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I Married the Billionaire After He Dumped Me
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00:00A woman like you isn't even worthy to carry my shoes.
00:05I was wrong!
00:06Elena!
00:07Give me another chance!
00:10Elena!
00:11The day we were supposed to legally register our marriage,
00:14Ryan Mitchell had me thrown out of the building.
00:17He walked in with her instead.
00:19His childhood sweetheart, Vanessa Reed.
00:22Vanessa's baby needs to be on the birth certificate.
00:24I have to marry her first.
00:26Give me a month to finalize the divorce,
00:27then I'll come back for you.
00:29Everyone assumed I'd wait,
00:31that I'd swallow it and hold on.
00:33After all, I'd already given him seven years.
00:36But that same night, I got on a plane.
00:39My family had arranged a match overseas.
00:41I'd been fighting it for months.
00:43I stopped fighting.
00:45I disappeared from Ryan's world completely.
00:47Three years later, I came back.
00:49My husband had business to handle,
00:51and his local office sent someone to meet me at JFK.
00:54I didn't expect that someone to be Ryan.
00:56He stood in the arrivals hall with Vanessa and a group of his friends,
01:00holding up a sign with my English name.
01:02He spotted me and didn't even flinch.
01:06Took you long enough.
01:08Leo starts preschool soon.
01:10You can handle the drop-offs.
01:12Same arrogant Ryan.
01:14Same assumption that I'd fall back into place.
01:16I said nothing.
01:19He hadn't recognized me yet.
01:21The sign he was holding had my English name Helena,
01:23but none of them connected it to me.
01:25One of Ryan's friends laughed.
01:27Elena?
01:28You actually came back by yourself like that?
01:31I was wearing very ordinary clothes.
01:33No makeup.
01:34My husband didn't let me wear any during the pregnancy.
01:37He said comfort came first,
01:38and had everything custom made for me himself.
01:42These people only knew the version of me
01:43who used to dress up just to see Ryan.
01:46Full glam.
01:46Designer everything.
01:48Desperate to impress.
01:49That situation is absolutely impossible to happen again.
01:52Then he added sarcastically.
01:54Can't even afford a real outfit?
01:56Without Ryan, you really hit rock bottom.
02:00I stayed quiet.
02:01Someone who used to be vaguely kind shifted uncomfortably.
02:05Elena, it's good you're back.
02:07Ryan's been looking for you.
02:08He asked around for months.
02:12Vanessa's kid is starting preschool.
02:14You'll handle pickups.
02:14That's why I'm asking about you.
02:16Don't blame him, Elena.
02:17He's doing you a favor.
02:19You've been gone three years.
02:20Who knows what you've been up to?
02:22You can't manage my assistant position, clearly.
02:25But childcare?
02:26That you can handle.
02:27No one's going to judge you for it.
02:30You're broke and too proud about it.
02:32Take the position.
02:34Meals covered.
02:35Private guest suite included.
02:36It's more than you've got now.
02:38His friends laughed.
02:39I looked at them for a long time.
02:41Then I said,
02:42Shall we go?
02:44You're here to pick me up, aren't you?
02:46The scene fell silent for a moment.
02:49They exchanged glasses.
02:50Then the laughter came hard.
02:52Vanessa's lip curled.
02:54Pick you up?
02:55Are you serious?
02:57We're waiting for Lena.
02:58Do you even know who that is?
03:00I knew exactly who that was.
03:02Alana is Sebastian Knight's wife.
03:04The Mrs. Knight.
03:05His official, legal, completely adored wife.
03:08In Manhattan's elite circles, everyone knows,
03:10if you want Sebastian's attention, you go through her first.
03:13She's his entire world.
03:14Three years of marriage.
03:16Sebastian's empire had doubled in size.
03:18Meanwhile, his meticulous care for me and his deep love for me were already known to many people.
03:24He dropped $20 million US at a Christie's auction.
03:28For a diamond bracelet?
03:29For her.
03:30She paused.
03:31Eyes drifting to my wrist.
03:34Her voice went sharp.
03:35Like that one?
03:36She suddenly stopped.
03:38Ryan grabbed my wrist before I could move.
03:41It's a knockoff.
03:42A decent one, but still.
03:43He probably got it from a street vendor in Chinatown.
03:46What kind of broke loser buys his girl a fake?
03:48He grabbed the bracelet and yanked it off my wrist.
03:51The stones aren't bad.
03:52Better than the replica I picked up.
03:55Unless, wait.
03:56Don't tell me you're actually Helena.
03:58You're not seriously claiming to be Mrs. Knight.
04:01They all suddenly burst into laughter.
04:04Because of course it was absurd.
04:06Sebastian Knight was a financial genius.
04:08Ruthless.
04:09Global.
04:10Untouchable.
04:11And three years ago, I was just the girl Ryan had tossed out of a government office.
04:15Like yesterday's trash.
04:17Vanessa dangled the bracelet off one finger.
04:19I'll buy it off you.
04:20Double whatever you paid for the fake.
04:22Give it back.
04:24Sebastian gave me that.
04:25Ryan slapped me hard across the face.
04:27My head jerked to the side.
04:29I tasted blood.
04:30Shut up.
04:32Then, I slapped him back.
04:34Ryan's jaw tightened.
04:36Elena.
04:38Sebastian Knight's name is not something you throw around.
04:41Do you understand what you're doing to me right now?
04:43We fought hard to get this assignment.
04:45Ryan's company was acquired by Knight Industries last year.
04:48We all answer to Sebastian now.
04:51If you blow this for us...
04:53You'll destroy everything Ryan's built.
04:56I wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth.
04:59I turned slowly and met Ryan's eyes.
05:01Whatever he saw in mine made him falter.
05:04Just for a second.
05:06Vanessa noticed Ryan's change in mood.
05:09Her expression twisted.
05:11You ungrateful nobody.
05:13Ryan just offered you a lifeline and you're standing here making up stories about Sebastian Knight?
05:18You can't stand that he moved on.
05:20That he's thriving.
05:21It was like being transported back three years.
05:23Vanessa twisting everything.
05:25Ryan, little by little, choosing to believe her version over mine.
05:29Ryan looked at me with that old familiar disappointment.
05:34Pathetic.
05:35For old times' sake.
05:40Go buy yourself some real clothes.
05:41If you don't want the childcare position, I'll find you something else.
05:44Something decent.
05:46Knight's acquisition has been good to me.
05:48This is nothing.
05:49The charity in his eyes made my stomach turn.
05:51I pushed his hand aside, reached over, and lifted the diamond bracelet back from Vanessa's fingers.
05:57No thank you, Mr. Mitchell.
05:59I don't take things from strangers.
06:01I turned and walked away.
06:03Two steps later, Ryan caught my arm.
06:05Strangers?
06:07We broke up.
06:10That's what I am to you now?
06:12This is a more appropriate way to address someone.
06:15I was already thinking about Sebastian.
06:17He had a jealous streak a mile wide.
06:19Ryan glanced at Vanessa.
06:21There's a gala in three days.
06:23Knight Industries is hosting.
06:24Come with me.
06:25Let me show you what you've been missing.
06:27You'll need to dress properly.
06:29I can have someone take you shopping.
06:30I don't need these.
06:32But thank you.
06:33His expression darkened.
06:35The check stiffened in his hand.
06:36I could hear him angrily clenching his teeth.
06:39You've gotten proud.
06:40Funny how that works when you've got nothing.
06:42Then he turned, shoved the check back into his pocket.
06:46Fine.
06:46Let's go to the banquet then.
06:49Vanessa's whole face lit up.
06:51I won't embarrass you, baby.
06:53I promise.
06:54I was already walking toward the exit.
06:56I left them with one line over my shoulder.
06:58I hope you're still that confident in three days.
07:01Three days later, I appeared at the banquet dressed casually.
07:05Ryan spotted me the second I walked in.
07:07You still couldn't resist coming over.
07:08But Elena, this is a Knight Instatricians event.
07:11You can't show up here in your pajamas.
07:13There's a standard.
07:14I walked past him.
07:16He grabbed my arm.
07:20I'm talking to you.
07:21Our location is over here.
07:23That's your location.
07:25Mine is over there.
07:27He followed my gaze to the front of the ballroom, the head table.
07:30His face went white.
07:31Before he could recover, Vanessa's voice sliced through the room.
07:35How did she even get in here?
07:36And why is she wearing that bracelet?
07:38Tonight is Sebastian Knight's first public appearance with his wife?
07:41Is she trying to humiliate Mrs. Knight?
07:44Someone remove her!
07:46The room buzzed.
07:48Ryan straightened his tuxedo jacket.
07:50She's no one.
07:51Not with me.
07:52Vanessa drew herself up and looked at me like I was something she'd scraped off her Louboutin's.
07:55Take the bracelet off.
07:57And get out.
07:58I tilted my head.
08:00You sure you want me to leave?
08:03She lunged.
08:04I went down hard on the marble floor.
08:07Vanessa drove the pointed heel of her stiletto onto my hand, pinning it flat, and ripped the diamond bracelet from
08:12my wrist.
08:13The platinum clasp snapped clean.
08:16Stones scattered across the ballroom floor like shattered ice.
08:19I lay there staring at the ruined bracelet.
08:22Vanessa ordered, smoothing her gown.
08:25Throw her out.
08:26But people moved toward me.
08:28I quickly explained.
08:30Stop!
08:31I'm Sebastian's-
08:33Say it again!
08:34Come on!
08:35Just say you're his wife!
08:36I bet you won't dare say it again!
08:38I pressed my bleeding hand to the cold marble and looked up at her.
08:41Then, I stood up and slapped her.
08:44I had come back to New York with no intention of making a scene.
08:47But now, I've changed my mind.
08:49Ryan walked up to me, reaching for my injured hand.
08:52Are you done?
08:53You showed up here flashing that bracelet dressed like that?
08:56What did you think was gonna happen?
08:58If you just admit you still want me, I'll let this go.
09:01Just say it.
09:02I laughed once, short and sharp.
09:05Ryan, you're finished.
09:07He opened his mouth.
09:09The doors at the far end of the ballroom swung open.
09:12Sebastian walked in.
09:13And right beside him, holding his hand with a death grip, was Leo.
09:17The moment Leo's eyes found me across the room, his face crumpled.
09:20He broke away from Sebastian and sprinted across the marble floor, dodging waitstaff and startled guests until he ran into
09:26my arms and wrapped his arms around my waist.
09:28What happened?
09:30Who did this to you?
09:31He pulled back and stared at my hand.
09:33His eyes went glassy.
09:34Why is there so much blood?
09:36One word from a child.
09:38The entire ballroom shifted.
09:39Every head turned.
09:40Every assumption crumbled in real time.
09:42I pulled Leo close and cupped his face in my good hand.
09:45I'm okay, baby.
09:46Mom's okay.
09:47He shook his head hard, lower lip trembling.
09:49Tell me who did it!
09:51Behind him, I felt Sebastian before I saw him.
09:53The air in the room changed, compressed, tightened.
09:57Guests parted without being asked.
09:59His eyes moved over the damage slowly, then his jaw locked.
10:03Elena.
10:04Talk to me.
10:07I'm fine.
10:09You suffered such a serious injury.
10:13Who did this?
10:16Who did this?
10:17Sebastian didn't raise his voice.
10:19He didn't have to.
10:21I want to know everything that happened tonight.
10:23Addressing the room like he owned it.
10:24He did own it.
10:25He owned the building.
10:28Anyone who'd like to speak voluntarily, now is the time.
10:32Because what I find out on my own tends to end careers.
10:35Ryan was the first to crack.
10:37He stepped forward, straightened his suit jacket.
10:40Sebastian, this is a misunderstanding.
10:42Elena and I go way back.
10:44I was her fiancé, actually.
10:46I was just trying to reconnect.
10:47Sebastian's champagne flute shattered in his grip.
10:50Crystal rained onto the ballroom floor.
10:52Everyone flinched.
10:54Ryan kept going, riding some wave of ego that hadn't crashed yet.
10:57She obviously still has feelings for me.
10:59Seven years is a long time I'm sure she told you about us.
11:02Sebastian looked down at his bleeding hand.
11:04I'd already pulled a cocktail napkin from a passing tray and was pressing it firmly against his palm.
11:09Something in his expression cracked open for just a second.
11:14Seven years.
11:16That's right.
11:18So you understand.
11:19Whatever she told you, she loved me.
11:22Deeply.
11:23I think part of her still...
11:24She told me everything.
11:26Ryan blinked.
11:27She told me about the registration office.
11:29About standing outside while you walked in with someone else.
11:32She told me about waiting seven years for a man who handed her a check and called it kindness.
11:37The room was a held breath.
11:38So when you say she loved you, what you mean is she loved the person she believed you were before
11:46you showed her exactly who you are.
11:48Leo tugged my sleeve.
11:50Dad's really mad.
11:52I know, baby.
11:54Good.
11:55The Sebastian team doctor appeared, standing beside me with a full set of medical supplies.
12:00The moment the antiseptic touched my hand, I hissed through my teeth.
12:03Sebastian and Leo both turned with expressions that could have ended the poor man's entire career on the spot.
12:08I'm fine.
12:08He was very careful.
12:10The medic, visibly sweating, completed the examination and stood to address Sebastian.
12:14Mrs. Knight is stable.
12:16No fractures.
12:16The lacerations are superficial.
12:18The baby is fine as well.
12:20I'd recommend rest tonight, and I'll source the best treatment to minimize scarring.
12:27Across the room, Ryan had gone pale.
12:29Vanessa had lost her composure entirely.
12:31She'd spent three years as the woman Ryan chose.
12:34But the woman he'd thrown away was standing in Sebastian Knight's ballroom,
12:37carrying his second child, Vanessa's friend.
12:40Some woman named Jamie, who'd arrived late and missed the entire unravel-
12:43Is this seriously happening?
12:45Did she hire actors?
12:47Look, you're obviously successful, but if you ever want an upgrade-
12:50Sebastian looked at the woman with a cold expression.
12:53Jamie was escorted out before she finished the sentence.
12:56Vanessa spun away like she'd never met the woman in her life.
12:59Ryan's face turned very ugly.
13:01Leo watched all of it with his arms crossed and his chin raised,
13:04looking so much like his father it made my chest ache.
13:07Mom, can I say something now?
13:10Not yet, sweetheart.
13:12He looked up at Sebastian.
13:13Dad?
13:15Soon.
13:16Leo nodded, solemn as a general approving a battle plan.
13:19I looked at the two of them, my son standing with his arms crossed next to my husband,
13:22and they were looking at me with eyes full of heartache.
13:25And then I felt a sharp pain followed by a stinging sensation.
13:30Hey, don't cry.
13:32Either of you.
13:33I'm not crying.
13:35Your eyes are red, but you still say you haven't cried.
13:38How is that possible?
13:41Dad, your eyes are really red.
13:43Ryan hadn't moved.
13:44He stood in the center of the ballroom, watching Sebastian's security team work the room with
13:48quiet efficiency.
13:49Then he made his final mistake.
13:52Elena, I know you're angry, but think about what you're doing.
13:55You married this man on impulse.
13:57Everyone knows it.
13:58You were hurt, you were emotional, and you made a rash decision.
14:01I'm not holding it against you.
14:03I'm willing to start over.
14:04Completely clean slate.
14:05The ballroom went so quiet, I could hear the chandeliers hum.
14:08I've separated from Vanessa.
14:10Officially.
14:11It's done.
14:13Leo could have a real family.
14:16A proper one.
14:17And baby.
14:18And the baby-
14:19Leo has a real family.
14:21You did this to get back at me.
14:23I understand that.
14:24I do.
14:26But you can't tell me seven years meant nothing.
14:29You can't stand there and tell me you don't feel anything.
14:33I looked at him for a long moment.
14:36You're right.
14:40I have no feelings for you right now.
14:43That's exactly what I'm telling you.
14:45Leo uncrossed his arms, this long enough to slow clap twice.
14:49Sebastian put a hand on his shoulder.
14:51Not yet.
14:52You said it would end soon.
14:54I said soon, not now.
14:56Leo crossed his arms again, deeply dissatisfied.
14:59You think this is funny?
15:01You think he actually loves you?
15:03You're a transaction to him, Elena.
15:05That's all any of this is.
15:06A business arrangement dressed up in diamonds.
15:08He bought you.
15:09That's not love.
15:11That's ownership.
15:12Sebastian walked toward him.
15:13Not fast.
15:14Not threatening in any obvious way.
15:16He just walked toward him.
15:18And Ryan took three involuntary steps back before he realized he was doing it.
15:22My wife is not a topic I discuss with strangers.
15:27What happened next traveled through Manhattan's elite circles by morning.
15:30Ryan's company, already operating under Knight Industries' umbrella, was restructured overnight.
15:35His division dissolved.
15:36His access codes revoked before he made it to the parking garage.
15:40Vanessa had swallowed enough of those scattered diamonds under duress to require a very uncomfortable
15:44evening at the air.
15:45Her modeling contracts, three of them, all with brands that fell under Knight Industries'
15:49investment portfolio, were terminated by Monday.
15:52The guests who had watched me get knocked to the floor and said nothing each found, over
15:56the following week, that their overseas market access had quietly evaporated.
16:00Sebastian didn't make speeches about it.
16:02He didn't need to.
16:03My best friend Claire filled me in from the hospital chair beside my bed.
16:06His husband is genuinely terrifying.
16:09He's protective.
16:11Elena, he kicked a woman out of the banquet simply because she said something.
16:16She said the wrong thing.
16:17She was being stupid.
16:18There's a difference.
16:20Although, actually no.
16:21Same thing in that room.
16:23Also, your son stabbed Vanessa's hand with a dessert fork.
16:26A dessert fork?
16:29He stabbed her hand directly, calmly, like he was making a point.
16:34He's six, Elena.
16:36He's seven.
16:38That makes it worse.
16:41Don't laugh.
16:42It's not funny.
16:44I'm not laughing.
16:46That's not laughing.
16:47You're absolutely laughing.
16:49I was absolutely laughing.
16:51Claire watched me with fond exasperation.
16:53Then her expression shifted.
16:54Ryan got away, by the way, during the chaos.
16:57Vanessa apparently cut some kind of deal.
17:00Stalled the security team long enough for him to slip out.
17:03Sebastian and Leo are looking for him.
17:05Ryan had promised her something about her son,
17:07and that was enough to make her throw herself in front of Sebastian's security team.
17:11For all her ugliness, she was still a mother.
17:13I stared at the ceiling for a long moment.
17:17Claire, make sure no one touches that child.
17:20Whatever Sebastian has planned for Ryan, the boy stays out of it.
17:24I'll tell him.
17:26They kept me in the hospital one more night.
17:29Sebastian and Leo refused to leave.
17:31The hospital's private suite had a sitting area,
17:33and by ten o'clock Leo had commandeered the pull-out sofa.
17:36He was asleep within minutes,
17:38one arm dangling off the edge.
17:40Sebastian sat in the chair beside my bed and didn't move.
17:43I watched him in the low light.
17:44The cut on his hand had been properly dressed.
17:47He was wearing a shirt with the collar open,
17:49revealing his well-defined muscles.
17:51You should sleep.
17:54Okay, in a bit.
17:58You've been staring at the wall for a long time.
18:00What are you thinking about?
18:04I'm wondering if I arrived in time to protect you.
18:08Sebastian-
18:08I'm sorry.
18:10You were on that floor.
18:12You were bleeding.
18:13And I wasn't there.
18:14You were there when it mattered.
18:16It mattered the moment you walked into that building.
18:19I should have come with you.
18:19I should never have let the office send someone else.
18:21You can't be next to me every second.
18:24I'm aware of that.
18:26I don't like it, but I'm aware of it.
18:29He looked at our joined hands for a long moment then, very quietly.
18:33Am I Elena?
18:36Say it.
18:37Am I really good enough for you?
18:41You have been enough.
18:43Since before I knew what enough looked like,
18:45I found the photos.
18:48Behind the frame.
18:50He went very still.
18:51The ones from college and high school.
18:54I squeezed his hand.
18:55You used to eat lunch alone.
18:56Elena-
18:57I put money in your bag.
18:58I thought you couldn't afford the cafeteria.
19:00A long silence.
19:02I know.
19:03You knew?
19:04I kept it.
19:05He looked almost embarrassed.
19:06I never spent it.
19:07I stared at him.
19:08This man.
19:09This impossible.
19:10Terrifying.
19:10Soft-hearted man.
19:11Sebastian Knight?
19:13You are the biggest secret romantic I have ever met in my life.
19:16He said nothing.
19:17But in the low light of the hospital room,
19:19the tips of his ears went red.
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