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I stopped at the edge of the courtyard and looked back.“Does that mean I have to accept your apology?”My voice was quiet. It still made Dax flinch.The barracks courtyard, usually full of young vampires shoving each other around between drills, had gone still. A few guards glanced our way. They couldn't hear every word, but they could feel it.Something was breaking.I hated being watched.But there was no hiding this anymore.Years of silence. Years of swallowing whatever I felt. It all came up at once.“You say you gave Iris all your attention because she was sick, as if that explains everything. Why did protecting her mean neglecting me?”“You hated it when I fought with her. Said I was loud. Difficult. But if I didn't fight, you wouldn't even notice I was there. You'd let me disappear.”“I made a better life when I left. Here, at the outpost, I earned my place. I'm not just the shadow behind your golden child. I have responsibility. People listen when I speak.”Mother shuddered.
Their Spare Daughter, His Second Choice Chapter 7
I'd said no.It made no difference.They came anyway.I returned from patrol with dust and ash on my boots and found four familiar figures waiting outside the outpost gates.Father. Mother. Dax.Kane.The heart of House Ashenveil.They brightened when they saw me, as though something they'd misplaced had finally turned up.“Vera! You're back!”Kane stepped forward before Dax could move.“It's been a while.”He looked worn down. Bloodshot eyes. Unsteady hands. Once, that look of desperation would have softened me.Now it just made me tired.“We're over,” I said. “Why are you here?”His mouth twitched.“I never agreed to that. We had an argument.”“I don't need your permission to leave.”I didn't raise my voice.The truth was enough.When I looked past him, the others flinched. Barely, but I saw it.“I heard you that night.”Mother looked away. Father's jaw tightened. Even Dax couldn't meet my eyes.“Kane was never really mine. He wanted Iris from the beginning. But his bloodline wasn't
Their Spare Daughter, His Second Choice Chapter 6
Then Kane gave a low laugh.He sounded so certain of himself.“Are you serious, Vera? After all the planning we did for the binding? You're throwing it away over a tantrum?”I let out a slow breath.“So you do remember how long we'd been planning it.”He still thought I was bluffing.“Come on. You're upset. I said I'd make it up to you. Acting like you don't care won't change how I feel.”There was nothing left to explain.I heard Dax arguing with him in the background and hung up.Then I blocked every number connected to House Ashenveil.Kane's included.When dawn came, I slept properly for the first time in weeks.And I dreamed.A young girl sat curled on the cold floor of the outpost barracks. Her uniform was too big. Half-healed scrapes covered her hands. She was writing in a journal, a jumble of dates and unfinished thoughts. A quiet record of everything she'd swallowed.Covered someone else's patrol again. No one thanked me. Didn't want to make trouble.Trained with cracked ribs.
Their Spare Daughter, His Second Choice Chapter 5
This time, no one tried to stop me.Dax called after me, his voice thin and uncertain.“Why aren't you fighting with us?”I didn't answer.There was nothing left to fight for.Back at the outpost, I shut everything out. Put my phone on airplane mode and gave myself to the border. For thirteen nights, I trained until my muscles shook, took extra patrols, and kept my head down. The work was brutal, but it was honest. By the end of it, something inside me had gone still.On the fourteenth night, I turned my phone back on.It wouldn't stop vibrating. Messages from the House. From Kane. From people I'd once called friends.I opened a friend's messages first.Dozens of screenshots. Furious comments about Iris and Kane.Then one photograph stopped me.A family portrait.Everyone was there. My parents. Dax. Iris.And Kane.He stood beside her with a soft, familiar expression, looking like a man who had finally found his place. Like he'd belonged there all along.The caption read:With the peop
Their Spare Daughter, His Second Choice Chapter 4
The corridor lights had been turned off. Mother must have thought I'd gone to bed.She hadn't expected me to overhear them discussing my future as though I were simply holding a place for Iris.Fear crossed her face as I passed her, calm and distant.“I'm going back to the outpost.”My voice gave nothing away. Not the ache in my chest. Not the fresh sting of what I'd heard.Mother let out a breath when she realized I wasn't about to cause a scene. Father gave a brief, approving nod.Good. One less inconvenience for the House.Dax stepped into my path, his eyes narrowing at the bag in my hand.“You're taking all your things? You're really running away because we're upset about what happened to Iris?”He glanced at my phone.“You think some apology over the phone is going to fix this?”Whatever flicker of guilt they'd felt was already gone. That was how it always worked. One moment of shame, then the familiar certainty that I was the one who owed them something.“Your sister is in the in
Their Spare Daughter, His Second Choice Chapter 3
Red welts broke out across Iris's skin, stark against the black web spreading beneath it.“Is this a blood reaction?” Father demanded, bending over her convulsing body. “Why now?”Mother's gaze snapped toward me.The next instant, her palm struck my face hard enough to send me sprawling onto the tiled floor.“Vera! What did you put in her drink? You know how sensitive her blood is!”Pain burst through my skull. For a moment, everything swam. My fangs dropped, and the hunger surged up my throat, demanding that I strike back.I forced it down.Dax stepped toward me, disbelief hardening into accusation.“You've been so quiet. So agreeable. And all this time you were planning to hurt Iris?”He shook his head.“How did I end up with a sister like you?”“Enough!” Father's fist slammed into the table. “Get her to the blood physician. Now!”They blurred past me, Father carrying Iris while Mother and Dax crowded around her, frantic, as if he held the last precious drop of their bloodline in his
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