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00:00At twelve, he saw his family slaughtered. Only one girl saved him. Fifteen years later, he's the city's most ruthless
00:07godfather. He's ready to kill his enemy's daughter, only to find out she's his fiancée.
00:14Twelve candles burn.
00:16Make a wish, my boy.
00:18I look at the twelve flames. I already know.
00:22I wish to lead the Orsini family and rule the city with you, Dad.
00:26Laughter and applause abound. Glasses raised. Dad presses the ice wolf crest into my palm.
00:32If your mother were here, she'd be so proud.
00:35Orsini, hold the blood, carry the name.
00:40The hall answers as one, then the world comes apart.
00:43The guest beside me drops without a sound. Blood hits the tablecloth, the silk, my face.
00:47While the screaming starts, the Rossetti family sends their regards.
00:52An assassin steps through the entrance. Seven more flow in behind him.
00:56Gun drinks. His voice carries the boredom of a man delivering a bill.
01:00The party is over.
01:01Dad moves fast, the pistol already out. He pulls me behind him through the chaos.
01:06Bodyguards close around us, one by one, they fall. Each death swallowed by gunfire.
01:11We reach the back door. Glenn, Julian, Norman.
01:15Then Dad's leg buckles. He goes down on one leg, we grab for him.
01:18He shows us up. He stands tall on one leg, he slams the door shut with his shoulder.
01:24Take Julian. Get him out.
01:27No, Dad!
01:28That's an order, son.
01:29I stare at his face and memorize it.
01:31Well, I know that's what I'm doing.
01:32He unclasps the ice wolf crest and presses it into my phone.
01:36The Orsini family is yours now.
01:39Can I count on you?
01:40My fingers close tight.
01:41Of course, Dad.
01:42He's my full reel.
01:43You picked the wrong day to fuck with a father.
01:47Norman grabs my wrist.
01:49We run.
01:49I look back.
01:50Dad falls, rises, falls again.
01:52Drags himself across the floor to seize an assassin's ankles with the last of his strength.
01:56The assassin looks down at the man, gripping him with cold curiosity.
01:59Presses the gun into Dad's head.
02:00Hold the blood.
02:02Carry the name.
02:04Norman's hand cuts off my scream.
02:05The car smells of blood and engine oil.
02:07I press against the back window and watch the estate shrink.
02:10Gunfire thins and silence.
02:12Only my breathing and the blood drying my face.
02:14Norman's eyes find mine in the rearview mirror.
02:17Go to Pablo's.
02:18We have people there.
02:19I wipe my face with the back of my hand.
02:21Jaw tight enough to crack.
02:22The Orsini family.
02:24I'll kill every last one of you.
02:26I'll avenge my father.
02:27I promise.
02:29To hold the blood, I can carry the name.
02:32Pablo's bar.
02:32Kitchen smells.
02:33Grease.
02:34Garlic.
02:34Mop water.
02:35I move through it fast, stuffing supplies into a backpack.
02:38At the corridor entrance, a girl appears.
02:40Twelve years old.
02:41Quick eyes.
02:41Dressed too well for this place.
02:43She presses herself into the doorframe's shadow, convinced she's invisible.
02:46Miss Rosetta.
02:47Time to leave.
02:49A man's voice calls from the corridor.
02:50She flattens against the wall.
02:52Holds her breath.
02:52She slips into the kitchen and walks directly into me.
02:55We both startle backward.
02:56We say it together, then stare.
02:58Who are you?
02:59Who are you?
03:00Her eyes drop to the blood on my head.
03:02The bravado softens into something unguarded.
03:05Are you okay?
03:06You're bleeding.
03:07Not your problem.
03:09Excuse me?
03:10Do you even know who you're talking to?
03:13My hand moves to the dagger at my side.
03:15Who are you?
03:16If someone finds out who you are, we'll be in real trouble.
03:21My name is Mary.
03:22My eyes move over the face.
03:24Are you a Rosani?
03:25What if I am?
03:28My fingers tighten on the dagger.
03:30They just escaped from their manin.
03:32They kept me locked up there forever.
03:34They even lock up girls, I think.
03:36Those bastards.
03:37I let go of the dagger.
03:39Don't follow me.
03:40It's dangerous.
03:42At least let me-
03:43The kitchen erupts.
03:45Gunshots.
03:46Plural.
03:46Close.
03:47Back.
03:47I sprint for the rear.
03:48The girl freezes as stray bullets chew through the walls.
03:51And then I'm spinning back, grabbing her hand, pulling her with me.
03:54Two assassins burst in behind us.
03:56I put myself between her and the door.
03:58A reflex.
03:59I feel the bullet hit my shoulder like a hammerhead.
04:01I stagger.
04:02Keep moving.
04:03Hit the storage room door with my good shoulder and wedge my weight against it.
04:07In the stumbling half-second of turning, I bump into her and our lips meet.
04:11An accident.
04:13One second of wide eyes and stunned silence.
04:16I shove the rack against the door.
04:18The girl jumps in to help.
04:20You've been shot.
04:22Bullets punch through the wood.
04:23Run.
04:24They're after me, not you.
04:26I'm not leaving you behind.
04:28She drags me toward the window and I catch a flash at the back of her neck as she turns.
04:32White, birthmark-shaped, a bird with its wings spread.
04:35Then her hair falls back and covers it.
04:36We reach the window.
04:37She helps me onto the sill.
04:39Come on, give me your hand!
04:40She hesitates, then pulls out a card.
04:42Black on one side, the other shimmering with faint blue patterns.
04:45Take this.
04:46There's a safe house at the location marked on it.
04:48How do you even-
04:49No time!
04:50Go!
04:51I came with my uncle.
04:52He'll protect me.
04:53She slides a bracelet off her wrist.
04:55A child's thing.
04:56Rubber and colored beads.
04:57She fastens it around my wrist with quick, careful fingers.
05:00We'll meet again, right?
05:02Our fingertips almost touch through the gap.
05:04Then she pushes my hand away and slams the window shut.
05:07One last look through the glass.
05:08Her face.
05:09Eyes bright.
05:10Mouth set.
05:10And I run.
05:11One day I think, feet hitting paper.
05:12I'll find you again, I promise.
05:16Fifteen years later, I stand alone at the edge of it.
05:18Twenty-seven now.
05:19The boy who ran from this family with a dead father's crest and a stranger's bracelet has
05:24become something harder.
05:25Boss.
05:26All Rosenni present today.
05:28Eliminated.
05:30Good.
05:31Share the seized property with our men.
05:33Norman leaves.
05:34My hand moves without thinking to my wrist.
05:36Mary, I think.
05:38Or should I call you Phoenix?
05:39I finally avenged my family.
05:42Where are you now?
05:43Norman returns with a woman between several men.
05:46Maggie Rosetti.
05:47Twenty-four.
05:47Beautiful the way certain fires are beautiful.
05:50Bright, dangerous, commanding.
05:52She walks as though the men escorting her are doing her a favor.
05:55Something falls from her wrist.
05:56She catches it before it touches the dirty.
05:58Wipes it clean.
05:59Holds it.
05:59Her face was perfectly still, as if knowing this would be her last day.
06:03I draw my gun and walk toward her.
06:05Maggie Rosetti looks at the gun.
06:07Looks at the man holding it.
06:08Does not blink.
06:09Close your eyes.
06:11Can't kill me while I'm looking at you?
06:13I raise the gun.
06:14Press the barrel to report.
06:15Our eyes meet across that terrible distance.
06:18Cold metal between us.
06:19Her gaze doesn't drop.
06:20Her hand trembles at her side.
06:22While her face shows nothing.
06:23I pull back the hammer.
06:24And do not hold the trigger.
06:25Godfather Burke hops and moves through the carnage with the elegance of a man who has never hurried in his
06:30life.
06:31Enough.
06:31White-haired, impeccably dressed, cane-tapping, blood-soaked ground.
06:36I lower the gun.
06:38My godfather.
06:39Enough is enough, Julian.
06:41Never go too far.
06:43This is my revenge.
06:44It's not enough.
06:45I raise the gun.
06:47Burke's hand comes down on mine.
06:48Pressing it slowly down.
06:50She's about to be your wife.
06:51You wouldn't hurt your own wife, right?
06:54What?
06:54Maggie and I say it together.
06:56What?
06:56Then stare at each other.
06:57Two people who spent 15 years on opposite sides of a war.
07:01Standing in its graveyard, being told they'll share a bed.
07:04Your families have destroyed the city.
07:06The only way this feud ends for good is marriage.
07:10My gun hand stays very still.
07:12Burke's men settle into readiness.
07:14Mine mirrored.
07:15My men just came out of a battle.
07:17This isn't the time.
07:18I produce a smile that almost convinces.
07:20Of course, Godfather.
07:21I cross to Maggie and pull her into my arms.
07:24She goes rigid.
07:26You guys.
07:26She breathes against my shoulder.
07:28You're sick.
07:29Burke smiles.
07:30I think you'll enjoy your marriage.
07:36Berkley's.
07:36Norman Newscloth.
07:38He's keeping you in check, boss.
07:40How long do we let this go on?
07:43I've got plans for him.
07:45No rush.
07:47I walk toward Maggie.
07:48Something in my face shifts.
07:50I signaled them to leave and close the door.
07:52My hand finds her throat.
07:53Don't think you're getting away with anything.
07:55I have plenty of ways to torture you.
07:58I release her and walk away.
07:59I didn't look back.
08:00That evening, I stand alone in my rooms and look at a wedding dress.
08:03I commissioned it years ago.
08:05Never told anyone one.
08:06Phoenix.
08:07I had this made for you, waiting for you to come back.
08:10Still nothing?
08:12We've searched the whole city.
08:13No girl with a white Phoenix birthmark.
08:16Keep looking.
08:18She's the only one I've ever loved.
08:19The door opens.
08:21Elizabeth Gilbert, my childhood friend.
08:22A new, achingly beautiful, strategically persistent, sees the dress and lights up.
08:27Julian, I knew you'd marry me.
08:29You've always been like a sister to me.
08:32I'm marrying Maggie Rosaudi.
08:33Elizabeth's smile stayed on her face until the door clicked shut.
08:37I stood alone with the dress.
08:38I didn't know then what that smile had been covered.
08:41In the garden, I stand at the altar in a black suit, wearing the face of a man at his
08:46own execution.
08:46He looks like he's at a funeral.
08:49Shut up.
08:50The brides are Rosaudi.
08:51At least try to look less miserable.
08:53Norman appears at my shoulder.
08:56Just thinking about that Rosani woman.
08:58Makes me want to throw up.
08:59I found a nearby glass in one swallow.
09:01The bride is here!
09:03I look up.
09:04Maggie walks into the garden.
09:05The world goes still.
09:06She wears the dress as if it was built around her.
09:08Jewels catching light in every direction.
09:10Dark hair loose beneath the white veil.
09:12I stare and something happens to my expression I can't control.
09:15My mind suddenly flashed back to that kitchen.
09:18Fifteen years ago.
09:19Quick eyes and a rubber bracelet.
09:22Phoenix?
09:23The word comes out before I can stop it.
09:24I step forward.
09:25Is that you?
09:26Maggie steps back.
09:27Eyebrows climbing.
09:29Are you out of your mind?
09:31I snap back to the present.
09:32Then my eyes drop to the dress.
09:35How dare you wear this?
09:38It's the wedding dress I prepared for my only love.
09:41Take it off.
09:42Now.
09:44Maggie looks at Sally.
09:45She handed it to me.
09:47Boss, she's lying.
09:49She insisted on trying it on.
09:50Liar.
09:51You said it was for me.
09:52Elizabeth materializes near her.
09:55She only wanted to wear it to please you.
09:58Classic Rossoni.
09:59Maggie looks from Sally to Elizabeth.
10:01Something in her expression crystalline.
10:02I see you two snakes.
10:05She turns to me and chin up.
10:07Don't flatter yourself.
10:09I'm the Rossoni heiress.
10:10I've worn better dresses than this.
10:12She reaches up and is tearing it off her own body.
10:14The garden erupts.
10:16Gasps.
10:16From every direction.
10:17I go still for exactly one second.
10:19Then grab her.
10:19Throw her over my shoulder.
10:20And carry her the length of the garden to the altar.
10:23With the grim efficiency of a man who has committed to something.
10:26I deposit her in front of the priest.
10:27Do your thing.
10:29Today we gather before God.
10:31I do.
10:32I shoot Maggie a look.
10:33Like I have a choice?
10:34She rolls her eye.
10:34I do.
10:35You may now kiss the bride.
10:37I'd have to be in the room.
10:39I grab her wrist.
10:40I bring her to my bedroom.
10:41Lay her on the bed.
10:42I begin carefully removing the ruined dress.
10:44My hands steady working fast needs.
10:46With a gentleness that has no business being.
10:49The air between us had changed.
10:51Neither of us said anything about it.
10:53Trying to act like a gentleman now?
10:55Shut up.
10:56Don't move.
10:57I turn her gently.
10:58Her back to me.
10:59Her hair falling aside.
11:00I reach to lift it from her neck.
11:04Maggie turns.
11:05She faces me and presses her palm flat to my chest, pushing.
11:09I'll take the rest off myself.
11:10Wait outside.
11:11How can she be Phoenix?
11:13I pull myself back from something I don't want to examine.
11:15I look at her face instead.
11:16At the smudged lipstick at the corner of her mouth.
11:19I reach out and rub it away with my thumb without thinking.
11:21This whole house belongs to me.
11:23My fingers find the hem of the dress and pull.
11:25It comes away.
11:26The air between us holds a charge.
11:28Neither of us moves to discharge.
11:30What are you doing?
11:32I'll do whatever I want.
11:34Like I said, I'm going to make you suffer.
11:38I push her toward the mirror.
11:39Both of us reflected her wide eyes like dark ones.
11:43Look at yourself.
11:44I want you to see yourself humiliated.
11:47Julian.
11:50You are such a bastard.
11:52My mouth comes down on her.
11:53Brutal first.
11:54A punishment.
11:55And then the pressure softens.
11:56It changes.
11:57It becomes something that has no place in this room.
11:59I breathe against her mouth.
12:00Her lips tremble.
12:01Her lashes drop.
12:02A single tear escapes.
12:03Her eyes close.
12:04Her expression said what she wouldn't.
12:06I learned later that something had shattered in Elizabeth's room.
12:09Whatever she and Marsha planned in the dark, they kept it between themselves.
12:12I sit alone in my office.
12:14Bracelet running through my fingers.
12:15The dress.
12:16Store it in the vault.
12:17Until the day I find Phoenix.
12:19What about Maggie?
12:21Something moves across my face.
12:22Send her food.
12:24I don't want her to die that easily.
12:26The door bursts open.
12:27Elizabeth frantic.
12:28Julian.
12:29The access card you gave me.
12:30It's missing.
12:31My hand comes down on the desk like a gunshot.
12:34What?
12:36Maggie wakes to bite marks.
12:38And the sound of her own voice saying...
12:40What an animal.
12:41Marsha delivers breakfast with a professional smile.
12:43And on the way out, lets a black access card drop to the floor.
12:47The drop deliberate.
12:48Made to look accidental.
12:49Maggie finds it.
12:50Flips it over.
12:51Flash.
12:52The kitchen.
12:53A boy with blood on his face.
12:55Her own hands pressing a card.
12:57The other side shimmering with faint blue patterns.
13:01Wait.
13:02Isn't this...
13:03The door crashes open.
13:04Me and Norman Elizabeth guards.
13:07My eyes find the card in her hand and go hard.
13:10Snatch it.
13:10So it really was you.
13:11How dare you steal this.
13:13If this card is the same one I gave that card.
13:16She was staring at my face now.
13:17And something in her expression had gone very still.
13:19Then she reaches me.
13:21We struggle.
13:22The card falls.
13:23Maggie drops to the floor after.
13:24Fingers closing around the edge.
13:25I just need to confirm one thing.
13:28I look down.
13:28Flash.
13:29A girl on a kitchen floor.
13:30Fifteen years gone.
13:31Looking up at me with those same eyes.
13:33In the half second of my stunned hesitation.
13:36Maggie flips the card.
13:37Red.
13:38The pattern is red.
13:39Not blue.
13:39She stares.
13:40Confirmation dissolves.
13:42Whatever she was thinking she buried it before you.
13:44I take the card back.
13:45This is the Orsini Arsenal Access card.
13:48What were you planning?
13:49I picked it up off the floor.
13:51I don't even know what it is.
13:52Elizabeth materializes.
13:54This is all my fault Julian.
13:57Take her to the dungeon.
14:00It's time she learns how savage we are.
14:02As they drag Maggie.
14:04I catch Elizabeth and Marcia.
14:05Exchange a slow, triumphant smile.
14:08Aimed at Maggie on my shoulder.
14:10I filed it away and said nothing.
14:11The dungeon is quiet.
14:12They went for instruments that announced their purpose without explanation.
14:16Are you serious?
14:17Maggie looks at Nora.
14:18What is all this?
14:19My advice, don't ask.
14:22The more you know, the more scared you get.
14:24He reaches for a barbed whip.
14:25I came down to check on her.
14:27I still don't know what I told myself the reason was.
14:30Through the door I could hear voices.
14:32Elizabeth's.
14:32The sound of boots.
14:34Something hitting a wall.
14:35I wasn't there for all of it.
14:37I learned afterward in pieces.
14:41Norman had left her alone.
14:42She'd found a knife.
14:44Elizabeth and two men had come down before I arrived.
14:46The scene I walked into, knife gone, men caught mid-motion, Maggie's arms pinned, was already in its final act.
14:53Mr. Orsani is here.
14:56I come through the door.
14:57The men stop.
14:58Step back.
14:59Elizabeth moves instantly.
15:01Grabs the fallen knife.
15:02Presses it to her own arm.
15:03Quick.
15:04Control.
15:04Shallow enough to bleed convincingly.
15:06When I turn, Elizabeth is already performing victimhood.
15:09It was an accident, Julian.
15:12Don't blame Maggie.
15:14Are you out of your mind?
15:16How could you hurt Elizabeth?
15:18My hand comes up.
15:19I was going to slap her.
15:21I didn't.
15:22She watches it coming and doesn't flinch.
15:24It stops.
15:25A breath from her cheek.
15:26I stare at her swollen face.
15:28The mark's already there.
15:29My fist trembles.
15:30I don't even want to touch you.
15:31I watched Maggie look at Elizabeth and Marsha.
15:34Something in her face changed.
15:35Not defeat.
15:36Something past it and past Karen.
15:38Fine.
15:40I wish I had stabbed her.
15:41And stabbed deep enough to finish the job.
15:44I grab her.
15:46Close enough that she feels the heat of my anger.
15:51Unbelievable.
15:52Say one more word.
15:53Or what?
15:55You're pathetic.
15:56You can't even tell who's lying.
15:59Elizabeth, a fine woman.
16:01She won't lie to me.
16:04And I'm a vicious bitch.
16:05So what are you going to do about it, my dear husband?
16:08I go absolutely still.
16:11Don't call me that.
16:13Everyone, out!
16:15Elizabeth draws her finger across her own throat on her way past the door and smiles.
16:18The dungeon holds only the two of us and the instruments.
16:21I grab Maggie, cuff her wrists, rip open the back of her throat.
16:25I raise the whip.
16:26She rolls.
16:27It cracks against the stone, or she did.
16:29You sick bastard!
16:31A decent family wouldn't torture women!
16:33I grab the back of her neck and drive her down to the floor, my knee in her back.
16:36And her hair falls away to one side.
16:38The white phoenix birthmark spreads across the nape of her neck, pale as moonlight.
16:42Exactly as I saw it in a flash of movement in the kitchen 15 years ago.
16:46My hand, holding the whip, stops in midair.
16:48Wait.
16:50That's...
16:51Something in me chooses not to know.
16:54I laugh.
16:55Short.
16:55Bitter.
16:57You even painted a fake one on yourself.
16:59How desperate are you, Maggie?
17:01That's my birthmark.
17:02I was born with it.
17:05Only my phoenix has that mark.
17:07Did you really think this would make me believe you were her?
17:10I'm not pretending to be anyone!
17:13Then don't blame me for what happens next.
17:16I bring the whip down across the birthmark.
17:18Again.
17:19Again.
17:20Maggie screams.
17:21Not from weakness, but because the pain is real and there is no dignity in pretending otherwise.
17:26When I finally stop, the birthmark is torn and bleeding and the hatred in her eyes is ancient.
17:31You're a monster.
17:33You don't deserve love.
17:35If she knew how you loved her, she'd be disgusted.
17:38Shut up!
17:39When I find her again, I'll give her everything!
17:42I hope you never find her.
17:44Better yet, I hope she's dead.
17:46The color leaves my face.
17:48I drop the whip.
17:49My hands find her throat.
17:50She goes still beneath them.
17:52The door crashes open.
17:54Norman, breathless.
17:56Boss!
17:57We got Lisa Rosati!
17:58I release her.
18:00Take Maggie and her mother to the backyard.
18:03Execute them both.
18:04Do whatever you want to me, but let my mother go.
18:08You shouldn't have talked about her.
18:10I walk out.
18:11Through it, I heard her throw herself against it.
18:13Heard her scream.
18:14I kept walking.
18:16I stand alone in my bedroom and look at the jeweled dress.
18:20Phoenix, where are you?
18:22I pick up Maggie's belongings in a small box and toss them into the fireplace.
18:26The lid flips open mid-fall.
18:28Something small and brightly colored spins toward the flames.
18:31I lunge into the fire.
18:33I pull out a bracelet and stare at it.
18:35Then reach into my pocket and pull out my own.
18:38I hold them side by side.
18:39They match.
18:40This is Phoenix bracelet.
18:43Maggie is Phoenix?
18:45The bracelets shake in my hands.
18:47I run through everything.
18:48You know, the kitchen, 15 years gone.
18:50The girl with quick eyes and a blue patterned card.
18:54The girl in the dungeon with those same eyes.
18:56The birthmark.
18:57The bracelet.
18:59Phoenix's name was Mary.
19:00She was a prisoner of the Rossetti family.
19:02I stop.
19:03Oh, I still need her alive!
19:05I run.
19:06The backyard holds a crowd and two disheveled figures at its center.
19:10Maggie sees her mother across the yard and everything else stops.
19:15Mother!
19:17Lisa Rosati, spine still straight despite the tears, fights toward her daughter.
19:22Fingertips almost touching, Elizabeth steps between them.
19:25Tapes Lisa's as mouth shut.
19:27Hits her again and again while Lisa sobs behind the tape.
19:32Rain starts.
19:33Maggie leans her forehead against her mother's.
19:37I love you, Mom.
19:38Dad's waiting for us on the other side.
19:41Executioners move into position.
19:42Safety clicks off.
19:44Stop!
19:45I come through the crowd at a run, rain plastering my jacket to my shoulders.
19:50I crouch before Maggie and lift her face.
19:53Where did you get that bracelet?
19:56Think carefully.
19:58This is your last chance.
19:59Let us go and I'll tell you.
20:02Lock them in the dungeon.
20:03I have questions.
20:04Burk Hobben walks into the rain without an umbrella, which is somehow more more frightening than if he'd had one.
20:10Julian, your wife stole the Arsenal access card.
20:14I won't sleep easy until she's dead.
20:16My eyes move between my godfather and Maggie's kneeling form.
20:21If Maggie dies, I may never find Phoenix.
20:25Something clicks into place.
20:26I walk to Maggie and lay my hand very gently against her abdomen.
20:32She's pregnant with my child.
20:36The rain comes down.
20:39The yard holds its breath.
20:41What?
20:44Burk's trap has reversed on it.
20:47I watch him realize it.
20:49Fine.
20:49If that's true, Maggie lives.
20:51For now.
20:53Kill him, if you must.
20:54Elizabeth recovers fast.
20:55But kill the mother, at least.
20:57Burk points at Lisa with a smile that has teeth.
21:01Fifteen years ago, the Orsini family was wiped out.
21:05Your father killed.
21:06You had a bullet in your shoulder, didn't you, Julian?
21:09Shot in the shoulder specifically?
21:11Maggie's eyes went wide.
21:12She looked at me, really looked at me, for what felt like the first time.
21:16Kill Lisa Rossetti.
21:17Avenge your family.
21:19My fists close.
21:20I don't move.
21:21He's cornering.
21:21But I can't fight him again.
21:22I draw my gun and walk toward Lisa.
21:25She was still staring at me as I walked toward Lisa.
21:27I couldn't read what was in her eyes.
21:29Maggie breaks free of a convulsive motion and throws herself in front of her.
21:32Don't touch her!
21:33I look down at her face, upturned toward me, and something moves across my expression.
21:37Too fast to name.
21:40I'm sorry, Lisa Rossetti.
21:42Then, barely a breath.
21:43For Maggie's sake.
21:44In the struggle, my bracelet slips from my pocket and falls.
21:47Spinning once in the air, before landing in the dirt directly in front of Maggie's knees.
21:52She stares at it.
21:53I grab the bracelet back before she can reach it.
21:55Wipe it clean.
21:56Pocket it without looking at her.
21:58I walk to Lisa and position myself beside her.
22:01A glance at Norman.
22:02Understood.
22:04I pull the trigger.
22:05Lisa drops.
22:08Maggie's scream is something I will fear for a long time.
22:11She tears free and collapses beside her mother, pressing her hands to the wound.
22:15Mom, please.
22:16Look at me.
22:18I step in, take Maggie's arm, pull her upright.
22:21Maggie's hand finds the knife at my belt.
22:24She drives it into her own chest before anyone can stop her.
22:27Blood pours down her front.
22:29Maggie!
22:31I run.
22:32I run with her in my arms, through the rain and into the villa, shouting to the doctor.
22:36Doctor!
22:37Holding her against my chest.
22:39You haven't told me where Phoenix is.
22:43I'm not letting you die.
22:44Night.
22:45Maggie lies in my bed.
22:47I sit beside her and don't move.
22:49She murmurs in her sleep.
22:51Please don't kill my mom.
22:53Slowly, she surfaces.
22:54As her vision cleared, she looked at me with an expression I couldn't name.
22:58Something layered, complicated.
23:00Like she was seeing two things at once.
23:02She grabs me.
23:04You're...
23:05Her voice breaks against my shoulder.
23:07You finally came for me.
23:09I've been waiting for years.
23:12Her face changed.
23:13Something in her eyes went from warmth to horror.
23:15Like she'd remembered everything all at once.
23:17My mom, she...
23:18She comes fully alive.
23:20She shoves me back.
23:21It was you.
23:23You killed my mother.
23:24If you want to live, stop.
23:26I'd rather die.
23:27Stop.
23:28There's nothing left for me.
23:30She's still alive.
23:34What?
23:37It was a fake execution.
23:39I had a ceramic vest hidden under her clothing.
23:41She's somewhere safe.
23:43You're serious?
23:46Believe it or not, but if you don't cooperate, I've got plenty of ways to make her suffer.
23:51You're a monster.
23:52Tell me.
23:54Where's the real Phoenix?
23:56Maggie looks at the bracelet in my outstretched hand and makes a decision.
23:59Yeah, I know her.
24:02Then where is she?
24:03She looks at my face at close range.
24:05Fifteen years of desperation in it.
24:07She makes herself say the horrible words.
24:09The Rasuti family had tons of girls like her.
24:12My father sent them to deal drugs or become prostitutes.
24:16By now, she's probably rotting in some gutter.
24:18My hands close around her throat in a trap.
24:23Shut up!
24:24She's not dead!
24:26Phoenix cannot be dead!
24:28Maggie stays very still with my hands.
24:30Her eyes close.
24:31Her face very quiet says,
24:33We're even.
24:34The pressure releases.
24:35She falls to the floor, gasping.
24:37I stand over her, breathing hard.
24:39I'm not letting you die that easy.
24:41I'm going to break you.
24:43Slowly.
24:44Coward.
24:46You won't kill me because you're too scared.
24:54Locker in the dungeon.
24:56No food, no water.
24:58In the dungeon, Maggie lies on cold stone and stares at the ceiling.
25:02Her mind moves in the patient, calculating pattern of someone given too much time to think.
25:07The door groans open.
25:09She turns her head.
25:10I stand in the entrance.
25:11Something is wrong with the way I'm standing.
25:13I stumble.
25:14The torchlight catches my face.
25:16Unfocused.
25:16Distant.
25:17The eyes not tracking.
25:19Phoenix.
25:21Phoenix.
25:22Phoenix.
25:23Julian.
25:24What the hell are you doing?
25:25Snap out of it.
25:26I lunge.
25:27She has nowhere to go.
25:28I crash into her.
25:29Pin her to the wall.
25:30My face inches from her.
25:31My eyes glazed and full of 15 years of longing.
25:33I found you.
25:34I finally found you.
25:37I'll never let you go again.
25:39My hands find the back of her dress.
25:41The fabric gives.
25:42Her bare back.
25:44The faint shape of the birthmark beneath my fingers.
25:46Her tears started quietly.
25:48She stops resisting.
25:52Phoenix.
25:53I must have been murmuring her name in my sleep.
25:55Because when I opened my eyes, she was already awake, watching me with a dagger raised.
26:00She raises it over.
26:01There's no way out of this.
26:03Julia, let's go to hell together.
26:06She drives me down.
26:07My hand comes up from sleep and catches the blade with my bare palm.
26:11You crazy bitch!
26:12You're trying to kill me?
26:13I overpower her, roll her beneath me.
26:16The dagger spins away.
26:17She goes still.
26:18Let's out a sound somewhere between a laugh and something worse.
26:22Of course I want to kill you.
26:24After everything.
26:26After last night.
26:27Last night I were legally married.
26:30You call this marriage?
26:31You murder my family and lock me in a dungeon?
26:34I was drugged.
26:35So I was just a stand-in for Phoenix?
26:38My hands find her throat.
26:39A reflex.
26:39Don't mention her name.
26:41Do you care about her that much?
26:43Then tell me.
26:45Why'd you sleep with me twice?
26:47I release her and stand.
26:49To torment you.
26:50What's more painful than being used by your enemy?
26:53I turn to the door.
26:54Tell me where Phoenix is or rot.
26:58The door locks.
27:01I hate you.
27:03I'll never let you find Phoenix.
27:05I sit at my desk.
27:06Fists clenched.
27:07Thinking about a birthmark under my fingertips.
27:09Why do I keep mistaking her for Phoenix?
27:11Must have been the drugs.
27:17Norman.
27:17Post a citywide reward.
27:19Half a million for anyone with a lead on the Phoenix birthmark.
27:22I didn't know it at the time.
27:23I pieced it together later.
27:25From what Norman could find out.
27:26Sally had seen the reward sketch.
27:28Had recognized the birthmark.
27:29Had gone to Elizabeth before she could come.
27:31Whatever was said in that.
27:32Inclusion was the same.
27:33Maggie had to die.
27:35What happened in Burke's office?
27:36I wasn't there for them.
27:38What I know, I learned afterward.
27:40Elizabeth and Marsha went to Burke with forged documents.
27:42Burke turned through them and his expression darkened with each page.
27:49She's been playing us this whole time.
27:51Where is she?
27:52Rotting in the dungeon.
27:53I'll have her executed.
27:54Wait.
27:55Bring her to me alive.
27:56I'll question her myself.
27:57Armed men flooded the dungeon.
27:58You're suspected of plotting to overthrow the gang.
28:01Maggie was dragged to Burke's office and thrown to the floor.
28:03You contacted the police.
28:04Burke held up the forged documents.
28:05Is this revenge?
28:07Yes.
28:08You forced me into this when you married me off to Julian.
28:10You should have expected it.
28:11Was Julian involved?
28:13No!
28:14I wasn't talking to you.
28:16Julian's the only one with high-level access.
28:19Tell me.
28:20Is he part of this too?
28:21The room was very still.
28:23Maggie looks at the floor.
28:24The silence stretches.
28:25I was the one.
28:26I plotted all of it.
28:28Every move.
28:29Mine.
28:30Burke erupted to his feet.
28:31I did it by myself.
28:32She looked him in the eye.
28:34He stared at her, then laughed.
28:36The Roseni family raised a tough girl.
28:39Admiring, brittle.
28:41Let's try waterboarding.
28:43He glanced at Elizabeth.
28:44The men forced Maggie down.
28:46A bucket of water waited.
28:48Elizabeth crouched to her level, voice almost gentle.
28:50Die with your secret, Phoenix.
28:52Maggie went completely still.
28:56How did you know?
28:59I was in the corridor before I came through the door.
29:02I don't know how long I stood there.
29:04Long enough to hear what she said.
29:07Last chance, Maggie.
29:09Was Julian involved?
29:11Maggie's head came up streaming water.
29:13No.
29:13I did everything alone.
29:15Julian had nothing to do with it.
29:17She went under her.
29:19In the corridor, I stand with my hand on the doorknob.
29:21I hear her protect me with her last breath.
29:23I feel something in my chest, closed like a fist.
29:26Could it really be her?
29:27I have to save her.
29:28The doors slam open.
29:30I come through them like a detonation.
29:32Three men down before the others register it.
29:38And then I'm at her side, hauling her out of the water,
29:41pulling her soaking and gasping into my arms.
29:43Godfather.
29:44I look across the room at Burke.
29:45Don't you think you should have told me before trying to kill my wife?
29:47She colluded with the police.
29:49Traitors must be purged.
29:52Maggie is carrying my child.
29:53She's under constant surveillance.
29:55How exactly would she have conspired with anyone?
29:57Burke scowls.
30:00Then smiles.
30:02Two doctors, then.
30:04Confirm the pregnancy.
30:06I raise my right hand.
30:08If she's not pregnant, I'll cut this hand off myself.
30:11Elizabeth steps back, visibly unsteady.
30:13The doctor performs the scan.
30:16Congratulations, Julian.
30:18You're going to be a father.
30:19Every face in the room performs a different.
30:23I'm really pregnant?
30:28It's impossible!
30:29She must have slept with someone else!
30:31My slap is precise and final.
30:34Stop spouting nonsense.
30:37Burke leaves.
30:38I carry Maggie out of the room, the crowd partying without being asked.
30:42I didn't look back at Elizabeth.
30:44Whatever was on her face, I didn't want to see it.
30:46I heard later that she'd given Marcia instructions that night.
30:51Maggie wakes in the morning to me carrying a tray.
30:53Soup, fragrant and hot.
30:55Drink this.
30:56She turns her head away.
30:57I catch her chin and press the bullet to her lips.
30:59Are you insane?
31:00You should be grateful!
31:02Grateful.
31:03You really think I'll carry your child to term?
31:06I go white.
31:09Your mother is still in my custody.
31:11If you don't eat, Lisa and me won't get a drop of water.
31:15Maggie goes still.
31:18Then moves.
31:20The knife from under her pillow.
31:21Driving it toward her own stomach.
31:23I lunge across the bed and catch her wrist.
31:26The knife clatters away.
31:28The soup shatters.
31:30Have you lost your mind?
31:31Why won't you just let me die?
31:33She beats at my chest.
31:34Weak but relentless.
31:36I hold still and let her hit me and have no answer.
31:38When that baby is born, I'll make you watch me ruin it.
31:42That'll be your punishment.
31:43She slaps me across the face.
31:45I grab her throat and press her back into the mattress.
31:49Then, a voice from the doorway.
31:51Sir, please stop!
31:53Maggie and-
31:55I pause.
31:56I look at Sally in the door.
31:57His what?
31:59Sally hesitates.
32:00Phynex cares, right?
32:01The name lands like a key in a lock.
32:03I go still.
32:05I step back.
32:06I produce a handwritten letter for my coat and toss it at Maggie.
32:09She catches it, hands shaking.
32:11Her mother's handwriting.
32:14If the baby lives, your mother lives.
32:16If something happens to the baby, your mother dies too.
32:21I turn to Sally.
32:22Take care of her.
32:23I walk out.
32:25I didn't know they were in the corridor, listening.
32:27I found out later.
32:28By then, they'd already decided what to do about Sally.
32:32That night, this is what Norman told me afterward.
32:35Sally had seen the birthmark.
32:37She pinned Maggie's hair up, lifted it away from her neck, and there it was.
32:41Sally's hands went still.
32:43She reached for her phone.
32:44I sweep pens off my desk.
32:46Fifteen years!
32:47Not a single lead!
32:50I found Phoenix.
32:54Are you sure?
32:55Where?
32:55I've double-checked.
32:56Phoenix is...
32:57The door explodes open.
32:58Elizabeth grabs Sally and throws her to the floor.
33:01How dare you come to Julian before me?
33:03I'll tell him where Phoenix is!
33:05I step forward.
33:06Elizabeth?
33:07You found Phoenix?
33:09Her eyes fill with tears.
33:10I worked so hard to find her, Julian.
33:13Can you forgive me?
33:15Where is Phoenix?
33:16Elizabeth glances toward the doorway.
33:18Come in, Mary.
33:20A woman in white enters.
33:22Her eyes find mine, with the specific quality of tears held back for exactly this moment.
33:27You told me to wait for you.
33:29I stare at her.
33:30But I never thought it would be fifteen years.
33:32I lift her hair.
33:33A white Phoenix birthmark.
33:34Exactly.
33:34Oh, my God.
33:35I finally found you.
33:39Behind me, Sally looks at the back of the woman's neck.
33:42The color leaves her face entirely.
33:45Mr. Orsani!
33:47She's lying!
33:48She's lying!
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