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00:00After my husband, the mob boss, exiled me to a desolate upstate villa to cool off for three whole years,
00:06I was finally allowed to come home.
00:08Welcome back, Enya. Back to this gorgeous Brooklyn prison.
00:13I became the perfect wife, praised by everyone in this old Italian neighborhood of Brooklyn.
00:18I even voluntarily brought that woman, Cecilia, into the house to help him fill his duties.
00:23Who knew my obedience would pick him up and help him off even more?
00:26I've tried my damn hardest not to talk to other women, Enya.
00:31How long are you going to keep up this fucking obedient act?
00:34Mom, we were wrong. We won't call you an old prune anymore.
00:38We don't want that Cecilia living here. Please stop. You're scaring us.
00:43Mom, don't do this to us.
00:46I'm not putting on an act.
00:47My tone was calm, like the frozen Hudson River, and I silently cleaned up the living room Centino had trashed.
00:53Just like my family, always maintaining the facade that nothing was possible.
00:58You punishing me? For exiling you back then?
01:03You're overthinking it, Centino. I just... don't care anymore.
01:08My words caught him off guard. Before he could figure out how to deal with me, a knock came at
01:13the door.
01:14We both knew it was Cecilia.
01:16Enya, I... I... I think I should just go...
01:19Come in. Your room is ready.
01:21Cecilia shuffled inhesitantly, her eyes darting to Centino before quickly looking down.
01:27The damsel in tress routine.
01:29Over a decade, and the lines and expressions haven't changed a bit.
01:32And my husband, he always falls for it.
01:35Protecting the weak is the cornerstone of his twisted sense of honor.
01:43And the lines and expressions haven't changed a bit.
01:46And my husband, he always falls for it.
01:49Protecting the weak is the cornerstone.
01:50Mom, if you're really over it, then kick this woman out.
01:53Gianna and I don't like her.
01:54Mommy, I don't want the clothes and toys she buys anymore.
01:57We won't make you angry again.
01:59My gaze swept over this pair of ungrateful wolves.
02:02I carried for 10 months in her, who once wounded me with words and coldness.
02:07No anger. No sorrow.
02:09Just a complete sense of detachment and scrutiny.
02:12Luca, Gianna, it's not safe for a woman like Cecilia to live outside.
02:16Besides, her husband died for the Marino family.
02:19We owe her this.
02:21Centino, help Cecilia take her luggage to the east guest room.
02:24It's the best one.
02:25Close to your study, too.
02:27He didn't take the bag.
02:28His gaze was like a searchlight.
02:30A scalpel.
02:31Scanning every inch of my skin.
02:33Trying to find a crack in the facade.
02:35A hint of jealousy.
02:36A spark of anger.
02:37Even a sliver of sarcasm.
02:39But he found nothing.
02:40Only a cold, bottomless stillness.
02:43Anya.
02:44I know I fucked up.
02:45I brought you back, too.
02:46Just tell me.
02:47What will it take for you to turn the page?
02:49I looked at him.
02:50This man I've been entangled with for half my life.
02:52We grew up in the same Italian neighborhood.
02:54He's three years older.
02:55Used to be my protector.
02:57The year I was 17, he took my first kiss under that old oak tree by the river.
03:01Swore he'd marry me once he took over the family.
03:04Later, he really did take over the family business.
03:07Kept that promise.
03:08But he also really did ruin me.
03:10Centino, I'm just doing the right thing.
03:13With her living here, everyone can rest easy.
03:16May be truly provoked by me.
03:18Centino roughly shoved my hand away and grabbed Cecilia's bag.
03:21The motion was so violent it threw me off balance.
03:24I fell hard into the wreckage of the glass coffee table.
03:27A sharp, stinging pain shot through my nerves instantly.
03:30Centino panicked, dropped the bag, and rushed over to help me out.
03:35I flinched, almost instinctively, avoiding his touch.
03:38The motion throws him in place, as if he'd been slapped.
03:43You hate me that much.
03:45So much my touch feels filthy to you.
03:52You hate me that much.
03:54So much my touch feels filthy to you.
03:57Talk!
03:58Anya!
03:58Look at me!
03:59Tell me you still hate me!
04:01I didn't scream.
04:02I didn't cry.
04:04Just slowly, firmly,
04:05cried his fingers open.
04:07Took a step back.
04:08Putting a full meter between us.
04:12You should go take care of Cecilia.
04:14She can't stand the sight of blood.
04:16Looks like she's about to...
04:17faint.
04:19Fine.
04:20Since you're so damn magnanimous,
04:23you move to the guest room.
04:25Cecilia takes the master bedroom.
04:27Makes it easier for me to look after her.
04:30Santino's face turned thunderous.
04:32He helped the still-triggling Calilia up,
04:34almost dragging her out of the living room.
04:35Only after their footsteps faded down the hall
04:38did Luca and Gianna approach.
04:39Their faces held no concern for my injury,
04:41only accusation of blame.
04:43Dad swallowed his pride to bring you back,
04:45even tried keeping his distance from that woman on his own.
04:47Why do you have to keep pushing?
04:48Do you want to tear this family apart?
04:50Is that what you want?
04:51Why?
04:51Why?
04:52I wanted to ask why, too.
04:53Why did I have to endure all this?
04:55Why did home become this?
04:57Santino got involved with Cecilia
04:59right after I gave birth to Luca,
05:01while I was still recovering.
05:02At first, I could brainwash myself,
05:04say it was just an Italian man's code.
05:06Taking care of a brother's widow was about honor,
05:09until Gianna came to me and I saw them
05:11looking out in the back garden.
05:13That night, Santino put on a blood oath show for me,
05:16swearing with a switchblade cut to his chest
05:19that he was just drunk.
05:20But later, lipstick stains and shades that weren't mine
05:23kept appearing on his shirt collars.
05:26When the evidence of their affair was right there,
05:28I lost it.
05:28I raged.
05:29The result was a miscarriage.
05:31I lost our third child.
05:32I lay in a pool of my own blood,
05:34begging him to save our baby.
05:35He took Cecilia,
05:36who I'd accidentally pushed,
05:37with just a scraping into the emergency room instead.
05:40Santino, let's get a divorce.
05:41I just want the children and...
05:44my parents' ashes.
05:46Divorce?
05:47Anya, you will pay for this stupid idea.
05:55Divorce?
05:56Anya, you will pay for this stupid idea.
05:59Soon, I was taken by Santino's men,
06:01shoved into a car,
06:02and delivered to that upstate convalescence villa
06:05with no signal.
06:06I stayed there for three years.
06:07A month ago, after being brought back,
06:09I searched the entire house while he was out.
06:12Those two brass urns holding my parents' ashes
06:14had vanished into thin air.
06:16My thoughts were interrupted
06:17by a sudden knock at the door.
06:19Cecilia says she doesn't want to live here for free.
06:22She wants to help share your duties.
06:24Hand over the household ledger
06:26and the weekly inovellis to Cecilia.
06:29This was less about sharing duties
06:30and more about taking over the real authority
06:32of my position as wife in advance.
06:35I nodded, turned back into the room,
06:36took the metal box containing the ledger
06:38and several thick stacks of cash from a drawer
06:40and handed them to him.
06:41Anya, can't we just...
06:43It's late.
06:44I'm a bit tired.
06:45His gaze felt like it was trying to burn a hole through me
06:48to see if any trace of the familiar Anya
06:50from before remained inside.
06:52Ten seconds, long as a century.
06:54Finally, a low, frustrated, furious curse
06:56was forced from his throat.
06:57The aroma of garlic, tomatoes, basil,
07:00and simmered meatballs washed over me.
07:01Smelling the scent that once meant home to me,
07:03my stomach clenched violently in the spasm.
07:05During those three years upstate,
07:06I developed an erection.
07:07It wasn't a lack of food.
07:08I couldn't eat.
07:09The smell of any food would make me think
07:11of my mother's withered hand on her deathbed.
07:13My father had been gone for three years by then,
07:16and my mother was gravely ill.
07:18I worked day jobs for money,
07:19nursed her at night,
07:20became a skeleton myself.
07:22Anya, mom is sorry.
07:24Leaving you alone in this den of wolves.
07:27Centino is busy fighting for territory then,
07:29only coming by for fleeting glances.
07:31He promised once he was in power
07:33he'd send mom to the best private hospital.
07:34But on the day of his ascension celebration,
07:36my mother took her last breath.
07:38Anya, perfect timing.
07:40Come have some food with us.
07:41With an invitation like that,
07:42I really did feel like an outsider.
07:44I didn't turn and leave.
07:45Instead, I complied, took a seat,
07:47forced down the nausea, and ate the soup.
07:49A smile on my face, offering friendly praise.
07:51Watching the mood one by one,
07:53I kept on as if nothing happened,
07:55mechanically chewing and swallowing.
07:56Eat, Anya.
07:57You have to live.
07:58At least, until you get what you want,
08:00you must stay alive.
08:11The days dragged on,
08:13stagnant and unremarkable.
08:15I was like a bird trapped in a cage.
08:17My only obsession was finding my parents' ashes.
08:20I searched Cecilia's luggage over and over
08:22when she wasn't around,
08:23but those two urns,
08:24holding all my hopes,
08:25were nowhere to be found.
08:27I thought this despair would last forever,
08:29until my birthday.
08:30I cleared my schedule tonight,
08:31taking you to Vesuvio's,
08:33just the two of us.
08:33To breathe a sigh of relief.
08:35I just found it ironic.
08:36He thought one meal could erase all the pain,
08:38make me forget about my parents' whereabouts.
08:42Anya, do you still love me?
08:44I pretended not to hear,
08:46pretended not to see the darkness in his eyes.
08:48Love?
08:49It died the moment he hid my parents' ashes.
08:51After paying the bill,
08:53he didn't take me home.
08:54Instead, he drove down this road,
08:55etched into my DNA.
08:57The very road where, at 17,
08:59I fell into his trap.
09:00Under the old oak trees,
09:01stood the three people I least wanted to see.
09:03Holding the thing I've been searching for these three years.
09:06Those two heavy brass urns were my life.
09:08The last traces of my mom and dad.
09:10I shuffled forward.
09:11My vision riveted to those two urns.
09:13The names on them.
09:14Noah Evans,
09:15Marina Evans.
09:16Each character,
09:17a needle piercing my heart.
09:33Anya, back then,
09:34I nearly broke with the old man
09:36to keep these heathen things for you.
09:37I plan to give them back once you behaved.
09:41Just love me like you used to,
09:43and I'll give them back.
09:44Santiano Marino,
09:46my parents treated you like their own son.
09:48How could you do something so monstrous?
09:50Three years.
09:51He held my parents' ashes hostage
09:53for three whole years.
09:54I dreamed of them day and night,
09:56tossing and turning,
09:57while he used them as leverage against me.
10:00Mom, don't be ungrateful.
10:02Grandpa and Grandma were...
10:04complected.
10:05If it weren't for Dad,
10:06they'd have been tossed in a dumpster.
10:08Dad was protecting you.
10:10Dad, Mommy!
10:11I laughed until I cried.
10:13These were the children
10:14I risked my life to bring into the world.
10:15They didn't understand my pain,
10:17my longing for my parents.
10:18Instead, they sided with the one hurting me,
10:20pointing their fingers at me.
10:22Give them back.
10:23You still want a divorce?
10:24Still want to leave me?
10:25I looked at him
10:26and suddenly found it all utterly ridiculous.
10:28The biggest regret of my life
10:29was that God-faring party.
10:30The moment my foolish gaze
10:31ended on him a second too long.
10:33That one look plunged me
10:34into an inescapable abyss,
10:36draining all my grief and love.
10:37Aenia, I gave you a chance.
10:39You're the one throwing it away.
10:41Throw it.
10:42No!
10:44I fought like a wild animal.
10:46I couldn't let my parents' ashes
10:47fall into the cold river.
10:49That was their final resting place.
10:51I couldn't let him destroy it.
10:52But Centino's arms were like steel bars.
10:55He held me fast,
10:56indifferent to my struggle.
10:57His voice cold as the grave.
10:59If your heart has no place for me,
11:00then hate me.
11:01Hate is better than being strangers.
11:03You will never get rid of me.
11:04I tasted blood,
11:05the flavor of despair.
11:06In that moment of slacked grip,
11:08I didn't run.
11:08My eyes were only for those two urns.
11:10But I could run into the river.
11:12Clutching my parents' ashes,
11:14I threw myself into the freezing river.
11:16The water was bone-killing,
11:17yet I felt free.
11:19Finally,
11:19I could be with them.
11:25Clutching my parents' ashes,
11:27I threw myself into the freezing river.
11:29The water was bone-killing,
11:31yet I felt free.
11:32Finally,
11:32I could be with them.
11:34I rocked in the water.
11:35Through the haze,
11:35I saw him frozen in place.
11:37That high and mighty,
11:38in-control facade was completely gone.
11:40So,
11:40he could be afraid, too.
11:42Afraid of losing the person
11:44he'd always manipulated so freely.
11:46He lost it,
11:47truly lost it.
11:47The head of the Marino family,
11:49always so concerned with propriety and control,
11:51now looked like a deranged leader,
11:52casting aside the dignity he cared so much about.
11:55Dad!
11:55Don't jump!
11:56The current's too strong!
11:57You'll die!
11:58Get off!
11:58That's your mother!
11:59Your mother!
12:00The rushing current swept me away,
12:02rapidly dragging me into the dark downstream.
12:04He couldn't catch anything,
12:05only grasping futilely at the cold water,
12:07like a lost child.
12:09Mommy!
12:10I could feel his regret,
12:11drowning him like a tide.
12:12But it's too late, Centino.
12:14Far too late.
12:14You're the one who pushed me into this icy river.
12:16You destroyed the last shred of hope between us.
12:19Cecilia panicked.
12:20She finally realized the magnitude of the disaster
12:22she'd helped create.
12:23She thought she was Centino's accomplice.
12:25securing her place.
12:26But she forgot.
12:27The moment I jumped,
12:28Centino's sanity shattered too.
12:30He saw her.
12:31The murderous intent in his eyes.
12:32I'd never seen it before.
12:34This is how I was feeling had arrived.
12:35It was your idea.
12:37You brought the things.
12:38You pushed her to jump.
12:39You gave the order to throw them.
12:42I say jump, you jump.
12:43You've been waiting for this day, haven't you?
12:45Drifted in the water,
12:46just miss fading.
12:47All these years,
12:47he'd lied to himself in honor,
12:49convinced himself it was for my own good.
12:51The moment I jumped,
12:51he woke up,
12:52completely insane.
12:53Her poor relatives in Sicily,
12:55this woman has disgraced the family.
12:57Exile her back there.
12:58Tell them the Marino family no longer protects her.
13:00Better fend for herself.
13:01In America,
13:02being exiled by the family,
13:03stripped of all protection,
13:04it's worse than death for someone like her.
13:06Cecilia knew her fate.
13:07She screamed and begged desperately,
13:09but it was all feudal.
13:14In America,
13:15being exiled by the family,
13:17stripped of all protection,
13:18it's worse than death for someone like her.
13:20Cecilia knew her fate.
13:21She screamed and begged desperately,
13:23but it was all feudal.
13:24For the next 48 hours,
13:26Centino didn't sleep a wink,
13:28eat a bite,
13:29or drink a drop.
13:30He was like a tireless madman.
13:33Leading Luca,
13:34and all his men,
13:35along the Hudson tributary.
13:38Searching inch by inch.
13:40Refusing to overlook any corner.
13:43The river water washed over him again and again.
13:46Icy and biting,
13:47washing over his already shattered soul.
13:50He finally understood I hadn't come to my senses.
13:52I was truly dead inside.
13:55He used my parents' ashes as leverage against me.
13:58Never realizing they were my only reason to live.
14:02The sole thought that kept me going through three years of hell.
14:05Luca followed silently behind Centino.
14:09Not speaking,
14:10just searching over and over.
14:12He must have remembered his own cruel face during our arguments.
14:17Remembered blindly siding with Centino to blame me.
14:20That kind of regret
14:22was enough to make him want to slap himself to death.
14:27Janna stayed kneeling by the river.
14:29Clutching the scarf I knitted for her.
14:31Crying until her voice was hoarse.
14:34Crying until she was exhausted.
14:37She's young.
14:38Maybe she doesn't understand why her father's so-called protection
14:42ended up pushing her mother to her death.
14:46Mr. Marino.
14:48We've searched the entire downstream area.
14:51No sign of her.
14:53No sign of the brass urns you mentioned.
14:55Most likely swept into the dam further down
14:58or sunk into the riverbird's silt.
15:01They're gone.
15:03Anya, I was wrong.
15:05Come back.
15:07I'll give you anything.
15:09Please.
15:11Please come back.
15:12The only reply was the relentless river, the howling wind.
15:17He had finally paid the cruelest price for his obsession and cruelty.
15:22Losing me.
15:23Losing the only obsession of his life.
15:34He erected an unmarked headstone by the river.
15:38No name.
15:39No apintock.
15:40Only perpetually fresh white roses before it.
15:44His belated penance.
15:46He stopped expanding the family's territory.
15:50Even voluntarily withdrew from several key operations.
15:54The edge of the mob boss was gone.
15:57Now, he drifted like a ghost by the riverbank daily.
16:01Replacing our past.
16:02Repeating his mistakes.
16:04No one dared mention my name in front of him.
16:07Now, afraid of provoking the man already consumed by regret.
16:12He meticulously sealed away everything I had ever used.
16:16Treasuring them like rare artifacts.
16:19They were the only traces of me he could hold onto.
16:22But what he didn't know was.
16:24I hadn't died.
16:26The icy river didn't drown me.
16:28Instead, it awakened a primal will to survive deep in my bones.
16:32I clung to my parents' urns.
16:35Even as my lungs screamed for air.
16:37Even as the cold pierced me to the marrow.
16:40I wouldn't let go.
16:42I couldn't die.
16:44I had to live.
16:46To take mom and dad with me.
16:48I had to make Centino pay for everything he'd done.
16:53Hey!
16:54If you want to die, don't pick now!
16:56Just as my strength failed.
16:58As my consciousness blurred and I was about to give up.
17:02A rough, calloused hand suddenly seized the collar of my clothes.
17:07It was an immense force, dragging me upward.
17:10A hoarse, aged voice.
17:12Full of reproach.
17:15Sounded in my ear.
17:16I was dragged onto the bank, gasping, coughing violently until I expelled all the river water from my lungs, finally
17:24catching my breath.
17:25The urns in my arms were safe.
17:28Mom and dad were still with me.
17:31I looked up my blurry vision, making out an aged figure standing before me.
17:36Backlit.
17:37Features unclear.
17:59The man who saved me was a reputable fisherman living in a cabin by the river.
18:03The place was small, just a single room with a wood-burning stow middle and a worn-out army cot
18:08in the corner.
18:08It was a crude shelter in the wilderness, yet it made me feel a safety I had never known before.
18:14You're holding onto those hunks of metal tighter than your own life.
18:17Must be more important than living, huh?
18:19For their sake, you gotta stay alive.
18:26Mia of cheap coffee.
18:27That bitter taste and salt my senses made my eyes water, but it made me feel clearly that I was
18:33alive, that I could still feel pain.
18:36That night, I held the urns and stayed awake until that cot.
18:39Elijah saved my life and the soul that had long been in tatters.
18:42I told myself, I cannot die, absolutely must not die.
18:52Elijah, I will repay you.
18:55I promise.
18:57Forget it.
18:58Staying alive is the best repayment you can give me.
19:03I hitched a ride to the next town.
19:05A 24-hour road slide diner was hiring.
19:09The terms were tempting.
19:10Cash pay, no ID check.
19:12The owner was a loud middle-aged woman.
19:15Seeing me bedraggled and desperate, she didn't ask questions.
19:19She just took me in.
19:20And the work was brutal.
19:2312-hour days blisters on my feet.
19:25But my heart felt a strange, solid peace.
19:28Fee the first time I was living for myself.
19:36Fee the first time I was living for myself.
19:39What are those?
19:40My parents.
19:41I'm looking for a good place to lay them to rest.
19:44Oh, Anya.
19:46When we get paid, I'll take you to the wild woods by the edge of town.
19:49The view is beautiful.
19:50No one bothers you there.
19:52It's perfect.
19:53Three months later, Maria and I dug a deep hole under a maple tree deep in the woods.
19:59The wind bristled through the treetops, like a sigh from my parents.
20:03I knew, from this moment on, I finally made peace with my past.
20:08I started saving money like crazy.
20:10I knew waiting tables wasn't my future.
20:12Maria told me the community college had a high school equivalency program.
20:16I signed up immediately.
20:18I needed to study.
20:19To climb out of this mire.
20:21So I hid the books in my spare time.
20:22Occasionally, I'd catch bits of news from passing truckers.
20:25They said Santio Moreno had changed completely, grown terrifyingly grim.
20:30He'd exiled Cecilia, kept his two kids under lock and key.
20:33They also said he went to the riverbank every day, just staring at that unmarked stone.
20:37I listened, but my heart remained still as stagnant water.
20:40Maria, the man I once loved to the point of degration, and hated to the bone, was already far, far
20:48behind me.
20:51I was desperate to get my high school equivalency, to stand on my own feet.
20:55But reality doused me with cold water.
20:58I had no social security number, no ID.
21:01Ana Evans is a dead person.
21:03There's no place in this world for that name anymore.
21:05When Maria learned about my trouble,
21:08She took me to see her cousin, who worked at the legal aid center.
21:12I erased all traces of the mob.
21:14I portrayed myself only as a poor woman,
21:17long imprisoned and tormented by a controlling husband,
21:20forced to fake her own death to escape.
21:23Every word was my real pain, just told a different way.
21:26Maybe my story was too real.
21:28Maybe the lawyers at legal aid were moved by compassion.
21:31They didn't try to overturn the death certificate.
21:34Instead, they found a special protection clause for domestic violence victims.
21:37And decided to help me apply for a brand new set of identity documents.
21:41When I got that new social security card with the name Ella White on it,
21:44I sobbed like a child.
21:46I sobbed like a child.
21:48It wasn't just a card.
21:50It was proof of my rebirth.
21:52My hope to shed the past and live again.
22:00It wasn't just a card.
22:02It was proof of my rebirth.
22:04My hope to shed the past and live again.
22:07Exam day.
22:08My hands shook, filling out the answer sheets.
22:11Every answer held my hope.
22:13Every stroke, my resolve.
22:15Today, the results came.
22:17I passed the high school equivalency exam,
22:19with a shockingly high score, way above the admission line.
22:23In that moment, all the hardship and pain felt worth it.
22:26Holding the full scholarship letter from the city college,
22:29bearing my new name, Ella White,
22:30I ran like mad to the woods where my parents rest.
22:33I knelt before their grave under the maple tree and shouted,
22:36I did it!
22:36The wind whistled the leaves, a gentle reply.
22:39On my knees, tears fell, but my smile was brighter than ever.
22:42I visited Elijah, the old fisherman who saved my life.
22:45I slipped the $200 I'd saved into his coffee tin,
22:49all the thanks I could give for now.
22:51When I said goodbye, he told me he always knew I'd find my way.
22:55College life felt like a dream.
22:57I soaked up knowledge like a sponge, making up for lost time.
23:01No longer the trapped, broken Enya.
23:04I was Ella White, living for myself.
23:06At a literary salon, I met Daniel Blake.
23:10Even with the scent of old books about him.
23:13Yet his eyes held an undeniable strength.
23:16I married him later.
23:17He knew my past, who I was, who I was hiding from.
23:20He didn't care.
23:21Pronounced to protect and care for me.
23:23He gave me respect and safety I'd never known.
23:27And showed me what it truly means to be loved.
23:34He gave me respect and safety I'd never known.
23:38And showed me what it truly means to be loved.
23:41Soon after, our daughter Grace was born.
23:44She was a light that brightened all my days to come.
23:47Making me finally understand, this quiet, ordinary peace.
23:51This is happiness.
23:52One summer, the three of us drove back to town to visit Elijah.
23:57Seeing him still hardy.
23:59Watching our our daughter run on the grass before his cabin.
24:02My heart was at peace.
24:04This was the life I'd fought so hard for.
24:07Anna, there's a new Italian gallery in the city.
24:09They say it has the modernist works you like.
24:11Should we take a detour?
24:12I knew that gallery was, far from the old neighborhood.
24:15A faint tremor passed through me.
24:17But seeing the hope in my daughter's eyes, and the strong, sheltering man beside me, I nodded.
24:22I thought I was strong enough now to face any ghost from the past.
24:26Smiling, I moved toward Grace, about to scoop her up.
24:29When from the corner of my eye, I saw a group approaching.
24:32My steps froze.
24:33My heart lurch.
24:34It was Santino, flanked by Luka and Diana.
24:37Santana looked years older, all his edge gone, leaving only wariness and numbness.
24:42Nothing left of the Marino family's once feared leader.
24:45His eyes were hollow, as if his soul had long been zanned, probably dragged here by his kids
24:50for a change of scene.
24:51Time seemed to stop.
24:53His gaze drifted, then locked onto my face without warning.
24:57The numbness vanished, replaced by shock, wild joy, disbelief, all crashing together, threatening
25:05to drown him.
25:06Anna?
25:09Anna!
25:10You're alive!
25:11My god, you're alive!
25:18Anna?
25:21Anna?
25:22Anna!
25:23You're alive!
25:24My god, you're alive!
25:26Mom!
25:28Santino staggered back several steps, nearly falling before Luka and Gianna caught him.
25:33Stunned, he looked up into Daniel's icy, authoritative eyes.
25:37Step away from my wife, sir.
25:39I'm Prosecutor Daniel Blake.
25:41Harass my fan again, and you'll spend the rest of your life in Rikers Island.
25:46Daniel held me close, radiating a cold intensity.
25:49In that moment, I knew I would never be hurt again.
25:53Santino froze.
25:54He probably never imagined the woman he once controlled and hurt would now stand beside
25:59a man of such power.
26:01He stared at Daniel, then slowly at me.
26:04His eyes filled with a pitiful plea.
26:06I gently patted Daniel's hand, signaling him to ease up.
26:11I was no longer that timid.
26:12Meek Enya who could be bullied.
26:14I was Ella White.
26:16Secure enough to face this calmly.
26:18My eyes held no hatred.
26:20No anger.
26:22Only a pity that cut him to the bone.
26:24Sir.
26:25Enya died in that river years ago.
26:27The person standing before you now is Ella White.
26:31No.
26:32Anya.
26:33It's me, Santino.
26:35I'm Santino.
26:37Mommy.
26:38Who's this strange man?
26:40No one we know, sweetheart.
26:42It's getting late.
26:42Let's go home.
26:44Behind me came the sound of his wrenching sobs.
26:47A belated, pitiful penance.
26:49But my steps never faltered.
26:51That painful past had long been washed clean by the cold river and could no longer hold
26:56me.
26:56Elijah was right.
26:58Where there's life, there's hope.
27:00That river didn't drown me.
27:02It cleansed my shame and remade my life.
27:05I am Ella White, not Enya Marino.
27:07I live well now.
27:09Ming love, a daughter, a stable life, and a bright future.
27:12This year's long entanglement can finally come to a close.
27:17This year's long entanglement can finally come to a close.
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