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After He Cheated I Took Everything Billionaire Romance
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00:00Alright, I know you're drunk. I'm already at your hotel room door.
00:08Does your girlfriend know you're here with me?
00:11Don't say her name right now.
00:17That voice, I've heard it in my dreams for ten years.
00:21My boyfriend dumped me yesterday, my client got me wasted tonight,
00:25and now the people next door are having the best night of their lives.
00:27I hate the universe.
00:30Relax, she'll never know. Girls like Stella always believe what they want to believe.
00:34Chloe, I said stop talking about her.
00:39Stella, why do you look like you just saw a ghost?
00:45Because I think I just heard one.
00:50What are you talking about?
00:51That's Adrian.
00:52Adrian Blackwood? You're Adrian? The man who's supposed to marry you?
01:00I'm breaking that door down. No! No, Stella! He's cheating on you!
01:04If I open that door, I'll have to see it.
01:10Maybe you need to. No. Not tonight.
01:18You just lied to her, didn't you?
01:21She trusts me.
01:23He didn't just cheat.
01:25He lied while I was standing on the other side of the wall.
01:43I have to go home tonight. I'll see you at the office tomorrow.
01:47Drive safe, Mr. Blackwood.
01:48Everyone said Adrian Blackwood loved me more than life.
01:54I was stupid enough to believe them.
02:02Why are you still awake?
02:05Couldn't sleep.
02:08You should have called me.
02:10I did.
02:13My phone died during a meeting.
02:18Long meeting.
02:19Project Crisis. You know how it gets.
02:23At midnight.
02:25Stella, are you interrogating me?
02:27I'm just asking where you were.
02:32Baby, I told you. I was working.
02:39What's going on with you?
02:41I could ask you the same thing.
02:43I'm exhausted. I don't want to fight.
02:45Neither do I.
02:51Who's Chloe?
02:55My new assistant.
02:57Since when do assistants call at 2 in the morning?
03:17He once said that, that seat was mine.
03:27He once said that, that seat was mine.
03:29Please tell me you're not doing something emotionally stupid.
03:32I'm watching him choose her in real time.
03:35Where are you?
03:36Outside Blackwood.
03:38Do you want me to come with a baseball bat or a lawyer?
03:41Neither.
03:42I just needed to know I wasn't crazy.
03:45Some men don't make promises.
03:47They just make you feel chosen.
03:51So does he.
03:52That little snake knows exactly what she's doing.
03:56Then stop protecting him.
03:59I'm not protecting him anymore.
04:03You're late.
04:06So are you.
04:08What does that mean?
04:12Tell me, Adrian.
04:14How long has my seat belonged to him?
04:22You're stalking my assistant now?
04:24That's your defense?
04:26Chloe posts everything.
04:28It doesn't mean anything.
04:33Then explain the hotel.
04:36Room 603.
04:38Last night, I called you.
04:40Stella.
04:41Your phone rang through the wall.
04:44I heard you.
04:45It wasn't what you think.
04:46Don't insult me!
04:47I was drunk. She took me there. I didn't plan it.
04:49You didn't plan to sleep with her, but you planned every lie after.
04:52It happened once.
04:55Once doesn't get her into your car.
04:57Once doesn't put my scarf on her body.
04:59Once doesn't make her wear the watch I bought you.
05:03You didn't make one mistake.
05:04You made a thousand choices.
05:07I love you.
05:11No.
05:12You love being loved by me.
05:17What are you doing?
05:19What I should have done the moment I heard your phone ring.
05:22You can't leave me over one night.
05:25I'm not leaving because of one night.
05:27I'm leaving because you came home and lied to my face.
05:31You owe me a chance.
05:32No, Adrian.
05:34You owe me ten years.
05:47You're not thinking clearly.
05:49I've never been clearer.
05:53You don't get to throw away ten years because of one mistake.
05:58It wasn't one mistake. It was a pattern.
06:04I said I'm sorry.
06:07You said it because you got caught.
06:11I was drunk.
06:13Were you drunk when you let her sit in my seat?
06:16Were you drunk when she wore my scarf?
06:23She's my assistant. I can't control everything she posts.
06:29No. You just enjoyed it.
06:33Where are you going?
06:34Anywhere you aren't.
06:35You're being dramatic.
06:39You cheated.
06:41You lied.
06:43You let another woman parade around in pieces of my life.
06:47And somehow, I'm the dramatic one.
06:54I love you, Stella.
06:56No.
06:56You love having me waiting at home while you play savior to someone else.
07:01If you walk out, don't expect me to chase you.
07:03I'm not asking you to chase me.
07:06I'm telling you I'm gone.
07:16Chloe, what happened?
07:30Mrs. Hayes?
07:32Mr. Blackwood is in a meeting.
07:35I'm not here for him.
07:37Oh. You must be Stella.
07:42Moving out already?
07:43That was fast.
07:45Stealing someone's boyfriend usually moves things along.
07:49I didn't steal anyone.
07:51Adrian makes his own choices.
07:54That might be the first honest thing you've said.
07:57I know this is hard for you.
07:59Adrian told me your history with his family is complicated.
08:03I mean, they took you in when you had nowhere to go.
08:05It must be scary losing that safety bet.
08:09Relax.
08:10I don't waste good coffee on trash.
08:12Why are you humiliating me? I was just trying to be kind.
08:24Adrian, please don't be mad at her.
08:26She's just hurt.
08:30What did you do?
08:32Interesting.
08:33You didn't even ask what happened.
08:43I apologize to Chloe.
08:46You brought another woman into our bed, and now you want me to apologize to her?
08:51Lower your voice.
08:52Why?
08:53Afraid your employees might find out their CEO lies better than he leads?
08:57I never wanted to hurt you.
09:01Then why were you wearing my scarf in his car?
09:05I didn't know it was hers.
09:09It was just a scarf, Stella.
09:11To you, maybe.
09:14But to me...
09:16To me, it was one more piece of my life you handed to her.
09:19Enough!
09:20You're embarrassing yourself!
09:21No, Adrian.
09:23I'm embarrassing you.
09:26Say you're sorry. Now!
09:29Touchy morning at Blackwood, huh?
09:38You okay?
09:41Who gave you permission to bully my employee?
09:44This is between me and Stella.
09:47Not when you humiliate her in public.
09:49Mr. Pierce, you don't understand. She attacked me first.
09:52Sweetheart, I bill by the hour. Don't waste it lying.
10:03What is this? A formal notice.
10:06Mrs. Hayes is here to retrieve personal property.
10:09Any interference will be documented.
10:11This is unnecessary.
10:14Cheaters always think paperwork is unnecessary.
10:17Watch your mouth. Make me.
10:20Logan, let's go.
10:22After you.
10:24I'd advise against touching her.
10:28Let her go. She's just trying to make you jealous.
10:38Different car. Different man.
10:40You always this arrogant?
10:42Only when I'm right.
10:44You carry emergency coffee now.
10:46I carry solutions. Coffee is one of them.
10:51Cry if you need to.
10:52I'll pretend traffic is fascinating.
10:56I'm not crying over him.
10:58Good.
10:59He doesn't look worth the mascara.
11:01Ugh.
11:04FIGHT HON.
11:12STAFF!
11:17GONG.
11:18GONG.
11:26Do you enjoy humiliating?
11:28Did you enjoy humiliating me today?
11:29That's what you think happened.
11:31You brought Logan Pierce to my company.
11:33No.
11:34He came because you cornered me in front of your employees.
11:38He wants you.
11:39And suddenly you care what another man wants?
11:44You're using him to punish me.
11:46You punished yourself.
11:49I made a mistake.
11:51But you're acting like I'm some monster.
11:53You let her mock me.
11:55Chloe is emotional.
11:56She didn't mean it.
11:59She wore my scarf.
12:00She sat in my seat.
12:02She called you Adrian in front of me.
12:04She meant every second of it.
12:06You're making her bigger than she is.
12:09No, Adrian.
12:10You made her important.
12:13If you leave tonight, I won't keep covering for you.
12:17Covering for me?
12:18People at Black Hood still think of you as family because I allowed it.
12:22Without me, you're just the girl my parents took pity on.
12:32For what?
12:35For finally sounding like the man you really are.
12:47What is it?
12:50Tell me she didn't take this from your safe.
13:06That necklace was my mother's.
13:09Stella, calm down.
13:10Don't you dare tell me to calm down.
13:13I trusted you with the only thing my mother left me.
13:16And you let your mistress wear it.
13:19Don't call her that.
13:21That's what bothers you?
13:22Not that she stole my mother's necklace.
13:24Not that she sent me that photo.
13:26But that I called her what she is.
13:28I don't know how she got it.
13:30I'll handle it.
13:31Where are you going?
13:33To get back what's mine.
13:35It's late.
13:36Don't make a scene at my office.
13:40Your office?
13:42My mother's necklace is around her neck.
13:47There will be a scene.
13:55Stella, you really shouldn't be here.
13:58Take it off.
13:59Oh, this?
14:00Adrian gave it to me.
14:01That belonged to my dead mother.
14:04I didn't know.
14:05Adrian said it was just sitting in his safe.
14:10Did you give it to her?
14:12Adrian, I swear I didn't know.
14:14You said I could borrow something pretty for the gala.
14:17It was temporary.
14:19You opened the safe.
14:20Stella, it's a necklace.
14:22No.
14:23It was proof I trusted you.
14:26Take it off.
14:29Adrian, she's scaring me.
14:44Move.
14:45Not until you stop acting like this.
14:47She's wearing my dead mother's necklace,
14:49and I'm the problem.
14:51I'll give it back.
14:52I just don't want her to touch me.
14:54Then take it off yourself.
14:57Ow.
14:57Ow.
14:58Adrian, it's stuck.
14:59Ow.
15:03Give it to me.
15:05I need you to promise this ends here.
15:07Excuse me?
15:08No posts, no lawyers, no public drama.
15:11Chloe made a mistake.
15:12She stole from me.
15:13And you got it back.
15:14You're protecting her.
15:16I'm protecting all of us.
15:17No.
15:18You're protecting your image.
15:20Do you know what a thief accusation against my assistant would do to my company?
15:24So my mother's necklace is less important than your stock price.
15:29Thank you for clarifying.
15:37Don't make me your enemy, Stella.
15:42You already did.
15:44I really didn't mean to hurt you.
15:46Yes, you did.
15:47And next time you touch anything that belongs to me, I won't ask nicely.
15:52That's in the off, Stella!
15:58Take it off.
16:01Adrian, she's scaring me!
16:08Mrs. Hayes, your access has been suspended.
16:13By whom?
16:15Mr. Blackwood's office.
16:17Ma'am, if you don't have clearance, you'll need to leave.
16:22Stella.
16:23You froze my access.
16:25Temporarily.
16:25After last night, I think it's best.
16:27Best for who?
16:28For everyone.
16:28You need space.
16:29No, you needed to keep me away from Chloe.
16:32Stella, please don't make this harder.
16:34Adrian is just trying to prevent another incident.
16:36Another incident?
16:37Last night, you threatened me.
16:40You recorded me.
16:42Stella, go home.
16:44Home?
16:45You made sure I don't have one here.
16:47Ma'am, please.
16:48Touch her when your retirement plan becomes a lawsuit.
16:52Is that Logan?
16:55Miss me already, Blackwood?
16:56Stay out of this!
16:57Too late.
16:58You just turned this into a legal matter.
17:03You really think your new boss and his fancy lawyer can protect you from me?
17:14I think the truth will.
17:16And I'll make sure no one believes yours.
17:27For the lawyer, the car, or stopping you from committing a very elegant murder in the lobby?
17:32I wasn't going to murder her.
17:33Good.
17:34Orange isn't your color.
17:36He knew what this meant to me.
17:38Then he knew exactly where to cut.
17:42You don't have to keep showing up for me.
17:44I don't do things I don't want to do.
17:46Lock your door.
17:47Call me if anything feels wrong.
17:49Bossy.
17:50Alive employees are my favorite kind.
17:52Yeah.
18:02Ma'am, should we keep surveillance down here?
18:04Yes.
18:05Stay focused.
18:08I need a favor.
18:10Find out everything about Stella Hayes.
18:12Starting with where she's staying.
18:13How dirty do you want this to get?
18:16Dirty enough that no one believes a word she says.
18:24How did you find my address?
18:28I just wanted to talk.
18:30Then turn off your camera.
18:31I'm not recording you.
18:33You lie worse than Adrian.
18:35Why do you hate me so much?
18:37I don't hate you.
18:38I'm disgusted by you.
18:40I love him.
18:40You love his name.
18:41His money.
18:42His family.
18:43His last name.
18:45And yet he picked me.
18:46No.
18:47He lowered himself to you.
18:49Please stop.
18:50I'm not trying to take anything from you.
18:51Chloe.
18:52I know you grew up with him.
18:54I know his family took you in.
18:56But you can't use that to control him forever.
18:58You don't get to talk about my past.
19:00Then stop using it to ruin my future.
19:03Don't talk to me.
19:04Ah!
19:04Ah!
19:06Ah!
19:06Ah!
19:07Ah!
19:07Ah!
19:07Ah!
19:09Ah!
19:10Ah!
19:11Ah!
19:12Ah!
19:12Ah!
19:12Ah!
19:13Ah!
19:15Ah!
19:16Ah!
19:20Ah!
19:21My boss's ex won't stop refriending me.
19:23I'm scared.
19:24If we're some poor tooth look signs.
19:26She sounds insane.
19:27Isn't jealous of access?
19:28Boy, the classic in the black books was a TV episode.
19:31That might be...
19:40Stella Hayes, did you harass Chloe last night?
19:42Are you using your history with the blackheads to pressure Adrian?
19:45Is it true you threatened his new girlfriend?
19:52Move.
19:53Did you threaten Chloe because Adrian chose her?
19:56Do you deny being obsessed with him?
20:01Oops, karma spills.
20:05Stella, any comments?
20:06Yeah, I have one.
20:12Logan.
20:13Don't look at them.
20:14Look at me.
20:15Every camera here just recorded harassment.
20:18Say one more word about her past, her family, or her body, and you'll hear from my lawyers before lunch.
20:24Are you two involved?
20:26She's under my protection.
20:36Did you call the reporters?
20:39She attacked me.
20:41I was scared.
20:42Why are you questioning me?
21:03Keep it on.
21:05I'm fine.
21:07You're shaking.
21:09You're shaking.
21:11You're shaking.
21:13I'm not him.
21:15If you say stop, I stop.
21:25Eyes up, Stella.
21:33You always rescue women in elevators.
21:37Only the stubborn ones who refuse to admit they need rescuing.
21:40I didn't ask you to protect me.
21:42I know.
21:45That's why I'm asking now.
21:48Do you want me to step back?
21:57Get your hands off her!
21:59Do you want me to?
22:02No.
22:10You're making a mistake.
22:12I learned from the best.
22:15I came to fix this.
22:18Funny.
22:19Every time you say that, she ends up bleeding.
22:21This is none of your business.
22:22It became his business when you sent reporters to my office.
22:25I didn't send them.
22:33Chloe was scared.
22:34She posted out of fear.
22:36She cut out everything she said to me.
22:39Maybe she panicked.
22:41She edited, captioned, tagged three gossip accounts, and pinned the worst comments.
22:45That's not panic.
22:47That's strategy.
22:48You know she did this on purpose.
22:50What I know is this scandal is hurting everyone.
22:54Everyone.
22:57Blackwood's board is asking questions.
23:00Investors are nervous.
23:01Chloe is getting death threats.
23:02And me.
23:05I got coffee thrown on me this morning.
23:08My childhood is trending like bossop.
23:11People are calling me a parasite because your mistress lied.
23:17Then make a statement.
23:18Say you misunderstood, Chloe.
23:19Say you overreacted.
23:22You want me to apologize?
23:24I want you to help stop this before it destroys more lives.
23:28You don't get to sacrifice her twice.
23:33Stay out of it, Logan.
23:35Make me.
23:37You came here to ask me to lie for the woman you cheated with.
23:47Say it again.
23:54You're recording me now.
23:58I'm learning to protect myself.
24:00From me?
24:01Especially from you.
24:04Bad idea.
24:14Stella.
24:19I hate that he can still hurt me.
24:22That doesn't make you weak.
24:24He gave her my things.
24:25My seat.
24:26My scarf.
24:28My mother's necklace.
24:29And now he wants my apology, too.
24:32He doesn't get to take anything else.
24:35You say that like you can stop him.
24:37I can.
24:40But I'd rather help you destroy him yourself.
24:43Why?
24:44Because you're not a sad story, Stella.
24:47You're a warning.
24:55I can't use you to forget him.
24:58Then don't.
25:01When you kiss me again, I want you to mean it.
25:19Don't.
25:21I didn't say anything.
25:23I didn't say anything.
25:24You were thinking loudly.
25:27I was thinking you're terrible with keys when you're nervous.
25:30I'm not nervous.
25:33Good.
25:34Then you won't mind me standing this close.
25:45How about the kiss?
25:47The one you started.
25:49It was a mistake.
25:51No.
25:51It wasn't.
25:53A mistake is something you don't want to do again.
25:56You look like you wanted to.
26:01Relax.
26:02I'm not collecting kisses from women who are bleeding.
26:05I'm not bleeding.
26:07You are.
26:08Just not where people can see.
26:10I don't know who I am without him yet.
26:15Then find out.
26:19I'll be nearby.
26:20Not in front of you.
26:22Not behind you.
26:24Nearby.
26:44Is that blood?
26:47Don't touch anything.
26:49Daniel.
26:50Get security footage.
26:52Now.
26:57I've got you.
27:09We'll test the liquid.
27:10Could be animal blood.
27:12Fake blood.
27:12Anything.
27:15And the threat?
27:16We'll file a report.
27:19She doesn't need a report.
27:20She needs protection.
27:32You don't have to stay.
27:33I know.
27:34I'm staying anyway.
27:35Argue with me tomorrow.
27:36Tonight save your energy.
27:45Are you always this bossy?
27:48Only when someone sends blood to my employee.
27:50Employee.
27:51For now.
28:14That's not Chloe.
28:20Chloe used a middleman.
28:25There's more.
28:26Vanessa posted a teaser ten minutes ago.
28:28Tomorrow, I'm exposing the truth about the obsessed ex who terrorized an innocent girl.
28:33And trust me, her past is worse than you think.
28:37Stella, look at me.
28:39They're going to turn my childhood into content.
28:42Then we turn their lies into evidence.
28:59Stella.
29:02Did you authorize Chloe to access Pierce Creative's proposal?
29:07Where did you get this?
29:09That's your first question.
29:12This is company property.
29:15You shouldn't have it.
29:16And Chloe should.
29:19Don't touch me.
29:21Chloe was helping me organize old project files.
29:23That's all.
29:26Old project files don't end up in a competitor's pitch.
29:30You don't know that she leaked it.
29:34Her device opened the file.
29:37Someone could have used her device.
29:39You'll defend her before you even ask what happened to me.
29:42Because every time something happens, you make it about Chloe.
29:47Every time.
29:49She wore my mother's necklace.
29:51She filmed me.
29:53She sent reporters after me.
29:57And now she used your access to steal my work.
30:02You don't have proof she sent reporters.
30:04No.
30:05But I have proof you keep giving her weapons.
30:09Access.
30:10Protection.
30:11Excuses.
30:12My things.
30:14My name.
30:15My silence.
30:17What else are you going to hand her, Adrienne?
30:26Adrienne, is she accusing me again?
30:29Your device opened my proposal.
30:32I opened what you told me to open.
30:34You said they were old files.
30:37See?
30:38She didn't even know what it was.
30:42That's your defense?
30:44Why do you hate me so much, Stella?
30:47Because Adrienne trusts me now?
30:51He gave you access to my work.
30:55Maybe he trusted me because I don't turn every problem into a public breakdown.
31:02You're waving company records around like you still belong here.
31:07I'm here because you stole from me.
31:10No, Stella.
31:11You lost something.
31:13There's a difference.
31:14You keep giving her weapons.
31:17I gave her work access.
31:20You're twisting it because you're angry.
31:26After everything his family did for you?
31:30You're trying to ruin his company?
31:34Maybe you just can't stand that Blackwood doesn't need you anymore.
31:39You're letting her say that?
31:41She's under a lot of pressure because of you.
31:45Because of me?
31:48I'm scared of what she'll do next.
31:52You need to stop.
31:56I'm done stopping.
32:00Stella...
32:00I'm done accusing.
32:01Next time.
32:03Next time, I'll sue.
32:08Don't threaten her.
32:12You're still doing it.
32:14If you drag Chloe into a lawsuit, I'll have to respond.
32:17Then respond.
32:23Some women lose a man and try to destroy his entire life.
32:36That's her.
32:37The ex from the viral video.
32:39I heard the Blackwoods took her in as a teenager.
32:42Messy.
32:44Messy.
32:44Very messy.
32:46You came.
32:47You asked me to.
32:49You don't have to face this alone.
32:56He brought her here.
33:01Mrs. Blackwood, thank you for having me.
33:05I didn't.
33:08Mom.
33:09Don't mum me.
33:10Not tonight.
33:12Chloe.
33:14I'm sorry.
33:15I've just been dizzy lately.
33:19I didn't want to announce it like this.
33:23Announce what?
33:27I might be pregnant.
33:32Is it yours?
33:33I'm sorry, Stella.
33:35I know this hurts you.
33:44Answer me.
33:45Is the child yours?
33:50We're still figuring things out.
33:53Of course you are.
33:55Stella, don't do this here.
33:58I'm not the one who brought a pregnancy announcement to your mother's charity gala.
34:03I didn't mean to steal the spotlight.
34:06I just felt sick.
34:08You always know exactly where the spotlight is.
34:11Adrian, I can't do this.
34:16Adrian, step away from her.
34:21You brought scandal into my home.
34:24Into my event.
34:26And now you stand there protecting it.
34:28Mom.
34:29Chloe might be carrying my child.
34:35So he cheated and got the assistant pregnant?
34:39What about Stella?
34:40Old story.
34:42Men like him always move on.
34:54Stella, are you okay in there?
34:59I saw your dress earlier.
35:00The zipper looked fragile.
35:02You mean after you touched it?
35:04I was just trying to help.
35:07You're terrible at pretending you're innocent.
35:14Adrian didn't believe you about the necklace.
35:16He won't believe about this either.
35:19Careful.
35:20One wrong move and everyone out there gets another show.
35:25Stella.
35:27Mr. Pierce, this is the ladies' room.
35:31And yet somehow the most poisonous thing in it isn't the perfume.
35:35Logan, I need a minute.
35:38Chloe, out.
35:41Now.
35:50Do you want me to get Mia or Evelyn?
35:54No, just help me with the zipper.
36:03Tell me if I'm too close.
36:06You're always too close.
36:08And yet you haven't asked me to leave.
36:20You're going to lose your cuff ring.
36:24Keep it.
36:26I like leaving expensive things on beautiful women.
36:30Stella!
36:39My baby!
36:46What did you do?
36:56She pushed a pregnant woman?
36:57That's criminal.
36:59I knew that ex was unstable.
37:01I was in the restroom with Logan.
37:03I came out when I heard her scream.
37:05You expect me to believe that?
37:07You believed every lie she told you.
37:10But when I tell the truth, suddenly you need proof.
37:14Please.
37:15Don't fight.
37:16Just save the baby.
37:22What happened?
37:24Ask her.
37:26You're accusing me in front of everyone?
37:28If anything happens to my child,
37:31I won't forgive you.
37:35You don't even know if there is a child.
37:37Enough.
37:39Keep her here until the police arrive.
37:43Touch her,
37:44and I break your wrist legally.
37:47She hurt my child.
37:50What child?
37:56Daniel.
37:58Daniel.
37:58Get the hallway footage.
38:02Adrian, please.
38:03Take me to the halls.
38:07Funny.
38:08Liars always hate cameras.
38:15Don't blame Stella.
38:22Tell me the truth.
38:23I already did.
38:25Did you follow her?
38:26No.
38:26Did you threaten her?
38:27No.
38:28Did you want her gone?
38:31I wanted my life back.
38:34So you admit you hated her?
38:38You came here for a confession, not the truth.
38:40Back off, Blackwood.
38:43This is between me and the woman who may have killed my child.
38:46Say that again.
38:47If she push Chloe, I'll make sure she pays.
38:52You really think I could do that?
38:55After ten years, that's what you think of me.
38:58Adrian, please.
39:00Adrian.
39:03If you leave with her now, don't ever come back asking me to remember who you used to be.
39:14I'm sorry.
39:16Don't be.
39:19I don't need him to believe me anymore.
39:22Good.
39:23The hallway camera was disabled ten minutes before Chloe fell.
39:28Who disabled it?
39:35Adrian's account.
39:45You've been quiet for six blocks.
39:48I'm thinking.
39:50That sounds dangerous.
39:53He really thought I could hurt a baby.
39:57He thought what was convenient.
40:02Is that supposed to make me feel better?
40:04I'm bad at comfort.
40:05Excellent at revenge.
40:08That's not something normal people admit.
40:12Normal people bore me.
40:14Everyone looked at me like I was guilty.
40:16I didn't.
40:18I believe you.
40:19Why?
40:20Because you don't destroy people from the shadows.
40:24You look them in the eye first.
40:28That's a compliment.
40:29For me, practically poetry.
40:36Careful.
40:37What?
40:38If you keep looking at me like that, I'll start thinking you mean it.
40:41Go upstairs.
40:43Lock the door.
40:44Or I'll call when Daniel has the footage.
40:51Logan.
40:53Thank you for believing me before the footage did.
40:56Stella.
40:56Evidence is for the world.
40:58Not for me.
41:13That psycho threw herself down the stairs?
41:16She checked for witnesses first.
41:18She wanted everyone to think I did it.
41:22And now everyone will know she did it to herself.
41:25There's more.
41:28Chloe's pregnancy report.
41:31Let me guess.
41:32Fake?
41:33The clinic confirms no patient named Chloe Taylor was tested that day.
41:40We found the staff member who forged the letterhead.
41:43He's willing to testify.
41:44So there was never a baby?
41:46No.
41:47Just a weapon.
41:50Adrian accused me of hurting a child that never existed.
41:55Please let me punch him.
41:57Just once.
41:58I'll pay for bail.
41:59Tempting.
42:00But lawsuits leave better scars.
42:02What about the proposal leak?
42:06Chloe received a transfer from Winston Media three hours after your file was downloaded.
42:12And the access approval came through Adrian's executive account.
42:16We have sabotage, fraud, defamation, and harassment.
42:19That's not a scandal.
42:21That's a buffet.
42:21We can release everything now.
42:24Burn her.
42:25It's your call.
42:31Not yet.
42:33What do you mean not yet?
42:34If we release it now, she'll cry and call it fake.
42:38So let her lie where everyone can hear her.
42:41Now you're thinking like me.
42:49Tonight, my truth.
42:51What Stella Hayes did to me and my unborn child.
42:56Good.
42:58Let her bury herself.
43:04If you're here to make me apologize again, save your breath.
43:08Chloe is going live tonight.
43:10I know.
43:10Then you know this could ruin everyone.
43:12No, Adrian.
43:13It could ruin you.
43:15The Blackwood board is already on edge.
43:17Investors are calling.
43:19My father is furious.
43:20And somehow that is still about you.
43:22I am trying to make you smart.
43:25No.
43:26You made me silent.
43:28Did you know Chloe faked the pregnancy?
43:32You knew.
43:34And you still let her accuse me of hurting her baby.
43:39I suspected.
43:41You looked me in the eye and let me stand there like a murderer.
43:44I was trying to contain the situation.
43:45You mean contain me.
43:46If this goes public, Chloe goes down, I go down, Blackwood goes down.
43:50Tell the truth first.
43:50Go on camera and you cheated.
43:52Admit you protected her.
43:52Admit you let her use your access to hurt me.
43:54You know I can't do that.
43:55Then you didn't come for forgiveness.
43:56You came to ask me to die quietly so you could survive loudly.
44:01You lost the right to say that.
44:03Stella, we were supposed to get married.
44:05Don't.
44:14Perfect.
44:24Stella, why did you throw away the ring after Chloe lost her baby?
44:28Do you feel any remorse?
44:38Mr. Pierce, are you hiding her because she's guilty?
44:41No.
44:42I'm hiding her because vultures like you mistake blood for dinner.
44:50You have a habit of dragging me into expensive rooms.
44:53You have a habit of being chased by idiots.
44:57Show me your hand.
45:00I'm going to ruin them.
45:02That sounds almost romantic.
45:04I can do romantic.
45:06I'm choosing restraint.
45:07Logan.
45:08If you say stop, I stop.
45:11Stella Hayes, we know you're in there.
45:14Ready to let her bury herself?
45:16Start digging.
45:20I didn't want to do this, but Stella Hayes won't stop attacking me.
45:28And yet, he picked me.
45:31Please.
45:32Stella, stop threatening me.
45:34I just love him.
45:36Don't be nice, Stella.
45:37She called me disgusting.
45:39She threatened me.
45:41I was terrified.
45:43I know the Blackwoods took you in, but you can't use pity to keep Adrian forever.
45:49She just called me trash.
45:51I was only trying to be kind.
45:53Adrian gave it to me.
46:00Your call.
46:01We can stop here.
46:08No.
46:10She hasn't lied about the baby yet.
46:13I still feel the fall.
46:16I still hear myself screaming for my baby.
46:19She said it.
46:20Release the stairwell footage.
46:38What video?
46:40I don't know what you're talking about.
46:42That's fake.
46:44That has to be fake.
46:49Not yet.
46:50She'll reach for the baby lie next.
46:52Even if I fell by myself, Stella caused it.
46:55She terrorized me.
46:57She put my baby in danger.
46:59My baby.
47:01Clinic file.
47:02Releasing in 30 seconds.
47:03A mother, girl.
47:05You're not even a good actress.
47:12No.
47:13No.
47:13That's private medical information.
47:15They can't...
47:25That's not what it looks like.
47:29Everyone is asking why Stella Hayes is so desperate to destroy the Blackwoods.
47:33Maybe it's because they were the only family she ever had.
47:37Her mother left.
47:38Her father gambled her life away.
47:40Then the Blackwoods took her in.
47:42And this is how she repays them.
47:44And the rich that influences extensions out one by one.
47:47Daniel is preparing a defamation notice.
47:51It won't erase what people already saw.
47:54No.
47:54But it makes them pay for looking.
47:59Sweetheart, turn on channel six.
48:03Mrs. Blackwood, is it true Stella Hayes was taken in by your family as a charity case?
48:08No.
48:09Stella Hayes is my daughter.
48:10Not by blood.
48:12By choice.
48:13And choice is the only kind of family that ever mattered to me.
48:17But your biological son is now under investigation because of her accusations.
48:21My son is under investigation because of his own actions.
48:25Stella owes us nothing.
48:27I am choosing the truth over a coward.
48:30And if I must lose a son to protect my daughter, then my son should have behaved like one.
48:40Stella, for days people have been talking about your past, your relationship, and the Blackwoods.
48:46Why speak now?
48:49Because people have been telling my story like it's gossip.
48:53It's not.
48:54It's my life.
48:55Is it true your father gambled away your home?
48:58Too far.
49:01Yes.
49:02He was violent.
49:04He was drunk.
49:05He made choices no child should have to survive.
49:07But being hurt as a child did not make me a liar as a woman.
49:10Chloe Tate claimed you used your history with the Blackwoods to control Adrian.
49:21I didn't control Adrian.
49:23I trusted him.
49:24There's a difference.
49:25Tonight, your team provided evidence that Chloe Tate fabricated parts of her story.
49:29Do you want to respond to her directly?
49:30Chloe, you wore my mother's necklace to hurt me.
49:33You filmed me to frame me.
49:34You faked a pregnancy to make the world hate me.
49:36And you stole my work because you couldn't steal my life fast enough.
49:38Ready.
49:39She decides.
49:42Are you alleging Chloe Tate sold your company's proposal to Winston Media?
49:46I'm not alleging.
49:48I'm proving.
49:49And tomorrow, the board will hear exactly how Adrian Blackwood helped her get access.
49:58You're destroying your own son.
50:00No.
50:01I'm stopping him from destroying everything else.
50:09Mom.
50:10I warned you not to hurt her.
50:13So that's it, Stella cries.
50:14And everyone forgets I'm your son.
50:16Stella cried because you broke her.
50:19This review will extend beyond your CEO position.
50:22Your eligibility as primary heir is suspended.
50:25You're taking my inheritance?
50:26I'm taking back what you were never mature enough.
50:27This is because of her.
50:28No!
50:29This is because of you!
50:34You're choosing her over me.
50:37We chose decency.
50:39You abandoned it.
50:46Don't read them.
50:47No.
50:48I need to see exactly who I escaped.
50:51Stella, those were taken out of context.
50:53Then choke on the context.
50:54Sources say criminal complaints may follow.
51:02Mr. Blackwood, did you encourage Chloe Tate to defame Stella Hayes?
51:06Did you know Chloe faked the pregnancy?
51:11Are you stepping down from Blackwood Group?
51:13No comment.
51:14Did you promise to marry Chloe if she kept quiet?
51:18You said people would believe me.
51:22They did.
51:23Until you handed them evidence on live stream.
51:26This is Adrian's fault.
51:28He, he said he'd protect me.
51:31Then prove it.
51:32Give them more texts.
51:34More voice notes.
51:36If you're going down, drag the billionaire down first.
51:56Open the door, Chloe.
51:58You said you'd protect me.
52:00No, Adrian.
52:01You ruined Stella.
52:03I just learned from you.
52:05He made me do it!
52:06Adrian Blackwood made me do everything!
52:17Let go.
52:19Please.
52:20Just listen to me.
52:22I listened for ten years.
52:24I'm done.
52:25Chloe lied to me, too.
52:28And somehow you're still the victim.
52:30No.
52:31I know I hurt you.
52:32I know I made mistakes.
52:34Mistakes?
52:34You gave her my necklace.
52:36You let her call me crazy.
52:37You watched the world tear my childhood apart.
52:40And when she accused me of killing a baby that never existed, you believed her.
52:47I was scared.
52:49So was I.
52:52But I didn't become cruel.
52:54I lost everything, Stella.
52:57You're not sorry you hurt me.
52:58You're sorry it cost you.
53:00No.
53:02Forever ended in room 603.
53:06Stella!
53:06She said no.
53:08You think you won?
53:09Did he take you from me?
53:11He didn't take me.
53:12I left because I don't want you anymore.
53:30Chloe.
53:31Chloe.
53:32No, no, no.
53:33No, no, no.
53:34No, no, no, no.
53:35No, no, no, no, no.
53:35No!
53:36No!
53:40Chloe Tate.
53:41I'm not talking without a lawyer.
53:42Good idea.
53:43You'll need one.
53:43We have a warrant to question you regarding harassment, fraud, and evidence tampering.
53:46This is because of Stella.
53:48She's obsessed with me.
53:49No.
53:49This is because you paid a man to forge a pregnancy report, sold stolen corporate materials,
53:53and sent a blood threat to a woman's home.
53:55Vanessa handled the flowers.
53:56Paid by your card.
53:58Adrian gave me access.
53:59Yes.
53:59Yes.
54:01And you used it.
54:02He made me do it.
54:03He promised me everything.
54:04He said Stella was nothing without him.
54:07Chloe, did you fake the pregnancy?
54:08Did you frame Stella Hayes?
54:10I loved him.
54:11I did all of this because I loved him.
54:12No.
54:13You did it because you wanted her life.
54:27Mrs. Hayes, after everything that happened, why should we trust your team to deliver?
54:32Because we didn't just survive sabotage.
54:35We improved the strategy after it.
54:38Winston lowered the price by cutting risk controls.
54:41That looks attractive for one quarter.
54:42But the real cost shows up when something goes wrong and no one has a plan.
54:47You don't need the cheapest partner.
54:49You need the one still standing when the room catches fire.
54:53This is emotional manipulation.
55:00No.
55:02Emotional manipulation was stealing my work and hoping I'd be too broken to improve it.
55:07We're awarding the contract to Pierce Creative.
55:10My team earned it.
55:15Still think you're just the girl they took in?
55:17No.
55:18I think I'm the woman they underestimated.
55:20Much better.
55:22I have an announcement.
55:25Stella Hayes is no longer senior strategist.
55:29Excuse me?
55:30She's partner.
55:32Effective immediately.
55:37You didn't tell me.
55:38You didn't tell me.
55:41I like surprising, beautiful women with power.
55:45Actually, I have one more surprise.
55:47I think it's so amazing that you can do with the people who end up.
55:47See you, guys.
55:48I'm the woman.
55:50See you next time.
55:50I'm the man.
55:50I'm the man.
55:50You
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