Masuk"I've been sending you a bouquet of blood orchids every day, and a letter every day. Did you receive them? Did you read my letters?"It seemed he didn't know I had returned to the Group."You don't have to send them anymore," I said calmly."No, I will keep sending them until you forgive me, until you come back to me."The atmosphere instantly froze. I was getting impatient."I came here to do one thing: sever the blood-bond. Permanently."Draven seemed to want to say something, but he just opened his mouth and swallowed his words.Sabine, standing by, couldn't take it anymore and cried out on Draven's behalf:"Draven has become like this for you, why can't you forgive him? He really loved the wrong person!""Shut up!" Draven snapped at Sabine.I sighed."This is what happens when you're too greedy to choose and too weak to commit. A Lord's bloodline can't hide a coward's heart."After choosing me, he couldn't let go of Sabine; after getting Sabine, he couldn't let go of me.I didn't w
"Dear Isolde, you are cordially invited to attend the negotiations between the Eternal Blood Group and the Crimson Moon Clan."The card was handwritten. I recognized my brother's script."You're negotiating with the Crimson Moon Clan?" I asked, my eyes wide. "How did they agree to that?""They have no choice," my brother said, a predator's smile on his lips. "Their blood sources are nearly depleted. They negotiate with us, or they wither into dust."I remembered my brother telling Draven's mother that he would make her family pay, but I didn't expect him to do it in just six months.And the price they were paying was quite steep."What's wrong? Are you not happy? Are you still feeling sorry for that bastard?""Of course not." I shook my head, feeling a bit lost. "It's just... this doesn't bring him back," I whispered. "All the revenge in the world won't bring my baby back.""You will meet someone who truly loves and cherishes you!" My brother patted my head gently, his eyes full of sym
Back at the headquarters of Eternal Blood.Years had passed, and the family's business empire had grown to be a hundred times the size of the Crimson Moon Clan."Welcome home!" Orion said.He took me to the top-floor suite of the headquarters, where he had prepared a room with a private blood-healing lab for me.I thought of the nearly five months I spent in that stifling, oppressive sunroom at Draven’s manor. It made me sad, but then this place made me feel loved again.My first night home, a wall of text from Draven arrived. Excuses. He’d thought of me daily. He’d tried to call. His mother had lied. He hadn’t broken his promise, he swore...I snorted. Empty words. I deleted the message. Blocked his number. Done.The next morning, as my brother and I were having breakfast, a servant came over with a large bouquet of rare blood orchids."Miss Isolde, someone sent you flowers!"I took the bouquet and found a card tucked among the blossoms. I pulled it out and read it."Isolde, give me
Draven's eyes locked on my flat stomach, confusion twisting his features."Isolde... where's the baby? You're not due yet."I ignored him, took my brother's arm, and headed for the exit.But he grabbed me. "Isolde, I'm talking to you. Where is our child?"My brother pushed him away. "You're Draven? My sister's greatest misfortune was meeting a mate like you! The only mercy in this tragedy," my brother snarled, "is that you never forged the final bond with her.""Sister?" Draven glanced at my brother, then back at me. "When did you have a brother? Where is our child? Tell me. Where did you hide our baby?""That thing is gone. Turned to dust," Draven's mother spat before I could answer."Turned to dust?! No, no, it can't be!" Draven staggered back. "Isolde, tell me it's not true!""It's true. The child is dead. And we are over," I said, not looking at him. My eyes welled up, thinking of the child I never got to see...Hearing this, Sabine's mother took the baby from Sabine's arms and wal
When I woke up, I found myself in the medical wing of the Eternal Blood headquarters, with someone standing over me.I thought it was Draven's parents and started screaming."Let me go, let me go!""Isolde, you're finally awake!" My brother Orion's voice cut through my panic, and I realized it was him."Brother..." My voice was weak.He bent down to stroke my face, his eyes red and swollen."Isolde, you need to rest. I'll make those people pay!" my brother, Orion, roared.That's when the moments before I blacked out came flooding back.I cried out in a panic, "My baby! Where's my baby?"I touched my stomach. It was flat. Empty. A barren, plundered wasteland where my child used to be."They killed my baby! They killed him! He was so small!" I cried out hoarsely, struggling to sit up."Don't, Isolde! Please! You need to rest!" My brother gently laid me back down, stroking my forehead. "You're young, my sister. You'll have another chance...""No..." I sobbed, clutching my brother's clothe
After Draven left, I forced my weak body to move, pushing through the pain to start packing.I checked the time. Six hours until my brother's people arrived.I glanced at the blood-ward surrounding the manor and contacted my brother's lieutenant. "It might not be easy for you to get me. There's a clan blood-ward.""Don't worry, Miss Isolde. We'll handle it," a calm, strong voice replied. "You're safe now. We won't let anyone bully you again!"Even though I had been away from home for so long, his words gave me a surge of strength.But just as I hung up, Sabine's mother burst into my room with Draven's parents.Each of them looked at me with scorn."You, with your filthy, inferior bloodline!" Draven's mother hissed. "How dare you deceive my son? He told me he smelled a wolf in your chambers. You're the one carrying the mongrel!""If it were me, I'd let everyone know and ruin her name!" Sabine's mother added, which only enraged Draven's mother more.Draven's mother stormed up to me, her







