- 2 days ago
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00:01My nephew Mateo needs $47,000 for his medicine.
00:05I don't have it. My job doesn't pay it.
00:08And the hospital already said stop.
00:15I can pay Mateo's bill. Today.
00:20What do you want?
00:2290 days.
00:24You pretend to love Julian Thorne.
00:26Photos, events, smile.
00:29The billionaire?
00:31The disgrace.
00:33And if I say no?
00:35Mateo stays sick and you're fired by morning.
00:4390 days.
00:45Good.
00:47He's waiting upstairs. Don't make him wait like the money did.
00:50Congratulations.
00:51You just bought your nephew's life.
00:57It's not Celia, no.
00:58Then who did my grandmother pick?
00:59A hotel worker. Her name is Lena.
01:01A staff girl.
01:02So the headlines write themselves.
01:05Billionaire marries the maid.
01:07Your grandmother gets to look like the only adult in the family.
01:09And I look like a joke.
01:11Tomorrow morning. Rooftop. Engagement photos.
01:14Does Lena know who I really am?
01:17She knows one thing.
01:19$47,000. That's it.
01:22My grandmother thinks she's already won.
01:27She picked the wrong stranger.
01:34Tomorrow I meet my price tag.
01:37Dressed as a wife.
01:41Julian's a drunk.
01:43Ugly.
01:44Broke.
01:45He won't show.
01:47Then I don't get paid.
01:49And Mateo doesn't get treated.
01:51That's not my problem.
01:52That's why you're standing here.
01:54I was supposed to marry him.
01:56I said hell no.
02:01So Vera bought a cheaper bride.
02:04Me.
02:07$47,000.
02:09Don't spend it all in one place.
02:19You're not Celia.
02:23You're late.
02:25I'm here.
02:26That's what $47,000 costs.
02:29Did you agree to this?
02:31Or did she lock you in too?
02:33She locked me in three weeks ago.
02:35I haven't left the suite since.
02:37Then don't make me regret this.
02:39I can't afford to.
02:41Too late for that.
02:43The deal's already signed.
02:50Vera's watching.
02:56Vera said the money only releases after the wedding words.
02:59Not before.
03:01So this isn't romance.
03:03It's a receipt.
03:06We smile in public.
03:07We stay strangers in private.
03:09Deal?
03:10Deal.
03:12I'm here for Mateo.
03:14I'm here because Vera thinks she owns me.
03:17Do you take him?
03:20I take 90 days.
03:23Do you take her?
03:26I do.
03:28I do.
03:29You may take the bride.
03:30I do.
03:43Did it go through?
03:45The 47?
03:47Yes.
03:49Then, what happens to me now?
03:53You don't work downstairs anymore.
03:55You sleep upstairs.
03:57I saved him.
03:59Why do I feel sold?
04:00Because you were.
04:03And so was I.
04:06Day one as his wife.
04:08I have my own room.
04:09He has his.
04:11The rule was simple.
04:13Stay strangers.
04:16I'm about to break it.
04:31You're supposed to be down the hall.
04:34I know.
04:36This isn't part of the deal.
04:38Then renegotiate.
04:41If we do this, we can't undo it.
04:43I'm already sold.
04:45What's left to lose?
04:46Me.
04:48You could lose me.
04:50Then lose me first.
05:18Sweet girl.
05:19Have you seen the news?
05:20You're famous.
05:21What did you do?
05:22I made you real.
05:23You're welcome.
05:32Sweet girl.
05:33Have you seen the news?
05:34You're famous.
05:35What did you do?
05:36I made you real.
05:38You're welcome.
05:41Last night wasn't the deal.
05:43Neither was waking up to your hand still on me.
05:46Then we agree.
05:47It doesn't happen again.
05:48Vera already made sure the whole world thinks it did.
05:51Gold digger marries Thorn for 47 grand.
05:55That's not wrong.
05:56It's incomplete.
05:57Vera told half the story.
05:59I'll tell the rest.
06:00Just say it.
06:01The deal's over.
06:02I'll take Mateo and go.
06:04No.
06:05You don't run.
06:06Not from this.
06:07Not from me.
06:07Why?
06:08It's easier to let them have me.
06:09If they destroy you, they destroy me.
06:11And I don't lose twice.
06:12It's me.
06:14Pull everything we have on Vera Castellin quietly.
06:17You're not the man she said you were.
06:19Who are you really?
06:21The man Vera should never have locked in a room.
06:25They're calling me the gold digger who trapped the disgrace.
06:2847,000 for a billionaire nobody wanted.
06:30Everyone's laughing.
06:31At me.
06:32At him.
06:33But Julian's not laughing.
06:35And I'm starting to think he never lost a thing.
06:37Buy the debt.
06:38All of it.
06:39By morning Vera owes me.
06:41Not the bank.
06:42You were never the disgrace.
06:44You let them think it.
06:46A disgrace they pity.
06:47A predator they watch.
06:49I chose pity.
06:51I heard you.
06:52Buying debt.
06:53Flipping Vera.
06:54That's not a disgrace.
06:55No.
06:55It's not.
06:57Vera sold you a broken man.
06:58She should have asked why he let her.
06:59Who are you really?
07:01The man Vera should never have locked in a room.
07:03Vera didn't lock me in.
07:04I walked in.
07:05I let her think she won.
07:06Why would anyone choose to be a prisoner?
07:08Because the thing Vera's hiding is in this hotel.
07:11And she only relaxes when she thinks I'm harmless.
07:13I'm not the trap, Lena.
07:14I'm the bait.
07:15Darling, before you get comfortable playing wife,
07:17the money that saves little Mateo,
07:19I can unmake it with one call.
07:20You touch his treatment and I will burn this whole thing down.
07:23Then be a good wife, dear.
07:24You have until the 90th day.
07:25She just made her last mistake.
07:29$47,000 was supposed to save Mateo.
07:32Now it's the rope around my neck.
07:33If Vera pulls the money, he doesn't get the treatment.
07:35He doesn't...
07:36I sold myself to save him once.
07:38I'll do it again and again until he's safe.
07:41One call and Mateo's treatment simply stops.
07:45I saved him once.
07:46I won't lose him to your games.
07:48Then be a good little wife, dear.
07:50Smile for the cameras.
07:51Or the boy pays for your pride.
07:53Let me pay for Mateo today.
07:55Every cent, every treatment for good.
07:56Nothing's free with people like you.
07:58What do you want?
07:58No deal.
07:59No 90 days.
07:59No Vera owning either of us.
08:01Just stay.
08:02Because you want to.
08:03Say yes.
08:03For real this time.
08:05You're offering me everything I came here to get.
08:07Mateo, safe.
08:08You.
08:09All of it.
08:10But if I say yes, I'll never know if it was love.
08:12Or just the price of his life.
08:14Then take your time.
08:15I'm not Vera.
08:16I won't make the choice for you.
08:25Back for another round, Celia?
08:26I came to warn you, actually.
08:28Shocking, I know.
08:28You don't warn people, you twist knife.
08:30This time they're the same thing.
08:31You think this marriage is about you and Julian?
08:32It was never about love.
08:33It's about what unlocks on day 90.
08:35And you're standing right on top of it.
08:37The third of fortune has a condition.
08:40He has to be married 90 days before he can claim it.
08:43So I was never a wife.
08:45I was a deadline?
08:47You're not his wife, sweetheart.
08:48You're his key.
08:50And in three days, you unlock everything.
08:53Day 90.
08:55You knew the whole time what I was for.
08:58Yes.
08:59I knew.
09:00That's how it started.
09:01It is not how it is.
09:02The plan needed a signature.
09:04It did not need me to fall for you.
09:06That part was all mine.
09:08Vera forged her way onto the board.
09:10She's been bleeding this hotel for years.
09:12The inheritance is the only thing that strips her control.
09:14So Vera built a leash.
09:16And handed you the woman who'd wear it.
09:18Day 90.
09:19I take back everything she stole.
09:21And you're the only reason I can.
09:23I can have this marriage annulled before day 90.
09:25One word about a staff girl seducing a vulnerable man.
09:29Annult it.
09:29And you lose the only thing that vests you control.
09:32You need this marriage more than I do.
09:34You're a clever girl.
09:35For three months, everyone bought and sold me.
09:38Vera.
09:39The internet.
09:40Even you.
09:42And now?
09:43Day 90 is yours to spend.
09:45We give Vera her 90 days.
09:46We smile.
09:47We sign.
09:48And then we take everything she ever stole.
09:5390 days ago, a woman bought me for $47,000.
09:57Today, the price comes due.
09:59And she has no idea who's collecting.
10:0290 days ago, I had nothing.
10:04Today, I take everything.
10:0890 days.
10:10The marriage held.
10:12Control stays with me.
10:15I bought your debt months ago, Vera.
10:18You didn't lock me in.
10:19You locked yourself out.
10:22You think you've won?
10:24I can still pull Mateo's treatment tonight.
10:26Mateo's treatment was paid in full this morning.
10:29You have nothing left to sell, Vera.
10:32Julian promised you that fortune is mine.
10:35It has always been mine.
10:38Read the clause again, Vera.
10:40The fortune doesn't vest in me.
10:41It vests in my wife.
10:43No.
10:44The staff girl.
10:45You handed it to the staff girl.
10:46Not the staff girl.
10:48The owner.
10:50Everything you stole runs through me now.
10:53It's done.
10:55You have everything.
10:57Including the choice I can't make for you.
11:0090 days ago, a deal put you in front of me.
11:03I still don't know if what came after was real.
11:1190 days ago, you bought me.
11:15Now I own all of it.
11:18And including whether I keep you.
11:22late tonight, myences you thought it might be written down.
11:26Because I don't know.
11:27You didn't even know what came after that.
11:28When I was thinking, I have to tell this with me you can get a moment of jazz.