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My Fiancé Almost Kill Me On Thanksgiving Day
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00:02Thanksgiving night was the last calm moment I remembered I tasted black truffle on my tongue
00:08a holiday tart Grayson insisted I try and then everything blurred the world tilted my limbs went
00:14numb and consciousness slipped out of my hands like water through broken glass
00:25when I woke both of my arms were broken the pain sharp and white hot and I was lying somewhere
00:31deep
00:32inside the Sierra Nevada wilderness my fiance handed my private jet to his assistant like it
00:41was a party favor I didn't even pause to process the insult my fingers were dialing the FAA emergency
00:51line before the outrage fully settled in my chest and within minutes they intercepted her midair
00:57grounding the plane at the nearest federal airfield when Grayson Whitmore found out he didn't look
01:04shocked he didn't look guilty either he looked irritated at me not her Jesus Celeste he sighed
01:12stroked his forehead as if I were the unreasonable one Mia just wanted to fly home for Thanksgiving
01:17and make a good impression it's not that deep she's still being held by federal officers would
01:23you please go down there and explain it was a misunderstanding they're not going to prosecute
01:27a girl for wanting to feel important sometimes I wondered whether he genuinely believed the bullshit
01:32he said or if he simply thought I was too soft or too in love to call him on it
01:36Grayson this isn't about
01:39feeling important this is about flying a multi-million dollar aircraft without a pilot's license to if
01:48he was showing off and people who break federal aviation law should face the consequences even if
01:53they flutter their eyelashes at you he let out a long theatrical exhale the kind meant to signal I was
01:59being impossible before turning away I'll have Whitmore Enterprises legal department deal with it
02:06you never know how to pick your battles the cold earth pressing through my skin like a second
02:16heartbeat a red glow washed over me the beam of an infrared camera before Grayson's voice followed
02:21low and venomous you know Mia was detained for 48 hours because of your little tantrum he asked his
02:27tone dangerously calm she was terrified so you can fly a plane big deal let's see what other
02:35impressive skills you have think you can walk out of here naked and make it home my vision shook
02:41but I forced my good fingers what remained of them to reach the side of my AR tactical glasses the
02:47emergency signal was faint but it was there I pressed the button my voice cutting through the wind in a
02:52low
02:52steady rasp get here in 30 minutes and I will owe you everything Celeste Montgomery you're going to
03:00apologize to Mia right now and say out loud that you're nothing but a worthless bitch
03:05otherwise you can rot out here in the Sierra Nevada until the toxins in the air finish you off or
03:11until something with fangs does Mia Carrington nestled comfortably against his chest as if this
03:15were some sick holiday movie scene instead of an attempted murder broadcast to criminals slid into the
03:21frame Celeste honey your arms are broken maybe just give in a little if you apologize I'll ask gray to
03:29pull you out of here
03:29Grayson pulled her in and kissed her the glow of the screen sharpening the cruelty in his eyes then he
03:35lifted
03:35the drone controller sinking our feed to a dark net live stream packed with faceless buyers who treated
03:40human suffering like a sport ladies and gentlemen your Thanksgiving special begins now Celeste Montgomery
03:49daughter of old money royalty former federal wilderness survival specialist we'll attempt to cross the Sierra
03:55Nevada with no gear no clothes and two broken arms place your bets on how long she'll last
04:00one thousand dollars per minute no upper limit
04:12you heard the crowd let's give our patrons what they paid for he zoomed the camera and obscenely
04:18close letting the lens trace the line of my collarbone drift down the bruises on my ribs
04:23hesitate over every inch of exposed skin his greed felt physical like oily fingers crawling over me
04:29you always said people should pay the price for their mistakes Celeste
04:33now look at you your arms are useless you can't even dress yourself tell me is this enough of a
04:39consequence to help you remember how much you hurt Mia I was naked under the floodlight of the drone
04:44stripped not only of clothing but of privacy dignity and safety I pressed my forearms tight against my chest
04:51desperate to shield whatever fragments of myself I could still claim
04:57their laughter oozed into my ears I felt vile burn into the back of my throat my broken bones scraped
05:04against the torn flesh of my arms and a cold sweat spread down my spine all this because I reported
05:10Mia's illegal flight for five years I helped build Whitmore Enterprises from the ground up for five years I
05:17used Montgomery resources and old money leverage to clear his path fight off his competitors and shield
05:23him from the consequences of his own incompetence I made him into something I took a scholarship kid
05:29with nothing but ambition and turned him into a rising star and now that he thought my family was losing
05:34influence now that he believed he no longer needed me he stripped me threw me into the wilderness and
05:40broadcasted my suffering to the highest bitter Grayson laughed again loud cruel almost giddy with the power he
05:47thought he held in that moment I realized he had never loved me he had only loved the way I
05:53made him
05:53feel powerful and now he wanted to prove he could destroy me just as easily make sure every paying creep
05:59in that channel has the time of their lives it's Thanksgiving give the bosses something to be thankful for
06:10here's the deal Celeste transfer 10% of Montgomery Global right now right into Mia's name and I'll have
06:16that drone drop a thermal blanket before the wolves smell you otherwise happy holidays
06:19gray babe that's too much I can't take her shares
06:27Celeste probably hates me she's always acting like I'm not good enough to fly the G650
06:31bet she thinks I'm just some gold digging flight attendant you've been too busy closing that Alaska
06:36pipeline deal to finish your pilot's license too busy closing deals I almost laughed even as the
06:42aphrodisiac set my bloodstream on fire too busy riding Grayson's lap in the Whitmore boardroom
06:48I collapsed against the rotting pine needles every nerve screaming blood frozen scarlet icicles on my
06:54forearms where the fall had snapped both bones Grayson Whitmore you make me sick
07:07for one heartbeat the mask slipped and I saw the same kid who used to sneak me into Met Gallus
07:13and promise me the world then Mia whispered something and the mask slammed back down
07:18harder crueler Celeste you can't just throw away five years unless
07:26you already have some side piece lined up some Wall Street wolf waiting in a Park Avenue penthouse
07:38Montgomery global stock is tanking faster than SPS Celeste you're nothing without me
07:43you want to call off the wedding fine when the feds freeze every offshore account your grandfather buried
07:48in the Caymans get that drone in her face give the subscribers the money shot 4k night vision the
07:56works I threw up a broken arm shield myself then remembered I was naked underneath the ruins of a
08:02$10,000 gown shame burned hotter than the chemical fire in my veins I curled into a ball slid another
08:08foot
08:09down the ice slick slope and nearly pitched into the ravine somewhere below timberwolves started
08:15howling real ones not metaphors Celeste honey just sign the transfer it's only money let Grayson cool
08:22off we'll airlift you out get you a spa day at Mirval pretend this never happened a second
08:26drone swooped in mechanical claw gripping a tablet displaying the share transfer agreement it hovered
08:30six inches from my nose like a guillotine sign or freeze your choice
08:44something slithered over my cheek centipede six inches long Rocky Mountain paranoia venom it crawled
08:51into my ear the pain was so bright I almost welcomed it then gravity took over again I clawed at
08:57frozen
08:58granite fingernails snapping and slid closer to the poison ivage okra where rattlesnakes denned for
09:05winter keep talking tough princess ten more feet and you're in the viper pit let's see that harbor
09:10mouth negotiate with diamonds you're not the Montgomery heiress anymore Celeste Grayson says if you sign and
09:15apologize live admit you framed me for cooking the books tried to send an innocent girl to federal prison
09:20he'll call the chopper I'll even forgive you for that SEC subpoena you paid for you vicious bitch trying
09:27to lock Mia up what about her little sister who needs chemo the first drone released a glass ampule it
09:36shattered at my feet in a hiss of white vapor the snow around my bare feet melted into black sludge
09:42military-grade corrosives flesh on my calf bubbled like acid on steak I screamed until my throat tore scared yet
09:52Celeste apologize to Mia now or the next one goes in your face I dragged myself an inch uphill blood
10:01painting the snow red the metallic scent drew every leech tick and beetle in a five-mile radius they burrowed
10:09under what was left of my dress I couldn't swap them off for the first time in 28 years of
10:14boardrooms
10:15bailouts and Forbes covers Celeste Montgomery was out of moves I lifted my head to the drum lens to the
10:23man
10:23who once swore he'd burn the world before he'd let me get hurt Grayson when I get out of here
10:30and I will
10:32I'm going to take everything then the centipede in my ear released its venom the ravine rushed up to
10:39swallow me and the last thing I heard was Mia laughing like she'd already won everything bled crimson
10:49blood mud the strobing red of the drones emergency LEDs I couldn't tell where one ended and the other
10:56began my pulse hammered so loud I barely heard the darknet chat loses collective mind even Grayson's
11:06executive assistant started sweating bullets the guy had buried bodies for Whitmore enterprises in three
11:11continents but live streaming a billionaire heiress getting eaten by wolves apparently crossed a line
11:17mr. Whitmore sir Celeste looks half dead already heart rates crashing on the biometric feed
11:23she's not dying girls like Celeste don't die they just get humbled if she hadn't spent the last five years
11:32trying to frame Mia for securities fraud maybe I'd have gone easy tonight's just a friendly reminder
11:45I force my head up locked eyes with the drones cold lens and let every ounce of Montgomery Steel pour
11:51into my glare I did nothing wrong why the hell should I hand over 10% of the company my
11:56great-grandfather
11:57are built from steel mills in Pittsburgh just because some trust fund psycho wants to flex bugs please
12:04I'd spent summers tagging grizzlies with federal wildlife teams and cat mine before I could legally drink
12:09this was just another Tuesday in hell with everything I had left I rolled onto my back and dragged myself
12:15across the jagged shale rocks tore fresh gashes across my shoulder blades but the pain was a blessing
12:21it scraped off half the leeches and centipedes burrowed into my skin blood mixed with snow into pink slush yet
12:28somewhere
12:28in the haze I spotted it a cluster of wild sagebrush glowing faintly under the drone's floodlight
12:33the same plant rangers in Denali swear by crushed leaves mass blood scent for exactly 11 minutes
12:40I take six Celeste Montgomery have you no shame beg right now or the next thing coming down that ravine
12:49won't be bugs you never plan to let me walk out of here Grayson dead or broken you decided
12:57the second you fight the champagne oh my god Celeste what are you doing as I clawed the sagebrush closer
13:07bit the stem until bitter juice flooded my mouth then smeared the pulp across every bleeding wound
13:13the alkaloids hit my bloodstream like ice water numb the nerve endings killed the scent trail
13:18temporary sure but temporary was all I needed Mia always said you were a snake guess she's right
13:25you're trying to fake a suicide pin it on me ruin Whitmore Enterprises on Black Friday weekend
13:30classic Celeste even half naked in a blizzard you're still scheming
13:36five years Grayson five years I cleaned up your messes quieted the SC buried the insider trading
13:43rumors paid off that flight attendant you knocked up in Vegas without Montgomery Capital you'd be
13:50still slinging dime bags outside Yale
13:56for one heartbeat the mask slipped again something wrong flickered behind those Wall Street eyes
14:02guilt maybe or the ghost of the boy who used to sneak me onto the roof of the Met to
14:06watch July 4th fireworks
14:08then Neo whispered poison in his ear and the mask hardened into granite
14:14this chick's got nine lives boss thought she was done ten minutes ago
14:18then let's burn through the rest I want to see how long that Montgomery pride lasts when the wolves start
14:25chewing
14:26Celeste sweetie don't make the wolves angry you're screaming loud enough to wake every predator from here to Glacier's National
14:34Park
14:34when you tried to send Mia to federal prison for cooking the books you cooked up yourself did you warn
14:40her open the speakers
14:41the drone's PA system blasted a recorded alpha wolf snarl at 180 decibels enough to rattle bones every tree around
14:49me exploded with movement
14:51branches snapped snow cascaded the real pack answered the call I froze every muscle seizing pain from my compound fractures
15:00the acid burn on my calf the centipede venom none of it compared to the primal terror of glowing eyes
15:06circling in the dark
15:07eight maybe ten sets timber wolves coastal giants the kind that take down moves for fun
15:12one stepped into the floodlight above me silver gray 200 pounds of pure hunger
15:18its breath steamed in the sub-zero air I heard the crunch of its paws the low rumble in its
15:24chest
15:24Grayson wanted me shredded on camera survival instinct kicked harder than any drug
15:30I eased backward inch by inch
15:35running now princess where's all that billionaire backbone
15:40hide and seek with a wolf pack
15:42how's that for a thanksgiving tradition
15:44green eyes multiplied in the darkness
15:46fangs caught the light like switchblades
15:49last chance Celeste
15:51kneel apologize to Mia on stream
15:53I'll hit the ultrasonic repellent
15:55keep fighting and you're dinner
16:00say you're sorry damn it
16:03this is how the montgomery line ends
16:12she doesn't owe a single goddamn apology to anyone
16:17and somewhere above the tree line a black hawk chopper roared in the low
16:39celeste i've got you
16:49celeste i've got you
17:12he scooped me up like i weighed nothing so careful to keep pressure off the places where bone pokes your
17:20skin
17:20i tried to shrink away mortified that nathan hail of all people was seeing me like
17:25this naked filthy broken
17:27it's over sweetheart
17:31nobody touches you again
17:32his team dropped in behind him
17:35suppressed rifles barking in short surgical bursts
17:38the remaining wolves scattered into the dark like they've never existed
17:42who the hell are you people
17:43this is a private matter
17:47private
17:50kidnapping
17:50aggravated assault
17:52attempted murder
17:54when did federal felonies become a couple spat
17:57racing with more
17:58Mia caring can kill the stream
18:00right now
18:01or i start putting rounds through optics
18:04and we watch whose skull
18:06blooms
18:08next
18:10captain hale sir this is a misunderstanding
18:13save it for the u.s attorney
18:15or for the montgomery legal division
18:18your choice
18:19montgomery
18:21which montgomery
18:23the one that makes the dow twitch every time the old man sneezes
18:26the one your boyfriend's been siphoning from for five years thinking nobody was watching
18:33celeste montgomery
18:36heiress
18:37heiress
18:38majority shareholder
18:39and the woman you just tried to feed to wolves on thanksgiving
18:43surprise
18:49grayson
18:50the annulment papers hit your desk tomorrow morning
18:52and the bankruptcy petition hits the southern district of new york five minutes later
18:57happy thanksgiving
18:58sleep tight
18:59on that private jet cot
19:06i still couldn't stop shaking partly from hypothermia part the special kind of cold
19:11that settles in your bones when the man you loved tries to murder you for sport
19:16nathan knelt between the jump seats cleaning blood from my forearms with steady marine precision
19:22every swipe of the alcohol wipe felt like fire but his touch never faltered
19:27the patriarchs got the estate on full lockdown
19:30the top orthopedic trauma surgeon out of johns hopkins is already wheels up from baltimore
19:35your grandfather tried to charter a c-130 to come rip whitmore apart with his bare hands
19:40took three generals to talk him down
19:43this one's yours to finish
19:45i managed to nod every memory from the last five years rewound in high def
19:50gracing kissing my knuckles after the montgomery trust quietly bailed out his failing startup
19:55mia sliding updated contracts across his desk pupils blown wide with victory
20:02the way he'd snap what is that
20:06can you stop being so paranoid every time i pointed out her forged signatures i'd ignored every
20:12red flag because i thought love meant trusting harder five years i'm the punchline in a joke
20:19i helped write you trusted the wrong person celeste that doesn't make you stupid
20:25it makes you human and humans get even
20:35it makes me happy
20:36here's mia's greatest hits we've got her cold
20:38i scrolled she'd hollowed whitmore enterprises out like a thanksgiving turkey and stuffed the carcass
20:43with ios another file whitmore's real balance sheet red ink deep enough to drown manhattan
20:54our legal team drafted everything annulment returns every gift every trust contribution every share he ever touched
21:04attempted murder conspiracy violation of the computer fraud and abuse act for the dark net stream
21:10the drone footage alone will put them away for 25 to life i closed my eyes and saw patriarch montgomery's
21:16face crinkled with worry the last time i turned down his offer to vet grayson personally he'd known
21:22of course he'd known and i've been too proud too in love too blind
21:32take me home nathan tomorrow we burn their empire to the ground and salt the earth
21:39copy that ma'am next stop montgomery state aspen then we make them wish the wolves had finished the job
21:51five years ago i sat across from patriarch i told him i wanted to try a relationship without the
21:58montgomery name attached no private security tail no trust fund safety net just me and some guy from
22:07yale who swore he loved me for my brain not my portfolio the old man's face went the color of
22:13ash
22:14he smashed his favorite crystal wine glass on the floor and roared that i was throwing away a century
22:18of blood and steel for a pretty smile in the end he caved like he always did when i dug
22:26my heels in
22:26play your little game celeste but when the world shows you its teeth you come home
22:39i opened my eyes in the black hawk's dim cabin the morphine finally wearing off enough for the words
22:44to cut through the pain
22:47notify every major outlet cnn bloomberg fox the journal all of them tomorrow 10 am sharp penthouse
22:56ballroom montgomery global tower mid down manhattan i'm holding a press conference copy that
23:01comms team's already spinning up we'll have every network on the continent begging for seats
23:08the pr director met me in the private elevator ma'am the ballroom's locked down tighter than
23:14fort knox we've got every tier one journalist from here to tokyo live feeds to every financial desk in
23:19the world the bespoke armani suit hid the road rash and acid burns like armor only the faint
23:25tremor in my fingers betrayed the truth tell them i'm on my way
23:31thirty minutes later i stepped onto the day eyes under a constellation of camera flashes hot enough
23:37to melt steel nathan flanked my right eight more operators ring the stage hands never far from
23:44concealed sig sours good morning thank you for coming on short notice i'm here to set the record
23:51straight on one matter and to announce a decision
23:57grayson whitmore stormed in looking like he'd slept in a dumpster nia clung to his arm mascara
24:03tracks carving rivers through her foundation celeste you vicious what did you do to my company
24:11every account frozen every supplier ghosting me do you have any idea what you've cost me
24:18celeste please gray only lost his mind because he loves me punish me not him camera swung like
24:27howitzers the flash storm was blinding nathan started forward i stopped him cold
24:36let them through
24:40five years celeste five years and this is how you repay me
24:47i ignored him completely nodded to nathan the 80-foot led wall behind me flared to life the aspen
24:54backcountry filled the screen my own screens echoed through the ballroom sound system you said a real
25:00player could walk home naked right let's test that theory
25:10the room temperature seemed to drop 20 degrees grayson went whiter than the marble floor
25:17this is the clarification i am celeste montgomery majority shareholder and designated
25:25heir to montgomery global last night my fiancee rayson whitmore in collusion with his executive
25:34assistant mia carrington kidnapped me drugged me and attempted to murder me on a dark knit last stream for
25:41sport
25:46and the decision effective immediately montgomery global is initiating chapter 7 liquidation of
25:54whitmore enterprises every asset every patent every offshore shell will be seized to compensate for
26:01emotional distress physical damages and five years of fraud the double doors opened again this time to a
26:11phalanx of u.s marshals in tactical vests grayson whitmore mia carrington you are under arrest for kidnapping
26:20aggravated assault with a deadly weapon attempted murder and conspiracy to commit the same you have
26:26the right to remain silent remember when you said i'd come crawling back once the money ran out turns out
26:35the money never left you did the marshals dragged them past rows of reporters now shouting questions like
26:42machine gun fire i stayed on the dais until the doors slammed shut behind the circus
26:48then i turned to the cameras one last time voice steady as the empire at my back happy thanksgiving
26:54america justice is served cold and today the montgomery table is finally full
27:03nathan hale stepped to my side offered his arm for the walkout in my head i could already hear
27:09patriarch montgomery raising a glass to the granddaughter who finally came home
27:22i'm telling the truth mia masterminded everything she's been jealous of celeste since day one kept
27:33whispering that celeste was sabotaging me laughing at me behind my back
27:39the aspen trip her idea she said it was just a scare a little humiliation to force the share
27:47transfer he shoved every ounce of blame across the hallway like it could save him
27:55i'm just a secretary
27:58grayson resented celeste for years said she lorded her money over him treated him like a charity case
28:03he wanted revenge told me to play along or he'd destroy my family i was trapped
28:09please help me two people who used to finish each other's sentences now tore each other apart like
28:15rabid dogs grayson finally ran out of oxygen and collapsed forward the memories hit harder than any punch
28:27the night we met at that yale alumni mixer me in a borrowed dress laughing that my family ran a
28:33couple
28:33hardware stores back in pittsburgh the week his startup was bleeding out and i slid term sheets
28:39across the table montgomery money laundered through a dozen blind trusts he never questioned the flu that
28:45knocked him flat for six days i sleeping upright in a plastic hospital chair with my hand on his iv
28:54every time i pointed out mia's forged invoices and he snarled you're just jealous and she's better at
29:00the job than you ever were all those moments i thought were love he'd seen as charity from a girl
29:07too naive to know her own worth
29:17i wasn't some small town factory owner's daughter i was the montgomery heiress and i'd wasted five years
29:25healing his ego while he sharpened the knife
29:32i lay perfectly still while the city's top orthopedic surgeons swapped temporary splints
29:37for titanium laced casts light enough for prime time close-ups
29:53whitmore enterprises is iced every account every patent every square foot of real estate proceeds
29:59transferred directly to your personal restitution trust darknet rain been taken offline by cyber
30:04division every user name every crypto wallet our litigation team's filing suits faster than they
30:11can delete browser history and the ex lowbirds sang like canaries on black friday full confessions
30:16cross-corroborated airtight they're looking at 15 to 20 easy no parole
30:27you sure you're ready for what comes next the board's already floating your name for ceo
30:33patriarch wants you in the corner office by new year's i flexed my new titanium laced forearm felt the
30:39bite of metal meeting bone painful perfect permanent
30:51and this time i'm not asking permission
30:59montgomery estate aspen three days after thanksgiving the snow had stopped falling
31:04but the wind still howled like it wanted back in
31:14so
31:15ma'am there's someone at the main gate
31:17who
31:19grayson whitmore's mother
31:22let her freeze
31:24copy that
31:26she's already been out there two nights security won't even give her coffee
31:31good when i feel like it i'll decide if she gets in not before
31:37oh and nathan make sure grayson gets the morning paper in his cell
31:42Front page, above the fold. Whitmore Enterpurse's liquidated assets to Montgomery heiress.
31:50I want him to read it while he eats his Thanksgiving leftovers. Cold.
31:54Already on the warden's desk, ma'am.
31:57Day three. I finally had them escort Mrs. Whitmore to the East Parlor.
32:05Celeste.
32:06Thank God. Celeste, my son is an idiot.
32:11A monster. Whatever you want to call him.
32:15But he's still my only child.
32:18I'm begging you look at what we meant to each other once.
32:22Find it in your heart.
32:24Auntie? You seem confused.
32:28Your son didn't break my heart.
32:30He committed felony kidnapping and attempted murder.
32:33You want mercy? File an appeal with the First Circuit.
32:40Let me refresh your memory.
32:42Three years ago your heart was failing.
32:45Grayson couldn't scrape together 30 grand.
32:47I sold my mother's watch, the one she wore the day she died, so you could have the best surgeon
32:52in Boston.
32:54You woke up, took my hand, and told me to stay out of the men's business.
33:01You mistook kindness for weakness.
33:04You taught your son the same mistake.
33:07Now you're both learning the price.
33:35Now you're both learning the price.
33:47Celeste wouldn't.
33:51She loved me.
33:53There's more.
33:55Montgomery Legal just added commercial fraud to the indictment.
33:59They have your original pitch decks.
34:02Every inflated revenue number, every fake vendor contract you used to impress her,
34:07back when you thought she was just a girl with a trust fund.
34:24They're saying he tried to hang himself with his jumpsuit.
34:28Didn't get far.
34:30Let him live long enough to watch every scent he ever touched come home to me.
34:38Tell Legal to drop the papers.
34:40I'm taking the corner office January 1st.
34:44And schedule a board meeting.
34:46It's time the world remembered what happens when you bet against a Montgomery.
34:56The trial had been a coronation in reverse.
34:59Every Montgomery lawyer in a 500-mile radius showed up in Zegna and vengeance.
35:04Evidence stacked higher than the jury's coffee cups.
35:07His public defender tried the crime of passion angle.
35:10Temporary insanity.
35:12Toxic masculinity.
35:13Whatever buzzword might shave off a decade.
35:15It was like watching a toddler argue with a tsunami.
35:18It's all going according to plan.
35:21Your honor.
35:22New evidence.
35:29Gray, Celeste found the offshore transfers.
35:32What do I do?
35:33Let her bark.
35:34I'll just say she's jealous and trying to tank your career.
35:37Keep moving the money.
35:38Once we push her out, Whitmore Enterprises is yours.
35:41Push her out.
35:42Whitmore Enterprises is yours.
35:43Baby.
35:54Backstabbing bitch!
35:55You were a stepping stone, Grayson.
35:58A very expensive one.
36:00I recorded everything in case you ever forgot who held the leash.
36:06He finally understood.
36:08He'd never been the king.
36:09He'd been the pawn she kept in the front row in case the queen decided to sacrifice something.
36:15The judge didn't even look up from his notes.
36:18Mia Carrington.
36:1915 years.
36:20Federal penitentiary.
36:21Credit for cooperation.
36:24Grayson Whitmore.
36:25Kidnapping.
36:26Attempted murder.
36:27Commercial fraud.
36:28Conspiracy.
36:29Life imprisonment.
36:30No parole.
36:32Political rights terminated for life.
36:36Celeste.
36:37I'm sorry.
36:43I'm sorry.
36:44I'm sorry.
36:45I'm sorry.
36:47I'm sorry.
36:48I'm sorry.
36:48Grayson's apology floated behind us.
36:50Thin and worthless as the paper jumpsuit he'd wear for the rest of his life.
37:10You just beat my kill ratio, ma'am.
37:12The air force is gonna cry.
37:14Hands are better than ever.
37:15Book the Gulfstream.
37:17G-800.
37:18We're doing the globe run.
37:20Pole to pole.
37:2190 hours.
37:23No stops.
37:26Swallowed three competitors before breakfast.
37:28And still found time to get type rated in everything with wings.
37:31You wasn't the girl who used to wait up with soup anymore.
37:35I was Celeste Montgomery.
37:37CEO in waiting.
37:39Heir to an empire that made nations blink.
37:45Prison mail.
37:46Whitmore.
37:47Tenth won this month.
37:50Summary?
37:50Same sob story.
37:51He is sorry.
37:52Praise every night.
37:53Misses the old days.
37:54Blames me, huh?
37:56Says if she hadn't existed, we'd be married by now.
37:59Wants one visit.
38:00Just one.
38:02Tell Leavenworth we're done forwarding mail.
38:05Grayson Whitmore died on that mountain as far as I'm concerned.
38:10Cremate the rest.
38:11Yes, ma'am.
38:17Are you ready to face a new storm at 41,000 feet?
38:20Like making a cup of coffee?
38:22Yep.
38:24Just like the coffee you made every day.
38:27I didn't slow down.
38:28I didn't need to.
38:31I was flying to everything.
38:39I just can't wait.
38:41Bye.
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