My Best Friend Sold Her Life for a Viscount's Bloom
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My best friend Bella had a cluster of mushrooms growing on her back, every color you could imagine.
They throbbed like something alive, and the smell coming off them was like nothing I'd ever smelled.
She called it Moonlight Bloom, a gift straight from Viscount Lucas himself.
If she kept that thing on her body for forty days, not one more, not one less, until it bloomed its brightest spores, the viscount would marry her and take her into his estate.
So she refused to shower. Wouldn't let a drop of water touch her.
Everyone in the pack knew me as the one who always looked out for people, and I figured she'd been cursed with dark magic. So one night while she slept, I grabbed a bucket of soapy water and a stiff brush and scrubbed that thing clean off her back.
The next morning, she ran her hand over the raw patch of skin where it used to be, grabbed a silver dagger, and drove it straight through my heart.
"You jealous bitch! You just ruined my whole future!"
Bleeding out on the floor, that's when it hit me. She never cared how disgusting that thing was, or what it was doing to her body. All she cared about was marrying into money and status.
When I opened my eyes again, I'd gone back in time.
This time around, I decided I wasn't going to stick my nose where it didn't belong. I was going to sit back and watch that mushroom grow.
They throbbed like something alive, and the smell coming off them was like nothing I'd ever smelled.
She called it Moonlight Bloom, a gift straight from Viscount Lucas himself.
If she kept that thing on her body for forty days, not one more, not one less, until it bloomed its brightest spores, the viscount would marry her and take her into his estate.
So she refused to shower. Wouldn't let a drop of water touch her.
Everyone in the pack knew me as the one who always looked out for people, and I figured she'd been cursed with dark magic. So one night while she slept, I grabbed a bucket of soapy water and a stiff brush and scrubbed that thing clean off her back.
The next morning, she ran her hand over the raw patch of skin where it used to be, grabbed a silver dagger, and drove it straight through my heart.
"You jealous bitch! You just ruined my whole future!"
Bleeding out on the floor, that's when it hit me. She never cared how disgusting that thing was, or what it was doing to her body. All she cared about was marrying into money and status.
When I opened my eyes again, I'd gone back in time.
This time around, I decided I wasn't going to stick my nose where it didn't belong. I was going to sit back and watch that mushroom grow.









































