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00:03In the back seat, my cheeks burned hot and my breath came fast and uneven.
00:08My slender waist was pinned firmly by Lorenzo Luciano's hand, which had pulled triggers for years.
00:16Not here. Lorenzo.
00:18What's there to fear?
00:20The windows are tinted.
00:23Those patrolmen outside can't see inside.
00:26No one would ever imagine that Volante's precious pride, his daughter, would be in this state in her fiancé's car.
00:34I closed my eyes, feeling a tearing sense of shame.
00:37The next second, the blackberry on the center console let out a sharp buzz.
00:42Lorenzo glanced at the screen and his previously heated gaze turned ice cold in an instant.
00:47He roughly pushed Joanna, who was aroused, away from his arms.
00:52Get out.
00:55What?
00:59The Luciano family has business to handle.
01:02I don't have time for games with you.
01:04Walk back with yourself.
01:06I was pushed into the cold street with no dignity at all.
01:10This was the very edge of Clinton, surrounded by game spies and greedy scavengers.
01:20Who's that?
01:22Volante's holy maiden?
01:25Looks like the Luciano boy's done playing.
01:28Just tossed her on the curb.
01:29Look at that body.
01:31Worth dying for if we could drag her into an alley for a night.
01:42Lorenzo, are you insane?
01:44This is Moretti territory!
01:46Dumping me here is a direct insult to my family's reputation!
01:51In this world, only the dead don't need a reputation.
02:01I watched the taillights disappear.
02:04My heart felt drenched in ice water.
02:06I am Joanna Valenti, the heir of one of Manhattan's five families.
02:11On this chessboard of power, I was the carefully kept dove, a symbol of my family's honor and rules, never
02:18touched by the bloodshed of the streets.
02:20To secure a crumbling alliance, I had to marry the most notorious successor of the Luciano family, Lorenzo.
02:27I tried to escape.
02:29Late one night, with the city snowed in, I was ambushed by hit men from the rival Moretti family while
02:35fleeing to the outskirts.
02:36In that life and death crossfire, it was Lorenzo who charged alone into the kill zone.
02:52Don't be afraid, Joanna.
02:54From now on, no one can use you as a bargaining chip.
02:57You're free.
02:58In that moment, something inside me shattered.
03:01The doctrines, the reason, the pride the Valenti family had taught me vanished before Lorenzo's blood.
03:20Lorenzo, I'll marry you.
03:22I only want you.
03:23Perhaps because of that promise, he miraculously clung to life in the ICU.
03:29After the engagement, Lorenzo seemed a changed man.
03:33He stopped gambling, cut off all his mistresses, and even endured a brutal family trial to win the Valenti family's
03:40favor.
03:40In that private moment earlier, he almost made me believe his love was deep and genuine.
03:45I couldn't understand why the man who once took a bullet for me could turn so cold and cruel in
03:51an instant.
03:59Follow that may back.
04:00Not too close.
04:01He'll spot you.
04:07I stepped out of the cab before I neared the gate.
04:11I heard the dull sound of a whip from the courtyard, followed by a woman's broken, desperate pleas.
04:19How dare you lay a hand on her?
04:22I've agreed to marry Joanna Valini as promised.
04:25Why would you hurt Sophia?
04:35How dare you ask why?
04:37It hasn't even been a week since your brother died in the fighting in Sicily, and this woman couldn't respect
04:43her duty as a widow.
04:45Worse, she seduced you, her brother-in-law, and secretly made that damn marriage contract with you.
04:56How could this be?
04:58My fiancé secretly married his dead brother's wife?
05:01Before I could even catch my breath from the shock, Lorenzo's voice, thick with sarcasm, cut through the air again.
05:08If you hadn't used her life as a bargaining chip to force me into marrying into the Valenti family...
05:14Sophia would never have broke up with me to save her life and married my short-lived brother.
05:20It's just a marriage contract.
05:22If I can't give her official status in a church, can't I even grant her the title of Mrs. Luciano?
05:33She's just a low-born flower girl.
05:36What right does she have to enter our home?
05:39I said no back then, and you threw yourself away in the Brooklyn casinos, bringing endless shame to the family.
05:46Every noble in New York thought you were filth just to look at.
05:50If I hadn't set up that scene three years ago, pushing Joanna into Moretti's line of fire on that snowy
05:56night so you could play the hero...
05:58Do you really think that proud Volati lady would ever have looked your way?
06:06I froze as if struck by lightning.
06:09That bloody, romantic night three years ago, the stray bullet that nearly pierced Lorenzo's heart, his pale promise by the
06:16hospital bed, it had all been a carefully rehearsed trick.
06:19A deafening roar rang in my ears.
06:22My world collapsed in an instant.
06:25I slowly crouched against the wall.
06:28Cold rain trickled down my neck into my clothes.
06:31Yet it could not compare to the chill in my chest.
06:34Three years.
06:35He'd been acting for three whole years.
06:38He'd fought other mafia bosses for speaking rudely to me.
06:41He'd shielded me in his arms without hesitation in the Sicily wildfires, letting the flames burn his back.
06:48Yet in the end, I was just a tool for him to defy his family and protect another woman.
06:54I was a pawn he was ready to sacrifice.
07:04My mind went blank.
07:06I gripped the phone so hard my knuckles turned white.
07:10Pregnant.
07:11At the very moment I discovered everything had been a lie.
07:15I had once feared childbirth.
07:17But I had dreamed of giving him an heir because I loved him.
07:21Now, staring at the man in the courtyard, fighting desperately to protect Sophia,
07:26I wiped the tears from my eyes.
07:29My gaze turned cold and hard, like the Valenti family pressed.
07:33I'll get rid of this unwanted child.
07:35And then, I'll make Lorenzo Luciano learn this.
07:39Once the Valenti dove is stained with blood, she becomes a terrifying hawk.
07:50Who the fuck did this?
07:52Touch my things, and I'll feed him to the fish in the Hudson River.
07:56It was Mrs. Velotti.
08:01I sat by the windowsill, the wedding dress cut into pieces at my feet.
08:07The wedding invitations, filled with guest lists, were being torn up one by one, there.
08:14Fragments scattered across the floor.
08:16What's wrong?
08:17Our little dove has learned to sharpen her claws.
08:20If you don't like the dress, I'll fly a designer from Milan over tomorrow for new measurements.
08:25Don't ruin your health over some fabric.
08:29Still mad about me leaving you on the street?
08:32My bad.
08:32I didn't finish what I started in the car.
08:35I'll make it up to you tonight.
08:36Your father is sending me to a convent in Sicily to lock me up.
08:39I came to say goodbye, but it seems I've come at the wrong time.
08:43Lorenzo, I shouldn't have come between your happiness.
08:46Joanna, I have something to handle.
08:48Go to bed early.
08:49At the word Sicily and convent, Lorenzo's face changed instantly.
08:54To him, that meant a life sentence.
08:57Lorenzo heard the heavy thud of a body hitting the floor, but he didn't even.
09:01Look back.
09:03The sound of the elevator doors closing echoed eerily in the empty corridor.
09:07I curled up on the cold, hard floor, cold sweat dripping down my forehead and large beads.
09:14Once, he had acted as if his whole world revolved around me.
09:18For a simple cold, he would wake up the best private doctors in Manhattan in the middle of the night.
09:24But now, Sophia only needed to shed a single tear, and he didn't even bother to
09:29pretend to care anymore.
09:32Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.
09:35I'm hemorrhaging.
09:41Hemostatic agents and prozesterone now.
09:43The patient is critical.
09:44We need to save the fetus urgently.
09:46She should have been here half an hour ago.
09:48Mr. Luciano was just here.
09:49He said Miss Sophia was frightened and had a bleed.
09:52He took all the emergency medication from the hospital.
09:55It's a Luciano-controlled facility.
09:57No one dared to stop him.
09:59Save the fetus.
10:01Had a bleed.
10:02The medicine that could have saved my child was.
10:05Taken by my fiancé and given to his supposed sister-in-law.
10:09My nails dug deep into.
10:12My palms until they drew blood.
10:14That pain was sharper than the tearing in my.
10:17Stomach.
10:20Doctor, don't save it.
10:23Get rid of that mistake.
10:25The procedure was quick and clean.
10:27When I woke up, loud arguing came from the VIP room next door.
10:33I'm sorry.
10:34It's all my fault.
10:35Joanne's in the hospital.
10:37Just let me leave.
10:38I deserve to rot away in Sicily.
10:42The doctor said it was just a minor accident from exhaustion.
10:45You're leaving over something this small?
10:48You married my brother to get back at me and now you're running away without a word?
10:53You'd rather be a Luciano widow forever than wait for me to take you back?
10:57Yes.
10:57I deserve to be a widow.
10:59I married him out of spite then shamelessly climbed into my brother-in-law's bed.
11:03Everyone calls me the dirtiest whore in Clinton.
11:05Don't talk nonsense.
11:07We signed a private contract.
11:08Before God, you are my wife.
11:10I won't let you degrade yourself like this.
11:12I stood in the shadow of the doorway, a complete outsider watching this absurd.
11:17Farce.
11:18Wife.
11:19What a lovely real wife.
11:21Then what were all his vows to me in front of?
11:24The Valenti mansion these three years?
11:26Just some comedy rehearsal for the Luciano.
11:30Family?
11:31Lorenzo, I love you.
11:33Even if the whole world despises me, I don't care.
11:39Feel that?
11:43Joe, Joanna?
11:46Sofia lost her husband and was traumatized.
11:48The medicine made her mistake me for my brother.
11:51Joanna, be reasonable.
11:52Don't cause trouble right now.
11:54Cause trouble.
11:57Lorenzo Luciano, our engagement is over.
12:00You and your sister-in-law can go to hell together.
12:06Even when he was nearly a vegetable after that shootout in Sicily, I never left.
12:12I defied my family, secretly gave him 1,000 cubic centimeters of my own blood, and cared for him in
12:19that sterile-smelling attic for six months.
12:22And now, this docile dove was saying she
12:25wanted to break the engagement?
12:27Joanna, stop this.
12:30Without the Luciano family's protection,
12:32you're just a dessert your family is ready to serve up on the negotiating table.
12:37You'd really leave?
12:39Those words were like a poison needle,
12:42piercing straight into my most painful spot.
12:45He knew my weakness all too well.
12:48I was a marriage tool carefully raised.
12:51By my family.
12:53He was certain that even if I knew the truth,
12:56I would be like a bird with.
12:57Broken wings.
12:59Forced to stay by his side.
13:01What if I insist?
13:03Joanna, don't forget.
13:05I have your videos.
13:07Valenti's holy maiden,
13:09shamelessly moaning in the back of a mayback,
13:11writhing under a man like a cat in
13:13heat.
13:14What do you think will happen
13:16if those videos get sent
13:18to every mafia family's inbox?
13:22Who would still marry you?
13:24Or maybe,
13:25who'd just use you as a public plaything?
13:28My body trembled violently.
13:31A chill seeped from my very bones.
13:33I remembered.
13:35Our first time.
13:37I was too shy to open my eyes.
13:39And it was Lorenzo who coaxed me with
13:41that gentle voice
13:45saying he wanted to record it
13:47as a keepsake for our old age.
13:49That night,
13:51he acted like a devout believer,
13:53holding me like I was precious.
13:55But now,
13:56all,
13:57that tenderness had become a noose
13:59to strangle me.
14:02It hurts.
14:04Lorenzo,
14:05my stomach hurts so much.
14:09Does it still hurt?
14:11Joanna is angry.
14:12You should go comfort her.
14:14I,
14:14I can bear it.
14:16Even if I lose this baby,
14:17it's my fate.
14:19Sophia is still recovering.
14:20She's pregnant.
14:21I don't have the patience
14:23for your little tantrum.
14:25If you insist on leaving,
14:27don't blame me
14:28for forgetting the last three years.
14:31I'll send those videos to the press.
14:33Let all of New York
14:35see what you are really like in private.
14:37You choose,
14:38stay as the high and mighty Mrs. Luciano,
14:42or be the ruined slut
14:44with her reputation in the gutter.
14:46This was the man I loved for three years.
14:49To protect another woman,
14:50he didn't hesitate
14:52to destroy my name and my soul.
14:54I couldn't just sit and wait.
14:56I must find that USB
14:58with the evidence of my shame
14:59and get out of this hell for good.
15:08Then,
15:09I dialed a long forgotten number.
15:11It belonged to the most secretive legal,
15:14advisor of the Valenti family.
15:16Draft a full statement for me.
15:18Withdrawal of all investments
15:20from the Luciano family
15:21and annulment of the marriage alliance,
15:24even if I have to lose everything,
15:26I want him dead.
15:35Joanna,
15:36where did you hide Sophia?
15:38She's pregnant
15:39and can't take this stress.
15:47I have nothing to do with it.
15:49Mrs. Villani,
15:50it's done.
15:51Just like you asked.
15:52The bitch is in a Clinton warehouse.
15:54I've got a few of the filthiest bums
15:56watching her.
15:57Once we get her on video,
15:58the Luciano boy
15:59won't dare use yours against you.
16:02My facet turned from pale to purple,
16:05my feet barely touching the ground,
16:07air,
16:08being squeezed from my lungs
16:09bit by bit.
16:11Did you bully her?
16:12Joanne,
16:13I never knew you were this vicious.
16:25I didn't even know the man on the phone.
16:28This clumsy frame-up didn't even
16:31bother to be convincing.
16:33But Lorenzo was a rabid beast
16:35out of his mind by then.
16:37All he heard was that the woman he loved
16:40was in danger.
16:44If anything happens
16:45to Sofia and the baby,
16:47I'll make the entire
16:48Valenny family pay.
17:03Lorenzo!
17:04Save me!
17:06Save our baby!
17:08Save our baby!
17:14It's over, Sofia.
17:15I'm here.
17:16It was Joanna.
17:18She said she'd let me go only
17:20if the baby in my belly died.
17:23Lorenzo,
17:24I'm so scared.
17:27Lorenzo closed his eyes.
17:30The last flicker of old affection
17:32for me burned to ashes.
17:36At her confession,
17:44Is she alright?
17:48I crashed down,
17:50Myers ringing,
17:51a coppery taste flooding my mouth at once.
17:54You have the nerve to ask?
17:56Joanna,
17:58weren't you Volante's holy maiden?
17:59Since you enjoy playing
18:01these dirty games so much,
18:03I'll let you have your fill.
18:13Take her to the underground nightclub
18:15in the red light district.
18:17Since she's so good
18:18at arranging men,
18:19let her experience it firsthand.
18:27Lorenzo,
18:28have you lost your mind?
18:29I'm your fiance.
18:30I'm the Volante Hermes.
18:35You lost the right to that name
18:37the moment you acted against Sophia.
18:39I'll tell your father
18:40his daughter ran off
18:41with some random man
18:42on the eve of the engagement.
18:44As for what happens to you
18:45in the red light district,
18:47you've earned every bit of it.
18:56No, Lorenzo.
18:57I was pregnant.
18:58I just miscarried it back
19:01at that hospital.
19:03Miscarriage?
19:05You'll lie about anything
19:06to escape punishment,
19:08won't you?
19:08Sophia is the one
19:10carrying my child.
19:11And you,
19:12who knows whose bastard
19:13you were carrying in your gut?
19:18Take her away.
19:20I collapsed to the floor,
19:22my last shred of spirit
19:24shattering to pieces.
19:25I stared at
19:27the man I've loved
19:28for three years,
19:30watching him push me
19:31into an abyss
19:32over another
19:33woman's lies.
19:35Outside the window,
19:36Manhattan's neon lights
19:38still glowed.
19:39But I knew the sun
19:40that belonged to
19:42Valenti's holy maiden
19:43was gone for good.
19:50I hadn't even recovered
19:52from the weakness
19:52of the miscarriage.
19:54The blood on my
19:55forehead had crested
19:57into a dark scab,
19:58and my expensive gown
19:59was torn to rags,
20:00leaving me looking like
20:01a discarded,
20:02broken doll.
20:05Well, well.
20:06A present from
20:07the Luciano boy.
20:08The Valarne's holy maiden?
20:11Lorenzo says you like it rough.
20:13So rough.
20:14You'd hire bums
20:15for his precious girl.
20:18I didn't.
20:20He's insane.
20:22He drove me insane.
20:25Here, the insane
20:26live longer.
20:27Lock her in the tank.
20:28Since Lorenzo
20:29wants her to experience
20:30it firsthand,
20:31she'll be tonight's
20:32opening act.
20:32I was locked inside,
20:34cold water lapping
20:35at my ankles.
20:36Blood loss from the
20:38miscarriage
20:39blurred my vision.
20:40Below me were
20:41countless twisted,
20:42greedy faces.
20:44They
20:44banged on the tank
20:45frantically,
20:46some even tossing
20:47dirty bills
20:48into the water.
20:50The holy
20:51Satan has been
20:52defiled.
20:53I heard she's
20:54the Volante heiress.
20:55Lorenzo called off
20:56the engagement himself.
20:58Doesn't matter
20:58if we break her.
21:00Lorenzo said
21:00she's just a
21:01nameless slut now.
21:03Through the thick
21:03mist on the glass,
21:05I stared at those
21:06wolf-like eyes
21:07outside.
21:08I
21:08once thought the
21:09Valenti name
21:10was my armor
21:11and Lorenzo's
21:12affection was
21:13my safe.
21:14Haven.
21:15But now,
21:16they had become
21:16boulders dragging
21:17me down to drown
21:18in the abyss.
21:22Lorenzo,
21:23isn't this too cruel?
21:25She was your
21:26fiance.
21:27Cruel?
21:27She showed no mercy
21:29when she went
21:29after my child.
21:31Tonight,
21:31the highest bidder
21:32takes her.
21:33The Volante's
21:34holy lady?
21:35The starting bid
21:36is one dollar.
21:37I stared at Lorenzo's
21:39face,
21:39the same face
21:40that had once
21:41kissed me,
21:41that had once
21:42protected me.
21:44Now there was
21:45nothing but pure
21:46loathing and
21:46cold-blooded
21:47cruelty.
21:48A dull ache
21:49flared in my
21:50lower belly again.
21:52It was my
21:52dead child,
21:53weeping,
21:54accusing the
21:55very father
21:56who had killed
21:57his own flesh
21:58and blood.
21:59Ten thousand!
22:01One hundred thousand!
22:02I'll pay a million!
22:04I'll tattoo
22:05Luciano's
22:06stray dog
22:07on her back!
22:09Ten million dollars,
22:10plus the Moretti
22:11family's Pier 3
22:12in the East District.
22:18Moretti?
22:19Luciano,
22:20the treasure
22:20you don't want.
22:22I've been craving
22:23her for a long time.
22:24Better she comes
22:25to me than dies
22:26with this filth.
22:27I'll show her
22:28real hell.
22:29You want the
22:30Valeti woman,
22:30Moretti?
22:31You can take her,
22:32but she has to
22:33leave one hand
22:33behind.
22:36Since these hands
22:37were used to
22:38plot against
22:38Sofia,
22:39they have no
22:40right to exist.
22:42I look at that
22:43blade.
22:43The last light
22:44in my eyes
22:45went out.
22:46I stopped
22:47struggling.
22:48Through the glass,
22:49I gave Lorenzo
22:50a strange,
22:51desolate smile.
22:54Lorenzo,
22:55you'll regret
22:56this.
23:01Take me with you.
23:02I'll help you
23:03kill him.
23:11Lorenzo stared
23:12at the woman
23:13who had once
23:13been docile,
23:14who would cling
23:15to him when
23:15watching horror
23:16movies.
23:17Now,
23:17she was clutching
23:18Anthony Moretti's
23:19hand like a
23:20lifeline.
23:22Joanna,
23:23let go.
23:24you know
23:25the Moretti's
23:25are worse
23:26than those
23:26bums.
23:27They'll eat
23:28you alive.
23:30Even the worst
23:30hell is cleaner
23:31than being
23:32by your side.
23:38hear that,
23:39Luciano?
23:40Your holy maiden
23:41thinks you're
23:42dirty.
23:43Such a pretty
23:44thing,
23:44and you let her
23:45jump into a tank.
23:47Since you wanted
23:48a hand,
23:51maybe I'll take
23:52it for you?
23:54Anthony,
23:55touch what's
23:55mine,
23:56and you won't
23:57leave here alive.
24:01Lorenzo,
24:02my stomach
24:03hurts so bad.
24:04The baby,
24:05save the baby.
24:09Get a doctor!
24:11He picked it up
24:12without thinking.
24:14It was a crumpled,
24:15deformed medical
24:16tape labeled
24:17St. Mary's
24:18Hospital.
24:18The hospital
24:19where he took
24:20my medication
24:21tonight.
24:22I was curled
24:23on the back seat,
24:24wrapped in a
24:24thick blanket
24:25Anthony tossed
24:26me.
24:26My body
24:27shook violently
24:28with fever
24:28and post-op
24:29infection.
24:30Ten million
24:31and appear,
24:32Miss Valenti.
24:35You're a pricey
24:36asset net now.
24:37Tell me,
24:38what can you
24:39give me?
24:40If you're just
24:41dead weight,
24:42I don't mind
24:43sending you
24:43back to
24:43Luciano's bed.
24:48All of Lorenzo's
24:49freight route maps
24:49in the South District,
24:51the Luciano family's
24:52list of illegal
24:52children in Sissy,
24:53and my life.
24:54I want you to
24:55contact my
24:56father's old
24:56men.
24:57In exchange,
24:57I'll put you
24:58at the head
24:59of the five
24:59families myself.
25:00Even if the
25:01cost is destroying
25:02the Valenti family.
25:04The Vivaldi family
25:05now is
25:06DeLorenzo's
25:06lapdog.
25:07I want him to
25:08watch how the
25:09power he's
25:09trying to protect
25:10and that woman
25:11crushed to dust
25:13bit by bit.
25:15Deal.
25:17But first,
25:18Miss Valenti,
25:19you have to
25:20survive the night.
25:31The image of my
25:33desolate smile
25:34in the tent
25:34flashed in his
25:35mind.
25:36I really was
25:37carrying his
25:38child,
25:38and he two
25:39hours ago
25:40choked me,
25:41called it a
25:41bastard.
25:43A doctor.
25:44A medication.
25:46Get it back.
25:47Join it.
26:12I endured the
26:14severe pain as
26:15my private doctor
26:16tattooed a black
26:17mandala,
26:17which symbolized
26:18a death vow
26:19stitch by stitch
26:20on my lower
26:21back.
26:21It was the
26:22mark of the
26:23Valenti's
26:23holy maiden's
26:24death.
26:28No anesthetic.
26:29I requested
26:30it this way.
26:31Mrs.
26:31Valenti,
26:31a cover-up
26:32tattoo this
26:33large,
26:33few can handle
26:34it without
26:34drugs.
26:37This pain
26:37was nothing
26:38compared to
26:39the disgust
26:39in Lorenzo's
26:40eyes when he
26:41choked me.
26:42That black
26:43mandala slowly
26:44spread,
26:45covering the
26:45remaining traces
26:46of the
26:47family crest
26:48on the
26:48small of
26:49my back,
26:49the one
26:50that symbolized
26:50Luciano's
26:51fiancé.
26:52Lorenzo,
26:53the doctor
26:54said I
26:54needed more
26:55rest for
26:55the baby.
26:56The baby?
26:58Sophia,
26:58tell me,
27:00what did you
27:01do at the
27:01hospital two
27:02hours ago?
27:03I was in
27:04so much pain.
27:05I was afraid
27:06I would lose
27:07the baby.
27:08So you
27:09bribed the
27:10director of the
27:10Luciano-controlled
27:11hospital and took
27:12Joanna's medication?
27:13Do you have
27:13any idea whose
27:14child she was
27:15carrying?
27:16Lorenzo,
27:17you suspect
27:17me?
27:18I was protecting
27:19our future.
27:21Joanna is
27:22cunning.
27:22She must have
27:23faked the
27:24miscarriage to
27:24get your
27:25sympathy.
27:26Enough!
27:29Sir, it's
27:30bad.
27:31The men
27:31watching were
27:32spotted by
27:32Anthony Moretti.
27:33That madman
27:33sent you a
27:34message.
27:34What?
27:35He said,
27:36since you
27:36treated the
27:37Volatis
27:37wholly laden
27:38like trash,
27:39from now on,
27:39she's the
27:40sharpest blade
27:41in the
27:41Morati family,
27:42and he
27:42thanks you
27:43for personally
27:44training his
27:44best Avenger.
27:46From today,
27:46get out of the
27:47master bedroom,
27:48move to the
27:49servants' quarters
27:49in the back.
27:52Lorenzo,
27:53I'm carrying
27:54your child!
27:55Then pray this
27:55child is born
27:56safely.
27:57If I find out
27:59this one isn't
27:59mine either,
28:01I'll show you
28:02exactly how
28:03Clinton's
28:03skinning room
28:04works.
28:08Joanna?
28:09You traitor!
28:09You dare bring
28:11the Moretti
28:11men here?
28:12This is the
28:13transfer of
28:14family inheritance
28:14rights,
28:15signed by my
28:16father while he
28:17was still lucid.
28:18From this
28:18moment on,
28:19all docks,
28:20casinos,
28:21and freight
28:21lines of the
28:22Volanti family
28:22fall under
28:23the Morati
28:23bounder.
28:24Anyone with
28:25objections,
28:26speak now.
28:27I'll resolve
28:27them in the
28:28way of the
28:28Morati family.
28:29The weak,
28:30docile,
28:31sheltered dove
28:31who once
28:32hid behind
28:32Lorenzo died
28:33in the tank
28:33that rainy
28:34night.
28:35What rose
28:35from those
28:36decks was a
28:36phoenix forged
28:37of flame and
28:38vengeance.
28:39Joanna,
28:40you're insane!
28:41Giving the
28:41family assets
28:42to the
28:43Morettis?
28:43You're letting
28:44a viper into
28:44your own
28:45nest!
28:47Mrs.
28:48Velati
28:48doesn't like
28:49to be
28:49interrupted.
28:50Anyone else
28:51have thoughts
28:51on this
28:52gift?
28:52I sat in
28:53the master's
28:54seat,
28:55watching the
28:55body in the
28:56pool of
28:56blood without
28:57expression,
28:58before,
28:58I would have
28:59screamed,
28:59vomited,
29:00hidden Lorenzo's
29:01arms for
29:01comfort.
29:02Now,
29:03I calmly took
29:04a slender
29:04cigarette from
29:05an attendant.
29:06The flame
29:07flickered,
29:07smoke curled,
29:08blurring my
29:09stone-cold face.
29:11From today
29:11on,
29:12every doc in
29:13the South
29:13District will
29:14fly Morelli's
29:14flag.
29:15As for
29:15Luciano,
29:16I'm gonna
29:17yank every
29:17last teeth out
29:18of that
29:19mad dog
29:19myself.
29:20Get out
29:20of my
29:21way!
29:21I need
29:22to see
29:22her!
29:23I'm her
29:23fiancé!
29:24Mr. Luciano,
29:25this is
29:25Morelli territory
29:26now.
29:27Miss
29:27Joanna says
29:28she won't
29:28see any
29:29living
29:29Luciano.
29:32That was
29:33before.
29:34Lorenzo
29:34looked at
29:35me.
29:35His heart
29:36felt ripped
29:36open,
29:37the pain so
29:38intense he
29:38could barely
29:39stand.
29:40Joanna,
29:42I found
29:42out.
29:43Sophia took
29:44the medication,
29:45forged the
29:45records,
29:46the baby.
29:47I'm sorry
29:48about the
29:48baby.
29:49Come back
29:49with me.
29:50I'll make
29:51it right.
29:51I'll kill
29:52Sophia.
29:53I'll transfer
29:54half of
29:55Luciano's
29:55shares to
29:56you.
29:57Just come
29:57back.
29:58Make it
29:58right?
29:59Lorenzo,
30:00do you think
30:01I need
30:01half your
30:02shares?
30:03Or do
30:03you think
30:04Sophia's
30:04life can
30:05bring back
30:06the child
30:06I lost?
30:07See this?
30:08It's a
30:09Moretti
30:10death vow.
30:11To survive.
30:13To make
30:13you pay.
30:14I sold
30:15the Volante
30:15name to
30:16the devil
30:16myself.
30:17Lorenzo
30:18stared at
30:18the glaring
30:19tattoo.
30:20His mind
30:21reeled.
30:21It was
30:22the most
30:22extreme.
30:23Oath in
30:24their world
30:24selling one's
30:25soul with
30:25no way
30:26back.
30:26No.
30:28Joanna,
30:28you didn't
30:29have to
30:29go this
30:29far.
30:30I can
30:30help you.
30:31Help me?
30:32Help me
30:32perform in
30:33a tank?
30:34Help me
30:34get auctioned
30:35in the
30:35red light
30:35district?
30:36Lorenzo,
30:37you killed
30:38the Joanna
30:38who loved
30:39you.
30:39The one
30:40standing
30:40here now
30:41is your
30:42creditor.
30:43Hear that
30:43Luciano?
30:44The creditor
30:45has come
30:46to collect.
30:47Starting
30:47tomorrow,
30:48every drug
30:49route you
30:49have in
30:50Manhattan
30:50goes dark.
30:51Consider it
30:52Joanna's
30:53engagement gift
30:53to you.
30:57Sir,
30:57Sophia is
30:58packing,
30:58trying to
30:59run.
30:59We
31:00intercepted
31:01her calls.
31:02She was
31:03never pregnant.
31:04That eight-week
31:05ultrasound was
31:05fake.
31:06From a black
31:07market doctor.
31:08All to get rid
31:08of Miss
31:09Bellotti!
31:09Lorenzo
31:10gripped the
31:11phone.
31:11The last
31:12shred of
31:12his sanity
31:13snapped.
31:14He
31:14personally,
31:15for a fake
31:16pregnancy,
31:17killed the
31:17only woman
31:18he ever
31:18truly loved
31:19and his
31:20only child.
31:22Take Sophia
31:23to the
31:24cellar.
31:24Before I
31:25die,
31:25I'll make
31:26her watch
31:26as I send
31:27both of us
31:27to hell.
31:29Feeling
31:29sorry for
31:30him?
31:31Sorry?
31:33Moralty,
31:33all the
31:33feeling I
31:34had in
31:34this life
31:35rotted in
31:35a hospital
31:36trash can
31:36with that
31:36child.
31:37We move
31:38at dawn.
31:39I want
31:40every Luciano
31:40in Manhattan
31:41to see the
31:41sunrise for
31:42the last
31:42time.
31:44Lorenzo,
31:47listen to
31:47me.
31:48I loved
31:48you too
31:48much.
31:50I was
31:51afraid you'd
31:51leave me
31:52for that
31:52child.
31:53Loved
31:54me.
31:56So you
31:56found a
31:57black market
31:57doctor for a
31:58fake pregnancy
31:59test.
32:02So you
32:03stole Joanna's
32:04life-saving
32:04medication
32:06right under
32:07my nose.
32:08Sophia,
32:08when my
32:09brother died,
32:10you cried,
32:11swore you'd
32:12be a widow
32:12forever.
32:14I pitied
32:15you.
32:16I took
32:17you in,
32:19protected
32:19you,
32:20and this is
32:20how.
32:20You
32:21repay me?
32:23You
32:24used me,
32:25made me
32:25kill my
32:25own child.
32:28The baby
32:29was fully
32:29formed.
32:30The doctor
32:31said it
32:32was a
32:32boy.
32:33He
32:33would
32:33have
32:33been
32:33the
32:33rightful
32:34Luciano
32:34heir.
32:36No,
32:37he was
32:37just a
32:38mistake.
32:41That
32:41beach
32:42wasn't
32:42fit to
32:43bury
32:43your
32:43child.
32:44Only
32:45I,
32:46only
32:46I
32:47truly
32:47love
32:47you.
32:52Truly
32:53love
32:53me.
32:54Since
32:55you love
32:55putting on
32:56this fake
32:56pregnancy
32:57act so
32:57much,
32:58let's
32:58play for
32:58real.
32:59I'll
32:59slice you
33:00open right
33:00here and
33:01see what
33:01color your
33:02rotten heart
33:02is.
33:03I
33:04stood
33:04top the
33:05car
33:05roof,
33:06the wind
33:06licking
33:06my black
33:07hair.
33:07In my
33:08hand I
33:08gripped a
33:09modified
33:09MP5,
33:11my gaze
33:11icy cold.
33:12Without
33:13hesitation,
33:14I pulled
33:14the trigger
33:15on the
33:15guard still
33:16resisting
33:16ahead.
33:21Joanna,
33:22you've
33:23changed.
33:25This
33:26killer's
33:26poise suits
33:27you better
33:28than being
33:28the holy
33:28maiden.
33:35Less
33:36talk.
33:39I want
33:39all of
33:40Lorenzo's
33:40offshore
33:41account
33:41passwords,
33:42his list
33:43of Sicilian
33:44contacts.
33:45Before
33:46dawn,
33:46I want
33:47the
33:47Luciano
33:47family's
33:48North
33:48American
33:49operations
33:50paralyzed.
33:51I jumped
33:52down,
33:52boots landing
33:53on the
33:53container
33:54strewn yard.
33:55every inch
33:56of this
33:57ground
33:57was once
33:58Lorenzo's
33:58bragged
33:59territory.
34:00Now,
34:01I'll take
34:01it back,
34:02inch by
34:02bloody
34:03inch.
34:07Where's
34:08Lorenzo?
34:09He is
34:09at the
34:10private
34:10estate
34:10cellar,
34:12dealing
34:12with
34:12Sophia.
34:13Deal
34:14with
34:14Sophia?
34:15My
34:15finger
34:16tightened
34:16slightly on
34:17the trigger
34:17for a
34:18split
34:18second,
34:19then quickly
34:20fell back
34:20to a
34:20deathly
34:21stillness.
34:23Lead
34:23the
34:23way.
34:25Some
34:26accounts
34:26need
34:26to be
34:27settled
34:27face
34:27to
34:28face.
34:31The
34:31moment
34:32he
34:32saw
34:32me,
34:33the
34:33lifeless
34:33malice
34:34in his
34:34eyes
34:34vanished
34:35at
34:35once,
34:35replaced
34:36by
34:36something
34:36pitifully
34:37hopeful.
34:40Joanna,
34:40you
34:41came.
34:41Look,
34:42I
34:42avenged
34:43you.
34:45Sophia's
34:45here.
34:46Do
34:46whatever
34:47you
34:47want
34:47to
34:47her.
34:48Just
34:48come
34:48home
34:49with
34:49me.
34:49Even
34:50if
34:50you
34:50want
34:50my
34:50life,
34:51I'll
34:52give
34:52it
34:52to
34:52you.
34:57home.
34:58Lorenzo,
34:59you still
35:00don't get
35:00it.
35:01I didn't
35:01come back
35:01to hear
35:02your belated
35:03repentance,
35:04let alone
35:05to watch
35:05you torture
35:06this woman.
35:07That's for
35:07the child.
35:08As for
35:09Sophia,
35:10killing her
35:10is too
35:11easy.
35:11I'm taking
35:12her.
35:13Sending
35:14her to
35:14the lowest
35:15valentical
35:16washing plant.
35:17I'll
35:17let
35:17her
35:17spend
35:18every
35:18second
35:19of
35:19the
35:19rest
35:19of
35:19her
35:20life
35:20in
35:20the
35:21filth.
35:21As
35:22for
35:22Lorenzo
35:22Luciano,
35:23spare
35:24his
35:24life.
35:25I
35:25want
35:25him
35:25to
35:25watch
35:26with
35:26his
35:27own
35:27eyes.
35:28How
35:28I
35:28devour
35:29his
35:29family
35:29bit
35:30by
35:30bit.
35:30How
35:31I
35:31turn
35:31him
35:31from
35:32the
35:32high
35:32and
35:32mighty
35:33godfather
35:33into
35:34the
35:34lowliest
35:35beggar
35:35on
35:35the
35:35streets
35:36of
35:36Manhattan.
35:37This
35:37is
35:38the
35:38best
35:38revenge.
35:43The
35:43workers
35:44were
35:44mostly
35:44wanted
35:45men
35:45or
35:45gambling
35:46addicts
35:46buried
35:47in
35:47debt.
35:48Here,
35:49there
35:49were
35:49no
35:49names,
35:50but
35:50only
35:51numbers.
36:01Joanna,
36:03please,
36:03just
36:04kill
36:04me.
36:05Making
36:06me work
36:06here is
36:07worse
36:07than
36:07death.
36:14death,
36:15I
36:16won't
36:16let
36:16you
36:16die,
36:18Sophia.
36:18The
36:18pulled
36:19a
36:19stack
36:19of
36:19photos
36:20from
36:20my
36:20coat
36:20pocket.
36:21Those
36:22were
36:22pictures
36:22Sophia
36:23was
36:23once
36:24so
36:24proud
36:25of
36:25in
36:25Manhattan
36:26socialite
36:26circles.
36:27I
36:28tore
36:28them
36:28to
36:28pieces,
36:29letting
36:30the
36:30shreds
36:31fall
36:31into
36:31the
36:32black
36:32coal
36:32pit.
36:40you
36:41loved
36:41that
36:41face.
36:42Loved
36:42pretending
36:43to be
36:43good,
36:43didn't
36:44you?
36:44From
36:45today,
36:45you're
36:45number
36:46zero
36:46seven
36:46here.
36:50Don't
36:51worry,
36:51I'll have
36:51people
36:52watching
36:52you.
36:53Try
36:53to
36:53kill
36:53yourself,
36:54they'll
36:54save
36:54you.
36:55I want
36:56you to
36:56live a
36:56long,
36:57long life
36:57to watch
36:58as I
36:58step
36:59by
36:59step
36:59crush
37:00Lorenzo
37:01into
37:01the
37:01mud.
37:02Take
37:03her
37:03in.
37:16I
37:16changed
37:17into
37:17a
37:17scarlet
37:18evening
37:18gown
37:18as
37:19if
37:19drenched
37:19in
37:20blood.
37:20I
37:21pushed
37:21open
37:22the
37:22heavy
37:23conference
37:23room
37:23doors.
37:24Inside
37:25sit
37:25the
37:25old
37:26dons,
37:26the
37:27ones
37:27who
37:27once
37:27looked.
37:28down
37:28on
37:29me,
37:29saw
37:30me
37:30as
37:30a
37:30political
37:31pawn.
37:31Their
37:32faces
37:32were
37:33a
37:33mix
37:33of
37:33expressions.
37:37Joanna,
37:38this is
37:39no place
37:39for you.
37:40Now
37:40that the
37:40head
37:40of the
37:41Luciano
37:41family
37:41is
37:42done
37:42for,
37:42the
37:42Volantos
37:43and
37:43the
37:43Morettis
37:44will
37:44take
37:44charge
37:44of
37:44this
37:45position
37:45together.
37:46If
37:46anyone
37:47has
37:47an
37:47objection,
37:48you
37:48can
37:48talk
37:48to
37:48me
37:48now,
37:49or
37:49you
37:49can
37:49work
37:49with
37:50Sophia
37:50at
37:50the
37:50coal
37:51washing
37:51plant.
37:54Joanna,
37:54if
37:55you
37:55want
37:58you
37:58think
37:58you're
37:59in
37:59a
37:59position
37:59to
37:59set
37:59conditions?
38:00Let
38:00me
38:00stay
38:01by
38:01your
38:01side,
38:02even
38:02as
38:02your
38:02dog
38:02or
38:02the
38:03lowest
38:03guard
38:03in
38:03the
38:03Morecki
38:04family.
38:04Just
38:04let me
38:05watch
38:05you.
38:05Don't
38:06send
38:06me
38:06away.
38:07The
38:07scene
38:07shocked
38:08every
38:08dawn
38:08in
38:08the
38:09room.
38:09The
38:10once
38:10unruly
38:10Luciano
38:11publicly
38:12begging
38:12to be
38:13a
38:13woman
38:13slave.
38:14I
38:14looked
38:15at
38:15the
38:15seal,
38:15then
38:16at
38:16Lorenzo's
38:16bloodshot,
38:17pleading
38:17eyes.
38:18Slowly,
38:19I
38:29you
38:30think
38:30this
38:30makes
38:30up
38:30for
38:31that
38:31child's
38:31life?
38:32You
38:32think
38:32kneeling
38:33will
38:33soften
38:33me?
38:34Fine.
38:35Since
38:35you
38:35want
38:35to
38:35stay,
38:36I'll
38:36let
38:36you.
38:37Anthony,
38:38take
38:38Lorenzo
38:39back to
38:39the
38:39mansion.
38:40Lock
38:40him
38:40in
38:40the
38:40attic,
38:41my
38:41old
38:41room.
38:42Every
38:42night,
38:42I
38:42want
38:42him
38:43to
38:43listen
38:43to
38:43me
38:43flirting
38:44with
38:44other
38:44men.
38:44I
38:45want
38:45him
38:45to
38:45watch
38:45how
38:46he
38:46destroyed
38:46everything
38:47yet
38:47doesn't
38:47even
38:47have
38:47the
38:47right
38:48to
38:48die.
38:58those
38:58pathological
38:59submission
38:59had
39:00something
39:00deeper.
39:01But
39:01I
39:01didn't
39:02care
39:02anymore.
39:03I
39:03sat
39:03back
39:04in
39:04the
39:04head
39:04seat,
39:05lit
39:05a
39:05cigarette,
39:06my
39:07gaze,
39:07passing
39:08over
39:08everyone,
39:09looking
39:09out
39:10at
39:10Manhattan's
39:10dark
39:11night
39:11sky.
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