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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
00:30until 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
00:50in a windowless room a damp stone house in the lake center i know celeste is torturing me on purpose
00:56but
00:57in 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
01:09you poisoned her baby miss falconia she'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
01:28she was just his mistress and she dared to poison his wife he'll never let her leave alive amidst the
01:35noise 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 falconi 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
01:57the 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
02:53i follow you do i
02:54get 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
03:48ballet i learned he even told me to call him enzo i knew he saw celeste when he looked at
03:53me
03:54then one night lorenzo drank a lot and he kissed me his breath was heavy and hot smelled like bourbon
04:02and
04:03menthol tobacco he held me i could feel the raw power under his chest like a beast my heart raced
04:10i knew i was falling i couldn't stop it he carried me to bed whispered in my ear don't be
04:16scared i
04:17won't hurt you then he looked at my face and reached out to turn off the light you'd think a
04:23spoiled
04:23son from a top mob family like the moretis would have been with dozens of women but enzo he was
04:29a
04:29first timer no one could imagine how different the cold reserved lorenzo was once he tore off that
04:34suit he kept me up until dawn after that if lorenzo came to my room sleeping at dawn was just
04:40how it
04:40went lorenzo was so good to me he knew i loved ice cream so he just bought an entire pistachio
04:47orchard
04:47in 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 in
04:57my life all my money this for you spent to thank him for being so good to me i took
05:03care of old
05:04mr 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
05:19i shielded lorenzo fought our way out took two bullets but lorenzo didn't get a scratch
05:26i 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 the truth is lorenzo's
05:39thing for celeste was never a secret back then he was just some overlooked mob son nobody cared about
05:46but now he runs the moretti family celeste's husband didn't have much power so to get in lorenzo's
05:53good graces he handed her over the day celeste arrived at the mansion she came to see me she was
06:00even more beautiful than her portrait head-to-toe emerald gown ethereal back then i was just the woman
06:06in his life unofficial but the moment celeste stepped in everyone in the family knew she was the
06:13obvious choice for mrs moretti and celeste knew it too so the first time she saw me she just looked
06:18me up and down then smiled oh you really do look like me the staff around enzo say he always
06:25turns
06:25off the bedside lamp when he's with you know why in the dark you look even more like me oh
06:31and look
06:32at that you're wearing emerald green too too bad trying to copy a masterpiece but you just end up
06:40looking cheap 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 he stopped coming to see me
07:15anything good lorenzo got he used to bring straight to me but now rare treasures bags clothes all of it
07:24went straight to celeste celeste 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 i said no
07:37it 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
07:58enzo i just i really loved that necklace i couldn't stop looking at it but ali said i was
08:05coveting it that i was trying to force her to give it to me ali i swear that's not what
08:10i meant
08:10lorenzo's face darkened he looked at the necklace then at me just a necklace give it to her he didn't
08:17remember it was his first gift to me celeste stood behind him she smiled at me i pretended not to
08:24see her since when you've been with me for years you have everything estie's different she suffered
08:34up north all those years she's never cared much for jewels or money nothing really interests her
08:39now she finally likes something can't you just let her have it i listened quietly then i smiled
08:45is 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 she went back fell into a spiral of worry and got sick
09:06bedridden for months she was also pregnant and she lost her child
09:10the doctors found it poison traces in her medicine the servant they caught confessed shaking they
09:18pointed at me it was alexia she told us to do it she stumbled into my room crying
09:28ala i know you're jealous of me that i have his heart but the baby the baby was innocent before
09:36i
09:36could speak she collapsed lorenzo came right after he lifted her up she lay in his arms pale and crying
09:41fragile like she might break lorenzo looked at me his voice was quiet you don't get to be jealous
09:45of esti you should know by now all these years the only reason i was good to you was because
09:50of her
09:52then he turned and carried her out after he left i cried all night long the next day lorenzo had
09:57my
09:57things moved to a stone house on an island in the middle of the estate's lake everyone knew i was
10:02the
10:02one who poisoned celeste's child they called it a stone house but it was cold damp a prison winter
10:07came no heat no blankets my hands swelled with frostbite only one person came to see me to take
10:13care of me lorenzo's younger brother julian julian is the most favored youngest son of the head of
10:18the moretti crime family unlike lorenzo he is gentle gentlemanly and possesses a sharp business mind
10:24he'd confessed to me before more than once and i'm sorry i still didn't feel that way about him
10:30the last time he visited he left a little box if you want to leave this place
10:37open it then he leaned close it's a synthetic coma inductor developed by military doctors in eastern
10:42europe you'll appear dead for 48 hours then wake up months passed the day lorenzo and celeste got
10:50married i opened the box it's the only way i took the pill closed my eyes darkness swallowed me
10:58my breath slowed then slower my blood too my body went cold piece by piece first my hands my feet
11:07then up my limbs then my heart the beats got slower until they stopped good that settles it all those
11:15extra beats it did whenever i saw lorenzo paid back lorenzo is probably in his wedding chamber right now
11:20with celeste this time he doesn't have to turn off the lights the next morning celeste had breakfast
11:26with lorenzo her arm linked through his she said softly i haven't seen ali in a while lorenzo's eyes
11:34darkened she poisoned you she's locked up on the island why would you want to see her ali didn't mean
11:39it i want to forgive her if it makes you happy lorenzo turned looked at her beautiful face after a
11:48long
11:48moment he sighed
11:52he looked at the butler bring alessia here
11:57a faint smile touched celeste's lips once alessia got here and saw how in love they were
12:02then she'd really won but the butler was gone a long time almost an hour passed before he came back
12:07pale shaking
12:10miss alessia she's dead
12:15the wine glass slipped from lorenzo's hand it shattered on the floor the dining room went silent
12:21then after a moment lorenzo laughed i get it alessia put you up to this right
12:27she just wants me to go to her the butler said nothing his face was dead white lorenzo looked at
12:32his face slowly the smile faded his voice was low telling the truth please accept my condolence
12:41celeste gasped because she saw it lorenzo's whole body lurched he almost hit the floor
12:46i finally got lorenzo to come he just stood in the doorway from far away he saw me lying there
12:53peaceful not moving his body lurched again all the color drained from his face
13:01celeste rushed to hold him up enzo lorenzo shook her off he walked in came to my side
13:12his voice was low
13:15ala back 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 ala he kept calling me stubborn can't be dead
13:27you were so healthy so full of life
13:33ala the doctor nearby finished his examination spoke softly to lorenzo
13:38mr moratti it looks like miss alessia died from old wounds acting up
13:44her body had two gunshot wounds and a knife wound near her left shoulder close to the heart
13:50lorenzo froze he knew where those wounds came from
13:52the bullets the blade all of them taken while protecting him while he fought to become the heir
13:59miss alessia died of a heart attack
14:02likely triggered by her old injuries
14:06and a broken heart
14:08lorenzo reached out like he wanted to touch my face
14:12it was me
14:15i killed her his voice cracked he asked the guard before ala left did she resent
14:24me miss alessia didn't say
14:29then he pulled out a letter this was hidden under her pillow it's addressed to you lorenzo told everyone
14:35to leave he sat alone in that stone room next to my body and opened the letter
14:43enzo i like you
14:46i know you don't like me back but that's okay
14:48thank 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
14:59won't see you again
15:02alessia
15:03lorenzo finished reading my letter
15:05the room was so quiet only his breathing
15:14you're really gone
15:15then hot tears one by one
15:18falling onto my face
15:19i realized lorenzo was crying first time i'd ever seen it
15:23why tears he 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
15:55good thing i don't care anymore
15:57the lid of my coffin suddenly flew open
16:00chaos
16:01guards and butlers shouting
16:03celeste screaming
16:05lorenzo was calling my 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 into the coffin
16:17celeste screamed
16:18someone pull enzo away
16:23total 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
16:40alay
16:41yes
16:44fresh air rushed in
16:46this time julian stood above me
16:48he knelt on one knee
16:49reached down and 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
17:03julian first confessed to me the very first time we met
17:06he asked if i wanted to leave lorenzo
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
17:17his 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 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 just to prove he wasn't his brother
17:50started from nothing
17:51he had connections
17:52investments
17:53a head for business his brother never had
17:55within three years he built something new
17:58legit
17:58clean
18:00i was sitting in a bar having 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
18:15then after fighting through hell
18:18he 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
18:32a 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
19:03his 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
19:17we 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
19:26he stopped using my name altogether
19:27just cold distant alessia
19:29now 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
19:38but 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
19:51i 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
20:12what did you expect
20:13my voice was ice
20:14lorenzo
20:16if 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
20:26would 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 frostbite
20:34from back then
20:35of course i lied
20:36of course i faked my death
20:38if julian hadn't kept coming to see me
20:41i probably would have died in there for real
20:43lorenzo's eyes dropped to my arm
20:44the frostbite scars
20:46unmistakable
20:47something flickered in his eyes
20:48pain
20:49guilt
20:50regret
20:51when he spoke again
20:52his voice had softened
20:53alec
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
21:08finally 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
21:27of you dragging yourself through gunfire
21:29wounded 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
21:59the 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
22:10alec i'm i'm sorry
22:11i shook my head
22:13there's nothing to be sorry for
22:15lorenzo panicked
22:16he opened his mouth
22:17desperate to explain
22:19alec 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
22:32i know what you're trying to tell me
22:35celeste's family had power
22:37you needed them to secure your place as boss
22:41so 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
22:48and 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
23:15lorenzo 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
23:23what 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 morechi 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
23:49you're not lorenzo
23:51you're just my husband
23:52alexia's husband
23:54we live a simple life
23:55together
23:57then everything in the past is forgiven
23:59and i'll love you again
24:01deal
24:02lorenzo'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
24:21gentleness
24:22unwavering
24:24unique
24:25unique
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
24:34finally 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 lorenzo never came looking for me again
25:04i 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
25:18the 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
25:33i 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
25:52he might feel like he's fulfilled every last wish
25:55and then the spark will leave him
25:58i had my reasons
25:59if he died now that whole empire would probably fall to julian
26:03he'll live his
26:03and i'll live mine
26:06the rest of our lives
26:08just not together
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