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The Wedding Execution
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00:00They call me a vindictive lunatic, a woman with a heart made of jagged glass and a soul drenched
00:05in gasoline. Most people, when slapped, turn the other cheek. Me? I ripped the arm off the person
00:11who slapped me and beat them with it. I remember when I was 7, a neighbor accused me of stealing
00:16a measly 20 bucks. I didn't cry. I didn't plead. I waited until the moon was high, climbed onto
00:22her porch, and systematically dismantled the tiles of her roof until the rain flooded her entire life.
00:28At 25, a colleague whispered that my promotion was bought in bed. I didn't report her to HR.
00:34I found the hidden camera, footage of her and the married CEO in the supply closet, and played
00:39it on a 10-foot LED loop at the annual gala while sipping champagne. I don't forget. I don't forgive.
00:46And now, my family has traded me like a prize mayor to the Nelsons. Edwin Nelson, a man who thinks
00:51his
00:52family's old money can buy my submission. He thinks he's marrying a socialite. He doesn't realize he's
00:57opening the door to a category 5 hurricane. And tonight, at our pre-wedding gala, the storm
01:02is finally making landfall. The ballroom smelled of lilies and hypocrisy. I stood there, wrapped
01:09in a silk dress that cost more than most people's education, watching her. Hannah Robinson, Edwin's
01:14so-called childhood friend. In reality, she was a parasite with a French manicure, clinging
01:19to Edwin's arm as if she were the bride. She leaned in close, her breath smelling of expensive
01:24gin and cheap malice. Marjorie, I see you're following the family tradition of aggressive
01:31social climbing. Given your mother's history with the Flynn's, I assume Edwin is simply your
01:36latest attempt at job security, after your last sponsor lost interest? The laughter that
01:42followed was sharp, like the sound of breaking bones. Edwin didn't stop them. He didn't even
01:47flinch. He just stood there, his eyes cold, enjoying my supposed humiliation. They were all
01:53waiting for me to shatter. But they forgot one thing, you can't break something that's
01:57already made of steel. I didn't blink. I reached for a crystal bottle of vintage scotch on the
02:03table. With a slow, deliberate motion, I smashed it against the mahogany edge. The sound cracked
02:09through the room like a gunshot, before Hannah could even gasp. I had the jagged, dripping edge
02:15pressed firmly against her throat, right where her pulse was thrumming with terror.
02:18Edwin, I said. You have so many friends. One less wouldn't matter, right? Hannah's face
02:25went from pale to ghostly. The vultures stopped laughing. Edwin's face darkened. He grabbed
02:31me. He shoved my hand away with a force that bruised my wrist. Marjorie, what is wrong with
02:36you? Hannah was just joking. Can't you take a joke for once in your life?
02:49A joke? I whispered. I've never had much of a sense of humor. I don't get jokes. So anyone who
02:55jokes
02:56with me, I make them the joke. The room was thick with tension. Edwin's friends started jeering.
03:02Yeah, Marjorie. Someone like Edwin marrying you is a blessing for you. Can't you take a joke?
03:07Yeah, can't you take a joke? I felt a slow, predatory smile spread across my face. If they
03:11wanted a game, I'd give them one they'd never survive. I pulled out my black card. Limitless,
03:17cold, and powerful, and slammed it onto the table. Let's play a game. Truth or dare. Six rounds.
03:25If anyone makes me take a single sip of this drink tonight, this card is yours. You can buy a
03:33new life
03:34with it. But if you lose, watching Hannah's greed battle with her fear, she reached for the dice.
03:40Her eyes gleaming. She thought she was lucky. She didn't realize that in my world. The house always
03:45wins, and I am the house. I didn't even look at the dice as they rattled across the table.
03:51A perfect alignment of hell. I looked Hannah dead in the eye. Truth. She hesitated, her lip trembling.
04:00Truth. Tell me, Hannah. Did your mother marry your father before you were born, or did she wait
04:07until the original wife died of a broken heart three months after your birth? Is it true your entire
04:13existence is built on the ruins of another woman's life? The room went deathly silent. Hannah looked like
04:18I'd slapped her with a ghost. I-I-I picked dare. I slid a glass of a lethal, dark concoction
04:24toward
04:25her. Fine. Drink this. Then call your mother on speakerphone and tell her that tonight,
04:32everyone knows she was nothing but a baccally mistress.
04:39Edwin lunged at me then, his hand raised to strike. This was it. The moment the mask of the
04:44perfect groom finally fell. Edwin's hand stayed in midair, trembling with a rage he was too weak
04:51to act upon. He looked at me as if I were a monster, while Hannah huddled in his shadow like
04:56a wounded
04:57bird. Her father died for mine. That makes her family margit. Something you clearly don't understand
05:07with that ice water in your veins. I leaned in, my lips brushing his ear, whispering words that tasted
05:12like hemlock. Family? Or a convenient excuse for a mid-tier affair, Edwin? You're not a hero for
05:18protecting her. You're just a puppet with the strings pulled by a girl who smells like desperation.
05:24I walked out of that gala without looking back. My phone buzzed in my clutch. A message from my private
05:30investigator. Found it. The hero father? He didn't die saving anyone. He died running away with the
05:37company pension. I felt a cold, sharp joy. Tomorrow wasn't just a wedding, it was an execution.
05:43The morning of the wedding, the silk of my gown felt like cool armor against my skin.
05:48My father walked into the dressing room, his eyes scanning me not with love, but with the cold
05:53calculation of a CEO checking his stock. The Nelsons are fragile right now, Marjorie, he said.
06:00Marry him, stabilize the merger, then you can ruin him in private. I looked at my reflection,
06:05the perfect porcelain bride. But behind the veil, my eyes were those of a predator.
06:11Don't worry, dad. By the time the cake is cut, the Nelsons won't just be fragile.
06:17They'll be extinct. Just then, my phone chimed. A voice note from an unknown number. I pressed play.
06:24It was the sound of bedsheets rustling in Hannah's voice, breathless and triumphant.
06:29She thinks she's winning because she has the ring, Edwin. But I have you.
06:35I didn't cry. I smiled. They just gave me the opening act for my show.
06:41The cathedral was packed with the city's elite, vultures in tuxedos and hyenas in couture.
06:46As I stood at the back of the aisle, the organ music swelling, I saw Edwin at the altar.
06:51He looked smug, convinced he'd tamed the lunatic. Beside him, in the front row,
06:57Hannah was wearing a dress that was just a shade too close to white. I didn't start walking.
07:02Instead, I signaled my technician in the balcony. Suddenly, the music died. A static hiss filled
07:08the vaulted ceilings, followed by a sound that made the entire congregation gasp.
07:13Hannah's moans and Edwin's whispered promises from the night before,
07:16beaming through the $50,000 sound system.
07:20Margin is just a business transaction. You're the only one I truly want.
07:26Silence that followed was so heavy it felt like it would collapse the building.
07:31I stood there, the jilted bride, watching the color drain from Edwin's face until he looked like a corpse.
07:37I finally began my walk down the aisle, not as a victim, but as a judge.
07:41Every head turned, eyes wide with a mix of horror and pity. Edwin tried to step toward me,
07:47his mouth opening and closing like a fish out of water.
07:50Margie, that's not what it sounds like.
07:52I didn't let him finish. I reached him, and with the strength of every slight I'd ever endured,
07:57I delivered a slap that echoed like a gunshot. His head snapped to the side.
08:02It sounds exactly like a breach of contract, Edwin.
08:06My voice carrying to the very back row. Behind him, his father, old Mr. Nelson, clutched his chest,
08:12his face turning a terrifying shade of purple. He knew, in one minute, I hadn't just ruined a
08:18wedding. I'd wiped billions off their family's net worth, and I was just getting warmed up.
08:24Chaos erupted. Guests were fleeing. Reporters were storming the doors.
08:29In the middle of the carnage, my phone vibrated. A photo. My mother, tied to a chair on the rooftop
08:35of the hotel across the street. A jagged piece of rebar held to her throat by a hooded figure.
08:40Come alone, where she drops. The text read,
08:43I felt a surge of adrenaline so hot it burned.
08:46Hannah, only a girl that desperate would be that stupid.
08:50I didn't call the police, not yet. I wanted to see the look in her eyes,
08:54when she realized she'd brought a knife to a nuclear war.
08:57I slipped out the side door, shedding my veil like a snake shedding skin.
09:02Wait for me, Hannah. I have a gift for you.
09:06The wind at the top of the hotel was howling, whipping my white skirts around my legs like a
09:11ghost's shroud. Hannah was standing there, her eyes bloodshot and manic.
09:15Two of Edwin's friends, the same idiots who laughed at the gala, were holding my mother.
09:21You think you're so smart, Marjorie?
09:23Hannah screamed over the wind.
09:25You think you can just play with people's lives? I'm going to destroy you.
09:30I'm going to stream your heroic daughter begging for mercy while these guys have their way with her!
09:35I looked at my mother. She was terrified, but she locked eyes with me.
09:40I didn't show fear. I took a step forward, a cold, mocking laugh bubbling up in my throat.
09:45You really think this is how you win, Hannah? By becoming a common kidnapper?
09:50You're not a protagonist. You're a fit note.
09:56One of the thugs grabbed my hair, jerking my head back.
09:59Hannah pulled a small, pink pill from her pocket.
10:02This is a little something to make the show more interesting.
10:08By the time you wake up, you'll be the most hated woman in the country.
10:13A disgraced bride, caught in a drug-yeled orgy.
10:17She shoved the pill down my throat, and forced me to swallow.
10:21I choked, a bitter taste coating my tongue.
10:23I fell to my knees, gasping for air.
10:26Hannah turned to the camera she'd set up on a tripod.
10:30Are we live?
10:33Let's give the world what they want.
10:35I stayed on the floor, my hair covering my face.
10:38They thought I was fading.
10:39They didn't see the tiny microphone clipped to my bodice,
10:42or the way I was counting down the seconds in my head.
10:45Three, two, one.
10:48Suddenly, the thug holding the camera...
10:50Hannah? Wait. Look at the comments.
10:53Hannah ran to the screen, her smirk turning into a mask of pure horror.
10:58The feed wasn't showing me on the floor.
11:00It was showing everything.
11:02The camera she thought was hers had been hacked and redirected.
11:05The entire city, watching on the jumbotrons I'd rented,
11:08was seeing her hold a knife to an old woman's throat.
11:11They were seeing her force-feed me a pill.
11:17Surprise.
11:18My voice wasn't slurred.
11:20I'd palmed the pill and tucked it under my tongue,
11:23spitting it out the second they looked away.
11:26You wanted a live stream, Hannah?
11:28I just gave you a front-road seat to your own arrest.
11:36The sound of sirens began to wail from below.
11:39My security team, disguised as hotel staff,
11:43burst onto the roof.
11:44Within seconds, the thugs were pinned,
11:47and my mother was in my arms.
11:49Hannah was backed up against the ledge,
11:51sobbing, her pure image shattered into a million filthy pieces.
11:55I walked up to her,
11:57stepping on the hem of her cheap dress.
12:02You know what the best part is, Hannah?
12:05While you were playing kidnapper,
12:07my lawyers were filing the paperwork.
12:11Your father's embezzlement files?
12:13They're on the DA's desk.
12:16Every penny Edmund gave you?
12:18It's being clawed back as stolen assets.
12:25I leaned over the ledge,
12:27looking at the tiny people below.
12:29You're not just going to jail.
12:30You're going to be a pauper.
12:32And in this city,
12:33that's a fate worse than death.
12:35An hour later,
12:37I walked back into the wedding venue.
12:38It was empty now,
12:40except for the janitors and a broken,
12:42keeping Edwin Nelson sitting on the steps.
12:44He looked up at me,
12:46his tuxedo turned,
12:47his eyes bleeding.
12:48Margie, please.
12:50My father,
12:51he's in the ICU.
12:54The company is crashing.
12:59I was wrong.
13:03I'll do anything.
13:06I'll be the husband you want.
13:08I looked down at him
13:09as if he were a stain on my shoe.
13:11I reached into my bag,
13:12pulled out the wedding ring,
13:13and dropped it into his
13:15half-empty champagne glass.
13:17A husband?
13:19Edwin?
13:19I don't even want you as a footman.
13:21My voice ringing in the hollow hall.
13:23Go back to your little parasite.
13:25Go work a nine-to-five.
13:26Go see what it's like
13:27to be joking when you can't afford.
13:30Because from this moment on,
13:31you don't exist
13:32in my world.
13:36I turned and walked toward the light.
13:38The sound of my heels
13:39the only music I needed.
13:42After I got home,
13:44I received a phone call
13:45accusing me of a crime.
13:47Miss Flynn,
13:48we have received charges against you.
13:50Please come to the police station.
13:53I hung up the phone
13:54and went out to deal with it.
13:57As I stepped out of the police station,
13:59a sea of flashbulbs blinded me.
14:01Edwin's legal sharks had been busy,
14:04leaking photos of my arrest
14:05to paint me as a corporate bully
14:06tormenting a poor,
14:08innocent girl.
14:09A reporter shoved a mic into my face.
14:11Miss Flynn,
14:12any comment on the kidnapping charges?
14:14I didn't hide.
14:15I didn't flinch.
14:17I slowly removed my sunglasses,
14:19looked directly into the lens
14:21of a million-dollar camera,
14:22and raised my middle finger
14:24with royal elegance.
14:25I didn't need a PR team.
14:27I needed them to fear me.
14:28And soon,
14:29they would.
14:32On TV,
14:33Edwin was playing the role of his life.
14:35Tears in his eyes,
14:36voice trembling.
14:38Marjay has always been violent.
14:41Hannah is just a girl
14:42who lost her father
14:43and wanted to protect me.
14:45I almost clapped for him.
14:47He was weaponizing pity
14:49to save the Nelson's plummeting stock.
14:51Little did he know,
14:52while he was practicing
14:53his grieving fiancé routine,
14:55I was already dissecting
14:56his father's secret offshore accounts.
14:58Edwin,
14:59every act has a ticket price.
15:01Yours?
15:02It's the entire Nelson empire.
15:05That night,
15:06I went live.
15:07No filters.
15:08No script.
15:09Just me in my cold,
15:11marble office.
15:1210 million people tuned in
15:14within minutes.
15:17Since everyone loves a story,
15:18let's talk about the truth.
15:21I threw the first card,
15:23the autopsy and bank records
15:24of Hannah's father.
15:26The hero everyone's crying for?
15:28He was a thief who embezzled
15:29200 million before taking
15:31the coward's way out.
15:32And the Nelsons?
15:33They were his biggest creditors.
15:35The comments section
15:36turned into a battlefield.
15:38Hannah's pure image
15:39didn't just crack.
15:40It disintegrated.
15:42I played the second card,
15:43the raw.
15:44Unedited audio
15:45from the rooftop.
15:46This is a little something
15:46to make the show
15:47more interesting.
15:48By the time you wake up,
15:50you'll be the most hated woman
15:51in the country.
15:51Listen to this poor girl
15:53as she describes exactly
15:55how she planned
15:56to have her thugs
15:57violate my mother.
15:58Silence fell over the internet.
16:00The righteous fury
16:01of the masses
16:02shifted its trajectory.
16:03The stones they were throwing at me
16:05were suddenly flying
16:06toward the Nelson headquarters.
16:08Three days after Hannah's arrest,
16:11I visited her.
16:12She wore orange polyester.
16:14Her green tea innocence
16:15replaced by tangled hair
16:16and manic eyes.
16:17You're a demon, Marguerite.
16:19You destroyed me!
16:20She screamed through the glass.
16:22I looked at her
16:23with the boredom one feels
16:24for a crushed insect.
16:26No, Hannah.
16:28Your greed destroyed you.
16:30You thought catching Edwin
16:32was catching a gold mine.
16:34You didn't realize
16:35he was just the trash can
16:37I was finished with.
16:40Fraud.
16:41Insider trading.
16:42False imprisonment.
16:44The Nelson family
16:45was a palace built on sand
16:46and the tide
16:47had finally come in.
16:49Because of Edwin's stupidity,
16:51every poison pill
16:52in their contracts
16:52was triggered.
16:53My father,
16:54the shark he is,
16:55saw the blood in the water.
16:57We bought the Nelson core assets
16:58for pennies on the dollar.
17:00Edwin and his father
17:01fell from the clouds
17:02into the gutter
17:02and I was the one
17:03who kicked the ladder away.
17:05When the dust settled,
17:06my father walked into my office.
17:08For the first time,
17:10I saw respect in his eyes.
17:12Well done, Marguerite.
17:13You're more ruthless
17:14than I imagined.
17:17He handed me
17:18the new appointment papers
17:19for the group.
17:20I was no longer a pawn
17:21to be traded
17:22in a strategic marriage.
17:23I was the one
17:24moving the pieces.
17:25I was the master
17:26of the board.
17:30I found Edwin waiting
17:31outside my office.
17:33His stubble was thick.
17:34His designer suit
17:35wrinkled like a discarded rag.
17:38Marjorie,
17:39please.
17:40My father needs surgery.
17:41The company is gone.
17:43Help me.
17:43He tried to grab my hand.
17:45I stepped back.
17:46My eyes filled
17:47with a lethal disgust.
17:49Go deliver packages, Edwin.
17:50Or find a generous patron
17:52to keep you.
17:54But don't come begging here.
17:56I don't collect
17:58damaged guts.
18:00He stumbled away,
18:01looking like a marionette
18:03with its strings cut.
18:04I watched him go
18:05and felt
18:05nothing.
18:06No hate.
18:08No heat.
18:09Just a cold vacuum.
18:10I used to think
18:11I'd hate him forever.
18:12Now I realize
18:13he doesn't even deserve
18:14a kilobyte
18:15of my brain's memory.
18:16This indifference?
18:17This is the ultimate revenge.
18:20My parents were at it again.
18:22A strategist from London.
18:23An heir from
18:24an academic dynasty.
18:26At dinner,
18:27my mother whispered,
18:29Marges,
18:30you're young.
18:32You can't stay alone forever.
18:34I put down my fork.
18:36That old lunatic spark
18:37flickering in my eyes.
18:39Mom,
18:41do you think my momentum
18:42is too fast?
18:44Do you think I need a man
18:45to slow me down?
18:46I declined every suitor.
18:48To me,
18:49these elites
18:50were as transparent as glass.
18:51They didn't want a wife.
18:53They wanted a partner
18:54with a seat
18:55at the Flynn group table.
18:56They wanted my resources,
18:58not my heart.
18:59I had no love to give
19:01and even less money
19:02to waste on mediocrity.
19:03I took over
19:04the family's
19:05most difficult sectors
19:06and turned them
19:06into industry legends.
19:08Every morning,
19:09I stand by my
19:10floor-to-ceiling windows,
19:11watching the city
19:12wake up beneath my feet.
19:13I don't need
19:14anyone else's light to see.
19:16I am the sun.
19:18Late one night,
19:20my mother came
19:21to my apartment.
19:21She didn't talk business.
19:23She just held my hand.
19:25Marguerite,
19:26I'm not pushing you.
19:27I just hope
19:28you never close yourself
19:30off to love.
19:31To being loved, too.
19:33For a second,
19:35the glacier
19:35in my chest cracked.
19:36hoping that one day...
19:39I'm not closed off, Mom.
19:42I just raised
19:43the price of admission.
19:45Maybe one day,
19:46someone will walk in
19:47who doesn't ask me
19:48to be soft.
19:49Someone who doesn't
19:50fear my ambition
19:51or my malice.
19:52If he exists,
19:53I might let him stay.
19:55If he doesn't,
19:56I'm perfectly capable
19:57of walking
19:58this golden path alone.
19:59The story is over.
20:01People ask if I'm happy
20:02now that I've had
20:03my revenge.
20:03I tell them,
20:05happiness doesn't
20:05come from revenge.
20:07It comes from the power
20:08to overturn
20:08any table life sets
20:10before you.
20:10My name is Marjorie Flynn,
20:12a vindictive lunatic,
20:14a cold-blooded CEO,
20:15and a completely
20:16free woman.
20:17Remember,
20:18if you're going to
20:19play a role in my life,
20:20make sure you have
20:21the strength to stay
20:22until the curtains close.
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