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I Died, And My Torturer Went Insane
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00:00At the auction, I was locked in a cage.
00:03I bid $100,000.
00:05$200,000. This bitch is mine tonight.
00:08$500,000.
00:09Poffer, if you have no money, don't even think about wanting a woman.
00:13My emotions were on the verge of collapse.
00:16I never could have imagined that the man who vowed to marry no one but me
00:19would plot to destroy my entire family.
00:23I swear I will exact my revenge.
00:26My brother Jack was behind the wheel the night eight members of the Pierce family died.
00:29The only survivor was Liam Pierce, and he made us pay for all of it.
00:38That same day, he called off our engagement.
00:41One week later, my family's company was bankrupt.
00:45$900,000,000 in debt.
00:47Jack got 15 years.
00:51The pressure was too much for my parents.
00:53They jumped from the roof of the company building and died.
00:56On the day of their funeral, Liam forced Jack's wife to marry him.
01:01This is what your family owes me.
01:03You'll be paying it back for the rest of your lives.
01:06Then he sold me to his creditors to settle the debt.
01:09Six years.
01:11Six years of having no rights, no name, and no body I could call my own.
01:16I survived every night, and lost more pregnancies than I can even count.
01:20All because I believed we owed him.
01:22I truly thought this was justice.
01:24The day I paid off the last cent, I went straight to his office.
01:27Not to fight.
01:28To beg.
01:30I just wanted him to show mercy and set Sarah free.
01:34My hand was on the door when I heard his voice inside.
01:36He was on the phone with his oldest friend.
01:39You rigged Jack's car.
01:40You used him to wipe out your own family so you could take the empire.
01:44You got everything you wanted.
01:45The company.
01:46The woman you always loved.
01:48So why won't you just let Olivia go?
01:50You grew up together.
01:52How can you be this cold?
01:53If it weren't for her, Sarah and I would have been together years ago.
01:57She forced her way into my life.
01:59Everything she's going through now, she brought it on herself.
02:02The man I spent six years paying off in blood and humiliation.
02:05He murdered his own family and framed my brother for it.
02:09I turned to run.
02:10Who's out there?
02:11The door flew open before I could move.
02:14Liam scanned the hallway.
02:16Cold.
02:17Methodical.
02:18When he didn't see anyone, he slammed it shut dot.
02:21I stayed pressed against the wall.
02:23Hand over my mouth.
02:24Not breathing.
02:25We grew up together.
02:26Liam and I.
02:27He remembered every birthday.
02:29Every gift was exactly what I'd wanted.
02:31He used to protect me like it was his only job in the world.
02:35If I hadn't heard it myself, I never would have believed it.
02:38That the boy I grew up with had murdered his own family.
02:40To get revenge on me.
02:42To seize the family empire.
02:44And the whole time I was surviving.
02:46The only reason I kept going was because I thought I owed him.
02:49I was paying off a debt that never existed.
02:52I dug my nails into my palms until I felt blood.
02:55I didn't let myself cry.
02:56I just walked.
02:58I was almost at the exit when I heard my name.
03:01Olivia?
03:02Olivia?
03:02Is that really you?
03:04Sarah.
03:05My sister-in-law.
03:07Designer clothes.
03:08Flawless.
03:09Six years hadn't touched her at all.
03:11Her eyes looked warm.
03:13But when she reached for my hand, I caught it.
03:15Just for a second.
03:17Sarah frowned.
03:19Why didn't you tell me you were back?
03:21Liam said you've been abroad this whole time.
03:24Recovering.
03:24Are you feeling better?
03:27Recovering?
03:28Six years of being treated like I wasn't a person.
03:31And that's the story he gave her.
03:34It's been so hard, hasn't it?
03:36When everything happened, Liam told me the only way to clear your family's debt was if I married him.
03:41I didn't have a choice.
03:43You don't still blame me, do you?
03:47She was just a woman caught in the same storm.
03:50Even if she knew the truth, what could she have done against him?
03:53I was about to let her keep the lie.
03:55Then a voice came from behind me.
03:57Like a blade.
03:59Who gave you permission to be here?
04:00The look he gave me, pure contempt.
04:03I'm leaving.
04:04Right now.
04:06Stay.
04:07Six years of fear doesn't just disappear.
04:09I couldn't even meet his eyes.
04:11He turned to Sarah, his voice dropping soft.
04:14I look pale.
04:15What did she say to you?
04:17Sarah's face shifted.
04:18A small wince.
04:20It's not Olivia's fault.
04:22It's just that it reminded me of something unpleasant.
04:25And then the baby in my welly kicked me.
04:29I stared at her stomach.
04:31She wasn't showing yet.
04:32But the word landed like a punch.
04:34Baby.
04:36Your brother wiped out my entire family.
04:38Isn't that enough?
04:39Why are you still here making things worse for Sarah?
04:42What, do you still think you'll take Sarah's place?
04:46Let me make this clear.
04:48That will never happen.
04:50Not in this life.
04:51It should have hurt.
04:52But I'd been in so much pain for so long that I barely felt it.
04:57That's not why I'm here.
04:58He stepped closer.
05:00Then why are you here?
05:03I'm warning you.
05:05If anything happens to Sarah or this baby, I will hold you responsible.
05:10With your life.
05:13He used to worry if I stubbed my toe.
05:16Now he was threatening my life in a hallway.
05:18If I had just seen it sooner, that he never loved me that way.
05:21That it was always Sarah.
05:23Maybe my parents would still be alive.
05:25Maybe my brother would be home.
05:27But there are no do-overs.
05:29I walked home like I was already gone.
05:31When I got back to my apartment, my nose started bleeding.
05:34The blood soaked into the paper in my hand.
05:37A crumpled medical report.
05:38Stage 4.
05:39I'd been carrying it for weeks.
05:41My plan was to use it.
05:43Show him I was dying.
05:44Make him feel something.
05:45Use his guilt to free Sarah.
05:47There was no plan anymore.
05:48I had been assaulted by multiple men and never once let myself cry.
05:52But now I was sobbing so hard I couldn't breathe.
05:54My hands went numb.
05:55The room started to spin.
05:56I thought I was dying right then.
05:58I wiped my face and dialed the prison with shaking hands.
06:01It took forever.
06:02Transfer after transfer.
06:04Jack.
06:06I don't think I'm gonna make it to when you get out.
06:08I saved some money for you.
06:10It's not much.
06:11Use it to get a place.
06:12Find work.
06:13Build something.
06:15And Jack.
06:17What happened to mom and dad that wasn't your fault.
06:21I'm sorry I couldn't do more.
06:23Your little sister failed you.
06:29I couldn't let him hear my voice break.
06:31I hung up before he could answer.
06:33The phone slipped out of my hand.
06:35I heard it hit the floor.
06:37And then I couldn't hear anything at all.
06:39When I opened my eyes, I was in a hospital bed.
06:42The doctor didn't waste a second.
06:44You're skipping chemo.
06:45You're not taking any of your medication.
06:48Do you have any idea what you're doing to yourself?
06:50I tried to smile.
06:52It came out wrong.
06:53Before I could say anything, my phone lit up on the nightstand.
06:56The prison.
06:5832 missed calls.
06:59This is the warden's office.
07:01Your brother, Jack, was found this morning.
07:03He used a bed sheet in a blind spot of the cameras.
07:05Resuscitation was unsuccessful.
07:08Time of death, 10.03 a.m.
07:09I don't remember the rest of the call.
07:12It felt like being dropped to the bottom of the ocean.
07:14Sound.
07:15Gone.
07:16Light.
07:17Gone.
07:18I left the hospital against orders.
07:20I don't know how my body carried me there.
07:22They'd used a crop from his wedding photo.
07:25Black and white.
07:26He looked so happy in it.
07:27I couldn't stop crying.
07:29Word travels fast.
07:31Relatives I hadn't seen in years showed up to pay their respects.
07:34And then Sarah walked in.
07:36All black.
07:37A wreath of white lilies.
07:38Perfect.
07:39Everyone around me started whispering how loyal she was.
07:43How generous.
07:44Coming to mourn her ex-husband after everything.
07:47I looked at her through swollen eyes.
07:49Get out.
07:50Sarah stepped back like I'd slapped her.
07:52The tears came instantly.
07:58My uncle Mark slammed his cane into the floor.
08:01Who do you think you are talking to her like that?
08:04Apologize.
08:05Now.
08:05When Jack destroyed everything, Sarah was the one who handled the funerals.
08:09She cleaned up every Met mess.
08:10Where were you, huh?
08:11You disappeared.
08:12I heard you took money and ran overseas.
08:14Now you're back?
08:15What?
08:15You saw how well Sarah's doing and decided to come leech off her?
08:18You just make me sick.
08:19If anyone's leaving, it's you.
08:20The truth was clawing at my throat.
08:23Liam sold me to settle a debt that was never real.
08:26I spent six years destroying myself to pay it back.
08:29I wasn't the one who ran.
08:31I was the one who was sold.
08:33It was Liam.
08:34He lied to all of you.
08:36I never went OCs.
08:37I never...
08:38Nobody was listening.
08:39My Aunt Grace turned on me, ready to go again.
08:42Sarah grabbed her arm.
08:43Please.
08:44Stop.
08:45This is my fault.
08:46Olivia is Jack's little sister.
08:48I didn't look after her the way I should have.
08:50She went away because she was sick.
08:52Today is a hard day.
08:53Just let her say whatever she needs to.
08:55Every word made the room hate me more.
08:58Sick?
08:59Sure.
09:00How convenient.
09:02Sarah, stop defending her.
09:04Her parents and brother gave her everything.
09:06And this is how she repays them?
09:08Her own parents would be ashamed.
09:10I laughed.
09:11I actually laughed.
09:13When my parents were drowning, begging for help, calling everyone,
09:17these same people blocked their numbers.
09:20Uncle Mark, when your business was failing,
09:22my parents wrote you a check for $2 million without hesitation.
09:25When we collapsed, you wouldn't lend them a single cent.
09:29And Grace, when you were in the hospital,
09:32my mother stayed by your side for a month.
09:34She lost 15 pounds taking care of you.
09:37But when my father jumped,
09:38you stood there and told her she should follow him.
09:41You said it to her face.
09:42If it weren't for you, she might still be alive.
09:44You have no right to stand there and accuse me of anything.
09:49The rage hit all at once.
09:51Blood poured from my nose.
09:53I pressed my hand against it, but it wouldn't stop.
09:56Sarah rushed toward me, arms out.
10:01Don't touch me!
10:06I had almost nothing left.
10:08I barely had the strength to stand.
10:10But Sarah went down hard.
10:12She screamed.
10:13Both hands went to her stomach.
10:15I looked down.
10:16Blood on the floor.
10:18Spreading.
10:19My baby!
10:20The room exploded.
10:22Someone was calling Liam.
10:23Someone was calling 911.
10:25I leaned against the wall.
10:27The world was going gray at the edges.
10:29I watched them carry Sarah out.
10:31And then I collapsed, everything going black.
10:33I came to when ice water hit my face.
10:36I blinked the blur away.
10:37Liam was standing over me.
10:39I wasn't in a hospital bed.
10:41I was on the roof.
10:42Tied to a chair.
10:43In his hand, a small wooden box.
10:45Olivia, you're finally awake.
10:47He smiled.
10:49It was the worst thing I'd ever seen on a human face.
10:55I was going to let you go.
10:57For Sarah's sake.
10:59I was going to let you live out whatever's left of your life.
11:03But I was wrong.
11:05Someone like you doesn't deserve that.
11:07The wind-up there was brutal.
11:09I was shaking so hard I could barely speak.
11:12Sarah?
11:13Is she?
11:14His foot connected with my chest before I could finish.
11:17The chair rocked.
11:18Something cracked.
11:20Blood came up in my throat.
11:23Don't you dare say her name!
11:25She was kind to you.
11:27She was good to you.
11:28And you couldn't stand it.
11:29We did over a dozen rounds of IVF to get pregnant.
11:33Twelve rounds.
11:35And you took that from us.
11:44I regret every second I spent looking after you when we were kids.
11:49Every time I think about it, I feel sick.
11:53Tears slipped from my eyes.
11:55My vision was going dark.
11:58But my mind went somewhere else.
12:00When he first came back to the Pierce family, he was a wreck.
12:04Insecure.
12:05Closed off.
12:07His stepmother made his life hell.
12:12The first time we met, he hurt everyone who got close to him.
12:16I was no different.
12:18But then one day his stepmother set him up.
12:21And he climbed over the railing of a bridge.
12:24I was 12 years old.
12:26I didn't think.
12:28I just jumped in after him.
12:31That was the day he finally let me in.
12:34Looking at him now, his hand around my throat.
12:37I wished I had let him drown.
12:39He let go just before I blacked out.
12:42Opened the wooden box.
12:44And tipped it over my head.
12:46Gray dust fell over my face.
12:48My hands.
12:48My lap.
12:49I gasped for air.
12:51My lungs felt like they were being shredded.
12:53He started laughing.
12:55Breathe it in.
12:57That's your brother.
12:59Don't waste any of him.
13:01My heart stopped.
13:02I looked up at him.
13:04Why?
13:04What did I ever do to you?
13:05What did I do that deserved any of this?
13:08That stopped him.
13:09Just for a second.
13:12He tossed the empty box off the roof without looking.
13:15If you hadn't gotten Sarah drunk on her 18th birthday, Jack never would have had the chance
13:19to touch her.
13:22You and your brother, you're the same.
13:25Wait.
13:26Sarah was my best friend in high school.
13:29She knew I was in love with Liam.
13:32That night, her birthday.
13:36She was the one who pulled my brother aside.
13:39To give me a chance to confess to Liam alone.
13:43I was the one who drank too much to get my nerve up.
13:46I was the one who blacked out.
13:48I never gave her a single drink.
13:52She lied to him.
13:54She told him I did it on purpose.
13:56She let him hate us for something that never happened.
13:59Everything he did to my family.
14:01Every year I lost.
14:04Built on a lie, she told him.
14:06Liam.
14:08I left a diary at my apartment in the North District.
14:12When I'm gone, read it.
14:17Consider it my wedding gift to you.
14:20I didn't wait for him to answer.
14:23I threw my weight to the side with everything I had left.
14:27I heard him lunge.
14:29Heard his hand cut through the air.
14:34Too late.
14:36Wind in my ears.
14:38Then nothing.
14:41Then the ground.
14:43By the time Liam made it downstairs,
14:45a crowd had closed in around the entrance.
14:48He pushed through to the front.
14:50One look at what was left of me,
14:51and he doubled over.
14:53He couldn't stop gagging.
15:01My spirit stood there and watched him with cold, empty eyes.
15:05I was going to be dead in a few days anyway.
15:11At least now that death belongs to him.
15:15After the scene was cleared,
15:16he spent hours at the precinct giving his statement.
15:19By the time he got home,
15:21he looked like he'd aged 10 years.
15:26Sarah was still up.
15:29Sitting in the living room,
15:30waiting.
15:34She took one look at his face,
15:36and her whole expression shifted.
15:37Liam, you're as pale as a ghost.
15:40What happened?
15:41Is it my test results?
15:43Did something come back wrong?
15:45He crossed the room and pulled her into him.
15:48Hard.
15:48He didn't say anything.
15:50He just held on.
15:51I watched him fall apart in her arms and felt nothing.
15:54This was the man who had wanted to tear me to pieces.
15:57Who had blood on his hands long before today.
16:00But guilt, it turns out,
16:02doesn't care how guilty you actually are.
16:03What is going on, Liam?
16:07You're pressing on my stitches.
16:09It hurts.
16:10He let go immediately.
16:12Took her hand.
16:17I'm sorry.
16:18I'm so sorry I didn't take better care of you.
16:21When things settle down,
16:22I'm taking you somewhere.
16:24Just us.
16:24Overseas.
16:25Whatever you want.
16:26His voice was so soft.
16:28So careful with her.
16:31I kept having to remind myself
16:33this was the same man
16:35who had tied me to a chair on a rooftop this morning.
16:38Tell me what happened.
16:39Don't make me sit here and imagine it.
16:41Their eyes met.
16:42He looked away first.
16:43Olivia, she's dead.
16:45He kept his eyes on the floor.
16:47He missed what crossed her face in that moment.
16:50Liam, did you do it?
16:51Tell me the truth.
16:53Did you?
16:53No.
16:54No!
16:55He grabbed her shoulders.
16:57His voice cracked.
16:58I just wanted to scare her.
16:59Our baby from us, Sarah.
17:01I couldn't just let that go.
17:03But I didn't want her dead.
17:05I swear I didn't want this.
17:06Sarah's face crumpled.
17:08Tears.
17:09Hands over her mouth.
17:10How could you?
17:14Then she shoved him back
17:15and slapped him across the face.
17:17You promised me you'd let her go!
17:19You promised!
17:23I can't be here right now.
17:24I'm going to my parents.
17:26The door slammed.
17:28I watched the whole performance from the corner of the room.
17:32She was good.
17:34I'll give her that.
17:35And Liam, the man who built a mountain of bodies just to get to her,
17:39didn't chase after her.
17:41He just sat there.
17:43Swept everything off his desk in one move.
17:46Picked up his keys.
17:48And walked out.
17:50He wasn't driving toward her parents' house.
17:53He was heading out of the city.
17:55Toward the outskirts.
17:56Toward my apartment.
17:57He'd never once visited me here.
18:00But he drove straight to my door like he'd done it a thousand times.
18:03He came for the diary.
18:05And it was going to destroy him.
18:06No key.
18:07He stared at the lock for two seconds,
18:09then put his shoulder into the door.
18:11It gave.
18:12He stopped in the doorway.
18:14One mattress on the floor.
18:16One small desk.
18:17That was the whole room.
18:19I watched his expression shift as he took it in.
18:21This was where I had lived for six years after paying off his debt.
18:25He didn't let himself think about that.
18:27He went straight to the desk.
18:29Yanked the drawer open.
18:30Empty painkiller bottles.
18:32A whole pile of them.
18:33He swept them aside.
18:35At the very bottom, the diary.
18:37He looked around for somewhere to sit.
18:39There wasn't a chair in the room.
18:41He glanced at the mattress.
18:44Looked away.
18:45Stood there and opened it with shaking hands.
18:48October 18th, 2012.
18:51Sunny.
18:52I'm going to tell Liam how I feel today.
18:55I'm terrified.
18:57Sarah said she'd create an opportunity for us.
19:00She'd handle everything.
19:02I just have to be brave.
19:05Please let this work.
19:07I just have to be brave.
19:07I just have to be brave.
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