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From Abandoned Bride to Mafia Queen_ Her Revenge Begins. _ MoboReels
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00:03My name is Isabella Carlson.
00:06My father sells me to buy peace in Chicago, and today, I am marrying a man who doesn't love me.
00:14The son of a mafia don, Alex Marino.
00:20I walk down the aisle alone.
00:22There is no groom at the altar.
00:24My only friend, Faye Nichols, pale as paper, grabs my arm.
00:28Izzy, you need to know.
00:29Alex ran off.
00:30An hour ago, he boarded the train to California with that singer from the Green Mill.
00:34He runs away, humiliating me in front of the entire mob.
00:38Sophia Marino, the matriarch of the Marino family, stands up.
00:42Isabella, this is not the place.
00:43Alex?
00:44Alex runs off with a whore.
00:46He breaks the pact.
00:47He insults your name and mine.
00:49We will retrieve him.
00:51He will do his duty.
00:52I don't want him.
00:53I will not take a coward into my bed.
00:56The pact requires a union between Carlson and Marino.
01:01Do not think you can walk away from this.
01:06I'm not walking away.
01:07The contract states a Carlson daughter must marry a Moreno son.
01:11It does not specify which one.
01:12Since your heir is unfit, I demand a replacement.
01:15For your family's honor, I will choose the one, myself.
01:19All unmarried men of the Moreno bloodland, stand up.
01:22Two stiff boys stand up.
01:24One is Mateo, Alex's best friend.
01:26If I marry him, I sleep next to a man who will hate me.
01:28The other is Luca, slim and trembling.
01:31He won't even meet my eyes.
01:32A coward.
01:33A brute or a coward.
01:35Those are my choices.
01:37If I pick either, I am dead.
01:40But I am done being a victim.
01:42No.
01:43I reject these two.
01:45Isabella, do not test my patience.
01:47You are in no position to be picky.
01:51I am the bride.
01:53And I am choosing the only man in this room who can restore the honor your family lost today.
01:58I lift my hand.
02:00My finger passes over everyone and points at the man sitting alone in the front row.
02:05He is Alex's father, the Don of the Moreno family, the most powerful man in all of Chicago.
02:11Damien Moreno turns his head, his eyes locking onto mine like obsidian.
02:17I choose him.
02:18I choose the Don.
02:22The cathedral falls dead silent.
02:25My hands tremble, but I pretend not to be nervous.
02:29You cannot be serious.
02:30Isabella, he is the Don.
02:32He is not an option.
02:34Why?
02:34You said any unmarried Moreno man.
02:36Is the Don married now?
02:38No, but...
02:39Then he is an option.
02:39I will not marry a boy who trembles at my glance, nor a man who will beat me.
02:43I need a husband who can uphold the weight of this alliance.
02:48I need the head of the family.
02:50I heard Damien's heart is dead.
02:51After his first wife died, he never touched another woman.
02:54No mistresses.
02:55No women at all.
02:56This will be a cold transaction.
02:58I will be safe.
02:59He won't touch me.
03:00More importantly, if I marry Damien, I become the matriarch.
03:04When Alex crawls back to Chicago, he will find a stepmother who outranks him.
03:08Isabella, be careful what you wish for.
03:11I am not wishing.
03:13I am demanding what is owed.
03:16Sophia stiffens, or is the word of the Moreno family, broken twice in one day?
03:22She looks at me, then turns to her son.
03:24Damien!
03:25Damien stands up.
03:27He is taller than Alex, broader in the shoulders.
03:31He stops in front of me.
03:34Up close, he is dangerous.
03:36You invoke the pact.
03:38I do.
03:40You understand what you are asking?
03:44You are asking to belong to me.
03:48I am asking for a husband who keeps his word.
03:51A muscle in his jaw twitches.
03:53Our family keeps its word.
03:56Are you certain, Isabella?
03:58I am.
03:59Then let us not keep God waiting.
04:02He extends his arm and leads me toward the altar.
04:06I have won.
04:08I have saved myself and gotten my revenge.
04:11But what I don't know is, I have jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
04:17After the wedding, Damien takes me to the Moreno estate and enters his private quarters.
04:24This is where you will sleep.
04:26And you?
04:28Damien doesn't look at me.
04:30He goes to the wardrobe.
04:31Takes out a thick file and a black handgun.
04:35I'll be in the study.
04:37Panic pierces through me.
04:39He is leaving.
04:42Once he walks out that door, tomorrow the whole household will know the Don doesn't touch his bride.
04:47I will become a joke, with no standing at all.
04:50No!
04:53Excuse me?
04:56Is it a Moreno family tradition to run after making a vow?
05:03First the son, now the father?
05:08Watch your tongue, Isabella.
05:09You are pushing boundaries.
05:11You chose a king, not a lover.
05:15Did you expect me to hold you?
05:17To comfort you?
05:19I expect respect.
05:21I don't want your affection, Damien.
05:23I don't want your body.
05:25I chose you because you are cold.
05:28Because you are a machine.
05:31I didn't want a husband who would love me.
05:34I wanted one who wouldn't destroy me with feelings.
05:38You think my indifference makes you safe?
05:40It makes us functional.
05:42I will be the wife you need.
05:44I will bear your name.
05:46But for that to work, you cannot leave this room tonight.
05:50Sleep on the floor for all I care, but you stay!
05:53Damien stares at me.
05:54The mockery fades from his face, replaced by a sharp, calculating assessment.
05:58The floor is beneath me.
06:00He moves to the velvet chaise lounge at the foot of the bed.
06:03Shrugs off his jacket, loosens his tie, and sits down.
06:06Go to bed, Isabella.
06:08Before I change my mind.
06:10I climb into the massive, empty bed.
06:13The sheets are cold, and the space beside me is a void.
06:17But across the room, the dark outlie of the dawn remains.
06:21I have won the first round.
06:24But as I lie in the dark, listening to the steady breathing of the monster I married,
06:29I wonder, have I simply locked myself in the cage with the beast?
06:38I wake from a restless sleep.
06:40Damien stands at the foot of the bed, fully dressed, watching me.
06:46You manipulated the situation last night with a skill I didn't expect.
06:51From a girl barely out of the schoolroom.
06:53I did what was necessary.
06:57Why me?
06:59You could have run.
07:00You could have begged for a payout.
07:02Instead, you walked into the lion's den and locked the door behind you.
07:06Why?
07:06This is the test.
07:08If I lie, he will see through it.
07:10Because marrying anyone else makes me a tragedy.
07:13The poor girl left at the altar.
07:15By the dawn's son.
07:17A victim.
07:18A punchline.
07:20But, marrying the dawn makes me a queen.
07:24It was the only choice that guaranteed my survival.
07:27In this world, power is the only shield that matters.
07:32Ambitious.
07:33But ambition without purpose is just vanity.
07:36I have a purpose.
07:38And it makes me his mother.
07:40Alex?
07:41Alex Moreto stripped me of my honor in front of all of Chicago.
07:46As his new mother, I will teach him the respect he failed to show.
07:51It's a matter of family honor.
07:53A debt to be paid.
07:55I have just asked the most powerful man in the city for permission to go to war with his own
07:59son.
08:00You think you can handle him?
08:01I think he's a boy playing at being a man.
08:04He needs to learn that actions have consequences!
08:08He is a disgrace to the Moreno name.
08:10He lacks discipline.
08:12He lacks spine.
08:13In the next moment, Damien leans down, bracing his hands on the mattress, trapping me.
08:19He is your problem now, Isabella.
08:21As his mother, teach him his place.
08:25Break him if you have to.
08:27I don't care.
08:31What I don't expect is that before Alex is dragged back, I have to deal with the servants of this
08:37house.
08:39They are eager to put me in my place.
08:42Your coffee, ma'am.
08:43And the silk robe you requested.
08:46We couldn't locate it in the laundry.
08:48It seems to have been misplaced.
08:52I lift the cup.
08:54Stone cold.
08:56The steam has long since vanished.
09:02After the door closes, the young maid, Clara, hiss in anger.
09:06They are laughing at you.
09:08That coffee has been sitting there for an hour.
09:10And I saw the robe in the linen closet this morning.
09:13They hid it.
09:14I know, Clara.
09:14Then why didn't you say anything?
09:18You are the Dawn's wife.
09:19If I scream over a robe, I become the hysterical girl they want me to be.
09:24We wait.
09:26Wait for them to make a mistake that cannot be hidden.
09:31Only actions can be punished.
09:34The morning sun struggles to pierce the heavy velvet drapes.
09:37Damien left the estate before Dawn.
09:40This is my chance to establish my authority in this house.
09:45Take them down.
09:47Are you sure, ma'am?
09:49The Dawn prefers the dark.
09:50No one has touched this room since he took the title.
09:53I am not no one.
09:55I am his wife.
09:57Strip the bed as well.
09:59The gray linens are dreary.
10:01Use the white Egyptian cotton.
10:02The drapes fall.
10:04Sunlight floods in.
10:05The room instantly feels larger.
10:07But the light also illuminates he sneers on the faces of the two older maids by the wardrobe.
10:12They think the noise of the renovation masks their whispers.
10:14Look at her.
10:16Acting like a real queen.
10:18She forgets she was the collateral the heir threw away.
10:21Let her play.
10:22The Dawn hasn't let a woman choose so much as a spoon in this house for fifteen years.
10:26He'll throw her and her silk curtains out onto the street before nightfall.
10:30I turn.
10:32The sound of my heels on the hardwood floor cuts through their snickers.
10:38Repeat that!
10:40The fake smile on the maid's face vanishes.
10:44Ma'am, I was just saying the silk is very... delicate.
10:47No.
10:49You were predicting my eviction.
10:51You called me collateral.
10:53We meant no disrespect, Mrs. Moreno.
10:55Just idle talk.
10:57Idle talk is for the market.
10:59In this house, words have consequences.
11:01Please, ma'am, we didn't mean...
11:03You meant every word.
11:07And now...
11:10We wait for him.
11:13Since you are so certain of his reaction...
11:16You should have no fear in repeating your predictions to his face.
11:21I point to the center of the room where the sunlight pools.
11:25Kneel.
11:26They sink to the floor, trembling.
11:29You said the Dawn would throw me and my silk curtains out onto the street before nightfall.
11:35Is that right?
11:37Ma'am, please.
11:39Is that right?
11:41Yes.
11:42Good.
11:43Clara.
11:44You are loyal.
11:46Loyalty should be rewarded with authority.
11:49Slap them.
11:50Ten times each.
11:52Let them feel the consequence of disrespecting the Moreno name.
11:57Clara steps forward.
11:59The first slap is light.
12:01Harder.
12:03The second slap is brutal.
12:06Then the third.
12:07The fourth.
12:10Suddenly, the heavy doors swing open.
12:12Damien stands in the doorway.
12:16Dawn!
12:16Dawn, save us!
12:18She's mad!
12:19She's hurting us!
12:21We were just doing our jobs, sir!
12:24Please!
12:26Damien says nothing.
12:28His face dark.
12:30He walks toward me step by step.
12:33Damien steps past me and stops in front of the kneeling women.
12:38She gave you an order for ten slaps.
12:41How many has it been?
12:43Ten, sir.
12:44Then give them ten more.
12:50The maid's wails are cut short as Damien raises a hand.
12:55And when you are finished, take them to the cat house laundry on the south side.
13:00They will work there until they forget their own names.
13:08Damien's trusted man, Enzo, moves in to drag the sobbing women away.
13:13Damien walks toward me.
13:15I think you would mind this.
13:17At least until you knew the full story.
13:20No.
13:21I don't need to know.
13:22I gave you authority over my son's re-education, Isabella.
13:27Do you think I would grant you power over my own blood, but not over a maid?
13:34Damien looks at the spot where the maids melt, then lifts his gaze.
13:39This ugliness, it is not something a wife should have to deal with on her second day.
13:46My heart skips a beat.
13:48He is apologizing?
13:51I understand the terms of our arrangement, Damien.
13:54I don't mind.
13:55You don't mind?
13:57Your protection and your name are enough.
13:59You have nothing to apologize for.
14:03Damien stares at me.
14:04Then he takes a step closer.
14:06Then another.
14:11Your understanding is appreciated, Isabella.
14:15He reaches out, his callished knuckles grazing my jaw.
14:19You focus on running my house, little queen.
14:22Leave the ugliness to me.
14:24He walks out of the room.
14:28I have done it.
14:30I have secured my position.
14:32We have a deal.
14:33A partnership devoid of desire.
14:36It is exactly what I wanted.
14:39But why does the place he touched still burn?
14:42Since that day, no one in this estate has dared to provoke me.
14:46The title of Mrs. Marino seems secure.
14:49Then Clara comes running to me in a panic.
14:52Madam, he's back.
14:54I don't need to ask who.
14:56Alex Marino.
14:58The boy who left me at the altar.
15:00He has no idea that the woman he abandoned is no longer his fiancée,
15:04but his stepmother.
15:09Enzo brought them ten minutes ago.
15:11They are in the Dawn study.
15:13I stand up.
15:15A cold smile touches my lips.
15:18I step inside the study.
15:21In the center of the Persia rug kneel two figures.
15:24Alex and the girl.
15:27Bound back to back.
15:29Alex's gaze locking onto mine with venomous disdain.
15:34Isabella, I should have known you'd be lurking around.
15:39Did you come to beg?
15:41Or did my father drag you here to watch?
15:45I don't know what lies you've told yourself,
15:48but this, us, it's never happening.
15:50I love Casey.
15:52You need to accept that.
15:55I'll have my father grant you an annulment.
15:58An annulment?
16:00That would be difficult, Alex.
16:07Considering I haven't married you.
16:12What are you talking about?
16:13The pact!
16:17The pact required a union between a Carlson and a Moreno.
16:21It did not specify which Moreno.
16:25I gesture to Enzo standing by the door.
16:30He immediately bows his head to me.
16:34Madam.
16:35Alex's eyes dart between me and the soldier.
16:38The color drains from his face, leaving him ashen.
16:43No.
16:45No.
16:46No, you didn't.
16:51I found a man who doesn't run.
16:55Alex, is that any way to speak to your mother?
17:02You...
17:02You married him?
17:05You married Damien?
17:07I tell Alex a fact,
17:09but he doesn't seem willing to believe it.
17:12You're insane.
17:14You think my father, the Don,
17:16would touch the woman I cast aside?
17:19Watch your tongue,
17:21or I will have it cut out.
17:23You fucking bitch!
17:25You couldn't have me,
17:26so you went for my father?
17:28You'd rather be my mother
17:29than admit you were thrown away like trash?
17:32I stand tall,
17:33letting his rage wash over me.
17:35It doesn't sting.
17:36You think this is a game?
17:37You think marrying my father
17:38makes you anything other than a whore
17:40climbing the ladder?
17:41You are nothing, Isabella.
17:43Nothing!
17:44Enzo.
17:46In the Moreno family,
17:47what is the punishment
17:48for disrespecting the Don's wife?
17:50Loss of a finger
17:51for a first offense, madam.
17:52I turn back to Alex slowly,
17:54a cold smile on my lips.
17:56You see, son?
17:58Family rules.
17:59You wouldn't dare.
18:01I am the heir.
18:02I am the future of this family.
18:05You touch me,
18:06and the Capos will revolt.
18:07You think being the heir
18:09makes you untouchable?
18:11You forget, Alex.
18:12You are adopted.
18:14Loyalty is everything,
18:16and you chose to portray it
18:17for this.
18:19My gaze flicks to Casey.
18:21The girl is trembling
18:22so violently.
18:26Please.
18:27We just want to leave.
18:28We won't bother you.
18:30Please let us go.
18:31Silent.
18:32Don't talk to her like that.
18:34She's worth ten of you,
18:35you venomous bitch.
18:38My father will never let you hurt me.
18:40He needs me.
18:42Does he?
18:43The voice doesn't come from me.
18:45Damien steps out of the shadows
18:46behind the desk.
18:47I straighten immediately,
18:49walk to Damien's side,
18:51placing a hand on his arm.
18:52Damien,
18:53your son.
18:54He refuses to show his mother
18:56the proper respect.
18:57He calls me names.
18:58He questions your judgment.
19:00Father,
19:00she trapped you.
19:02She's manipulating you.
19:04I came back for...
19:05You were dragged back,
19:06like a dog that ran off its leash.
19:08I love her.
19:09You have to understand.
19:11You can't let this woman...
19:12This woman is my wife,
19:14and you are a disgrace
19:15to the Moreno name.
19:17Damien looks at me.
19:18There is no softness in his eyes,
19:21but there is approval.
19:22He lacks discipline.
19:24He has forgotten the weight
19:25of the name he carries.
19:27Isabella.
19:28As his mother,
19:29teach him his place.
19:31Alex's face twists,
19:32his fear morphing
19:33into a desperate,
19:34reckless fury.
19:35How can you stand there
19:36and let her speak to me like that?
19:37Father!
19:37She is nothing but my discarded trash,
19:40and you...
19:40You picked her up
19:41and put a crown on her head?
19:42Where is the dignity?
19:43Because she understands honor, Alex.
19:45And you, quite clearly,
19:47do not.
19:47You have broken the pact
19:49and insulted the family name.
19:50In this family,
19:51we bleed for such errors.
19:53Isabella,
19:53do whatever you want with him.
19:54A shiver of dark triumph
19:56races down my spine.
19:58The dawn has just handed
19:59the whip to me.
20:02Don't worry, darling.
20:03I'm going to be
20:04a very hands-on parent.
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