Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 697

Chapter 697: Cherished Siblings

The voice came from behind him, and it was familiar in the way that old scars were familiar.

"Kaiden Grey."

He didn’t turn around.

"We need to talk. Right now."

Selena Ashborn’s voice carried the clipped authority of a woman who’d grown up being obeyed. Behind her, Kaiden heard two more sets of footsteps on the stone, and he didn’t need to look to know who they belonged to. The twins walked the same way they’d always walked, a half-step behind their older sister, the natural rhythm of two people who’d shared a womb and never quite separated.

Kaiden kept his legs dangling over the edge and his eyes on the basin.

"You’ve gone too far." Selena’s boots stopped a few meters behind him. Her voice dropped to a hiss that was quiet enough to stay between them and sharp enough to cut. "Father is furious. Do you understand what you’ve done? What that little performance is going to cost you?"

"He was already furious," Kaiden said. To the basin.

"This is different and you know it." She stepped closer. "You’ve always kept your distance and known your place. But now, you tried to humiliate him in front of the entire country. In front of his own guild. You stood there and played rebel and made him look like a fool on a live broadcast."

"Cassian. Calix." Kaiden’s voice was calm. "How are you two?"

Neither twin answered immediately. One of them shifted his weight, a small sound of boot on stone.

"Don’t deflect!" Selena snapped. "Father has been patient with you. More patient than you deserve. He ignored your stream. Ignored you parading around with those women and dragging the bloodline through the mud. He let you play your games because you weren’t worth the effort of stopping."

Kaiden tilted his head. Still facing forward.

"But you challenged him publicly. You asked a question you knew he couldn’t answer, and you did it in front of a million people because you wanted to wound him. Don’t pretend otherwise."

"I asked a reasonable question," Kaiden said mildly. "If he’d had a reasonable answer, there wouldn’t be a problem."

"He will never forgive this." Selena’s voice trembled at its edges, and the tremor wasn’t grief. It was fury. Deeply, personally felt. "You’ve been testing him for weeks, and you just pushed past every line he had. When this competition ends and the cameras turn off, there will be consequences. Real ones. No amount of streaming or public sympathy or Association paperwork will protect you."

"She’s right, you know." One of the twins growled. Calix. He always echoed Selena with less polish and more heat. "You signed your own death warrant up there."

"She’s right," Cassian added, quieter. "You can’t win this, Kai. Not against him."

Kaiden was silent for a moment.

The wind moved across the ridge, carrying the last traces of ozone from the basin below, and his legs swung gently over the drop.

"Selena."

His voice had changed.

"Do you remember when you were sixteen?"

Selena didn’t respond.

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