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04:25Before you do anything stupid, think about who you're cutting out of this family.
04:30I let her have the smile. I'd come back for it later.
04:34My phone rang. My mother. I put it on speaker.
04:40Ava, your father collapsed at Sean's building. He knocked on the door for four minutes. Nobody opened. I see you
04:47now.
04:48Sean went white. Four minutes. I said.
04:55The intercom camera caught it. You watched my father fall to his knees in the snow on a screen, and
05:01then you went back to fucking your whore.
05:03Ava, I didn't see it. I swear, I...
05:05Don't.
05:09I twisted off my wedding ring and dropped it into the open Birkin at my feet.
05:15Keep it. He bought it with my father's money anyway.
05:18I pulled out my phone and dialed.
05:22Lucas. Lucas Vane. The Maradi family's chief counsel.
05:27Three things.
05:28One, every account in Sean Callahan's name frozen tonight, including the Zurich one he thinks I don't know about.
05:34Two, this penthouse?
05:36Locks changed before sunrise, both of them on the sidewalk by 9 a.m.
05:40Three, every dollar that left my father's accounts in the last three years, traced and clawed back.
05:46I want a full forensic accounting on my desk by Friday.
05:50Done in 10 minutes.
05:52I hung up.
05:55Sean lunged for my arm. I slapped him across the face hard enough to leave a print.
06:00Touch me again and I'll have Carlo here before sunrise.
06:05Carlo, my father's right hand.
06:07Sean knew exactly what being picked up by Carlo meant in this family and he froze.
06:12I walked to the door without turning around. That slap was from my father.
06:21The door closed behind me.
06:29In the elevator my phone was already lighting up.
06:31Lucas.
06:34Ava, your father is awake at Presbyterian. He's asking for you by name.
06:40The surgeon walked me through it.
06:43Hyperthermia.
06:44Hairline fracture in the hip.
06:46Cardiac strain from the cold.
06:4730 more minutes in the snow and we'd be having a different conversation.
06:51My father had woken up for 10 seconds, just long enough to give the surgeon one message for me.
06:57Lucas, I want a divorce.
07:00I texted Lucas.
07:0120 minutes later my phone rang.
07:05Ava, I've been waiting more than 10 years to hear you say that.
07:08But I'm telling you, you don't need to file for divorce.
07:11What?
07:12You were never married.
07:13The certificate is a forgery.
07:14He printed it himself.
07:15Wrong city seal, wrong filing number, wrong everything.
07:18There is no record of an Ava Marodi or Sean Callahan ever being married.
07:22Not in any city hall, in any state, on any date.
07:25What?
07:27Three years!
07:28I said.
07:29He was never my husband for one minute!
07:31Not legally, not on paper, not anywhere it counts.
07:36The hospital paperwork I signed two years ago.
07:39The healthcare directive he had me sign at 3 in the morning when dad was on the ventilator.
07:43He used a fake marriage to walk away with 3 million in reward money and another 1.2 in medical
07:48funds.
07:48Pin every count there is.
07:50For jivnery, wire fraud, identity theft, grand larceny.
07:53Already drafting.
07:54A nurse stepped through the doors.
07:57Miss Moretti, your father is awake.
08:00He's asking for you.
08:00My father's eyes opened the second.
08:02I sat down beside the bed.
08:04Pale.
08:05Tubes in his arm.
08:06Get Lucas.
08:07Tonight.
08:09Wake him up.
08:10Already done.
08:11He almost smiled.
08:13That's my girl.
08:15My father walked out of the ICU on Wednesday morning.
08:18Doctors said two weeks.
08:20He told them no, he had work to do, and signed himself out against medical advice.
08:24Thursday afternoon, Sean showed up at the townhouse with the boy on his hip and a bouquet of white roses
08:30in his fist.
08:31Tiffany stood behind him in morning black.
08:33I opened the door myself.
08:35Carlo stood behind my shoulder, and there were two more men by the front gate.
08:39He doesn't want to see you.
08:41He's my godfather, Ava.
08:43Whatever happened between us, he and I are.
08:46He says he has no godson.
08:47Those were his exact words this morning.
08:49He also says you have no wife.
08:51The marriage certificate is a forgery, and you printed it yourself.
08:53Did your lawyer call you yet, or are you finding that out from me on the front store?
08:57The color went out of his face.
08:59Tiffany pushed forward with the boy.
09:02Ava, this is James.
09:04He's two.
09:04He's Sean's son.
09:05I crouched down to the boy's eye level.
09:08Dark hair.
09:09Light eyes.
09:10Nothing of Sean in his face at all.
09:13Beautiful boy.
09:14He doesn't change anything.
09:15My father wants $3,100,000 back.
09:19He's giving you 30 days.
09:20After that, whatever the family decides.
09:22Sean's whole face changed at the word family.
09:24Ava, wait.
09:24I need to talk to your father.
09:26My father stood in the snow for seven hours looking for you.
09:30He's not interested in talking to you.
09:32He's interested in his money.
09:33Tiffany clutched the boy tighter.
09:35Sean, say something to her.
09:36Sean said nothing.
09:37I shoved the bouquet back into his arms.
09:40Drop these on your way out.
09:42There's a homeless man on the corner who'll appreciate them more than I will.
09:46Harlow closed the door.
09:50My father was at his desk when I walked in.
09:53Glass of red gine at his elbow.
09:55Lucas in the chair across from him.
09:57My daughter.
09:57I owe you an apology, Ava.
09:59I put him in this house.
10:01I called him my godson.
10:01I walked you down the aisle to him because I thought a debt of honor was a good enough reason.
10:06I was wrong.
10:07Let me finish.
10:08You deserve better.
10:10I'm going to spend whatever time I have left making that right.
10:13He turned to Lucas.
10:14You.
10:15Start.
10:16Lucas opened his briefcase.
10:18Three things, ready to go.
10:19The penthouse courting goes to every business associate in the city by morning.
10:23Tiffany's social media wiped.
10:25Sean's old consulting firm gets the evidence package by noon and drops them before lunch.
10:28DNA lab on standby for the boy.
10:31My father nodded once.
10:32Do all of it.
10:33Across town, Sean woke up in a hotel he couldn't afford and tried to swipe his card downstairs.
10:40Declined.
10:41He showered in cold water.
10:43Drove to the townhouse with his shirt still damp.
10:45The locks had been changed.
10:48Carlo answered the door.
10:49Carlo, I need to see Enzo.
10:51Mr. Callahan, you closed the door on the Don last week.
10:54Think very carefully about how loud you knock on this one.
10:57The door shut in his face.
10:59His phone rang.
11:00Unknown number.
11:01Lucas Vane.
11:02Every account you can name was dead as of 15 minutes after midnight.
11:05That includes Zurich.
11:06You can't?
11:07Are you sure I can't, Sean?
11:08The line went dead.
11:10A photo arrived two seconds later.
11:12His Zurich balance.
11:13Zero.
11:17Lucas lit a second folder to cross my father's desk.
11:20The papers Sean told you were a healthcare directive.
11:23I opened it.
11:23My signature was at the bottom of every page.
11:26He told me it was for emergencies.
11:28In case I was unconscious.
11:30It was a blank check with your name on it.
11:32Three years of blank checks.
11:33The apartment, the Burkitt, the medical card, the Dalton tuition, the Hamptons rental,
11:37the bracelet she posted on Instagram, every one of them under your signature.
11:40He used my own hand to put another woman's son through private school?
11:43For three years.
11:44Plus everything else.
11:45My father closed his eyes.
11:47When he opened them, the fire was banked, but still there.
11:51Stack everything.
11:52Every law he broke.
11:54I want him in front of a federal judge before the month is out.
11:57Already drafted, Don Enzo.
12:00Lucas's phone buzzed on the desk.
12:03He glanced down.
12:05His face changed in a way I didn't like.
12:09Ava.
12:10What?
12:11Sean is in the lobby of your downtown apartment right now.
12:14His right hand is in his coat pocket and the pocket is bulging.
12:17That was our wedding apartment.
12:20Lucas called his security from my father's study without taking his eyes off mine.
12:24Hold him.
12:25Don't disarm him.
12:26Don't let him leave.
12:27I'm 12 minutes out.
12:28He set the phone down.
12:29He won't fire it.
12:30He's not that stupid.
12:32Stay here.
12:33Carla will lock the gate.
12:34I picked his car keys off the desk.
12:36Ava.
12:37Lucas.
12:38He came for me.
12:39I want him to see who he came for.
12:41We made it across the bridge in 14 minutes.
12:44Lucas drove.
12:45The elevator opened onto the lobby and there he was.
12:49Sean.
12:50Standing by the security desk, his right hand still buried in the pocket.
12:54The pocket sagging with the weight of what was inside.
12:56I walked straight at him until there were three feet between us.
12:59Hi, Sean.
13:01Ava.
13:02I just want to talk.
13:03You came armed to a lawyer's office to talk.
13:06Tell him to drop the case.
13:07No.
13:08Ava, please.
13:10Pull it out.
13:10If you came here to use it, use it.
13:12If you didn't, hand it to the man behind you.
13:13The security guard already had his hand on Sean's wrist.
13:16Sean didn't fight him.
13:17He let the man slide the gun out of his pocket and lay it on the desk.
13:20I didn't move.
13:20I let him stand there and watch me decide whether he walked out of the building tonight or got
13:24carried out.
13:24Lucas.
13:25Press charges.
13:26Bringing a gun to threat me?
13:28Add it to the stack.
13:29I turned toward the elevator.
13:31Ava, please.
13:31The elevator doors closed on his voice.
13:35Lucas brought in his forensic accountant on Friday morning.
13:38A man named Morris, 70 years old.
13:40He set a spreadsheet on the table.
13:42Moretti family money over the last three years.
13:44Here's where every dollar went.
13:46The reward money.
13:48Three million in cash transferred to a shell company in Tiffany's name within 48 hours of
13:54the wire hitting Sean's account.
13:56From the shell, it went to property purchases and a brokerage account in the Cayman.
14:01The medical trust.
14:02A hundred thousand a quarter for three years.
14:05None of it touched a hospital.
14:06All of it routed through the same shell, then out as a Birkin, a Cartier necklace.
14:10A Patek for Sean.
14:12Dalton tuition for the boy.
14:14Eleven trips Tiffany posted on Instagram.
14:16The penthouse.
14:17My father's building.
14:18Sean had written himself a one dollar, a year lease on Meridi letterhead, and signed
14:23my father's name to it.
14:24The Hamptons house.
14:26Same trick.
14:27Morris finally looked up.
14:29Total recoverable.
14:30Four million two hundred thousand.
14:32The reward, the medical trust, the rent he didn't pay, and the interest.
14:35I have the prosecutor's package ready.
14:38A close the folder.
14:39Itemize the boys' school separately.
14:41I want my father to see exactly what number went towards another man's child.
14:44Already done.
14:46Lucas called me on Tuesday.
14:47I walked Morris to the door myself.
14:50He has 48 hours left as a free man.
14:52He'll know by Monday.
15:01The Meridian Gala was the biggest finance party of the season, Saturday night.
15:05I walked in alone in hard red, the Morelli Ruby at my throat.
15:09Across the ballroom in a rented tuxedo, Sean was working a finance man whose name I knew
15:13from my father's investor list.
15:15Tiffany hung on his arm in white silk.
15:16I crossed the floor and stopped at Sean's elbow.
15:19Held my hand out to the finance man, Ava Moretti.
15:23You may know my father.
15:25I wanted to introduce myself properly.
15:27Sean Callahan has been calling himself my husband for three years, and he is not.
15:32The marriage certificate was printed on his home printer.
15:35He's also been moving money out of my father's account since the day my father took him in
15:39as a godson.
15:40Forensic countess finished pulling the receipts yesterday.
15:444.2 million dollars.
15:47The finance man took one full step backward.
15:50I raised my voice for the nearest tables.
15:52Sean Callahan does not represent the Moratti family.
15:55Any deal he has signed under our name is dead as of tonight.
15:58Pass it along.
15:59Then I turned to Tiffany.
16:01I lifted the hem of her dress one inch with two fingers.
16:03Versace.
16:0412,000.
16:05Charge to my father's medical card.
16:07I'd ask you to give it back, but that would mean asking you to take it off in public.
16:10I dropped the hem.
16:11Took a fliss of champagne off a passing tray.
16:13Wished the finance man a lovely evening.
16:15By the time I reached the bar, my phone was buzzing.
16:18Lucas.
16:21Frozen.
16:22All of it, including the accounts he buried his mother's name.
16:24Federal cucks on Tiffany before midnight.
16:26I turned just enough to watch.
16:28Two men in plain suits had stepped into the ballroom, walking straight at her.
16:32Tiffany saw them in the mirror behind the bar, and her champagne glass hit the marble.
16:38Tiffany's social media went dark before sunrise.
16:40The eviction notice showed up on the penthouse door at 7 in the morning.
16:44Tiffany answered in a silk robe.
16:46Two men in gray uniforms flanked a woman with a clipboard.
16:49Good morning, Miss Cole.
16:50The owner has started eviction proceedings.
16:52You have 24 hours.
16:53Sean walked out of the bedroom barefoot.
16:55I'll handle this.
16:56Give us 48.
16:5724.
16:58Owner's instructions.
17:00His phone rang on the counter.
17:04His old consulting firm, telling him to come in Monday with no laptop and a security escort waiting.
17:10Tiffany picked up the Birkin off the counter.
17:12She fetched around inside and came up with my wedding ring at the bottom.
17:15She held it up.
17:16This was hers.
17:17The whole time.
17:19Tiffany.
17:19You told me you were leaving her.
17:21You told me the building was yours.
17:22The accounts were yours.
17:23The penthouse was a wedding gift from her father to you.
17:25She threw the ring at his face.
17:28It hit his cheekbone and skittered across the marble.
17:32You don't have a penny.
17:33You don't have a Zurich account.
17:35You don't have a job as of Monday.
17:37What exactly do you have, Sean?
17:39He didn't answer her.
17:41Her phone rang, Dalton's bursar, telling her James' enrollment was suspended and she had to pick him up by three.
17:47She sat down on the cold marble floor.
17:49She picked up her phone and dialed a number she hadn't dialed in two years.
17:53Derek, it's me.
17:54I need you to come.
17:57Lucas walked around his desk and sat down beside me.
18:00He set a phone on the table between us and hit play.
18:04Tiffany's voice.
18:05Ava, you have to understand.
18:07Sean came to me first.
18:08He pursued me.
18:09A second voice.
18:10Calm and male.
18:11Lucas' associate.
18:13Miss Cole, walk us through the shell company in your name.
18:16Who set it up?
18:17That was Sean's idea.
18:18And the Dalton deposit.
18:20The Paris trips.
18:21The medical card charges.
18:22I may have suggested a few of those.
18:25Lucas stopped the recording.
18:28She walked us through every amnesia scene she coached him on, every receipt she submitted under your signature, and the
18:34day they sat down together and designed the fake marriage certificate.
18:37She gave us the printer model.
18:39Charge her with all of it.
18:40Same counts as Sean.
18:42Conspiracy on top.
18:42Already filed.
18:44My phone buzzed.
18:45Unknown number.
18:45I put it on speaker.
18:46Back off.
18:47Or every dirty thing I know about your father's money goes to the press by Monday.
18:50Tiffany.
18:51You don't know anything, Tiffany.
18:52You watched Sean spend the money.
18:53You never saw where it came from.
18:54You're bluffing.
18:55I hung up.
18:55Lucas was already on his second phone.
18:57Press blackout.
18:58All major outlets by end of day.
19:00My phone rang again.
19:01Sean.
19:02Ava.
19:03You made a mistake going after Lucas.
19:04I made a mistake?
19:05He's making this federal.
19:06I can do 20 years for what's in that file.
19:08You should have thought about that before you spent my father's money on another man's son.
19:12I hung up.
19:14Lucas was watching me.
19:15He'll come at you again.
19:16I know.
19:17Let him.
19:19Lucas didn't pick up his briefcase.
19:21He just looked at me.
19:23Ava.
19:23There's something I need to tell you.
19:25Not here.
19:27Come to my apartment tonight.
19:299 o'clock.
19:30Alone.
19:31Why not here?
19:32Because what I'm about to tell you isn't a lawyer talking to a client.
19:35It's something else.
19:38Lucas's apartment.
19:4032nd floor.
19:41I'd never been inside.
19:43He opened the door in a black sweater.
19:46You came.
19:47You said 9.
19:48He poured two glasses of whiskey.
19:51Set mine on the desk behind me.
19:53Then closed the distance until I had to back up against the edge.
19:56His hand braced on the wood beside my hip.
19:59Not touching me.
20:00Close enough that I could feel it.
20:0210 years, Ava.
20:03Lucas.
20:04I've loved you for 10 years.
20:06Since the day you got married I've been in hell.
20:09Every night.
20:10Every morning.
20:11I've been asking myself the same question.
20:14Why wasn't that man me?
20:15Lucas.
20:16You're standing very close.
20:18I know.
20:20Move.
20:21Make me.
20:22I didn't.
20:23He picked up his whiskey with his free hand.
20:26Took a slow sip.
20:27Watched my mouth over the rim.
20:30Drink, Ava.
20:31You're going to need it.
20:33He pulled a single page from his jacket and set it on the desk behind me.
20:36I had to turn under his arm to read it.
20:38Sean Callahan.
20:40Combat Injury 2022.
20:41Shrapnel to the lower abdomen.
20:43Reproductive function permanently destroyed.
20:45Patient cannot father children.
20:46I read it twice.
20:48He's sterile.
20:49Since six months before the wedding.
20:50Then James was never his.
20:52Biologically impossible.
20:53Sean thinks the boy is his.
20:54He's been the mark from day one.
20:56I laughed.
20:57Couldn't stop.
20:58He thinks he's robbing my father.
21:00He's been raising another man's kid for two years on my father's money.
21:03Tiffany got pregnant by Derek Marsh and pinned it on a man who can't have children.
21:08Sean walked into it like a goddamn dog into traffic.
21:12I picked up my whiskey.
21:15Drained it.
21:18I'm taking this to him myself.
21:21Tonight.
21:22Lucas caught my wrist before I could pass him.
21:25Not tonight.
21:26Tomorrow morning.
21:27He didn't let go of my wrist.
21:29He used it to pull me back against him.
21:31His other hand slid up the side of my throat.
21:34Found the back of my neck.
21:35And tilted my face up to his.
21:37Ten years, Ava.
21:38I'm done waiting.
21:40He kissed me.
21:41Slow first.
21:42Testing.
21:44Then his tongue parted my lips and went deep.
21:47Not asking.
21:48Taking.
21:49Ten years of restraint unwound between us in one breath.
21:53My back hit the desk.
21:55The whiskey glass tipped over somewhere behind me.
21:59I didn't care.
22:01His hand fisted in my hair.
22:04Angled my mouth exactly where he wanted it.
22:07I bit his lower lip.
22:08He growled into my mouth and kissed me harder.
22:11When he finally let me breathe, his thumb dragged across my swollen bottom lip.
22:20Stay.
22:22I stayed.
22:24I walked into Sean's hotel at nine in the morning.
22:27He was eating room service like a man who still thought he had a play.
22:31I dropped the report on his plate.
22:35Read it.
22:37Ava, what is this?
22:38Read it out loud, Sean.
22:39He read it.
22:41Stopped.
22:42Read it again.
22:43This is fake.
22:45Filed by the military hospital that pulled shrapnel out of you in 2022.
22:49Lucas had it pulled from the federal records yesterday.
22:51Your signature is on the bottom.
22:52I never saw this paper.
22:54Your hospital admin desk forwarded it to your business manager.
22:58Tiffany was your assistant the year after that.
23:01Guess who had access to your private archive?
23:04James is mine.
23:05James is biologically impossible.
23:07You haven't been able to father a child since the bomb.
23:10The kid Tiffany handed you was already six months along when you slept with her the first time.
23:13Do the math.
23:14Ava.
23:14She picked a sterile soldier with a rich godfather and put another man's baby in his arms.
23:19You weren't running her.
23:20She was running you.
23:21No, she wouldn't.
23:22She did.
23:23Derek Marsh.
23:23Federal narcotics warrant.
23:25The biological father.
23:26He's been hunting her for two years to get the kid back.
23:29The kid who calls you daddy.
23:31Ava.
23:31He stood up.
23:32Knocked the coffee cup over.
23:34Didn't notice.
23:35You spent 4.2 million of my father's money raising another man's son.
23:38You faked a marriage to me to give that kid a last name.
23:42You watched my father fall in the snow on an intercon and went back to dinner.
23:46For a kid who was never yours.
23:48He swept the breakfast tray off the table.
23:50Plates shattered.
23:51He grabbed his hair with both hands and made a sound that wasn't a word.
23:55I sipped my coffee from the room service tray.
23:57Watched him.
23:58You're crying, Sean.
24:00You bitch!
24:01That's the first honest thing you've said in three years.
24:04I set the cup down on the dresser.
24:06I came here to see this.
24:08I'm done now.
24:09I walked to the door.
24:11Turned back with my hand on the knob.
24:12One more thing.
24:14Tiffany rolled on yesterday.
24:15By the time you get to court, you'll be the only person in the room who didn't know.
24:19I closed the door.
24:20Behind it, I heard him scream.
24:24Sean kicked Tiffany's hotel door open at noon.
24:26Tell me he's mine.
24:27Sean.
24:28Tell me!
24:28She backed up against the kitchen counter.
24:31The boy was watching cartoons in the corner.
24:33Sean, calm down.
24:34Is he mine?
24:35You read the paper.
24:36I'm asking you.
24:37Look at me and tell me he's mine.
24:39She looked at him.
24:40Then she laughed.
24:41Of course he's not yours.
24:43You can't even get hard without me telling you what to do.
24:46You think you could get someone pregnant?
24:47Tiffany!
24:48I picked you because you were sterile, Sean.
24:50Because nobody would ever ask why the kid had Derek's eyes.
24:52Because your godfather had 300 million dollars and no real grandkids.
24:56You were a shell company with a dick attached.
24:58Did you really think I loved you?
24:59He crossed the room in three steps.
25:01His hand around her throat.
25:02Her back hit the cabinets.
25:03Two years.
25:04You let me love that kid for two years.
25:05You're not a father, Sean.
25:07You're a checkbook with combat scars.
25:09He squeezed harder.
25:10Her face was turning.
25:12The boys started crying in the corner.
25:14The door behind them opened.
25:15Two NYPD officers waiting in the hallway since I called them ten minutes ago.
25:20Mr. Callahan.
25:21Hands off her.
25:22Now.
25:23He didn't let go.
25:24The first officer hit him in the back of the knee.
25:26He went down.
25:27The second pulled Tiffany away.
25:29On the ground.
25:29Hands behind your head.
25:30He was face down on the carpet.
25:32Tiffany was rubbing her throat, still laughing.
25:35Tell him, officer.
25:36Tell him he's going down for assault on top of the fraud.
25:38Tell him I'm getting a deal because I rolled first.
25:40In the corner, the boy had stopped crying.
25:45The NYPD precinct on 13th Street has two interrogation rooms with one observation booth between them.
25:51Lucas brought the coffee.
25:52Black for him, double cream for me.
25:54He stood close enough that his shoulder pressed against mine at the glass.
25:57Left room.
25:58Sean.
25:59Right room.
26:00Tiffany.
26:00Both being interviewed by the federal task force.
26:02Both told the other one is selling them out.
26:04Both correct.
26:04How long until they ask to be face-to-face?
26:07Tiffany's already asked.
26:09Let her.
26:09The detectives put them in the same room.
26:12Two chairs.
26:13One table.
26:14No cuffs yet.
26:15Sean spoke first.
26:17You bitch.
26:17Sit down, Sean.
26:20Two years.
26:21You let me change his diapers?
26:24Read him bedtime stories.
26:26You picked the wrong woman to spend your wife's father's money on.
26:29Take it like a man.
26:31You knew I was sterile!
26:32From the day I read your file, why do you think I came on to you in the first place?
26:36Because of your charm?
26:37You have the personality of wet bread.
26:39I was going to leave Ava for you.
26:40And I was going to take the three million reward in the medical trust and disappear with Derek II.
26:44His sentence dropped.
26:45You were never the plan.
26:47You were the wallet.
26:48You and the old man.
26:50Lucas reached past me and refilled my coffee.
26:53His hand stayed on my hip.
26:54She's confessing on tape, thinking she's getting a deal.
26:57He said quietly.
26:58She isn't.
26:59In the room, Sean stood up.
27:01The chair fell behind him.
27:02He went over the table at her.
27:03The detective at the door had been waiting for it.
27:06He had Sean on the ground in two seconds.
27:08Sean's nose was bleeding into the cheap carpet.
27:10Tiffy hadn't moved.
27:11She was smiling.
27:12Get him out of my room.
27:13He's contaminating my plea.
27:15Lucas turned to me.
27:17His thumb traced the inside of my wrist.
27:19Twenty years federal.
27:20Both of them.
27:21The DA called me an hour ago.
27:23Twenty for him.
27:23How much for her?
27:24Six.
27:25With the cooperation.
27:26Make it ten.
27:26The kid.
27:27She knew Sean was sterile when she let him sign a custody form claiming paternity.
27:30That's federal child trafficking.
27:32Add it to her sheet.
27:33Lucas leaned in.
27:34His mouth was at my ear.
27:35You are terrifying when you're angry.
27:38I'm not angry.
27:41Sean called from holding.
27:43Ava.
27:44Collect.
27:45I picked up because I wanted to hear it.
27:47Two minutes, Sean.
27:48Make them count.
27:49It wasn't supposed to go like this.
27:51You raised a kid who wasn't yours on my father's money.
27:54What did you think this was gonna look like?
27:56I thought he was mine.
27:58That is the saddest thing you have ever said to me.
28:01And I have a recording of you calling me a wallet.
28:04Ava, please.
28:05Drop one of the counts.
28:07Anything.
28:08Federal is twenty years.
28:10You walked into my lawyer's lobby with a gun.
28:12You watched my father fall on the intercond.
28:15You let your whore tell you whose grandchild to fake.
28:18I'm not dropping anything.
28:20I have nothing left.
28:22You have eighteen months to grow up before you go inside.
28:26After that, you have twenty years.
28:28To figure out how Tiffany picked you out of a file packet
28:31because you were too damaged to ask the right questions.
28:34You're cruel!
28:35I'm clean.
28:37There's a difference.
28:38The recorded voice cut in.
28:40One minute remaining.
28:41Ava.
28:42The kid.
28:44Is he okay?
28:45He's being adopted by a real family.
28:47He'll forget you by Christmas.
28:49The new father picks him up from preschool.
28:52He calls him Daddy now.
28:53Don't!
28:54The next time you hear his name,
28:56it'll be the day I tell my own daughter
28:57why we don't say his last name in this house.
29:00Your daughter?
29:01Goodbye, Sean.
29:02I hung up.
29:03Your daughter?
29:04Hypothetical.
29:04Lucas was waiting in the doorway.
29:06Sleeves rolled up.
29:08Loosen tie.
29:09Whiskey in his hand.
29:10He set the whiskey down on my desk.
29:12Slid his hand under my jaw.
29:14And tilted my face up.
29:15Ten years of hypothetical.
29:16I want it real.
29:17Then drive.
29:20The federal lockup.
29:21Wednesday morning.
29:22Two interview rooms.
29:23Two lawyers.
29:24Two deals on the table.
29:26I watched it through the glass with Lucas.
29:28He'd brought me a coffee and a folder.
29:30They're both signing today.
29:31Whichever one cooperates harder gets the lighter sentence.
29:34We told both of them that.
29:36Did you?
29:37I lied.
29:38They're both getting 20.
29:39I just wanted to see them sell each other out for it.
29:42Lucas Vane.
29:43You wicked man.
29:45In the left room, Sean was talking fast.
29:48He was claiming Tiffany set up the shell company.
29:51Tiffany picked the printer.
29:52Tiffany picked the school.
29:54He just signed what she put in front of him.
29:56He was painting himself as the victim of a love affair gone wrong.
30:00The federal prosecutor stopped writing.
30:02Mr. Callahan.
30:03You signed your own sterility report in 2022.
30:06We have it.
30:07Your business manager filed it.
30:09Your assistant accessed it.
30:10Your assistant later became the mother of the child you raised.
30:12Are you really going to sit there and tell us you didn't know?
30:15Sean stared at the table.
30:17Then changed direction.
30:18I want to add something.
30:20Tiffany Cole told me last April that if Don Enzo died of a heart attack,
30:23she had a way to make it look natural.
30:25She said she had a contact at his cardiologist office.
30:28The prosecutor put down his pen.
30:30Lucas turned to me.
30:31He's lying.
30:33He's trying to bury her with him.
30:35I know.
30:37Let him build the bomb.
30:39We'll see if Tiffany has one of her own.
30:43In the right room, Tiffany was on her third cup of coffee.
30:47The prosecutor across of her had Sean's testimony in front of him.
30:51Miss Cole, your co-defendant just told us you discussed having Don Enzo Moretti killed.
30:57Care to respond?
30:58She laughed, out loud.
31:00He said what?
31:01He said you have a contact at the cardiologist's office.
31:04I work in healthcare insurance, you idiots.
31:07Of course I know cardiologists.
31:09I haven't put a hit out on him.
31:11Miss Cole.
31:12Sean Callahan can't tie his own shoes without a YouTube tutorial.
31:15He couldn't plan a hit on a house plant.
31:18He's lying because he just realized I'm walking out with six years and he's looking at 20.
31:23So you deny the conversation?
31:25I deny everything that came out of his mouth.
31:27Want me to give you something real?
31:29Sean knew the kid wasn't his.
31:30He knew.
31:31I told him on our second date before I let him touch me.
31:34I said look, I'm carrying another guy's baby.
31:36I need a name.
31:37He said yes.
31:38He said the Moretti will would make him a millionaire if he had a kid.
31:41And he didn't care whose biology was on it.
31:44He paid for the riding lessons because he wanted Don Enzo to see his grandson on a horse.
31:49The whole thing was his idea.
31:51The prosecutor wrote it down.
31:53Lucas turned to me.
31:55Now she's lying.
31:57Both of them are lying.
31:58Both of them are admitting to enough on tape to put themselves away for life.
32:02I sipped my coffee.
32:04Lucas' hand was on the small of my back.
32:07How does it feel, Lucas?
32:08Watching the man you married throw the woman he ruined his life for under the bus while she throws him
32:13back.
32:13It feels like 10 years of waiting paid in full.
32:18They put them in the same room, one more time.
32:21Federal protocol.
32:22Sean was in cuffs now.
32:24Tiffany wasn't.
32:25You said I picked the school.
32:26You did pick the school, Sean.
32:28You said I planned to kill Enzo.
32:31That part was new for both of us.
32:33Apparently.
32:34You said the kid was mine on every birthday card for two years.
32:36I lied.
32:37You believed me.
32:38Whose problem is that exactly?
32:39He pulled against the cuffs.
32:41Tiffany, you told me you loved me.
32:43I told you a lot of things, baby.
32:45You'd believe anything if I said it with my hand in your pants.
32:47Tiffany.
32:48Derek's getting out in 18 months on cooperation.
32:50We're gonna take the kid back.
32:52We're gonna start over in Florida.
32:53I'm telling you this so you have something to think about for the next 20 years.
32:56You're getting six.
32:57I'm getting 20.
32:58That's not how this works.
33:00That's exactly how this works.
33:02I cried more on the stand than you did.
33:04I'm prettier.
33:05I have a kid in social services.
33:07The judge took one look and shaved 14 years off.
33:10You!
33:11He went for her again.
33:13The cuffs caught.
33:13The agent pinned him to the table.
33:16Get him out.
33:16We're done.
33:18They dragged him out.
33:19Tiffany sat back.
33:21Stretched her arms over her head.
33:22Lucas turned the intercom off.
33:2420 years for him.
33:25Six for her.
33:26With cooperation.
33:27Both filed.
33:28The judge signs on Friday.
33:30And the boy.
33:32Adopted.
33:32Park slope.
33:34Permanent.
33:35James calls the new father daddy already.
33:37Then we're done with both of them.
33:39We're done.
33:41He didn't move his hand from my back.
33:45The drive to Lucas place took eight minutes.
33:48He didn't talk.
33:49His right hand stayed on my thigh the whole ride.
33:51Fingers spread wide.
33:52Claiming.
33:53By the time he pulled into the underground garage, I was already done waiting.
33:57I unbuckled my seatbelt, climbed across the console into his lap before he killed the engine.
34:01His hands found my hips.
34:02Hard enough to bruise.
34:03Ava.
34:04Don't say my name like a question.
34:06You've been saying it like a question for ten years.
34:09How do you want me to say it?
34:11Like an answer.
34:13He said it like an answer.
34:15His mouth was on mine before the word was out.
34:17His hand fisted in my hair dragged my head back, mouth dropping to my throat.
34:21He bit.
34:22I gasped.
34:23He smiled against my skin.
34:24For ten years.
34:25Stop counting.
34:26Make me stop.
34:27I bit his lower lip.
34:30He growled and shoved my coat off my shoulders.
34:32The console was digging into my knee.
34:34I didn't care.
34:35His hand slid up my thigh, under the hem of my dress, possessive and unhasty.
34:40Upstairs.
34:40Now.
34:41Make me.
34:42He picked me up.
34:43Carried me out of the car.
34:45His mouth never left mine in the elevator.
34:47By the thirty-second floor, I had his shirt half open.
34:50His belt undone.
34:52His tie on the elevator floor.
34:53He had me pinned to the elevator wall with one thigh between mine.
34:57The doors opened.
34:59He didn't put me down.
35:00He carried me through the apartment door and kicked it shut with his heel.
35:04He didn't take me to the bedroom.
35:06He took me to the wall just inside the door.
35:09Ten years.
35:11Last time you say it.
35:12After tonight.
35:13No more counting.
35:19The next morning, Lucas' phone rang at six.
35:22Vain.
35:23Tiffany Cole tried to attack a corrections officer last night during transfer.
35:27Shower block.
35:28Broken cheekbone.
35:29Two molars out.
35:30Won't be talking for a few weeks.
35:32Self-inflicted?
35:33Looked like another inmate had a problem with her.
35:37Imagine that.
35:38Wanted you to know.
35:39Her cooperation deal is suspended pending the medical clearance.
35:43Thank you, detective.
35:46He hung up.
35:48Pulled me back against him.
35:53You did that.
35:56I might have made a phone call.
35:58To whom?
35:59Carlo has a cousin upstate.
36:01The cousin runs a women's facility.
36:03The cousin owed my father a favor.
36:05Ava.
36:06She told Sean she was going to take the kid back to Florida with Derek.
36:09She doesn't get to take anyone anywhere.
36:11Not after what she did to my father.
36:14How long have you been planning this?
36:16Since the moment she said wallet with a wedding ring.
36:19He kissed my shoulder.
36:24Marry me.
36:28Make it count.
36:31Yes, Ava.
36:36My father's study.
36:37Sunday afternoon.
36:39He was reading the financial section.
36:41He didn't look up when we walked in.
36:43Lucas.
36:44Don Enzo.
36:44You finally asked her.
36:46I did.
36:47She said yes.
36:48He folded the paper.
36:49Looked at us both.
36:51It took you ten years.
36:52I was waiting for her to be ready.
36:54She has been ready for nine.
36:55I knew.
36:56Lucas knew.
36:57You knew.
36:58Sean was the only one who didn't.
36:59And he wasn't really in this family.
37:01So we are now a complete unit.
37:02Sit down.
37:04We sat.
37:04Tomorrow morning I am stepping down.
37:06The seat is yours, Ava.
37:07Lucas, you become general counsel of the holding company.
37:10The two of you run everything from now on.
37:11I am going to St. Lucia with your mother.
37:13And I am going to grow tomatoes.
37:15I have one condition.
37:16A grandchild.
37:17Within two years.
37:18Not because I want one.
37:19Because your mother does and I want to die in peace.
37:21Lucas didn't blink.
37:23Done.
37:23You signed a contract very fast there, Lucas.
37:25I have wanted to sign that contract since 2014, Don Enzo.
37:29My father laughed.
37:30Out loud.
37:31For the first time in a year.
37:33Then welcome to the family, son.
37:35Officially this time.
37:36He stood up.
37:37Walked around the desk.
37:38Hugged Lucas.
37:39Whispered something in his ear.
37:41Later I asked Lucas what he said.
37:43He said, if you ever lie to her the way Sean did, I have a Carlo too.
37:47What did you say back?
37:48I said, Don Enzo, you don't need a Carlo for me.
37:52Monday morning.
37:53The Moretti boardroom.
37:54Twelve men around a long table.
37:56None of them had ever been outranked by a woman.
37:59I walked in last.
38:00Lucas held the door for me.
38:01I sat at the head of the table.
38:03Three things.
38:04One.
38:05The Sean Callahan companies absorbed into the parent.
38:08Today.
38:09Anyone who had a side deal with him gets one chance to disclose it before noon.
38:13Afternoon.
38:14Anything we find, we prosecute.
38:16Three men looked at their hands.
38:18Two.
38:19The shipping concession Giorgio has been holding since 1987.
38:23Reassigned.
38:24Giorgio.
38:25You are now overseeing our charitable foundation.
38:29Congratulations on your promotion.
38:31Giorgio's face did something complicated.
38:33Three.
38:34The next person at this table who tells me the family has always operated a certain way,
38:38I am personally writing them out of operating at this table at all.
38:41My father is in St. Lucia.
38:43He sends regards.
38:44He also sends Carlo's number.
38:46Use it as a reminder.
38:48Silence.
38:49Page one.
38:50Lucas, you have the floor.
38:52Lucas walked through the new structure in seven minutes.
38:56Nobody interrupted.
38:57After the meeting, Giorgio caught me at the door.
39:00Miss Moretta, I want to apologize.
39:01I underestimated.
39:02You did.
39:03It won't happen again.
39:04It won't, Giorgio.
39:05Because if it does, your foundation will be running out of a very small office in New Jersey.
39:10I walked past him.
39:12Lucas was waiting at the elevator.
39:14You enjoyed that.
39:15More than I should have.
39:17My phone rang.
39:18Dad.
39:22That was beautiful, sweetheart.
39:24Carlo cried.
39:26Don't bury Giorgio yet.
39:27I want to play golf with him in October.
39:29Fine.
39:30He gets until October.
39:33Three weeks later, Tuesday night, Lucas's penthouse, mine now too.
39:39I was in his shirt and nothing else, on the couch, reading the news on my phone.
39:44He came out of the shower with a towel around his hips.
39:47Look at this.
39:47I turned the phone toward him.
39:49A small headline.
39:50Page nine of the post.
39:51Federal judge sentences Sean Callahan to 22 years on wire fraud, marriage forgingary, and
39:56a gragravate assault.
39:57He read it.
39:58Took the phone from my hand.
40:00Set it face down on the coffee table.
40:0222.
40:03They added the choke.
40:04And the perjury during cooperation.
40:06Tiffany?
40:07Eight years.
40:08Derek Marsh got transferred to a facility two miles from hers.
40:11He's already filed for a visit.
40:13You arranged that?
40:14Carlos Cousins' husband works at the Bureau of Prisons.
40:17He didn't answer.
40:19He was looking at me the way he looks at me when he's done talking.
40:22The towel dropped.
40:24He pulled me up off the couch.
40:27His hands found the hem of his shirt on me and dragged it up over my head.
40:32Threw it somewhere behind him.
40:34His mouth went straight to my throat.
40:37Lucas.
40:38Tuesday.
40:39Wednesday.
40:40Every other day this week.
40:43That's a heavy schedule, Counselor.
40:45You signed a contract for one.
40:47We're behind.
40:48He backed me toward the bedroom.
40:50His thumb dragging across my bottom lip.
40:52I pulled at the back of his neck.
40:54Bit his shoulder.
40:55He made a sound that wasn't a word.
40:56And lifted me clean off the floor.
40:59My legs locked around his waist.
41:01His mouth came down on mine.
41:02Hot and demanding.
41:05The bedroom door slammed shut behind us.
41:07The news on the phone could wait.
41:13Sean Callahan had 22 years.
41:16We had tonight.
41:19The wedding was small.
41:21My father's house.
41:2260 people.
41:23No press.
41:24My mother cried twice during the vows.
41:26My father didn't cry.
41:28But he held my hand for a full minute before walking me to Lucas.
41:31At the reception, Lucas pulled me onto the terrace.
41:35I want to show you something.
41:36Now?
41:37Now.
41:38He unbuttoned his shirt.
41:40Three buttons.
41:41Pushed it open.
41:42There was a scar across the lower right side of his abdomen.
41:44A long crescent.
41:45Old.
41:46What is this?
41:472022.
41:47The compound attack.
41:49The one that put your father in the hospital?
41:50Sean took the shrapnel for my father.
41:52That's the official record.
41:53Sean ran.
41:54I was the second man in the doorway.
41:56I took the shrapnel.
41:58Your father was unconscious by the time Sean came back.
42:01Sean pulled him out.
42:02Sean told the medics he'd shield the Don.
42:04I was being airlifted to Germany.
42:06By the time I was conscious enough to correct the record, three weeks later, your father had
42:10already named Sean a godson and you were already engaged.
42:12Lucas.
42:13I let him keep it.
42:14I let him have your father's gratitude and your hand.
42:17Because I thought if I told the truth, your father would force him out.
42:22And you would resent me for the rest of your life.
42:24I touched the scar with one finger.
42:27He didn't flinch.
42:29You let me marry him?
42:30I let you marry him.
42:32You took my husband's wound?
42:34I took your father's wound.
42:35Your husband took my credit.
42:38I kissed him.
42:39Hard.
42:42Lucas.
42:43The next time you wait ten years to tell me something, I am going to be very angry.
42:46There is nothing left to wait on, Ava.
42:50Eighteen months later, Tribeca, 42nd floor, Lucas's office.
42:54Mine too now.
42:55I was eight months pregnant and pacing because the baby wouldn't stop kicking the same rib.
42:59Lucas was at his desk on a call.
43:01He hung up.
43:02Sean filed a request to attend the birth.
43:04From prison.
43:05He wants to be present at the birth of any biological Morellier to atone for his actions.
43:09Direct quote.
43:10His new lawyer thought it might soften the parole board.
43:12Tell the lawyer no.
43:13If Shauna tries to see this baby, I will make sure his 22 years feels like 40.
43:16Already drafted.
43:17He stood.
43:18Came around the desk.
43:19Put his hand on my stomach.
43:20The intercom buzzed.
43:22My father on line one from St. Lucia.
43:24Sean Callahan was on the news last night down here.
43:26He gave a jailhouse interview.
43:28Said he was framed.
43:29Said you and Lucas planted the evidence.
43:30He's trying to start a podcast from inside.
43:32Let him talk.
43:33The more he talks, the longer he stays inside.
43:35Lucas already pulled the metrics.
43:37His podcast has eleven listeners.
43:38Three of them are us monitoring.
43:40Eleven listeners.
43:40Eleven.
43:42My father started laughing.
43:44He's broadcasting to a void.
43:46Let him.
43:46How is my granddaughter?
43:47Kicking the same rib for the third hour.
43:50She's a morati.
43:51Lucas, are you taking care of my daughter?
43:53Lucas leaned toward the phone, his hand still on my stomach.
43:56Yes, Don Enzo.
43:58Good.
43:59Six weeks.
44:00We'll be there.
44:00He hung up.
44:01He's never going to retire, is he?
44:04He retired 16 months ago.
44:06He's running a quarter of the Caribbean from a hammock.
44:11Eleanor Vane Moretti was born on a Thursday at three in the morning.
44:14Seven pounds, four ounces.
44:15Black hair.
44:16Lucas's eyes.
44:17My father flew in 12 hours later.
44:19He held her for an hour without putting her down.
44:21He didn't speak the whole time.
44:23When my mother finally took her, he sat down in the hospital chair and put his face in his
44:27hands for a long minute.
44:28Then he stood up, kissed me on the forehead, and went to find the nurse to demand better lighting.
44:32Lucas watched it from the doorway.
44:34Three days of stubble.
44:35No tie.
44:36Hadn't slept.
44:37Your father just held a baby and got emotional.
44:39I have never seen him emotional.
44:40He held me when I was born.
44:42He cried for 40 minutes.
44:43He told you that?
44:44My mother told me, right after he denied it.
44:46He sat next to my bed, took my hand.
44:50We did it.
44:51We did it.
44:52Are you happy?
44:53Yes.
44:55I love you.
44:57I know.
44:58He laughed.
44:59That's all I get?
45:00You get me.
45:02For the rest of your life.
45:03You get me.
45:04You get her.
45:05You get the next one, if my father has anything to say about it.
45:08The next one?
45:09Don't look so shocked.
45:11You signed a contract.
45:12I signed a contract for one.
45:14You signed it in front of my father.
45:16Read the small print.
45:20Three months later, the penthouse.
45:22Eleanor was asleep in the next room.
45:23Lucas came home late, dropped his briefcase, took off his tie before he even saw me.
45:28Tiffany Cole was attacked in the prison yard yesterday.
45:32How bad?
45:33Bad.
45:35She's in the medical wing.
45:36The face is going to scar, both cheeks.
45:39Whoever did it had a sharpened spoon and a problem.
45:45Carlo's cousin.
45:46Carlo's cousin's wife, technically.
45:50Tiffany ran her mouth about James in the cafeteria.
45:53Said something the wife took personal.
45:56What did she say?
45:57That James was probably better off without a real mother.
46:00The wife had recently given up a child to adoption.
46:07Did Carlo know?
46:08Carlo knew.
46:09I poured Louis a whiskey.
46:12Did you authorize it?
46:13I didn't have to.
46:14I didn't authorize it.
46:16I also didn't stop it.
46:17Good answer.
46:19He drank the whiskey and won.
46:21Set the glass down.
46:23Pulled me against him.
46:26How was your day?
46:27Eleanor said her first word.
46:29What was it?
46:30Dada.
46:31He stopped breathing for a second.
46:34Lucas Vane is officially in second place to a man who can't even hold his own head up yet.
46:39I will live with this defeat.
46:42Six months later, Sean's parole hearing, he didn't get parole.
46:46The board sat through 40 minutes of his attempts to re-litigate the case, his claims that he'd been framed,
46:52his statement that his estranged wife had stolen his child and his fortune.
46:56Then the chair of the board, a woman who'd done 30 years on the federal bench, leaned forward.
47:01Mr. Callahan, you have never been married, you have no biological child, you have no fortune of your own to
47:06be stolen.
47:07Your record indicates you spent $4 million of your godfather's money raising a child who was not yours, and you
47:12have failed to take responsibility for that in any of the documents in front of me.
47:16Parole denied.
47:17We'll see you in three years.
47:18He didn't speak.
47:19The rest of the hearing.
47:24Lucas had the transcript on my desk by lunch.
47:30I sent a copy to my father in St. Lucia.
47:34He called two minutes later.
47:36Did you know that judge?
47:38No.
47:39I want to send her a fruit basket.
47:41You can't send a federal judge a fruit basket.
47:43I can send her one from Anonymous Advire in St. Lucia.
47:46Watch me.
47:47It's already on its way, isn't it?
47:48It's already on its way, sweetheart.
47:52Two years after the wedding.
48:21My grandfather bought it in 1958.
48:23I bought it back from the Costa family in 2002.
48:26It's been in trust 30 years.
48:27It's yours now.
48:28For Eleanor.
48:29For her sister.
48:30For all of them.
48:31This is too much.
48:33I almost died because a man I called my godson watched me on a screen and went back to dinner.
48:38I will not make that mistake twice.
48:41This land is yours because you earned it.
48:48I hugged him.
48:52Three years after the wedding.
48:54The Moretti boardroom.
48:56Quarterly meeting.
48:57I was at the head of the table.
48:59Lucas at my right.
49:0112 men around us.
49:02I went through the agenda in 55 minutes.
49:06Closed the folder.
49:07One last item.
49:10Personal.
49:10Effective today.
49:12Lucas Vane is being promoted to co-CEO of the Moretti Holding Company.
49:18He has been operating in this role for 18 months.
49:23We are making it official because we are signing the Tuscany acquisition next quarter.
49:28Any questions?
49:29There were no questions.
49:31Outside in the hallway.
49:33Lucas pinned me into the alcove by the elevator.
49:36One hand on my hip.
49:37Co-CEO.
49:38I had to do something with you.
49:40You wouldn't stop coming to my meetings.
49:42They're our meetings.
49:43They are now.
49:44Officially.
49:45Eleanor wants a sister.
49:46Eleanor wants a horse.
49:48She'll settle for a sister if we put a saddle on her.
49:51He kissed me.
49:52Deep.
49:53Slow.
49:54The elevator dinged behind us.
49:56We ignored it.
49:59Five years after the blizzard.
50:01Five years almost to the day.
50:02We were at the penthouse.
50:04Eleanor was four.
50:05Her sister was one.
50:07My parents were down for the weekend.
50:09Lucas was in the kitchen.
50:10The TV was on low.
50:12A local news broadcast.
50:13Sean Callahan, formerly known for his role in the Moretti family fraud scandal,
50:17was found dead in his cell at the federal facility upstate yesterday morning.
50:22Officials are describing it as a suicide.
50:24He had been denied parole for the second time three weeks ago.
50:27He leaves behind no immediate family.
50:30My mother muted the TV without saying anything.
50:34My father didn't look up from his crossword.
50:36Lucas came in from the kitchen with two glasses of red.
50:39He handed me one.
50:41You okay?
50:43I'm fine.
50:47You don't have to be.
50:49I am.
50:51I sipped the wine.
50:53Looked at the muted screen.
50:54The photo they were running was old.
50:56I felt nothing.
50:58Not anger.
50:59Not pity.
51:00Just nothing.
51:01Eleanor totted in from the bedroom in her pajamas.
51:04Climbed onto my lap.
51:08Mama, tell a story.
51:11Once upon a time, there was a girl and her father
51:15and a man who loved her very much and waited a long time.
51:20Then what?
51:21Then they all lived in this apartment with two babies
51:24and a grandfather who plays cards too loud.
51:28My father didn't look up from the crossword.
51:33I heard that.
51:34You were meant to.
51:36Lucas raised his glass to mine.
51:37I raised mine back.
51:39The news anchor moved on to the weather.
51:41The screen showed Sean's photo for one more second.
51:44Then it was gone.
51:45It stayed gone.
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