Reborn to Ruin My Cheating Dragon Husband and Claim My Cursed Warlord

Merce

on a spectacle like this w

rd sharpening the agony behind my temples. Once, I had loved that voice enoug

d my ey

k covered its upper half, concealing most of the mottled black scales spreading from his right temple toward his eye-the mark of the soul-

braced

y from me. Every muscle beneath his dark shadow-guard tunic strained with res

ad not t

, he was still fighting h

er lip where he had bitten through it to remain cons

pulse hammered beneath my skin, and the scent of arctic pine and molten gold

tly: an aphrodisiac brewed int

nized this

ervants hovered beyond the open doors, their pale faces carefully arranged into shock. They

thea, heir to the pure golden dragon-god bloodline; he was merely a half-blood dragon from a declining vassal house. Blinded by love,

den Steele in the finest wing of my estate. Tonight, he had drugged both Kael and me, plante

beneath her sheets," Jaheem said. His gaze slid contemptuously over the scar visible beneath Kael's mask. "If you wa

led harder, but he kept himself suspended above me, ref

ook my sile

ed, "and I may persuade these servants to forget what they saw tonight.

ike a blade drive

t fate had returned me to the moment Jahee

Bradley family stripped away my authority piece by piece until Jaheem locked the fortress gates behind me,

d take back every ho

would repay b

said. "M

ace. "Your Highness, I am

chest. His dragon core thundered beneath m

t hurt me," I said.

ped heavily to one knee. His hand cracked the carved bedpost as he fought the poiso

. "How touching. The scarred

ped throug

ore through the

e chair and wrapped it around my shoulders. My bare f

smirk f

what ar

ht hand with e

chamber. Pure, searing golden dragonfire erupted from my fin

dragon-god heritage slammed into his chest, sending him flying backward through the

lden flames eating through his doublet. "Are you

broken wood and l

pping to a dead freeze. "Who gave a va

rning on his cheek. His half-blood instincts made his limbs tremble

yet you dare attack me? Without the Bradley family holding your sout

d my thumb, letting a tiny spark of golden flame dance across my nail. "Be gratefu

yond the door colla

ard

s crossed over Jaheem's neck, pinning him face-down against the floor. The two fal

ch! Lock me up if you want, but you will never make me choose you over K

"Confine him and the servants separately. No one spe

away. His screams faded d

ber fell in

as he awaited punishment. Only the violent rise and fall

t of my memo

a

for four years to guard me from the shadows. The man who had taken ten thousand

had never once looked back at him. This time, I would pro

e he

slipped one finger beneath the edge of

face is grotesqu

on beside his scarred cheek. "Besides, after waking wit

s storm-gray eyes dropped to my lips for one tr

He bowed and retreated without another word, but the chaotic hea

ward the va

with the red wax of the Elder Council, and Jaheem's petition de

and held one corner

oured Kayden

nt curl into black as

ley lineage would bleed f