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00:00I've been preparing for the wedding for six months, the church, the flowers, the invitations, the rehearsal dinner, every detail
00:10done exactly the way I like it, while somewhere I can't see, he's pouring that same effort into wearing another
00:19woman down.
00:26Tezoro, I've seen you in the wedding dress. As for the wedding itself, I won't be there.
00:31Yante Moretti buckles my seatbelt like he always does, then casually calls off our wedding next week. I freeze, still
00:40holding the garment bag from my final fitting.
00:42What do you mean?
00:44There's someone else. She wouldn't settle for anything less than being my wife, so I married her. Last night. In
00:51Vegas.
00:51His voice stays easy. Almost gentle.
00:54I'm another woman's husband now. If I still go through with a wedding with you, my wife's gonna get hurt.
01:00White noise floods my head. My voice comes out thin and shaking.
01:05Why? We're one week away from getting married.
01:08Tezoro, don't look at me like that. You know you're the one I love.
01:13But she kept turning me down. Again and again. For six months.
01:19And I can't even remember the last time anyone had the nerve to tell me no.
01:23Keep the dress. Throw your little wedding party if it means that much to you.
01:28I hate seeing you upset.
01:30The dress is still in the back seat. White. Now it looks like a shroud.
01:35My hand trembles as I shove the ultrasound printout back into my bag.
01:40I was going to surprise him with it. He's right about one thing. I deserve better than this.
01:48Dante brushes a strand of hair behind my ear like nothing has changed.
01:53You know how stubborn she is. Wouldn't let me touch her unless I put a ring on it.
01:57Six months of chasing her. And last night, she finally gave in.
02:02I stare at him. Numb and freezing. Like invisible fingers are closing around my throat.
02:07Right there in that seat too. She's like a little wildcat. Scratches first, then melts all over you.
02:12The handprints are still there. One large. One small. Overlapping.
02:18Nausea rolls through me so hard I almost choke on it. I grip the seatbelt until my knuckles ache and
02:23my vision burns.
02:24He cups my face, frowning a little like he honestly doesn't understand.
02:29Why are you crying? You're still mine.
02:32His eyes are nearly black. And behind them is something that looks horrifyingly close to tenderness.
02:39As if the man calmly telling me he married another woman, then savoring the memory of taking her in my
02:44seat, isn't the same man touching me now.
02:55I know this hurts. But if I show up, she'll take it badly.
02:58I spent six months chasing her, Talia. Six months. She wanted the real thing.
03:03A ring. My name. Not half a man.
03:08So be reasonable.
03:09She wanted the real thing.
03:11A ring. My name.
03:13Not half a man.
03:15So be reasonable.
03:18Six months.
03:19We've been planning our wedding for six months too.
03:23The church. The flowers.
03:26The invitations. The rehearsal dinner.
03:28Every detail done exactly the way I like it.
03:30While somewhere I can't see, he's pouring that same effort into wearing another woman down.
03:36If you married someone else, then we're done.
03:39You've been mine since you were 18.
03:42You've bled for me twice.
03:46Leave me?
03:48What man out there would dare touch what belongs to me?
03:51What? Now?
03:52Don't say stupid shit when you're upset.
03:56I just look at him.
03:58My chest feels banded from the inside out.
04:01Ten years.
04:05We used to cram ourselves into a freezing apartment in East Brooklyn with no heat.
04:10Split one dollar slice and call it dinner.
04:14On the worst days, we filled our stomachs with tap water and pretended it helped.
04:18We couldn't even afford basic birth control.
04:20No insurance.
04:22No safety net.
04:28I got pregnant twice.
04:32I lose the first baby during the coldest winter in New York.
04:36I'm working three jobs at once.
04:37A diner.
04:38A laundromat.
04:39Night shifts at a boyaga.
04:41I stay cold for so long my body gives out.
04:44The second baby dies after one of Dante's rival crews shoves me down a staircase.
04:51I live through both losses.
04:53Barely.
04:54I cry until there's nothing left in me.
04:57Then I bury two children I never get to hold.
05:01Dante kneels beside my hospital bed.
05:03He pulls a knife from his waistband and slices two lines across his lower stomach.
05:09Blood runs down his skin.
05:12With that same bloody hand, he covers my eyes.
05:16Leah, I swear on my blood.
05:18I'll give you the life you deserve.
05:20And if I ever betray you, may I die with no one left to mourn me.
05:25A blood oath.
05:27In his world, that is the heaviest promise a man can make.
05:32And I believe it for half my life.
05:35Now that promise loses to a woman he's known for six months.
05:39I don't understand it.
05:41How does a man who once loved me like that go rotten this fast?
05:45His phone rings.
05:49The ringtone is distinctive.
05:52I've heard it at night more times than I can count.
05:54Dante always says it's business.
05:56I trust him so completely I never question it.
05:58Now I know how stupid that makes me.
06:01He doesn't answer right away.
06:03His tone stays calm, patient.
06:05Like he's humoring a child.
06:08Why are you picking a fight with a plaything?
06:11We've got ten years together.
06:13You really want to throw that away over a piece of paper?
06:16You can Uber home.
06:17I need to pick her up.
06:22You're not 20 anymore, Talia.
06:24No family name.
06:25No connections.
06:27No one coming for you.
06:30I'm the only man who'd keep you.
06:32So stop making a scene before I stop finding it cute.
06:35He pulls the car over.
06:36You can Uber home.
06:38I need to pick her up.
06:39Think about what I said.
06:40The door shuts.
06:42I watch his blacked out escalade tear down the street.
06:45Then I bend over on the curb and throw up until my face is wet.
06:49Dante is wrong.
06:50No man signs a marriage license with a plaything.
06:53That piece of paper I waited ten years for?
06:55He gives it to someone else in six months.
06:58Love doesn't change.
06:59It just moves.
07:00Then I take out my phone and dial a number.
07:03I saved it six months ago.
07:05I've never called it.
07:07Natalia, is that you?
07:09Papa.
07:11I need to come home.
07:12Tell me where you are.
07:14I'll send someone.
07:14Tonight.
07:15Not tonight.
07:17There's something I need to deal with first.
07:20When I get home, Dante's blacked out escalade is already parked outside.
07:25A woman's breathy moan spills out.
07:30Say my name.
07:31Dante.
07:33Who do you love most?
07:36You, Dante.
07:39Good girl.
07:41I stop where I am.
07:43My face goes numb.
07:46The summer night is stifling, but suddenly I'm back in the coldest night of a New York winter.
07:51An hour later, Dante walks in with a small woman tucked under his arm.
07:54The second Bianca sees me sitting in the living room.
07:57Why is she here?
07:58You told me this was our home.
08:00Her voice quivers.
08:02Perfectly.
08:02Were you lying to me?
08:03You're still not over her, are you?
08:05I won't be the other woman.
08:06I don't care how much I love you.
08:08I'm not throwing away my dignity for this.
08:10I'm leaving.
08:10Right now.
08:14What are you talking about?
08:15The marriage license is signed and filed.
08:18You're my wife.
08:19Of course this is our home.
08:21She's just here to pack.
08:22Then he looks at me.
08:23No explanation.
08:25No apology.
08:26Tala, the house upstate is empty this time of year.
08:28Quiet too.
08:29Go stay there for a while.
08:30For one second, my mind blanks.
08:32Pain hits before anger does.
08:34Dull.
08:34Physical.
08:35Right in the heart.
08:36Three years ago, when we moved into this brownstone, Dante held me so tight his eyes went red.
08:42Leah, this is our home.
08:44You, me, and our kids someday.
08:46Now the same man is throwing me out of it.
08:50Talia, my wife is upset.
08:52I'm not saying this twice.
08:56After a long silence, with all that smug certainty in his eyes, I smile.
09:00I understand.
09:02Dante watches me stand.
09:03Something shifts in his face.
09:05He strides after me and catches my wrist.
09:07His voice softens.
09:08There's a gala this afternoon.
09:10Come with me.
09:10It's Bianca's first time at an event like that.
09:13Help with her train.
09:14Show her the ropes.
09:16I just stare at him.
09:17The whole thing is so absurd, I almost laugh.
09:20Then I think about how little time I have left, and I don't argue.
09:24Before the gala, Bianca claims she has nothing suitable to wear.
09:27From my closet, she picks the most expensive birthday gift Dante ever gave me with surgical
09:31precision.
09:32A Valentin Haute Couture gown, plus the antique diamond Peragi that goes with it.
09:35At the Met Charity Gala, Bianca walks in on Dante's arm.
09:38I carry her trail.
09:40She becomes the center of the room, and I become the joke trailing behind her.
09:44The whispers follow me everywhere.
09:46Moretti really knows how to keep his women in line, huh?
09:48The fiancé carrying the train for the mistress, and she doesn't even flinch.
09:52What fiancé?
09:53Didn't you hear?
09:53Moretti flew that little thing to Vegas and married her.
09:56Talia Rossi is nothing.
09:58Ten years for free, then tossed aside.
10:00Not even worth gossiping about.
10:01How dumb do you have to be to give a man a decade and walk away with nothing?
10:05Hell, even strays have more pride.
10:07She'd be better off dead.
10:09I leave the ballroom and lock myself in the powder room.
10:13Then I hear voices outside.
10:15Someone is teasing Dante.
10:17Come on, Morelli.
10:18Talia's been with you for ten years.
10:20You really married Bianca?
10:21Bianca wanted security.
10:22A piece of paper.
10:24That's all it is.
10:25What does it really change?
10:26And if Talia leaves you over it, you won't regret that?
10:28My heart jerks hard in my chest.
10:31Then Dante laughs.
10:35Her whole world is me.
10:36She's been with me ten years.
10:38She wouldn't know how to function without me.
10:40Right now she's like an old coat shoved in the back of a closet.
10:43Comfortable, sure.
10:44But not something I'd ever be seen wearing.
10:46I know her better than she knows herself.
10:48When I'm done having my fun, she'll still be right where I left her.
10:51What else is she gonna do?
10:52Wait?
10:54I don't hear the rest.
10:57I stumble to the sink and splash water over my face again and again.
11:02Then I bite down on my finger to keep from making a sound.
11:05Water drips from my chin.
11:07Humiliation falls with it.
11:09Still, I don't cry out.
11:11Dante Marati.
11:12This time, you bet wrong.
11:14That old coat you tossed aside?
11:16It's not waiting for you anymore.
11:18I turn and walk out of the powder room.
11:20And a slap cracks across my face.
11:23I clamp a hand over my burning cheek and turn.
11:26Stunned.
11:27Bianca rolls her wrist once.
11:29Calm as you please.
11:30The sweet, harmless look is gone from her face like someone ripped the mask right off.
11:34You heard him.
11:35He married me.
11:37The ring, the name, the license, they're mine.
11:45And you're still here, hanging on like some stray dog that doesn't realize it's been kicked out.
11:51God, that's pathetic.
11:53Her mouth curls.
11:56If you're this desperate to be used, there are corners in the Bronx where men will pay for it.
12:02At least then you'd finally be earning your keep.
12:06Though for someone like you?
12:07Ten years freeloading.
12:08A charity case who gives it away for free.
12:10You're probably only good enough for gutter trash in the project.
12:12There's a loud buzzing in my head.
12:14All I can see.
12:14There's a loud buzzing in my head.
12:16All I can see is her mouth moving.
12:18Sharp.
12:19Ugly.
12:20Relentless.
12:20I'm so angry I almost laugh.
12:22But Bianca doesn't give me the chance to answer.
12:25She suddenly lets out a shriek, grabs the front of her dress, and yanks the neckline open.
12:29Then she throws herself backward.
12:31Talia!
12:32Please!
12:33Stop!
12:36Talia!
12:46Dante rushes over, lifts Bianca up, and folds her into his arms.
12:51She's crying so hard she can barely stand.
12:54Dante, I'm the other woman.
12:57I'm the one who ruined what you had.
12:59It's all my fault.
13:02I never should have come into your life.
13:05I'm the homewrecker here.
13:07I'm the villain.
13:09Who said that to you?
13:11Bianca bites her lip and clutches at her torn dress.
13:13Please, don't ask.
13:18Then her eyes flick to me, fear, delicate, calculated.
13:23Someone like me could never go up against someone like her.
13:27Wives from powerful families.
13:29Her voice trembles harder.
13:30I'm nothing next to that.
13:32Dante, I'm not good enough for you.
13:34Just let me go.
13:36Please.
13:36I don't want to wake up dead over something I didn't even do.
13:39His face turns cold.
13:41He looks at me.
13:43Explain.
13:45I lower my hand and show him my swollen cheek.
13:49You should ask her what she said.
13:51Miss Rossi!
13:52Yes, I slapped you, but only after you threatened to make my parents disappear from this world.
13:59They're ordinary people.
14:01If you're still mad, hit me back.
14:04But leave my family out of it.
14:06That's a lie.
14:08You were the one who-
14:09Enough!
14:10Dante cuts across me.
14:11His stare is flat with disappointment.
14:14Talia, I spoiled you.
14:16He takes one slow step closer.
14:19Do you really think just because you have no family name and nobody backing you I won't touch you?
14:23A hollow laugh escapes me.
14:25My eyes sting.
14:27So what are you going to do?
14:29Defend your wife?
14:30He walks up to me, unhurried.
14:32Then his fingers close around the ring on my hand.
14:34The ring he made himself after he earned his first real money.
14:37A rough diamond, hand cut and set by him alone.
14:40Inside the band, one word is engraved.
14:42Semper always.
14:43He slides it off my finger.
14:44Then he turns to Marco.
14:46Make the call.
14:47Get our people at the precinct down here.
14:49Boss?
14:50Tell them my wife's jewelry was stolen.
14:52Caught red-handed.
14:53I forget how to move.
14:55My mind goes completely blank.
14:56Dante never has it easy.
14:58He claws his way up from the streets of Brooklyn.
15:01Men like him survive by being harder, meaner, more ruthless than everyone else.
15:05I am the one exception.
15:07His one soft spot, right or wrong, he always stands in front of me.
15:11No one in New York dares use dirty tricks on me until now.
15:15And the one driving the knife straight into my heart is him.
15:18Dante rubs his thumb over the ring.
15:20My tears blur his cold face until he looks like a stranger.
15:23You disappointed me, Talia.
15:25Go sit inside for a few days and think about what you did.
15:28Don't worry.
15:30It won't be long.
15:31When you get out, I'll put this back on your finger myself.
15:37Two uniformed officers walk in.
15:39Cops on Dante's payroll.
15:40They cuff my wrist.
15:41At the same time, I pull my hand free from his grip.
15:44The sudden emptiness seems to unsettle him.
15:46Dante's brow tightens.
15:48He stares at my back with the strangest look on his face,
15:50like something is slipping away and he can't get it back.
15:53He starts toward me.
15:54Bianca beats him to it, looping herself around his arm.
15:58Dante, thank you for standing up for me.
16:00I was so scared.
16:04What do you want to make it up to you?
16:06Bianca bleams.
16:08Then she plucks the ring from his hand and drops it into the track.
16:11Dante's face changes.
16:12Only for a second.
16:13A muscle jumps in his jaw, then disappears.
16:16Bianca's eyes go wide at once.
16:18Hurt rushes into them like she can summon it on command.
16:21Was it that important?
16:22She bends toward the trash can.
16:25Then I'll get it back for you.
16:27Ten years is still ten years.
16:29Even if she did hurt me, I don't want to make things harder for you.
16:32Dante catches her by the waist and pulls her back.
16:35Not a chance.
16:37His voice softens.
16:41You matter more.
16:42Don't dirty your hands.
16:46He slips his black Amex into her palm.
16:53Go buy whatever you want.
16:56She pouts and pushes it back.
17:00I don't want your money.
17:02I love you.
17:04Not your money.
17:06Yeah?
17:07Well, I want to spend money on my wife.
17:11He presses the card into her hand again.
17:17If you don't use it, it'll bother me.
17:24Fine.
17:25Only because you insist.
17:27Like she's humoring him.
17:29No one picks the ring back up.
17:30It stays in the trash.
17:32Buried between cocktail napkins and cigarette butts.
17:35The word engraved inside the band faces up.
17:37Sempra.
17:38Forever.
17:39Buried with the garbage.
17:42Three days later, they drag me out of holding.
17:45I barely know where I am.
17:47Three days in a precinct, Dante controls.
17:50Locked up with real predators.
17:52No one tells me why I'm still there.
17:54No one asks if I need a doctor.
17:56Bianca even sends a message as Mrs. Moretti.
17:58She's a thief.
17:59He despises her.
18:01Make sure she learns her lesson.
18:02Don't hold back.
18:03They drive me straight to one of Dante's nightclubs.
18:06His club.
18:08His club.
18:09Then they shove me into a VIP room.
18:12Dante and Bianca are on the center couch.
18:15Sharing a grape from opposite ends.
18:19The grape falls.
18:21They end up kissing instead.
18:25The room erupts around me.
18:27Men shouting.
18:27Women laughing.
18:29Glasses clinking.
18:30The whole place practically shakes with it.
18:32I don't know how long I stay in the middle of the night.
18:35His eyes land on my face.
18:37My cheeks are hollow now.
18:38My skin is almost gray.
18:40His expression darkens instantly.
18:42What the hell happened to you?
18:44Did someone in there put their hands on you?
18:46Before I can answer, Bianca lets out a light laugh.
18:51Miss Rossi really knows how to play a man's heart.
18:54Come on.
18:56Because of your history with Dante,
18:58who would dare touch her?
19:00That sickly little look is makeup.
19:01Pretty convincing, though.
19:03Must have taken a while.
19:04Dante pauses.
19:05Then he sinks back down.
19:07He taps a cigarette from the pack and leans into the flame.
19:10Bianca holds out for him.
19:11Smoke curls between us, blurring his face.
19:14Only his eyes stay clear.
19:16Hard.
19:17Tired.
19:17Already annoyed.
19:18If you're done reflecting, come apologize to Bianca.
19:21She sits curled in his lap like innocence itself.
19:23I really didn't want to make things difficult for you.
19:26But you insulted my family.
19:29You threatened them.
19:30Anyone would be upset.
19:32Then she pauses.
19:33Oh.
19:34Right.
19:35I forgot.
19:37Your parents threw you away when you were little.
19:39You grew away when you were little.
19:41You grew up in the system.
19:43A foster kid nobody wanted.
19:46So maybe you don't even know what family means.
19:49She sets her drink on the coffee table and pushes another glass toward me.
19:53Green liquid fizzes under the low lights, glowing like poison.
19:57Abthance.
19:5860%.
20:00Drink it.
20:01And I'll forgive you.
20:03I stare at the glass.
20:04Then, without thinking, I look at Dante.
20:06I'm allergic to alcohol.
20:08The last time it got bad enough, I ended up in the ICU.
20:11Dante was terrified.
20:12After that, he never let me touch a drink again.
20:15Now he only exhales a thin stream of smoke.
20:18Casual.
20:19Detached.
20:20Like we're talking about the weather.
20:22Tali, it's one drink.
20:24Your tolerance can handle that.
20:26I don't expect anything from him anymore.
20:29Still, my heart clenches so hard hard it hurts.
20:34I pick up the glass.
20:37And swallow.
20:43Fire tears down my throat and hits my stomach like a blade!
20:48Bianca watches with bright, eager eyes.
20:51Well, if Miss Roussi can hold her liquor that well,
20:54maybe she should finish these too.
20:56She points to a row of shots lined up on the table.
20:59Tequila.
21:00Vodka.
21:01Mezcal.
21:01More absinthe.
21:05My face goes cold.
21:08Bianca turns to Dante, wounded all over again.
21:11Dante.
21:12She called me a homewrecker.
21:14She threatened to have my parents killed.
21:16I'm traumatized over this.
21:18And all I'm asking for is a tiny little penance.
21:21She tilts her head.
21:23That's not too much, is it?
21:25Of course not.
21:26Dante wraps an arm around her and crushes his cigarette into the ash girl.
21:30Then he looks at me like this is the most reasonable thing in the world.
21:33Tala, I'm trying to help you here.
21:35You took it too far.
21:37Do what Bianca says.
21:38Once she calms down, you can start making this right.
21:40I nod.
21:42Calmly.
21:44One hand presses against the twisting pain in my lower stomach.
21:48Then I reach for the bottle of absinthe.
21:53A few glasses won't cover it.
21:55I'll drink the whole bottle.
21:56I just want to get drunk enough to stop feeling any of this.
21:59The bottle empties down my throat.
22:01And the whole world goes silent.
22:03I don't hear the glass hit the floor.
22:05I only feel something spill from the corner of my mouth.
22:09Hot.
22:10Metallic.
22:11Blood spatters across the floor.
22:13My legs give out and I collapse.
22:15Fianna recoils several steps.
22:17Disgust flashing across her face.
22:18Miss Rossi, it's one bottle.
22:20Seriously?
22:21You even brought fake blood for this?
22:23His brows knit in irritation.
22:25That's enough.
22:25How long are you going to keep this up?
22:27Bianca's already shown you more mercy than you deserved.
22:29Stop embarrassing yourself and get up.
22:31Blood!
22:32There's blood all over her pants.
22:33This is...
22:34Oh my god, she's mismarrying.
22:35I look up.
22:36All the color drains out of Dante's face in one violent sweep.
22:39And for the first time today, I smile for real.
22:42You can add your child to what you gave her.
22:45Is that enough now?
22:46Years ago, he took a hit during a turf war.
22:48Low in the abdomen.
22:49Too close.
22:51Later, doctors told him he'd almost certainly never have children.
22:54When I found out I was pregnant, I laughed and cried so hard I couldn't breathe.
22:58For one reckless second, I thought God had finally looked my way.
23:01I was waiting for the dress fitting to be over so I could tell him.
23:04I pictured it a hundred different ways.
23:06We'd make up the nursery together.
23:08Argue over baby gear.
23:09Sit up too late with a book of baby names.
23:11Debating Italian names or American ones.
23:14I never imagined betrayal would get there first.
23:17That his affair would come before our baby ever had a chance.
23:21So now I give it all back.
23:22The room explodes into chaos.
23:24Dante moves so fast he knocks the coffee table over.
23:27It crashes aside as he drops to his knees in front of me.
23:30Blood keeps spreading under me.
23:32Soaping through my clothes.
23:33Seeping into the marble.
23:35Too much.
23:35Far too much.
23:37Dante's mouth opens.
23:38But nothing comes out at first.
23:39He's shaking all over.
23:41His hands hover over me.
23:42Useless.
23:43Terrified.
23:44He doesn't even dare touch me.
23:45His eyes are so red they look torn open.
23:47I didn't know.
23:48I swear to God I didn't know.
23:50Leah.
23:50The baby.
23:51Our baby.
23:52Then he jerks for his phone.
23:53911.
23:54Right.
23:55Fuck.
23:55Call 911.
23:57But after he hits the first three numbers, a hand snatches the phone from him and powers it off.
24:01Are you out of your fucking mind?
24:02Dante, you forgot?
24:04I volunteered at a women's clinic.
24:06I can help.
24:07Let me help.
24:07Bianca crouches.
24:08Her eyes sweep over me.
24:10Cold and glittering.
24:11Then she puts on a show.
24:12Checks my pulse.
24:13Presses here.
24:13There.
24:14And then her hands sink into my lower of abdomen.
24:16Her stileti nails bite through fabric.
24:17She presses down again.
24:18Pain destinates through me so violently my vision goes black at the edges.
24:21I can't even scream.
24:22Warmth keeps pouring out from under me.
24:25My breathing turns shallow.
24:27One dead bastard isn't enough.
24:29I prefer two for the price of one.
24:32She pushes away from me and stands.
24:34Miss Rosie.
24:35You're beyond saving.
24:37She judgers at the blood.
24:39With this much bleeding?
24:40A normal person would already be dead.
24:43Do you think everyone here is stupid?
24:45What the hell are you saying?
24:46I lie there on the floor.
24:48The last ten years unspool across my mind like burning film.
24:52The apartment in Brooklyn with no heat.
24:55Dollar pizza, the way he used to grin and push his half toward me.
24:59The first baby lost in that brutal winter.
25:01And Dante dropping to his knees in the snow, sobbing like a man being torn apart.
25:06The second baby gone after the fall down the stairs.
25:08Dante cutting his own flesh open and swearing a blood over me.
25:12Semperi, he said.
25:14Forever.
25:15That ring is in a trash can now.
25:17And I'm on the carpet of his nightclub VIP room, drowning in the blood of our child.
25:22Every memory turns to smoke.
25:24Every promise goes with it.
25:25Something warm slides down into my hairline.
25:29Tears.
25:30Then darkness starts to pull me under.
25:32Just before I black out, the VIP room door bursts open.
25:36Save her!
25:37Now!
25:37For the next half month, I know nothing.
25:39No sense of time.
25:40No memory.
25:41Just darkness.
25:42But Dante apparently is doing fine.
25:44He sinks deeper into Bianca's arms.
25:46Takes her to galas.
25:47Flies her to Miami.
25:48Spends his nights wrapped around her like he can't get enough.
25:51Half a week after nearly drinking himself nut on her body.
25:54He attends a friend's private party.
25:56You heard?
25:56The DeLuca family in Boston found their daughter.
25:59The one who was missing for 20 years.
26:01The DeLucas?
26:03The most powerful family on the East Coast?
26:05Those DeLucas.
26:06Don DeLuca and his wife refused to have another child while they were looking for her.
26:0920 years.
26:10Now that they finally have her back, they guard her like she's made of glass.
26:13They threw a homecoming gala for her.
26:14Everyone who matters on the East Coast showed up.
26:16Not much detail on the girl herself, though.
26:18Just that she was taken as a child by a mole bought off by a rival family.
26:21Somehow ended up in the New York foster care system.
26:23Missing for 20 years.
26:24I heard Don DeLuca turned over half the East Coast looking for her.
26:27Damn near burned down the underworld trying to find that kid.
26:30He just stands there with his drink in hand.
26:32A daughter missing for 20 years.
26:34Foster care.
26:35New York.
26:35The words land one after another.
26:37And for no reason he can explain.
26:39Something heavy drops in his chest.
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