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The Wedding Execution
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00:00they call me a vindictive lunatic a woman with a heart made of jagged glass and a soul drenched
00:05in gasoline most people when slapped turn the other cheek me i ripped the arm off the person
00:11who slapped me and beat them with it i remember when i was seven a neighbor accused me of stealing
00:16a measly 20 bucks i didn't cry i didn't plead i waited until the moon was high climbed onto her
00:23porch and systematically dismantled the tiles of her roof until the rain flooded her entire life
00:28at 25 a colleague whispered that my promotion was bought in bed i didn't report her to hr i found
00:34the hidden camera footage of her and the married ceo in the supply closet and played it on a 10
00:40-foot led
00:40loop at the annual gala while sipping champagne i don't forget i don't forgive and now my family
00:47has traded me like a prize mayor to the nelsons edwin nelson a man who thinks his family's old money
00:53can buy my submission he thinks he's marrying a socialite he doesn't realize he's opening the
00:58door to a category 5 hurricane and tonight at our pre-wedding gala the storm is finally making
01:04landfall the ballroom smelled of lilies and hypocrisy i stood there wrapped in a silk dress
01:09that cost more than most people's education watching her hannah robinson edwin's so-called
01:15childhood friend in reality she was a parasite with a french manicure clinging to edwin's arm as
01:21if she were the bride she leaned in close her breath smelling of expensive gin and cheap malice
01:27marjorie i see you're following the family tradition of aggressive social climbing
01:32given your mother's history with the flins i assume edwin is simply your latest attempt at job security
01:38after your last sponsor lost interest the laughter that followed was sharp like the sound of breaking
01:44bones edwin didn't stop them he didn't even flinch he just stood there his eyes cold enjoying my
01:51supposed humiliation they were all waiting for me to shatter but they forgot one thing you can't break
01:57something that's already made of steel i didn't blink i reached for a crystal bottle of vintage scotch
02:03on the table with a slow deliberate motion i smashed it against the mahogany edge the sound cracked through
02:09the room like a gunshot before hannah could even gasp i had the jagged dripping edge pressed firmly
02:15against her throat right where her pulse was thrumming with terror edwin i said you have so many friends
02:23one less wouldn't matter right hannah's face went from pale to ghostly the vultures stopped laughing
02:28edwin's face darkened he grabbed me he shoved my hand away with a force that bruised my wrist
02:34marjorie what is wrong with you hannah was just joking
02:43can't you take a joke for once in your life
02:49a joke i whispered i've never had much of a sense of humor i don't get jokes so anyone who
02:55jokes with me
02:57i make them the joke the room was thick with tension edwin's friends started jeering
03:02yeah marjorie someone like edwin marrying you is a blessing for you can't you take a joke
03:06yeah can't you take a joke i felt a slow predatory smile spread across my face if they wanted a
03:12game
03:12i'd give them one they'd never survive i pulled out my black card limitless cold and powerful and
03:19slammed it onto the table let's play a game truth or dare six rounds if anyone makes me take a
03:27single
03:27sip of this drink tonight this card is yours you can buy a new life with it but if you
03:35lose watching
03:36hannah's greed battle with her fear she reached for the dice her eyes gleaming she thought she was lucky
03:42she didn't realize that in my world the house always wins and i am the house i didn't even look
03:49at the
03:49dice as they rattled across the table a perfect alignment of health i looked hannah dead in the eye
03:56truth she hesitated her lip trembling truth tell me hannah did your mother marry your father before
04:05you were born or did she wait until the original wife died of a broken heart three months after your
04:11birth is it true your entire existence is built on the ruins of another woman's life the room went
04:16deathly silent hannah looked like i'd slapped her with a ghost i i i picked dare i slid a glass
04:23of
04:23a lethal dark concoction toward her fine drink this then call your mother on speakerphone and tell her
04:31that tonight everyone knows she was nothing but a backerly mistress
04:39edwin lunged at me then his hand raised to strike this was it the moment the mask of the perfect
04:45groom
04:45finally fell edwin's hand stayed in midair trembling with a rage he was too weak to act upon he looked
04:53at me as if i were a monster while hannah huddled in his shadow like a wounded bird her father
04:58died for mine
05:01that makes her family margin something you clearly don't understand with that ice water in your veins
05:08i leaned in my lips brushing his ear whispering words that tasted like hemlock family or a convenient
05:15excuse for a mid-tier affair edwin you're not a hero for protecting her you're just a puppet with the
05:20strings pulled by a girl who smells like desperation i walked out of that gala without looking back my
05:27phone buzzed in my clutch a message from my private investigator found it the hero father he didn't die
05:34saving anyone he died running away with the company pension i felt a cold sharp joy tomorrow wasn't
05:41just a wedding it was an execution the morning of the wedding the silk of my gown felt like cool
05:47armor
05:47against my skin my father walked into the dressing room his eyes scanning me not with love but with the
05:53cold calculation of a ceo checking his stock the nelsons are fragile right now marjorie he said
06:00marry him stabilize the merger then you can ruin him in private i looked at my reflection the perfect
06:06porcelain bride but behind the veil my eyes were those of a predator don't worry dad by the time the
06:14cake is cut the nelsons won't just be fragile they'll be extinct just then my phone chimed a voice note
06:22from
06:22an unknown number i pressed play it was the sound of bedsheets wrestling in hannah's voice breathless and
06:28triumphant she thinks she's winning because she has the ring edwin but i have you i didn't cry i
06:37smiled they just gave me the opening act for my show the cathedral was packed with the city's elite
06:43vultures in tuxedos and hyenas in couture as i stood at the back of the aisle the organ music swelling
06:49i saw edwin at the altar he looked smug convinced he tamed the lunatic beside him in the front row
06:56hannah
06:57was wearing a dress that was just a shade too close to white i didn't start walking instead i
07:03signaled my technician in the balcony suddenly the music died a static hiss filled the vaulted ceilings
07:09followed by a sound that made the entire congregation gasp hannah's moans and evans whispered promises from
07:15the night before beaming through the fifty thousand dollar sound system margin is just a business
07:21transaction you're the only one i truly want silence that followed was so heavy it felt like it would
07:29collapse the building i stood there the jilted bride watching the color drain from edwin's face until he
07:35looked like a corpse i finally began my walk down the aisle not as a victim but as a judge
07:41every head
07:42turned eyes wide with a mix of horror and pity edwin tried to step toward me his mouth opening and
07:48closing like a fish out of water margie i i that's not what it sounds like i didn't let him
07:53finish i
07:54reached him and with the strength of every slight i'd ever endured i delivered a slap that echoed like
07:59a gunshot his head snapped to the side it sounds exactly like a breach of contract edwin my voice
08:06carrying to the very back row behind him his father old mr nelson clutched his chest his face
08:13turning a terrifying shade of purple he knew in one minute i hadn't just ruined a wedding i'd wiped
08:19billions off their family's net worth and i was just getting warmed up chaos erupted guests were fleeing
08:26reporters were storming the doors in the middle of the carnage my phone vibrated a photo my mother
08:33tied to a chair on the rooftop of the hotel across the street a jagged piece of rebar held to
08:38her
08:38throat by a hooded figure come alone where she drops the text read i felt a surge of adrenaline so
08:45hot it burned hannah only a girl that desperate would be that stupid i didn't call the police not
08:51yet i wanted to see the look in her eyes when she realized she brought a knife to a nuclear
08:57war
08:57i slipped out the side door shedding my veil like a snake shedding skin wait for me hannah i have
09:04a gift
09:04for you the wind at the top of the hotel was howling whipping my white skirts around my legs like
09:10a ghost
09:11shroud hannah was standing there her eyes bloodshot and manic two of edwin's friends the same idiots who
09:17laughed at the gala were holding my mother you think you're so smart marjorie hannah screamed over the
09:24wind you think you can just play with people's lives i'm going to destroy you i'm going to stream
09:30your heroic daughter begging for mercy while these guys have their way with her i looked at my mother
09:36she was terrified but she locked eyes with me i didn't show fear i took a step forward a cold
09:43mocking
09:43laugh bubbling up in my throat you really think this is how you win hannah by becoming a common kidnapper
09:50you're not a protagonist you're a fit note
09:55one of the thugs grabbed my hair jerking my head back hannah pulled a small pink pill from her pocket
10:02this is a little something to make the show more interesting by the time you wake up you'll be the
10:10most hated woman in the country a disgraced bride caught in a drug-yeled orgy she shoved the pill down
10:18my throat and forced me to swallow i choked the bitter taste coating my tongue i fell to my knees
10:24gasping for air hannah turned to the camera she'd set up on a tripod are we live let's give the
10:33world
10:33what they want i stayed on the floor my hair covering my face they thought i was fading they didn't
10:39see the
10:40tiny microphone clipped to my bodice or the way i was counting down the seconds in my head three two
10:46one
10:46suddenly the thug holding the camera hannah wait look at the comments hannah ran to the screen her
10:55smirk turning into a mask of pure horror the feed wasn't showing me on the floor it was showing
11:00everything the camera she thought was hers had been hacked and redirected the entire city watching on
11:06the jumbotrons i'd rented was seeing her hold a knife to an old woman's throat they were seeing her force
11:12feed me a pill surprise my voice wasn't slurred i'd palmed the pill and tucked it under my tongue
11:22spitting it out the second they looked away you wanted a live stream hannah i just gave you a front
11:29road seat to your own arrest the sound of sirens began to wail from below my security team disguised
11:41as hotel staff burst onto the roof within seconds the thugs were pinned and my mother was in my arms
11:48hannah was backed up against the ledge sobbing her pure image shattered into a million filthy pieces
11:54i walked up to her stepping on the hem of her cheap dress
12:01you know what the best part is hannah while you were playing kidnapper my lawyers were filing the
12:09paperwork your father's embezzlement files they're on the da's desk
12:16every penny edmund gave you it's being clawed back as stolen assets
12:24i leaned over the ledge looking at the tiny people below you're not just going to jail you're
12:30going to be a pauper and in this city that's a fate worse than death an hour later i walked
12:36back
12:37into the wedding venue it was empty now except for the janitors and a broken keeping edwin less than
12:42sitting on the steps he looked up at me his tuxedo torn his eyes margie please
12:50my father he's in the icu the company is crashing
12:59i was wrong
13:02i'll do anything
13:05i'll be the husband you want i looked down at him as if he were a stain on my shoe
13:10i reached into
13:11my bag pulled out the wedding ring and dropped it into his half-empty champagne glass
13:17a husband edwin i don't even want you as a footman my voice ringing in the hollow hall go back
13:23to your
13:23little parasite go work a nine-to-five go see what it's like to be joking when you can't afford
13:29because from this moment on you don't exist in my world
13:35i turned and walked toward the light the sound of my heels the only music i needed
13:42after i got home i received a phone call accusing me of a crime
13:46miss flynn we have received charges against you please come to the police station
13:52i hung up the phone and went out to deal with it
13:56as i stepped out of the police station a sea of flash bulbs blinded me edwin's legal sharks had been
14:02busy leaking photos of my arrest to paint me as a corporate bully tormenting a poor innocent girl
14:08a reporter shoved a mic into my face miss flynn any comment on the kidnapping charges i didn't hide
14:14i didn't flinch i slowly removed my sunglasses looked directly into the lens of a million dollar
14:21camera and raised my middle finger with royal elegance i didn't need a pr team i needed them
14:27to fear me and soon they would on tv edwin was playing the role of his life tears in his
14:35eyes voice
14:36trembling marjay has always been violent hannah is just a girl who lost her father and wanted to
14:43protect me i almost clapped for him he was weaponizing pity to save the nelson's plummeting
14:50stock little did he know while he was practicing his grieving fiancee routine i was already dissecting
14:56his father's secret offshore accounts edwin every act has a ticket price yours it's the entire nelson empire
15:04that night i went live no filters no script just me in my cold marble office 10 million people tuned
15:13in within minutes since everyone loves a story let's talk about the truth i threw the first card the
15:22autopsy and bank records of hannah's father the hero everyone's crying for he was a thief who embezzled
15:29200 million before taking the coward's way out and the nelson's they were his biggest creditors the
15:35comments section turned into a battlefield hannah's pure image didn't just crack it disintegrated i played
15:41the second card the raw unedited audio from the rooftop a little something to make the show more
15:46interesting by the time you wake up you'll be the most hated woman in the country listen to this poor
15:52girl as she describes exactly how she planned to have her thugs violate my mother silence fell over the
15:59internet the righteous fury of the masses shifted its trajectory the stones they were throwing at me
16:04were suddenly flying toward the nelson headquarters three days after hannah's arrest i visited her she
16:11wore orange polyester her green tea innocence were placed by tangled hair and manic eyes you're a demon
16:17marguerite you destroyed me she screamed through the glass i looked at her with the boredom one feels for
16:24a crushed insect no hannah your greed destroyed you you thought catching edwin was catching a gold mine
16:33you didn't realize he was just the trash can i was finished with
16:40fraud insider trading false imprisonment the nelson family was a palace built on sand and the tide had
16:47finally come in because of edwin's stupidity every poison pill in their contracts was triggered
16:52my father the shark he is saw the blood in the water we bought the nelson core assets for pennies
16:58on the dollar edwin and his father fell from the clouds into the gutter and i was the one who
17:03kicked
17:03the ladder away when the dust settled my father walked into my office for the first time i saw respect
17:10in his eyes well done marguerite you're more ruthless than i imagined he handed me the new appointment
17:18papers for the group i was no longer a pawn to be traded in a strategic marriage i was the
17:23one moving
17:23the pieces i was the master of the board i found edwin waiting outside my office his stubble was thick
17:33his designer suit wrinkled like a discarded rag marjorie please my father needs surgery the company is gone
17:42help me he tried to grab my hand i stepped back my eyes filled with a lethal disgust go deliver
17:48packages
17:49edwin or find a generous patron to keep you but don't come begging here i don't collect damaged guts
17:59he stumbled away looking like a marionette with its strings cut i watched him go and felt nothing no hate
18:06no heat just a cold vacuum i used to think i'd hate him forever now i realize he doesn't even
18:13deserve
18:13a kilobyte of my brain's memory this indifference this is the ultimate revenge my parents were at it
18:20again a strategist from london an heir from an academic dynasty at dinner my mother whispered
18:28margis you're young you can't stay alone forever
18:32i put down my fork that old lunatic spark flickering in my eyes mom do you think my
18:40momentum is too fast do you think i need a man to slow me down i declined every suitor to
18:48me these
18:48elites were as transparent as glass they didn't want a wife they wanted a partner with a seat at
18:54the flynn group table they wanted my resources not my heart i had no love to give and even less
19:00money
19:01to waste on mediocrity i took over the family's most difficult sectors and turned them into industry
19:06legends every morning i stand by my floor to ceiling windows watching the city wake up beneath my feet
19:12i don't need anyone else's light to see i am the sun late one night my mother came to my
19:20apartment
19:20she didn't talk business she just held my hand margaret i'm not pushing you i just hope
19:27you never close yourself off to love to being loved too for a second the glacier in my chest cracked
19:38i'm not closed off mom
19:41i just raised the price of admission maybe one day someone will walk in who doesn't ask me to be
19:47soft
19:47someone who doesn't fear my ambition or my malice if he exists i might let him stay if he doesn't
19:55i'm perfectly capable of walking this golden path alone the story is over people ask if i'm happy now
20:01that i've had my revenge i tell them happiness doesn't come from revenge it comes from the power
20:07to overturn any table life sets before you my name is marjorie flynn a vindictive lunatic a cold-blooded
20:14ceo and a completely free woman remember if you're going to play a role in my life
20:19make sure you have the strength to stay until the curtains close
20:22close
20:22you
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