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You suddenly sank.

I couldn't even hold on to you.

Something touched me underwater.

Let's go back and have the healer examine you.

We leave before dawn.

The council can't know we went into the Forbidden Waters.

The meetings, the inheritance, the engagement.

They want to decide everything for me.

The sea is the only thing that never asks me who I'm supposed to be.

I don't have many hobbies.

When the pressure gets too much, I just like to go out into the sea and

jerk off.

Your Majesty, you conceived less than a day ago, but the fetus is already

formed. It has human blood, too.

That's impossible.

I've never been with a man.

She didn't betray me.

And yet she's carrying a child with no moon bond.

You can question me.

You don't get to judge my child.

You can't even explain the blood of the child you carry.

What right do you have to lead the pack?

The impeachment passes.

I will serve as regent.

Leave Mooncleef before sundown.

Then I'm going with her.

She'll succeed you.

The heir has been born.

Seal off the coast.

Don't let anyone find them before we do.

Can I skip school today?

Every time I touch the water in swimming class, my ears get all itchy.

Let me see.

Is it your ears acting up?

Or do you just not want to go to swimming class?

Didn't sleep again last night?

All night she kept saying someone in the ocean was calling her.

Zoe, look at me.

Breathe slowly.

I don't want anyone at school to see.

Clinic, now.

Mama Kathy, am I turning into a monster?

You're just different from other people.

Don't be scared.

What are the symptoms?

Congenitive spasms. I'll examine her myself.

She's only six.

The old treatment can't hold it back anymore.

Carter releases the medicine quarterly and the first deposit is $280,000.

Then increase the dose.

More of the old medicine will damage her heart first.

And without the medicine?

If she doesn't get the new medicine before the next moonrise, she could

fully turn into a wolf in front of everyone.

The black market's out.

Carter Group is the only one with the new treatment.

If it's too expensive...

I can just keep wearing a hat.

You don't have to hide yourself forever.

But you already lost the throne because of me.

I lost a chair.

Not you.

This is the last dose.

We could leave this city too.

We've been running for six years.

I won't let anyone else decide whether she gets to live.

If I get this job, Zoe gets her medicine.

Mom, are you going to protect somebody else again?

This time, I'm protecting you first.

Welcome to the human world, your former majesty.

You control the black tide salt.

A human company knows how to make people bow better than the council ever did.

Six years.

I knew you'd still come back for that child.

You cut off the black tide salt to force me out of hiding.

I just never expected the former wolf queen to come beg humans for a job.

I'm not here to beg.

I'm here to get the medicine my daughter needs.

There's no wolf queen here.

Only applicants.

And I can make sure you don't even get hired as a guard.

You call these odd jobs a resume?

You're afraid of me getting into this company.

If you're that capable, then take the final interview for the CEO's direct

security chief.

She's here for the final round, too.

They're hiring a security chief, not a temp guard.

The last round is a simulated attack.

Fail once, and the group blacklists you permanently.

She's not trying to drive me away.

She's testing how much power I have left.

One rule get me out safely without hurting any of the test personnel

simulated attack begins

That's

real silver

That weapon isn't on the exercise inventory.

How did you know in advance?

Can someone explain how a real weapon got into my assessment room?

We followed the exercise plan.

There was no knife-wielding attacker in it. It was an unexpected situation.

That's outside our responsibility.

When the person you're protecting is in danger, there's no such thing as outside

our responsibility.

You just got lucky.

The attacker didn't go through lobby security.

He took the staff elevator, knew exactly where you'd be sitting, and knew when

the announcement would play.

And? An outsider didn't break in.

Someone inside the company brought him right to you.

She has no corporate experience.

One good call doesn't prove anything.

The experienced candidates all went after the wrong target just now.

Spotting one knife doesn't mean she can secure an entire floor.

Real security isn't about who's the biggest.

It's about finding who opened the door ahead of time while everyone else was

looking the wrong way.

30-day probation.

Security chief reporting directly to the CEO.

I applied for building security.

Double the salary.

Family medical coverage starts today.

You can still turn it down.

30 days.

Outside of work, you don't get to give me orders.

That's exactly how I want it.

Congratulations.

I hope your daughter enjoys the medical benefits here, too.

Zoe, six years old?

Standard physical?

No. Move her first family medical exam to the R&D floor.

The R&D floor doesn't see children.

It does now.

I'll draw her blood myself.

The position now reports directly to the CEO.

Your salary has doubled.

The job posting said building security.

Mr. Carter upgraded it.

Everyone on the executive floor is wondering why he kept you.

I don't handle his personal life.

After hours, I only answer real emergency calls.

That's not what they're speculating about.

Then security here must have even less to do than I thought.

Mr.

Carter is waiting for your first security inspection.

Inspect the boss on my first day?

He said anyone who can knock him to the floor ought to know how to protect him.

Forty seconds late.

Most people look out the window the first time they come in here. Which is

why they miss the unchecked water delivery cart.

The fact that you're alive is mostly luck.

You've been here less than a minute and you've already diagnosed my cause of

death.

I'm just correcting their overly optimistic assessment.

Here's the office floor plan.

You have ten minutes to tell me where someone could kill me.

I don't need ten minutes.

The window lock's been removed.

The alarm wire's been bypassed.

Someone could come in from the outside and the system wouldn't trigger.

We're on the 87th floor.

Which is why everyone assumes the windows are safe.

The best entry point is the one nobody checks.

Sensor's fine, but maybe the latch is just loose.

It's not loose.

Someone removed it and put it back.

Proof? This grease is only used on the exterior window cleaning tracks.

Someone touched your window from the outside last week.

There's no 87th floor entry in the cleaning logs.

Someone not only got in, they hid the traces above your clearance level.

What if it's an insider?

Bad news is you're paying him.

Worst news is he knows you trust this system.

That's enough inspection on paper.

I want to see your actual reaction speed.

How do you want to test it?

Treat me as the attacker.

You don't know whether I can fight back.

I've seen things far more dangerous than you.

Prove it.

Test over.

You're dead.

Do you do this to every employer?

None of the ones who lived.

Until the end of my shift, they have complained.

What is this?

Why was yesterday's knife wound glowing?

Let go.

You need to go to a hospital.

I said, let go.

Boundary number one.

Don't touch me without my permission.

I was just checking your wound.

You're used to people obeying you.

That doesn't mean everyone's yours to command.

You're right. I should have asked first.

Asking now is too late. This job isn't for me.

Because I touched you?

Or because I saw something?

Because someone in your company tried to kill you with a real knife.

And all you cared about was my hand.

I care about every risk.

I can't explain.

Yesterday it was a silver blade.

Today, the window lock.

Now, a glowing wound.

The last one is none of your business.

I'll find out what happened.

If you want to leave, no one's stopping you.

You quit?

Tell your boss to find someone who's okay with having her wrist grabbed. You

might be the only person in this entire company who could pin him to a desk.

Nina.

Turn it off.

Weren't you investigating her?

I told you to investigate yesterday's silver blade and the window lock, not

her private life.

The attacker used a high-level temporary credential on the staff elevator.

The exterior cleaning track was unlocked with the same level of access.

Who issued it?

The head of R&D is Vice President Evelyn.

Preserve both logs. Don't alert her.

behaving a second ago your power isn't a pet the more you fear being seen the

more it surges out to protect you don't be discouraged the first time your mom

shifted at 16 she shattered the windows in the east tower and half the west

tower not half of it

One dose left.

It'll last until the next moonrise at most.

There's no written resignation in the system. Mr. Carter would like you to

come back for an independent inspection.

You can refuse.

What does he want? An independent inspection of the R&D floor tonight.

Mr. Carter won't touch you or interfere with the investigation.

Why the R&D floor?

The credentials for the silver blade and the window lock both came from there.

She left something out. The attacker also used a temporary credential issued

by R&D.

This is Mia's phone.

And I asked her to call.

You can set your terms.

First, I investigate independently and can enter any room I discover.

Second, all records are automatically backed up. Third, whether or not I still

work for you tomorrow, Zoe's medical coverage can't be revoked.

Agreed. That was too fast.

Someone tried to kill me last night. This isn't the time to negotiate.

Have him put it in an email.

Dr. Cathy's right.

You'll have it in two minutes.

The silver blade that wounded you and Zoe's medicine use the same stabilizer.

There's more than hidden medicine on the R&D floor.

Once I'm inside, I'll check in every ten minutes.

If you don't hear from me after that, take Zoe and leave the city.

No! If I don't hear from you, I'll send the evidence to every elder first.

Then I'm coming to find you.

Do we have the medicine?

Not yet.

But Mom knows where to look.

Going in alone is too dangerous.

Take care of her.

I'll be back before dawn.

Your Majesty.

Don't let your child take the medicine from here

Cut the power to this lab.

The main system is rejecting the command.

Who are these people?

Ask your R&D department.

That isn't medicine.

They're sealing us with it.

She entered a restricted area to steal black tide salt.

Detain her immediately.

First, tell me why this lab doesn't appear in the company's accounts.

Confidential drug trial.

Everyone signed a consent agreement.

Call the police.

Contact an outside medical team and get these people out.

Internal communications were cut off with board-level access.

The elevators are locked too.

Take two guards down the fire stairs.

Call the police yourself once you're out.

Trial subjects cannot leave the R&D floor without board authorization.

From now on, they're not trial subjects.

They're people who may be unlawfully detained.

Move aside.

You replaced chains with contracts and thought that made it legal?

She's using emotion to mislead you.

The police and the auditors can decide whether she's misdeading me. Lock down R

&D and suspend every black tide salt trial. You have no authority to inspect

independent R&D data. This is my company.

Suspend this project and you'll have to explain the losses to the board.

Someone's deleting the records remotely.

Don't open it unless you literally can't breathe.

Keep the medicine pouch on you at all times.

I'll guard it like I guard my tail.

Accident at the docks!

Injured patient coming in now!

I'll drop you at the company front desk first.

Don't go anywhere until you see mom.

Promise.

The security chief is in a closed audit room.

I'll let her know to come down.

Sit right here.

Don't touch the elevator.

And don't trust strangers.

At last, we meet.

Please watch this child for me. I'll be right back Mom

can be so forgetful

Chemical

spill evacuate immediately

My keycard isn't working.

Don't come in. Go get an adult.

Don't be scared. My mom taught me how to save people.

There's a child in here.

Don't look at me!

I'm only looking at the exit.

Hold on tight.

What did you do?

Your heartbeat.

is the same as mine.

What?

Both of ours pause on the third beat.

Were you scared just now, too?

You can be scared and still run toward the exit.

But everyone else ran out.

You were the only one who came in.

There was a child inside who wouldn't leave someone behind.

Do you save every person who gets lost?

I can only promise that if I see someone, I won't walk away.

Who brought you here?

Mom Kathy.

Mom Nina works here.

They haven't rested much because of my medicine.

You have two moms?

Yeah.

Our family isn't missing a dad.

We're missing medicine that hasn't been ruined.

One, two, pause.

It really is the same.

Extremely rare, but it doesn't prove a family relationship.

To know for sure, her guardians would have to consent to genetic testing.

Without their consent, don't keep any of the child's samples or medical data.

Zoe!

Who gave you permission to take her to the R&D floor?

I rescued her from the R&D floor.

I should be asking who sent a child up there.

We left her at the front desk.

It's Evelyn again.

She still needs further tests.

Any test requires our consent first.

Of course.

Bye, mister with the same heartbeat as me.

Prepare the guardian's consent form.

If they don't sign, nobody touches the child. But I need to know why her heart

beats like mine.

Could this rhythm be inherited?

Possibly, but it can't establish paternity on its own.

A formal test requires written consent from her guardians.

Consent form for the relationship test.

I also added the standard clauses for temporary guardianship and sample

retention.

Delete them. All of them.

What?

Request a single medical test.

No guardianship, no stored samples, no interference with the family they

already have.

What if her guardians still refuse?

Then we don't test.

But I'll ask her, why myself?

After this dose, we're completely out of medicine.

Let's get her through tonight first.

Mom, today's medicine...

Smells different.

Zoe!

Look at me!

Hold her down!

Someone repressed the seal.

This isn't the original dose.

They added a high concentration inducing agent.

Get her to a hospital.

A regular hospital even identify the ingredients.

The original reagents and the antidote are only at Carter Group's emergency

center.

If we wait any longer, she'll lose control on the way there.

Back to Carter.

Her oxygen is still dropping.

Give me the batch number on the black tide salt.

The bottle label's been wiped.

I can only tell there's an inducing agent.

Luna Mother Zero One Project from six years ago.

Access to the old project is locked.

Only the group's highest clearance can open it.

The formula database is unlocked.

Save her first.

What are you doing here?

There was a medication incident at R&D.

I couldn't not come.

It's that heartbeat.

How

is

that possible?

The terms are revised.

One test, no sample retention, no custody claim.

The results go only to you and me.

She could die any minute, and all you want to know is whether she's your

child?

I want to know why my presence stabilizes her. And if the result says

she's not related to you, will you just walk away?

No, I won't.

Six years ago, you didn't even know she existed.

And now you say I won't, and I'm supposed to believe you?

I won't sign.

Zoe!

Zoe,

it's mom.

Don't be scared.

Nina, hold her tight.

Her eyes, just now.

A pupil reflex from the fever.

You saw it wrong through the door.

And the water floating in midair, did I see that wrong too?

You already unlocked the formula databases for her.

Let the doctors handle the rest.

The added ingredient aggressively overstimulates her nerves and heart. If

she keeps taking it, the organ damage will only get worse.

Then stop the medicine.

She can't stop suddenly.

Her body's already dependent on black tide salt to stay balanced. If we cut it

off now, six years of suppressed power will erupt at the next moonrise.

What's the worst case?

Her heart rhythm collapses, she loses consciousness, and her body stops

obeying her.

How long do we have?

We had three days.

The inducing agent moved the timeline up.

Does it still hurt?

The water keeps shouting in my head.

It's so loud.

Mom, can I listen to that man's heartbeat one more time?

Why? Does it have to be him?

When he's close, the sea stops shouting.

If he really can stabilize Oe, we can't block this path.

Just because we're scared.

The moonrise came early?

Orin?

They told me you were dead.

Why can't Black Fate Salt save Zoe?

It was never medicine.

Evelyn forced us to suppress the royal seal inside the child so she'd appear

normal.

Now the seal is breaking.

The Luna Project saw the same rejection.

The royal seal attacks the other half of her bloodline.

The drug can only force it down.

When she loses control, a matching paternal heart rhythm might temporarily

restore her balance.

Might? The experiments only proved the method works, not who the person is.

Whether Julian is the anchor has to be confirmed by Zoe and a relationship

test.

Even if it is him, the relief is temporary.

The damage from the Black Tide, salt is still there.

Zoe, he doesn't know about us yet.

I don't want to bite anyone, and I don't want to hurt you.

Julian might be our safest emergency option right now.

Once he knows Zoe is connected to him, the Carters won't let go.

Then tell him the child needs his heartbeat, without telling him about the

wolves. We're asking him to save her life, not handing over our daughter.

Let's go.

Find Julian.

By publicly investigating Evelyn's old project, he's put himself right in her

path. He's not investigating Zoe's parentage. He's trying to find out who

experimented on children.

Mom, someone's calling me from downstairs.

Your Highness, you've finally returned.

You tampered with the medicine.

I merely let the royal bloodline in exile hear its way home.

Hand over the girl with no bond.

I'll let you and your doctor walk out alive.

She has a name.

It's Zoe.

No wolf paternal bond, no recognition from the elders, and she deserves a

name? She's nothing but proof that you defiled the Royal Seal.

Every camera is rolling.

She's waiting for you to shift, so she can cut the footage and make you the

monster who attacked humans.

Then I won't shift.

See? Come back with us, and she won't have to suffer anymore.

A royal heir's command.

How can she already use it?

Can someone explain why every one of my security guards is kneeling right now?

The child released an unknown gas.

The guards had muscle spasms. They need to be isolated immediately.

A gas leak?

At 9-12, you locked down basement level 7 with your personal clearance.

At 9-14, the system got this so-called leak alert.

You knew they'd release gas two minutes before it happened?

I was protecting the group.

You were making sure there'd be no witnesses.

Evelyn Carter's security command authority has been revoked. From now on,

nobody here takes orders from you.

Watch out!

Now you know.

Not one person here can leave alive Kathy

close your eyes

Exit's on the east side. Get the kid out!

What you just saw is enough to make them kill you to keep it quiet.

Don't move.

The wound was just stitched.

Where are the police?

Where's company security?

No police.

Evelyn's people have been suspended.

The garage footage is in my private evidence vault.

And Zoe hasn't been moved.

You're not afraid?

I am.

But being afraid and handing a child over to people who want to hurt her are

two different things.

I can only tell you three things.

First, Werewolves are real.

Second, I used to be the Wolf Queen.

Six years ago, Evelyn took my place, and I left with Zoe.

Third, the royal seal on Zoe means she may have a claim to the throne.

So the people downstairs didn't kneel because of gas.

They obeyed her bloodline, but Zoe can't control it yet.

Am I going to keep turning into a monster?

You don't need to cut off your wolf ears or crush these traits.

What's actually making you worse is Evelyn's black tide salt.

We've been lied to for six years.

You were terrified just now, but you still held back from hurting anyone.

A monster wouldn't do that.

Then what am I?

A kid who needs to learn how to control her powers.

Permanent confidentiality agreement.

No transfer of Zoe without both guardians' consent.

Whatever the test says, I won't seek sole custody.

Until the results come back, you can't call yourself her father.

Agreed.

And you can't go around us to get close to her.

Agreed.

If the result says you're not related.

What I signed today still stands.

The mother sample goes to central cold storage for identity verification first,

then gets split in two, one for the group, one for an outside lab.

Independent analysis on both sides.

Central cold storage is holding the mother's sample due to the special

protein.

The outside lab hasn't received its portion yet.

Manual review won't be done until tomorrow at the earliest.

Who has access to the raw data during the manual review?

The lab director and the board's crisis committee.

The full moon is here.

The inducing agent moved the timeline up again.

The results aren't back. You can still leave.

Where's the stabilization room?

Zoe, stop forcing it back. Let your ears out and open your hands.

I'll hurt you. The harder you suppress it, the harder it rebounds. Listen to

me. Let it out.

I can hold back the water, but I can't steady her heartbeat.

The current in there could break bones.

What she needs to hear right now isn't my voice from outside the door.

You don't have to hide yourself.

Breathe with me first.

Two beats, a pause.

Zoe, look at me.

Her breathing's back. Heart rhythm's stable, too.

If the report says we're not related, will you stop coming?

The report only tells us whether we're related by blood.

It doesn't decide why I stayed today.

Then what does?

You needed me just now.

Then you can sleep here tonight.

But only outside the door.

You come in.

Only if the alarm goes off.

Understood.

Nina attacked executives and security, let her child endanger people, and

Julian destroyed the surveillance footage.

The original drive is secured.

You conveniently deleted the part where you locked down the garage and fired

your gun.

Answer the question.

Will you fire Nina, hand over the child, and restore Evelyn's R&D authority?

A fourth question.

Will the board explain why it's withholding a six-year-old child's

medical report?

This is a Carter family meeting.

It stopped being just a family meeting the moment you shot at a child.

Julian, do you understand what continuing this investigation will cost

you?

If the crisis committee...

calls a vote he could lose, both the CEO position and his inheritance.

I asked him, not the lawyer.

I won't fire Nina, surrender Zoe, or reinstate Evelyn.

As for my position, call the vote if you want. Your choice is on record.

Your position as security chief is reinstated as of today.

You'll lead the Black Tide Salt investigation and report directly to me.

I'll accept, but only to find out who drugged Zoe.

I know.

That doesn't mean you've earned a place as her father.

I won't ask for one before the results come back.

For now, it's medical cooperation and a case alliance.

Highest level access.

You can enter R&D, security, and the offline archives without Evelyn's

approval.

There's an offline archive room for the Luna project.

Evelyn's kept it sealed for six years.

Offline archive room access granted.

37 seconds ago, someone in the archive room downloaded Nina Wolf's home address

and its emergency contacts.

Don't move.

Someone sealed you with a tracking scent.

They've already been here.

A werewolf hunter seal.

They've tracked you this far.

Grab only the medicine and IDs. We leave in three minutes.

I'm not moving into the Carter estate.

And I won't accept family security surveillance.

Then stay on the company's secure floor.

Separate access, just for the three of you.

We keep the right to leave whenever we want.

Put it in the agreement.

This isn't a custody facility or a detention site.

I didn't know what you liked, so I left everything unopened. Return whatever you

don't want.

Did you make this one too?

This one can't be returned.

You decide what happens to every medicine involving Zoe.

Including destroying the black tide salt?

After preserving evidence, it's yours to handle.

Evelyn has no authority to take it.

This is cooperation, not me starting to trust Carter Group.

You don't need to trust the group.

Verify every permission first.

Your wound reopened.

Two hours ago, and you're pretending you can't feel it again?

There wasn't time.

That's what you always say.

Keep putting it off. Are you planning to go into the ocean alone at midnight

again? Don't bring up old stuff in the meeting room.

You must be Nina.

Thanks for not letting him die in the garage.

Are you the one who makes him stop frowning?

The intruder didn't have time to clear the cache.

What do these matching markers mean?

Many laces match, but the original sequence is incomplete.

Can't treat it as a final result.

They only deleted the conclusion?

There's also a print record.

Someone printed it here, after it was generated.

Hand over the testing chain, machine logs, and the original paper report.

The system initially flagged highly related and only later showed a sample

contamination warning.

The printed report has already been taken.

Who took it?

Due to the child's privacy, the crisis committee is holding all materials.

You're withholding the report and investigating why it was withheld? It's

a compliance procedure.

The official result will reach Julian this afternoon.

The report was swapped before it even reached this office.

They cut the power, so I couldn't verify the electronic signature.

Testing excludes Julian Carter as Zoe's biological father.

You're taking Zoe away?

Once the report comes out, she'll just become another tool in the Carter's

power struggle.

We're not staying.

He's not my dad and he doesn't need to come anywhere

Who said

that the report a Report doesn't get to

decide whether I come whether you put it back on that's up to you

I'm going to the board meeting.

Until I'm back, this room is still yours.

The report proves the child isn't related to the Carters.

The investigation should be terminated, and Nina and her family must leave

immediately. Julian also no longer has a personal conflict of interest to

declare.

Unlawful detention, drugging, and shooting at a child?

Don't disappear because of paternity report.

You'll keep fighting the board for a child who isn't yours?

Whether she's my daughter decides our blood relationship, not whether you

committed crimes.

The investigation continues. Her access stays. Nobody is expelling Zoe.

The original result clearly confirmed paternity.

Why risk switching it?

Only by severing the connection between Julian and the child would he stop

protecting her.

He didn't.

Prepare for the next full moon.

I need the heir's blood, and I need you to block the werewolf retest.

The two routes on the screen diverge completely.

Zoe's real sample was never sent for the official test.

Zoe's blood was drawn at 9.26, seal ending in 071.

The return sample entered storage at 8.41, seal 019.

45 minutes earlier.

This box belongs to another six-year-old girl. Zoe's sample was swapped after it

left the emergency center.

There's wormwood ash, used only in werewolf blood-matching rooms.

The person who swapped it isn't just someone from the company.

We can't run the second test inside the group. Three retests, a forensic lab, an

independent hospital, and a neutral werewolf healer. I'll arrange all three

routes personally.

None will know the others' transfer times.

A sample van entered cold storage at 9.30. Then seven minutes of footage went

missing.

Silas issued a special protein contamination warning during those

missing minutes. Nobody dared open the box to check.

Marcus swapped the sample in the human system. Silas discredited the werewolf

findings. Your family and the werewolves each have an accomplice.

Silas, block any neutral healer from accepting the retest.

Marcus? Retrieve the original blood swab.

I just want the project to stay buried.

Once I have the sample, I'll destroy it.

I want Zoe's royal seal.

You don't get to decide how the sample is used.

Marcus just issued a purge order.

At midnight, every sample here gets heat deactivated.

Conflicting remote commanders.

Emergency door closing.

Found it.

Evidence is backed up off-site.

Take the Staffix faction route. We'll get it into the official chain of

custody.

The old sample can't replace the retest.

All three institutes have confirmed they'll receive new samples.

Will this report lie too?

That's why this time...

We're not leaving the answer to a single person.

The paternal retest doesn't necessarily need your blood. I want to prove Zoe's

royal seal comes from me. To close the loop across all three reports.

I'm giving blood.

Not joining the Carter family.

I just won't let anyone else define who Zoe's parents are.

Zoe, this time you decide.

Is that okay?

One drop. No more.

One drop is enough.

Stop the retest.

This child has already forced the group to halt a project and lock down entire

floors.

The group drugged her, swapped her blood, and used a false report to define

her all before we ever asked for anything.

You say you don't want the fortune, yet you brought the child before the heir.

Grandmother, I asked them to stay.

You'll destroy your inheritance for a child whose parentage isn't even

confirmed. Whatever the result, the group must answer for the sample swap.

The retest proceeds.

Black case goes to forensics, white to the hospital, silver to the neutral

werewolf healer.

Routes stay separate.

Hand over the samples!

Tell Marcus there are three routes.

He can't block them all.

The three samples traveled under separate escort, and the labs had no

contact with each other.

We'll unsop them simultaneously.

The forensic lab confirms Julian and Zoe are biological father and daughter.

The independent hospital reached the same conclusion.

Paternal heart rhythms, a complete match.

Their unusual bloodlines could have all three institutions to misjudge.

The first report already ruled out paternity.

The first report didn't test Zoe.

Zoe's original sample was held in central cold storage.

Blood from another six-year-old girl was split and tested instead.

That's what caused the false negative.

Marcus authorized the maintenance that shut down the cold storage cameras.

Silas issued the special protein contamination finding. The real sample

was then moved to unclaimed storage.

At worst, that's a procedural error. It doesn't prove anyone deliberately

swapped them.

Zoe's air seal shares Nina's lineage.

Her human heart rhythm matches Julian's.

Silas knowingly vouched for the false sample despite both sealers being

present. He violated his duty of neutrality.

Suspend Marcus Crisis Committee access immediately.

Hand every record over to outside investigators.

You're Julian's daughter.

You carry Carter blood.

I'm his daughter, not a Carter family asset.

The report belongs to Zoe.

You decide where to keep it. The child should be transferred to the Carter

estate for protection.

The heir must return to werewolf territory.

At least determine where she'll live permanently.

Did you all forget to ask me first?

When the fake report said I wasn't your daughter, why didn't you let Evelyn take

me?

Because at the time, I couldn't be sure I was your father.

But I was sure a child was being hurt.

What if all three reports today had said I wasn't?

I'd still investigate Blacktide Salt.

And I still wouldn't hand you over to her.

You can come to my doctor's appointments, pick me up.

and join my heart rhythm training.

But ask Mom Nina and Mom Caddy before making any decisions.

Even buying you gifts?

Especially gifts.

Those toys cost way too much.

Anything else?

Parent-teacher meeting tomorrow at 3. If you're late on probation, you're fired.

I'll be there at 2.30.

One day trial first.

Nina and Caddy handle daily life.

Caddy leads medical care.

Julian helps with pickups, appointments, and heart rhythm training.

All four share information in emergencies, but no one moves Zoa alone.

Zoa and we decide where she lives together.

Agreed.

She doesn't need to change her last name either.

What about the father field on my school form?

Write it if you want.

Leave it blank if you don't.

What does it say?

They're reopening my deposition case.

Even though the human paternity is confirmed.

The old law still says having an heir without a marriage bond could mean

permanent exigil for both mother and child.

The retrial requires an explanation of conception.

Let's start by putting together the facts both sides have confirmed.

We've come this far.

Just say it.

When I'm stressed, I go into the sea alone.

That night, I masturbated in the water and left semen upstream.

Time was 11.37 p.m.

Your phone and the tide records...

corroborate each other.

At 1142, Nina and I were swimming downstream.

A strangely warm current suddenly wrapped around her.

There was a silver glow in the water.

We'd never met before.

Five minutes and seven kilometers apart.

The silver moon tide preserved the sperm.

Nina's royal seal kept it alive.

The sea carried it and brought it together with her.

So Dad contributed a little, Mom swam really fast, and the sea did the rest?

That's roughly right.

Second life rhythm detected.

Air level tidal pulse identified.

Should we send a public alert to the royal court and the coastal authority?

No.

Seal it as equipment error.

But it's an air level signal.

The queen should know immediately.

If she knows.

She'll never trust anyone again

Don't

touch her don't interfere with the conception just confirm whether the

second heartbeat continues

Day one, Evelyn copied the heir's title pulse.

Day two, she transferred funds to a tribunal healer controlled by Silas.

Day three, she filed to depose the queen for an unstable bloodline.

She didn't create Zoe.

No.

But from the moment the second heartbeat appeared, She was waiting for Zoe to be

born The project was

registered 12 days before Nina's pregnancy was confirmed

The verdict from six years ago relied on blood masked by black tide salt and

concealed the air's tidal pulse.

The original judgment is void.

During reinstatement verification, the royal seal must be temporarily sealed.

If it isn't returned within ten minutes, its bearer loses royal power

permanently.

Nina is confirmed.

as the lawful werewolf queen.

Restore her royal seal.

Zoe inherits the queen's royal seal and carries human paternal blood.

She is confirmed as first in line to the throne.

The heir's father has been identified.

To complete the marriage bond, Nina must enter a ceremonial marriage with Julian,

and Kathy must leave the royal inner circle.

Absolutely not. Absolutely not. I'm Zoe's father, not Nina's husband. A fake

marriage won't make any relationship more legitimate.

A human has no authority to interpret werewolf marriage bonds.

Then let your queen interpret them.

Julian is her biological father.

Kathy is my partner and Zoe's mother.

The throne belongs to me.

Fatherhood, partnership, and sovereignty are three different relationships.

I won't leave Zoe's life because of an old law.

And I won't take a man's surname to prove I deserve to be queen.

Then change the law they wrote wrong.

It's absorbing the royal sign and the paternal heart rhythm.

Zoe, there's no medicine this time, and you can't borrow their strength.

Let your ears and claws out.

Find your own breathing.

Two beats, a pause.

I can control it.

You did it.

This

time

she controlled the water.

Next time the water controls her.

The first document confirms Nina and Kathy as equal partners and co

-guardians.

The second defines Julian's duties as father.

The third covers only how the four share information and make decisions in

medical and safety emergencies.

Why keep them separate?

So if one agreement fails, it can't drag the other relationships down with it, or

let outsiders portray you and Nina as married.

The boundaries are clear on paper.

Life may be different.

That's why we need to discuss the things you're most likely to fight about.

Zoe should stay on the secure floor.

The werewolves just tried to take her.

This belongs to the company.

Once our house has been cleared, she comes home with us.

She just controlled her power independently for the first time. Any

move has to follow a medical assessment. If she loses control again, I need to be

able to bring my heart rhythm to her immediately.

You can help but you aren't her only protector.

Emergency contacts need an order and backups.

Do you have to undermine me in front of everyone?

Better than letting you claim every responsibility and then collapse alone.

Whoever crosses a boundary loses the matching authority.

Including me.

Your version is too complicated.

I made a new one.

These are my two moms.

And this is Dad.

You're picking me up tomorrow.

No car full of security reaps.

Two at most?

One.

What's my job?

You always get Dad to listen and you help us keep the evidence safe.

I haven't thought of a name for you yet.

Hold on to this for now.

When you dare to ask, I'll answer.

Do you run your company this way too?

My company doesn't suddenly grow wolf ears.

Keep your claws in.

You can leave your ears out in the private ceremony area.

This isn't treatment.

You don't have to hide them like a disease.

What about my tail?

It'll wrinkle your dress when you sit.

Keep it in for now.

Doesn't it suit you?

It does.

You just haven't dressed up for yourself in a very long time.

Delete Carter family reclaims the heir.

Zoe isn't lost property.

Delete sole legal family member two.

The three family agreements were signed yesterday.

But there are only three seats for parents. The queen, the biological

father, and one medical attendant.

That's wrong. We need four.

Mr. Andre is the lawyer. He can only sit backstage.

Backstage people don't answer my calls at midnight or get dad to listen.

He sits with the parents.

Add a seat. Anyone with a problem can talk to me.

Once my name is there, People will ask who I am.

Today, we answer Zoe's question first.

Time to go, everyone, please.

I'll let them out once we're in the private area.

Mr. Carter, will you marry the child's mother for her sake?

Of the four parent seats, who exactly is the one who should step down?

Ordinary reporters don't need to know werewolf family matters.

We keep all four seats.

Deposed for six years, and now a wealthy father paves your way back and an heir

restores your throne.

Your Majesty chose the right child for a comeback.

The evidence for my reinstatement is in the tribunal, not in Carter Bank

account.

Without the child, you'd still be guarding a door.

Without Julian, who would listen?

To a fallen woman?

She worked two jobs when she was hunted.

She stayed awake three nights when Zoe had a fever.

You offered her a throne in exchange for the child, and she chose exile.

And now you say she used her child to come back?

A doctor should verify the bloodline, not comment on royalty.

I'm not a doctor you summoned.

To inspect merchandise.

She needed someone to watch her child when she was poor.

Now that she has dushing her throne back, your job is over.

I'm not going to use force. Use force to silence them today. Watch me handle

this.

Royal seats are assigned.

By blood and rank.

She deserves only a doctor's badge and a place at the back.

Kathy.

Get the medics.

The live stream is still on. Don't let them erase the evidence.

If this badge says I must stand behind her, I won't wear it today.

Without a title, you have even less right to sit here. I didn't stay with

her for six years to earn this chair.

Deal with what they did first.

After the ceremony, we can talk about where I stand.

This is royal protocol.

Attacking a royal family member with silver, that's not protocol.

Strip Lord of his place at this ceremony and send the evidence of the assault to

the neutral tribunal.

From today on, ceremonial seating will no longer follow blood rank.

This is ancestral law.

If ancestral law only teaches.

You to humiliate someone who stood by the royal family through hardship.

Then it needs to change.

I'm appointing you Chief Royal Medical Officer.

No one will make you sit with Suburbanists again.

I don't want that.

You deserve it. I defended you against their insults.

Not to trade them for a higher office.

Nina, you're using your power as queen to settle matters between us again.

Why did you stay six years ago?

Because I was queen?

Or because of Zoe?

You were no longer queen when I stayed.

Zoe wasn't born yet.

Was it because a doctor couldn't abandon a patient?

I answered you on the day I quit.

As court doctor.

Helped you give birth to Zoe.

And spent six years living under ordinary names with you.

If I'd only loved the Queen, I would have left when you lost your royal seal.

I know what you gave up for me.

That's exactly why I can't let people keep treating you as my weak point.

So you acknowledge me only when someone tries to drive me away?

While the system still calls me your support in it That's protection.

I Was afraid they'd hurt you just as they did today if I acknowledged us They

hurt me today because you let them describe me as a support in it all this

time not because you acknowledged anything I'm sorry.

I Thought I could repay you with a position access and safety

I don't want repayment.

I want you to stop deciding for me whether loving you is worth it.

Kathy, come find me when you're ready to choose me as Nina,

not as your queen.

My dad says...

You're not a normal kid.

You turn into a monster when water touches you.

Leo, put the cup down.

See?

I didn't hurt you.

She controlled it herself.

Everyone, to the principal's office. Now.

If she can stop water in midair, she can make the whole pool lose control.

The school can't put other children at risk.

Your son threw the water first.

Zoe didn't strike back.

She safely returned it to the cup.

The point is that she has that power.

Who can guarantee she'll control it next time? Six years of medical records, and

today's readings show she's capable of an ordinary evaluation.

Derek sponsors the school's special safety equipment.

He says the insurer won't cover this risk.

Two choices.

Withdraw from school or wear the group's aquatic stress monitor.

Around the clock while her guardians sign an unlimited liability waiver.

That's not a child monitoring device.

The silver particles will burn her and the suppressors will disrupt her heart

rhythm. A special child requires special controls.

I'll accept training and evaluation.

I won't wear anything that hurts me.

Who authorized this device for use at school?

Do you know who I am? At Carter Group?

I've signed off on every special material for six years.

I provided this equipment, too.

Julian can barely protect himself now. He won't dare touch me.

Preserve the complete footage and investigate both.

The thrown water and the risk from her ability separately.

Zoe will undergo a fair evaluation, but she can't be singled out for defending

herself. What if Carter Group pressures us?

We don't need the group or any of my other titles.

Follow the school's rules.

The casing number belongs to the Luna Project from six years ago. The

pediatric clinical approval field is blank. The board's going to remove you

soon anyway.

Is coming after me over one kid really worth it?

I'm not here to fight you.

I'm here to investigate you.

A silver blood collection gun, a bloodline restraint device, underground

water circulation equipment, all signed off by the same procurement manager.

My procurement signature doesn't prove where the equipment went.

Julian is about to be removed.

He can't question me!

The inflated contract payments went to your account.

Evelyn received the prohibited equipment through her private channel.

Both money trails are here.

Freeze Derek's procurement, access, and financial authority immediately.

The group will submit to an outside investigation.

Leo threw water and should apologize and face school discipline But you can't

expel him just because his dad was arrested you're not asking us to expel

him He has to make up for his own mistake a grown-ups mistake shouldn't be

blamed on a child

At

the identity ceremony someone asked Which of the four parent seats should be

removed? The answer is none.

Julian is Zoe's father, but I won't marry him for our child.

Kathy walked with me through the hardest six years of my life, and she raised Zoe

alongside me.

She's not a nanny, a subordinate, or someone who can be replaced with a job

title.

She's the partner I chose.

She has her own career and decisions and the right to say no to me, including to

any power I hold. Is this a public statement?

It's an answer I owed you six years ago. And if someone tries to drive me away

again, I'll stand beside you.

I won't decide for you whether to endure it.

Six years of dirty accounts, cracked in a day.

You're still as good as ever, old friend.

The

pump at Dock

17 is a decoy. The goods were really delivered underground at group

headquarters. Overlay the original construction plans.

A remote freeze won't work.

Someone must insert the highest access card into the control room to preserve

the equipment logs.

Send me the coordinates.

Keep working on the remaining payment evidence.

The equipment downstairs involves Evelyn. I'm coming with you.

No need. You and Theo work faster together.

Why does Andre have family access?

What is his relationship to Mr.

Carter? That's a question for he's just outside counsel for the group.

His clearance is required for the case.

A family badge counts as case clearance now? We're working. No irrelevant

questions.

You saw Theo hug me, and suddenly, it's I'm going down there alone?

This is an equipment investigation.

It has nothing to do with him.

And what about me?

Whenever someone might notice us, you rush to turn me back into just the

lawyer. The world is watching Zoe, the board, and the werewolves. You're safer

at a distance from me.

You're protecting me again.

You never ask whether I want it.

You just push me away.

Preserve the mirror image from outside. I have to use my highest level access

inside.

Zoe, keep telling me what you hear. Two beats, a stop, then another beat. He's

still alive.

The second bank on the left.

P4 brings water in.

Shut that down first, but don't touch P7 beside it.

That's the only drainage pump.

Where's the drainage valve underwater behind the third pillar?

You nearly died in the name of protecting me.

Anyone close to me who gets seen eventually becomes a bargaining chip.

I thought if I denied us first they wouldn't come after you. But you're

always the first one to push me away.

You're right.

I was afraid of losing you, so I pretended you didn't matter before

anyone else could.

You're not just the lawyer, and I don't get to decide whether you stay or go.

Will you leave me behind and rush in alone next time? No.

It will broadcast a heart rhythm through the building's water system and lure Zoe

downstairs.

The so-called activation key isn't an object we can find.

It's an authorization signature already embedded in the water controls.

Parent seats confirmed.

All four present.

Mr. Carter, last time you said Andre was only an outside lawyer.

Why is he still seated with the parents?

He came here with me, and he'll leave with me.

What does that make him?

It means that when decisions are made, he belongs in the room.

That's a better answer than just the lawyer.

Zoe can't return to school until the summoning program is disabled. Keeping

her on the secure floor will make her even more dependent on constant

protection. She only just learned to control herself at school.

I'll take her to school myself.

Werewolf guards will remain outside.

Werewolf guards outside an ordinary school would only draw more scrutiny.

Rotate the pickups and change the route every day.

Silver handles school, blue handles training, black handles the building,

and white keeps you from breaking the law.

Switch every day.

No fighting over turns.

No one stands outside the camera frame this time.

Evelyn's lawyer has requested emergency mediation.

She says she'll surrender and hand over the underground lab and the key to stop

the summoning program.

I'll surrender the underground lab, the names, and the deactivation key if I'm

tried by the werewolves first.

Unlawful detention, drug trials, and theft from the group fall under human

law. We won't promise to help you evade investigation.

Then at least let me apologize to the Queen first.

I confused protecting the bloodline with loyalty.

Silas changed the blacktide salt doses.

Marcus controlled the underground equipment and funds.

I'll testify against them. Did they also force you to conceal the second

heartbeat and push for my removal?

No. Those were my crimes.

Test the key first.

We can discuss the terms of surrender after the evidence checks out.

No black tide salt, anesthetic, or biological toxin.

No battery, chip, or wireless transmitter either. There's no program

in the metal ring, but its number matches the summoning system.

It might be a mechanical key.

No curse or werewolf power.

Stop! It's a miniature version of the reverse flow water membrane.

Move the isolation cabin into a dry zone.

It's copying the paternal heart rhythm.

This isn't a deactivation key.

It's a device to harvest the paternal rhythm.

Even if we cancel the event, the timing already written into the water system

won't stop.

Change the public briefing to a closed evidence session overseen by the court.

Ordinary victims can attend remotely. Only willing representatives remain in

person. Move Zoe to a dry medical room. Keep her away from sprinklers and shared

pipes. Anyone leaving the protected area must have two guards.

We have the heir's blood sample in the paternal anchor.

She'll think the summoning is her father calling for help.

I'm on the briefing's attendance list.

Once it begins...

I'll make the security system separate them for us.

The king, the crown print, and the witnesses, not a single one will be

missing.

From today, victims won't have to prove to Carter Group that they deserve help.

Every Black Tide salt file will undergo independent review.

and air Zoe's reinstatement took effect after the rehearing.

I'm going with you. You must supervise Zoe's dry isolation.

Only my security chief card opens the manual isolation valve, and only a royal

seal can identify the leaked substance on site.

Two guards, come with me.

Everyone else stays where they are ignore any order the system issues to

relocate you

It's

a false order stay together

Evelyn

I know you're here

She wouldn't abandon her royal badge willingly.

There's no leak.

This is meant to separate Nina from Zoe.

Zoe.

Zoe, that's not your mom.

But my royal seal is answering her.

Zoe, come down and find me.

The voice is fake.

Mom would never go down there alone.

Look at me.

Breathe at your own pace.

Julian, step back.

It's using your heart rhythm to control her.

She knew she'd be taken away.

She left us a location sealer.

Lock down the entire building.

Stop every vehicle and freight elevator.

The emergency protection order is in effect.

Investigators are entering through the east maintenance actress.

I knew it wasn't Mom's voice.

That doesn't matter.

Your body recognizes both your father and your mother.

Zoe!

Mom, I left a trail.

They'll find us.

In ten minutes, one loses the royal seal, the other loses their heartbeat.

There's no registered floor here.

Your warrant names the wrong place.

The new wall is six years old, but the valve wear at its lower left is 30 years

old.

They sealed the entrance behind it.

Andre, come with me.

Sign. If you give up the royal seal willingly...

You may at least survive.

The abdulation document has 12 pages.

The Queen must inspect each one before she signs.

Stop stalling!

The unlawful detention and forced abdation have been preserved

in real time.

Zoe's still inside!

It's the reverse flow membrane from the stabilization room, amplified by the

entire water system. Both power and machinery feed it.

Dad, stay back!

Back away!

It'll absorb your heart rhythm, too.

If the seal stays sealed for more than ten minutes, you may never regain your

royal power.

But while the seal is in me, this wall will channel my power to them.

Then I won't be queen for now.

Without the

royal seal to protect you, you'll be an ordinary person in there.

Right now, she needs her mother, not a queen.

For ten minutes.

Whether or not I come back don't let anyone touch it

Bring Zoe back.

We'll take care of everything outside

Mom

the one in the middle is a blood needle don't touch it

Without your royal seal, you can't even save one wolf pup.

I didn't have a throne when I gave birth to her either.

You found me? Because you left us.

A trail.

This is the suppress if you gave the victims.

Now it's your turn to lose your power.

If you won't take the throne, I'll bury you all here!

Nina.

Lift Joey's face above the water.

Zoe, listen to me. Breathe for two breaths, then a pause.

Zoe, don't chase my rhythm.

Use it to find your own.

Third beat.

The three main pump banks are shut down, but the central reservoir is still

releasing water.

control this little bit that's enough keep the path open let mom handle the

rest you

sealed the royal seal yourself

the water

wall can only absorb royal power forced him outside so we reverse the flow from

within

The sea is shining on you.

I chose a mother willing to protect her child.

Two breaths, then a pause.

No! That power is mine!

Not a drop of it belongs to you.

Without the experiment records, you can't prove a thing.

The court has authorized external investigators to take over Carter

Group's security system.

Transfer every group control credential.

Julian, shut it down.

Only the main flood relief valve remains.

It has to be closed by hand.

I didn't come alone this time.

Marcus, you're under arrest for unlawful detention, drug experimentation, forged

signatures, and attempted bombing.

The underground footage, purchase records, and recordings of forced

signatures are safely stored off-site.

Deleting the server won't help.

After the human investigation and trial both will face a werewolf tribunal for

stealing the royal seal and persecuting the heir

They

use my

heartbeat to take you I brought the danger to you

It's my heartbeat.

You can help me, but it can move on its own now.

Raising a child together doesn't mean there will never be danger.

It means no one faces that danger alone.

The board demands Julian permanently take control of the group as its sole

heir.

The council demands Nina sign the old marriage bond and Zoa immediately swear

an oath to succeed her.

Only reinstating Julian as sole heir.

can prevent the group from being broken up and sold.

Sign.

The group will be yours, and the medical center can stay open.

Letting one person control everything by birth is exactly how Marcus hid the

underground experiments for six years.

Put the three assets in a trust, and victims can block a sale and oversee

them long term.

We don't want another owner for life.

We want every dollar open to review.

Are

you still willing

to stay?

I'll accept a three-year executive term with annual reviews and the right to

remove me at any time.

I'm staying to repair the harm, not inherit a throne.

The heir must have lawful parents.

The queen must sign a marriage bind with the father, and Kathy should return to

her role as royal doctor.

I refused before.

My answer is the same today.

I'm Zoe's father, not Nina's husband.

The original bond only ensured a pup had caregivers.

Later, elders turned care into marriage.

Then marriage into bloodline control.

Those additions were made two centuries later and never passed a full vote.

Then we vote today.

End forced marriage and the monopoly on bloodlines. Keep only the duty to care

for children.

Put those boundaries in our law today.

Register partnerships, parental duties, and royal power separately.

None can override the others.

Dad doesn't have to inherit a company because he was born.

My moms don't have to change their relationship because I'm an heir.

Why should being born make me decide the rest of my life at six?

If you refuse the oath, you may lose the throne.

I'll learn werewolf history, learn to control water, and learn to help people.

When I'm older, I'll decide whether I want to seek the throne.

The throne can wait.

Growing up can't.

Then turn that place into somewhere all children can swim safely.

Homework first today.

No swimming until it's done.

Today is the only good day for Tide training.

Her exam is done.

She can train for 40 minutes.

Follow the four-color schedule then.

Homework first, training second.

Julian handles the penalty if she runs overtime.

Why does the white family badge get to tattle on me?

The version I hand in at school is for kids.

It just says the sea helped.

This one is the full version for our family.

My name is Julian.

Six years ago, I was under a lot of pressure and left a tiny seed of life in

the sea upstream.

Five minutes later, Mom Nina and Mom Caddy were swimming downstream.

The silver moon tide carried that seed seven kilometers.

And that's how I came to be.

Technically, the sea made the most ridiculous delivery in the world for

Dad.

Since when do I have a wife?

Who would click if the title wasn't ridiculous?

At least the second half is true.