Surrounded by Five Beast Lords novel Chapter 2

Chapter 2 She Drunk The Spiked Wine

After being kicked out, Dora felt even harder to accept it. She spent every last starcoin she had and hired someone on the black market to kidnap Cassian, planning to make their match a done deal.

At that thought, Dora looked again at the empty wine glass on the coffee table.

She sighed inwardly, ‘I’m screwed. That glass of wine was meant to drug Cassian. I just finished it myself.’

The second she realized it, she rushed into the bathroom and splashed cold water over her face again and again.

She said to herself, “Dora, calm down. If you really sleep with Cassian today, this is where your nightmare starts.”

In the novel, Dora had forced a bond with Cassian and completed their marriage match. But she couldn’t provide him with food containing crystal energy, which caused Cassian’s supernatural ability to stop advancing. From then on, the proud man fell apart.

Worse, the trauma twisted him into someone dark and ruthless. Later, he teamed up with wandering beastfolk, had Dora kidnapped, and threw her into a den of savage beasts. She was torn apart and died there, ending what should’ve been a bright life in the most pathetic way.

The thought sent a chill through Dora. She lifted her head and looked at herself in the mirror. A bright, striking face stared back at her. Shockingly, it looked almost exactly like her face in real life.

She pinched her cheek hard, and pain shot through her skin.

She thought, ‘It’s real. I ain’t dreaming at all.’

A wave of regret washed over her for no reason.

She thought, ‘Those memories are so vivid, like I’ve personally experienced them. They’re clear and heavy with emotion like regret, resentment, bitterness, and so on.

‘All of this happened only because I stubbornly loved Cassian, and I even used the lowest tricks to get him?

‘Everything that happened on Blue Planet was like some kind of mission for my second life. The only target was to train myself from a love-brained fool to a career-minded boss?’

Dora still couldn’t make sense of it. Then another wave of heat crashed through her. She rushed out of the bathroom at once.

Fighting the discomfort burning through her whole body, she braced one hand against the wall and looked down at the furious man on the bed with her chin lifted. She said, “Kidnapping you was wrong. That’s on me. I’m sorry.”

Avoiding Cassian’s burning glare, Dora picked up the Optical Brain she’d dropped in her panic. Following her memory, she swiped through the screen quickly. Then she said, “I’ve withdrawn our marriage matching application.”

Only then did Cassian’s tone soften. He even sounded coaxing. “Dora, stop messing around. Untie me, and let’s talk this through.”

Dora raised one hand in a firm stop gesture. “We have nothing to talk about.”

“Mr. Shawn”. Her voice was still a little hoarse from the drug, but her tone was calm and distant.

“According to Chapter Three, Article Two of the Interstellar Federation Act on the Prevention of Non-Consensual Intimacy, anyone who uses drugs or other means in an attempt to force another person into matching, even if unsuccessful, shall be sentenced to no less than three years of exile on a barren planet.

“I just drank the wine with the drug. If I call the cops now, who of us will get arrested first?”

Cassian’s words stuck in his throat. The color drained from his face.

He clearly hadn’t expected that the so-called simple-minded beauty Dora, who’d always been addicted to him, would suddenly speak so logically, calmly, and distantly.

“One more thing…” Dora was satisfied to see him shut up. Fiddling with the Optical Brain in her hand, she turned toward the bedroom door and glanced back once at Cassian on the bed.

She thought, ‘Well, he has a pretty face, and he’s hot. No wonder I fell head over heels with him when I was younger.’

She flashed a smile that Cassian would never recognize, a smile that carried a faint, almost vengeful thrill.

“Cassian, since we grew up together, lemme give you some advice,” she said, her voice sharp and commanding, a tone she’d never used with him before.

Her gaze cut him like a knife. “Don’t be too full of yourself. There are tons of males in the interstellar world. And you…”

She paused, scanned him up and down, and added, “I ain’t interested in you anymore.”

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