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A shocking betrayal nearly costs her life.
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00:00Thanksgiving night was the last calm moment I remembered.
00:04I tasted black truffle on my tongue, a holiday tart.
00:07Grayson insisted I try and then everything blurred.
00:10The world tilted. My limbs went numb.
00:18And consciousness slipped out of my hands like water through broken glass.
00:23When I woke, both of my arms were broken.
00:26The pain sharp and white hot.
00:28And I was lying somewhere deep inside the Sierra Nevada wilderness.
00:35My fiance handed my private jet to his assistant like it was a party favor.
00:40I didn't even pause to process the insult.
00:46My fingers were dialing the FAA emergency line before the outrage fully settled in my chest.
00:52And within minutes they intercepted her midair, grounding the plane at the nearest Federal airfield.
00:59When Grayson Whitmore found out, he didn't look shocked.
01:02He didn't look guilty either.
01:04He looked irritated at me, not her.
01:07Jesus Celeste.
01:09He sighed, stroked his forehead as if I were the unreasonable one.
01:13Mia just wanted to fly home for Thanksgiving and make a good impression.
01:17It's not that deep.
01:19She's still being held by federal officers.
01:21Would you please go down there and explain it was a misunderstanding?
01:24They're not going to prosecute a girl for wanting to feel important.
01:26Sometimes I wondered whether he genuinely believed the bullshit he said or if he simply thought I was too soft
01:32or too in love to call him on it.
01:35Grayson, this isn't about feeling important.
01:39This is about flying a multi-million dollar aircraft without a pilot's license.
01:44To if he was showing off.
01:47And people who break federal aviation law should face the consequences.
01:50Even if they flutter their eyelashes at you.
01:53He let out a long theatrical exhale, the kind meant to signal I was being impossible, before turning away.
02:00I'll have Whitmore Enterprise's legal department deal with it.
02:03You never know how to pick your battles.
02:11The cold earth pressing through my skin like a second heartbeat.
02:14A red glow washed over me.
02:16The beam of an infrared camera before Grayson's voice followed, low and venomous.
02:21You know, Mia was detained for 48 hours because of your little tantrum.
02:24He asked his tone dangerously calm.
02:26She was terrified.
02:28So you can fly a plane.
02:30Big deal.
02:32Let's see what other impressive skills you have.
02:34Think you can walk out of here naked, and make it home.
02:38My vision shook, but I forced my good fingers, what remained of them, to reach the side of my AR
02:43tactical glasses.
02:45The emergency signal was faint, but it was there.
02:48I pressed the button, my voice cutting through the wind in a low, steady rasp.
02:51Get here in 30 minutes, and I will owe you everything!
02:56Celeste Montgomery, you're going to apologize to Mia right now, and say out loud that you're nothing but a worthless
03:02bitch.
03:03Otherwise, you can rot out here in the Sierra Nevada until the toxins in the air finish you off.
03:08Or until something with fangs does.
03:10Mia Carrington nestled comfortably against his chest, as if this were some sick holiday movie scene, instead of an attempted
03:16murder broadcast to criminals, slid into the frame.
03:20Celeste, honey, your arms are broken.
03:23Maybe just give in a little?
03:24If you apologize, I'll ask Gray to pull you out of here.
03:28Grayson pulled her in and kissed her.
03:30The glow of the screen sharpening the cruelty in his eyes.
03:32Then he lifted the drone controller, sinking our feed to a Darknet livestream packed with faceless buyers who treated human
03:39suffering like a sport.
03:40Ladies and gentlemen, your Thanksgiving special begins now.
03:46Celeste Montgomery, daughter of old money royalty, former federal wilderness survival specialist.
03:51We'll attempt to cross the Sierra Nevada with no gear, no clothes, and two broken arms.
03:56Place your bets on how long she'll last.
03:59One thousand dollars per minute.
04:01No upper limit.
04:09For one heartbeat, the mask slipped.
04:11And I saw the same kid who used to sneak me into Met Gallus and promise me the world.
04:16Then Mia whispered something and the mask slammed back down.
04:19Harder. Crueler.
04:21Celeste, you can't just throw away five years.
04:25Unless...
04:28You already have some side piece lined up.
04:30Some Wall Street wolf waiting in a Park Avenue penthouse?
04:39Montgomery Global stock is tanking faster than SBS, Celeste.
04:43You're nothing without me.
04:45You want to call off the wedding? Fine.
04:47When the feds freeze every offshore account your grandfather buried in the Caymans.
04:51Get that drone in her face.
04:53Give the subscribers the money shot.
04:56Forte. Night vision. The works.
04:58I threw up a broken arm to shield myself.
05:01Then remembered I was naked underneath the ruins of a $10,000 gown.
05:05Shame burned hotter than the chemical fire in my veins.
05:08I curled into a ball, slid another foot down the ice-lit slope, and nearly pitched into the ravine.
05:15Somewhere below, timber wolves started howling.
05:18Real ones, not metaphors.
05:20Celeste, honey, just sign the transfer. It's only money.
05:22Let Grayson cool off. We'll airlift you out, get you a spa day at Mirval. Pretend this never happened.
05:27A second drone swooped in mechanical claw, gripping a tablet displaying the share transfer agreement.
05:31It hovered six inches from my nose like a guillotine.
05:35Sign or freeze. Your choice.
05:40Go to hell!
05:45Something slithered over my cheek. Centipede. Six inches long, Rocky Mountain paranoia venom.
05:51It crawled into my ear. The pain was so bright I almost welcomed it.
05:56Then gravity took over again. I clawed at frozen granite fingernails snapping.
06:01And slid closer to the poison ivage oak trap-off, where rattlesnakes denned for winter.
06:07Keep talking tough, Princess. Ten more feet and you're in the viper pit.
06:11Let's see that harbor mouth negotiate with Diamondbacks.
06:13You're not the Montgomery heiress anymore, Celeste.
06:16Grayson says if you sign and apologize live, admit you framed me for cooking the books,
06:19tried to send an innocent girl to federal prison, he'll call the chopper.
06:23I'll even forgive you for that SEC subpoena you paid for.
06:26You vicious bitch! Trying to lock Mia up?
06:29What about her little sister who needs chemo?
06:35The first drone released a glass ampule.
06:37It shattered at my feet in a hiss of white vapor.
06:41The snow around my bare feet melted into black sludge, military-grade corrosives.
06:46Flesh on my calf bubbled like acid on steak.
06:49I screamed until my throat tore.
06:53Scared yet, Celeste? Apologize to Mia.
06:56Now.
06:58Or the next one goes in your face.
07:01I dragged myself an inch uphill, blood painting the snow red.
07:04The metallic scent drew every leech, tick and beetle in a five-mile radius.
07:09They burrowed under what was left of my dress.
07:12I couldn't swap them off.
07:14For the first time in 28 years of boardrooms, bailouts, and Forbes covers.
07:19Celeste Montgomery was out of moves.
07:21I lifted my head to the drone lens.
07:24To the man who once swore he'd burn the world before he'd let me get hurt.
07:29Grayson, when I get out of here, and I will, I'm going to take everything!
07:36Then, the centipede in my ear released its venom.
07:39The ravine rushed up to swallow me.
07:41And the last thing I heard was Mia laughing, like she'd already won.
07:49Everything bled crimson blood. Mud.
07:52The strobing red of the drone's emergency LEDs.
07:55I couldn't tell where one ended, and the other began.
07:58My pulse hammered so loud, I barely heard the dark net chat lose its collective mind.
08:06Even Grayson's executive assistant started sweating bullets.
08:09The guy had buried bodies for Whitmore Enterprises in three continents.
08:13But live streaming a billionaire heiress getting eaten by wolves, apparently crossed a line.
08:19Mr. Whitmore, sir. Celeste looks half dead already.
08:22Heart rate's crashing on the biometric feed.
08:24She's not dying.
08:27Girls like Celeste don't die, they just get humbled.
08:31If she hadn't spent the last five years trying to frame Mia for securities fraud,
08:35maybe I'd have gone easy.
08:38Tonight's just a friendly reminder.
08:41I am a damn friend for this.
08:43Don't throw away generation.
08:45We need this.
08:47I forced my head up, locked eyes with the drone's cold lens,
08:50and let every ounce of Montgomery Steel pour into my glare.
08:53I did nothing wrong.
08:54Why the hell should I hand over 10% of the company my great-grandfather built from steel mills in
08:59Pittsburgh?
09:00Just because some trust fund psycho wants to flex.
09:03Bugs, please.
09:05I'd spent summers tagging grizzlies with federal wildlife teams in Catmine, before I could legally drink.
09:11This was just another Tuesday in hell.
09:13With everything I had left, I rolled onto my back and dragged myself across the jagged shale.
09:17Rocks tore fresh gashes across my shoulder blades, but the pain was a blessing.
09:23It scraped off half the leeches and centipedes burrowed into my skin.
09:26Blood mixed with snow into pink slush.
09:29Yet somewhere in the haze I spotted it.
09:31A cluster of wild sagebrush glowing faintly under the drone's floodlight.
09:35The same plant rangers in Denali square by.
09:38Crushed leaves mask blood scent for exactly 11 minutes.
09:42I take sips.
09:43Celeste Montgomery, have you no shame?
09:46Beg right now.
09:47Or the next thing coming down that ravine won't be bugs.
09:52You never planned to let me walk out of here, Grayson.
09:55Dead or broken.
09:57You decided the second you spiked the champagne.
10:04Oh my god Celeste, what are you doing?
10:07As I clawed the sagebrush closer, bit the stem until bitter juice flooded my mouth,
10:11then smeared the pulp across every bleeding wound.
10:15The alkaloids hit my bloodstream like ice water, numbed the nerve endings,
10:18killed the scent trail.
10:20Temporary, sure.
10:21But temporary was all I needed.
10:23Mia always said you were a snake.
10:25Guess she's right.
10:26You're trying to fake a suicide, pin it on me, ruin Whitmore Enterprises on Black Friday weekend.
10:32Classic Celeste.
10:33Even half naked in a blizzard, you're still scheming.
10:38Five years, Grayson. Five years I cleaned up your messes.
10:41Quieted the SC. Buried the insider trading rumors.
10:46Paid off that flight attendant you knocked up in Vegas.
10:49Without Montgomery Capital, you'd be still slinging dime bags outside Yale.
10:58For one heartbeat, the mask slipped again.
11:01Something raw flickered behind those Wall Street eyes.
11:03Guilt maybe, or the ghost of the boy who used to sneak me onto the roof of the Met to
11:07watch July 4th fireworks.
11:09Then Neo whispered poison in his ear, and the mask hardened into granite.
11:15This chick's got nine lives, boss.
11:17Thought she was done ten minutes ago.
11:19Then let's burn through the rest.
11:22I wanna see how long that Montgomery pride lasts.
11:25When the wolves start chewing.
11:27Celeste, sweetie.
11:29Don't make the wolves angry.
11:31You're screaming loud enough to wake every predator from here to Glaciers National Park.
11:36When you tried to send Mia to federal prison for cooking the books you cooked up yourself, did you warn
11:41her?
11:41Open the speakers.
11:42The drone's PA system blasted a recorded alpha wolf snarl at 180 decibels.
11:48Enough to rattle bones.
11:49Every tree around me exploded with movement.
11:53Branches snapped, snow cascaded.
11:55The real pack answered the call.
11:57I froze every muscle seizing.
12:00Pain from my compound fractures.
12:02The acid burn on my calf.
12:03The centipede venom.
12:05None of it compared to the primal terror of glowing eyes circling in the dark.
12:08Eight, maybe ten sets.
12:10Timberwolves, coastal giants.
12:12The kind that take down moves for fun.
12:14One stepped into the floodlight above me.
12:16Silver gray, 200 pounds of pure hunger.
12:19Its breath, deemed in the sub-zero air.
12:22I heard the crunch of its paws.
12:24The low rumble in its chest.
12:26Grayson.
12:27Wanted me shredded on camera.
12:29Survival instinct kicked harder than any drug.
12:32I eased backward, inch by inch.
12:37Running now, princess?
12:38Where's all?
12:40That billionaire backbone.
12:42Hide and seek with a wolf pack.
12:44How's that for a Thanksgiving tradition?
12:46Green eyes multiplied in the darkness.
12:48Fangs caught the light like switchblades.
12:51Last chance, Celeste.
12:52Kneel. Apologize to Mia on stream.
12:55I'll hit the ultrasonic repellent.
12:57Keep fighting and you're dinner.
13:01Say you're sorry, dammit!
13:04This is how the Montgomery line ends.
13:13She doesn't owe a single god damn apology to anyone.
13:18And somewhere above the treeline, a Black Hawk Chopper roared in low.
13:22Or in a dark, a red light like mascara has kept coming down.
13:40The Black Hawk Chopper roared in high.
13:40Genremore salt andrar.
13:40This is a goody animal.
13:41The Black Hawk Chopper roared in high.
13:45The Black Hawk Chopper roared in high.
13:47To be a neutral, a re-d wallet.
13:48The Black Hawk Chopper roared in high.
13:50The Black Hawk Devil.
13:51It's a bady animal.
13:52champion and the man my grandfather trusted with every dirty secret the montgomery fortune ever
13:58needed buried nathan hale nathan didn't answer him the rage in his stare could have melted
14:05the glacier behind us but his hand stayed gentle when he stripped off his plate carrier parka
14:10and wrapped it around my shaking shoulders celeste i've got you he scooped me up like i
14:17weighed nothing so careful to keep pressure off the places where bone pokes your skin i tried to
14:22shrink away mortified that nathan hale of all people was seeing me like this naked filthy broken
14:29it's over sweetheart nobody touches you again his team dropped in behind him suppressed
14:36rifles barking in short surgical bursts the remaining wolves scattered into the dark like
14:41they've never existed who the hell are you people this is a private matter private
14:51kidnapping aggravated assault attempted murder when did federal felonies become a couple spat
14:58racing whitmore mia karen can kill the stream right now or i start putting rounds through optics and we
15:06watch whose skull blooms next captain hale sir this is a misunderstanding save it for the u.s attorney
15:16or for the montgomery legal division your choice montgomery which montgomery the one that makes the
15:25dow twitch every time the old man sneezes the one your boyfriend's been siphoning from for five years
15:30thinking nobody was watching celeste montgomery heiress majority shareholder and the woman you
15:41just tried to feed to wolves on thanksgiving surprise
15:50grayson the annulment papers hit your desk tomorrow morning and the bankruptcy petition hits the southern
15:55district of new york five minutes later happy thanksgiving sleep tight on that private jet cot
16:07i still couldn't stop shaking partly from hypothermia part the special kind of cold that settles in your
16:13bones when the man you loved tries to murder you for sport nathan knelt between the jump seats
16:19cleaning blood from my forearms with steady marine precision
16:23every swipe of the alcohol wipe felt like fire but his touch never faltered the patriarchs got the
16:29estate on full lockdown top orthopedic trauma surgeon out of johns hopkins is already wheels up from
16:35baltimore your grandfather tried to charter a c-130 to come rip whitmore apart with his bare hands
16:41took three generals to talk him down this one's yours to finish i managed to nod every memory from the
16:49last
16:49five years rewound in high def gracing kissing my knuckles after the montgomery trust quietly bailed
16:55out his failing startup mia sliding updated contracts across his desk pupils blown wide with victory
17:03the way he'd snap what is that can you stop being so paranoid every time i pointed out her forged
17:11signatures i'd ignored every red flag because i thought love meant trusting harder
17:16five years i'm the punchline in a joke i helped write
17:21you trusted the wrong person celeste that doesn't make you stupid it makes you human
17:27and humans get even
17:36here's mia's greatest hits we've got her cold
17:39i scrolled she hollowed whitmore enterprises out like a thanksgiving turkey and stuffed the carcass
17:44with ios another file
17:48whitmore's real balance sheet
17:50red ink deep enough to drown manhattan
17:54our legal team drafted everything annulment returns every gift every trust contribution every
18:00share he ever touched
18:05attempted murder conspiracy violation of the computer fraud and an abuse act for the dark net stream
18:11the drone footage alone will put them away for 25 to life
18:14i closed my eyes and saw patriarch montgomery's face crinkled with worry the last time i turned
18:20down his offer to vet grayson personally he'd known of course he'd known and i've been too proud
18:26too in love too blind
18:33take me home nathan
18:35tomorrow we burn their empire to the ground
18:38and salt the earth
18:40copy that ma'am
18:41next stop montgomery state aspen then we make them
18:48wish the wolves had finished the job
18:52five years ago i sat across from patriarch i told him i wanted to try a relationship without the
18:59montgomery name attached no private security tail no trust fund safety net just me and some guy from
19:08yale who swore he loved me for my brain not my portfolio the old man's face went the color of
19:14ash
19:14he smashed his favorite crystal wine glass on the floor and roared that i was throwing away a century
19:19of blood and steel for a pretty smile in the end he caved like he always did when i dug
19:27my heels in
19:27play your little game celeste but when the world shows you its teeth you come home
19:40i opened my eyes in the blackhawk's dim cabin the morphine finally wearing off enough for the words
19:45to cut through the pain
19:48notify every major outlet cnn bloomberg fox the journal all of them
19:54tomorrow 10 am sharp penthouse ballroom montgomery global tower mid down manhattan i'm holding a press
20:00conference copy that comms team's already spinning up we'll have every network on the continent begging
20:06for seats the pr director met me in the private elevator ma'am the ballroom's locked down tighter
20:14than fort knox we've got every tier one journalist from here to tokyo live feeds to every financial
20:19desk in the world the bespoke armani suit hid the road rash and acid burns like armor only the faint
20:25tremor in my fingers betrayed the truth tell them i'm on my way 30 minutes later i stepped onto the
20:35day eyes under a constellation of camera flashes hot enough to melt steel nathan flanked my right eight
20:41more operators ringed the stage hands never far from concealed six hours good morning thank you for
20:49coming on short notice i'm here to set the record straight on one matter and to announce a decision
20:58grace and whitmore stormed in looking like he'd slept in a dumpster nia clung to his arm mascara
21:03tracks carving rivers through her foundation celeste you vicious what did you do to my company
21:12every account frozen every supplier ghosting me do you have any idea what you've cost me celeste please
21:21gray only lost his mind because he loves me punish me not him camera swung like howitzers
21:28the flash storm was blinding nathan started forward i stopped him cold
21:37let them through
21:40five years celeste five years and this is how you repay me
21:50i'm telling the truth mia masterminded everything she's been jealous of celeste since day one kept
22:01whispering that celeste was sabotaging me laughing at me behind my back the aspen trip her idea
22:11she said it was just a scare a little humiliation to force the share transfer
22:15he shoved every ounce of blame across the hallway like it could save him
22:22i'm just a secretary
22:26grayson resented celeste for years said she lorded her money over him treated him like a charity case
22:31he wanted revenge told me to play along or he'd destroy my family i was trapped please help me two
22:38people who used to finish each other's sentences now tore each other apart like rabid dogs grayson
22:44finally ran out of oxygen and collapsed forward the memories hit harder than any punch
22:54the night we met at that yale alumni mixer me in a borrowed dress laughing that my family ran a
23:00couple
23:00hardware stores back in pittsburgh the week his startup was bleeding out and i slid term sheets
23:07across the table montgomery money laundered through a dozen blind trusts he never questioned the flu that
23:13knocked him flat for six days i sleeping upright in a plastic hospital chair with my hand on his iv
23:24and he snarled you're just jealous and she's better at the job than you ever were
23:30all those moments i thought were love he'd seen as charity from a girl too naive to know her own
23:36worth
23:45i wasn't some small town factory owner's daughter i was the montgomery heiress and i wasted five years
23:52shielding his ego while he sharpened the knife
24:00i lay perfectly still while the city's top orthopedic surgeons swap temporary splints
24:05for titanium laced casts light enough for prime time close-ups
24:20whitmore enterprises is iced every account every patent every square foot of real estate proceeds
24:27transferred directly to your personal restitution trust darknet rain been taken offline by cyber division
24:33every user name every crypto wallet our litigation team's filing suits faster than they can delete
24:39browser history and the x low birds sang like canaries on the left right full confessions
24:44cross-corroborated they're tight they're looking at 15 to 20 easy no parole
24:54you sure you're ready for what comes next the board's already floating your name for ceo
25:01patriarch wants you in the corner office by new years
25:04i flexed my new titanium laced forearm felt the bite of metal meeting bone painful perfect permanent
25:17tell grandfather the prodigal's home and this time i'm not asking permission
25:26i ignored him completely nodded to nathan the 80-foot led wall behind me flared to life
25:33the aspen backcountry filled the screen my own screens echoed through the ballroom sound system
25:39you said a real player could walk home naked right let's test that theory
25:50the room temperature seemed to drop 20 degrees grayson went whiter than the marble floor
25:57this is the clarification i am celeste montgomery majority shareholder
26:03and designated heir to montgomery global last night my fiancee rayson whitmore in collusion with his
26:13executive assistant mia carrington kidnapped me drugged me and attempted to murder me on a dark
26:20knit last stream for sport
26:25and the decision effective immediately montgomery global is initiating chapter seven liquidation of
26:34whitmore enterprises every asset every patent every offshore shell will be seized to compensate for
26:41emotional distress physical damages and five years of fraud
26:47the double doors opened again this time to a phalanx of u.s marshals in tactical vests
26:54grayson whitmore mia carrington you are under arrest
26:59kidnapping aggravated assault with a deadly weapon attempted murder and conspiracy to commit the same
27:05you have the right to remain silent
27:09remember when you said i'd come crawling back once the money ran out turns out the money never left
27:15you did the marshals dragged them past rows of reporters now shouting questions like machine gun
27:22fire i stayed on the dais until the doors slammed shut behind the circus
27:27then i turned to the cameras one last time voice steady as the empire at my back happy thanksgiving
27:33america justice is served cold and today the montgomery table is finally full
27:43nathan hale stepped to my side offered his arm for the walkout
27:47in my head i could already hear patriarch montgomery raising a glass to the granddaughter who finally came home
28:04the trial had been a coronation in reverse every montgomery lawyer in a 500 mile radius
28:10showed up in zegna and vengeance evidence stacked higher than the jury's coffee cups his public defender
28:16tried the crime of passion angle temporary insanity toxic masculinity whatever buzzword might shave off a
28:23decade it was like watching a toddler argue with a tsunami it's all going according to plan your honor
28:29new evidence
28:37gray celeste found the offshore transfers what do i do let her bark i'll just say she's jealous and
28:43trying to tank your career keep moving the money once we push her out whitmore enterprises is yours
28:48push around whitmore enterprises is backstabbing bitch you were a stepping stone grayson
29:06a very expensive one i recorded everything in case you ever forgot who held the leash
29:13he finally understood he'd never been the king he'd been the pawn she kept in the front row in case
29:19the
29:19queen decided to sacrifice something the judge didn't even look up from his notes mia carrington 15
29:27years federal penitentiary credit for cooperation grayson whitmore kidnapping attempted murder commercial
29:35fraud conspiracy life imprisonment no parole political rights terminated for life
29:44celeste i'm sorry
29:50i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry grayson's apology floated behind us
29:58thin and worthless as the paper jumpsuit he'd wear for the rest of his life
30:17you just beat my kill ratio pam the air force is gonna cry hands are better than ever book the
30:23gulfstream g 800 we're doing the globe run pole to pole 90 hours no stops
30:33you swallowed three competitors before breakfast and still found time to get type rated in everything
30:38with wings you wasn't the girl who used to wait up with soup anymore
30:43i was celeste montgomery ceo in waiting heir to an empire that made nations blink
30:52prison mail whitmore 10th won this month
30:57summary same sob story he is sorry praise every night misses the old days blames me i says if she
31:04hadn't existed we'd be married by now wants one visit just one tell lievenworth we're done forwarding mail
31:13grayson whitmore died on that mountain as far as i'm concerned cremate the rest yes ma'am
31:24are you ready to face a new storm at 41 000 feet like making a cup of coffee yep
31:31just like the coffee you made every day i didn't slow down i didn't need to
31:38i was flying to everything
31:48montgomery estate aspen three days after thanksgiving the snow had stopped falling
31:53but the wind still howled like it wanted back in
31:55the snow had stopped falling out of the night
32:03ma'am there's someone at the main gate
32:06who
32:08grayson whitmore's mother
32:10let her freeze
32:13copy that
32:15she's already been out there two nights security won't even give her coffee
32:19good when i feel like it i'll decide if she gets in not before
32:25oh and nathan make sure grayson gets the morning paper in his cell
32:31front page above the fold whitmore enter purses liquidated assets
32:36to montgomery heiress i want him to read it while he eats his thanksgiving leftovers
32:41cold already on the warden's desk ma'am
32:45day three i finally had them escort mrs whitmore to the east parlor
32:54celeste thank god
32:57celeste my son is an idiot
33:00a monster whatever you want to call him but he's still my only child
33:07i'm begging you look at what we meant to each other once
33:11find it in your heart
33:12auntie you seem confused
33:16your son didn't break my heart he committed felony kidnapping and attempted murder
33:22you want mercy file an appeal with the first circuit
33:28let me refresh your memory three years ago your heart was failing
33:33grayson couldn't scrape together 30 grand
33:35i sold my mother's watch the one she wore the day she died so you could have the best surgeon
33:40in boston
33:43you woke up took my hand and told me to stay out of men's business
33:49you mistook kindness for weakness
33:53you taught your son the same mistake you taught your son the same mistake now you're both learning the price
34:05you
34:13you
34:14you
34:15you
34:15you
34:24you
34:26you
34:36Celeste wouldn't.
34:39She loved me.
34:42There's more.
34:44Montgomery Legal just added commercial fraud to the indictment.
34:48They have your original pitch decks.
34:51Every inflated revenue number, every fake vendor contract you use to impress her,
34:56back when you thought she was just a girl with a trust fund.
35:12They're saying he tried to hang himself with his jumpsuit, didn't get far.
35:18Let him live long enough to watch every cent he ever touched come home to me.
35:26Tell Legal to draw up the papers.
35:28I'm taking the corner office January 1st.
35:32And schedule a board meeting.
35:34It's time the world remembered what happens when you bet against a Montgomery.
35:40The Winter was arranged.
35:42Give it 40 minutes.
35:45You heard the crowd.
35:47Let's give our patrons what they paid for.
35:49He zoomed the camera in obscenely close, letting the lens trace the line of my collarbone,
35:54drip down the bruises on my ribs, hesitate over every inch of exposed skin.
35:58His greed felt physical, like oily fingers crawling over me.
36:02You always said people should pay the price for their mistakes, Celeste.
36:06Now look at you.
36:07Your arms are useless.
36:09You can't even dress yourself.
36:10Tell me, is this enough of a consequence to help you remember how much you hurt Mia?
36:15I was naked under the floodlight of the drone, stripped not only of clothing, but of privacy,
36:20dignity, and safety.
36:22I pressed my forearms tight against my chest, desperate to shield whatever fragments of
36:26myself I could still claim.
36:30Their laughter oozed into my ears.
36:32I felt bile burn into the back of my throat.
36:35My broken bones scraped against the torn flesh of my arms, and a cold sweat spread down my spine.
36:41All this, because I reported Mia's illegal flight.
36:45For five years, I helped build Whitmore Enterprises from the ground up.
36:49For five years, I used Montgomery resources and old money leverage to clear his path,
36:54fight off his competitors, and shield him from the consequences of his own incompetence.
36:58I made him into something.
37:00I took a scholarship kid with nothing but ambition, and turned him into a rising star.
37:05And now that he thought my family was losing influence,
37:07now that he believed he no longer needed me, he stripped me, threw me into the wilderness,
37:13and broadcasted my suffering to the highest bitter.
37:16Grayson laughed again, loud, cruel, almost giddy with the power he thought he held.
37:21In that moment, I realized he had never loved me.
37:24He had only loved the way I made him feel powerful.
37:27And now he wanted to prove he could destroy me just as easily.
37:30Make sure every paying creep in that channel has the time of their lives.
37:34It's Thanksgiving. Give the bosses something to be thankful for.
37:43Here's the deal, Celeste.
37:44Transfer 10% of Montgomery Global right now, right into Mia's name,
37:48and I'll have that drone drop a thermal blanket before the wolves smell you.
37:50Otherwise, happy holidays.
37:52Gray, babe, that's too much.
37:55I can't take her shares.
37:59Celeste probably hates me.
38:01She's always acting like I'm not good enough to fly the G650.
38:04Bet she thinks I'm just some gold-digging flight attendant.
38:07You've been too busy closing that Alaska pipeline deal to finish your pilot's license.
38:11Too busy closing deals?
38:13I almost laughed.
38:14Even as the aphrodisiac set my bloodstream on fire.
38:17Too busy riding Grayson's lap in the Whitmore boardroom.
38:20I collapsed against the rotting pine needles.
38:23Every nerve screaming, blood frozen, scarlet icicles on my forearms
38:27where the fall had snapped both bones.
38:29Grayson Whitmore, you make me sick!
38:31We're done.
38:32The engagement's over!
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