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Poison of a Broken Love ENGSUB Betrayed With a Broken Heart
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00:00saving me. After my foster sister died, the man who hated me most in the world just died
00:06saving me. After my foster sister died, no one in the world hated me more than my brother.
00:12Hateful enough to send me to an underground auction, I got on my knees, pressed my forehead
00:17to the floor until it split. Zoe gave her kidney to save you. She died on that table
00:22because of you. So you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I reminded him I was his
00:28real sister, his blood. Then the gunman came. A bullet came straight for me. Marcus threw
00:34himself in front of it. He held me while the blood poured out of him. If there's a next
00:40life, I'd rather not have you as my sister. Zoe was enough. He died on my hand. I picked
00:47up a gun from the floor and pressed it to my temple. Then I woke up, white light, antiseptic.
00:55Grace! You held Zoe's hand over boiling water over a piece of candy? No blood on him. No
01:00bullet wounds. I knew this room. I knew this day. Five years ago. The day I burned Zoe.
01:06I'd come back. I know this day better than any other. That candy was the only thing I
01:11had left of the brother I used to know. The day our parents died, Marcus was 17 and I
01:17was six. He pressed a butterscotch candy into my palm in the hospital waiting room. Don't
01:22cry. I've got you. I'll always take care of you. He was 17 with a whole family's worth
01:29of grief landing on him that day. Until Zoe stepped on it and crushed it into the floor.
01:35Now I'm lying in a hospital bed while Marcus stands over me, telling me exactly what kind
01:41of person I am. I've heard this speech before. Every word. Last time, I cried and argued and
01:47made everything worse. This time, I just wait. When he stops, I sit up and look at him. Really
01:53look. My throat tightens. There's also a dull, familiar ache spreading from my kidney outward,
01:59like broken glass threading through every nerve. Of course, last time, they found the kidney
02:05disease today. Without a transplant, I have two weeks, maybe less. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have
02:11done that to her hand. I'm sorry. I won't fight you for him anymore. Neither of them says a word.
02:17I already know what happens if I stay. I already know how this ends. This time, I'm not going to
02:24let it. I reach for the kettle on the bedside table. The water is still boiling. Steam curling off
02:29the top. What are you doing? Zoe's voice is small and careful. She's watching me with those
02:33wide, innocent eyes she always uses when she wants something. I pour the boiling water over
02:38my right arm, with my whole body shaking, but I don't make a sound. Is this enough? Does this make
02:44us even? What is wrong with you? Get a doctor! His grip is tight. Something moves in his face. Not
02:52quite concerned, but close. He still cares. That won't last. I think she's just trying to make you feel
02:58guilty. She doesn't have to do this to herself. Playing the victim won't fix anything. I don't
03:05know how I ended up with a sister like you. Whatever you say. He tells his assistant to
03:09take me and get my arm wrapped. Then he turns his back. I walk out of the room. I don't
03:14get
03:14my arm wrapped. There's no point. I have two weeks. I'm not spending them fighting. My room
03:19is at the far corner of the house. Big, cold. Less a bedroom, more a place they put the things
03:24they didn't know what to do with. I pack light. A few clothes, some cash, and the old photo album
03:30buried at the back of the closet. Our parents. I don't think Marcus has touched it in years.
03:35I'm zipping up the backpack when the door opens. Zoe leans against the frame. Left hand wrapped in
03:41gauze. You're really leaving? Cut Marcus some slack. He just loves me so much. Even if you're his blood,
03:48he trusts me more. You know that. I pick up the backpack. She steps in front of me. There's only
03:54room for one
03:54of us in this house. And it's not you. So do everyone a favor and go. In my first life,
04:01this
04:01is where I snapped. Gave her exactly what she needed. I step to the side to go around her.
04:07Her hand moves fast. She pulls a small paring knife from her pocket and drags it across her
04:12own left arm. Blood wells up immediately. What are you doing to me? I already apologized. Why are you
04:19still hurting me? Fast footsteps in the hallway. The door swings open. Marcus is standing there.
04:25He takes in the scene. Zoe's arm. The blood. The knife on the floor. Me with the backpack. Three
04:31seconds. He doesn't ask a single question. His hand comes up. The slap hits me so hard the wound
04:37tilts. My head snaps sideways. I taste blood two lifetimes. The first time he's ever hit me,
04:42I don't cry. I don't argue. I don't explain. I actually thought you might have changed. I was
04:48so stupid. What kind of person keeps hurting someone who saved their life? He believes it
04:54completely. That's the part that hurts most. Zoe is pressed against the wall, crying beautifully,
04:59one hand over her mouth. Her eyes find mine for just a second. She almost smiled. I bend down
05:04and pick up the knife from the floor. Grace, what are you doing? I walk over and press the handle
05:11into his hand. You hate me that much? Then do something about it. I shove forward into the
05:17blade. The knife goes into my right shoulder. Grace. Marcus drops the knife like it burned him,
05:22but it's already in me. His face goes blank. My body starts sliding. Call an ambulance! No!
05:28All the cold control gone from his voice. I let my cheek rest against his collarbone. He smells the
05:34same as I remember. My brother. I close my eyes. Hospital again. White ceiling, stiff sheets,
05:40shoulder stitched up, and underneath all of it, that deeper ache. My kidney. Voices outside the
05:47door. Tell me the truth. Marcus low and controlled. Did she cut you or did you cut
05:51yourself? Zoe crying. She's good at it. How can you even ask me that? Because Grace has never hurt
05:57herself before. Not like this. If I find out you lied to me, it will go very badly for you.
06:03I'm starting
06:03to doubt her. That never happened in my first life, but it doesn't change anything. The nurse checks my
06:08dressings and leaves. Then I pull out the ID. Slow. My shoulder and my side and my burned arm all
06:14competing for my attention. I get dressed in the blood-stained clothes. Shoulder the backpack. I look
06:19around the room once. Nothing here I need. Back stairwell. One step at a time. The shoulder bandage
06:25is already seeping through. I can feel it with every step. Nothing to be done. Side exit. Cold hits me
06:30like
06:31a wall. Northern winter and the wind is brutal. My burned arm screams. My kidney aches with every
06:37breath. I don't know exactly where I'm going, but I know I can't go back to that house. I make
06:42it two
06:42blocks before I hear the horn. Marcus's car pulls up alongside me. Window comes down. Get in. No room
06:48for argument. I'm fine. The bodyguard has me in the back seat before I finish. Door shut. Heat blasting.
06:54I press against the far window. Not gonna wrap your arm? What's the angle now? Quiet for a second.
06:58Then I turn toward him. I'm moving out. I'll stay out of your life completely. He looks at me.
07:04Really look like he's trying to find the trick in it. You don't have a dime that isn't from this
07:08family. You'd last a week. How long I last is my problem. I was wrong to fight for something that
07:14was never mine. Zoe saved my life. You loving her makes sense. I was the one in the way. Don't
07:21do that.
07:22Going all quiet. It's not like you. I look out the window. I'm just tired. That's all.
07:26The car turns through the estate gate. I go up to my room and pack the things I'd already packed
07:31before Zoe interrupted me. Clothes. Cash. The photo album. Zoe is waiting by my door when I come back
07:37out. Going somewhere? Move. She doesn't. She drops her voice instead. You already know there's no place
07:42for you here. Why drag it out? I step around her. She lets me go this time. Doesn't pull out
07:47a knife.
07:48Doesn't scream. She just watches me walk down the hallway with something satisfied in her eye.
07:53The wind is worse out here. Every step costs something but I know where I'm going now. The
07:59cemetery is an hour west. The older section under a bare oak tree. I've made this walk before in my
08:04first life during the worst nights when the house felt like it was trying to swallow me whole. I know
08:09the way without thinking about it. By the time I get there the snow has started again. Light and quiet
08:14settling over everything. I find my parents grave. I kneel down. Mom. Dad. I miss you so much.
08:22That's as far as I get before everything comes loose. I cry until I can't see. Two lifetimes of it.
08:28Emptying out on a frozen hillside in the middle of the night. I tell them about the hospital. The
08:33auction. The bullet Marcus took for me. His last words still in my ear. I tell them I came back
08:38already dying and didn't tell anyone. I'm so tired. I just wanted to stop. Nobody answers. I wrap my arms
08:46around the headstone. The way I used to lean against my mother when I was small. I'm not fighting
08:51anymore. I'm done. I'm going to give him the clean life he wanted. One sister. No problems. No me.
08:58I'm giving him back his life. And then I'm coming to find you. The snow falls quietly. My eyes get
09:05heavy. The cold stopped hurting a while ago. The shoulder. The burn. The kidney. All just went quiet
09:12one by one. What's left is just floating. Weightless. I'm almost gone and I know it. Good. The world
09:18goes white at the edges. Two shapes in the light. My parents. Smiling. Reaching toward me. I try to reach
09:25back. I tried to trace back.
09:30Grace!
09:32Too late, I think. I'm sorry. Light takes everything.
09:36I'll tell you what Marcus did after I left. He told himself I brought it on myself. That he wasn't
09:43going to feel bad about it. Then he went to the pharmacy anyway. He walked into my empty room and
09:48stood there until his brain caught up with what his eyes were telling him. Covers thrown back. IV
09:54pulled out. Bloody clothes gone. He tore the room apart. Bathroom. Closet. Under the bed.
10:02Where is my sister? Where is my sister? They pulled security footage. Back stairwell,
10:0720 minutes earlier. A small figure in a big coat. Walking low. Bleeding through her bandages. Gone.
10:14Where would she go? No friends. No colleagues. No one she trusted. Then it came to him.
10:25He ran every red light between the hospital and the cemetery. He found me against the headstone.
10:30Grace! Grace!
10:35Wake up, Grace. Wake up. I know I was wrong. Just wake up and yell at me. Do anything.
10:45The family doctor arrived. Checked.
10:47She's been gone a while. Blood osse plus organ failure. Her body was already at its limit.
10:52What organ failure?
10:55She's 22!
10:56Her kidneys. End stage. She must have known for some time.
11:03She knew.
11:05Not a question. A realization.
11:09She came back already dying. That's what he kept turning over. She knew from day one.
11:14She looked at two weeks and chose not to spend them fighting. Not for the transplant. Not for him. Not
11:20for any of it.
11:21Just trying to make it easier for everyone else to let her go. She'd written it in the album.
11:26Setting you free. That's what she meant.
11:28He held me in the snow until they made him let go. Then he stood up and something shifted in
11:33his face.
11:34The grief was still there. But something else came in underneath.
11:43Marcus. I've been so worried. Did you find Grace? Is she okay?
11:48I found her.
11:51Oh thank god. Is she...
11:53She's dead Zoe.
11:55What do you mean? How...
11:57Go to the house. Living room. Don't go anywhere.
12:05Wait for me. I'll be back.
12:07He straightened up and walked out of the cemetery. He did not look like a man going home to grieve.
12:13Zoe was in the living room when he walked in. She'd touched up her face. Made sure the crying looked
12:18right.
12:21Marcus.
12:22His hair had gone gray overnight. Not streaks. Almost all of it. Root to tip. The black just gone.
12:29He was 28 years old.
12:31The hallway camera outside Grace's room. I had my team pull the footage.
12:36His assistant brought in the tablet. He turned it toward her and pressed play.
12:40The audio caught everything. Including what she'd said in a low voice just before she cut herself.
12:45There's only room for one of us in this house. And it's not you.
12:48So do everyone a favor and go.
12:52The silence after was very long.
12:55That's not...
12:57Don't.
12:59She tried for tears. They came, but slow.
13:02For the first time, Marcus looked at her face and didn't soften.
13:05I gave you everything.
13:07I made Grace's life miserable so you would never feel unwanted.
13:11And the whole time...
13:13He didn't speak again for a long time.
13:15Then he started digging.
13:18Every resource he had.
13:19Zoe's background.
13:20Her father.
13:21The blood transfusion records from seven years back.
13:24The blood that saved my life when I was 15 wasn't an accident.
13:28The debt Marcus had spent years treating like something he could never repay.
13:32All of it engineered.
13:33Zoe's father had been a gambler.
13:35Ode the wrong people money.
13:36He'd heard through a contact at the hospital that a wealthy family's daughter had a rare
13:41blood type and was in critical condition.
13:43He coached Zoe, got her to the hospital at exactly the right time.
13:46He collected his payment and walked away.
13:48Six months later, he was dead.
13:49Car accident.
13:50The investigation closed fast.
13:52Marcus sat with the report for a long time.
13:54Then he laughed.
13:54His assistant said it was the most unsettling thing he'd ever heard.
13:57Not angry, not broken, just quiet and hollow like something had been confirmed that he
14:01never wanted confirmed.
14:02Every year.
14:04Every time I looked at Grace like she was the problem.
14:08He closed the file.
14:11Where is Zoe?
14:16I didn't know.
14:17I swear I didn't know.
14:18If I had known, I would have told you.
14:20Please, you have to believe me.
14:21I love you.
14:22Your father arranged it.
14:24You knew.
14:25You walked into this family knowing.
14:27And then you spent seven years making sure Grace was too busy blaming herself to see clearly.
14:31You did one move left.
14:32I saved her life.
14:33You set up a situation and showed up with the solution.
14:36That's not saving someone.
14:37That's a con.
14:39You what were in CAF Stoa for the medical Eon.
14:44Without me, she would have died at 15.
14:46With the resources this family has, we would have found a compatible donor.
14:50It might have taken longer, but we would have found one.
14:54Everything goes to the police.
14:56The fraud, the evidence tampering, the deliberate self-injury, the false accusations, all of it.
15:01Zoe broke, not the pretty crying.
15:03Something uglier and more real.
15:06He found the photo album.
15:07Still on the shelf where I'd left it, he opened it.
15:10He knew the first few pages.
15:11Our parents, the four of us, holidays and birthdays.
15:13But he hadn't seen the back.
15:15I'd taped my own photos there.
15:17The ones I didn't think anyone wanted displayed.
15:20And on the back of each one, in my handwriting, a small note.
15:27In my handwriting, a small note.
15:29Marcus laughed today.
15:31I made him laugh.
15:32He got home late, but he brought me a piece of cake.
15:35He remembered.
15:36He called me from his work trip.
15:38Just to check in.
15:39Not because I needed anything.
15:41He just called.
15:42Then a gap of two years with nothing.
15:45And then the last page.
15:47One line written so hard the pen almost went through.
15:50I'm setting you free.
15:52Marcus sat with the album open in his lap and didn't move for a long time.
15:56He found the candy.
15:58Small tin box at the back of her nightstand drawer.
16:01Locked.
16:01He had to ask someone to open it.
16:03A butterscotch candy.
16:04Wrapper yellowed, candy dark and crystallized.
16:07Long past edible.
16:09He picked it up.
16:09He knew this candy.
16:11Our parents' funeral.
16:12He was 17.
16:13I was 6.
16:14I didn't understand what a funeral was or why everyone was crying.
16:18He had nothing to offer.
16:20Just one butterscotch candy from a bowl at someone's house.
16:24Don't cry, baby.
16:25I got you.
16:27I'll always take care of you.
16:28He was 17 with a family to hold together.
16:31Of course it slipped his mind.
16:32He forgot it completely by the next month.
16:35Grace kept it for 16 years in a locked drawer.
16:38Like something precious.
16:40He thought about the day Zoe stepped on it.
16:42The way Grace completely fell apart.
16:44Crying and shaking over a piece of candy.
16:47The way he looked at her and thought,
16:49What is wrong with you?
16:50He closed his hand around it.
16:52The wrapper made a small, dry, crackling sound.
16:56I'm sorry.
16:57He sat on the floor of her bedroom for a long time after that.
17:01Holding a ruined piece of candy.
17:03Not able to do anything else.
17:04The medical records arrived three days after the funeral.
17:08Exam date.
17:09The day of the burn incident.
17:10Diagnosis.
17:11End stage renal failure.
17:13Survival without transplant.
17:14Two weeks maximum.
17:16She came back already knowing she was dying.
17:18Marcus read it once.
17:20Then again.
17:20She knew from day one.
17:22Kidney disease coming.
17:23Zoe dying on that table.
17:25Him hating her for the rest of his life.
17:27And she looked at all of it and chose not to fight.
17:30Not for the transplant.
17:31Not for him.
17:32Not for anything.
17:33She spent her last two weeks trying to clean up her own existence.
17:37Make it easier for everyone to let her go.
17:39Setting you free.
17:40He went back through every conversation from those last few days.
17:43Everything she said now read differently.
17:46I'm tired.
17:47It's my problem.
17:48I'm giving you back your life.
17:50She'd been saying goodbye for days.
17:52He hadn't heard a word of it.
17:53He sat down in the hallway outside her room and pressed the report against his chest.
17:58Come back.
17:58He said quietly.
18:00I'll do better.
18:01Just come back.
18:02The house answered with silence.
18:03It was the only answer it had.
18:06Three days after the funeral, he got sick.
18:08High fever.
18:09Completely flattened.
18:11The doctor said exhaustion and grief arriving at once.
18:14He spent two days barely conscious.
18:16On the second night, he dreamed.
18:18The old house.
18:18Before the estate.
18:19The backyard in summer.
18:21Warm light and cut grass.
18:23And me.
18:23Younger.
18:24Maybe eight or nine.
18:25Running toward him across the yard in a pink dress.
18:28With my hair half out of its braids.
18:30Both arms already reaching.
18:32You're home.
18:33Dream Marcus caught me.
18:34Lifted me the way you do with a small child.
18:36Automatically.
18:37I'm home.
18:38He said.
18:39I leaned my chin on his shoulder.
18:40You were gone too long.
18:42I know.
18:42I'm sorry.
18:43You have to stop doing that.
18:45I will.
18:46He felt my weight in his arms.
18:47Small and solid and completely trusting.
18:50Promise?
18:51I said.
18:51He opened his mouth and I was gone.
18:53Not fading.
18:54Just gone.
18:55Between one breath and the next.
18:57He woke up.
18:58Pillow soaked.
18:59Room dark.
19:00He pressed his hands over his face.
19:02I'm sorry I was gone too long.
19:03He said into the dark.
19:05No answer.
19:06Just the empty house around him.
19:07He found the diary ten days after the funeral.
19:11Hidden pocket in the old backpack.
19:13His assistant found it going through her things.
19:15Small.
19:16Worn.
19:16Cover barely holding together.
19:18Marcus took it to the kitchen table and opened it alone.
19:21Early morning.
19:22House quiet.
19:23First entry.
19:24Dated two weeks after our parents' funeral.
19:26A six-year-old's handwriting.
19:28Big and wobbly.
19:29Marcus gave me candy and said he would take care of me.
19:32I am happy.
19:33He had to stop.
19:34He made himself keep going.
19:35She wrote about small things.
19:37Him coming home on time.
19:39Him remembering something she mentioned.
19:41Him choosing to sit with her instead of going to his office.
19:44He read about Zoe's arrival.
19:45The way Grace tried to be fair about it.
19:48The way she eventually stopped trying.
19:50I think he loves her more.
19:51I don't know how to make that okay.
19:53I've been trying so hard to be good enough and I don't think good enough exists.
19:57I'm done trying to make him choose me.
19:59I don't think he can.
20:00Then, shorter entries.
20:02One line at a time.
20:03So tired.
20:04It doesn't matter.
20:05As long as he's okay.
20:06The last entry dated the day of the burn incident.
20:09Marcus, I don't blame you.
20:11But if there's another life, I don't want to be your sister again.
20:14I'm too tired.
20:15He closed the diary.
20:16He sat at the table while the sun came up.
20:19He didn't move for a long time.
20:21A month after the funeral, Marcus stood in the winter garden.
20:24The old swing was still there.
20:26Chains rusted.
20:27Nobody had used it in years.
20:28He remembered pushing her on it.
20:30The way she'd lean back and kick her legs and demand to go higher.
20:35The way her laugh sounded.
20:36He'd pushed her for hours sometimes.
20:38Not because she asked.
20:40Because her laugh was the best sound in whatever space it was in.
20:44He didn't remember deciding to stop.
20:46It happened so gradually.
20:48Each small step seemed reasonable at the time.
20:50Zoe needs this.
20:52Grace will understand.
20:53Grace doesn't need as much.
20:54Grace is fine.
20:55She wasn't fine.
20:57She'd been falling apart for years, and he'd looked right at it and told himself it was attitude.
21:03His assistant appeared at the door.
21:04The florist confirmed.
21:06Fresh sunflowers every morning at the grave, starting tomorrow.
21:09Good.
21:10How long do you want to continue?
21:11Until I can't anymore.
21:13The assistant went back inside.
21:14Marcus stayed in the garden.
21:16He'd been looking at Grace his entire adult life and seeing a problem to manage.
21:20He never stopped to look at what she was actually showing him.
21:24She was showing him, the whole time, that she just wanted him back.
21:28The swing moved slightly in the wind.
21:30He looked away.
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