He Sold Me Into Slavery I Returned As Queen Chapter 24
On the day the case was officially re-registered, Lucian accompanied me to the Bloodline Registry.
He brought no royal escort.
He wore ordinary clothes and came with only a few guards.
The registrar was already waiting outside.
The new file lay open on the desk, the ink not yet fully dry.
I saw my name written clearly on the page.
Ella Raine.
Not Fog.
And not the fifteen-gold-coin item listed on that torn slave register.
Ella Raine.
The registrar asked me to leave both a fingerprint and a scent mark.
I held out my hand and pressed a red print at the end of the file.
When my fingertip lifted away, that dot of red stood out vividly.
Like a drop of blood, delayed by fifteen years.
Then I placed my palm over the registration stone, leaving behind my scent, my wolf-signature, and the Raine bloodline.
From that moment on, no one would ever be able to erase my name from the register again.
The old file was brought out as well.
It read:
*Ella Raine, eldest daughter of the Ironwood Pack, suspected to have been abducted by rogues. Scent untraceable. Search unsuccessful. Temporarily recorded as deceased.*
Temporarily.
That one word had buried me for fifteen years.
Before witnesses, the registrar declared the old file invalid and tossed the mistaken page into a brazier.
The flames curled through the paper.
The words *temporarily recorded as deceased* slowly blackened, then collapsed into ash.