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His Replacement Bride
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00:01my boyfriend is lorenzo moretti the head of new york's deadliest mafia family today
00:07he's marrying his first love celeste and me i'm dying alone in a cold stone house on his estate
00:15the doctors say i'm gone but they don't know i took a death faking pill
00:21the great mob boss cries at my grave but i'm already gone i'm finally free living my best life
00:29until a massive rainstorm hits new york the flood soaks the cemetery lorenzo opens my casket no body
00:36no bones just dust he realizes the truth i played him now he's burning the world down just to find
00:44his dead lover six months ago lorenzo and celeste got married the news reached my cell i'm locked in
00:50a windowless room a damp stone house in the lake center i know celeste is torturing me on purpose
00:56but in this estate no one speaks up celeste is lorenzo's first love everyone says she's an angel
01:04pure kind and untouchable even the servants spit at me you poisoned her baby miss falcania
01:12she's merciful to let you live i explain but no one listens
01:20even lorenzo doesn't believe me outside the guards are gossiping about how much lorenzo spoils his bride
01:27she was just his mistress and she dared to poison his wife he'll never let her leave alive amidst the
01:34noise i just lie on the bed guards and cameras are everywhere but they have no idea i'm about to
01:40swallow a pill a pill that fakes my death my name is alessia falcone i'm an orphan i grew up
01:47on the
01:48streets learned to fight young no house working illegal jobs when i didn't have work i just wander
01:56the streets when i was 18 i met lorenzo lorenzo hadn't taken over the moretti crime family yet
02:04he was the second son of three his father's least favorite one day lorenzo snuck out to play
02:13but he ran into killers sent by his father's enemy one killer aimed his gun right at lorenzo's heart
02:19he was about to pull the trigger that's when i threw a punch
02:25i got lucky the killer spit out blood then the guards ran over and took him down
02:3120 year old lorenzo looked at me with gratitude thank you i just grabbed a slice of pizza off the
02:38ground and stuffed it in my mouth i held out my hand how about some money lorenzo just smiled
02:46he reached out his hand to me do you want to come live at my place i asked him if
02:52i follow you do i
02:53get ice cream yes just like that i went with lorenzo into the manor from the day i entered the
03:04mansion i heard the servants whispering that face she looks just like celeste rossetti the fiori crime
03:12family's eldest daughter miss rossetti's been married for three years now and mr lorenzo still
03:20can't let her go i know right in the back of his study on the farthest shelf there's still a
03:27portrait
03:27of miss celeste they realized i'd heard them shut up quick and scattered i saw that portrait of celeste
03:34in lorenzo's study the girl in the painting wore an emerald green satin gown stunningly beautiful
03:39then lorenzo had the same dress delivered told me to wear it i did he wanted me to learn violin
03:47and
03:47ballet i learned he even told me to call him enzo i knew he saw celeste when he looked at
03:53me
03:53then one night lorenzo drank a lot and he kissed me his breath was heavy and hot smelled like bourbon
04:02and menthol tobacco he held me i could feel the raw power under his chest like a beast my heart
04:10raced i knew i was falling i couldn't stop it he carried me to bed whispered in my ear don't
04:16be
04:16scared i won't hurt you then he looked at my face and reached out to turn off the light you'd
04:22think
04:22a spoiled son from a top mob family like the moretis would have been with dozens of women
04:27but enzo he was a first timer no one could imagine how different the cold reserved lorenzo was once he
04:33tore off that suit he kept me up until dawn after that if lorenzo came to my room sleeping at
04:39dawn was
04:39just how it went lorenzo was so good to me he knew i loved ice cream so he just bought
04:45an entire pistachio
04:47orchard in sicily hired the best pastry chef in italy the guy who used to make desserts for the vatican
04:52he never skimped on anything else clothes stuff i needed you name it there won't be other movement
04:57in my life all my money this for you spend to thank him for being so good to me i
05:03took care of old
05:03mr moretti when he was sick in bed i finally talked the old man into giving lorenzo the inheritance
05:09five years later the old man died lorenzo's big brother came with his men to take lorenzo out
05:15bullets flying everywhere
05:18i shielded lorenzo fought our way out took two bullets but lorenzo didn't get a scratch
05:25i fought like hell finally put lorenzo firmly on the throne as head of the moretti family
05:31i thought we could finally relax and live a good life then celeste came back
05:37the truth is lorenzo's thing for celeste was never a secret
05:41back then he was just some overlooked mob son nobody cared about but now he runs the moretti
05:48family celeste's husband didn't have much power so to get in lorenzo's good graces he handed her over
05:56the day celeste arrived at the mansion she came to see me she was even more beautiful than her
06:01portrait head-to-toe emerald gown ethereal back then i was just the woman in his life unofficial
06:08but the moment celeste stepped in everyone in the family knew she was the obvious choice for
06:13mrs moretti and celeste knew it too so the first time she saw me she just looked me up and
06:19down
06:19then smiled oh you really do look like me the staff around enzo say he always turns off the bedside
06:25lamp when he's with you know why in the dark you look even more like me oh and look at
06:32that
06:32you're wearing emerald green too too bad trying to copy a masterpiece but you just end up looking
06:40cheap i didn't say a word i just picked up my coffee and poured it right in her face
06:48she ran back and tattled to lorenzo that night lorenzo came to see me his face was dark
06:57you gave esti a hard time no i just offered her a coffee lorenzo was speechless
07:07after that he moved me to the smallest most cramped room in the estate
07:11he stopped coming to see me
07:15anything good lorenzo got he used to bring straight to me
07:19but now rare treasures bags clothes all of it went straight to celeste
07:25celeste even took over my favorite sweets and still it wasn't enough
07:29one time she pointed at my necklace necklace doesn't suit you why not give it to me
07:36i said no it wasn't just any necklace gold detailing exquisitely made but that's not why i refused
07:43it was the first gift lorenzo ever gave me the more i refused the more she wanted it
07:48we were arguing when lorenzo walked in celeste's eyes glistened a tear rolled down her cheek
07:57enzo i just i really love that necklace i couldn't stop looking at it
08:03but ali said i was coveting it that i was trying to force her to give it to me
08:08ali i swear that's not what i meant lorenzo's face darkened
08:12he looked at the necklace then at me just a necklace give it to her
08:16he didn't remember it was his first gift to me
08:19celeste stood behind him she smiled at me
08:22i pretended not to see her
08:26since when
08:27you've been with me for years
08:29you have everything
08:32esti's different
08:33she suffered up north all those years
08:35she's never cared much for jewels or money
08:37nothing really interests her
08:39now she finally likes something
08:41can't you just let her have it
08:42i listened quietly then i smiled is that so i took off the necklace and threw it into the garden
08:52if she wants something you give it to her but my things only i decide what happens to them
08:58word is i scared her that night
09:00she went back fell into a spiral of worry and got sick
09:05bedridden for months
09:06she was also pregnant and she lost her child
09:10the doctors found it
09:11poison
09:12traces in her medicine
09:15the servant they caught confessed
09:17shaking
09:17they pointed at me
09:19it was
09:21alexia
09:21she told us to do it
09:24she stumbled into my room
09:26crying
09:28alice i know you're jealous of me
09:30that i have his heart
09:32but the baby
09:34the baby was innocent
09:35before i could speak she collapsed
09:37lorenzo came right after
09:38he lifted her up
09:39she lay in his arms
09:40pale and crying
09:41fragile
09:41like she might break
09:43lorenzo looked at me
09:44his voice was quiet
09:45you don't get to be jealous of esti
09:46you should know by now
09:47all these years
09:48the only reason i was good to you
09:50was because of her
09:51then he turned and carried her out
09:53after he left i cried all night long
09:55the next day lorenzo had my things
09:57moved to a stone house on an island
09:59in the middle of the estate's lake
10:00everyone knew
10:01i was the one who poisoned celeste's child
10:03they called it a stone house
10:05but it was cold
10:05damp
10:06a prison
10:06winter came
10:07no heat
10:08no blankets
10:09my hands swelled with frostbite
10:11only one person came to see me
10:12to take care of me
10:14lorenzo's younger brother julian
10:15julian is the most favored youngest son
10:18of the head of the moretti crime family
10:19unlike lorenzo
10:20he is gentle
10:21gentlemanly
10:22and possesses a sharp business mind
10:23he'd confessed to me before
10:25more than once
10:27and i'm sorry
10:28i still didn't feel that way about him
10:30the last time he visited
10:31he left a little box
10:33if you want to leave this place
10:37open it
10:37then he leaned close
10:38it's a synthetic coma in deuter
10:40developed by military doctors
10:42in eastern europe
10:42you'll appear dead for 48 hours
10:45then wake up
10:47months passed
10:48the day lorenzo and celeste got married
10:50i opened the box
10:51it's the only way
10:53i took the pill
10:55closed my eyes
10:56darkness swallowed me
10:58my breath slowed
10:59then slower
11:01my blood too
11:02my body went cold
11:04piece by piece
11:05first my hands
11:06my feet
11:07then up my limbs
11:08then my heart
11:09the beats got slower
11:11until they stopped
11:12good
11:13that settles it
11:14all those extra beats
11:15it did
11:16whenever i saw lorenzo
11:17paid back
11:18lorenzo's probably
11:19in his wedding chamber
11:20right now
11:20with celeste
11:21this time
11:22he doesn't have to
11:22turn off the lights
11:23the next morning
11:25celeste had breakfast
11:26with lorenzo
11:26her arm linked
11:27through his
11:28she said softly
11:30i haven't seen ali
11:32in a while
11:32lorenzo's eyes darkened
11:34she poisoned you
11:36she's locked up
11:37on the island
11:37why would you want
11:38to see her
11:38ali didn't mean it
11:40i want to forgive her
11:43if it makes you happy
11:44lorenzo turned
11:45looked at her beautiful face
11:47after a long moment
11:48he sighed
11:52he looked at the butler
11:53bring alessia here
11:56a faint smile
11:58touched celeste's lips
11:59once
11:59alessia got here
12:00and saw how in love
12:01they were
12:01then she'd really won
12:03but the butler
12:04was gone a long time
12:05almost an hour passed
12:06before he came back
12:07pale
12:08shaking
12:10miss alessia
12:11she's dead
12:15the wine glass
12:16slipped from lorenzo's
12:17hand
12:18it shattered on the floor
12:19the dining room
12:20went silent
12:21then after a moment
12:22lorenzo laughed
12:23i get it
12:25alessia put you up
12:26to this right
12:27she just wants me
12:28to go to her
12:29the butler said nothing
12:30his face was dead white
12:31lorenzo looked at his face
12:33slowly the smile faded
12:34his voice was low
12:36you're telling the truth
12:37please accept my condolence
12:40enzo
12:41celeste gasped
12:42because she saw it
12:43lorenzo's whole body lurched
12:45he almost hit the floor
12:46i finally got lorenzo to come
12:49he just stood in the doorway
12:51from far away
12:52he saw me lying there
12:53peaceful
12:54not moving
12:55his body lurched again
12:57all the color drained
12:58from his face
13:01celeste rushed to hold him up
13:02lorenzo shook her off
13:06he walked in
13:07came to my side
13:12his voice was low
13:14ali
13:15back in the day
13:16whenever he called me that
13:17i'd always answer
13:19bright and happy
13:19yeah
13:22but this time
13:23i couldn't answer
13:23ala
13:24he kept calling me
13:25stubborn
13:26you can't be dead
13:27you were so healthy
13:29so full of life
13:32ali
13:33the doctor nearby
13:34finished his examination
13:35spoke softly to lorenzo
13:38mr moratti
13:39it looks like miss alessia
13:41died from old wounds
13:42acting up
13:44her body had two gunshot wounds
13:46and a knife wound
13:48near her left shoulder
13:49close to the heart
13:49lorenzo froze
13:51he knew where those wounds
13:52came from
13:52the bullets
13:54the blade
13:54all of them taken
13:55while protecting him
13:56while he fought to become
13:57the heir
13:59miss alessia died
14:00of a heart attack
14:02likely triggered
14:03by her old injuries
14:05and a broken heart
14:07lorenzo reached out
14:09like he wanted
14:10to touch my face
14:12it was me
14:15i killed her
14:17his voice cracked
14:19he asked the guard
14:20before alay left
14:22did she resent me
14:25miss alessia didn't say
14:29then he pulled out
14:30a letter
14:30this was hidden
14:31under her pillow
14:32it's addressed to you
14:33lorenzo told everyone
14:35to leave
14:36he sat alone
14:37in that stone room
14:38next to my body
14:40and opened the letter
14:43enzo
14:43i like you
14:45i know you don't
14:46like me back
14:47but that's okay
14:48thank you for being
14:49good to me
14:50all these years
14:51i won't be here
14:52to fight for you anymore
14:53to kill for you
14:55while i can't
14:55protect you
14:56you protect yourself
14:57don't make so many
14:59enemies
14:59won't see you again
15:01alessia
15:03lorenzo finished
15:04reading my letter
15:05the room was so quiet
15:07only his breathing
15:14you're really gone
15:15then hot tears
15:17one by one
15:17falling onto my face
15:19i realized
15:20lorenzo was crying
15:22first time i'd ever
15:23seen it
15:23why tears
15:24he said it himself
15:25he loved celeste
15:26he was only good to me
15:28because i looked like her
15:29does a heart break
15:30this hard
15:30even for someone
15:31you don't love
15:32i don't know
15:33how long passed
15:34the butler came in
15:38mr moretti
15:39mrs moretti's heart
15:40is acting up
15:41she's fainted
15:44lorenzo stood
15:45his face was dry now
15:46cold again
15:47just like always
15:48i'm coming
15:51see
15:52even if my death
15:53stung him a little
15:54he'd still go to her
15:55good thing
15:56i don't care anymore
15:57the lid of my coffin
15:58suddenly flew open
16:00chaos
16:01guards and butlers
16:03shouting
16:03celeste screaming
16:05lorenzo was calling
16:06my name
16:07la
16:08la
16:11i'm here
16:12i'm coming to get you
16:13he looked insane
16:14eyes blood red
16:15fighting to climb
16:16into the coffin
16:17celeste screamed
16:18someone pull enzo away
16:23total chaos
16:24finally the guards
16:26dragged him off
16:26the coffin was sealed
16:28lowered to the ground
16:28two days have passed
16:30slowly my breath returned
16:31but the air in the coffin
16:33was running out
16:34above me thick layers of dirt
16:35then i heard a shovel
16:36digging through the earth
16:37the coffin opened again
16:40alay
16:41yes
16:44fresh air rushed in
16:46this time julian stood above me
16:47he knelt on one knee
16:49reached down and helped me out
16:50miss alessia
16:52you're finally free
16:57julian took me to europe
16:58five years had passed since
17:00lorenzo and celeste got married
17:02the truth is
17:03julian first confessed to me
17:05the very first time we met
17:06he asked if i wanted to leave
17:08lorenzo
17:09but back then
17:10i was completely in love with enzo
17:13couldn't pull myself out
17:15even if he slept next to me
17:16his heart belonged to someone else
17:19sometimes i'd let myself dream
17:20that maybe one day he'd really love me back
17:22but when celeste came back
17:24that dream shattered
17:25for good
17:27the day they got married
17:28something in me died
17:30but julian
17:31he was different
17:32gentle
17:32patient
17:33he accepted all of me
17:35never pushed me to be what he wanted
17:37he liked me for who i really was
17:39he knew i was done with the chaos
17:41the bullets
17:42the mob life
17:44so he walked away from the moretti fortune
17:46gave it all up
17:47just to prove he wasn't his brother
17:49started from nothing
17:51he had connections
17:52investments
17:53a head for business
17:54his brother never had
17:55within three years
17:56he built something new
17:57legit
17:58clean
18:00i was sitting in a bar
18:02having a drink
18:03and i heard them talking about
18:04lorenzo and celeste
18:06they said they were childhood sweethearts
18:09but back then lorenzo was too young
18:11too powerless to protect the girl he loved
18:13he had to watch her get married
18:15off up north
18:15then after fighting through hell
18:17he clawed his way to becoming the moretti heir
18:19finally he brought celeste back
18:22they got married
18:23i smiled
18:24no regret left in my heart
18:26this was the best ending this story could have
18:30but before i could even finish that thought
18:32a news alert flashed on my phone
18:34new york
18:35sudden heavy rain
18:36the moretti family cemetery
18:37flooded
18:39the date on the news three days ago
18:41then a deafening roar
18:43panic people scattering
18:44a private jet
18:46landing on the street
18:48i looked up
18:50he looked down
18:51lorenzo
18:52he came for me himself
18:53i finally saw lorenzo again
18:55he sat across from me
18:56just the two of us in that small room
18:58he'd left his guards outside
19:00i studied him
19:01he'd lost so much weight
19:02his cheeks and eyes were sunken
19:04the fire was gone
19:05he didn't look happy
19:07but three years as a mob boss had hardened him
19:09that blank look on his face
19:11it was hard and cold enough to make anyone flinch
19:13his dark eyes locked onto mine
19:15his voice was ice
19:16we meet again alessia
19:20back at the mansion
19:21he used to call me alessia in front of others
19:23but in private i was ale
19:24after celeste came
19:25he stopped using my name altogether
19:27just cold distant alessia
19:28now even though he said it with anger
19:30there was something else there
19:31like he wanted to reach out
19:33i was a regular here
19:34so i waved at the bartender to pour lorenzo a whiskey
19:37but lorenzo grabbed my hand
19:39his eyes looked like they were splitting apart
19:41on my ring finger
19:42a sparkling diamond ring
19:43and on it engraved with julian's name
19:48you married
19:51i immediately told the bartender
19:52forget the whiskey
19:53give him water
19:55lorenzo was still raging
19:56i asked you a question
19:58why did you lie to me
20:00why julian
20:02was i not good enough to you
20:05i slammed my glass on the table
20:06whiskey splashed everywhere
20:12what did you expect
20:13my voice was ice
20:14lorenzo
20:15if i didn't lie
20:17would i have ever gotten out
20:21what
20:23if i didn't get out
20:24how many more years
20:25would you have kept me in that prison
20:27rotten food
20:28a single thin blanket
20:30see this scar on my arm
20:32that's from frostblade
20:33from back then
20:35of course i lied
20:36of course i faked my death
20:38if julian hadn't kept coming to see me
20:40i probably would have died in there for real
20:43lorenzo's eyes dropped to my arm
20:44the frostbite scars
20:46unmistakable
20:46something flickered in his eyes
20:48pain
20:49guilt
20:50regret
20:51when he spoke again
20:52his voice had softened
20:53alex
20:55i know
20:57you suffered
20:59but i would never have let you die
21:01i said nothing
21:03the room went silent
21:04for a long time
21:07finally lorenzo opened a small black velvet box
21:11placed it gently on the table
21:13slid it toward me
21:14the diamond necklace
21:16three years
21:17i've kept this with me
21:19i regret it
21:20every day
21:21but i didn't recognize it
21:23our first gift to each other
21:24i keep dreaming
21:26of you dragging yourself through gunfire
21:28wounded just to get me to the top
21:30the moment we made it
21:32you looked at me and said
21:33he mimicked my voice from back then
21:35good enzo
21:37no one will ever bully you again
21:42a warm drop hit the table
21:44he covered his face
21:45didn't want me to see him cry
21:47i was quiet for a moment
21:49then softly
21:51enzo
21:51the diamond is beautiful
21:54but once it's broken
21:55it's broken
21:56even if you try to piece it back together
21:58the cracks are still there
22:02lorenzo's body trembled
22:04he looked at me
22:05his eyes filled with endless bitterness
22:08finally he said it
22:09ala i'm i'm sorry
22:11i shook my head
22:12there's nothing to be sorry for
22:14lorenzo panicked
22:16he opened his mouth
22:17desperate to explain
22:19alay the person i love is you
22:21back then
22:22i had a huge burden
22:24you don't understand how the mob works
22:26i cut him off
22:27i do understand
22:29lorenzo froze
22:30i smiled
22:31i know what you're trying to tell me
22:35celeste's family had power
22:37you needed them to secure your place's boss
22:40so even though you knew i didn't poison her
22:43that she staged the whole thing
22:45you had to play along
22:47indulge her
22:47and that meant locking me up on the island
22:51lorenzo's mouth hung open
22:52he couldn't speak
22:53he'd spent all this energy finding me
22:56thinking he'd explain everything
22:58he never guessed i already knew
23:01yes i understood it all
23:04i just pretended not to
23:06lorenzo
23:07i know you love me
23:10but this love
23:11it's not what i want anymore
23:14lorenzo couldn't hold back anymore
23:16he stepped forward
23:18grabbed my hand
23:19looked at me with something close to desperation
23:21alec then tell me
23:22what do i have to do to make you leave julian
23:25what do you want
23:26i'll give you anything
23:27anything at all
23:30i laughed
23:31really
23:35of course
23:36i'm the head of the morecci family
23:39my word is law
23:41good
23:42i stopped smiling
23:43then stopped being the head of the family
23:45lorenzo was stunned
23:46i'll get you the fake death pill
23:48from now on
23:49you're not lorenzo
23:51you're just my husband
23:52alexia's husband
23:53we live a simple life
23:55together
23:56then everything in the past is forgiven
23:59and i'll love you again
24:00deal
24:01lorenzo's face went pale
24:03completely white
24:04i smiled and pulled my hand back
24:08see enzo
24:09you can't
24:10you love me
24:12but your love gave me prison
24:14coldness
24:15pain
24:16torment
24:17julian loves me too
24:19but his love is acceptance
24:22gentleness
24:23unwavering
24:24unique
24:26i don't blame you
24:28but letting go is the best choice for both of us
24:30lorenzo was silent for a long long time
24:33finally his voice was low
24:36ale
24:37one last question
24:40do you
24:41still love me
24:42i smiled
24:44mr morelli
24:45go home
24:47celesta is waiting for you
24:50there are plenty of women in the world who love you
24:53i'm just
24:54not one of them anymore
24:57lorenzo left
24:58the guards surrounding the bar left too
25:00after that
25:02lorenzo never came looking for me again
25:03i heard that once lorenzo had fully consolidated his power
25:07he wiped out celeste's entire family completely
25:10he locked celeste in an underground prison
25:13and poisoned her food slowly
25:14the same way she had framed me
25:16when i heard this i felt nothing
25:17the past couldn't stir a single ripple in my heart anymore
25:24a few more years passed
25:26one of lorenzo's closest men came to find me
25:28he said lorenzo was gravely ill
25:30clinging to life
25:31wanted to see me one last time
25:32i hesitated for a long time
25:34then i told him
25:35i won't go
25:38mr morelli got everything he wanted in this life
25:41i'm his one and only regret
25:43if he holds on to that regret it might give him something to live for
25:47help him get through this
25:50if i go back and see him
25:51he might feel like he's fulfilled every last wish
25:54and then the spark will leave him
25:58i had my reasons
25:59if he died now that whole empire would probably fall to julian
26:02he'll live his
26:03and i'll live mine
26:06the rest of our lives
26:07just not together
26:08together
26:10you
26:10you
26:10you
26:10you
26:15you
26:15you
26:15you
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