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00:00The day I go into labor, my husband's sister locks me in the Leonetti family dungeon
00:03She presses a beretta to my temple
00:05The Leonetti family doesn't need your child, you better pray to god she's never born
00:09And my husband, the second son of the Leonetti crime family, is upstairs in a delivery suite
00:14Holding the hand of his dead brother's widow
00:16The woman who might give the Leonettis their male heir
00:18I don't cry, I don't scream dead
00:20I reach behind me and press the button hidden inside my clothes
00:23In 30 minutes, the king of the entire east coast Bratva will descend on this building with a fully armed
00:27detail at his back
00:28That king is my father, Victor Volkov
00:30I lie on the birthing bed, contractions rolling through me in waves, each one tighter and more savage than the
00:35last
00:35This is the Leonetti family's private clinic in Brooklyn
00:38Black suburbans idle at the curb downstairs
00:40Arm sole dotty line the corridors
00:42My husband, Dante Leonetti, holds my hand
00:45Just a little longer Sarah, we're about to meet our baby
00:48Shaking with pain, but I still manage a smile for him
00:51Then a nurse walks in carrying a syringe
00:53I assume it is the epidural, but Dante lets go of my hand
00:56He steps back, the needle pierces my skin
00:59And in that sliver of silence I hear him murmur to the nurse in Italian
01:02Aggiusta il dosamengio
01:03Deve resistere finque Sofia non parterta
01:06I stare at him, he doesn't meet my eyes
01:08He just glances down at his watch
01:10Sofia's already at 6 cm
01:12Siamo a 6 cm
01:14Basta ancora due ore
01:16I want to scream, I want to claw his face off
01:18But the drug is already flooding my veins
01:20It isn't anesthesia, it is a tocolytic, a contraction suppressant
01:24The violent clenching in my belly is seized by an invisible fist and crushed into silence
01:28Stopped dead
01:29They are forcing my child not to be born
01:31I am wheeled into the basement
01:33Iron rings still jut from the walls
01:35The concrete floor is stained in patches so dark they are almost black
01:38This has been the Leonetti family's dungeon
01:40Dante's sister, Julia, stands in the doorway
01:43A compact beretta is tucked into her waistband
01:45Don't take it personal
01:46Sofia is carrying Marco's posthumous child
01:48You know the Leonetti rule
01:50Il primo sangue la prima voce
01:51First blood, first voice
01:52The firstborn son's bloodline takes priority over everything
01:55Don Enzo has spoken
01:56Marco's child is the legitimate heir
01:57She glanced at my belly
01:59If your baby comes first
02:00The cappy out there will use it as ab mutition
02:02Claim Dante's bloodline has a stronger claim to succession
02:05They already resent him for running the family in Marco's place
02:08Give them one more excuse and the whole house tears itself apart
02:11So Sofia's child has to arrive first
02:13Then yours can come
02:14As if this were all for my benefit
02:16Call the doctor
02:17And the pain is turning my vision black
02:19The baby's coming, please
02:21Julia crouches in front of me
02:23She draws the beretta and taps the barrel against my cheek
02:26Light little pats
02:27The drug's good for another three hours
02:29Sofia's already in the delivery room
02:31Sit tight
02:32Once her baby's out, you can push to your heart's content
02:35She stands and turns to the soldado at the door
02:38Watch her
02:39If she screams, shut her up
02:41The door closes
02:42The basement has a single emergency light
02:44A sick, jaundiced glow
02:46I lie on the floor
02:47Blood is seeping through my hospital gown
02:49Spreading in a slow dark bloom beneath me
02:52My phone was confiscated the moment I arrived at the clinic
02:54Dante said the signal interfered with the fetal monitors
02:56They are afraid I'll contact the outside
02:59I curl onto my side and try to breathe
03:01All I can see is the look in Dante's eyes just before he stepped back
03:04Cold
03:05Calculating
03:06He wasn't looking at his wife
03:07He was looking at an inconvenience that needed to be shelved
03:10Three months ago
03:12His older brother Marco died
03:13Officially, it was a car accident
03:15A Maserati on the Belt Parkway punched through the guardrail and rolled into Jamaica Bay
03:20The medical examiner's report listed a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit
03:24But Marco didn't drink
03:25Anyone in this life knows that
03:27He left behind a widow three months pregnant
03:29The funeral was held in a family chapel
03:31Don Enzo, the iron-fisted patriarch of the Leonetti dynasty, wept in public for the first time in living memory
03:36He gripped Sofia's hand
03:37Il sangue tutto
03:38Blood is everything
03:39Marco will not have died for nothing
03:41The firstborn heir's bloodline must not be broken
03:44Then he turned to look at Dante
03:45I didn't understand that look at the time
03:47I understand it now
03:48He was telling his second son
03:49You are managing this family because your brother is dead
03:52When his child is born, the true heir returns
03:55Know your place
03:57I'd actually stepped forward to comfort him
03:59Father, don't worry
04:00Dante and I will hold this family together
04:02Don Enzo looked at me once
04:04It turns out that from that very moment
04:06My child and I had already been erased from the plan
04:08Another contraction crashes through me, more ferocious than the last
04:11The drug and my body are locked in a tug of war
04:13I crawl to the iron door and pound
04:15Somebody! The baby's coming! Please! Save my child!
04:19Nothing! Dead silence on the other side
04:21I scream until my voice gives out
04:23Then, finally
04:24Shut up! Miss Julia says wait
04:26But the baby's-
04:27That's her problem
04:28I sink to the floor
04:29My whole body is cold
04:31This isn't fate
04:32This isn't God's will
04:33Someone is deciding whether my child lives or dies
04:36And that someone is her own father
04:38I don't know how long I last in that basement
04:40The blood keeps coming
04:41The gown beneath me is soaked through
04:43My consciousness is fraying at the edges when the door suddenly opens
04:46Not Julia
04:47Not the soldado
04:48It is Dr. Luca Ferrara
04:50The Leonetti family's private physician
04:51A man who has served Don Enzo for 30 years
04:54He sees me
04:55And every drop of color drains from his face
04:57Mrs. Leonelli? What are you doing down here?
05:00Dante told me you were resting upstairs
05:03I can't make a sound
05:04I can only point at my belly
05:06Tears streaming
05:06Dr. Ferrara crouches and presses his hand to my abdomen
05:09His breath catches like he's been punched
05:15He tries to lift me
05:17But the moment I move
05:18A hot gush pours from between my legs
05:20Blood
05:21A terrifying amount of blood
05:23Dr. Ferrara shouts toward the open door
05:25I need help
05:26The patient is hemorrhaging
05:27The corridor is empty
05:29Tonight
05:29For Sophia's delivery
05:31Every medical resource has been redirected to the third floor
05:34Even the soldati have been pulled up to stand guard outside the delivery suite
05:37In this family, the birth of the firstborn heir takes priority over everything
05:41Over anything
05:42Dr. Ferrara pulls out his phone, no signal
05:45The basement is a dead zone
05:46I'm carrying you upstairs
05:48Hold on
05:52A man in his 50s
05:53Running up a staircase with a woman in active labor
05:56Every step a ragged gasp
05:57I can feel the baby bearing down, descending, but she can't come
06:01The residual tocolytic is still fighting my body
06:03Contraction surge and stall
06:05Labor has begun but can't progress
06:07My baby is wedged in the birth canal
06:09And with every passing minute, the risk of asphyxiation climbs
06:12Dr. Ferrara
06:13I grip his collar
06:14Save my baby
06:16Please
06:16Whatever happens, save her
06:18You'll both be fine
06:21He reaches the first floor and runs for the surgical suite
06:24We both stop dead in the doorway
06:26The operating room is wide open
06:28And completely empty
06:30The surgical lights
06:31The operating table
06:32The fetal monitors
06:34The oxygen machine
06:35The neonatal incubator
06:37All gone
06:38Nothing but a bare room
06:40Naked power outlets on the walls
06:41Drag marks scored into the floor where heavy equipment had been hauled away
06:44Dr. Ferrara stands frozen
06:46I checked every piece of equipment this afternoon
06:50Footsteps echo from the far end of the corridor
06:52Someone is coming
06:53Please
06:54I pray
06:55Please let it be someone who can save us
07:00Julia rounds the corner with two nurses in tow
07:03She sees us and raises an eyebrow
07:05Luca, what are you doing down here?
07:08Sophia's in the delivery room on three
07:10Why aren't you up there?
07:11Dr. Ferrara points at the gutted operating room
07:14His voice shakes
07:15Where is the equipment?
07:17Julia spreads her hands
07:19Move to the third floor
07:21Sophia's having a cesarean
07:22The lead surgeon wanted every condigency covered
07:24Don Enzo approved it
07:28Dante gave the order to transfer all first floor equipment upstairs
07:31Her gaze drifts to me
07:33Sarah's in labor?
07:35Well she'll have to wait
07:38Sophia isn't finished yet
07:39Luca, torna su
07:41Hanno bisogno di te
07:42Go back to three
07:44They need you
07:45Dr. Ferrara doesn't move
07:47He looks at Julia
07:48Then at me
07:50Then back at Julia
07:51And slowly, heavily
07:52Understanding settles over his face
07:54This isn't an oversight
07:56It isn't a coincidence
07:57It has been arranged
07:59But Dr. Ferrara still turns and charges into the adjacent medical supply room
08:03Tearing open cabinets
08:04Empty
08:05Every last one
08:06Not even basic hemostats
08:08Not even gauze
08:10Where are the drugs?
08:11The coagulants?
08:12The oxytocin?
08:13A nurse whispers
08:14Everything was sent to the third floor
08:16Mr. Leoneli's orders
08:17All resources are to be prioritized for Sophia
08:20Dr. Ferrara slams his fist into the cabinet door
08:23He looks at me
08:24His eyes red
08:25I'm sorry Mrs. Leonetti
08:29I can't
08:29There's nothing I can't
08:32Julia walks over and pats his shoulder
08:34Luca, relax
08:36Sarah hasn't delivered yet, has she?
08:38Once Sophia's done we'll move everything back down
08:40She pauses
08:41Then adds
08:42Besides, even if Sarah's child is born
08:44It changes nothing
08:45The right of succession belongs to Marco's line
08:47Don Enzo decided
08:49Dante's child boy or girl will never be named heir
08:53In this family Sarah and her baby are how do I put this, not essential
08:56I stare at her
08:57Stare at this woman I have loved like a sister for three years
09:00Then I summon every last shard of strength in my body and force out two words
09:04Fuck you!
09:05Julia's face goes cold
09:07She leans down to my ear
09:08Her voice barely above a breath
09:10Go ahead
09:11Get it out of your system
09:14Once you've delivered and your body's wrecked
09:16I have plenty of ways to make you disappear quietly
09:18When the time comes the Leonetti succession only needs Sophia and her child
09:23As for you, for Dante's sake I'll let you live
09:26Sign the annulment papers
09:27Take a check
09:29Disappear
09:30Don't be an eyesore
09:31Dr. Ferrara can't take any more
09:33Julia!
09:34Do you understand what you're doing?
09:36Two souls!
09:37Two souls before God!
09:40Two souls?
09:41Julia straightens
09:42Luca, you've been the family doctor for 30 years
09:45What haven't you seen?
09:46A woman dying in childbirth?
09:48It's the most natural thing in the world
09:49And this, this is family business
09:53Know your place, Luca
09:54She waves at the soldati
09:57Escort Dr. Ferrara back to three
09:59I'll take care of Sarah
10:01Two soldiers step forward and sees Dr. Ferrara
10:04Dragging him toward the stairwell
10:05He fights them every step
10:06Shouting back over his shoulder
10:08Mrs. Leonetti
10:09Use the heel of your man
10:11Press on the top of the uterus and push downward
10:13Help the contractions
10:14Stay on your left side
10:16It increases blood flow
10:17Don't give up
10:19The baby still has a chance
10:21His voice grows fainter and fainter until it is gone
10:23Julia shuts the door to the supply room
10:25Turns to me
10:26Pulls out her phone and places a video call
10:38Dante's face appears on the screen
10:39He is standing outside the third floor delivery suite
10:42Behind him, medical staff move in urgent blurs
10:45One hand keeps turning the signet ring on his thumb
10:47The ring every Leonetti man receives when he comes of age
10:51Sarah, don't make a scene
10:57Sophia's in trouble
10:58Fetal heart rate is dropping
11:00Look at Sarah, she's lost so much blood
11:02Doesn't look good, does it?
11:03Dante glances at the screen
11:05His eyes flick away almost immediately
11:08Tell her to wait
11:09Once Sophia delivers
11:10The doctors will come down
11:13Sarah, hold on
11:14I can't come now
11:17The call ends
11:18Hear that?
11:20In Dante's heart
11:21Sophia and that baby come first
11:23You're just, how did I put it?
11:24A vessel
11:26Once you've served your purpose
11:28You have no value
11:30I close my eyes
11:31I stop looking at her
11:33My hand creeps behind my back
11:34Fingers finding the button-sized device
11:36Sewn into the lining of my undergarment
11:38Papa gave it to me
11:39Sarah, the Leonetzis are not what they seem
11:41These people will eat you alive
11:43If anything goes wrong, press this
11:45I'd laughed at him then
11:47Dante is good to me
11:49God, what a fool I was
11:50I work my nail under the protective cover and press down
11:53No sound
11:54No light
11:55But I know
11:56The GPS beacon and emergency pulse have been transmitted
11:58Papa promised me
12:00Press that button
12:01And someone will come within 30 minutes
12:02But 30 minutes
12:04Can my baby last 30 minutes?
12:05My consciousness dims
12:07Sliding in and out like a bad signal
12:08Julia sits in a chair
12:10Sipping espresso
12:11Every now and then she glances up at me
12:12Like I am something mildly unpleasant
12:14She's been asked to keep an eye on
12:15Sarah, tell me
12:16Why did you marry into this family in the first place?
12:19Dante's pretty face?
12:20Or the Leonati name?
12:22Think about it
12:23A nobody
12:24A girl from nowhere
12:26What made you think you deserve to be called a Leonati?
12:30I say nothing
12:31I just keep doing what Dr. Ferrara told me
12:33Heel of the palm against the top of the uterus
12:35Push downward
12:36Left side
12:37Stay on your left side
12:38Even if it is hopeless
12:41If you hadn't gotten pregnant first
12:43Dante would never have married you
12:44You think Don Enzo would have let a nobody into this house?
12:47That baby in your belly
12:48That was your ticket in
12:49Nothing else
12:49The plan was simple
12:51You give Dante an heir
12:53Carry on his branch of the bloodline
12:55And at least you'd have some use
12:56Then Marco died
12:57And everything changed
13:00What Don Enzo needs now
13:02Is the firstborn heir
13:03Not what's in your belly
13:07So know your place, Sera
13:09You were never the main character in this family
13:12Once Sofia delivers
13:13You sign the annulment papers
13:15Take the money
13:16And walk away
13:16Start over
13:18Far away from this life
13:20It could be worse
13:21Does Dante know you talk to me like this?
13:24Julia smiles
13:26Of course
13:27He's the one who sent me
13:29Said you're stubborn
13:31Said he was worried you'd do something foolish
13:33He asked me to help you see reality
13:36A spasm rips through my abdomen
13:37The worst yet
13:38The drug has burned off completely
13:40The baby is coming
13:43I can't hold it in
13:44Julia steps back
13:45Come
13:46What a mess
13:50Someone come look at her
13:53A nurse creeps in
13:55She's fully dilated
13:56I can see the head crowning
13:58But there's too much blood loss
13:59If she delivers like this
14:00Both she and the baby will
14:01No medication
14:02There's nothing I can do
14:07Clean this up
14:08She gives her orders
14:09And walks upstairs
14:10Without looking back
14:11Not once
14:12The nurse is too frightened to argue
14:13She kneels between my legs
14:15And tries to help me dilate
14:16With her bare hands
14:17But I have nothing left to push with
14:19Too much blood gone
14:20No strength
14:21The baby is stuck
14:23Can't go back up
14:23Can't come down
14:24Seconds crawl past
14:26Each one an eternity of agony
14:28Then
14:28From the corridor
14:29A sudden thunder of footsteps
14:30Many
14:31Boots hitting concrete in unison
14:33And the sharp, metallic snap of charging handles being racked
14:36The nurse's face drains of color
14:38The door explodes inward
14:39A black clad squad pours through the breach
14:41Compact AK pattern rifles at the shoulder
14:43Tactical vests unmarked
14:44No badges
14:45No insignia
14:47No agency lettering
14:48This isn't law enforcement
14:49This is a private army
14:52The soldati are down
14:53The man at the point of entry reaches up and pulls off his tactical helmet
14:56Revealing a face cut from hard Slavic angles
14:58High cheekbones
14:59Pale eyes
15:00A jaw like the edge of a blade
15:02He sees me
15:03And his eyes go red
15:07They've called me that since I was a little girl
15:09I reach for him
15:10No sound will come
15:12The man doesn't even glance at her
15:21He gathers me into his arms and barks over his shoulder
15:24Sweep the building
15:25Get the trauma team in
15:26Every Leononi in this facility
15:28Disarm and detain
15:29Yes
15:30The men in black move like a machine
15:32The nurse tries to bolt
15:33A hand catches her shoulder and presses her flat to the ground
15:37You can't do this
15:38This is Leonetti
15:40The man looks back at her
15:42His gaze is arctic
15:44Leonetti
15:45In about 5 minutes there won't be a Leonetti
15:48I am carried into a modified medical vehicle parked outside
15:50Outfitted like a mobile operating theater
15:53Surgical lights
15:54Monitors
15:56Ventilator
15:56A full team of doctors and nurses already gloved and waiting
15:59They descend on me instantly
16:01BP 60 over 40
16:03Hemorrhagic shock
16:04Fetal distress
16:05We need an emergency cesarean now
16:07The mother's vitals are too unstable
16:09Surgical risk is
16:10Do it!
16:13She dies, I die
16:15Get your hands in there!
16:16Now!
16:17Save my baby
16:18Whatever happens
16:21Save her first
16:26You and the baby will be fine
16:28The cardiac monitor shriek
16:31She's coding
16:31Get the crash car
16:32D-fib
16:34Fetal heart rate is dropping
16:35Prep for section
16:37Right now!
16:38The anesthesia mask
16:40Comes down over my face
16:41In the last flicker of consciousness
16:43I hear a doctor shout
16:44The baby
16:45The baby has no heartbeat!
16:48Then, darkness
16:49I don't know how long I am under
16:51When my eyes open
16:52I am staring at an unfamiliar ceiling
16:54The air smells of antiseptic
16:55She's awake
16:58Familiar faces crowd around the bed
17:00Papa's personal guards
17:01Men who have been part of my world
17:02For as long as I can remember
17:04The baby
17:05My voice is wrecked
17:06A stranger's rasp
17:07Where's my baby?
17:08The room goes silent
17:10A terrible, ringing silence
17:12Seconds pass
17:13Then the man standing at the foot of the bed
17:15Turns slowly to face me
17:16My father
17:17Victor Volkov
17:18They call him the Old Wolf
17:20From Brighton Beach to Boston
17:21Every branch of the East Coast
17:23Bratpa answers to him
17:24But the man who makes the entire eastern seaboard tremble is gone
17:27The person standing before me is just a father
17:29A father who has been broken
17:30He walks to the bed and sits on the edge
17:33Takes my hand
17:36I look into his bloodshot eyes
17:39And I already know
17:49He pauses
17:50The doctors did everything they could
17:52I close my eyes
17:54I don't cry
17:55I don't scream
17:56The tiny life that spent nine months inside me
17:59Who kicked me awake every morning
18:01Who I whispered secrets to in the dark
18:02Is gone
18:03Where's Dante?
18:05Papa wipes his eyes
18:06With Sophia
18:08She delivered
18:09A boy
18:11The entire Leonati family is celebrating
18:13No one remembered you
18:19Good
18:20That's good
18:21Papa grips my hand tighter
18:23Sarah
18:24Come home with me
18:25The Leonettis don't deserve you
18:27That man least of all
18:29I open my eyes and look at him
18:30A plan
18:31Perfect in its cruelty
18:32Exquisite in its patience
18:34Has already finished assembling itself inside my mind
18:37Papa
18:39I need you to do something for me
18:40I need you to fabricate a body
18:42A woman who just gave birth
18:44Dead from postpartum hemorrhage
18:47I want them to think I'm dead
18:48And then I want to watch with my own eyes
18:50How they celebrate a new life
18:51While mine lies cold in a drawer
18:53Done
18:54My princess
18:55For the Volkov family
18:57Fabricating a corpse is routine
18:58An unclaimed Jane Doe of similar build
19:00Is sourced from the New York City morgue
19:02The family's own plastic surgeon
19:04Works through the night
19:05Reshaping the facial features
19:06Injecting embalming fluid
19:07And blood simulation compounds
19:09Postpartum hemorrhage markers are meticulously replicated
19:12The waxy pallor
19:13The blood-soaked sheets between the legs
19:14The slack
19:15Deflated abdomen of a woman who has just delivered
19:18Then a medical examiner at the OCME
19:20The office of the chief medical examiner
19:21Is paid to sign the death certificate
19:23In this world
19:24Making someone disappear
19:25Or making someone dead
19:26Is a phone call and a wire transfer
19:28The body is delivered to the clinic's basement
19:31Cold storage
19:32Indistinguishable from the real thing
19:34I sit in the surveillance room of a safe house
19:36Three blocks away
19:36Watching the monitors
19:37Our people wired the clinic months ago
19:39Papa insisted on it the moment I became pregnant
19:42At the time
19:43I told him he was being paranoid
19:45Papa sits beside me now
19:46Holding my hand
19:47Any regrets?
19:50About what?
19:51Marrying him
19:52I think about it
19:53No
19:54At least now I've seen these people
19:55For what they really are
19:56On the screen
19:57Dante finally emerges
19:58From the third floor delivery suite
20:00He is carrying a swaddled infant
20:02The joy on his face is unmistakable
20:04But it isn't the joy of a new father
20:06It is the joy of a man who has won
20:08Everything has gone according to plan
20:10Sofia has safely delivered Marco's posthumous son
20:12The firstborn heir has arrived
20:14And Dante's position as acting head of the family is
20:17For the moment
20:18Secure
20:18Sofia is wheeled out on a gurney
20:20Pale but beaming
20:21Don Enzo hobbles over on his cane
20:23Trembling
20:23And peers down at the baby
20:25Tears stream down the old man's face
20:27He keeps repeating it
20:30Marco
20:31Your son is here
20:32The Leonetti bloodline is unbroken
20:34A crowd gathers around the child
20:36Laughter
20:37Congratulations
20:39Embraces
20:39No one asks about me
20:41No one remembers that another woman has been in labor
20:43Fighting for her life
20:44And losing
20:45Until a nurse says quietly
20:46Mr. Leonetti
20:47Your wife
20:49Dante frowns
20:50As if reminded of a chore
20:51No update yet
20:53Dr. Ferrara is with her downstairs
20:55I'll go check
20:57He hands the baby to the nurse
20:58And heads for the elevator
20:59Julia hurries after him
21:02I'll come with you
21:03They step in
21:03One after the other
21:04The doors close
21:07The surveillance feed switches to the first floor
21:09Dr. Ferrara is standing outside the empty operating room
21:12His back against the wall
21:13His face is the color of ash
21:15He sees Dante and snaps upright
21:17Mr. Leonetti
21:18Where's my wife?
21:19Dr. Ferrara opens his mouth
21:21He just turns his body in points
21:23Toward the basement cold storage
21:24The color drains from Dante's face
21:26What do you mean?
21:27Mrs. Leonetti
21:28Hemorrhage
21:29We couldn't
21:30Dr. Ferrara's head drops
21:32The baby didn't make it either
21:34The air turns to stone
21:36Dante stands motionless
21:37Impossibile
21:38She was fine
21:39Just
21:40She was not fine
21:41She lost too much blood
21:43No equipment
21:44No medication
21:45Tried everything
21:47He crouches down and buries his face in his hands
21:49He dispatched
21:50I tried everything
21:52Dante seizes him by the collar and hauls him up
21:54What did you just say?
21:56Dr. Ferrara nods, tears falling
21:58I'm sorry
21:59Dante releases him
22:00Stackers back two steps and hits the wall
22:03That's not possible
22:05This morning she was fine
22:07Dante, calm down
22:08Let me go look
22:09She walks briskly to the cold storage unit and pulls open the door
22:13The body inside lies with an expression that is peaceful and agonized at once
22:16The white sheet beneath it is drenched in blood
22:19Julia stares for several seconds
22:21Then she claps a hand over her mouth, spins around, and rushes out
22:25Dante pushes past her and goes in
22:27The surveillance camera captures him standing in front of the storage drawer
22:31Perfectly still
22:32For so long that Julia grows frightened and goes in after him
22:35He raises his fist and drives it into the wall
22:38Why? Why didn't someone tell me sooner?
22:42Dr. Ferrara's voice drifts from outside the door, barely audible
22:45Your phone was off, no phones allowed in the delivery suite
22:48Dante whips around
22:49Then come find me! Third floor to first floor, how long does that take?
22:54You just stood there and watched her die?
22:57Dr. Ferrara says nothing
22:58His shoulders shake
23:00Julia steps in, conciliatory
23:02Don't blame Luca
23:03I told him not to go upstairs
23:05Sophia was in critical condition
23:06I didn't want to distract you
23:08A slap
23:08So hard it snaps Julia's head to the side
23:10You hit me?
23:12You hit me for her?
23:15You
23:17Locked her
23:17In the basement
23:20Julia's eyes dart away
23:21I only told her to wait
23:23Wait?
23:24Dante's voice drops to a whisper
23:25That was two lives
23:27A woman
23:28And a child
23:29I asked you to take care of her
23:31And this is what you did?
23:33I did it for the family
23:35Sofia's baby carries Marco's blood
23:37He's the firstborn heir
23:39Zera's child was never going to
23:41Don Enzo set the rules
23:43Don Enzo set the rules
23:44Dante repeats
23:45Something in his expression fractures
23:47He stands there
23:49The rage drains out of him slowly
23:50Replaced by a hollow, vacant stare
23:52So her life just didn't matter
23:56No one answers
23:57You
23:57Gracias.
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