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Three brothers regret losing the one they loved.
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00:01I'd waited three years for my wedding day.
00:03Then I was thrown into a snake pit by my fiancée and three elder brothers.
00:08Happy wedding, just so you know.
00:11I slept with your husband last night.
00:13In your bed.
00:14It was amazing.
00:16Rage blinded me.
00:17I slapped her.
00:19A second later, my new husband, Julian Thorn, slapped me back.
00:22Harper is sweet and easy!
00:25She gave up everything for you, and you still hate her?
00:28I'd rather marry anyone but you!
00:32Under their order, I was thrown into a snake pit.
00:35Day one, I thought they'd come back.
00:36Day three, I started counting the cracks in the wall.
00:39Day seven, I stopped.
00:42I was so tired.
00:43After seven days of hell, my three brothers came for me.
00:46Arthur, my oldest brother.
00:48A ruthless CEO.
00:49He kicked my leg until it broke.
00:54Harper cried all night.
00:56I've already moved all your assets to her.
00:59Silas, my second brother.
01:00An ableist actor.
01:02He twisted my arm until it dislocated.
01:05From now on, only Harper stays in the family trust.
01:09You?
01:10Never call yourself a Vance again.
01:12Declan, my youngest brother, a top surgeon.
01:15The cruelest of all.
01:16He pressed a scalpel into my stomach.
01:18Harper has kidney problems.
01:20You're giving her one of yours.
01:22Consider it payment.
01:23Before I could speak, he cut my organ out.
01:25I was awake the whole time.
01:27Then, through the pain, something shifted.
01:29Twenty years of fighting for scraps of love from people who never wanted me.
01:34Back at the orphanage, Harper locked me in the closet and stole my life.
01:37Let me out!
01:37Twenty years later, I was still paying for it.
01:39Maybe dying was the only way to finally be free.
01:42I stopped screaming.
01:44Despair and pain melted away.
01:46Now I just felt relief.
01:48Arthur and Silas were gone.
01:49Taking my kidney.
01:51In the damp, freezing snake pit, only Declan and I remained.
01:55Blood kept pouring from the wound.
01:57Declan frowned, annoyed, stitching me up in a hurry.
02:01If you just cooperated earlier, I wouldn't be doing this here.
02:04You're nothing but a hassle.
02:06One week ago, Harper got a tiny, barely visible paper cut.
02:09Declan called in his whole elite medical team, treated it like an emergency.
02:13He checked on her every three hours.
02:15Now?
02:16The hassle of closing the wound.
02:18He must have noticed I wasn't reacting.
02:20He leaned down, patted my pale cheek, and injected me with antibiotics.
02:25Stop faking.
02:26This is nothing.
02:27You really think this will make me choose you over Harper?
02:31You're so petty, Alara.
02:33Ever since you came back to this family, all you do is play these sad little games.
02:37In the past, words like that would have broken me.
02:39I would have fought back.
02:41Begged him to see I wasn't that person.
02:43Now I felt nothing.
02:45To me, death was the fastest way out.
02:47But Declan misunderstood completely.
02:49What the hell is that supposed to mean, Alara?
02:52You saying this messed up stuff just to make me feel bad?
02:56He jerked the suture hard.
02:58The raw skin tore tight.
03:00Dark blood gushed out.
03:01The pain was unbearable.
03:03When he saw me gasp, my forehead soaked with cold sweat.
03:07You're my blood sister.
03:08Do you know how long we spent looking for you?
03:10There's no way I'd let you die like this.
03:12If you weren't selfish, if you hadn't hit Harper, none of this would have happened.
03:18He finally numbed the wound.
03:21Promise you'll stop making trouble for Harper when we get back.
03:26Apologize to her, and I'll take you to the hospital.
03:30Best care.
03:31No more pain out here.
03:33Inside me, only cold, bitter mockery rose.
03:37Without a word, I lifted my hand and tore open my freshly stitched wound.
03:41Blood poured out.
03:42Alara, are you insane?
03:45You'll die!
03:47I stared at the tears in his eyes and forced a weak smile.
03:53Death?
03:54That sounds perfect.
03:57Living even one more second makes me sick.
04:02My eyelids grew heavy.
04:04My head fell to the side.
04:06Everything went black.
04:08I didn't die.
04:09When I woke up fully, Arthur was there.
04:13You're finally awake.
04:15You're an adult, Alara.
04:16Why are you so reckless?
04:18Throwing a fit and threatening to give up over something so small.
04:22Where's your pride as a Vance?
04:24You're right.
04:26I'm a disgrace.
04:28I don't deserve to be here.
04:30His hand froze midair.
04:32The slap never landed.
04:34Alara Vance!
04:35Stop talking nonsense!
04:40I paid a huge price to get you out of there.
04:43Not so you can talk nonsense like this.
04:46The door opened.
04:48Declan walked in carrying a bitter medicinal drink.
04:52Drink it.
04:53Don't make me hold you down and pour it in.
04:55No.
04:56It's a waste.
04:58You!
05:01He slammed the bowl onto the nightstand and checked my bandages.
05:05Just as I thought.
05:06The top tier medicine really speeds up healing.
05:09Behave.
05:09If you tear this wound again, I'm not stitching you up a second time.
05:14Once I would have cried at this tiny scrap of kindness.
05:17Now I just found it deeply, profoundly ironic.
05:21I ripped my arm out of his grip, threw off the blanket, and clutched my wound.
05:25Are you out of your mind?
05:31Alara, what the hell are you doing?
05:33Leaving you.
05:35Letting me go is the best outcome for everyone.
05:38You're off the hook, and Harper can sit on her throne as the Vance Ernish.
05:43Do me a favor.
05:45Let me die quickly.
05:46My words hit a raw nerve in Arthur.
05:50I forbid it!
05:52You are the biological daughter of the Vance family.
05:57Who gave you permission to die?
06:00Declan panicked.
06:01He pressed my shoulders back against the mattress.
06:03Alara, stop.
06:05I know you're hurting.
06:07But if you just recover, I promise I'll do better.
06:10Okay?
06:10I stared at his begging eyes and found it utterly absurd.
06:14I closed my eyes.
06:15Declan tried to feed me the medicinal drink.
06:18Meanwhile, the door swung open again.
06:21Alara, thank God.
06:23You scared me half to death.
06:24When I'd first returned home, he took me out, bought me gifts,
06:27and tearfully told me how much the family had missed me all those years.
06:30His attitude flipped.
06:32Seeing him now just exhausted me.
06:34I turned my face away as he reached out to touch my cheek.
06:39Let me try.
06:40She might listen.
06:41For years, I'd worshipped him.
06:43Loved him with every part of me.
06:45Door opened again.
06:47Alara, I came to see you.
06:50Harper, you just had a transplant.
06:52You're still weak.
06:52Why are you up?
06:54It's all my fault.
06:56If I'd stopped you that day,
06:59none of this would have happened.
07:00I couldn't stop feeling guilty.
07:02I had to apologize.
07:05She took the bowl and sat on my bed.
07:08Alara, please.
07:09Don't be so hard on yourself.
07:11Drink your medicine.
07:13Everyone's worried.
07:14I know you blame me.
07:15But I never wanted to fight you.
07:17Everything in the Vance family is yours by right.
07:20Before the spoon touched my lips.
07:25Alara, how could you?
07:28I was only trying to help.
07:30Tears ready to fall.
07:32Alara, Vance, have you lost your mind?
07:35My hand moved to the phone hidden under my pillow.
07:38One bar of signal.
07:39Just enough.
07:41Arthur exploded.
07:42Harper came here out of kindness,
07:43and this is how you repay her?
07:45Declan rushed to check Harper's reddened skin.
07:47Are you okay?
07:48Is it badly burned?
07:49Get a doctor here now!
07:52You've gone too far, Alara.
07:54Harper already apologized.
07:56When will you grow up?
07:58Can you stop being so unreasonable?
08:01You don't have to hurt her.
08:02All four crowded around Harper,
08:05pressed against Arthur's chest.
08:07I'm fine.
08:08Please don't blame Alara.
08:10She's just upset.
08:12Once, this act would have made me boil with rage.
08:15Now?
08:15I just thought it was funny.
08:17If you want to coddle her, get out.
08:19Don't ruin my room.
08:21All four stiffened in anger.
08:23You clearly haven't learned anything.
08:25Starting now, I'm cutting off your painkillers.
08:28Apologize to Harper properly,
08:29then I'll give you your medicine again.
08:31Good.
08:32Let her feel the pain.
08:33Maybe then she'll stop being so spoiled.
08:36I closed my eyes.
08:37Cut the painkillers?
08:39So what?
08:39Physical pain was nothing next to 20 years of misery.
08:42If anything, the pain would keep me awake while I waited to die.
08:46Seeing I didn't care at all,
08:48Declan stepped forward and yanked out my IV tube.
08:51The second, the excruciating pain crashed over me.
08:54My family and fiancé turned their backs.
08:57The door slammed shut.
08:58Not one of them looked back.
09:00I reached under my pillow and pulled out a small, sharp knife I'd hidden there.
09:04It's time.
09:05Get prepared.
09:06Only 15 minutes left.
09:09Out in the hallway, they'd walked far when Arthur stopped.
09:12You guys take Harper to treat her burns.
09:14I have a bad feeling.
09:15I'm going back to check Alara.
09:17Silas jumped in.
09:18Let me go.
09:19I'm closest to her.
09:20I'll talk sense into her.
09:21Are we not her real brothers?
09:22Alara needs a doctor right now.
09:24I'm going back.
09:26They're all going.
09:27As her fiancé, I have to too.
09:29Your burn's not bad.
09:30Get it bandaged.
09:31I'll check on you later.
09:32He jogged to catch up.
09:33But the second they pushed open the door, a thick, choking stench of blood hit them.
09:38I watched it on a screen.
09:40A big monitor mounted inside a moving ambulance, fed by the hidden camera Kyle had installed in my room weeks
09:47ago.
09:47The one who used to slide bread under the closet.
09:50He found me.
09:52He had gotten me out in time.
09:53A decoy in my place.
09:55Clean and quiet.
09:56The way he did everything.
09:58I lay on the gurney and watched the footage with cold, steady eyes.
10:02Arthur knelt on the floor, clutching my body.
10:04His face was soaked with tears.
10:06Alara, I'm sorry.
10:07I was wrong.
10:08Please come back.
10:09I'll do anything.
10:10Don't leave me.
10:11Please don't leave your brother.
10:12Silas crumpled to the floor.
10:13He said nothing.
10:15Just stared at my body with hollow eyes.
10:17Declan's legs gave out.
10:18He'd seen all kinds of gruesome scene, but he couldn't even step close.
10:22Alara, it's my fault.
10:24I ripped your kidney out with my own hands.
10:27I'm a monster.
10:28I deserve to die.
10:30Come back.
10:31Hit me.
10:32Curse me.
10:32Do anything.
10:33Just...
10:34Please don't leave me like this.
10:36Julian stood frozen, staring.
10:39Then he snapped.
10:39She's not dead.
10:41Alara isn't dead.
10:42This isn't real.
10:46She's breathing.
10:47Look.
10:47She's breathing.
10:48She's faking it.
10:49She's doing this to hurt us.
10:51She's not dead.
10:52It's not her.
10:53She's always held it against us.
10:55There's no way she'd just die like this.
10:57Don't you hate us the most?
10:58Do you want to see us suffer?
10:59Come out.
11:00Just then, Harper lingered at the back of the room.
11:02She slipped back two steps quietly and turned to flee.
11:06Stop.
11:06You.
11:07This is all your fault.
11:11Arthur.
11:12W-what are you saying?
11:14Alara's dead.
11:15I'm heartbroken too.
11:16How could you blame me?
11:19Something's not right about her death.
11:21You're not leaving.
11:22You're not going anywhere until we find out the truth.
11:25She tried to act innocent, but this time the three brothers looked at her with only suspicion.
11:30Not a single trace of pity remained.
11:32I didn't do anything!
11:33She killed herself!
11:35This has nothing to do with me!
11:36How you got adopted, or how Alara disappeared, we never dug deep.
11:39Now that she's dead, you think you can just walk away?
11:42Declan already had his phone out, dialing his security.
11:45I'm having my men keep an eye on you.
11:47Don't you dare try anything.
11:48The bodyguards closed in.
11:50Harper wanted to run, but didn't dare move.
11:54I had seen enough.
11:56Take me home.
11:58I woke up in an unfamiliar room.
12:00Clean.
12:01Quiet.
12:02The faint scent of gardenias.
12:03My body felt completely normal.
12:06No pain.
12:07No weakness.
12:08Kyle sat by the window.
12:09You've been unconscious for three days.
12:11I sat up and stretched.
12:13No surgical scars.
12:14No lingering aches.
12:16Declan's medicine, it turned out, had worked exactly as he'd promised.
12:20Twenty years of suffocating pain.
12:22And this whole time, someone had remembered me.
12:25I laughed softly and began to plan.
12:27I didn't rush.
12:29I thought it through carefully.
12:31Kyle took care of everything.
12:32A sturdy SUV.
12:34A high-rise condo right next to the city park.
12:37A new bookshelf.
12:39Easy care plans.
12:40Top quality cookware.
12:42I had never asked for any of it.
12:44He just knew.
12:45For the first time in my life, I had a real home.
12:47Sometimes I'd pull one out and read all afternoon.
12:50When I got tired, he'd come for me and take me for a walk.
12:53This time, I felt I wasn't alone.
12:56Kyle was always busy.
12:57I never asked him about his life.
12:59But it was clear.
13:00He was a powerful man now.
13:02A month later, he came to find me.
13:04He sat across from me at the kitchen table, hands wrapped around a cup of tea.
13:08They're desperate to get you back.
13:10They'll stop at nothing.
13:12And innocent people are getting caught in the middle.
13:15How about let me handle this?
13:17I stared out the window for a long moment.
13:20I'll go back.
13:22I'll fix what they broke.
13:24This has to end.
13:25You know you don't have to do this.
13:28I know.
13:29But I need to end it properly.
13:31He looked worried, but finally agreed.
13:34Call me anytime.
13:36The guards are on standby.
13:38I was back.
13:39All three brothers rushed in.
13:40Hey, Laura!
13:41You're back!
13:42Don't you ever leave us again!
13:43Silas stood frozen by the bed.
13:45In his hands, a small tin of fruit drops.
13:47The exact kind I'd begged for at the orphanage, but could never buy.
13:51I locked that bitch Harper up.
13:53Everything she took from you, we're taking it all back.
13:57I got your kidney back.
13:58I had it transplanted.
13:59You're healthy again.
14:01Exactly like before.
14:07Is this about atoning for your sins?
14:09Or are you just scared I'll die on you again?
14:12They exchanged guilty, awkward looks.
14:15None could meet my eyes.
14:16A muffled scream came from nearby.
14:19The three of them tensed.
14:21We locked Harper, make her pray day and night, to repent for what she did.
14:24Declan walked over and pulled back a heavy curtain.
14:27Harper was chained to the wall on the other side.
14:34Alara, Vance, you're alive!
14:35They're only nice to you because you died.
14:37It's just a novelty!
14:38Give it a few months.
14:39They'll go back to choosing me.
14:41You'll always be the useless spare.
14:4320 years of hate and rivalry, all gone.
14:46It was just numbingly...
14:48Shut up!
14:49Alara, please stay.
14:50Everything the Vatres own is yours.
14:52The company, the estates, all of it.
14:54We'll obey your every order.
14:55We'll never let you hurt again.
14:56Alara, I was so wrong.
14:58Please, just give us a chance to make it right.
15:00From now on, we'll treat you a thousand times better than we ever treated Harper.
15:04I'll take care of you personally.
15:05I swear you'll live a long, healthy life.
15:07We know nothing can erase the past, but we'll spend our lives making it right.
15:12All these promises.
15:13This was exactly what I had begged for as a child.
15:16Back then, they'd searched the whole country for me.
15:19Taken out newspaper ads.
15:21Abandoned their careers.
15:22And then they gave me nothing but pain.
15:27My feelings for you weren't all fake.
15:29Harper's lies blinded me.
15:31She poisoned my ears.
15:32Said you were jealous.
15:33Said you never cared about the Vance family.
15:35The things I said at the wedding.
15:36I regretted them the second I spoke.
15:39Every day since, I've drowned in guilt.
15:41I stared at my fiancé like he was a total stranger.
15:43The man who'd slapped me two times in public.
15:48Who'd screamed he'd rather marry a dog.
15:50Now standing here, saying his love was real.
15:53The biggest joke of all.
15:56We stood in tense silence.
15:58Then Harper thrashed wildly.
16:00She slipped her wrists free.
16:01Charged straight for me.
16:02Stop her!
16:03Bodyguards lunged.
16:04But Harper fought like a maniac.
16:05She pulled a witch blade from her clothes.
16:08If I can't have the Vance's, neither can you!
16:10Alara, I'll kill you!
16:14The blade sliced deep into his shoulder.
16:17A choked groan.
16:18Blood poured down his shirt.
16:20Arthur!
16:23You mad woman!
16:25Don't hurt Alara!
16:26Declan and Julian rushed in, wrenched the knife away, slammed her down.
16:30The guards rushed in at once, tied her up again, and dragged her away.
16:33Arthur was still bleeding.
16:34Alara, I'm fine.
16:36As long as you're safe, I'm fine.
16:38Don't be afraid.
16:39She'll never hurt you again.
16:41I watched their show.
16:42I only found it funny.
16:43Harper was locked tight.
16:44Chained in heavy cuffs.
16:45How did she slip free?
16:47She hit a switchblade?
16:48With the Vance's power and security?
16:50They must have known.
16:51You knew she'd escape.
16:52You knew she had a knife, didn't you?
16:53The three brothers froze.
16:55Their faces went stiff.
16:56You let her go on purpose.
16:57To stage a rescue.
16:58You wanted me to watch you bleed.
17:00To pity you.
17:01To believe you changed.
17:04We hurt you too badly.
17:05We just wanted to prove we mean it.
17:06We're scared to lose you again.
17:08I saw their guilt.
17:09Maybe real, but it didn't touch me.
17:10The scars run deep.
17:12You do this to ease your own guilt.
17:13This isn't redemption.
17:14It's selfish.
17:15No, Alara.
17:16We care.
17:17We regret it all.
17:18Does regret fix anything?
17:19I cut him off coldly.
17:20Can regret ever fix what you did to me?
17:24Set Harper free.
17:26Hand her to the police.
17:26Let the law deal with her.
17:27She ruined you.
17:28You can't let her get away.
17:30I don't want your revenge.
17:31I want justice.
17:32She stole my life.
17:32That's decades in prison.
17:34You chain her.
17:35Torture her.
17:35How are you any better?
17:36You're just different kinds of monsters.
17:39All right.
17:40Whatever you say.
17:44The Vance family's mess needs cleaning up.
17:46You should compensate every innocent person you've hurt.
17:49I want everything put back the way it was.
17:51That's the only reason I came back.
17:53Yes.
17:54We'll do it right now.
17:55Everything.
17:56Exactly as you wish.
17:57I woke up in an unfamiliar room.
17:59Clean.
18:00Quiet.
18:01The faint scent of gardenias.
18:03My body felt completely normal.
18:05No pain.
18:06No weakness.
18:07Kyle sat by the window.
18:08You've been unconscious for three days.
18:11I sat up and stretched.
18:12No surgical scars.
18:14No lingering aches.
18:15Declan's medicine, it turned out, had worked exactly as he'd promised.
18:19Twenty years of suffocating pain.
18:22And this whole time, someone had remembered me.
18:25I laughed softly and began to plan.
18:27I didn't rush.
18:28I thought it through carefully.
18:30Kyle took care of everything.
18:32A sturdy SUV.
18:33A high-rise condo right next to the city park.
18:36A new bookshelf.
18:38Easy care plants.
18:40Top quality cookware.
18:41I had never asked for any of it.
18:43He just knew.
18:44For the first time in my life, I had a real home.
18:47Sometimes I'd pull one out and read all afternoon.
18:50When I got tired, he'd come for me and take me for a walk.
18:53This time, I felt I wasn't alone.
18:55Kyle was always busy.
18:57I never asked him about his life.
18:59But it was clear.
19:00He was a powerful man now.
19:01A month later, he came to find me.
19:04He sat across from me at the kitchen table.
19:06Hands wrapped around a cup of tea.
19:08They're desperate to get you back.
19:10They'll stop at nothing.
19:12And innocent people are getting caught in the middle.
19:15How about let me handle this?
19:16I stared out the window for a long moment.
19:20I'll go back.
19:21I'll fix what they broke.
19:23This has to end.
19:25You know you don't have to do this.
19:27I know.
19:29But I need to end it properly.
19:31He looked worried, but finally agreed.
19:33Call me anytime.
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