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00:01On the day of my husband Lucas's 30th birthday, I prepared a huge surprise for him.
00:07But what he gave me in return was a loyalty test that cost my child's life.
00:12This is not the first time that Natalie, the woman who has become a forbidden love to Lucas,
00:17has used such despicable means to test my loyalty.
00:21Only this time, I sacrificed the child in my womb who had yet to take a single glance at the
00:27world.
00:27The moment I lost my child, the clock struck zero, and sure enough, I received a call from Lucas.
00:34Have you lost your mind? They are just a few small-time thugs.
00:37You clearly can beat them, so why didn't you resist?
00:40Natalie went a bit overboard with this test.
00:42But she's just being temperamental. You didn't have to refuse to fight back just because you're mad at her.
00:47It's a good thing she's kind-hearted and held back a bit, stopping these people in time.
00:51Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
00:54I listened to Natalie's sweet, teasing voice on the phone, begging him to go out for drinks, and my heart
01:01shattered into pieces.
01:04He had no idea I could no longer fight anyone.
01:07Half a year ago, Natalie poisoned him with a deadly, incurable toxin.
01:12I risked my life to save him, dragging him back from the brink of death.
01:17But my body was completely ruined, all my strength gone forever.
01:21Now, I don't even have the strength to protect my own child.
01:25If this is my fate, I don't accept it.
01:32I was awakened by a strong sense of suffocation.
01:36Suddenly opening my eyes, I saw Natalie with a ferocious expression, gripping my neck tightly, while Lucas stood by the
01:44bedside, watching coldly, without any intention of stopping her.
01:53Lucas, look at her! I told you she was just faking being dizzy, and you didn't believe me! She even
01:59scratched me!
02:00Natalie flung herself into Lucas' arms, wailing and pretending to be a victim.
02:05Lucas lowered his head, to carefully examine the faint red scratch mark on Natalie's hand.
02:11His face immediately darkened, and his eyes gathered storm clouds, completely ignoring me, who was curled up on the side.
02:20Elena, have you had enough? Even if you're throwing a fit, there should be a limit.
02:24You're just faking sick to get my attention, aren't you? I can ignore the text you sent. I can let
02:30the fake sickness go.
02:31But you not only fainted, you just scratched Natalie.
02:34Every word from Lucas was like a poisoned knife, piercing deeply into my heart.
02:40Not long ago, there was a fresh and beating little life inside.
02:45And now, the father of that child was forcing me to apologize to the murderer who had killed his child.
02:52No need. Let's get a divorce.
02:56Enough! Stop joking around. My patience is limited. Apologize to Natalie immediately.
03:01Looking at the man I have loved for a full decade, I am utterly disappointed. I want revenge.
03:10Again with those words, apologize to Natalie.
03:14Ever since Natalie returned to the country, I'm sorry, had become my daily bread.
03:21I remember when Natalie arranged for gang members to kidnap Lucas.
03:26To save him, I took seven bullets.
03:29After we escaped, Lucas held my bloodied body, his eyes red with panic.
03:35But once my condition stabilized, he said helplessly.
03:39I've told Natalie countless times that you truly love me.
03:44But she wouldn't believe it.
03:45She insisted on helping me test your love.
03:48But she was just looking out for me.
03:50She's been spoiled since childhood and never knows when to stop.
03:54Don't hold it against her.
03:56Also, Natalie faints at the sight of blood.
03:59Your blood scared her.
04:01Remember to apologize to her when you're discharged.
04:04Then there was the time Natalie staged a car accident that broke my leg and left me with eight drunk
04:12men.
04:13I fought desperately with my broken leg, even breaking my nails in the struggle.
04:19Looking at those disgusting faces, I helplessly cried out Lucas's name for the first time.
04:27Just as a bottle shattered against my head, Lucas finally appeared and kicked the drunk man away.
04:38But not only was I left with a permanent leg disability that ached like ants snoring at my bones every
04:45rainy day,
04:46I also developed severe PTSD, spending months in a mental haze.
04:52Lucas held me tenderly, repeatedly comforting me.
04:58Natalie insisted on making a bet with me about testing you to measure your loyalty to me.
05:05She said only if you maintained your virtue and would rather die than submit could you prove you love me.
05:12You know I've always lost a sense of security.
05:15I had people standing nearby, thinking nothing serious could happen so I let her have her way.
05:20But Natalie was exhausted too.
05:22When she came to see you two days ago, you pushed her down and she sprayed her bank.
05:26Once you stable, go apologize to her.
05:28After each test, they would bring in professional teams
05:32to provide me with psychological counseling and suggestion in the name of love.
05:38And day after day of psychological counseling and suggestion made me repeatedly say,
05:45I'm sorry for those ridiculous reasons.
05:48People become desensitized to psychological counseling and suggestion when it happens too often.
05:56So this time, I wanted to try a different approach.
06:00I struggled to sit up straight, and said,
06:05Okay, I apologize.
06:07As Natalie approached me, I grabbed the water glass from the table, hurled it at her.
06:12Natalie didn't panic, but revealed a triumphant smile.
06:16She deliberately fell against me, while a folding knife slipped silently from her sleeve.
06:22Before I could react, the cold blade had already pierced my abdomen.
06:31Excruciating pain instantly swept through my entire body.
06:35The glass shattered on the floor as she pretended to be pushed down by me.
06:39It hurts so much!
06:40Doctor!
06:41Get a doctor quickly!
06:43The composure on Lucas' face completely shattered, revealing panic I'd never seen before.
06:50Don't be afraid, Natalie.
06:52The doctor will be here soon.
06:54His heart and eyes were completely filled with Natalie.
06:58He looked up, and glared at me with eyes full of anger, his voice full of reproach.
07:04Elena, have I been too good to you, spotlighting you to the point of lawlessness?
07:10The abdominal wound suffered a second trauma, and the intense pain made me curl up instantly.
07:16Blood poured through my fingers, as my vision turned blood red.
07:19Lucas watched me, convulsing in pain on the ground.
07:23His brow furrowed tightly.
07:26Focus!
07:27He turned and rushed to Natalie, without hesitation.
07:31Watching his retreating figure, my world plunged into darkness.
07:36When I opened my eyes again, my phone showed unread messages.
07:41I opened it, to see a single sentence.
07:45Today's incident won't end like this.
07:49And, a photograph.
07:51After seeing the photo clearly, I froze in place, feeling my mind go completely blank.
07:59The photo showed Charlie, the dog Lucas and I had raised together for five years.
08:05At this moment, he had been cruelly harmed, and lay dying in a pool of blood.
08:10Scattered around him, with a little ball and chew toys I had just bought for him recently.
08:16My vision went black, and I could barely stand.
08:19I rushed out of the hospital despite attempts to stop me.
08:22Your injuries haven't healed yet!
08:23My hands still trembling uncontrollably.
08:25Just as I was about to call Lucas to demand answers, I heard whispered conversations around me.
08:31She looks so clean and harmless, but I never expected her to be such a person.
08:34A woman who's been violated by thugs.
08:36How does she still have the nerve to show her face?
08:39She probably deserved it, must be promiscuous herself.
08:42I looked up in confusion, to see the large screen on the plaza across from the hospital,
08:47brazenly displaying a video of me being torn apart and violated by thugs in that alley.
08:53Those unspeakable ceilings were magnified, infinitely.
08:58Exposed in broad daylight.
09:00Instantly, I felt the world spinning, my ears buzzing.
09:05A dark pumpkin suddenly sounded as an out of control sports car charged straight at me.
09:10Though I barely dodged it.
09:12Are you blind?
09:13If you wanna die, don't block my way.
09:15Damn it!
09:15Obviously not a decent woman!
09:17I stumbled and fell.
09:18Half my body instantly scraped raw.
09:21I pretended not to hear the whispers around me.
09:23Struggled to get up.
09:25And another motorcycle barreled straight towards me.
09:27Knocking me to the ground again.
09:29I fell back to the original spot.
09:31My abdominal wound instantly bursting open.
09:35Miss Natalie wanted me to ask you.
09:37How did it feel to be put on public display?
09:39Oh, and your dog.
09:41Nice fur texture.
09:42Just not very durable.
09:44Only then did I finally see his face clearly.
09:47It was the lead thug from that day in the alley.
09:49My whole body shook violently.
09:53Elena.
09:54What on earth have you done?
09:56The companies were suddenly investigated.
09:57All partners withdrew funding simultaneously.
10:00And the capital chain is completely broken.
10:03The family business is finished.
10:05Bankrupt.
10:05Was it you?
10:06Did you make Lucas unhappy?
10:07You need to go beg him.
10:08Go apologize quickly.
10:15When I stumbled back to the mansion, indecent sounds were coming from the master bedroom.
10:21The door was ajar, and Natalie and Lucas's figures were entwined on the messy bed.
10:26At this moment, I couldn't care about anything else.
10:30I picked open the door and rushed straight at Natalie, grabbing her away from Lucas.
10:35Where's Charlie?
10:37Oh my.
10:37Your wife isn't even jealous seeing us like this.
10:40She probably doesn't love you anymore, and only cares about that dog.
10:43Looks like she failed this test too.
10:44Lucas frowned and pushed me away.
10:46Elena, what are you going crazy about now?
10:53When you wrong, you must be punished.
10:56I've been too lenient with you all these years, but I didn't expect them to be so rough.
11:00I'll call a good doctor to look at you later.
11:04I'm asking you, where is Charlie?
11:07Dead.
11:08A beast that bit Natalie deserved to be put down.
11:11This statement completely shattered my last bit of sanity.
11:14Tell me why!
11:15Why are you doing this?
11:17Just then, Natalie suddenly rushed over.
11:20During the struggle, how about this?
11:22She pretended to fall down the stairs, letting out a piercing scream.
11:29Lucas's expression changed dramatically, and that very he had his men bind me and bring me before Natalie,
11:35I was forcibly pressed to the ground, kneeling before Natalie.
11:39He kept comforting the woman.
11:41Don't be angry anymore.
11:42I brought her here so you can get your revenge.
11:44Lucas!
11:46You can't treat me like this!
11:48Natalie has a kind heart and she won't do anything excessive.
11:51When you do wrong, you must be punished.
11:53This is for your own good.
11:54After he left, that woman just shoved a lump of meat at me.
11:58Try some.
11:59This is your precious Charlie.
12:00In that instant, I seemed to hear Charlie's dying whimpers.
12:04After countless burning slaps across my face, I was finally forced to swallow that piece of bloody meat.
12:11My stomach was churning violently.
12:13I collapsed on the floor and threw up non-stop.
12:17What did you do to her?
12:18Nothing much.
12:19I just wanted to help you test her one more time before I leave.
12:22But the test results show that in her heart, you're far less important than that dog.
12:26Looks like she failed the test again.
12:28So I win again.
12:30Remember to prepare my reward.
12:33Hearing this, the trace of concern that had just gathered on Lucas' face was instantly replaced by fury.
12:38My wife is sick and she doesn't love me as much as before.
12:42Use maximum intensity treatment this time.
12:45Don't worry.
12:46She's strong.
12:46Nothing will happen to her.
12:49No, please.
12:50No, Lucas.
12:51Let me go.
12:51Don't hand me over to them.
12:53Please, Lucas.
12:54Get well soon.
12:55I'll come get you tomorrow.
12:57Natalie will be sent abroad again in a couple day.
13:00After she leaves, we'll try for a baby proper.
13:03Electric shocks, whipping, drugs, and endless sleep deprivation during another round of torture.
13:09The toxicity I had absorbed six months ago while detoxifying Lucas finally erupted.
13:15The bone-deep, heart-piercing agony made it impossible for me to endure any longer.
13:21When Lucas came to pick me up, I had just dragged my numb body to the rooftop.
13:26I looked at Lucas in the distance with dead eyes.
13:30Then, without hesitation, threw myself down in front of him.
13:34Elena!
13:37Lucas was supported by others, barely managing not to collapse.
13:43Elena, don't joke with me.
13:45Get up quick.
13:46Elena, don't scare me.
13:48He reached out to push me, but withdrew his hand before touching me, not even daring to touch me.
13:53Lucas couldn't understand.
13:55It was just psychological treatment.
13:57How could I choose to end my life?
14:00Hundreds of times before had gone fine.
14:02Why this time?
14:04Quickly!
14:05Get me the best medical team, now!
14:06Immediately!
14:09He stayed right by the door, not moving an inch.
14:13When Natalie called, he stared at her name, flashing on the screen.
14:16For the first time, he didn't pick up at once.
14:19He hesitated for a second, before hitting answer.
14:23Lucas, why haven't you come back yet?
14:25My ankle hurts so much.
14:27Your wife pushed me down the stairs yesterday, and I sprained it.
14:30But you haven't even asked about me.
14:32Elena jumped off a building.
14:34Elena jumped off a building.
14:36Why are you worried about her?
14:37Maybe she just didn't want to accept treatment anymore.
14:40She doesn't want to love you anymore, so she's acting pitiful for compassion.
14:43For the first time, Lucas felt that Natalie's voice was so grating, he hung up the phone without saying a
14:49word.
14:50He even refused the food that Natalie sent over.
14:53At dawn, my condition finally stabilized, but I was still unconscious.
14:57The doctor came out with test reports.
15:00Each statement, making Lucas's face paler.
15:04We found unknown toxins in the patient's body.
15:07Results show she's been suffering for six months.
15:10She has severe lacerations on her body.
15:13We found multiple people's DNA.
15:15The wounds were caused by repeated violence.
15:18Additionally, the patient has a serious, predominantly penetrating wound that is infected and festering.
15:23The injury occurred within the last three days.
15:25She also recently suffered a violent miscarriage, with severe uterine damage.
15:29According to genetic testing of uterine remnants, the child was yours, approximately three months along.
15:40What did you say?
15:45The second Lucas heard the full extent of my injuries from the doctors, all the hidden poison, the brutal violence,
15:51the irreversible damage to my body, he snapped.
15:54He stood there in the cold hospital hallway, his face twisted with rage and disbelief, and roared at his waiting
16:01subordinates at the top of his lungs.
16:04Investigate! Find out what the hell happened!
16:07He was completely blind with fury.
16:09On the edge of losing his mind.
16:12Replaying the same two questions over and over in his head.
16:16How could this happen?
16:17How could he have let this happen to me?
16:20His wife.
16:21His first thought immediately jumped to the so-called professional psychological team that had treated me more than 300 times
16:29at Natalie's request.
16:31He convinced himself it had to be them.
16:34That they were the ones who'd hurt me.
16:36Refusing to even consider the one person who'd been pulling all the strings all along.
16:41He couldn't fathom that Natalie, the woman he'd defended endlessly, was capable of such evil.
16:48Without wasting a single minute, he ordered his men to pull up the full surveillance footage from the day those
16:53fake caregivers dragged my broken body away.
16:56He sat alone in a quiet hospital room, watching that footage frame by agonizing frame.
17:04He saw me convulsing violently under electric shocks, my body too weak to fight back.
17:09He saw the raw, fresh, whip marks, covering my skin.
17:14Proof of the torture I'd endured.
17:17He stared, at my empty, lifeless eyes.
17:21After they injected me, with mind-numbing drugs.
17:24And he heard my broken, hoarse voice.
17:27Screaming his name, over and over.
17:30Helpless and broken.
17:32Begging for him to save me.
17:34Elena.
17:34He whispered my name softly.
17:36His voice cracking.
17:38Feeling like his heart was being sliced into tiny pieces.
17:42So painful he could barely breathe.
17:43For months, Natalie had sworn to him up and down, that this so-called treatment, was meant to make me
17:51love him more.
17:52To fix our broken marriage.
17:54She'd insisted the team was highly professional.
17:56That they would never lay a hand on me.
17:58And Lucas, had believed.
18:01Every.
18:01Single.
18:02Word.
18:03He still refused to believe she was behind my suffering.
18:06Even as the footage played out in front of him.
18:09His loyalty to her, was rooted in guilt.
18:12They were childhood friends.
18:14Once engaged.
18:16And they'd made a promise before she moved abroad.
18:18That he'd marry her, if he was single when she returned.
18:24When she came back to find me his wife.
18:26That guilt consumed him.
18:28And he trusted her without a single question.
18:31Determined to get answers.
18:32Lucas had every single member of that fake team locked up.
18:36And decided to interrogate them himself.
18:38He slammed his fist on the interrogation table.
18:42His voice cold and threatening.
18:44As he shouted.
18:45Speak!
18:46Who ordered you to treat Elena this way?
18:49Where is the real team?
18:51Under his brutal, unrelenting questioning.
18:54The team broke immediately.
18:57Too scared to keep lying.
18:58They spilled the whole terrible truth.
19:01Their voices shaking with fear.
19:03It was Miss Natalie!
19:05She ordered us.
19:07To torture her to death under the viage of treatment.
19:12Said to make her wish she were dead.
19:15That confession.
19:16Hit Lucas.
19:17Like a freight train.
19:18Slamming into him.
19:19With full force.
19:21He collapsed to the floor.
19:22Right then and there.
19:23The world spinning around him so fast.
19:26He thought he'd pass out.
19:27The second doubt crept into his mind about Natalie.
19:31All the repressed panic and guilt.
19:33Came flooding in at once.
19:35He thought of every unanswered question.
19:37What about my lost baby?
19:39What about the stab wound in my abdomen?
19:44What about all the times I'd begged him to see the truth.
19:47To believe me about Natalie's cruelty.
19:49Only for him to call me a liar.
19:51And accuse me of being jealous.
19:53He forced himself to pull himself together.
19:56Pushing through the crippling despair.
19:58And sent his men out to investigate every single detail.
20:02He split them into two groups.
20:04Half to stand guard outside my ICU room 24-7.
20:08To make sure no one else hurt me.
20:10And the other half.
20:12To dig up every piece of evidence.
20:14Every surveillance clip.
20:16Every trace of what Natalie had done.
20:18It wasn't long before they made a gut wrenching discovery.
20:21My coat.
20:23The one I'd worn on his birthday.
20:24The night I was attacked.
20:26Tucked in the pocket.
20:27Was a positive pregnancy test.
20:30The date on that tiny stick was his 30th birthday.
20:33The exact day I'd planned to tell him I was pregnant.
20:35The surprise I'd spent weeks preparing for him.
20:38In that moment.
20:39Everything clicked into place for Lucas.
20:42The excitement in my voice that night.
20:44The secret I'd been holding onto.
20:46Our child.
20:48The child.
20:50Howard.
20:51He whispered.
20:52Clutching that small piece of paper tightly.
20:55As hot tears fell one by one onto it.
20:58Soaking the ink.
21:01Moments later.
21:03His men rushed back with every surveillance video they could find.
21:07Footage that laid bare every single crime.
21:09He watched the night I was dragged into that rainy alley.
21:13Watched our 3 month old baby slip away from me in the mud and blood.
21:17Watched the life drain from my eyes as I lay there helpless.
21:20He watched Natalie stab me in the hospital.
21:23Heard her cruel.
21:24Malicious words as she framed me for attacking her.
21:27He replayed the night 6 months prior.
21:29When Natalie poisoned him as a twisted loyalty test.
21:33And watched me risk my own life to save him.
21:35Destroying my own health in the process.
21:38And finally.
21:39He saw himself over 300 loyalty tests.
21:43300 times I loved him unconditionally.
21:46300 times.
21:47I gave everything for him.
21:49And he threw it all away.
21:51He fell for a sick.
21:53Twisted lie.
21:54Fueled by his own pathetic need for security.
21:57And his guilt.
21:58Over Natalie.
21:59A woman who never loved him at all.
22:01I told him the truth countless times.
22:04And every single time.
22:06He dismissed me as jealous.
22:08As a liar.
22:09As someone.
22:10Targeting.
22:11Innocent.
22:12Natalie.
22:13Every word out of her mouth.
22:15Was a carefully crafted trap.
22:17And he'd walked right into it.
22:19Leading me straight to hell.
22:21He ground out her name through gritted teeth.
22:23His voice filled with a hatred he'd never known before.
22:26Natalie.
22:27Lucas didn't waste a single second tracking Natalie down.
22:33And when he found her.
22:34She was sitting casually on her sofa.
22:36Painting her nails.
22:38Acting as if nothing had happened.
22:40As if she hadn't ruined my life.
22:42And killed our unborn baby.
22:44She was calm.
22:46Even smug.
22:47Completely convinced Lucas would still take her side.
22:51Like he always had.
22:52When he confronted her.
22:54Hysterical with pain and rage.
22:56She didn't deny a single thing.
22:59She just smiled sweetly.
23:01Set down her nail polish.
23:03And said.
23:06I did this for your own good.
23:08I wanted her to love you more.
23:09She stood up.
23:11And wrapped her arms around his waist.
23:13Speaking.
23:14In that soft.
23:16Childish tone.
23:17They'd used as kids.
23:19Don't you know what kind of person I am?
23:22When have I ever harmed you?
23:26Lucas's voice trembled with unbearable pain.
23:29As he replied.
23:30The doctor said.
23:33Elena might never wake up.
23:35Natalie didn't even flinch.
23:37She just traced slow circles on his back.
23:40Casual.
23:41And cold.
23:42Isn't it better if she doesn't wake up?
23:44After all she jumped herself.
23:46No one forced her.
23:48Besides you still have me don't you?
23:53She leaned up to kiss him.
23:55But Lucas shoved her away with all his strength.
23:58Sending her falling hard to the floor.
24:00His eyes were ice cold.
24:02No guilt.
24:04No hesitation left.
24:05As he stared her down.
24:07Elena will definitely wake up.
24:11And I never had romantic feelings for you.
24:16The only person I've loved is Elena.
24:20Natalie just laughed.
24:21Still confident that he'd never hurt her.
24:24After years of him indulning her every whim.
24:27She was dead wrong.
24:29That night.
24:29Lucas ordered his men.
24:31To drag her kicking and screaming.
24:33Into a dark, isolated basement.
24:36She screamed his name over and over.
24:39Lucas you can't treat me like this.
24:43I did all of this because I love you.
24:45No.
24:46But Lucas just stood outside the door.
24:49Watching her coldly.
24:51His voice sharp and threatening.
24:53You'd better pray Elena wakes up soon.
24:55If anything happens to her.
24:57I'll make you wish you were dead.
24:59But Natalie's family was wealthy and powerful.
25:02And they tracked her down and rescued her.
25:05Overnight.
25:06A high speed chase erupted through the dark city streets.
25:10And in the chaos.
25:11Lucas jerked the steering wheel hard.
25:14Crashing his car head on into the vehicle.
25:16Carrying Natalie and her rescuers.
25:18The crash.
25:19Was devastating.
25:21Natalie lost both legs permanently.
25:23Suffered severe brain damage.
25:25That left her mentally impaired.
25:27And her own family.
25:29Discarded her.
25:30Like a broken.
25:32Useless.
25:33Object.
25:34Abandoning her.
25:36Without a second thought.
25:37Lucas was badly injured in the crash too.
25:40Covered in cuts and bruises.
25:42But he refused any medical treatment.
25:44Ignoring his own pain to avenge me.
25:47He tracked down the group of thugs who'd attacked me in the alley.
25:50Who were packing to flee the country.
25:53To escape punishment.
25:54They fell to their knees.
25:56Begging.
25:56And crying.
25:58Please spare us.
25:59It was all Natalie's orders.
26:01Lucas stared at them.
26:03With a completely blank expression.
26:05No mercy in his eyes.
26:07And gave a single cold order.
26:11Break their limbs.
26:13And throw them in the river.
26:14Their screams echoed along the river bank.
26:17Before they sank into the water.
26:19One by one.
26:21After dealing with everyone who'd hurt me.
26:23Lucas bailed out my mother's failing company.
26:26Pouring in millions to save it from total ruin.
26:29Fixing the damage Natalie had caused to my family.
26:33Exhausted and broken.
26:34He returned to the hospital.
26:36And sat by my ICU bed.
26:38Holding my cold, limp hand in his.
26:41His voice was choked with tears and regret.
26:44As he spoke to my unconscious body.
26:46Elena, I've avenged you.
26:49When will you wake up?
26:52We can have another baby.
26:54I'll never put you through those stupid tests again.
26:57I know I was wrong.
26:58I'm so sorry.
27:00But his apologies were too little.
27:02Far too late.
27:04Lucas kept a constant vigil outside my ICU room.
27:07To day and night.
27:09Refusing to eat.
27:10Or sleep.
27:12His once sharp, bright eyes.
27:14Were bloodshot.
27:15And hollow.
27:16Fixed only on my pail.
27:18Still face through the glass window.
27:20Clinging to the tiny hope.
27:22That I'd wake up.
27:24A full month passed.
27:25And every treatment failed to rouse me.
27:27Until the lead doctor pulled Lucas aside.
27:30His face solemn.
27:31And said the words he'd been dreading.
27:34More than anything.
27:37We'll do everything we can.
27:38But...
27:43She may become permanently vigilative.
27:46No!
27:49Those words shattered the last of Lucas' hope.
27:52He clutched his chest.
27:53A sharp pain shooting through him.
27:56Before he spat up a mouthful of blood.
27:58And collapsed unconscious to the floor.
28:00When he passed out, he was flooded with dreams of our past.
28:04Our wedding day.
28:05Me in my white dress smiling at him with all the love in my eyes.
28:09All the times I risked my life for him.
28:12Never knowing it was all a twisted test.
28:15The day we adopted Charlie from the animal shelter.
28:18After years of painful failed IVF treatments.
28:22Left me unable to conceive easily.
28:25We'd promised to be a family of three forever.
28:28And those warm memories flashed by.
28:30Until they froze on the ultrasound image of our lost three month old baby.
28:34In the dream.
28:35The tiny embryo reached for him.
28:38Only to dissolve into a pool of blood.
28:40Lucas woke up screaming.
28:42Numb with grief and regret.
28:44Drowning in guilt so heavy he could barely move.
28:47He didn't even have the courage to step into the ICU and look at me.
28:53He collapsed to his knees in the hallway.
28:55I'm sorry Elena.
28:59As long as you're willing to wake up.
29:01I'll do anything.
29:03Even die.
29:08Mr. Lucas!
29:10Just then.
29:11The ICU door burst open.
29:13And a nurse ran out.
29:15Breathless and frantic.
29:18Lucas.
29:20Your wife.
29:21She.
29:22When I finally blinked my eyes open.
29:24The harsh fluorescent lights of the ICU.
29:27Didn't sting like I'd expected them to.
29:29For the first time.
29:31In six months.
29:33I didn't feel the heavy.
29:34Burning ache of the poison in my bones.
29:37Didn't feel the sharp pull of the stab wound in my abdomen.
29:41Didn't feel the hollow.
29:43Throbbing grief of losing my baby.
29:45Weighing down my chest.
29:47The hereditary gift.
29:48That ran in my family's bloodline.
29:50The same one.
29:52That had let me save Lucas's life.
29:54All those months ago.
29:55Had finally flushed.
29:57Every last trace of the toxin.
29:59From my body.
30:00The world class medical team Lucas had thrown at me.
30:03Had stitched my physical wounds closed.
30:06But the second I felt strong enough to swing my legs over the side of that hospital bed.
30:10I knew there was only one thing left to do.
30:13Leave.
30:16The second I was steady enough to stand on my own two feet.
30:20I didn't hesitate.
30:22For a single heartbeat.
30:23I slipped out of the scratchy hospital gown.
30:26And into the plain.
30:27Clean clothes.
30:29My family had snuck in for me while I slept.
30:31Leaving every trace of the life I'd had with Lucas behind.
30:35In that cold.
30:36Sterile room.
30:37I didn't leave a scribbled note for him on the nightstand.
30:41Didn't pause.
30:42To look at the wilting flowers he'd piled up by the door.
30:45Didn't wait around for him.
30:47To burst through the doors.
30:48With his tearful.
30:50Meaningless apologies.
30:52I'd heard enough of his I'm sorries.
30:54Over the last six months.
30:56Enough of his empty promises to do better.
30:59I wasn't going to give him another chance to break me all over again.
31:03I walked out of that hospital room.
31:05And I never looked back.
31:07When Lucas stumbled into that hospital room an hour later.
31:11His eyes still bloodshot.
31:13From weeks of sleepless nights.
31:15His hands shaking.
31:17With the fragile.
31:18Desperate hope that the nurse's news meant we could finally fix what he'd broken.
31:23He practically threw the door open.
31:27He was ready to fall to his knees.
31:29And beg for my forgiveness.
31:31Only to freeze dead in the doorway.
31:33The bed was neatly made.
31:35The monitors were turned off.
31:37The room was silent.
31:38And empty.
31:40The only thing left was a single.
31:42Unsigned sheet of paper.
31:44Folded crisply.
31:45On the white pillow.
31:47Where I'd laid unconscious.
31:49For a month.
31:49He crossed the room.
31:51In two shaky steps.
31:53Grabbed the paper.
31:54And unfolded it.
31:56Only to find one short.
31:58Sharp.
31:59Unwavering sentence.
32:00Staring back at him.
32:02Between us.
32:03There is no more connection.
32:05No room for argument.
32:07No room for begging.
32:09No room for his regret.
32:11It was over.
32:13And he knew it the second he read those words.
32:16For years after that.
32:17Lucas hunted for me.
32:19Like a man possessed.
32:21He poured every last dollar of his billion dollar fortune into the search.
32:25Hired the best private investigators in the world.
32:28Put up billboards in every major city across the globe.
32:32Scoured every small town.
32:34Every remote village.
32:36Every corner of the earth.
32:38Looking for me.
32:39But it was all.
32:40Completely.
32:41Useless.
32:44My family and I had vanished.
32:46Without a single trace.
32:48Wiping every digital footprint.
32:50Every paper record.
32:52Every link.
32:53To the life I'd once lived with him.
32:55He never knew the truth about my family's legacy.
32:59The secret we'd guarded for generations.
33:01Along with our hereditary gift.
33:04To neutralize any poison.
33:06We'd also mastered.
33:07An ancient art.
33:08Of concealment.
33:10One that let us disappear completely if we chose to.
33:14If I didn't want to be found.
33:16He could spend every last day of his life searching.
33:19And he'd never catch even a glimpse of me.
33:22Even years later.
33:23The giant digital screens in the heart of the city he'd once ruled.
33:27Still played his tearful.
33:29Broken confession.
33:31On a two four.
33:32Hour loop.
33:33I'd see clips of it online sometimes.
33:36Strangers.
33:37Sharing the video of the broken billionaire.
33:39Begging for his wife to come home.
33:41His voice cracking.
33:43As he sobbed into the camera.
33:44Everyone who hurt you has paid the price except me.
33:49Please come back and punish me yourself.
34:05I saw one of those clips once.
34:07By chance.
34:08On a tiny cafe TV screen.
34:10In a quiet little town halfway across the world.
34:14A place where no one knew my name.
34:16No one knew my story.
34:18And as I stared.
34:19At his gaunt.
34:20Broken face.
34:22On that screen.
34:23I felt absolutely nothing.
34:25No flicker of anger.
34:27No twinge of sadness.
34:28No leftover spark.
34:30Of the love.
34:31I'd once felt for him.
34:33It was like watching a total stranger on the screen.
34:36In that moment.
34:37I knew I was truly.
34:38Completely free of him.
34:40Free of the pain.
34:41Free of the tests.
34:43Free of the life he'd forced me into.
34:45Without the anchor of the only person he'd ever truly loved.
34:49Lucas fell apart completely.
34:51His once mighty business empire crumbled around him.
34:55His stocks plummeted.
34:56His long time partners bailed one by one.
34:58And the company he'd spent his whole life building.
35:01Collapsed into total bankruptcy.
35:05And then.
35:06The law finally caught up to him.
35:09The cold hard evidence.
35:11Of what he'd done to those thugs.
35:13Ordering his men to break their limbs.
35:16And drown them in the river.
35:17Was dug up.
35:18Irrefutable.
35:20And damning.
35:21He was arrested.
35:22Put on public trial.
35:24And ultimately sentenced to death.
35:26For murder.
35:27On the day of his execution.
35:29He sat strapped to the chair.
35:31His eyes fixed unblinkingly.
35:33On the metal door to the room.
35:35Right up.
35:36Until the very end.
35:37He clung to that last tiny.
35:40Desperate.
35:40Foolish hope.
35:42That I'd walk through that door.
35:43That I'd give him.
35:45One last look.
35:46One last chance.
35:47To say he was sorry.
35:49But I never did.
35:50I wasn't there.
35:51I never would be.
35:52As the cold barrel of the gun.
35:55Was pressed to the back of his head.
35:57The woman he'd destroyed.
35:59Never came.
36:00When it became clear.
36:01I wasn't going to show up.
36:03All the colour drained from his face.
36:05Leaving it ashen.
36:06And empty.
36:08He forced a bitter.
36:09Broken smile.
36:11The last sound he made.
36:13A quiet.
36:14Trembling whisper.
36:15Meant only for me.
36:16Even though I wasn't there to hear it.
36:23You won't even.
36:24Look at me one.
36:26Last time.
36:28The gunshot rang out a split second later.
36:31Loud and final.
36:32Echoing through the small.
36:34Through that instant.
36:36All the love.
36:37All the hate.
36:38All the years of pain.
36:40And regret.
36:41And tragedy.
36:42Vanished.
36:43Into thin air.
36:44Our twisted.
36:45Tragic story.
36:46Ended there.
36:48Once and for all.
36:50I didn't hear that gunshot.
36:52I didn't read about his death in the papers.
36:55Didn't watch the news coverage of his execution.
36:58I was halfway across the world.
37:00Standing on a quiet beach.
37:02Watching the sun rise over the ocean.
37:05Painting the sky soft pink.
37:07And brilliant gold.
37:09I turned toward that warm.
37:11Rising sun.
37:13And took a steady step forward.
37:15Leaving every last trace.
37:17Of that old life.
37:19Behind me.
37:20No more brutal loyalty tests.
37:22No more endless pain.
37:24No more giving pieces of myself away to a man who didn't deserve them.
37:29From that day on.
37:30I.
37:31Elena.
37:32Belong only to myself.
37:34My life is mine to live.
37:36My heart is mine to guard.
37:38My future.
37:39Is mine to build.
37:41And I wouldn't have it.
37:43Any other way.
37:44My future.
37:44My future.
37:45My future.
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