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His Replacement Bride - FULL EP
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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.
00:10And me?
00:11I'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.
00:26I'm finally free, living my best life.
00:29Until a massive rainstorm hits New York.
00:32The flood soaks the cemetery.
00:34Lorenzo opens my casket.
00:36No body.
00:37No bones.
00:38Just dust.
00:39He realizes the truth.
00:40I played him.
00:42Now, he's burning the world down, just to find his dead lover.
00:45Six months ago, Lorenzo and Celeste got married.
00:48The news reached my cell.
00:49I'm locked in a windowless room, a damp stone house in the lake's center.
00:54I know Celeste is torturing me on purpose, but in this estate, no one speaks up.
00:59Celeste is Lorenzo's first love.
01:01Everyone says she's an angel.
01:04Pure, kind, and untouchable.
01:06Even the servants spit at me.
01:09You poisoned her baby, Miss Falcania.
01:12She's merciful to let you live.
01:14I explain, but no one listens.
01:16I'm not getting my own!
01:19No!
01:20Even Lorenzo doesn't believe me.
01:23Outside, the guards are gossiping about how much Lorenzo spoils his bride.
01:27She was just his mistress, and she dared to poison his wife.
01:32He'll never let her leave alive.
01:34Amidst the noise, I just lie on the bed.
01:36Guards and cameras are everywhere, but they have no idea I'm about to swallow a pill.
01:40A pill that fakes my death.
01:43My name is Alessia Falcone.
01:45I'm an orphan.
01:46I grew up on the streets, learned to fight young.
01:50No house.
01:52Working illegal jobs.
01:54When I didn't have work, I'd just wander the streets.
01:58When I was 18, I met Lorenzo.
02:01Lorenzo hadn't taken over the Moretti crime family yet.
02:04He was the second son of three.
02:06His father's least favorite.
02:09One day, Lorenzo snuck out to play.
02:13But he ran into killers sent by his father's enemy.
02:16One killer aimed his gun right at Lorenzo's heart.
02:19He was about to pull the trigger.
02:22That's when I threw a punch.
02:25I got lucky.
02:26The killer spit out blood.
02:28Then the guards ran over and took him down.
02:31Twenty-year-old Lorenzo looked at me with gratitude.
02:36I just grabbed a slice of pizza off the ground and stuffed it in my mouth.
02:40I held out my hand.
02:41How about some money?
02:45Lorenzo just smiled.
02:46He reached out his hand to me.
02:49Do you want to come live at my place?
02:51I asked him.
02:52If I follow you, do I get ice cream?
02:56Yes.
02:58Just like that, I went with Lorenzo into the manor.
03:02From the day I entered the mansion, I heard the servants whispering.
03:06That face.
03:07She looks just like Celeste Rossetti, the Fiore crime family's eldest daughter.
03:14Ugh.
03:16Miss Rossetti's been married for three years now.
03:18And Mr. Lorenzo still can't let her go.
03:22I know, right?
03:23In the back of his study, on the farthest shelf there's still a portrait of Miss Celeste.
03:28They realized I'd heard them.
03:30Shut up quick and scattered.
03:32I saw that portrait of Celeste in Lorenzo's study.
03:35The girl in the painting wore an emerald green satin gown.
03:38Stunningly beautiful.
03:40Then Lorenzo had the same dress delivered.
03:42Told me to wear it.
03:44I did.
03:45He wanted me to learn violin and ballet.
03:48I learned.
03:49He even told me to call him Enzo.
03:51I knew he saw Celeste when he looked at me.
03:53Then one night Lorenzo drank a lot.
03:57And he kissed me.
03:59His breath was heavy and hot.
04:01Smelled like bourbon and menthol tobacco.
04:04He held me.
04:06I could feel the raw power under his chest.
04:08Like a beast.
04:09My heart raced.
04:10I knew I was falling.
04:12I couldn't stop it.
04:13He carried me to bed.
04:14Whispered in my ear.
04:15Don't be scared.
04:17I won't hurt you.
04:18Then he looked at my face.
04:20And reached out to turn off the light.
04:22You'd think a spoiled son from a top mob family like the Morettis would have been with dozens of women.
04:27But Enzo?
04:28He was a first-timer.
04:30No one could imagine how different the cold, reserved Lorenzo was once he tore off that suit.
04:34He kept me up until dawn.
04:36After that, if Lorenzo came to my room, sleeping at dawn was just how it went.
04:42Lorenzo was so good to me.
04:43He knew I loved ice cream, so he just bought an entire pistachio orchard in Sicily.
04:48Hired the best pastry chef in Italy, the guy who used to make desserts for the Vatican.
04:52He never skimped on anything else.
04:54Clothes, stuff I needed.
04:55You name it.
04:56There won't be other movement in my life.
04:58All my money this for you spent.
05:01To thank him for being so good to me, I took care of old Mr. Moretti when he was sick
05:05in bed.
05:06I finally talked the old man into giving Lorenzo the inheritance.
05:10Five years later, the old man died.
05:12Lorenzo's big brother came with his men to take Lorenzo out.
05:15Bullets flying everywhere.
05:19I shielded Lorenzo, fought our way out.
05:21Took two bullets, but Lorenzo didn't get a scratch.
05:25I fought like hell.
05:28Finally put Lorenzo firmly on the throne as head of the Moretti family.
05:31I thought we could finally relax and live a good life.
05:35Then Celeste came back.
05:37The truth is, Lorenzo's thing for Celeste was never a secret.
05:42Back then, he was just some overlooked mob son nobody cared about.
05:46But now, he runs the Moretti family.
05:49Celeste's husband didn't have much power.
05:51So to get in Lorenzo's good graces, he handed her over.
05:56The day Celeste arrived at the mansion, she came to see me.
05:59She was even more beautiful than her portrait.
06:02Head to toe emerald gown.
06:04Ethereal back then, I was just the woman in his life.
06:07Unofficial.
06:08But the moment Celeste stepped in,
06:11everyone in the family knew she was the obvious choice for Mrs. Moretti.
06:14And Celeste knew it too.
06:16So the first time she saw me, she just looked me up and down.
06:19Then smiled.
06:20Oh, you really do look like me.
06:22The staff around Enzo say he always turns off the bedside lamp when he's with you.
06:27Know why?
06:28In the dark, you look even more like me.
06:31Oh, and look at that.
06:33You're wearing emerald green too.
06:35Too bad.
06:37Trying to copy a masterpiece.
06:39But you just end up looking cheap.
06:42I didn't say a word.
06:44I just picked up my coffee and poured it right in her face.
06:48She ran back and tattled to Lorenzo.
06:50That night, Lorenzo came to see me.
06:53His face was dark.
06:57You gave Esti a hard time?
06:59No.
07:00I just offered her a coffee.
07:03Lorenzo was speechless.
07:07After that, he moved me to the smallest, most cramped room in the estate.
07:10He stopped coming to see me.
07:14Anything good Lorenzo got, he used to bring straight to me.
07:19But now?
07:20Rare 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.
07:32That necklace doesn't suit you.
07:34Why not give it to me?
07:36I said no.
07:36It wasn't just any necklace.
07:39Gold detailing, exquisitely made.
07:41But that's not why I refused.
07:43It was the first gift Lorenzo ever gave me.
07:45The more I refused, the more she wanted it.
07:48We were arguing when Lorenzo walked in.
07:51Celeste's eyes glistened.
07:52A tear rolled down her cheek.
07:57Lorenzo, I just, I really love that necklace.
08:00I couldn't stop looking at it.
08:03But Ale said I was coveting it.
08:06That I was trying to force her to give it to me.
08:08Ale, I swear, that's not what I meant.
08:10Lorenzo's face darkened.
08:12He looked at the necklace, then at me.
08:14Just a necklace, give it to her.
08:16He didn't remember.
08:17It was his first gift to me.
08:19Celeste stood behind him.
08:21She smiled at me.
08:22I pretended not to see her.
08:26Since when?
08:28You've been with me for years.
08:29You have everything.
08:32Esty's different.
08:33She's suffered up north all those years.
08:35She's never cared much for jewels or money.
08:38Nothing really interests her.
08:39Now she finally likes something.
08:41Can't you just let her have it?
08:42I listened quietly.
08:44Then I smiled.
08:45Is that so?
08:46I took off the necklace and threw it into the garden.
08:52If she wants something, you give it to her.
08:54But my things?
08:55Only 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.
09:07She was also pregnant and she lost her child.
09:10The doctors found it.
09:12Poison.
09:12Traces in her medicine.
09:15The servant they caught confessed.
09:17Shaking.
09:18They pointed at me.
09:19It was Alexia.
09:22She told us to do it.
09:24She stumbled into my room, crying.
09:28Alec, I know you're jealous of me.
09:30That I have his heart.
09:32But the baby, the 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, pale and crying.
09:41Fragile, like she might break.
09:43Lorenzo looked at me.
09:44His voice was quiet.
09:44You don't get to be jealous of Esti.
09:46You should know by now.
09:48All these years, the only reason I was good to you was 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 moved to a stone house on an island in the middle of the
09:59estate's lake.
10:00Everyone knew.
10:01I was the one who poisoned Celeste's child.
10:03They called it a stone house, but it was cold.
10:05Damp.
10:06A prison.
10:07Winter came.
10:07No heat.
10:08No blankets.
10:09My hands swelled with frostbite.
10:11Only one person came to see me, to take care of me.
10:14Lorenzo's younger brother, Julian.
10:16Julian is the most favored youngest son of the head of the Moretti crime family.
10:20Unlike Lorenzo, he is gentle, gentlemanly, and possesses a sharp business mind.
10:24He'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, he left a little box.
10:33If you want to leave this place, open it.
10:38Then he leaned close.
10:39It's a synthetic coma inductor developed by military doctors in Eastern Europe.
10:42You'll appear dead for 48 hours, then wake up.
10:47Months passed the 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.
11:00Then 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 it did whenever I saw Lorenzo paid back.
11:18Lorenzo's probably in his wedding chamber right now, with Celeste.
11:21This time, he doesn't have to turn off the lights.
11:24The next morning, Celeste had breakfast with Lorenzo.
11:26Her arm linked through his.
11:28She said softly,
11:30I haven't seen Allie in a while.
11:33Lorenzo's eyes darkened.
11:34She poisoned you.
11:36She's locked up on the island.
11:37Why would you want to see her?
11:38Allie didn't mean it.
11:40I want to forgive her.
11:43If it makes you happy.
11:45Lorenzo turned.
11:46Looked at her beautiful face.
11:47After a long moment, he sighed.
11:51He looked at the butler.
11:53Bring Alessia here.
11:56A faint smile touched Celeste's lips once.
11:59Alessia got here and saw how in love they were.
12:02Then she'd really won.
12:03But the butler was gone a long time.
12:05Almost an hour passed before he came back.
12:07Pale.
12:08Shaking.
12:10Miss Alessia.
12:11She's dead.
12:15The wine glass slipped from Lorenzo's hand.
12:18It shattered on the floor.
12:19The dining room went silent.
12:21Then, after a moment, Lorenzo laughed.
12:23I get it.
12:25Alessia put you up to this, right?
12:27She just wants me to 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.
12:35His voice was low.
12:36You're telling the truth.
12:37Please accept my condolence.
12:40Enzo!
12:41Celeste gasped.
12:42Because she saw it, Lorenzo's whole body lurched.
12:45He almost hit the floor.
12:47I finally got Lorenzo to come.
12:49He just stood in the doorway.
12:51From far away, he saw me lying there.
12:53Peaceful.
12:54Not moving.
12:55His body lurched again.
12:57All the color drained from his face.
13:01Celeste rushed to hold him up.
13:03Enzo.
13:04Lorenzo shook her off.
13:06He walked in, came to my side.
13:12His voice was low.
13:15Ellie.
13:15Back in the day, whenever he called me that, I'd always answer bright and happy.
13:20Yeah.
13:22But this time, I couldn't answer.
13:24Ella.
13:24He kept calling me, stubborn.
13:26You can't be dead.
13:27You were so healthy.
13:29So full of life.
13:32Ellie.
13:33The doctor nearby finished his examination.
13:36Spoke softly to Lorenzo.
13:38Mr. Morati.
13:40It looks like Miss Alessia died from old wounds acting up.
13:44Her body had two gunshot wounds.
13:46And a knife wound near her left shoulder, close to the heart.
13:50Lorenzo froze.
13:51He knew where those wounds came from.
13:53The bullets, the blade, all of them taken while protecting him.
13:56While he fought to become the heir.
13:59Miss Alessia died of a heart attack.
14:02Likely triggered by her old injuries.
14:05And a broken heart.
14:08Lorenzo reached out.
14:09Like he wanted to touch my face.
14:12It was me.
14:15I killed her.
14:17His voice cracked.
14:19He asked the guard.
14:20Before Ale left.
14:22Did she resent me?
14:25Miss Alessia didn't say.
14:29Then he pulled out a letter.
14:30This was hidden under her pillow.
14:32It's addressed to you.
14:34Lorenzo told everyone to leave.
14:36He sat alone in that stone room.
14:39Next to my body.
14:40And opened the letter.
14:43Enzo.
14:43I like you.
14:45I know you don't like me back.
14:47But that's okay.
14:49Thank you for being good to me all these years.
14:51I won't be here to fight for you anymore.
14:53To kill for you.
14:55While I can't protect you.
14:56You protect yourself.
14:58Don't make so many enemies.
15:00Won't see you again.
15:01Alessia.
15:03Lorenzo finished reading 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.
15:18Falling onto my face.
15:19I realized.
15:21Lorenzo was crying.
15:22First time I'd ever seen it.
15:23Why tears?
15:24He said it himself.
15:25He loved Celeste.
15:26He was only good to me because I looked like her.
15:29Does a heart break this hard?
15:31Even for someone you don't love.
15:32I don't know how long passed.
15:34The butler came in.
15:38Mr. Moretti.
15:39Mrs. Moretti's heart is acting up.
15:41She's fainted.
15:44Lorenzo stood.
15:45His face was dry now.
15:47Cold again.
15:47Just like always.
15:49I'm coming.
15:51See.
15:52Even if my death stung him a little.
15:54He'd still go to her.
15:56Good thing.
15:56I don't care anymore.
15:57The lid of my coffin suddenly flew open.
16:00Chaos.
16:02Guards and butlers shouting.
16:04Celeste screaming.
16:05Lorenzo was calling my name.
16:08L.A. L.A.
16:11I'm here.
16:12I'm coming to get you.
16:13He looked insane.
16:14Eyes blood red.
16:15Fighting to climb into the coffin.
16:17Celeste screamed.
16:18Someone pull Enzo away.
16:22L.A.
16:24Total chaos.
16:25Finally the guards dragged him off.
16:27The coffin was sealed.
16:28Lowered to the ground.
16:29Two days have passed.
16:30Slowly my breath returned.
16:32But the air in the coffin was running out.
16:34Above me thick layers of dirt.
16:35Then I heard a shovel digging through the earth.
16:37The coffin opened again.
16:39L.A.?
16:41Yes.
16:44Fresh air rushed in.
16:46This time Julian stood above me.
16:47He knelt on one knee.
16:49He knelt on one knee.
16:49Reached down.
16:50And helped me out.
16:51Miss Alessia.
16:52You're finally free.
16:57Julian took me to Europe.
16:59Five years had passed since Lorenzo and Celeste got married.
17:02The truth is.
17:04Julian first confessed to me the very first time we met.
17:06He asked if I wanted to leave Lorenzo.
17:09He asked if I wanted to leave Lorenzo.
17:09But back then, I was completely in love with Enzo.
17:13Couldn't pull myself out.
17:15Even if he slept next to me, his heart belonged to someone else.
17:19Sometimes I'd let myself dream that maybe one day he'd really love me back.
17:22But when Celeste came back, that 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.
17:33Patient.
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.
17:50Started from nothing.
17:51He had connections.
17:53Investments.
17:53A head for business his brother never had.
17:56Within three years, he built something new.
17:58Legit.
17:58Clean.
18:00I was sitting in a bar.
18:02Having a drink.
18:03And I heard them talking about Lorenzo 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 off up north.
18:16Then, after fighting through hell, he clawed his way to becoming the Moretti heir.
18:20Finally, 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, a news alert flashed on my phone.
18:34New York.
18:35Sudden heavy rain.
18:36The Moretti family cemetery.
18:38Flooded.
18:39The date on the news three days ago.
18:41Then a deafening roar.
18:43Panic.
18:44People scattering.
18:45A 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.
19:06He 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, he used to call me Alessia in front of others.
19:23But in private, I was ale.
19:24After Celeste came, he stopped using my name altogether.
19:27Just cold, distant Alessia.
19:29Now, even though he said it with anger, there 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, a sparkling diamond ring.
19:43And on it, engraved with Julian's name.
19:48You married?
19:51I immediately told the bartender,
19:53Forget the whiskey.
19:54Give 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.
20:07Whiskey splashed everywhere.
20:11What did you expect?
20:13My voice was ice.
20:14Yes, Lorenzo.
20:15If I didn't lie, would I have ever gotten out?
20:21What?
20:23If I didn't get out, how many more years would you have kept me in that prison?
20:27Rotten food.
20:29A single thin blanket.
20:31See this scar on my arm?
20:32That's from Frostblade.
20:34From back then.
20:35Of course I lied.
20:37Of course I faked my death.
20:38If Julian hadn't kept coming to see me, I probably would have died in there for real.
20:43Lorenzo's eyes dropped to my arm, the frostbite scars.
20:46Unmistakable.
20:47Something flickered in his eyes.
20:49Pain.
20:49Guilt.
20:50Regret.
20:51When he spoke again, his voice had softened.
20:53Alec.
20:55I know.
20:57You suffered.
20:59But I would never have let you die.
21:02I 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.
21:25I keep dreaming.
21:26Of you dragging yourself through gunfire wounded just to get me to the top.
21:30The moment we made it, you 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, it's broken.
21:56Even if you try to piece it back together, the 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.
22:09Ale, I'm sorry.
22:11I shook my head.
22:12There's nothing to be sorry for.
22:15Lorenzo panicked.
22:16He opened his mouth, desperate to explain.
22:19Ale, the person I love is you.
22:21Back then, I 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.
22:32I know what you're trying to tell me.
22:35Celeste's family had power.
22:37You needed them to secure your place as boss.
22:40So even though you knew I didn't poison her, that she staged the whole thing, you had to play along.
22:47Indulge her.
22:48And that meant locking me up on the island.
22:51Lorenzo's mouth hung open.
22:52He couldn't speak.
22:54He'd spent all this energy finding me, thinking he'd explain everything.
22:58He never guessed I already knew.
23:01Yes, I understood it all.
23:04I just pretended not to.
23:07Lorenzo, I know you love me.
23:10But this love?
23:12It's not what I want anymore.
23:14Lorenzo couldn't hold back anymore.
23:16He stepped forward, grabbed my hand, looked 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.
23:38My 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, you're not Lorenzo.
23:51You're just my husband, Alexia's husband.
23:54We live a simple life, together.
23:57Then everything in the past is forgiven.
23:59And I'll love you again.
24:01Deal?
24:02Lorenzo's face went pale, completely white.
24:04I smiled and pulled my hand back.
24:08See, Enzo?
24:09You can't.
24:11You love me.
24:12But your love gave me prison.
24:15Coldness.
24:15Pain.
24:16Torment.
24:17Julian loves me, too.
24:19But his love is acceptance.
24:21Gentleness.
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, one last question.
24:40Do you still love me?
24:42I smiled.
24:44Mr. Morelli.
24:45Go home.
24:47Celesta is waiting for you.
24:49There are plenty of women in the world who love you.
24:53I'm just...
24:54Not one of them anymore.
24:57Lorenzo left.
24:57The guards surrounding the bar left, too.
25:01After that, Lorenzo never came looking for me again.
25:04I heard that once Lorenzo had fully consolidated his power, he wiped out Celeste's entire family.
25:10Completely.
25:11He locked Celeste in an underground prison and poisoned her food slowly, the same way she had framed me.
25:16When I heard this, I felt nothing.
25:18The past couldn't stir a single ripple in my heart anymore.
25:24A few more years passed, one of Lorenzo's closest men came to find me.
25:28He said Lorenzo was gravely ill, clinging to life.
25:31Wanted to see me one last time.
25:32I hesitated for a long time.
25:34Then I told him,
25:36I 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, he 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, and I'll live mine.
26:05The rest of our lives, just not together.
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