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Ten Years of Deception - FULL | DramaReel
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00:02My husband, who married into my family's wealth a decade ago, had no idea I was about to transfer a
00:0815-for-stake in Brownville Corporation to his name.
00:13That is, until our routine physicals. That's when I discovered something biologically impossible.
00:18My husband and I are both blood type O, but our 9-year-old son is type A.
00:22Staring at the boy who looked like a miniature version of my husband, I didn't say a word. I just
00:27calmly did two things.
00:28First, I plucked a few hairs from his head while he was sleeping.
00:33Second, I shredded those stock transferipocuments to pieces.
00:38After watching Leo walk through the school gates, I drove straight to a private DNA testing lab.
00:43I need this expedited. How fast can you get me the results?
00:46Standard is five business days. We can have it by 4 p.m. today, but it'll cost triple.
00:50My hands were shaking as I handed over the samples.
00:52Do it.
00:53After doing my own cheek swab, I sat in the waiting room watching the clock tick.
00:57To kill time, I made a call to a private investigator.
00:59I need a full background check on my husband, David.
01:01Track his every move over the last few months.
01:03Based on DNA analysis, the probability of maternity between Victoria and Leo is 0.0001%.
01:10I had spent nine years raising a child that wasn't my flesh and blood.
01:16So, where the hell was my real baby?
01:19I immediately drove to the maternity hospital where I gave birth nine years ago.
01:25Dr. Lewis, I need to pull my medical records and delivery files from nine years ago.
01:30That was a long time ago. Those files are likely deep in the archives.
01:34The file was suspiciously bare.
01:36Just the admission dates, delivery method, and birth weight.
01:40No detailed delivery logs.
01:42No nurse shift handovers.
01:43No pediatric clearance reports.
01:47Is this it? This is everything?
01:49That's all we have in the system.
01:51Physical maternity records are only kept for 10 years, so yours were about to expire anyway.
01:55Where are the newborn footprints?
01:57The heel prick blood test logs?
01:59Those should be in the nephenol logs, but we couldn't locate them.
02:03It couldn't be more obvious.
02:04A scrubbed medical file.
02:06Missing newborn logs.
02:10A son who shared my husband's face, but none of my DNA.
02:15Someone orchestrated this.
02:20I'm running some errands. I'll be home soon.
02:25Once the house was dead silent, I started tearing the place apart.
02:31I searched the master bedroom, the living room, even Leo's room.
02:36Nothing.
02:37Finally, my eyes landed on the desktop in the home office.
02:41The truth had to be in there.
02:50You're still up.
02:51Just sorting through some old files.
02:53I didn't touch the computer again that night.
02:55My mind spiraling into madness.
03:01I woke up the computer and typed in the password.
03:04Our anniversary? Incorrect.
03:06His birthday? Incorrect.
03:07Leo's birthday? Incorrect.
03:09This was a computer we bought together, and now I was completely locked out.
03:13I've got a last-minute business trip to Chicago tomorrow.
03:15Not sure how long I'll be gone.
03:17That's sudden.
03:19Who are you going with?
03:20Victoria.
03:21Seriously, can you not do this right now?
03:23You interrogate me over everything.
03:25You're constantly suspicious.
03:27It was just a question.
03:28Dinner was suffocatingly quiet.
03:30Leo must have sensed the tension because for once, he didn't complain about his vegetables.
03:34After David took a shower, he picked up his coat from the couch to hang it up.
03:37A crumpled receipt fell out of the pocket and landed right at my feet.
03:41I didn't recognize the brand, but I knew damn well it wasn't for me.
03:45David hadn't bought me a gift in ten years.
03:47I always made excuses for him.
03:49He's just not romantic.
03:51He's too busy with work.
03:52Turns out he was plenty romantic.
04:24Just not with his wife.
04:24It was a smile I hadn't seen in years.
04:26Right before the security checkpoint, Sarah stopped and naturally reached up to adjust
04:30his collar.
04:31David didn't pull away.
04:32He leaned in and whispered something in her ear.
04:34She giggled, went up on her tip pose, and kissed him on the lips.
04:38Any delusion I was holding onto shattered right then and there.
04:41All those late nights at the office, the constant irritation every time he looked at me.
04:45It all made sense.
04:47The son who wasn't biologically mine, could he somehow be connected to the woman standing
04:50right next to my husband?
04:57I have a new target, Sarah Jenkins.
05:00I want everything you can find on her, but specifically, find out if she has a kid.
05:10Sarah's son was born exactly one week after Leo.
05:14For the first time in 10 years, I felt pure, unadulterated rage boiling in my veins.
05:27After 10 years, the password turned out to be her birthday.
05:34From school uniforms to college, from graduation to work, they have never been apart.
05:4110 years of deception.
05:43I've lived like a fool in the play they wove.
05:49I stopped breathing.
05:52Noah, no.
05:53That was my son.
05:54My own child walked home alone with shoes falling apart while I raised the child of
05:59my enemy for 10 years.
06:01I raised my enemy's child for 10 years while my own flesh and blood son suffered outside
06:07for a decade.
06:09David, Sarah, you owe me and you owe my son.
06:13I will make you pay back a thousand times, ten thousand times over.
06:17I want a divorce.
06:19He gets nothing.
06:19I get full custody.
06:21He will pay.
06:22And one more thing.
06:24I'm going to make those two rot in jail for the rest of their lives.
06:2710 years ago, he promised me lifelong stability.
06:30Turns out his lifetime was just 10 years.
06:32Arthur, we need to talk before next week's board meeting.
06:35David forgot who really runs this empire.
06:37I got him the CEO job by begging my father to give him a chance.
06:40I put him in power and now I'm taking it all away.
06:43While David was away on business, I liquidated our joint assets.
06:46Every afternoon, I waited outside Westside Elementary.
06:49One pouring day, Noah had no umbrella and ran through the rain.
06:53I sat in my car, heartbroken.
07:02Here you are.
07:03Thank you, kiddo.
07:04Have some water.
07:08Just consider it a thank you for helping me with my papers.
07:11Go buy yourself some new sneakers, okay?
07:14Dad said if I get top grades on my midterms, he's taking me to Disney World.
07:20That's wonderful.
07:21My own child rode the city bus in worn-out shoes while his illegitimate son lived like a prince at
07:27my expense.
07:39I signed him up for a cramp school, which lasts two hours in the evening.
07:42Why did he suddenly sign up for a class?
07:43He's only in the fourth grade.
07:50Come here.
07:51Why do you smell of perfume?
07:53Who'd you go to dinner with again?
07:54Victoria, are we really doing this again?
07:56I was at a crowded restaurant.
07:58You need to stop being so paranoid.
08:07You hired someone to follow me?
08:09What matters is, what do you think would happen if these photos landing on the desks of the board of
08:13directors or your biggest clients?
08:16What do you want?
08:17First, fire Sarah Jenkins and never see her again.
08:20Second, tell me exactly what you did in that delivery room ten years ago.
08:23So, as long as you cut Sarah out completely, get her out of the company and out of our lives,
08:28I will let the past go.
08:29We have Leo, and now we have this baby.
08:34I need to think.
08:45I've made my decision, Victoria.
08:46We should...
08:47Save it.
08:51We have kids!
08:52Can't you think about the new baby?
08:54Can't you think about Leo?
08:56You mean the kid I raised for ten years?
08:59Who turned out to be the love child of you and Sarah?
09:02How...
09:03How do you know that?
09:04Since when?
09:06Thanks to your backup folder.
09:08Password was Sarah's birthday, which you've used for ten years.
09:12You were never going to New York.
09:15You were going to Hong Kong.
09:17Where is Noah?
09:18I need to see him.
09:19Victoria, you can't do this.
09:20He's my son!
09:21The second you swapped those babies, you lost the right to be a father.
09:25Now get the hell out of my house.
09:29Victoria!
09:30Victoria!
09:31I knew where he was headed, to find Sarah and the son he abandoned ten years ago.
09:35But he'd never find Noah.
09:37Three days prior, I told Noah the entire truth.
09:40I always knew I wasn't her son.
09:42Why else leave me here to rot?
09:43Noah, I'm your real mother.
09:46I'm sorry I'm late.
09:47Will you come with me?
09:48I'll take you away from here and we can start over.
09:54Listen to your assistant, sister.
09:56Mom will come to find you soon, okay?
10:02Once I finished burning David's life to the ground here, I was going to reunite with my real son.
10:08Victoria, please.
10:09We need to talk.
10:10The settlement is crystal clear.
10:12There's nothing to discuss.
10:14You go to see her every week.
10:15Haven't you noticed the injuries on your son?
10:23Four days post-divorce, David and Sarah's wedding foe hit my feed.
10:27She in a white gown, his arm around her.
10:30He looked incredibly stiff.
10:39Victoria, we've got everything.
10:41The wire transfers from the hospital swap, their text logs, the abuse footage, the medical records.
10:45It's more than enough for criminal charges.
10:47Good work.
10:48Do you want to see David one last time?
10:51It's too late.
10:56Noah's doing much better this week.
10:59He's opening up more.
11:13Noah, I'm your mom.
11:18I'm so sorry, baby.
11:20Mom got here too late.
11:22For the next two weeks, I fully stepped away from work to focus only on him.
11:26I took him to the park.
11:27He gripped the carousel pole for dear life on his first ride.
11:41Mom, please don't.
11:42Not the dark room.
11:43There are rats.
11:45Mom, I'm scared.
11:46The storage room is so dark.
11:48I screamed for so long, but nobody came.
11:51The rats crawled on my feet.
11:53It's okay, Noah.
11:54Mom is right here.
11:55No one is ever locking you up again.
11:57No rats are ever coming near you.
11:59I've got you.
12:04I wanted to physically tear apart anyone who had ever laid a finger on him.
12:23I held him in my arms and sat on the sofa until dawn, telling him stories from my childhood
12:28and later took him to the observatory on the outskirts of the city.
12:34Mom, the stars are so far, but just seeing them calms me down.
12:38Mom, the stars are so far, but just seeing them.
12:42Mom, the stars are so far, but just seeing them.
12:48Mr. David?
12:53I just want to see him.
12:54Our son.
12:55I keep having nightmares about when he was little.
12:58About Sarah hitting him.
12:59I swear to God, I didn't know.
13:01You should have known I snapped.
13:03You just chose to be blind.
13:06now you know you may leave is is the baby still okay of course the baby's fine the doctor says
13:14everything is perfect due next spring victoria let me see my son you can't keep him from me if
13:20you want this kid you need to handle sarah clean up your own mess don't do this get out i
13:26feel
13:26disgusted just looking at you right now let the dogs tear each other apart that was their problem
13:35now victoria it's a mess and it's not the outcome we wanted david and sarah had divorced and were
13:44slandering each other in court i saw this coming long ago even like birds flee apart in disaster
13:49let alone two selfish scoundrels sarah faced child abduction forgery and corporate fraud
13:54jailed for three years david walked free playing the victim and sobbing on the stand about a decade
13:58of manipulation by a psycho i'm sorry victoria it's an infuriating verdict if you want we can
14:03appeal and plan our next movie drop it at least my son is finally home noah mom made sure the
14:09bad
14:09people got punished but maybe not as harshly as they deserved are you mad at me mom i know exactly
14:14who loves me and who doesn't you look really ugly when you cry i legally transferred my company shares
14:22into a trust in his name over the past decade the child has fallen far behind in studies and is
14:27greatly lagging behind peers of the same age it doesn't matter we can make up for it i believe
14:32in my child the main character in this novel so he goes a significant into this equation the present
14:36perfect tense is used to describe an action that my child is even stronger and more promising than i
14:50imagined mom i passed the math quiz today noah you're awesome mom i'm so proud of you
15:09let's go we're heading home
15:15noah you get in the car first victoria can we please talk sarah is in prison i handled everything
15:21i cut her off completely she's gone i know i messed up victoria but for the sake of the baby
15:27just forgive me this once the baby yes our baby oh right that fake you what did you say the
15:39prenatal
15:40checkup report was forbidged i just wanted to see what you would actually make it's been several months
15:47if i were really pregnant i should be showing by now right
15:54this was your 30th birthday gift i didn't give it to you when my company was in trouble
15:58i bought one for you every year since then but never gave them away
16:01now i want to make it all up to you please just give me one more chance
16:06david i loved you most when you left text on reed and i lost sleep worrying you were okay when
16:10you
16:10pulled late nights and i brought you hot office meals when you just said thanks for your hard work
16:14and i felt like i've won the lottery that me is dead and these just expensive garbage
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