THE DRAGON BLOOD SON-IN-LAW
For three years, Adrian Vale has been the Sterling family's useless son-in-law, mocked and humiliated by everyone who believes he married Seraphine Sterling for her family's wealth.
But Adrian's past is a lie.
Three years ago, he entered the Sterling household with his memories partially sealed. He doesn't know who his parents are, why his childhood is missing, or why his supernatural bloodline was deliberately suppressed on his wedding night.
Then, after one final humiliation, his Dragon Blood awakens.
Adrian gains power—but also awakens something far more dangerous: the attention of the hidden force controlling Veyrith City.
Virelle Sterling knows the truth, but she's too afraid to reveal it. The Sterling family didn't seal Adrian's power to control him.
They sealed it to protect him.
Now Adrian must uncover the truth about his bloodline, his missing memories, and the people who have been manipulating his life from the shadows.
And somewhere in that conspiracy lies the mystery of his father.
The man who erased Adrian's past may be the same man who fears what he will become.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 65"I think I chose you."Seraphine's fingers were locked around Adrian's wrist. Cold skin. Real pressure. Real fear.Behind them, the terminal repeated its warning.THE FIRSTBORN WAS NOT THE CHILD WHO WAS CHOSEN.Adrian peeled her hand away, gently."Tell me exactly what you saw.""I was standing behind the third chair." She swallowed. "Two children in front of me. One was crying. One wasn't moving.""Faces?""One face.""Whose?""Yours."His chest tightened. "And the other?""I couldn't see him.""Why not?""I don't know." She stared at the broken pendant in the evidence pouch. "A woman said only one of you could leave. Then I heard myself say, *I choose the one who hasn't been born yet.*""That makes no sense. If I was in the room, how could you choose someone who wasn't born?""I don't *know*, Adrian!"Her voice cracked. The woman who could gut a boardroom in three sentences was gone. In her place stood someone who had just learned her oldest memory might belong to a life she never l
Last Updated: 2026-10-25
Chapter: CHAPTER 64FIRSTBORN: SERAPHINE STERLING.Adrian read the line twice. Then he looked at his wife.Seraphine didn't move. The silver pendant lay open in her palm, three circles nested inside it, the center glowing a faint, sick white."That record is wrong," Elysra said."You haven't even read it," Seraphine said."I know what the transfer was built to do.""Funny. Everyone knows what it was built to do except the two people it was done to."Elysra flinched. Adrian let it land. This was the woman who had cut out his Dragon Core, rewritten his memories, and buried an anchor in his chest. If she was finally running out of answers, he wasn't going to let her hide behind silence."Show the source," he told the terminal.The screen flickered.RECORD SOURCE: ORIGINAL BIRTH REGISTER.WITNESS VALIDATION: SERAPHINE STERLING.IDENTITY VALIDATION: ADRIAN VALE."It's using us to prove itself," Adrian said.Seraphine leaned in. "My recovered memory counts as evidence. Me standing in that room counts as proof.
Last Updated: 2026-10-24
Chapter: CHAPTER 63CONFLICT DETECTED. ONE CLAIMANT HAS BEEN LYING ABOUT WHICH ONE OF THEM WAS BORN FIRST.The warning hung in front of Adrian's eyes. Nobody in the room moved.He turned to the boy in the fourth chair. "How old are you?""You already asked.""I asked how old you look. Now I'm asking how old you are."The boy's jaw tightened. His gaze slid to the hospital cards spilled across the cabinet."Eight."Eight. A child wearing Adrian's face. A black ring burned into his right palm. Eyes that flickered between silver and gold."Eight years since what?""Since I was supposed to wake up."Seraphine edged toward the desk, keeping her distance. "That's not an age. That's an event.""You understand more than she did.""Who?"The boy stared at her pendant. "The woman who chose."Her fingers closed around the chain under her collar. "Which woman?"He didn't answer. He pointed at Adrian instead. "He thinks being born first makes him the original.""I never said that.""You were about to."Pain knifed und
Last Updated: 2026-10-23
Chapter: CHAPTER 62The boy stood up from the fourth chair, and the whole room stopped breathing.He looked eight years old. Pale skin, dark hair, a white hospital uniform Adrian had seen only in broken memories. His eyes slid from silver to gold and back again.On his right palm sat a black ring.It was whole.Adrian raised the witness strip like a blade. "You're older than I thought you'd be.""You're younger than I thought you'd be." The boy gave a tired half smile. "You're counting the wrong thing."Behind Adrian, Seraphine shifted her weight. The pendant was still wrapped in cloth, but silver light leaked through the threads. Elysra said nothing. Adrian noticed that, and filed it away.Then he noticed the shadow. The boy's pointed at the wall. Everyone else's stretched toward the emergency lights.In this building, small wrong things were never small."What's your name?""You know it.""I know the name on the authorization. Adrian Vale."The boy's smile died. "That's *your* name." He tapped his ches
Last Updated: 2026-10-22
Chapter: CHAPTER 61"That's what I said the first time."The voice came from right beside his ear. It was Seraphine's voice, down to the small catch she got when she was angry.But Seraphine stood three steps away, one hand clamped over her wrapped pendant, the other flat against the wall.Adrian didn't turn toward the voice. He looked down.The dust on the floor held three sets of prints. His. Seraphine's. Elysra's.Nothing stood next to him. Yet he could feel breath on his neck."Nobody move."Seraphine froze. Elysra stayed silent. Down the corridor, dozens of phones kept ringing, one long, ugly chorus.He raised the black witness strip. It swallowed the light."Who are you?"A soft laugh. "You used to ask better questions.""Then answer one. Who approved Seraphine's identity?"Every phone stopped at the same instant."You already know.""No." His jaw locked. "I know someone wants me to say her name.""Good." The word came from behind him now. "You're learning."He spun. Empty air.The black ring on hi
Last Updated: 2026-10-21
Chapter: CHAPTER 60The lift was falling, and Seraphine's reflection was smiling.Seraphine wasn't.Adrian saw both of them in the scratched mirror. His fist clamped around the witness strip."Don't move.""I'm not moving," Seraphine said."I wasn't talking to you."The reflection tilted its head. It raised its right hand and waved, slowly, like a child at a window.Seraphine's real hand stayed at her side.Elysra stepped between them. "Cover it. Now.""Why?""If it can see you watching, it can copy you.""Copy me into what?"She looked at his palm. The black ring had split. A thin silver line crept out from it and ran under his sleeve. It pulsed once, in time with the reflection's wave."I don't know.""You keep saying that.""And you keep asking people who helped build this to be certain. It'll get you killed. Ask something I can answer."Adrian let it go.Elysra yanked a white medical cloth from her coat and threw it over the glass. The reflection vanished.A speaker crackled in the ceiling.DESTINATI
Last Updated: 2026-10-20
