptive son.
03:57If he got a child of his own blood, the high seat would never pass to Caius.
04:02So I gathered my nerve.
04:03I knocked on the lord's door.
04:05The door opened.
04:06Cael's striking face filled my eyes.
04:09He was in his prime.
04:11Taller and broader than Caius.
04:12A faint shimmer of black scales lined his temples, giving him the look of a demon.
04:17His cold face shifted, just barely when he saw it was me.
04:22Elise?
04:23You were meant to be with Caius tonight.
04:25Why are you at my door?
04:27Did that little snake hurt you?
04:29Tell me.
04:30I'll set it right.
04:34The heat had me.
04:35I couldn't hold myself up, so I just wrapped my arms around his lean waist.
04:40Don't tell anyone.
04:42Someone else has already relieved Caius.
04:44I'm the one burning now.
04:47Will my lord be willing to relieve me?
04:52Elise, look at me.
04:54You know who I am?
04:55I'd held on too long.
04:57Have mercy on me.
04:58Please.
04:58Something in him snapped.
05:00He swept me up and set me on his bed.
05:02Elise, tell me.
05:03When the heat clears, will you regret this?
05:06His lips parted and closed, and all I could think was that they were an invitation.
05:11I want this.
05:12His eyes went dark.
05:13The last of his control broke.
05:15His mouth found the soft tip of my ear, and it trembled against his lips.
05:19After that, there was only my breathing and the dark rhythm of him.
05:23I woke.
05:24Kale was still out cold beside me.
05:26I slept with my ex's father.
05:29Heat crept up my face.
05:30I looked down.
05:31Bruises and marks all over me.
05:34In a whole lifetime, Caius had never wanted me like that.
05:38Never so hard, so hungry.
05:40It was the first time the sex had ever been sweet for me.
05:44Maybe it was the blessed fertility in me.
05:47My belly felt full and warm, like there was already a life curled inside.
05:51I couldn't face him.
05:53So I pulled on one of his robes and slipped back to my own rooms to clean up.
05:59When Kale woke, the rabbit was gone from his bed.
06:02He chuckled, picking up the torn lingerie.
06:06What a rabbit.
06:07Used me and ran.
06:10My lord, the heir and that servant girl are beating Alesis.
06:13Should we go?
06:15His serpentine aura shattered the windows.
06:18Dress me.
06:19I want to see who dares lay hands on my future lady.
06:22I'd just gotten back, about to bathe in change, when a hand clamped my wrist.
06:27I looked up.
06:28Caius.
06:29Glaring.
06:30Fury all over his face.
06:33Whose robe is that?
06:38Then his eyes hit the marks on my neck.
06:41His face changed.
06:42Alesis.
06:43You've got some nerve.
06:45I didn't know why he'd come to rage at me.
06:47This life he had Korra.
06:49The one he'd always wanted.
06:50Shouldn't he be staying far away from me?
06:54Shameless slut!
06:56Where were you last night?
07:00Which guard left those marks on you?
07:04You swore you loved me.
07:06How could you do something this filthy?
07:08His pupils narrowed to slits.
07:11Two lifetimes.
07:12And I'd never seen him this angry.
07:14I looked at his throat.
07:15Bite marks all over it.
07:16What right did he have to judge me?
07:19I was young and foolish once.
07:21My feelings for your high net only brought you trouble.
07:24I've changed now.
07:26I will never love you again.
07:28You don't need to worry.
07:29You can be with anyone you want.
07:30His face twisted.
07:32Your highness.
07:37Korra was the one who saved me last night.
07:39A clean girl like her is worth ten of you.
07:42I'll ask the lord to name her my only mate.
07:45And one day I'll make her my queen.
07:48Thank you, Caius.
07:50I felt nothing.
07:51Because only I knew how thin Caius's seed ran.
07:56Last life, even built to breed as I am, carrying his children nearly broke me.
08:02Korra was just a normal rabbit.
08:04Give him children? Impossible.
08:07No children. No steady seat.
08:09Take the throne one day?
08:13Never.
08:16Korra suddenly caught my arm.
08:17I shouldn't have fought with you, sister.
08:20You saved my life.
08:22If you'd only say the word.
08:24I hope you two stay together forever.
08:28Truly.
08:30Elise.
08:32What game are you playing now?
08:36Drop the high and mighty act.
08:39Your parents are long dead.
08:42You're no rabbit princess anymore.
08:44You've lost your verla too.
08:46And by clan law, you should be cast out.
08:51Kneel and apologize to me.
08:53And maybe I'll consider taking you as a mistress.
08:56His words stung and dragged me back into the past.
09:00When I first came to the estate, I couldn't settle.
09:03At night, I couldn't sleep.
09:04And I wept in the garden.
09:07From now on, I'll be your family.
09:09I'll protect you.
09:11That's where it started.
09:12After that, I fell for him and couldn't stop falling.
09:15Looking back, it was just something he said offhand.
09:18And for it, I gave him my body, three births, and my life.
09:22Words that light, he'd probably said to other girls too.
09:26Not worth my heart.
09:27Not worth my life.
09:30Then cast me out.
09:32It made him even angrier.
09:36I said, kneel down.
09:43Caius, maybe it's all too much for her.
09:47Let me talk to her alone.
09:51Don't you dare bully Cora.
09:53She's not your servant anymore.
09:54Then he strode out.
09:57Cora watched him go, eyes soft with longing.
10:01You must hate this, don't you?
10:03He's young, beautiful, full of feeling.
10:06And now he's mine.
10:09Pity you.
10:11All those years giving everything to him.
10:13And he never had room for you in his heart.
10:15I was born low.
10:17But I'm the one he loves.
10:18My lady, I do feel sorry for you.
10:21Couldn't have him so you gave yourself to some stray guard?
10:24Hoping to make him jealous?
10:28Last life, I didn't learn how much she hated me until I was dying.
10:32I'd arranged a fine match for her.
10:34The brother of a respected elder.
10:36Good family.
10:37Real wealth.
10:38She'd have run her own household as first wife.
10:43Instead, she went behind my back and took Caius to her bed.
10:46Her husband knew it and began to take his violence out on her.
10:50Then she told Caius it was all my fault.
10:53In the end, she took her own life just to make him hate me.
10:57This life, she thinks she's climbed high.
11:00Latched onto the air.
11:01Beaten fate.
11:02She doesn't know.
11:04Without me, he can't father a child.
11:06He'll never hold the seat.
11:11Leave now.
11:13But then Cora grabbed my other glass lamp and smashed it.
11:17Then she screamed and dropped knees first onto the shards.
11:21Caius heard her and burst in.
11:26He saw the glass in her knees and swept me aside with his serpent tail.
11:32You vicious little thing.
11:34You'd still dare hurt her?
11:36You think I'll keep letting you get away with this?
11:39He seemed startled by his own force.
11:42Panic flickered in his eyes.
11:44Elise, are you alright?
11:46Caius, she's jealous I get to be yours.
11:49She hurt me on purpose.
11:51That flicker of feeling vanished.
11:53Elise, it's high time someone taught you a lesson.
11:59Caius' companions had come.
12:01Elise chased Caius for years.
12:05Will Caius be asking the Lord to name her his mate?
12:08I was raised like a princess, yes.
12:10But underneath, just an orphan with no blood to my name.
12:15To them, a girl like me reaching for the air was reaching too high.
12:23Caius doesn't hold back, does he?
12:25Look at her.
12:26All tears and ruin.
12:29Be fair.
12:30That heat drug was a killer.
12:31Drawn out too late, it'd have ended him.
12:33He owes her thanks, really.
12:35Who even cursed him?
12:37For all we know, she did it herself, then played savior to force his hand.
12:40I stood and stepped back, well clear of Caius.
12:43I didn't drug him.
12:45And I didn't cure him.
12:49There's nothing between me and Caius.
12:51That stunned the room.
12:53With outsiders watching, Caius had cooled.
12:56That's right.
12:58It was Cora who relieved me.
13:01The place at my side is hers alone.
13:03Only then did they look down at the little maid next to him, whose neck was covered in hickeys.
13:09Then the marks on Elise?
13:10I was unmated.
13:12If I didn't sleep with Caius, then who had left those marks on me?
13:16Don't tell me she was so heartbroken the hair wouldn't touch her that she went and bedded some stray.
13:21Shameless.
13:23No wonder he never wanted her.
13:24I went white.
13:26I bit down hard on my lip.
13:28The one who'd taken me was Kale, the lord himself.
13:32But this life, I didn't know yet where he stood.
13:35I didn't dare say it.
13:36Then Cora's voice cut in first.
13:39A loose woman like this.
13:41By law, she can be dragged off to be a sex slave, can't she?
13:44I heard they bond the lust mark right into her chest with a needle.
13:48The room laughed, ugly and eager.
13:51A woman branded with the lust mark was the lowest thing alive in any pack.
13:57Anyone could take her, use her, pass her on like a toy.
14:01Someone, bring the needle.
14:03His guard seized my wrists.
14:05His hand closed around my throat.
14:09He held the silver needle, hovering it right over my heart.
14:14One last chance.
14:18I know you did this to yourself to spine me.
14:22But for old times sake, I won't turn you into a slave.
14:27But you hurt Cora today.
14:29So kneel.
14:30Bow your head, apologize and beg me to take you as my lesser woman.
14:34Then kill me, it'll never happen!
14:36My patience is thin, Elise.
14:39Kneel, or be barned, choose.
14:42Mistress.
14:43Just kneel.
14:44I'll forgive you.
14:46I promise.
14:52How dare you!
15:00Kael had come.
15:01In one stride, he had me out and pulled into his chest.
15:04Elise, what happened?
15:07Who hurt you?
15:08He saw the glass cut bleeding on my hand.
15:10The look he swept over the room was murderous.
15:13Faced with the Lord, everyone dropped to their knees, heads bowed, not daring to speak.
15:19Father, why are you here?
15:21No one bullied her!
15:22She was the one who got jealous because Cora was with me last night.
15:25She pushed Cora to the ground!
15:26I couldn't just stand by and watch.
15:28I only taught her a little lesson.
15:30Kael paid him no mind at all.
15:32Kael sent for the healer.
15:33He bound my hand himself.
15:35The look he gave Cora was the look you give a dead woman.
15:40Aren't you Elise's maid?
15:41You dare slander your own mistress?
15:45Drag her to the altar.
15:47Thirty slypes.
15:50Father, you can't!
15:51The venom nearly killed me last night!
15:53Cora saved me!
15:54I beg you, let me name her my mate!
15:56A servant like this, fit to stand beside the hair of the Veil clan?
16:00Hardly.
16:01For saving you, she earns a place.
16:03A low consort, nothing more.
16:05Caius was dreaming.
16:06Even setting me aside, Cora was born far too low to ever stand as the heir's mate.
16:11If Kael still tolerated his noise at all, it was only because he had no son of his own.
16:17Saving you was a service.
16:19Abusing Elise was a crime.
16:20The 30 lashes stand.
16:22Cora was already hurt.
16:23And now she'd be flogged.
16:26So Caius dumped the blame back on me.
16:28Elise, tell my father right now that you're the one who hurt Cora!
16:32Beg for her, and I'll still take you as mine.
16:39No.
16:40Why would I confess to something I didn't do?
16:44Kael said nothing more.
16:45Cora was dragged out to be flogged.
16:48But Caius ignored her wailing.
16:50His eyes stayed stuck on me.
16:53Elise, let go of my father.
16:57He's always spoiled you, but clinging to him like this is too much.
17:02Father, please don't punish her for the disrespect.
17:04He even reached a hand out to me.
17:06I buried my face against Kael, and refused to look at him again.
17:10Something about that pleased Kael.
17:14Son, from now on you'll show Elise more respect.
17:17No more calling her by name.
17:18Last night I took Elise.
17:20Next month I'll make her my lady.
17:21You're a few years older than she is, but by the laws of this clan you'll call her mother.
17:25What? Mother?
17:29Outside, Cora was beaten senseless, and he never even noticed.
17:35Father, she's vicious to the bone! How can you marry her?!
17:38Kael hauled him aside.
17:40I said, she's now my lady. The future queen. Your mother.
17:46The companions who'd mocked me didn't dare lift their heads now, terrified I'd hold it against them.
17:54Elise has been stubborn since she was little. You must take good care of her.
17:59That cold, silent serpent lord wiped away my tears and carried me back to his nest.
18:07Legend said the cruel serpent lord only ever smiled when he killed.
18:11But I alone knew he smiled too, whenever he took a gift from my hands.
18:16He was good to me, but I always thought it was for my parents' sake.
18:20Not until he died in a war, and I sorted through his things, did I learn the truth.
18:27In his collection room, my clumsy first writing drafts, the scraps of cloth I'd ruined learning to stitch.
18:34At the very center of his collection room, Elise will marry the Lord Kael when she grows up.
18:40Then I grew up, decided it was Caius I wanted, and spent my days chasing after him.
18:45So Kael folded his feelings away, and played the good elder.
18:50While he lived, he kept Caius on a tight leash, made him treat me well, forbade him other women.
18:57He never knew what happened in the end.
18:59This life, I'd decided to answer his feelings at last.
19:03Only after Kael had soothed me and left, did Caius come back again.
19:10Elise, you can't marry my father.
19:13He's old enough to be your father, and he's barren.
19:17He couldn't spy a young, so he took me as his son in the first place.
19:21I know you're doing this to spite me, but don't throw your whole life away over it.
19:28Watch your tone, Caius. I'll soon be your elder.
19:32Is this how you speak to your elders?
19:35You think tying yourself to my father puts you above me?
19:39Here's the truth.
19:40In five years, my father will be dead.
19:43And then I take the high seat.
19:45At that, I finally looked up at him.
19:48No wonder he'd seemed off since the start.
19:50Like he was straining to make something up to Korra.
19:53He was reborn too.
19:59But last life, he only rose from heir to lord because I gave him three sons.
20:04To spare his pride, I'd never told him the truth.
20:07That his own line was barren.
20:09So this life, he still thinks there's nothing wrong with him.
20:13Before Kale left, he'd posted a whole guard of attendants to watch over me at all hours.
20:18One small wave of my hand, and they blocked Caius off.
20:22Elise needs her rest now, here.
20:24He thought I didn't believe him.
20:26Every trace of a smile left his face.
20:29He turned to go.
20:31This life, you will regret it.
20:35Watching his back, I felt something in me finally let go.
20:39I'd already turned my own death aside.
20:42But Kale's death?
20:43That I had to take seriously.
20:46Last life, war broke out on the borderlands.
20:49The clan had no general fit to lead.
20:51To protect his territory and his people, Kale rode out himself.
20:56A traitor sold him, and he died for it.
20:59This life, that war was five years off.
21:02Time enough to warn him.
21:04Time enough for him to prepare.
21:07Soon, the day for the mating ceremony came.
21:10Last life, I'd served five faithful years as Caius' mate,
21:15and died without ever wearing the crown.
21:17This life, I chose Kale and went straight to the seat beside the lord.
21:23At the feast, the same people who'd looked down on me
21:26now clawed over each other to win my favor.
21:30I sat at Kale's side and looked down on them all.
21:33In the crowd, Caius.
21:35And trailing meekly behind him, Korra, the low consort.
21:40Word was, Caius had called the healer in more than once.
21:44He wanted to know if Korra was carrying.
21:46Because last life, that was the very night I'd conceived our first son.
21:51And his roughness with me that night had nearly cost the child.
21:55Stubborn, he took Korra to his bed almost every night.
22:00But every time, the healer's word was the same.
22:04The consort was not with child.
22:07Not once.
22:08Because the problem had never been me.
22:14Whispers spread through the estate.
22:16Was the heir barren too, like the lord?
22:20If so, the seat might pass to a different adopted son.
22:24The worry over heirs aided him.
22:26Even the way he treated Korra, the girl he'd pined for, soured.
22:31Last life, after Korra died, he'd sworn himself to her ghost with a right grand enough to shake the clan.
22:38Even the common folk had praised him for love deep as the sea.
22:42But this life, Korra called to him again and again, and he acted deaf.
22:47Korra was lowborn to begin with.
22:49And now Caius's pack of hangers-on heaped on her all the cruelty they'd once aimed at me.
22:55Just a servant.
22:57Latched onto the hare and thought she'd turn from gutter to glory.
23:03If she doesn't get a child to secure her place soon, the hare will be taking someone new.
23:08Just as he'd once ignored my misery, Caius ignored hers.
23:12He stared blankly toward the high dais, and our eyes happened to meet.
23:17I expected him to look away in disgust.
23:20Instead, he just looked at me, his eyes full of things he wanted to say.
23:26I'd like my lady to keep her eyes on her own mate.
23:30I laughed.
23:31He was actually jealous of his own son.
23:34Right, I had a second life now.
23:37Caius was the past, and it had been close to a month since the night with Kael.
23:41I hadn't called the healer, but my courses still hadn't come.
23:45My mother always said I was born to carry easy.
23:48I was almost certain I'd conceived again.
23:51Midway through the feast, I slipped out to freshen up.
23:53I didn't expect Caius to come find me.
23:56Elise.
23:57Hush.
23:59Mind your words, hare.
24:01I'm your mother now.
24:04You, I know you.
24:06You'd never give me up so easily.
24:07My father's always spoiled you.
24:09This is all a play, isn't it?
24:10The two of you scheming to force me back to you.
24:18That made me laugh outright.
24:21You should know.
24:23That night, your own men dosed me with a heat draft too.
24:27Without a male to break it, how was I supposed to survive?
24:30You were busy nesting with Korra, so I went to the Lord.
24:34There was no one else.
24:36He couldn't take it.
24:37His whole body shook.
24:39I had no wish to look at him longer.
24:41I turned and went back to Kael.
24:43This life, same as the last.
24:45Kael had loved me in silence all along.
24:48In his chambers, I caught a scent I knew.
24:51It came back to me.
24:53Caius' company had never spared me from the nightmares.
24:56It was Kael who'd gone to such trouble to recreate the calming perfume my mother used to blend.
25:01And that was what finally ended the nightmares.
25:04The one I should have given my heart to, all along, was Kael.
25:08Not because he demanded it.
25:10Not because he earned it.
25:11But because he had always been there.
25:13Waiting for me to turn around.
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