The Godfather’s Regret: Lost Phoenix is a gripping mafia romance drama about revenge, fate, and unexpected love. After losing everything as a child, Julian rises to power as a ruthless godfather—only to face a shocking truth when his enemy’s daughter is revealed to be his destined partner.
Caught between vengeance and love, he must confront his past and decide his future. This short drama full episode delivers intense emotions, dark romance, and unforgettable twists.
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Caught between vengeance and love, he must confront his past and decide his future. This short drama full episode delivers intense emotions, dark romance, and unforgettable twists.
#TheGodfathersRegretLostPhoenix #MafiaRomance #ShortDrama #ShortFilm #ShortMovie #DramaSeries #Drama #FullEP #RevengeDrama #DarkLove #PowerAndLove #EmotionalDrama
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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.
00:21I 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 of 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.
00:56Guns raised. 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, slams the door shut with a shot.
01:24Take Julian. Get him out.
01:27No, Dad!
01:28That's an order, son.
01:29I stare at his face and memorize it.
01:31No, 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, real...
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.
02:34Mob water.
02:35I move through it fast, stuffing supplies into a backpack.
02:38At the quarter 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 her 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.
03:45Plural.
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.
04:29I catch a flash at the back of her neck as she turns.
04:32White.
04:32Birthmark shaped.
04:33A 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.
04:41Then pulls out a card.
04:42Black on one side.
04:43The 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.
05:09Mouth set.
05:10And I run.
05:11One day I get her feet hitting paper.
05:12I'll find you again.
05:13I 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 become something harder.
05:24Boss, all Rosetti present today, eliminated.
05:29Good.
05:31Share the sea's property with our men.
05:32Norman 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.
05:51Dangerous.
05:51Command.
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 dirt.
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.
06:06Looks 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 her forehead.
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 while her face shows nothing.
06:23I pull back the hammer and do not hold the trigger.
06:25Godfather Burke hops and moves through the carnage with the elegance of a man
06:29who has never hurried in his life.
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, man.
06:47Burke's hand comes down the line, pressing 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, standing in its graveyard, being
07:02told 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.
07:25You guys.
07:26She breathes against my shoulder.
07:28You're sick.
07:29Burke smiles.
07:30I think you'll enjoy your marriage.
07:35Burke leaves.
07:37Norman 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, I 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.
08:20Elizabeth Gilbert, my childhood friend, achingly beautiful, strategically persistent, sees the
08:26dress and lights up.
08:27Julian, I knew you'd marry me.
08:29You've always been like a sister to me.
08:31I'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 coming.
08:41In the garden, I stand at the altar in a black suit, wearing the face of a man at his
08:46own
08:46execution.
08:46He looks like he's at a funeral.
08:49Shut up.
08:50The bride's a Rosani.
08:51At least try to look less miserable.
08:53Norman appears at my shoulder.
08:56Just thinking about that Rosani woman makes me want to throw up.
08:59I found a nearby glass and one swallow.
09:01The bride is here!
09:03I look up.
09:03Maggie 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 you.
09:55She only wanted to wear it to please you.
09:58Classic Rosoni.
09:59Maggie looks from Sally to Elizabeth.
10:01Something in her expression crystallized.
10:02I see.
10:04You two snakes.
10:05She turns to me and chin up.
10:07Don't flatter yourself.
10:08I'm the Rosoni 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.
10:15Gasps from every direction.
10:17I go still for exactly one second.
10:19Then grab her, throw her over my shoulder, and 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.
10:28Today, we gather before God.
10:31I do.
10:32I shoot Maggie a look.
10:33Like I have a choice?
10:34She rolls her eyes.
10:34I do.
10:35You may now kiss the bride.
10:37I'd have to be in here.
10:39I grab her wrist.
10:40I bring her to my bedroom.
10:41Lay her on the bed and begin carefully removing the ruined dress.
10:44My hands steady working fast things.
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, her 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.
11:26It 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 gonna make you suffer.
11:37I push her toward the mirror, both of us reflected, and her wide eyes like dark ways.
11:42Look at yourself.
11:44I want you to see yourself humiliated.
11:47Julian.
11:50You are such a bastard.
11:52My mouth comes down in hers.
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, bracelet running through my fingers.
12:15The dress.
12:16Stored 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.
12:37And 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.
13:06Elizabeth guards.
13:07My eyes find the card in her hand and go hard.
13:10Snatch it.
13:10So it really was you.
13:12How dare you steal this?
13:13This card is the same one I gave that card.
13:15She was staring at my face now.
13:17And something in her expression had gone very still.
13:19Then she reaches for 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.
13:27I look down at her.
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.
13:34A stunned hesitation.
13:36Maggie flips the card.
13:37Red.
13:38The pattern's red.
13:39Not.
13:39She stares.
13:40The confirmation is all pain.
13:42It's disappointing.
13:42Whatever she was thinking, she buried it before.
13:44I take the card back.
13:45This is the Orsini Arsenal access mode.
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 out, I catch Elizabeth and Marcia exchanging a slow, triumphant smile aimed at Maggie on my
14:09shoulder.
14:10I filed her away and said nothing.
14:11The dungeon is cold.
14:12They equipped with instruments that announce their purpose without explanation.
14:16Are you serious?
14:17Maggie looks at Norma.
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.
14:58The men stop.
14:58Step back.
15:00Elizabeth moves instantly.
15:01Grabs the fallen knife.
15:02Presses it to her own arm.
15:03Quick.
15:04Control.
15:04Shallow enough to bleed convincingly.
15:07When I turn, Elizabeth is already performing victimhood.
15:09It was an accident.
15:11Julian.
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.
15:37And past caring.
15:38Fine.
15:40I wish I had stabbed her.
15:42And stabbed deep enough to finish the job.
15:45I 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.
16:06So what are you going to do about it, my dear husband?
16:09I go absolutely still.
16:11Don't call me that.
16:12Everyone, 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 in.
16:25I raise the whip.
16:26She rolls.
16:27It cracks against the stone where she did.
16:29You sick bastard!
16:31A decent family wouldn't torture women!
16:32I 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.
18:15I stand alone in my bedroom and look at the jeweled dress.
18:20Phoenix, where are you?
18:21I pick up Maggie's belongings, 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.
18:53The girl in the dungeon with those same eyes.
18:56The birthmark.
18:57The bracelet.
18:58Phoenix'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.
19:36I love you, Mom.
19:38Dad's waiting for us on the other side.
19:41Executioners move into position.
19:43Safety 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.
20:05Burke Hoban walks into the rain without an umbrella,
20:07which 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.
20:27I 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?
20:44Burke's trap has reversed on me.
20:47I watch him realize it.
20:49Fine.
20:49If that's true, Maggie lives.
20:51For now.
20:52Kill him, if you must.
20:54Elizabeth recovers fast.
20:55But kill the mother, at least.
20:57Burke 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.
21:13Really looked at me.
21:14For 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 cornered.
21:21But I can't fight him yet.
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 with convulsive motion and throws herself in front of her mother.
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.
22:10She tears free and collapses beside her mother, pressing her hands to the wound.
22:14Mom, 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 for the doctor.
22:36Doctor!
22:37Holding her against my chest.
22:38You haven't told me where Phoenix is.
22:43I'm not letting you die.
22:45Night.
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, like 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.
23:35What?
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.
24:00I know her.
24:02Then where is she?
24:03She looks at my face at close range.
24:05Fifteen years of desperation.
24:07She makes herself say the horrible words.
24:10The 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.
24:19My 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.
24:55Locker in the dungeon.
24:56No food.
24:56No 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.
25:22Julian.
25:24What the hell are you doing?
25:25Snap out of it!
25:26I lunge.
25:27She has nowhere to go.
25:28I crash her and pin 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.
25:43The 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 the 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.
26:29You 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, a 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, fists clenched, thinking about a birthmark under my fingertips.
27:09Why do I keep mistaking her for Phoenix?
27:11Must have been the drugs.
27:17Norman, post 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, and I pieced it together later.
27:25From what Norman could find out, Sally 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, inclusion was the same.
27:33Maggie had to die.
27:35What happened in Burke's office, I wasn't there for her.
27:37What I know, I learned afterward.
27:40Elizabeth and Marsha went to Burke with forged documents.
27:43Burke 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?
28:06Yes.
28:07You forced me into this when you married me off to Julian.
28:10You should have expected it.
28:12Was Julian involved?
28:13No!
28:14I wasn't talking to you.
28:16Julian's the only one with high-level access.
28:19Tell me, is 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.
28:33She 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 him.
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 confirm 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 one.
30:23I'm really pregnant?
30:28It's impossible!
30:29She must have slept with someone else!
30:32My 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.
30:50Maggie wakes in the morning to me, carrying a tray.
30:53Soup, fragrant and hot.
30:55Drink this.
30:55She 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, driving it toward her own stomach.
31:24I 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.
31:41That'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.
31:57Is 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.
32:16Something happens to the baby.
32:19Your 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.
32:29By 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.
33:29But I never thought it would be fifteen years.
33:31I lift her hair.
33:33A white Phoenix birthmark.
33:34Exactly.
33:35Oh 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!
33:48Mr. Orsani!
33:49Mr. Orsani!
33:49Mr. Orsani!
33:49Mr. Orsani!
33:49Mr. Orsani!
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