In "Fake Death, True Vengeance," a woman faces a fake death in her path to unstoppable revenge. As she fights to survive in the shadows and strike back at those who betrayed her, a dangerous game of justice and vengeance unfolds. A thriller filled with suspense, emotion, and shocking twists.
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00:00The day I go into labor, my husband's sister locks me in the Leonetti family dungeon.
00:04She presses a Beretta to my temple.
00:06The Leonetti family doesn't need your child, you better pray to God she's never born.
00:10And my husband, the second son of the Leonetti crime family, is upstairs in a delivery suite,
00:15holding the hand of his dead brother's widow.
00:16The woman who might give the Leonetti's their male heir.
00:19I don't cry, I don't scream dead, I 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
00:27with a fully armed detail at his back.
00:28That king is my father, Victor Volkov.
00:31I lie on the birthing bed, contractions rolling through me in waves, each one tighter and more
00:35savage than the last.
00:36This is the Leonetti family's private clinic in Brooklyn.
00:39Black suburban's idol at the curb downstairs.
00:41Arm sole dotty line the corridors.
00:43My husband, Dante Leonetti, holds my hand.
00:46Just a little longer Sarah, we're about to meet our baby.
00:49Shaking 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, and in that sliver of silence I hear him murmur
01:01to the nurse in Italian.
01:02Aggiusta il dosamengio.
01:04Deve resistere finque Sofia non parterta.
01:06I stare at him.
01:07He doesn't meet my eyes.
01:08He just glances down at his watch.
01:10Sofia's already at 6 centimeters.
01:12We're at 6 centimeters.
01:15Basta ancora 2 ore.
01:16I want to scream.
01:17I want to claw his face off.
01:19But the drug is already flooding my veins.
01:21It isn't anesthesia.
01:22It 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.
01:32I am wheeled into the basement.
01:33Iron rings still jut from the walls.
01:35The concrete floor is stained and patch is 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.
01:47Sofia is carrying Marco's posthumous child.
01:49You 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.
01:58She glanced at my belly.
01:59If your baby comes first, the cappy out there will use it as abnutrition.
02:03Claim Dante's bloodline has a stronger claim to succession.
02:06They already resent him for running the family in Marco's place.
02:09Give them one more excuse and the whole house tears itself apart.
02:11So Sofia's child has to arrive first.
02:14Then yours can come.
02:15As if this were all for my benefit.
02:16Call the doctor.
02:18And the pain is turning my vision black.
02:20The baby's coming.
02:21Please.
02:22Julia 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.
02:36She stands and turns to the soldado at the door.
02:39Watch her.
02:39If she screams, shut her up.
02:41The door closes.
02:42The basement has a single emergency light.
02:45A sick, jaundiced glow.
02:46I lie on the floor.
02:48Blood is seeping through my hospital gown.
02:50Spreading 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.
02:57They 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.
03:08He was looking at an inconvenience that needed to be shelved.
03:11Three months ago, his older brother Marco died.
03:14Officially, it was a car accident.
03:16A 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 the family chapel.
03:31Don Enzo, the iron-fisted patriarch of the Leonetti dynasty,
03:34wept in public for the first time in living memory.
03:36He gripped Sofia's hand.
03:38Il sangue tutto.
03:39Blood is everything.
03:40Marco 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.
03:50You are managing this family because your brother is dead.
03:52When his child is born, the true heir returns.
03:56Know your place.
03:57I'd actually stepped forward to comfort him.
03:59Father, don't worry.
04:01Dante and I will hold this family together.
04:03Don 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!
04:16The baby's coming!
04:17Please!
04:17Save my child!
04:19Nothing.
04:19Dead silence on the other side.
04:21I scream until my voice gives out.
04:23Then, finally...
04:24Shut up.
04:25Miss Julia says wait.
04:27But the baby...
04:27That's her problem.
04:29I sink to the floor.
04:30My whole body is cold.
04:31This isn't fate.
04:33This isn't God's will.
04:34Someone 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.
04:49It is Dr. Luca Ferrara,
04:50the Leonetti family's private physician,
04:52a 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?
04:58What 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.
05:07Dr. Ferrara crouches and presses his hand to my abdomen.
05:10His breath catches like he's been punched.
05:16He tries to lift me,
05:17but the moment I move,
05:19a hot gush pours from between my legs.
05:21Blood.
05:21A terrifying amount of blood.
05:23Dr. Ferrara shouts toward the open door.
05:25I need help.
05:26The patient is hemorrhaging.
05:28The corridor is empty.
05:29Tonight,
05:30for 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.
05:38In this family,
05:38the birth of the first born heir takes priority over everything.
05:41Over anything,
05:43Dr. Ferrara pulls out his phone,
05:44no signal.
05:45The basement is a dead zone.
05:47I'm carrying you upstairs.
05:49Hold on.
05:53Julia rounds the corner with two nurses in tow.
05:56She sees us and raises an eyebrow.
05:58Luca,
05:59what are you doing down here?
06:01Sophia's in the delivery room on three,
06:03why aren't you up there?
06:04Dr. Ferrara points at the gutted operating room.
06:07His voice shakes.
06:09Where is the equipment?
06:10Julia spreads her hands.
06:12Move to the third floor.
06:14Sophia's having a cesarean.
06:15The lead surgeon wanted every contingency covered.
06:18Don Enzo approved it.
06:21Dante gave the order to transfer all first floor equipment upstairs.
06:25Her gaze drifts to me.
06:26Sarah's in labor?
06:28Well,
06:28she'll have to wait.
06:31Sophia isn't finished yet.
06:33Luca,
06:33torna su.
06:34Hanno bisogno di te.
06:35Go back to three.
06:37They need you.
06:38Dr. Ferrara doesn't move.
06:40He looks at Julia.
06:42Then at me.
06:43Then back at Julia.
06:44And slowly,
06:45heavily,
06:46understanding settles over his face.
06:47This isn't an oversight.
06:49It isn't a coincidence.
06:50It has been arranged.
06:52But Dr. Ferrara still turns and charges into the adjacent medical supply room,
06:55tearing open cabinets.
06:57Empty.
06:58Every last one.
06:59Not even basic hemostats.
07:01Not even gauze.
07:03Where are the drugs?
07:04The coagulants!
07:05The oxytocin!
07:06A nurse whispers.
07:07Everything was sent to the third floor.
07:09Mr. Leonelli's orders.
07:10All resources are to be prioritized for Sophia.
07:13Dr. Ferrara slams his fist into the cabinet door.
07:16He looks at me,
07:17his eyes red.
07:18I'm sorry,
07:19Mrs. Leonetti.
07:21I can't.
07:22There's nothing I can't.
07:25Julia walks over and pats his shoulder.
07:27Luca,
07:28relax.
07:29Sarah hasn't delivered yet,
07:30has she?
07:31Once Sophia's done,
07:32we'll move everything back down.
07:33She pauses,
07:34then adds.
07:35Besides,
07:36even if Sarah's child is born,
07:37it changes nothing.
07:38The right of succession belongs to Marco's line.
07:40Don Enzo decided.
07:42Dante's child,
07:43boy or girl,
07:43will never be named heir.
07:45In this family,
07:46Sarah and her baby are,
07:47how do I put this,
07:48not essential.
07:49I stare at her.
07:51Stare at this woman I have loved like a sister for three years.
07:54Then I summon every last shred of strength in my body and force out two words.
07:57Fuck you!
07:58Julia's face goes cold.
07:59She leans down to my ear.
08:01Body's wrecked.
08:02I have plenty of ways to make you disappear quietly.
08:05When the time comes,
08:06the Leonetti succession only needs Sophia and her child.
08:09As for you,
08:10for Dante's sake,
08:10I'll let you live.
08:12Sign the annulment papers.
08:14Take a check.
08:15Disappear.
08:16Don't be an eyesore.
08:17Dr. Ferrara can't take any more.
08:19Julia!
08:20Do you understand what you're doing?
08:22Two souls!
08:23Two souls before God!
08:25Two souls?
08:26Julia straightens.
08:27Luca,
08:28you've been the family doctor for 30 years.
08:30What haven't you seen?
08:32A woman dying in childbirth,
08:33it's the most natural thing in the world.
08:35And this,
08:36this is family business.
08:39Know your place,
08:40Luca.
08:41She waves at the soul Dottie.
08:43Escort Dr. Ferrara back to three.
08:45I'll take care of Sarah.
08:47Two soldiers step forward and sees Dr. Ferrara,
08:49dragging him toward the stairwell.
08:51No!
08:51He fights them every step,
08:52shouting back over his shoulder.
09:01Dante's face appears on the screen.
09:03Every Leonetti man receives when he comes of age.
09:06Sarah,
09:07don't do anything.
09:07Don't make a scene.
09:12Sophia's in trouble.
09:13Fatal heart rate is dropping.
09:15Look at Sarah,
09:16she's lost so much blood.
09:17Doesn't look good, does it?
09:18Dante glances at the screen.
09:20His eyes flick away almost immediately.
09:23Tell her to wait.
09:24Once Sophia delivers,
09:26the doctors will come down.
09:28Sarah,
09:29tieni duro.
09:30Non posso venire adesso.
09:32The call ends.
09:34Hear that?
09:35In Dante's heart,
09:36Sophia and that baby come first.
09:38You're just,
09:38how did I put it?
09:39A vessel.
09:41Once you've served your purpose,
09:43you have no value.
09:45I close my eyes.
09:46I stop looking at her.
09:48My hand creeps behind my back,
09:50fingers finding the button-sized device
09:51sewn into the lining of my undergarment.
09:53Papa gave it to me.
09:54Sarah,
09:55the Leonetzis are not what they seem.
09:57These people...
10:06My consciousness dims,
10:07sliding in and out like a bad signal.
10:08Julia sits in a chair,
10:10sipping espresso.
10:11Every now and then she glances up at me like I am something mildly unpleasant she's been asked to keep
10:15an eye on.
10:16Sarah, tell me.
10:17Why did you marry into this family in the first place?
10:19Dante's pretty face?
10:20Or the Leonati name?
10:23Think about it.
10:24A nobody.
10:24A girl from nowhere.
10:26What made you think you deserve to be called a Leonati?
10:30I say nothing.
10:31I just keep doing what Dr. Ferrara told me.
10:33Heel of the palm against the top of the uterus.
10:35Push downward.
10:36Left side.
10:37Stay on your left side.
10:39Even if it is hopeless.
10:41If you hadn't gotten pregnant first, Dante would never have married you.
10:44You think Don Enzo would have let a nobody into this house?
10:47That baby in your belly, that was your ticket in.
10:49Nothing else.
10:50The plan was simple.
10:51You give Dante an heir,
10:53carry on his branch of the bloodline,
10:55and at least you'd have some use.
10:56Then Marco died,
10:57and everything changed.
11:00What Don Enzo needs now is the firstborn heir,
11:03not what's in your belly.
11:07So know your place, Sarah.
11:09You were never the main character in this family.
11:12Once Sofia delivers,
11:14you sign the annulment papers,
11:15take the money,
11:16and walk away.
11:17Start over.
11:18Far away from this life.
11:20It could be worse.
11:22Does Dante know you talk to me like this?
11:25Julia smiles.
11:26Of course.
11:27He's the one who sent me.
11:30Said you're stubborn.
11:31Said he was worried you'd do something foolish.
11:34He asked me to help you see reality.
11:36A spasm rips through my abdomen,
11:38the worst yet.
11:38The drug has burned off completely.
11:40The baby is coming.
11:43I can't hold it in.
11:44Julia steps back.
11:46Come.
11:47What a mess.
11:51Someone come look at her!
11:54A nurse creeps in.
11:55She's fully dilated.
11:56I can see the head crowning,
11:58but there's too much blood loss.
11:59If she delivers like this,
12:00both she and the baby will.
12:01No medication.
12:02There's nothing I can do.
12:05There's nothing I can do.
12:07Clean this up.
12:08She gives her orders and walks upstairs without looking back.
12:11Not once.
12:12The nurse is too frightened to argue.
12:14She kneels between my legs and tries to help me dilate with her bare hands.
12:17But I have nothing left to push with.
12:19Too much blood gone.
12:21No strength.
12:22The baby is stuck,
12:23can't go back up,
12:24can't come down.
12:25Seconds crawl past.
12:26Each one an eternity of agony.
12:28Then,
12:28from the corridor,
12:29a sudden thunder of footsteps.
12:31Men meet.
12:32Boots hitting concrete in unison.
12:34And the sharp,
12:34metallic snap of charging handles being racked.
12:37The nurse's face drains of color.
12:38The door explodes inward.
12:40A black clad squad pours through the breach.
12:41Compact AK pattern rifles at the shoulder.
12:43Tactical vests unmarked.
12:45No badges.
12:46No insignia.
12:47No agency lettering.
12:48This isn't law enforcement.
12:50This is a private army.
12:52The soul doggy are down.
12:54The man at the point of entry reaches up and pulls off his tactical helmet,
12:57revealing a face cut from hard Slavic angles,
12:59high cheekbones,
13:00pale eyes.
13:00A jaw like the edge of a blade.
13:02He sees me,
13:03and his eyes go red.
13:07They've called me that since I was a little girl.
13:10I reach for him.
13:11No sound will come.
13:14The man doesn't even glance at her.
13:21He gathers me into his arms and barks over his shoulder.
13:25Sweep the building.
13:26Get the trauma team in.
13:27Every Leononi in this facility.
13:28Disarm and detain.
13:29Yes!
13:30The men in black move like a machine.
13:32The nurse tries to bolt.
13:33A hand catches her shoulder and presses her flat to the ground.
13:37You can't do this!
13:39This is Leonati!
13:40The man looks back at her.
13:42His gaze is arctic.
13:44Leonati?
13:45In about five minutes there won't be a Leonati.
13:48I am carried into a modified medical vehicle parked outside.
13:50Outfitted like a mobile operating theater.
13:53Surgical lights.
13:54Monitors.
13:55Ventilator.
13:56A full team of doctors and nurses already gloved and waiting.
14:00They descend on me instantly.
14:01BP 60 over 40.
14:03Hemorrhagic shock.
14:04Fetal distress.
14:05We need an emergency cesarean now.
14:08The mother's vitals are too unstable.
14:09Surgical risk is...
14:11Is do it!
14:13She dies, I die.
14:15Get your hands in there.
14:16Now!
14:17Save my baby.
14:19Whatever happens.
14:21Save her first.
14:28The cardiac monitor shriek.
14:30She's coding!
14:31Get the crash car!
14:32D-Fib!
14:34Fetal heart rate is dropping!
14:36Prep for section right now!
14:38The anesthesia mask comes down over my face.
14:41In the last flicker of consciousness, I hear a doctor shout.
14:44The baby!
14:45The baby has no heartbeat!
14:48Then, darkness.
14:49I don't know how long I am under.
14:51When my eyes open, I am staring at an unfamiliar ceiling.
14:54The air smells of antiseptic.
14:55She's awake!
14:57She's awake!
14:57It's awake!
14:58It's awake!
14:58Familiar faces crowd around the bed, Papa's personal guards.
15:01Men who have been part of my world for as long as I can remember.
15:04The baby!
15:05My voice is wrecked, a stranger's rasp.
15:07Where's my baby?
15:08The room goes silent.
15:10A terrible, ringing silence.
15:12Seconds pass.
15:13Then the man standing at the foot of the bed turns slowly to face me.
15:16My father.
15:17Victor Volkov.
15:19They call him the Old Wolf.
15:20From Brighton Beach to Boston, every branch of the East Coast Papa answers to him.
15:24But the man who makes the entire Eastern Seaboard tremble is gone.
15:27The person standing before me is just a father, a father who has been broken.
15:31He walks to the bed and sits on the edge.
15:33Takes my hand.
15:37I look into his bloodshot eyes, and I already know.
15:42Plutonal abduction.
15:44Massive hemorrhage.
15:46The baby was deprived of oxygen for too long.
15:49He pauses.
15:51The doctors did everything they could.
15:53I close my eyes.
15:54I don't cry.
15:55I don't scream.
15:57The tiny life that spent nine months inside me, who kicked me awake every morning,
16:01who I whispered secrets to in the dark, is gone.
16:03Where's Dante?
16:05Papa wipes his eyes.
16:07With Sophia.
16:08She delivered.
16:09A boy.
16:11The entire Leonetti family is celebrating.
16:14No one remembered you.
16:19Good.
16:20That's good.
16:22Papa grips my hand tighter.
16:23Sarah.
16:24Come home with me.
16:25The Leonettis don't deserve you.
16:27That man least of all.
16:29I open my eyes and look at him.
16:30A plan, perfect in its cruelty, exquisite in its patience, has already finished assembling
16:35itself inside my mind.
16:37Papa.
16:39I need you to do something for me.
16:41I need you to fabricate a body.
16:42A woman who just gave birth, dead from postpartum heverage.
16:47I want them to think I'm dead.
16:48And then I want to watch with my own eyes how they celebrate a new life while mine lies
16:52cold in a drawer.
16:53Done.
16:54My princess.
16:55For the Volkov family, fabricating a corpse is routine.
16:59An unclaimed Jane Doe of similar build is sourced from the New York City morgue.
17:02The family's own plastic surgeon works through the night, reshaping the facial features,
17:06injecting embalming fluid and blood simulation compounds.
17:09Postpartum hemorrhage markers are meticulously replicated, the waxy pallor, the blood-soaked
17:13sheets between the legs, the slack, deflated abdomen of a woman who has just delivered.
17:17Then a medical examiner at the OCME, the office of the chief medical examiner, is paid to sign
17:22the death certificate.
17:23In this world, making someone disappear, or making someone dead, is a phone call and
17:28a wire transfer.
17:29The body is delivered to the clinic's basement to hold storage.
17:32Indistinguishable from the real thing.
17:34I sit in the surveillance room of a safe house three blocks away, watching the monitors.
17:38Our people wired the clinic months ago.
17:40Papa insisted on it the moment I became pregnant.
17:42At the time, I told him he was being paranoid.
17:45Papa sits beside me now, holding my hand.
17:48Any regrets?
17:49About what?
17:51Marrying him.
17:52I think about it.
17:52No.
17:53At least now I've seen these people for what they really are.
17:56On the screen, Dante finally emerges from the third floor delivery suite.
18:00He is carrying a swaddled infant.
18:02The joy on his face is unmistakable, but it isn't the joy of a new father.
18:06It is the joy of a man who has won.
18:08Everything has gone according to plan.
18:10Sofia has safely delivered Marco's posthumous son.
18:13The firstborn heir has arrived.
18:14And Dante's position as acting head of the family is, for the moment.
18:17Secure.
18:18Sofia is wheeled out on a gurney, pale but beaming.
18:21Don Enzo hobbles over on his cane, trembling, and peers down at the baby.
18:25Tears stream down the old man's face.
18:27Il sangue continua.
18:28He keeps repeating it.
18:30Marco, your son is here.
18:32The Leonetti bloodline is unbroken.
18:34A crowd gathers around the child.
18:36Laughter.
18:37Congratulations.
18:39Embraces.
18:39No one asks about me.
18:41No one remembers that another woman has been in labor, fighting for her life, and losing.
18:45Until a nurse says quietly,
18:46Mr. Leonetti, your wife.
18:49Dante frowns, as if reminded of a chore.
18:52No update yet.
18:53Dr. Ferrara is with her downstairs.
18:56I'll go check.
18:57He hands the baby to the nurse and heads for the elevator.
19:00Julia hurries after him.
19:01I'll come with you.
19:02They step in, one after the other.
19:04The doors close.
19:06The surveillance feed switches to the first floor.
19:09Dr. Ferrara is standing outside the empty operating room, his back against the wall.
19:13His face is the color of ash.
19:15He sees Dante and snaps upright.
19:17Mr. Leonetti.
19:18Where's my wife?
19:19Dr. Ferrara opens his mouth.
19:21He just turns his body and points toward the basement cold storage.
19:24The color drains from Dante's face.
19:26What do you mean?
19:27Mrs. Leonetti.
19:28Hemorrhage.
19:29We couldn't...
19:31Dr. Ferrara's head drops.
19:32The baby didn't make it either.
19:34The air turns to stone.
19:36Dante stands motionless.
19:37Impossibile.
19:38She was fine.
19:39Just...
19:39She was not fine.
19:41She lost too much blood, no equipment, no medication, tried everything.
19:46He crouches down and buries his face in his hands.
19:49You dispelged.
19:51I tried everything.
19:52Dante seizes him by the collar and hauls him up.
19:54What did you just say?
19:56Dr. Ferrara nods, tears falling.
19:58I'm sorry.
19:59Dante releases him.
20:01Staggers back two steps and hits the wall.
20:03That's not possible.
20:05This morning she was fine.
20:07Dante, calm down.
20:08Let me go look.
20:09She walks briskly to the cold storage unit and pulls open the door.
20:12The body inside lies with an expression that is peaceful and agonized at once.
20:16The white sheet beneath it is drenched in blood.
20:19Julia stares for several seconds.
20:20Then she claps a hand over her mouth, spins around, and rushes out.
20:24It's real.
20:25Dante pushes past her and goes in.
20:27The surveillance camera captures him standing in front of the storage drawer.
20:31Perfectly still.
20:32For so long that Julia grows frightened and goes in after him.
20:35Dante.
20:36He raises his fist and drives it into the wall.
20:38Why?
20:39Why didn't someone tell me sooner?
20:41Dr. Ferrara's voice drifts from outside the door, barely audible.
20:45Your phone was off.
20:46No phones allowed in the delivery suite.
20:48Dante whips around.
20:49Then come find me.
20:51Third floor to first floor.
20:52How long does that take?
20:54You just stood there and watched her die?
20:57Dr. Ferrara says nothing.
20:58His shoulders shake.
21:00Julia steps in, conciliatory.
21:02Don't blame Luca.
21:03I told him not to go upstairs.
21:05Sophia was in critical condition.
21:06I didn't want to distract you.
21:07A slap.
21:08So hard it snaps Julia's head to the side.
21:10You hit me?
21:12You hit me for her?
21:16You locked her in the basement.
21:19Julia's eyes dart away.
21:21I only told her to wait.
21:23Wait?
21:24Dante's voice drops to a whisper.
21:25That was two lives.
21:27A woman and a child.
21:29I asked you to take care of her.
21:31And this is what you did?
21:33I did it for the family.
21:35Sophia's baby carries Marco's blood.
21:37He's the firstborn heir.
21:39Serra's child was never going to.
21:41Don Enzo set the rules.
21:43Don Enzo set the rules.
21:44Dante repeats.
21:46Something in his expression fractures.
21:47He stands there.
21:49The rage drains out of him slowly, replaced by a hollow, vacant stare.
21:53So her life just didn't matter.
21:56No one answers.
21:56No one answers.
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