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00:00I never meant to steal from him.
00:02Not him.
00:03If I'd known whose safe it was,
00:05whose name carved fear into the streets,
00:08I would have walked away,
00:10even if it meant losing everything.
00:12But that night,
00:13survival had a louder voice than reason,
00:16and I was done listening to reason.
00:18I can still hear the click of the lock in the dark,
00:22the metallic echo that felt like a heartbeat counting down.
00:24I was kneeling on cold marble,
00:27my hands shaking so hard I almost dropped the stethoscope.
00:30Every sound in that mansion felt amplified.
00:33The hum of the air conditioner.
00:35The slow tick of the clock.
00:37The whisper of my breath under the ski mask.
00:40I'd broken into houses before.
00:43Never like this one.
00:44The walls smelled like money and power,
00:46the kind of place where mistakes cost more than life.
00:49And then his voice,
00:51low, calm, unhurried,
00:53cut through the dark like a blade.
00:56You've got ten seconds to tell me why you're touching my safe.
00:59My blood froze.
01:00Not because I was caught.
01:02Because of how he said it.
01:03No shout, no panic.
01:05Just quiet curiosity.
01:06Like he'd been expecting me.
01:08I turned, slow.
01:11The flashlight behind him made his face half-shadow, half-gold.
01:14A man built like restraint itself.
01:16Black shirt open just enough to mock the air between us.
01:20Sleeves rolled,
01:21veins running down his forearms like sin had a body.
01:23He didn't aim the gun right away.
01:26He didn't need to.
01:28Five seconds, he said.
01:31I should have begged.
01:33Lied.
01:34Run.
01:35But I just stood there,
01:37breathing like a sinner in confession.
01:40I needed the money.
01:41He tilted his head,
01:43eyes dragging over me.
01:44Not with lust.
01:46Yet.
01:46But with calculation.
01:49Everyone does.
01:49That doesn't explain breaking into my home.
01:53I wanted to tell him the truth.
01:55The whole ugly truth.
01:57That I'd been drowning since the day my father died,
01:59owing his family more than I could ever repay.
02:02That I'd run out of time and mercy.
02:04That the only thing left to sell was my soul.
02:06But he wouldn't care.
02:08Men like him didn't care.
02:09I didn't know it was yours.
02:12I said instead.
02:13His laugh was soft.
02:15Like he didn't believe me,
02:16but admired the audacity.
02:18He stepped closer.
02:19Slow.
02:20Deliberate.
02:21His cologne.
02:22Dark wood.
02:23Smoke.
02:24Something faintly dangerous.
02:26Filled the space until I couldn't tell
02:27if I was breathing or drowning in him.
02:30I should kill you for touching what's mine.
02:33His voice dropped lower.
02:35But I'm curious.
02:37You're not one of ours.
02:38Not a junkie.
02:38Not a beggar.
02:39You move too careful for that.
02:41So, who sent you?
02:42No one.
02:43My throat burned.
02:45I came alone.
02:46Liar.
02:46He closed the distance.
02:48I could see the scar under his jaw now.
02:50The faint mark that looked like
02:52someone once tried to cut him open and failed.
02:54His hand came up.
02:55Not rough.
02:56Not gentle.
02:57Just inevitable.
02:58He pulled off my mask like he was peeling back a lie.
03:01His eyes locked on mine.
03:03They were green.
03:05Sharp.
03:05Unreadable.
03:06Something changed.
03:08His jaw tightened.
03:09Like recognition flickered and died
03:11before I could see it.
03:13Do I know you?
03:14He asked.
03:15No.
03:15I swallowed.
03:16You don't.
03:18He looked at me for a long, unbearable second,
03:20then at the open safe behind me.
03:23You cracked that in under a minute.
03:25I got lucky.
03:26No one gets lucky with that safe.
03:28He holstered the gun.
03:30You're either lying about who you are
03:32or lying about how good you are.
03:34I don't like either option.
03:37My knees hit the floor when he said,
03:38Stand up.
03:40Not from fear,
03:41because I realized I'd lost.
03:43Whatever game I thought I was playing,
03:45he'd already won before I walked in.
03:48He walked around me once,
03:49like a predator studying what it had cornered.
03:52What were you hoping to find?
03:54Cash.
03:55No one breaks into my office for cash.
03:57They come for leverage.
03:59His gaze cut into me.
04:01Or revenge.
04:02I don't care about you.
04:04Then why do I feel like you do?
04:07That question hit like a bullet I didn't see coming.
04:10I stayed silent.
04:11And silence was my mistake.
04:14It gave him permission to fill it.
04:16He stepped closer until his breath brushed my cheek.
04:19You should have run when you had the chance.
04:21Would you have let me?
04:23He smiled.
04:24Small, sharp.
04:26No.
04:26The air between us shifted.
04:28He didn't touch me, not yet.
04:29But every inch of him felt like a threat wrapped in gravity,
04:33pulling me closer just because I knew I shouldn't be near him.
04:36What happens now?
04:38I asked.
04:39He studied me again,
04:41eyes flicking to the open safe,
04:43then back.
04:44Now I decide what you're worth.
04:46Please, I whispered.
04:48I'll disappear.
04:49You'll never see me again.
04:52Too late.
04:52He walked to the desk,
04:55picked up his phone,
04:56and made a call in a language I barely recognized.
04:59When he hung up, he said,
05:00They're coming.
05:02You'll be dead before dawn unless I say otherwise.
05:05Why are you doing this?
05:06He leaned against the desk,
05:08folding his arms.
05:09Because I don't know if you're stupid or brave.
05:11And I don't kill women unless I have to.
05:14The silence stretched between us,
05:16sharp and electric.
05:18I could feel my pulse in my ears.
05:20He looked almost bored,
05:22but something in his eyes said otherwise.
05:25Like he was fighting with himself.
05:27Then,
05:28after what felt like forever,
05:29he said,
05:30There's another option.
05:33I lifted my head.
05:34What?
05:35You stay.
05:36Here.
05:36Under my watch.
05:37Stay?
05:38He smirked faintly.
05:40Until I figure out who you really are.
05:42Or what you really want.
05:43I told you what I want.
05:45Money.
05:46That's it.
05:46He shook his head.
05:48No, sweetheart.
05:48People like you don't break into mafia safes for cash.
05:52You came for something else.
05:53Maybe even me.
05:54I didn't.
05:55Didn't what?
05:56He pushed off the desk,
05:57closing the space between us in two strides.
06:00Didn't think I'd catch you?
06:02Didn't think I'd notice the way your hands shake,
06:03but your eyes don't?
06:05I'm not afraid of you.
06:06I lied.
06:08He smiled like he could taste the lie.
06:11You should be.
06:12Then quieter.
06:14But maybe you shouldn't.
06:15That whisper undid me more than any threat could.
06:19Because for the first time that night,
06:21I heard something under the menace.
06:23Curiosity, maybe.
06:24Interest.
06:25The front door opened somewhere far down the hall.
06:28Heavy footsteps echoed.
06:30He looked over his shoulder, then back at me.
06:33You have one minute before they get here.
06:35To do what?
06:36Decide.
06:37His voice dropped.
06:38You want prison or you want me?
06:40The room tilted.
06:42My breath caught in my throat.
06:43I didn't know which choice was worse.
06:46Prison meant death.
06:47Him meant something I couldn't name yet.
06:49But I felt it.
06:50Crawling under my skin.
06:53He reached out and lifted my chin with two fingers.
06:56His touch light but commanding.
06:58Choose, little thief.
07:00I can't.
07:01You already did.
07:02He murmured.
07:04His men entered the hallway then.
07:06Voices low and foreign.
07:07But his hand stayed on my face.
07:09Steady.
07:10Claiming.
07:11I didn't move.
07:12Couldn't.
07:12He looked at them.
07:14Then back at me and said to his men.
07:16She stays.
07:17The sound of those two words changed everything.
07:20Because in that moment, I knew I'd stepped into something far more dangerous than theft
07:24or debt or survival.
07:26I'd just become his secret.
07:27And the worst part?
07:28I didn't want to escape.
07:32You never really sleep in his house.
07:35You drift.
07:36You listen for footsteps that never come and wait for locks that never click.
07:39Everything looks beautiful here.
07:41Too beautiful.
07:43Marble floors.
07:44Glass walls.
07:45Sunlight slicing through white curtains like it's trying to cleanse the place.
07:49But beauty, I learned, is a lie that rich men tell the world to make their rot look elegant.
07:53I'd been living there for three days when I stopped counting time.
07:58He hadn't touched me.
07:59Not once.
08:00He'd just made sure I knew I was his.
08:02Without a single word about it.
08:04A glance over his glass of whiskey.
08:06A hand resting near mine when he walked past.
08:09The sound of his voice ordering everyone else to stay away from the girl.
08:13He didn't call me by my name.
08:16Not yet.
08:17That morning he found me standing by the balcony looking down at the courtyard.
08:21The city moved beneath us.
08:23Tiny, loud, unaware.
08:25His footsteps were quiet.
08:27But his presence wasn't.
08:29It pressed against my spine before he even spoke.
08:33You're not eating again.
08:35I'm not hungry.
08:37You'll eat anyway.
08:39His tone was casual.
08:41Like he was talking about the weather.
08:43I don't take orders.
08:44He moved closer.
08:47His reflection joining mine in the glass.
08:49You broke into my safe and now you live under my roof.
08:52You take orders.
08:53I turned then.
08:54He was too close.
08:55Always too close.
08:57The buttons of his black shirt were undone just enough to make my thoughts stumble.
09:00The man radiated control like oxygen.
09:03What do you want from me?
09:04I asked.
09:05He smiled faintly.
09:06But it didn't reach his eyes.
09:08Truth.
09:09I already told you everything.
09:11No.
09:12He said voice low.
09:13You told me what keeps you alive.
09:15Not what keeps you awake.
09:17My stomach twisted.
09:18You think you can just dissect me?
09:20I already am.
09:22His confidence should have made me hate him.
09:24Instead, it fascinated me.
09:26The way he spoke like he was stating laws, not opinions.
09:30He reached past me to pour coffee.
09:32Handed me a cup like it was some kind of peace offering.
09:36Drink, he said.
09:37Then tell me why a woman with surgeon-steady hands needs money bad enough to break into
09:41a mafia safe.
09:43I blinked.
09:44How do you...
09:45He tapped the rim of his cup.
09:46I watched you pick a lock on the west wing door last night.
09:49You didn't even scratch the metal.
09:52You were watching me.
09:53I watch everything that belongs to me.
09:55I set the cup down.
09:56I don't belong to you.
09:58He leaned in just slightly, his voice turning quieter.
10:02Then why are you still here?
10:03Because he hadn't let me leave.
10:05Because I didn't trust what waited outside more than I feared him.
10:08Because something in his voice, some broken thing under all that iron, kept pulling me
10:13closer.
10:15He studied me like he could read every thought.
10:18You could have tried to run, he said.
10:20You didn't.
10:22I know what happens to people who run from you.
10:25He chuckled softly.
10:26You talk like you've known me longer than a week.
10:29Maybe I had.
10:30Not him, exactly.
10:32But men like him.
10:34The kind who wore danger like a second skin.
10:37Except he wasn't just danger.
10:38He was order in a world that had ripped mine apart.
10:42That night, I dreamt of the safe again.
10:45The click of it.
10:47The cold floor.
10:48His voice.
10:49I woke up sweating.
10:50The echo of his hand on my chin still lingering.
10:54And when I opened my eyes, he was there.
10:56Sitting in the armchair near my bed like he'd been watching me sleep for hours.
11:01Do you always stare at people while they're dreaming?
11:04I said, breath shaky.
11:06He didn't apologize.
11:07You said a name in your sleep.
11:09What name?
11:10Elena.
11:11My heart stopped.
11:12She's not family, I said quickly.
11:14She's gone.
11:15He tilted his head.
11:17Gone how?
11:18Does it matter?
11:19It does to me.
11:20The air thickened.
11:22For the first time since I'd met him, his eyes softened.
11:25Barely.
11:27Who was she?
11:28My sister.
11:29I swallowed hard.
11:31She got mixed up with people who work for you.
11:33She thought she could play them.
11:35She was wrong.
11:36He didn't say anything for a long time.
11:39When he finally spoke, his tone had changed.
11:41What was her last name?
11:43Why?
11:44Because I might know who killed her.
11:46The room spun.
11:48My pulse roared in my ears.
11:50You?
11:50He didn't flinch.
11:51Maybe.
11:52I stood shaking.
11:54You think this is a game?
11:55You think I wanted to be here?
11:57I came for the drive in your safe.
11:59The one that proves your family ordered her hit.
12:01His eyes went ice cold.
12:03And you thought stealing from me would bring her back?
12:06I thought it might destroy you.
12:09The silence that followed was unbearable.
12:13He stood slowly.
12:14Every movement controlled.
12:16Dangerous.
12:17You broke into my home to ruin me.
12:20I broke in to end something.
12:22He closed the distance between us in one step.
12:25Then why didn't you pull the trigger when you had the chance?
12:29Because...
12:29My voice cracked.
12:30Because I saw your eyes and realized you didn't know.
12:34Something flickered in his expression.
12:37Not guilt, exactly.
12:38Awareness.
12:39The realization that his empire had dirtier ghosts than he wanted to admit.
12:43He exhaled slowly.
12:45You're lying, am I?
12:47I whispered.
12:48His hand caught my wrist.
12:50Not harsh, but with enough pressure to remind me what he was capable of.
12:54His pulse was steady.
12:55Mine wasn't.
12:57You think I wouldn't notice someone killing for my family?
12:59He asked.
13:00I think you didn't care enough to look.
13:02He froze.
13:03For the first time, the calm cracked.
13:06When he spoke again, his voice was quieter.
13:08If what you're saying is true, then you're not my enemy.
13:12Then what am I?
13:14His thumb brushed the inside of my wrist, almost absentmindedly.
13:18A problem I don't know how to solve.
13:20The days that followed blurred.
13:23He didn't lock me up.
13:25He didn't let me leave, either.
13:26We lived in a strange rhythm.
13:28His business downstairs.
13:30His silence upstairs.
13:31His shadow everywhere.
13:34Sometimes, at night, we talked.
13:36About nothing that mattered and everything that did.
13:38About how trust is just another form of surrender.
13:41About how monsters don't notice their teeth until someone bleeds.
13:44One evening, he poured us whiskey and said,
13:48You know, you're still alive because I don't know if I want you dead or close.
13:52I almost laughed.
13:54That's comforting.
13:55It wasn't meant to be.
13:58I looked at him.
14:00Really looked at him.
14:02The scar.
14:03The quiet under his anger.
14:05The exhaustion of someone who'd spent too long pretending not to feel.
14:09You ever regret it?
14:11I asked.
14:12What?
14:13Being this.
14:14The man everyone fears.
14:15He didn't answer.
14:16Instead, he poured another drink.
14:18Regret, he said finally,
14:20is a luxury I burned with the rest of my innocence.
14:23I took the glass from him.
14:25Fingers brushing his.
14:27Then why do you still act like you're searching for it?
14:30His jaw tightened.
14:31Don't try to fix me.
14:33I'm not trying to fix you, I said.
14:35I'm trying to understand the man who could have killed me but didn't.
14:39He stared at me like I'd just said something indecent.
14:42Then, without warning, he leaned forward and kissed me.
14:46It wasn't soft.
14:47It was restraint-breaking.
14:49His hand slid to my neck, holding me there,
14:51like he couldn't decide whether to claim or punish me.
14:54I should have pulled away.
14:56I didn't.
14:57The kiss tasted like whiskey and war,
15:00like everything we both hated about ourselves.
15:03When he finally pulled back,
15:05his forehead rested against mine.
15:07This doesn't mean you're safe.
15:09I was never safe with you.
15:11He smiled faintly, almost sad.
15:14At least you know the truth.
15:16For a moment it was quiet.
15:17The kind of quiet that feels like a promise and a threat at the same time.
15:22Then his phone rang.
15:24He didn't answer it right away.
15:26But when he did, the blood drained from his face.
15:29He hung up, staring past me, through me.
15:33They know you're here, he said.
15:34Who?
15:35My family.
15:36My chest tightened.
15:37What does that mean?
15:39It means, he said, voice turning cold again.
15:42You just became leverage.
15:44I stepped back.
15:46You said I was safe.
15:47I said you were safe from me.
15:50His men were already moving in the hallway, shouting orders.
15:54He grabbed my arm, dragging me toward the back exit.
15:57Where are we going?
15:58To fix the mess you started.
16:00I didn't start it.
16:02You broke into my life.
16:03He snapped.
16:04Now we both have to survive it.
16:06He shoved a gun into my hand.
16:08If they find us before I handle this, you shoot anyone who's not me.
16:12I can't.
16:13You can.
16:14And you will.
16:15The world tilted again.
16:16Sirens.
16:17Voices.
16:18The smell of smoke from somewhere below.
16:21And then he said it.
16:22The one thing that burned deeper than fear.
16:26If I don't make it back.
16:28Find that drive.
16:30Don't trust anyone who carries my name.
16:33I stared at him, heart pounding.
16:35You're not going to die.
16:37He gave me that quiet, cruel smile again.
16:40Everyone dies, little thief.
16:42The trick is deciding what for.
16:45He pressed his forehead to mine once more.
16:47Just one breath, one heartbeat of silence.
16:49Then he was gone.
16:50And I stood there in his house of glass, watching everything begin to break.
16:54I didn't hear from him for seventy-two hours.
17:02Three days of silence.
17:03Three days of watching the house bleed light through shattered windows, every corner echoing
17:08his absence.
17:09The men who used to guard the halls were gone.
17:12The walls still whispered his name.
17:14On the fourth morning, I stopped expecting him to walk back through the door.
17:18I stopped expecting anything at all.
17:22You don't realize how quickly the body forgets safety until it loses the one person who made
17:26danger feel like control.
17:28I'd slept beside his gun, eaten in his chair, moved through his world as if he were still
17:33inside it.
17:35But without him, everything went still.
17:38Too still.
17:39They came for me that night.
17:41Two men.
17:42Same suits.
17:43Same arrogance.
17:44His family, not his men.
17:46I recognized the tattoo on one's wrist.
17:49The same crest that marked the envelope that ruined my sister's life.
17:53Where is he?
17:54The taller one asked, gun half-raised.
17:57I don't know.
17:59He studied me with detached amusement.
18:01Funny.
18:02You lived in his house.
18:03You slept in his bed.
18:04But you don't know.
18:06I said I don't.
18:07The shorter one stepped closer, his grin lazy.
18:10You broke into his safe.
18:11You think we didn't hear?
18:13You must have found something.
18:14I didn't.
18:16He tilted his head.
18:17You're lying.
18:18I was.
18:18I'd found the drive.
18:20I just hadn't told anyone.
18:22The taller one nodded toward the living room.
18:25Search her.
18:26I moved before I could think.
18:29Grabbed the glass ashtray from the table and swung.
18:31It hit bone, hard.
18:33The man crumpled, groaning.
18:35The other raised his gun, and then a voice cut through the chaos.
18:38Put it down.
18:39My breath caught.
18:42He stood in the doorway.
18:44Blood on his sleeve.
18:45Dirt on his shirt.
18:47Eyes darker than I'd ever seen them.
18:50Alive.
18:51The man hesitated, but only for a second too long.
18:55A single gunshot followed.
18:57The shorter one fell.
18:59The taller one crawled backward, clutching his arm.
19:02The prince, my captor, my impossible, walked forward with the kind of calm that made everything
19:07else freeze.
19:08He kicked the gun away from the man's hand.
19:11Leave, he said quietly, before I change my mind.
19:15The man scrambled out, leaving a trail of red behind him.
19:19And then it was just us.
19:21I should have run to him.
19:23Instead, I just stood there, chest heaving, eyes burning.
19:28You came back, I whispered.
19:31Barely.
19:32He exhaled, leaning against the wall.
19:35Your timing's terrible.
19:36I didn't move.
19:38Couldn't.
19:39You said not to trust anyone with your name.
19:42Good, he said.
19:44That's the first smart thing you've done since breaking into my safe.
19:47His humor was brittle.
19:49Exhausted.
19:51He looked like hell.
19:52But alive.
19:53Beautifully.
19:54Ruinously alive.
19:56You're bleeding, I said.
19:58He glanced down.
19:59It's not mine.
20:00Then whose?
20:01He didn't answer.
20:02He just looked at me like he was memorizing something he'd already lost.
20:06What happened?
20:07I asked.
20:08He sighed.
20:09My family found out about you.
20:11About the drive.
20:12They thought you were leverage.
20:13I told them you weren't.
20:15And they believed you?
20:16They didn't have to.
20:18He took a step closer.
20:19Because I killed the ones who tried to touch you.
20:22The words landed like a blow.
20:24He said them like a man reciting facts, not confessions.
20:28You killed your own blood for me?
20:29His jaw tightened.
20:31For what they did to your sister.
20:33The air cracked between us.
20:35I found the proof.
20:37He continued.
20:38Your sister wasn't supposed to die.
20:41She was supposed to be a warning.
20:43My cousin ordered it.
20:44Not me.
20:45I swallowed hard.
20:46And now?
20:47And now he's gone.
20:48The room went still again.
20:51The sound of my heartbeat filled the silence.
20:53You killed him?
20:54He nodded once.
20:55He made you my enemy.
20:56I made sure he'll never make anyone else one.
20:59I sank onto the couch.
21:01Hands shaking.
21:02You destroyed everything for me.
21:04I didn't destroy anything worth keeping.
21:07Then what's left?
21:09He walked closer.
21:10Stopped just in front of me.
21:12You!
21:12I laughed, bitter and small.
21:15You can't rebuild an empire with a thief.
21:17No.
21:18He said softly.
21:20But I can start over with one.
21:22He crouched, resting his elbows on his knees.
21:25The exhaustion in his face wasn't just physical.
21:28It was the kind that lives in the bones.
21:30You said once I didn't care enough to look, he said.
21:33I've been looking since the moment I met you.
21:36I wanted to believe him.
21:38God, I did.
21:39But part of me still remembered the fear.
21:42The gun.
21:42The safe.
21:43The threat that began everything.
21:46And what happens when you get tired of looking?
21:49Then I'll let you go.
21:50You won't.
21:52His lips curved slightly.
21:53Probably not.
21:55For a moment, neither of us spoke.
21:57The world outside had gone quiet, like even the city was holding its breath.
22:01He looked at the blood on his hands, then at me.
22:03You should leave this place.
22:05It's poison.
22:06Come with me.
22:08I can't.
22:08Why not?
22:09He straightened, his shadow stretching long across the floor.
22:13Because everything I touch burns.
22:15You deserve something that doesn't kill you.
22:18I stood.
22:19Walked up to him and said,
22:21You don't get to decide what I survive.
22:23His eyes met mine.
22:26Tired.
22:27Uncertain.
22:29Human.
22:30You'd regret it.
22:32Maybe.
22:33But I'd regret walking away more.
22:36He looked like he wanted to argue.
22:38But then his hand reached for mine instead.
22:41Just one touch.
22:43Quiet and trembling.
22:44Like the start of forgiveness.
22:45That was the night everything finally stopped spinning.
22:49We didn't make promises.
22:52We didn't talk about love.
22:53We just sat together in the ruins of everything he'd been forced to destroy.
22:57The world outside still smoking from the fallout of his war.
23:01Days turned into weeks.
23:03The house was sold.
23:04The safe was gone.
23:06And for the first time in years, I stopped running.
23:09He disappeared again for a while.
23:12Handling business, as he called it.
23:14I didn't ask what that meant.
23:16I just waited because for the first time waiting didn't feel like weakness.
23:19When he came back, he looked different.
23:22Lighter, somehow.
23:24He found me sitting by the pier.
23:25Sunlight cutting across the water.
23:28You always find me when I stop believing you will.
23:31I said without turning.
23:33Bad habit.
23:34He said.
23:35He sat beside me.
23:37Close, but not touching.
23:38The wind tangled his hair.
23:40And the sea smelled like freedom and salt and endings.
23:43Did you fix it?
23:44I asked.
23:45Enough to walk away.
23:47And your family?
23:48He shook his head.
23:50No family left worth naming.
23:52I watched him for a long time.
23:54So what now?
23:55He looked at the horizon.
23:57Eyes softer than I'd ever seen them.
23:59Now we live.
24:01It sounded so simple.
24:02Too simple.
24:03But for people like us, it was the hardest thing in the world.
24:07We didn't talk about what came next.
24:09We didn't have to.
24:11Some stories don't need clean endings.
24:13They just need peace.
24:15Later, when the sun started to fall, he took my hand again.
24:19No promises.
24:20Just warmth.
24:21I never asked.
24:22He said quietly.
24:24Why a thief?
24:25Because taking was the only thing that made me feel alive.
24:28He smiled faintly.
24:30And now?
24:31Now I don't have to steal anything.
24:33He nodded, staring out at the waves.
24:35I killed men to make this right.
24:37I don't deserve peace.
24:39I turned his face toward mine.
24:41No one ever does.
24:42We just learn how to stop fighting it.
24:44The silence between us wasn't heavy anymore.
24:46It was calm.
24:48Whole.
24:50I don't know what we became after that.
24:53Lovers.
24:54Survivors.
24:55Two people who had clawed their way out of the dark and decided not to go back.
25:01He never apologized for what he'd done.
25:04I never asked him to.
25:05Some things don't need words.
25:07They live in the space between breaths.
25:10In the quiet touch of a scarred hand.
25:12In the choice to stay when every instinct says run.
25:16Sometimes, when I wake before dawn, I catch him watching me.
25:20Not the way he used to when I was a threat.
25:22But like he's making sure I'm real.
25:25I am.
25:25He calls me by my name now.
25:27No nicknames.
25:28No ownership.
25:29Just me.
25:30And every time he says it, I hear everything we lost.
25:33And everything we somehow found again.
25:36This isn't a fairy tale.
25:38There's no kingdom.
25:39No crown.
25:39No perfect ending.
25:41Just two broken people sitting in the wreckage.
25:43Building something small and quiet out of the ashes.
25:47Love, I learned, isn't about safety.
25:50It's about survival.
25:52About choosing to keep your heart open even when it's been stolen.
25:55Shattered.
25:56Remade a thousand times.
25:58And if I've learned anything from him.
26:00From the prince.
26:01The man.
26:03The storm.
26:04It's that sometimes the only way to heal is to burn first.
26:08He once told me he didn't believe in redemption.
26:11I think he was wrong.
26:12Because every morning he wakes up beside me.
26:15Every breath we share.
26:16Is proof that fire doesn't just destroy.
26:18It forges.
26:20So if you ever hear our story.
26:22Don't look for heroes.
26:25There aren't any.
26:26Just a thief who stole from the wrong man.
26:28And a prince who learned that love can't be owned.
26:31Only earned.
26:32I used to think I broke into his life that night.
26:35Now I know he broke into mine.
26:37And neither of us has ever wanted to escape.
26:40If you listened this far, thank you.
26:43For staying through every heartbeat of my story.
26:45If you want more confessions like this one.
26:48The kind that start with danger and end with something almost like love.
26:51Subscribe to the channel.
26:53Hit like.
26:54And share it with someone who believes in second chances.
26:57Because sometimes.
26:58The wrong man saves you exactly the way you needed to be saved.
27:01The right way you need to be saved.
27:03I know he is.
27:04I know he doesn't want to be saved.
27:05I know he doesn't want to be saved.
27:05But I know he doesn't want to know.
27:06He is.
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