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All Chapters of My Four Daddies’ Regret After I Died: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter 1

The Moon Goddess continued. “Your mother carried the white wolf bloodline. After she died, her soul returned to me. It breaks her heart to watch you suffer. If you want to go to her, you can leave this body behind, and I'll bring your soul home too.”I froze for a couple of seconds. My mother wasn't gone?My legs shook when I stood, but it wasn't fear. It was joy.Finally.I could finally leave this hellhole.The walls of the silver prison were built from stone, and there was a jagged outcrop on the wall across from me.I took a deep breath, backed up two steps, and threw myself at that sharp edge with everything I had.Someone slammed into me from the side and caught my whole body, hard enough that we both crashed into the rack beside us. I heard a voice I knew too well.“Are you trying to fucking die?”I looked up.It was Daddy Darius, head of the Dragon clan, King of the entire shifter world.I never thought he'd come down to a filthy place like this himself.The arm pinning me pres

Chapter 2

The instant I hit the asphalt, my knee slammed down hard and my vision went black, but I didn't care. I scrambled up and ran for the trees.A wall of heat hit my face, scorching my eyebrows.Darius had been burned by fire before.It happened while they were on the run, when the old King's army trapped them with a wall of flame. He'd charged out through the fire, and it left huge burn scars across his back and arms. Lily told me he'd never gone near a flame since.So he wouldn't follow me in.I shut my eyes. My body already screamed with pain from the burns, but I kept walking deeper into the sea of fire.Soon I'd get to see my mother.But someone tackled me from behind, caught me around the waist, and shielded me from the worst of the flames. The air was thick with the smell of singed flesh.Whoever held me crushed me against his chest, and I felt his whole body trembling, just slightly.I went still.He dragged me out of the fire, and only after stumbling back a dozen steps did he let

Chapter 3

Orion crossed the distance in one stride, seized my wrist, and ripped the syringe away, hard enough to leave my hand numb.“Do you even know what that is?”He pried the syringe loose and shoved it onto the top of the cabinet, somewhere I couldn't reach, then kept his grip on my wrist and bent me down over the cabinet.“Start talking. How did you know where I kept that?”I said nothing.Orion took a deep breath, pinned my wrist hard against the cabinet door, and with his free hand pulled a vial of antiserum from his kit. He uncapped it and drove it into the spot where I'd been about to inject, pushing it in just in case.“All because we threw Vivian a birthday party? Was that worth this?”Darius stood by the door, his color still off. By now he must have actually believed I was serious about dying, because his voice dropped low when he spoke. “Cut it out. The four of us talked it over with Vivian last night. She's willing to forgive you. Just behave today and celebrate her birthday with

Chapter 4

“Since you want to die so badly, I'll grant it.” Darius forced down his rage, his face dark as he spoke.He made one phone call and brought in two Dragon clan guards and a silver-forged whip.Orion reached into his coat for a fine needle and slid it into a point at the back of my neck, so that no matter how much it hurt I couldn't black out. He withdrew the needle, his voice flat and even. “Hold her steady.”The guards laid into my back with the silver whip, one stroke after another.I bit down hard and didn't cry out. In my head, I counted.Every stroke brought me one step closer to my mother.None of the four had any patience to stand around watching me get whipped. They were going to look for Vivian. Rex went last, and without turning his head he tossed the guards an order. “Whip her till it kills her if you have to. Until she admits it.”They'd barely stepped out when the radio crackled.“Miss Vivian came back on her own. She says she went for a walk this afternoon and lost track o

Chapter 5

Somewhere in the haze, someone was calling my name.I didn't want to answer. But that sickening, syrupy voice wouldn't stop. “Emma. Emma's awake.”I opened my eyes, and Vivian's face filled my whole view.Orion pushed her aside and bent to check me over.“The silver whip broke a rib, and it nearly punched into her heart. I used antiserum mixed from my own snake-venom blood to buy her three more days. Anyone ordinary would already be dead, but lucky for her she's got the white wolf bloodline. Her natural healing is strong. She pulled through.”Orion saved me with his own blood.What a waste.Vivian spoke up, her eyes red. “Don't blame Emma. That note was forged by one of my servants. She couldn't stand the way Emma used to wrong me, so she tried to frame her. I've already dealt with her.”She tugged at Darius's sleeve, her voice trembling. “Daddy Darius, you can't blame Emma. It's all my fault—”Darius patted the back of her hand and turned to me, his face hard. “Emma, Vivian spoke up f

Chapter 6

Rex cut in coldly. “Better to send her back to the silver prison. She was at her most obedient over there these past years.”And every one of them actually nodded.I stared at Rex's face for three seconds.“Daddy Rex, you think I haven't been tortured to death yet, so it's still not enough?”The room went dead quiet.Rex froze. “Emma, what are you talking about? I gave orders for the guards to take good care of you. What torture?”Those four years. The guards whipping me with silver, forcing me to wash clothes, sometimes leaving me days with nothing to eat.They always said the same thing. “Rex told us to teach you a real lesson, until you know your place.”I said all of it, one word at a time.Rex stood there, his hands shaking. His mouth opened two or three times, and only one thing came out. “I never. I really never said that.”Vivian chose that moment to murmur softly, “Could Emma have made it up…”Rex let out a long breath, his face like a man who'd grabbed a lifeline. “Right. My

Chapter 7

I pretended to nod along.But the moment I actually saw them, I shoved off the people beside me and threw myself forward, grabbing Orion's arm.“The guards who tortured me in the silver prison were all bought off by Vivian. She's the one who's kept me locked up here.”Something white crossed Vivian's face, but only for a second.“Emma, you're talking nonsense again.” She turned to Orion, her face full of heartbreak. “Daddy Orion, Emma keeps saying things like this lately… has her condition gotten worse again?”“I'm not! Daddy Orion—”“Enough.”Orion peeled my hand off his arm.“Emma, I thought you'd been getting along with Vivian here. You nearly killed her more than once and she never held it against you, and you're still going after her now.” He looked at me, long and deep, a flicker of disappointment in his eyes. “I won't come to see you again.”He turned and walked away.I watched the door close behind him.It was over.The last person who might have believed me had given up on me

Chapter 8

Vivian's legs gave out on the spot. She dropped to her knees with a thud, her voice trembling. “Daddy Darius, hear me out. Emma and I were just messing around…”Darius kicked the chair in front of him. It smashed against the wall and broke in two.“Messing around?” He leaned down and ground out each word. “And buying off the silver prison guards, was that messing around too?”Rex stepped forward and threw a document envelope down in front of her. It split open, and a stack of account records spilled out. Vivian's name and the wire transfers were written across them, plain as day.Vivian stared at the papers, her lips working, no sound coming out.So Orion hadn't actually disbelieved me that day.After I'd finished talking, the first thing he'd noticed was that the “Omega servants” around me were off. The thick calluses on their palms, the wide, steady way they walked.He'd said nothing at the time, afraid it was some new scheme of the rogue wolves. The moment he got back he told the ot

Chapter 9

Vivian knelt on the floor, stunned, for a few seconds. Then she started to laugh—a wild, hysterical sound dragged up from somewhere deep.“A mongrel? I'm the mongrel?” She laughed and shook her head. “Emma's the mongrel. To this day not one of you knows whose child she really is. My mother was right. Not a single one of you is worth a damn.”She pulled a flare from her pocket, aimed it out the window, and fired.A few seconds later, twenty or thirty men in black surged in over the courtyard wall, steel pipes and machetes in their hands.The two sides crashed together and the room dissolved into chaos.I got to my feet in the corner. No one was watching me.I slipped past the tangle of bodies and walked out. The whole way I heard the screaming behind me, the snap of breaking bone, the heavy thud of someone hitting the floor.I didn't look back.There was an abandoned shack in the back garden of Vivian's villa. Lily had told me my mother used to live there. The door was rotted through, a

Chapter 10

I never felt myself hit the ground.In the instant my awareness winked out, a gentle voice wrapped around me, like moonlight settling on water.“Child, you've come. Your mother has been waiting for you.”Then there was light. A pure, endless white, pouring in from every direction, so warm it made me want to cry.When I came to again, someone was holding me.A scent I knew.I opened my eyes. A woman had her face buried in my shoulder, her whole body shaking.Her hair was shorter than I remembered, and there were fine lines at the corners of her eyes. But when she lifted her head to look at me, those eyes were exactly like mine.“Emma.”Her voice was choked, her lips trembling hard, but she said my name with everything she had.It was my mother.I threw myself into her arms and sobbed.She cried too. The two of us held each other, neither able to get out a whole sentence. We cried until our voices were gone, until there were no tears left, and only then did my mother wipe her face and pu

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