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00:00:00I once read that the most dangerous thing a woman can do is save a man's life.

00:00:04I didn't believe it.

00:00:05I was 22, idealistic, and three semesters short of a nursing degree.

00:00:11When I found a man bleeding out in an alley behind a fast food restaurant,

00:00:14I didn't think about danger.

00:00:16I just pressed my hands to the wound.

00:00:18I didn't know his name.

00:00:19I didn't know that the blood soaking through my uniform

00:00:22belonged to the most feared cartel boss on the East Coast.

00:00:25I didn't know that behind those dark half-conscious eyes

00:00:27was a man who would remember everything I did.

00:00:30Every word, every touch, every desperate instruction I gave him in the dark.

00:00:34I didn't know he would come back for me.

00:00:36Three months later, a man named Emilio Reyes walked into my life

00:00:40and told me I had inherited a fortune from my late aunt on one condition.

00:00:44Marriage.

00:00:45To him.

00:00:46Immediately.

00:00:47No.

00:00:48I said no.

00:00:49He smiled like I hadn't spoken at all.

00:00:52This is the story of how I married a criminal.

00:00:55How I hated him, feared him.

00:00:57And somewhere in the middle of all the lies he built our life on,

00:01:00fell desperately, irreversibly in love with him.

00:01:03I want to tell you I fought it.

00:01:05I want to tell you I was smarter than this.

00:01:07But the truth is,

00:01:08the moment I pressed my hands to his chest in that alley,

00:01:11I was already his.

00:01:13I just didn't know it yet.

00:01:15The alley behind the shop smells like grease and rain.

00:01:19I take the trash out at midnight

00:01:22because Miguel never does

00:01:24and I'm too tired to fight about it.

00:01:30That's when I hear it.

00:01:32A shuffle.

00:01:33A grunt.

00:01:34The unmistakable sound of someone about to do something terrible.

00:01:38I peek my head out.

00:01:40First mistake of the night.

00:01:41First mistake of the night.

00:01:45Hello?

00:01:48You men immediately pin me against the wall.

00:01:51I open my mouth to scream.

00:01:53Someone beats me to it.

00:01:54He steps out of the dark like he owns it.

00:01:56Tall, jaw tight.

00:01:58One hand pressed to his ribs.

00:02:00He's bleeding.

00:02:01I can see it soaking through his shirt

00:02:03in a dark, spreading stain.

00:02:06He shouldn't be standing.

00:02:07Standing anyway.

00:02:08Let her go.

00:02:11The men charge.

00:02:13He moves.

00:02:14Fast.

00:02:15Precise.

00:02:16Brutal.

00:02:17And it's over in seconds.

00:02:20One man clutches his arm, screaming.

00:02:22The other is already gone.

00:02:27And then the stranger folds like paper.

00:02:29Fitting the wet pavement before I can catch him.

00:02:33I drag him inside.

00:02:35I don't know why.

00:02:40I'm a nursing school dropout

00:02:42with shaking hands

00:02:44and no business saving anyone.

00:02:47But I press gauze to his chest

00:02:49and count his breaths

00:02:51and tell him to stay with me.

00:02:53And somewhere between one breath and the next,

00:02:56I start to believe he might actually listen.

00:02:58He opens his eyes,

00:02:59grabs my wrist hard enough to bruise.

00:03:03No one has ever seen me like this.

00:03:06You're dead.

00:03:08Stop moving or you'll bleed more.

00:03:10He lets go.

00:03:12He passes out.

00:03:14I keep working.

00:03:16By the time I come back with antibiotics,

00:03:18he's gone.

00:03:20The room is empty except for the bloody gons

00:03:23and the faint smell of something expensive,

00:03:26cologne,

00:03:26maybe,

00:03:27or power.

00:03:31I stand in the doorway

00:03:33and feel something I can't name

00:03:35settle into my chest.

00:03:39Hope you make it, stranger.

00:03:46The days pass.

00:03:48My life goes on.

00:03:50The midnight shifts blur into each other

00:03:52and I almost convince myself

00:03:55the whole thing

00:03:56was a fever dream.

00:03:58The blood.

00:03:59The alley.

00:04:00The man who threatened to kill me

00:04:02while I was saving his life.

00:04:04Almost.

00:04:07It isn't until three months later

00:04:10that I understand the mistake

00:04:11I made that night.

00:04:12It wasn't peeking my head out

00:04:14into that alley.

00:04:15It was pulling the stranger

00:04:17back from the edge.

00:04:19I'm wiping down the counter

00:04:20when his face fills the TV screen

00:04:23above the register.

00:04:26Emilio Reyes.

00:04:27East Coast Cartel King.

00:04:29Dangerous.

00:04:31Untouchable.

00:04:32The customers are whispering.

00:04:34The word monster

00:04:36drifts past my ear like smoke.

00:04:39I stare at the screen

00:04:41and the memory hits me

00:04:42like a cold wave.

00:04:44His hand locked around my wrist.

00:04:46Even through the blood loss.

00:04:50No one has ever seen me like this.

00:04:54You're dead.

00:04:57Shit.

00:04:58I set down the tray.

00:05:00I turn for the door.

00:05:01A black bag drops over my head.

00:05:04The last thing I hear

00:05:05before the world goes dark.

00:05:07You're coming with us.

00:05:15They take the bag off

00:05:16in a room that costs more

00:05:17than my entire life.

00:05:18He's standing by the window

00:05:20with his back to me

00:05:21and even from behind

00:05:22I can feel the weight of him.

00:05:24The absolute, unharried certainty

00:05:26of a man who has never once

00:05:28been told no.

00:05:30He turns around slowly

00:05:32like he has all the time

00:05:33in the world.

00:05:35Like I'm not hyperventilating

00:05:37in the middle of his Persian rug.

00:05:38He looks at me the way

00:05:40you look at something

00:05:40you already own.

00:05:42Hello wife.

00:05:43Wife?

00:05:44He pulls out a file

00:05:46and slides it across the desk.

00:05:48Leticia Verito,

00:05:50my aunt,

00:05:51who I barely knew,

00:05:52who apparently knew him very well.

00:05:54She raised him.

00:05:55He called her family.

00:05:56And when she died,

00:05:58she left everything to me.

00:06:00One million dollars.

00:06:03I stare at the number

00:06:04until the zeros blur.

00:06:07You're handing out

00:06:08one million dollars to me?

00:06:09Just like this?

00:06:11Of course not.

00:06:13Your inheritance

00:06:14comes with a condition.

00:06:16Marry me for one year.

00:06:17Part of me wants to laugh.

00:06:18The part that's been eating

00:06:20ramen for six months.

00:06:22Drowning in debt.

00:06:23Too proud to ask for help.

00:06:24One million dollars.

00:06:26I could breathe again.

00:06:27I could actually breathe.

00:06:29But then,

00:06:30the other part of me

00:06:31gets up.

00:06:32The part that recognizes

00:06:33his face

00:06:34from every news broadcast.

00:06:36Every whispered warning.

00:06:37Every story

00:06:38that ends badly.

00:06:40Marry a mafia king

00:06:41with a promise

00:06:42of one million dollars?

00:06:43Is this Watt Mac novel

00:06:44really happening to me?

00:06:45Me?

00:06:46I set down the file.

00:06:48What do you get out of this?

00:06:51I...

00:06:51I'm a nobody.

00:06:53He steps closer.

00:06:54Close enough

00:06:55that I have to tilt

00:06:55my head back

00:06:56to hold his gaze.

00:06:57And I hate that I do it.

00:07:00You're not a nobody.

00:07:04Don't ever say that again.

00:07:07He says it quietly.

00:07:09Too quietly.

00:07:10Too gently.

00:07:11Like he means it.

00:07:13Like he's been

00:07:14thinking about it.

00:07:15Then the words land

00:07:16somewhere soft

00:07:17and unprotected

00:07:18before I can get

00:07:19my guard back up.

00:07:22I don't know

00:07:23what to do with them.

00:07:24So I look away

00:07:25down at the floor

00:07:26and that's when I see it.

00:07:28A dark stain

00:07:29in the carpet.

00:07:30Old and brown

00:07:31at the edges.

00:07:32Blood.

00:07:33Someone's blood.

00:07:34Soaked into the fibers

00:07:35and never fully

00:07:36cleaned away.

00:07:37The word yes

00:07:38dies in my throat.

00:07:40No.

00:07:42Then you just made

00:07:43your first mistake

00:07:44as my future wife.

00:07:50His hand moves

00:07:51toward his hip.

00:07:52My survival instincts

00:07:53shoot up.

00:07:56Wait!

00:07:57I...

00:07:57I didn't mean no.

00:07:58I just...

00:07:59I need time.

00:08:00To think.

00:08:03I'm allowed

00:08:03to think, right?

00:08:04A beat.

00:08:05His hand stills.

00:08:07Of course.

00:08:08I try the door.

00:08:12Locked.

00:08:13Of course

00:08:14it's locked.

00:08:15My heart hammers

00:08:16against my ribs

00:08:17as his footsteps

00:08:18cross the room

00:08:19behind me.

00:08:20Quiet.

00:08:20Unhurried.

00:08:21Inevitable.

00:08:23His hand covers

00:08:24mine on the knob.

00:08:25His mouth is close

00:08:26enough to my ear

00:08:27that I feel the warmth

00:08:27of his breath.

00:08:28And every rational

00:08:30thought I have

00:08:30dissolves.

00:08:31I'm a king, Mia.

00:08:34Don't even think

00:08:35about running.

00:08:37I'll see you

00:08:38at the altar.

00:08:39He twists the knob.

00:08:41The door spins open.

00:08:42I don't walk out.

00:08:43I flee.

00:08:45I nearly collide

00:08:46with a man in the hallway.

00:08:47Younger than Emilio.

00:08:49Easier to read.

00:08:50With a smile

00:08:50that doesn't reach his eyes.

00:08:52He watches me

00:08:53scramble past

00:08:54and says nothing.

00:08:55Behind me,

00:08:56I hear him say something

00:08:57to Emilio

00:08:57in a low voice.

00:08:58I don't stop to listen.

00:09:00Back in my apartment,

00:09:01Serena screams at me

00:09:02through the phone

00:09:03for ten solid minutes.

00:09:04I hold it away

00:09:05from my ear

00:09:06and stare at the ceiling.

00:09:07You should have left him

00:09:08bleeding in that alley!

00:09:10I know.

00:09:10He's a monster!

00:09:11My food's here.

00:09:13Talk later.

00:09:17I open the door

00:09:18expecting delivery.

00:09:20A gun barrel,

00:09:21cold metal,

00:09:22pointed at my face.

00:09:24Behind it,

00:09:25a man I've never seen before,

00:09:27silver-haired

00:09:28and soft-voiced,

00:09:29with the calm of someone

00:09:31who has done terrible things

00:09:32for a very long time.

00:09:34And at his feet,

00:09:35crumbled,

00:09:36bleeding,

00:09:36reaching for my ankle,

00:09:37a boy I've never met,

00:09:39but somehow,

00:09:41recognizing the shape

00:09:41of his jaw,

00:09:42the curve of his nose,

00:09:45a stranger smiles.

00:09:48Mia Espinosa,

00:09:50we need to talk.

00:09:55His name is Franco Palacio.

00:09:57I am Franco.

00:09:58He says it like a title,

00:10:00like something I should

00:10:01already know and fear.

00:10:02He says it while one

00:10:03of his men

00:10:03pins my arms behind me,

00:10:06and another kicks

00:10:07the boy hard enough

00:10:08to crack ribs.

00:10:10Tomas,

00:10:11your cousin,

00:10:13Leticia's only son.

00:10:14I didn't even know

00:10:15I had a cousin.

00:10:18I'm Emilio Reyes's

00:10:20worst nightmare.

00:10:21I don't know,

00:10:22Emilio.

00:10:23That's a lie.

00:10:25Of course I lied.

00:10:26I would say

00:10:27anything to get out of this.

00:10:31This gangster war

00:10:32I've somehow wandered into,

00:10:34dragging a cousin

00:10:35I've never met

00:10:35along with me.

00:10:37Maybe I really shouldn't

00:10:38have saved Emilio

00:10:39that night.

00:10:44He ignores me

00:10:45and crouches beside Tomas,

00:10:47dragging a knife

00:10:47down his cheek

00:10:48so slowly,

00:10:49so precisely,

00:10:51that the line of red

00:10:52it draws

00:10:53looks almost surgical.

00:10:55Tomas makes a sound

00:10:56I'll hear in my sleep

00:10:57for years.

00:10:58You're gonna marry

00:10:58Emilio Reyes.

00:11:00You're gonna give him

00:11:00an heir.

00:11:05And that child

00:11:06will be born

00:11:07under my command.

00:11:10What?

00:11:11A wife.

00:11:12A baby.

00:11:14That's all it takes

00:11:15to ruin a man like him.

00:11:19You're gonna be

00:11:19my weapon, sweetheart.

00:11:21He stands,

00:11:22moves back to Tomas,

00:11:24and presses the flat

00:11:25of the blade

00:11:25against his eyelid.

00:11:27One month.

00:11:28Get pregnant.

00:11:33Or your cousin

00:11:34loses more than an eye.

00:11:36I can't breathe.

00:11:38I can't think.

00:11:39The room has shrunk

00:11:40to the size of that knife.

00:11:41That eye.

00:11:42That terrible,

00:11:43soft sound Tomas

00:11:44makes when the blade

00:11:45presses harder.

00:11:47Stop!

00:11:48Left eye?

00:11:50Or right?

00:11:52Stop!

00:11:52I'll do it!

00:11:54The blade lifts.

00:11:56Franco smiles

00:11:57like I've given him

00:11:57a gift.

00:11:58Then the front door

00:11:59sweener splinters

00:12:00off its hinges.

00:12:04Emilio doesn't come in

00:12:06like a rescue.

00:12:07He comes in like

00:12:08weather.

00:12:08Sudden,

00:12:09total,

00:12:09impossible to argue with.

00:12:11His men fan out

00:12:12behind him.

00:12:15Franco's men scatter.

00:12:16And then it's just

00:12:17the two of us.

00:12:18And Tomas is gone.

00:12:20Dragged out in the chaos.

00:12:22And I'm on the floor.

00:12:24With my knees

00:12:25pulled to my chest.

00:12:27And my whole body

00:12:29shaking so hard

00:12:30my teeth click together.

00:12:31I don't hear him

00:12:31cross the room.

00:12:32I just feel the air change.

00:12:35Mia.

00:12:36His voice is different.

00:12:37Softer than I've heard it.

00:12:39I look up.

00:12:40And something in his face

00:12:41does thing I don't expect.

00:12:43It cracks.

00:12:45Just at the edges.

00:12:46Just for a second.

00:12:48I don't decide to move.

00:12:49I just do it.

00:12:51I throw myself at him.

00:12:55And his arms close around me

00:12:57before I can second guess it.

00:12:59And I press my face

00:13:00into his chest.

00:13:01And cry in a way

00:13:02I haven't cried

00:13:03since I was a little girl.

00:13:06Ugly and desperate

00:13:07and completely undignified.

00:13:11He holds me

00:13:12like he means it.

00:13:14He doesn't speak.

00:13:16Doesn't ask questions.

00:13:18Just keeps one hand

00:13:19on the back of my head.

00:13:20And breathes slowly.

00:13:22Steadily.

00:13:23Like he's trying

00:13:24to teach me how.

00:13:26And gradually

00:13:26my shaking slows.

00:13:27When I finally pull back

00:13:29his expression

00:13:30has closed again.

00:13:31But his eyes haven't.

00:13:33You're my woman, Mia.

00:13:36Your tears belong to me.

00:13:39I should have a response to that.

00:13:41I don't.

00:13:42I just look at him

00:13:43and feel the words settle

00:13:45somewhere deep

00:13:46and permanent.

00:13:47Like a key

00:13:48turning in a lock

00:13:49I didn't know I had.

00:13:51He wipes my face

00:13:52with his thumb.

00:13:54Gentle.

00:13:54Careful.

00:13:55Like I'm something

00:13:56worth being careful with.

00:13:58I'm not your woman.

00:14:00I haven't agreed

00:14:02to anything yet.

00:14:04I know.

00:14:05We should talk.

00:14:07He says it quietly.

00:14:08He doesn't push.

00:14:09He just looks at me

00:14:11like he's already decided

00:14:12and he's willing to wait.

00:14:14That might be the most

00:14:15frightening thing

00:14:16he's done yet.

00:14:18The next morning

00:14:19we sit on opposite sides

00:14:21of a conference table

00:14:22with a contract

00:14:23between us

00:14:23sick enough

00:14:24to stop a bullet.

00:14:25Our marriage contract.

00:14:29Read it.

00:14:32Terms and conditions.

00:14:34We'll discuss today.

00:14:40I keep my spine straight

00:14:42as I flip through the pages.

00:14:44I try very hard

00:14:46to absorb

00:14:46what I'm about

00:14:47to sign my life onto.

00:14:49But not a single word

00:14:50makes it to my brain.

00:14:55Instead,

00:14:56Franco's voice echoes

00:14:57like a curse on a loop.

00:14:59Marry Emilio.

00:15:01Baby.

00:15:02One month.

00:15:05My weapon.

00:15:08To save a cousin

00:15:09I barely know

00:15:10in a gangster war

00:15:10I never asked

00:15:11to be part of?

00:15:12I'm going to lie

00:15:13to a cartel king

00:15:14sitting right across

00:15:16from me

00:15:16expecting a real marriage.

00:15:19Of course I'll sign

00:15:20this contract.

00:15:21But it's not my choice.

00:15:22It was never my choice.

00:15:25I am completely,

00:15:26utterly out of control

00:15:27of this situation

00:15:28and I have to pretend

00:15:30otherwise.

00:15:31Perfectly.

00:15:31Or Thomas pays for it.

00:15:34Everything okay?

00:15:36Okay?

00:15:37I startle.

00:15:39I startle.

00:15:39He's watching me.

00:15:41Of course he's watching me.

00:15:43Men like him

00:15:44watch everything.

00:15:48I need to smooth this over.

00:15:50For my cousin.

00:15:52The contract doesn't mention

00:15:54sleeping arrangements.

00:15:56He goes very still.

00:15:59Sleeping arrangements.

00:16:03We'd be married.

00:16:07It would be natural

00:16:09that we...

00:16:10The chair scrapes back.

00:16:12He's in front of me

00:16:13in two steps

00:16:14leaning over the table

00:16:16with both hands

00:16:17planted on either side

00:16:19of the contract

00:16:19close enough

00:16:20that I can smell his cologne

00:16:21and feel the warmth

00:16:22radiating off his skin.

00:16:25It's natural we fuck.

00:16:28My breath stops.

00:16:33Do you want me to fuck you?

00:16:37There is no good answer

00:16:38to that question.

00:16:44There is only the truth.

00:16:46Yes.

00:16:47Obviously.

00:16:48Embarrassingly.

00:16:50Inconveniently yes.

00:16:51And the reason behind it

00:16:53which I can never tell him.

00:16:58That's what husbands

00:16:59and wives do.

00:17:01We're not real husband and wife.

00:17:04This is a contract.

00:17:08You're attractive and rich.

00:17:11Any woman would want you.

00:17:16He tilts his head.

00:17:18Something dangerous

00:17:19flickering in his eyes.

00:17:21You think I'm attractive?

00:17:26Yes.

00:17:27Are you lying to me?

00:17:32No.

00:17:34I'm not lying.

00:17:35That's the problem.

00:17:38I'm not lying at all

00:17:39and he can see it.

00:17:40and the slow curve of his mouth

00:17:43tells me he's been able

00:17:44to see it this whole time.

00:17:46He lifts me onto the table

00:17:48in one motion.

00:17:49I gasp.

00:17:51Not in fear,

00:17:52which would make sense,

00:17:54in something that runs

00:17:55hotter than fear.

00:17:57He nudges my knees apart.

00:17:59Not roughly,

00:18:00just firmly,

00:18:01with the uncurried confidence

00:18:03of a man who already knows

00:18:04the answer.

00:18:08You can lie with words,

00:18:10not with your body.

00:18:12His hand slides up

00:18:13my inner thigh.

00:18:19Tell me you want me.

00:18:20Tell me it's not just

00:18:21the contract.

00:18:22And God help me,

00:18:23I do.

00:18:31She's sitting on my

00:18:32conference table

00:18:33with her knees apart

00:18:35and her eyes blown wide

00:18:37and I have never wanted

00:18:38to ruin someone

00:18:39so completely in my life.

00:18:44I pull my hand back slowly,

00:18:46letting her watch

00:18:47her own wetness

00:18:48dripping on my fingers.

00:18:51Her breath stutters.

00:18:53Is this for me?

00:18:58Do I get you this wet

00:18:59just by talking to you?

00:19:05Yes.

00:19:06Her voice comes out

00:19:07wrecked and small

00:19:08and honest

00:19:10and it pulls me back

00:19:12from the edge

00:19:12of something I can't afford.

00:19:15That voice.

00:19:17That lying,

00:19:18beautiful voice.

00:19:20I know something happened

00:19:21between her and Franco.

00:19:22I've known since

00:19:24the moment I walked

00:19:24into her apartment

00:19:25and found her on the floor

00:19:27because I wasn't there

00:19:28to rescue her.

00:19:29I was there to make her talk.

00:19:33Franco's men

00:19:33were already scattering

00:19:34when I kicked the door in.

00:19:36I had my gun up,

00:19:38finger on the trigger,

00:19:39Franco in my sights.

00:19:41And then I saw her.

00:19:43I curled on the floor,

00:19:45shaking.

00:19:47small in a way

00:19:48that hit me somewhere

00:19:48I don't let things hit me.

00:19:50I lowered the gun.

00:19:52I crossed the room.

00:19:54And the second she threw herself

00:19:56against

00:19:57it's my chest.

00:19:59I let out a breath

00:20:00I hadn't known

00:20:01I was holding.

00:20:05The will I showed her,

00:20:07I fabricated it.

00:20:09My nanny,

00:20:10Letrisha,

00:20:11was a kind woman,

00:20:12not a wealthy one.

00:20:14She didn't leave

00:20:16a million dollars.

00:20:17I forged every page.

00:20:20I needed a reason

00:20:21to keep Mia close.

00:20:24Somewhere I could watch her.

00:20:27Pull the truth

00:20:28out of her slowly.

00:20:29But that day,

00:20:30with her crying

00:20:32in my arms,

00:20:33I stopped caring

00:20:34about the plan.

00:20:36I decided I had

00:20:37to have her.

00:20:38One way or another,

00:20:40I never expected

00:20:41the other way

00:20:42to involve this many lies.

00:20:44I hate lies.

00:20:49Mia.

00:20:51You have no idea

00:20:52I'm going to torture

00:20:53the truth out of you.

00:20:54I shove my hand

00:20:56back between her legs.

00:20:58Fingers flying

00:20:59to my shoulders.

00:21:03Tell me to stop

00:21:04if you don't want this.

00:21:09She doesn't stop me.

00:21:11Good.

00:21:12I push her panties aside

00:21:13and press one finger

00:21:15inside her.

00:21:15She moans,

00:21:16hips rolling forward

00:21:17instinctually.

00:21:21Hands gripping my shoulders

00:21:22like she needs something

00:21:23to hold on to.

00:21:27Emilio.

00:21:28God.

00:21:30My name in her mouth

00:21:31like that.

00:21:34I add a second finger

00:21:36and move faster.

00:21:37Watching her come undone.

00:21:39And I am aching

00:21:40with how much

00:21:41I want her.

00:21:43But I have a mission.

00:21:44I need her confession.

00:21:47If I handed you

00:21:48the inheritance right now,

00:21:49no strings,

00:21:51no cracks,

00:21:51would you still want me?

00:21:53Emilio.

00:21:54Answer me!

00:21:56Yes!

00:21:57More lies.

00:21:59Oh, you little liar.

00:22:01You have no idea

00:22:02what you just walked into.

00:22:06He stops.

00:22:07The absence of his touch

00:22:08is so sudden

00:22:09it punches the air

00:22:10out of me.

00:22:10I look at him,

00:22:11chest heaving,

00:22:12completely undone,

00:22:13and his face

00:22:14has already closed.

00:22:15Composed.

00:22:16Cool.

00:22:17Like none of it happened.

00:22:21You're hiding something

00:22:22from me.

00:22:23Bad girls

00:22:24don't get to come.

00:22:25Sign the contract.

00:22:27Diego will help you

00:22:27move in tomorrow.

00:22:28I sit on the edge

00:22:29of the conference table

00:22:30with his handkerchief

00:22:31in my hands

00:22:31and the ghost

00:22:32of his touch

00:22:32still burning

00:22:33under my skin.

00:22:35And I stare

00:22:36at the closed door

00:22:37and try to remember

00:22:38who I am

00:22:39and why I'm here.

00:22:40Stay focused,

00:22:41Mia.

00:22:42Toas.

00:22:42One month.

00:22:43That's all that matters.

00:22:45His mansion is the size

00:22:46of my entire neighborhood.

00:22:47I drag my suitcase

00:22:48through the front door

00:22:49and try not to look like

00:22:50I've never seen

00:22:50marble floors before.

00:22:51The staff lines up

00:22:52to greet me.

00:22:53I shake everyone's hand

00:22:54and smile until my face hurts.

00:22:55And somewhere in the middle of it,

00:22:56Emilio appears from a hallway

00:22:58and I make the mistake

00:22:59of asking if I'll be

00:22:59staying in his room.

00:23:00We don't sleep

00:23:01in the same room.

00:23:04He gives me a guest room

00:23:06with a bed too big

00:23:06for one person

00:23:07and curtains the color

00:23:08of champagne.

00:23:09He drops a ring box

00:23:10into my palm

00:23:10without ceremony

00:23:11or eye contact.

00:23:12Wear it in public.

00:23:14It fits perfectly.

00:23:15I don't know why

00:23:15that makes my chest ache.

00:23:17Why are you so cold today?

00:23:18I thought we...

00:23:19Do you know what I do

00:23:19to people who betray me?

00:23:20No.

00:23:21I kill them.

00:23:22Every single one.

00:23:24Betrayal doesn't exist

00:23:25in my world.

00:23:26Are you keeping something

00:23:27from me, Mia?

00:23:28Tell him.

00:23:28Just tell him.

00:23:29The words crowd my throat.

00:23:30Franco Tomas,

00:23:31the knife,

00:23:32the deadline.

00:23:34When I look up,

00:23:35Emilio is gone.

00:23:36I need to get pregnant.

00:23:37I need to do something.

00:23:43This will have to do.

00:23:47I carry a plate of cookies

00:23:48down the hall

00:23:49like an offering,

00:23:50which, honestly,

00:23:50is exactly what it is.

00:23:52This is the plan.

00:23:52This is the whole plan.

00:23:54I push open the study door.

00:23:55Fifteen men look up

00:23:56at me simultaneously.

00:23:58Leave.

00:23:59Not you.

00:24:03I stand there

00:24:04tugging the hem

00:24:05of my shorts down

00:24:06and trying to look like

00:24:06I haven't just made

00:24:07a catastrophic mistake.

00:24:08You didn't just bring me

00:24:09cookies dressed like this.

00:24:10I didn't know

00:24:11you were in a meeting.

00:24:11I'm half-mined to shoot

00:24:12every man who was

00:24:13just in this room.

00:24:14Please don't.

00:24:15What do I do to a bad girl

00:24:16who interrupts my meeting?

00:24:17Do I bend you over this desk

00:24:18and spank your pretty little ass?

00:24:20I shiver.

00:24:20I should not shiver.

00:24:21I shiver anyway.

00:24:22Or do I force you down

00:24:23on your knees

00:24:23and make you take my cock?

00:24:24Or you could take me.

00:24:26I can give you an air.

00:24:32No.

00:24:33No condoms.

00:24:34You're not on birth control.

00:24:36I know.

00:24:36Something shifts

00:24:37in his expression.

00:24:38The heat drains out of it

00:24:39replaced by something

00:24:40colder and more careful.

00:24:41You want my baby.

00:24:42Why?

00:24:43Because your biggest enemy

00:24:44has my cousin

00:24:44and gave me a deadline

00:24:45and I have no other options

00:24:47and I'm terrified

00:24:48and I'm sorry

00:24:49because you're handsome

00:24:50and I'd really love to

00:24:52Get out.

00:24:53What?

00:24:54Get out.

00:24:56I slide to the floor

00:24:56and stand there

00:24:57for one horrible second

00:24:58completely exposed.

00:24:59The cookies,

00:25:00the shorts,

00:25:00the desperate transparent

00:25:01wanting of all of it

00:25:02and then I turn

00:25:03and walk out

00:25:04with whatever dignity

00:25:04I have left

00:25:05which is not much.

00:25:07I need a new plan.

00:25:10Serena,

00:25:10can you meet me?

00:25:11I need to tell you everything.

00:25:13Outside my window,

00:25:14the city hums and glitters

00:25:15like it doesn't know

00:25:15anything is wrong.

00:25:16Like the world

00:25:17is perfectly ordinary

00:25:18and I haven't spent

00:25:19the last week

00:25:19tangled up in a cartel king

00:25:21who sees straight

00:25:21through every lie I tell

00:25:23except the one

00:25:23that might get us both killed.

00:25:25What did I get myself into?

00:25:31Thank God!

00:25:32Are you okay?

00:25:33He didn't chain you up somewhere?

00:25:34He's not.

00:25:35No.

00:25:35No dungeons.

00:25:37I'm fine.

00:25:38You don't look fine.

00:25:39She's right.

00:25:40I don't feel fine.

00:25:41I feel like I'm playing

00:25:41three different chess games

00:25:42at once

00:25:43and losing all of them.

00:25:44I start to tell her

00:25:45about Franco,

00:25:45about Tomas,

00:25:46about the deadline.

00:25:47But before I can get past

00:25:48the first sentence...

00:25:49Are you okay?

00:25:50You seem terrified of him.

00:25:51Of course I'm terrified.

00:25:52His men run the entire

00:25:53East Coast.

00:25:54He could be listening

00:25:54to us right now, Mia.

00:25:55Serena, you're not making sense.

00:25:57Why do you even know

00:25:57so much about him?

00:25:58Who's your dad?

00:25:59Something shifts

00:25:59in her expression.

00:26:01Something serious

00:26:01and old and tired

00:26:02like she's been waiting

00:26:03for this question

00:26:04and dreading it

00:26:04at the same time.

00:26:06Mia, it's time

00:26:06you know who I am.

00:26:07The door exploding open.

00:26:08A masked man with a gun raised

00:26:10screaming at everyone

00:26:11to get on the floor.

00:26:12The cafe erupts into chaos.

00:26:13I freeze.

00:26:15I stand in the middle of it all

00:26:16and my body simply refuses

00:26:17to move like it's deciding

00:26:18whether any of this is real.

00:26:20Mia!

00:26:21Get down.

00:26:21I can't move.

00:26:23You deaf!

00:26:24I said down!

00:26:25The robber spots me.

00:26:26Move!

00:26:27Why can't I move?

00:26:35For one second,

00:26:36I think it's over.

00:26:37Marco, put it down.

00:26:39Please.

00:26:45I stand there

00:26:46with a stranger's arm

00:26:46around neck

00:26:47and think absurdly

00:26:48about the alley

00:26:48three months ago.

00:26:49About how I peeked my head out

00:26:51and said hello

00:26:51and said hello like an idiot.

00:26:52About how that one bad decision

00:26:53led to every bad decision

00:26:54after it.

00:26:55A chain of dominoes

00:26:56I set off the moment

00:26:57I dragged a bleeding cartel king

00:26:58off the pavement.

00:26:59I really shouldn't have saved him.

00:27:00Then the door opens again.

00:27:01Emilio walks in

00:27:02like he has nowhere else to be.

00:27:03Like this is a meeting

00:27:04he's scheduled.

00:27:05Gun raised,

00:27:06jaw set,

00:27:06eyes finding me

00:27:07in under a second.

00:27:08Oh yeah?

00:27:09Who's she?

00:27:09The president's wife?

00:27:10Emilio shoots him in the arm.

00:27:11The arm around my throat

00:27:12goes slack.

00:27:13I drop.

00:27:14Serena catches me.

00:27:16No you're fucking not.

00:27:17I don't see what happens next.

00:27:19The world tilts,

00:27:20goes soft at the edges

00:27:21and I stop being able

00:27:22to hold myself up.

00:27:23The last thing I feel

00:27:24before I feign

00:27:24is someone lifting me.

00:27:26His arms,

00:27:27his cologne,

00:27:27that particular steadiness

00:27:28that shouldn't feel like safety

00:27:30but does.

00:27:33I wake up in a bed

00:27:34that isn't mine.

00:27:34It's too big,

00:27:35too soft,

00:27:36smells too expensive.

00:27:37The ceiling is high

00:27:38and unfamiliar

00:27:38and for a disoriented moment

00:27:40I have no idea

00:27:40where I am

00:27:41or what year it is.

00:27:42Then I remember the gun,

00:27:43the arm around my throat,

00:27:44the sound of a shot.

00:27:45I sit up too fast.

00:27:46My head swims.

00:27:47Are you okay?

00:27:48He's still in his suit.

00:27:49He's looking at me

00:27:50with an intensity

00:27:51that doesn't belong

00:27:52on a face

00:27:52pretending not to care.

00:27:54I think so.

00:27:54Where am I?

00:27:55My bedroom.

00:27:57Your bedroom?

00:27:58I thought we had

00:27:59separate rooms.

00:27:59You also walked

00:28:01into my meeting

00:28:01in a pair of shorts

00:28:02and asked me

00:28:02to get you pregnant.

00:28:03The rules are flexible.

00:28:05Does that mean

00:28:06I can stay in your room now?

00:28:08Do you want to sleep

00:28:09with me that badly?

00:28:10Yes,

00:28:11says every nerve

00:28:11in my body.

00:28:12Yes,

00:28:12but not for the reason

00:28:13you think,

00:28:14says the part of me

00:28:14that remembers Tomas

00:28:16and Franco

00:28:16and the deadline

00:28:17that is still ticking.

00:28:18What if I say yes?

00:28:20His eyes darken.

00:28:21For one suspended second

00:28:22I think he's going

00:28:22to close the distance

00:28:23between us

00:28:24and my heart rate

00:28:25does something embarrassing.

00:28:26He stands instead.

00:28:27Adjust his jacket.

00:28:28Rest.

00:28:29Tomorrow's a big day.

00:28:30What's tomorrow?

00:28:31The engagement party

00:28:32where I tell the world

00:28:33you're mine.

00:28:33Am I falling for him?

00:28:34No.

00:28:35Focus.

00:28:35Tomas.

00:28:36One month.

00:28:39The next morning

00:28:40a small army arrives

00:28:41at my door.

00:28:42They work on me

00:28:42for two hours.

00:28:43I sit in the chair

00:28:44and let them

00:28:45and feel like a doll

00:28:46being dressed

00:28:46for a party

00:28:47I didn't ask to attend

00:28:48which is technically

00:28:49exactly what's happening.

00:28:51I slip out

00:28:51when they're arguing

00:28:52about earrings.

00:28:53Down the hall

00:28:53through the tall

00:28:54living room windows

00:28:55I spot Emilio

00:28:56outside with Diego.

00:28:57He's in a sharp suit

00:28:58and he's furious.

00:28:59Jaw tight,

00:29:00gesturing hard,

00:29:00words muffled

00:29:01through the glass

00:29:01but unmistakably sharp.

00:29:03He's beautiful

00:29:03when he's angry.

00:29:04I noticed this

00:29:05and immediately

00:29:05wish I hadn't.

00:29:09You're gonna tell me

00:29:10why you want my baby

00:29:11and what it'd have

00:29:11to do with Palacio?

00:29:13Who?

00:29:14The man at your apartment.

00:29:15He knows.

00:29:16He's known.

00:29:16The realization

00:29:17lands slowly

00:29:18and then all at once

00:29:19and I think about

00:29:19every moment

00:29:20since he showed up

00:29:20at my door.

00:29:21The conference table,

00:29:22the handkerchief,

00:29:23the drawer full of condoms

00:29:24and understand that

00:29:25he has been pulling

00:29:25at this thread

00:29:26the entire time.

00:29:27I don't know

00:29:27what you're talking about.

00:29:29Do you know

00:29:29what happened

00:29:29to the last person

00:29:30who lied to me?

00:29:32I cut out their tongue.

00:29:34and made them eat it.

00:29:35I hate them.

00:29:36I blink hard.

00:29:37He's a monster,

00:29:37I tell myself.

00:29:38Remember that.

00:29:39This isn't over.

00:29:40I know.

00:29:41It's never over.

00:29:42That's the problem.

00:29:45I walk in on Emilio's arm

00:29:47in a dress that cost

00:29:48more than three months

00:29:49of my old salary.

00:29:50Diamonds at my throat

00:29:51and I feel like

00:29:51a very convincing fake.

00:29:53Emilio greets people

00:29:54with a smile

00:29:55that doesn't touch his eyes

00:29:56and steers me through the room

00:29:57with a hand at the small

00:29:58of my back

00:29:58that feels like

00:29:59both a claim

00:30:00and a warning.

00:30:01Stay close.

00:30:02Don't talk to anyone.

00:30:03I'm not allowed

00:30:04to talk to people?

00:30:05You've caused enough

00:30:06trouble on your own.

00:30:07That wasn't in the contract.

00:30:08I'm a cartel boss,

00:30:09Mia.

00:30:10The contract won't stop me

00:30:11from doing whatever I want.

00:30:13I don't see Franco

00:30:14until his hand closes

00:30:15around my arm

00:30:16and yanks me

00:30:17into the shadows.

00:30:18Hello, little Mia.

00:30:19You didn't forget our deal?

00:30:21What are you doing here?

00:30:22Emilio invited.

00:30:23We go way back.

00:30:24Emilio invited him.

00:30:25The information sits

00:30:25in my chest like a stone.

00:30:27I think about the look

00:30:27on Emilio's face

00:30:28through the window.

00:30:29Furious.

00:30:29Deliberate.

00:30:30I think about this isn't over.

00:30:31You've been living with him

00:30:32for three weeks, little Mia.

00:30:34Why aren't you pregnant yet?

00:30:43What did you do to her?

00:30:44Nothing.

00:30:44We were just talking.

00:30:46Why don't you ask her?

00:30:47This is his land

00:30:48between us like a grenade.

00:30:49I watch Emilio's grip loosen,

00:30:51just slightly,

00:30:52just for a moment

00:30:53and see it on his face,

00:30:54the recalculation,

00:30:55the betrayal

00:30:55trying to find its shape.

00:30:57Our eyes meet

00:30:57and I have never felt

00:30:58so exposed in my life.

00:31:00Then Delion is there,

00:31:01murmuring something

00:31:02about engagement photos

00:31:03and Emilio exhale

00:31:04through his teeth

00:31:05and goes.

00:31:05I watch him walk away

00:31:07with his shoulders set

00:31:07and his jaw tight

00:31:08and something aching

00:31:09and hollow opens up

00:31:10in the middle of my chest.

00:31:12You know something's wrong.

00:31:13Tell him yourself

00:31:14before this ends badly.

00:31:15I can't.

00:31:17Under the bright lights

00:31:18of the photo area,

00:31:19Emanio and I stand

00:31:20six inches apart

00:31:21like strangers.

00:31:22The photographer

00:31:23keeps asking us

00:31:23to move closer.

00:31:24We comply in small,

00:31:26miserable increments.

00:31:26Is it that unborable

00:31:27standing next to me?

00:31:28Only when you're mad at me.

00:31:29I'm mad because

00:31:30you're hiding something.

00:31:31I can't.

00:31:31Perfect.

00:31:32Now give each other

00:31:33a little kiss.

00:31:34The silence that follows

00:31:35is approximately

00:31:36a thousand years long.

00:31:37Then Emilio grabs my chin

00:31:38and kisses me.

00:31:39It's not gentle.

00:31:40It's a question with teeth.

00:31:41Demanding and frustrated

00:31:42and searingly humiliatingly

00:31:44effective.

00:31:44The camera flashes

00:31:45go off like a small storm.

00:31:47That was my first kiss.

00:31:48That was my first kiss

00:31:49and he used it

00:31:50like propuntuation.

00:31:53His mouth was just there.

00:31:55Angry and warm

00:31:56and nothing like I'd imagined

00:31:57and I have absolutely

00:31:58been imagining it

00:31:59and that is a problem

00:32:00I don't have time for

00:32:01right now.

00:32:02He was furious

00:32:03and I still got turned on.

00:32:05What is wrong with me?

00:32:08Did you sleep with him?

00:32:09Who?

00:32:10Franco Palazzo.

00:32:10Is that what you're hiding?

00:32:11Is that why you wouldn't kiss me?

00:32:12No, I didn't sleep with him.

00:32:13You shoved me away

00:32:14like I was contagious.

00:32:14Because I couldn't breathe.

00:32:15I've never, I haven't.

00:32:16The fury in his expression

00:32:17shifts slowly

00:32:18like a tide going out.

00:32:20It gives way to something

00:32:20quiet and more careful.

00:32:22Breathe through your nose.

00:32:22He presses his lips to mine

00:32:24and this time

00:32:24it's nothing like before.

00:32:26Soft, slow,

00:32:27like he's asking

00:32:27instead of taking.

00:32:28Like he has all the time

00:32:29in the world

00:32:30and intends to use it.

00:32:31One more.

00:32:32I don't say no.

00:32:33I don't say anything.

00:32:34He kisses me again,

00:32:35deeper,

00:32:36one hand sliding

00:32:36to the back of my neck

00:32:37and I stop being able

00:32:38to think in anything

00:32:39but sensation.

00:32:40Warmth and the smell

00:32:41of his cologne

00:32:41and the ridiculous

00:32:42inconvenient certainty

00:32:43that I am in

00:32:43very serious trouble.

00:32:45Say yes, ma'am.

00:32:46Yes.

00:32:50Then he stops.

00:32:51Not all at once.

00:32:51He trails his lips

00:32:52down my throat

00:32:53unhurried while I'm still

00:32:54trying to remember

00:32:54what air is for.

00:32:55His hands are at my waist,

00:32:56mine are in his hair.

00:32:57The whole world

00:32:58has narrowed down

00:32:58to this locked bathroom,

00:32:59this basin,

00:33:00his mouth.

00:33:00But I don't think

00:33:01you deserve it yet.

00:33:02What?

00:33:02You're still hiding

00:33:03something from me.

00:33:04You and my worst enemy.

00:33:05I can't tell you.

00:33:06I'm sorry.

00:33:06He drops to his knees

00:33:07in front of me,

00:33:08parting my legs

00:33:09and I barely have time

00:33:10to process what's happening

00:33:11before his mouth is on me

00:33:13and my head snaps back

00:33:14and I forget every coherent

00:33:15thought I've ever had.

00:33:16You'll tell me eventually

00:33:17before it's too late.

00:33:19He's using this against me.

00:33:20I know he's using this against me.

00:33:22I can't make myself care.

00:33:24A security guard

00:33:25threatening to break it down.

00:33:26Promise me you'll tell me the truth

00:33:28or that guard walks in

00:33:29and finds you like this.

00:33:30That's...

00:33:30You can't.

00:33:31That's blackmail.

00:33:32Yes, I promise.

00:33:33I'll tell you everything.

00:33:34Turns back to me,

00:33:35eyes dark.

00:33:37Remember your promise.

00:33:40He leaves.

00:33:41I sit on the basin

00:33:42in the sudden quiet,

00:33:43chest heaving,

00:33:44ring glittering on my finger

00:33:45and press my hands to my face.

00:33:46He used pleasure as a weapon.

00:33:48And the worst part,

00:33:49the part I can't stop thinking about

00:33:51as I swipe off the basin

00:33:52and fix my lipstick

00:33:52and walk back out

00:33:53into the party

00:33:54is that I would let him do it again.

00:33:58Sleep well?

00:34:00Hmm.

00:34:01You don't look like you slept well.

00:34:03I can arrange a sleep therapist.

00:34:05You used sex to blackrail me?

00:34:06No, I don't need a therapist.

00:34:08I need a cop.

00:34:08You think a cop would help?

00:34:09No, because you're the cartel king

00:34:11and you do whatever you want.

00:34:13Not everything I want.

00:34:15Not when it comes to you.

00:34:16I don't know what to do with that.

00:34:17I look at my hands.

00:34:19I don't like being lied to, Mia.

00:34:20I grew up in this world.

00:34:22Betrayal is the worst and there is.

00:34:23But I'll wait.

00:34:24Tell me when you're ready.

00:34:25Something in my chest

00:34:26loosens just slightly.

00:34:28The first millimeter of relief in weeks.

00:34:30I'll tell you.

00:34:31At the right time.

00:34:32I need to think it through.

00:34:33That's all I need.

00:34:35I have money.

00:34:36You have peanuts.

00:34:37Buy whatever you want.

00:34:38I'll see you tonight, fiance.

00:34:40I look up from five credit cards

00:34:41and the ring on my finger

00:34:42and the ghost of his mouth on mine

00:34:43and I think about Tobos

00:34:45and Franco's deadline

00:34:46and the promise I made

00:34:47in a locked bathroom.

00:34:48I'll tell him.

00:34:49At the right time.

00:34:50My phone buzzes.

00:34:51It's a message from an unknown number.

00:34:53A photo.

00:34:53Tobos.

00:34:54Beaten.

00:34:54Barely consciousness.

00:34:55A map pin.

00:34:56One line of text.

00:34:57Come alone.

00:34:58I'm running some errands today.

00:35:00You can come along.

00:35:01Let's see how long you last.

00:35:05I know that's what it was.

00:35:06A list of errands Emilio

00:35:08had quietly arranged.

00:35:09A list of things

00:35:10I was supposed to need.

00:35:11A list of reasons

00:35:12to stay close to the house.

00:35:13I ditched them

00:35:14at the corner of Fifth and Carator.

00:35:15Slipped into a doorway

00:35:45while they ran past

00:35:46people.

00:35:47I'm not talking about that.

00:35:47I'm talking about

00:35:48why you're not pregnant yet.

00:35:49He looked up when he heard me.

00:35:50My stomach turned.

00:35:51He started pulling

00:35:52one of the women closer,

00:35:53making a show of it,

00:35:54watching my face.

00:35:57When something slammed

00:35:58into the building

00:35:59from the back,

00:36:00a sound like the world

00:36:01rearranging itself.

00:36:08Franco got one hand

00:36:09on my hand on my arm

00:36:09before a gunshot

00:36:10punched through the air

00:36:11and he dropped.

00:36:17Emilio stood in the doorway,

00:36:18guns still raised,

00:36:20still smoking.

00:36:21He looked at Franco

00:36:22on the floor

00:36:23for exactly one second.

00:36:26Then he looked at me.

00:36:28You okay?

00:36:28Did he hurt you?

00:36:29I couldn't make words happen.

00:36:31I just shook my head

00:36:32against his chest

00:36:33and kept shaking.

00:36:34Take care of the rest.

00:36:36We're leaving.

00:36:37Then he lifted me,

00:36:38literally lifted me,

00:36:39and carried me out

00:36:40of that building

00:36:41like I weighed nothing,

00:36:42like it was the most

00:36:42natural thing in the world,

00:36:44like he'd been doing it

00:36:44his whole life.

00:36:46Outside,

00:36:46the afternoon light

00:36:47was so ordinary

00:36:48it almost hurt.

00:36:51I kept waiting for him

00:36:52to put me down

00:36:53to say something cold,

00:36:54to remind me

00:36:55that this was a contract

00:36:56and feelings weren't included.

00:36:58He didn't.

00:36:59He just held me

00:36:59against his chest

00:37:00in the back seat

00:37:01while Diego drove

00:37:01and the city slipped

00:37:02past the windows

00:37:03like a film

00:37:03I wasn't part of.

00:37:04He set me

00:37:05on the living room sofa,

00:37:06carefully, gently,

00:37:08and told the staff

00:37:08to leave with a single look.

00:37:10The room emptied

00:37:10in seconds.

00:37:11It was just us

00:37:12and the afternoon quiet

00:37:14and the weight

00:37:14of everything

00:37:15that had happened

00:37:15in that filthy room.

00:37:16He threatened my cousin.

00:37:18He wanted me

00:37:19to have your baby

00:37:19so he could use

00:37:20the child as leverage

00:37:21against you.

00:37:22Why didn't you come to me?

00:37:23He said he'd kill

00:37:24Tomas if I did.

00:37:25Your cousin was

00:37:26looking at Galadio.

00:37:27He owed him money.

00:37:28They built this trap

00:37:29together for you.

00:37:31The word together

00:37:31landed like a storm.

00:37:36He gambled himself

00:37:37into a grave

00:37:38and Galadio owned him.

00:37:39I stared at my hands.

00:37:41The whole architecture

00:37:42of the past

00:37:42rearranged itself

00:37:43in my head.

00:37:44Toa sweeping

00:37:44on my floor.

00:37:45The threats,

00:37:46all of it planned.

00:37:47All of it aimed at me.

00:37:48Sorry isn't gonna cut it.

00:37:52I thought he was going

00:37:53to be cold about it.

00:37:54That's what I braced for.

00:37:56The cartel king voice.

00:37:57The gun on the table voice

00:37:58that I told you so

00:38:00wrapped in ice.

00:38:01Instead he said something

00:38:02I didn't expect at all.

00:38:04You own me.

00:38:06I dropped meetings

00:38:06to pull you out

00:38:07of that coffee shop.

00:38:08I kissed you

00:38:08at our engagement party

00:38:09when I should have been

00:38:10shaking hands.

00:38:10I couldn't kill you

00:38:11when you lied to my face

00:38:12three times

00:38:13and I tried.

00:38:14I sat there

00:38:14and I tried

00:38:15and I couldn't do it.

00:38:16Don't quote that stupid

00:38:17contract to me

00:38:17when you own me

00:38:18Mia Espinosa.

00:38:19body and soul

00:38:20as much as I own you.

00:38:23Kiss me like you own me.

00:38:25His jaw worked.

00:38:26He said something

00:38:27about not being able

00:38:28to stop once he started.

00:38:29I didn't let him finish.

00:38:30I grabbed his collar

00:38:31and pulled him down to me

00:38:32and for one second

00:38:33he went still

00:38:34with pure shock

00:38:35and then he took over

00:38:36kissing me like

00:38:37he'd been keeping it

00:38:37locked up for months

00:38:38which I think he had.

00:38:40Yes.

00:38:41Do whatever you want to me.

00:38:43Punish me.

00:38:44Fuck me like you own me.

00:38:45He looked at me

00:38:46for a long moment.

00:38:47Something fierce

00:38:48and half undone

00:38:49in his face.

00:38:51Don't say I didn't warn you

00:38:52Mia.

00:38:58There's a mirror

00:38:58above the dresser

00:38:59in his bedroom.

00:39:00I didn't notice it

00:39:01until he bent me

00:39:01over the drawers

00:39:02and his mouth

00:39:03found my neck

00:39:03and I looked up

00:39:04and saw us.

00:39:05His hands in my hair

00:39:06my face flushed

00:39:07his eyes burning

00:39:08into mine

00:39:08through the glass.

00:39:09Look in the mirror.

00:39:11Look how slutty

00:39:12you get from me.

00:39:13I couldn't look away.

00:39:14I'm the only one

00:39:15who gets to see you

00:39:16like this.

00:39:17Do you understand?

00:39:18Yes.

00:39:19Lift your dress.

00:39:21Watch when I take you.

00:39:23What followed

00:39:23I will not describe

00:39:24in detail

00:39:24because there are

00:39:25no adequate words

00:39:26for it.

00:39:26I'll say that

00:39:27every time my eyes

00:39:28dropped

00:39:28he cupped my chin

00:39:29and brought my gaze

00:39:30back to the mirror.

00:39:31Mine.

00:39:31Every time he said mine

00:39:33I believed him

00:39:33more completely

00:39:34than I've believed

00:39:35anything in my life.

00:39:36Mine.

00:39:38Mine.

00:39:41Mine.

00:39:42Afterward we lay

00:39:43in the dark

00:39:43his arm across my waist

00:39:45his breath slow

00:39:46and even.

00:39:47I stared at the ceiling

00:39:48and felt the particular

00:39:49silence of someone

00:39:50who has crossed a line

00:39:51they can't cross back over.

00:39:52You own me

00:39:53Mia Espinoza.

00:39:54I pressed my face

00:39:55into his shoulder

00:39:56and tried not to feel

00:39:57how much I wanted

00:39:57that to be true.

00:39:58Don't fall

00:39:59I told myself

00:40:00I was already falling.

00:40:04One week later

00:40:05I came home to flowers.

00:40:06That's not quite accurate.

00:40:08I came home

00:40:08to an abundance

00:40:09of flowers.

00:40:10A proliferation.

00:40:11A situation

00:40:11that had clearly escalated

00:40:12well beyond

00:40:13what any reasonable person

00:40:14would call a floral arrangement.

00:40:16Every surface

00:40:16in the living room

00:40:17held a different vase.

00:40:18The whole space

00:40:19smelled like a greenhouse

00:40:20had moved in

00:40:20while I was out.

00:40:21Standing in the middle of it

00:40:22introducing herself

00:40:23with a warm professional smile

00:40:24was a woman named Ollie.

00:40:26She was in her 30s

00:40:27polished

00:40:28very pretty

00:40:28and she was looking

00:40:29at the door behind me

00:40:30in a way

00:40:30that told me

00:40:31exactly who

00:40:32she was waiting for.

00:40:33Emilio came in

00:40:3330 seconds later.

00:40:34He stopped

00:40:35swept his eyes

00:40:36across the flowers

00:40:36then across me

00:40:37and something in his face

00:40:38went immediately soft

00:40:39and that way

00:40:39it only does

00:40:40when it's just us.

00:40:41Hello wife

00:40:42I missed you.

00:40:44He dropped kisses

00:40:44on my forehead.

00:40:45I held his forearms

00:40:47and forgot for a moment

00:40:48that there was

00:40:49a third person

00:40:49in the room.

00:40:51You must be Mr. Reyes?

00:40:52I'm Ollie.

00:40:53I'm helping Mrs. Reyes

00:40:54with the wedding florets.

00:40:55Emilio looked

00:40:56at all the flowers again.

00:40:57How many flowers

00:40:58does a wedding need?

00:40:59As many as I like.

00:41:00You told me

00:41:01I could have

00:41:02whatever I wanted.

00:41:03He leaned in close

00:41:04eyes warming.

00:41:06I was thinking

00:41:07of something else

00:41:08entirely when I said that.

00:41:09I shoved his chest.

00:41:10He laughed

00:41:11and pulled me

00:41:12into his side.

00:41:13I didn't notice

00:41:14Ollie's expression yet.

00:41:16I would.

00:41:19The roses

00:41:20were imported

00:41:21from Bulgaria

00:41:22apparently.

00:41:23Perfect for expressing

00:41:24passion.

00:41:25A good fit

00:41:26for your character, sir.

00:41:27I looked at Emilio.

00:41:29He was looking

00:41:30at me.

00:41:31What do you think?

00:41:32They look pretty.

00:41:33Ollie pivoted

00:41:34to Lily's

00:41:34before I finished

00:41:35the sentence.

00:41:36They open

00:41:37with just a little

00:41:38attention.

00:41:38And her eyes

00:41:39lingered on Emilio

00:41:41the way eyes linger

00:41:42when they're not

00:41:43really looking

00:41:43at flowers.

00:41:44They look cheap.

00:41:46Then orchids.

00:41:48High maintain

00:41:48to them.

00:41:49But a man like you

00:41:50can definitely

00:41:51afford to spoil

00:41:52someone.

00:41:53Stop.

00:41:54Both of them

00:41:54looked at me.

00:41:55I know what

00:41:56you're doing

00:41:57and I don't

00:41:59like it.

00:42:00Ollie gave me

00:42:00a polished

00:42:01innocent smile.

00:42:03Mrs. Reyes

00:42:04I assure you

00:42:04It's Mrs. Reyes.

00:42:06You're flirting

00:42:07with my man

00:42:07in my house.

00:42:09I don't like that.

00:42:11Emilio made a sound

00:42:12that was almost

00:42:12a laugh.

00:42:13He lowered his

00:42:14mouth to my ear.

00:42:15You're about to

00:42:15become a mob queen.

00:42:17Show her your claws.

00:42:18I turned back

00:42:19to Ollie.

00:42:20You're fired.

00:42:21You heard my wife.

00:42:22Security came.

00:42:23She went.

00:42:25The door closed.

00:42:26Emilio was grinning.

00:42:28You called me

00:42:28your man.

00:42:29Because you are.

00:42:32I told him

00:42:33he was sleeping

00:42:33on the couch.

00:42:34In respect

00:42:35this was optimistic

00:42:36of me.

00:42:37For what sin

00:42:38exactly?

00:42:38You didn't

00:42:39shut her down.

00:42:40You just

00:42:41stood there.

00:42:42I was looking

00:42:42at you the whole

00:42:43time.

00:42:43I didn't hear

00:42:44a word she said.

00:42:45That's not the

00:42:46point.

00:42:47Couch.

00:42:47I turned

00:42:48to walk away.

00:42:49He caught my wrist.

00:42:50I had about

00:42:51one second

00:42:51of thinking

00:42:52I'd won

00:42:52before he

00:42:53lifted me

00:42:53over his

00:42:54shoulder

00:42:54like I

00:42:54was a bag

00:42:55he was

00:42:55rearranging.

00:42:58I squealed.

00:42:59I couldn't

00:42:59help it.

00:43:00Put me

00:43:01down.

00:43:02You'll be

00:43:03down when

00:43:03I decide

00:43:04you're down.

00:43:04He carried

00:43:05me out of

00:43:05the room

00:43:06while I

00:43:06laughed and

00:43:07hit his

00:43:07back and

00:43:08told him

00:43:08he was

00:43:08ridiculous.

00:43:09he ignored

00:43:10all of

00:43:10it with

00:43:10complete

00:43:11serenity.

00:43:12On the

00:43:12other side

00:43:12of the

00:43:12city

00:43:13in the

00:43:13abandoned

00:43:13house

00:43:14where Franco

00:43:14had died

00:43:15Damien moved

00:43:16through the

00:43:16filthy rooms

00:43:16alone.

00:43:17He stopped

00:43:18at the

00:43:18body

00:43:18crouched

00:43:19down

00:43:19studied

00:43:20what was

00:43:21left of

00:43:21the man

00:43:21who had

00:43:21been

00:43:22his

00:43:22instrument.

00:43:22He stood

00:43:23up slowly

00:43:26he looked

00:43:27around at

00:43:27the decay

00:43:28the silence

00:43:29the ruined

00:43:30plan

00:43:32then he

00:43:32pulled out

00:43:33his phone

00:43:34guess I'm

00:43:35on my

00:43:35own now.

00:43:38The letter

00:43:39appeared with

00:43:40breakfast

00:43:41morning wife

00:43:42you got a

00:43:43letter

00:43:45I read the

00:43:46first line

00:43:46and went

00:43:46completely

00:43:47still

00:43:47it was an

00:43:48admission

00:43:48letter

00:43:49nursing

00:43:49school

00:43:49I never

00:43:50applied for

00:43:51this

00:43:51I did

00:43:51he said

00:43:52it casually

00:43:53like it

00:43:53was obvious

00:43:54like the

00:43:54most natural

00:43:55thing in

00:43:55the world

00:43:56was for a

00:43:56cartel

00:43:56boff to

00:43:57submit

00:43:57nursing

00:43:57school

00:43:58applications

00:43:58on behalf

00:43:59of a

00:43:59woman

00:43:59he'd

00:43:59coerced

00:44:00into a

00:44:00contract

00:44:00marriage

00:44:01how did

00:44:01you even

00:44:02know I

00:44:02wanted to

00:44:02go back

00:44:03he stopped

00:44:04moving

00:44:05turned to

00:44:05look at me

00:44:06with an

00:44:06expression

00:44:07I'd never

00:44:07seen on

00:44:08him

00:44:08before

00:44:09completely

00:44:09serious

00:44:10completely

00:44:10open

00:44:11the night

00:44:12you saved

00:44:12me

00:44:13you said

00:44:13you were

00:44:14a nursing

00:44:14school

00:44:14dropout

00:44:15the

00:44:15storage

00:44:16room

00:44:17the

00:44:17blood

00:44:19his

00:44:19voice

00:44:19fading

00:44:20in and

00:44:20out as

00:44:20I pressed

00:44:21gauze to

00:44:21his chest

00:44:22trying to

00:44:23keep him

00:44:23here

00:44:24I'm a

00:44:25nursing

00:44:25school

00:44:25dropout

00:44:27you'll

00:44:27survive

00:44:28he'd been

00:44:29carrying that

00:44:30for months

00:44:30I listened

00:44:31to everything

00:44:31you say

00:44:32he took

00:44:33my hand

00:44:33and kissed

00:44:33the back

00:44:33of it

00:44:34told me

00:44:34the semester

00:44:34started on

00:44:35the 18th

00:44:35two weeks

00:44:36he'd arranged

00:44:36bodyguards

00:44:37I started

00:44:37to object

00:44:38he said

00:44:38two

00:44:39not a

00:44:39convoy

00:44:39and I

00:44:40let it

00:44:40go

00:44:40then I

00:44:41sat

00:44:41very still

00:44:42looking at

00:44:42the letter

00:44:43the 18th

00:44:44my period

00:44:45was late

00:44:46more than

00:44:47late

00:44:47I thought

00:44:47about the

00:44:48soreness

00:44:48I'd been

00:44:49ignoring

00:44:49for a week

00:44:49and a cold

00:44:50plerry moved

00:44:51through me

00:44:51fast

00:44:52and certain

00:44:54bathroom

00:44:56I was already

00:44:57gone

00:45:00I sat

00:45:01on the

00:45:01bathroom floor

00:45:02for a long

00:45:02time

00:45:04the test

00:45:05was in

00:45:05my hand

00:45:06two lines

00:45:07unmistakable

00:45:08sitting there

00:45:09in the morning

00:45:09light

00:45:10like the

00:45:10simplest

00:45:11and most

00:45:11complicated

00:45:12fact

00:45:12in the

00:45:13world

00:45:14pregnant

00:45:14I pressed

00:45:15my palm

00:45:16flat

00:45:16against

00:45:16my

00:45:17stomach

00:45:17nothing

00:45:18felt

00:45:18different

00:45:18yet

00:45:19the same

00:45:19body

00:45:20the same

00:45:20skin

00:45:21but somewhere

00:45:21in there

00:45:22something had

00:45:22started

00:45:23something that

00:45:24was half me

00:45:25and half the

00:45:25man in the

00:45:26kitchen

00:45:26who had kissed

00:45:26the back

00:45:27of my hand

00:45:27and said

00:45:27I listen

00:45:28to everything

00:45:28you say

00:45:29the man

00:45:30who had

00:45:30carried me

00:45:30out of that

00:45:31building

00:45:31who said

00:45:32you own

00:45:32me

00:45:33and meant

00:45:33it with

00:45:33his whole

00:45:34body

00:45:34the man

00:45:35I needed

00:45:35to tell

00:45:36I thought

00:45:37about what

00:45:37it meant

00:45:37to be

00:45:38pregnant

00:45:38with the

00:45:38cartel

00:45:39king's

00:45:39child

00:45:39the leverage

00:45:40of it

00:45:40the danger

00:45:41of it

00:45:41the way

00:45:42a baby

00:45:43becomes a

00:45:43weapon

00:45:43in this

00:45:44world

00:45:44whether you

00:45:44want it

00:45:44to or not

00:45:45I thought

00:45:46about Tomos

00:45:47about all

00:45:48the traps

00:45:48I'd walked

00:45:49into already

00:45:50and then I

00:45:51stopped thinking

00:45:52about danger

00:45:52and just

00:45:53felt it

00:45:54I'm going

00:45:55to be a

00:45:55mother

00:45:55Emilio

00:45:56is going

00:45:57to be a

00:45:57father

00:45:57I wiped

00:45:58my face

00:45:59stood up

00:46:00opened the

00:46:01door

00:46:02Diego

00:46:02was in

00:46:03the hall

00:46:03where's

00:46:04Emilio

00:46:05meeting

00:46:06miss

00:46:06with

00:46:07Damian

00:46:07take me

00:46:08to him

00:46:09please

00:46:11it's

00:46:11important

00:46:12the boss

00:46:13doesn't like

00:46:13to be

00:46:14disturbed

00:46:15but something

00:46:16in my face

00:46:16must have

00:46:17convinced him

00:46:17he nodded

00:46:20I followed

00:46:21him out

00:46:21the test

00:46:22folded in

00:46:22my palm

00:46:23my heart

00:46:23running

00:46:23ahead of

00:46:24my feet

00:46:28Diego

00:46:28walked me

00:46:29to the

00:46:29study door

00:46:30and left

00:46:30I could

00:46:31hear voices

00:46:31inside

00:46:32Emilio

00:46:33and Damrian

00:46:33low and

00:46:34urgent

00:46:35I raised

00:46:35my hand

00:46:36to knock

00:46:36and stopped

00:46:37the test

00:46:38was still

00:46:38in my palm

00:46:39two lines

00:46:40the most

00:46:40important

00:46:41thing

00:46:41I'd

00:46:41ever

00:46:42held

00:46:42then

00:46:43Imadio's

00:46:43voice

00:46:43cut

00:46:44through

00:46:44the

00:46:44door

00:46:47my hand

00:46:48dropped

00:46:48I stood

00:46:49very still

00:46:50I knew

00:46:51I should

00:46:51walk away

00:46:52I knew

00:46:52that

00:46:53eavesdropping

00:46:53on the

00:46:53cartel

00:46:54king's

00:46:54private

00:46:55meetings

00:46:55was the

00:46:55kind

00:46:56of

00:46:56thing

00:46:56that

00:46:56ended

00:46:56badly

00:46:57in this

00:46:57world

00:46:57I pressed

00:46:58my ear

00:46:59to the

00:46:59door

00:46:59anyway

00:46:59he could

00:47:00have been

00:47:01useful

00:47:02he's

00:47:03Mia's

00:47:03only

00:47:03blood

00:47:04relative

00:47:04tied

00:47:05to

00:47:05Palosio's

00:47:06mob

00:47:07he was

00:47:08leverage

00:47:09what the hell

00:47:10is going on

00:47:11with you

00:47:12I'm just

00:47:12saying

00:47:13as the

00:47:13east coast

00:47:13cartel

00:47:14king

00:47:15you could

00:47:15play more

00:47:16strategically

00:47:16like not

00:47:17shooting your

00:47:18cousin-in-law

00:47:18in the head

00:47:19my blood

00:47:20went cold

00:47:24I couldn't

00:47:25move

00:47:26what I have

00:47:27with Mia

00:47:27is none

00:47:28of your

00:47:28fucking

00:47:29business

00:47:29Damien said

00:47:30something else

00:47:31something about

00:47:32fixing things

00:47:32with her

00:47:33keeping Tomas

00:47:34alive as a

00:47:35peace offering

00:47:35but the words

00:47:36were coming

00:47:37through water

00:47:37now

00:47:38muffled

00:47:38and distant

00:47:39shooting your

00:47:40cousin-in-law

00:47:41in the head

00:47:43Tomas

00:47:43was dead

00:47:45Emilio

00:47:46had killed

00:47:46him

00:47:46my cousin

00:47:48the only

00:47:49blood family

00:47:49I'd left

00:47:50the person

00:47:50whose life

00:47:51I'd accepted

00:47:51a mob marriage

00:47:52to save

00:47:52and Emilio

00:47:53had shot him

00:47:54while Tomas

00:47:55was under

00:47:55his roof

00:47:56while I was

00:47:57sleeping down

00:47:58the hall

00:47:58thinking I'd

00:47:59kept him safe

00:47:59Damien said

00:48:00something about

00:48:01the forged will

00:48:02next

00:48:02lying about

00:48:03her inheritance

00:48:04just to marry

00:48:05her

00:48:05a sound at

00:48:06the door

00:48:07Emilio's

00:48:08voice sharpened

00:48:09who's there

00:48:14I turned

00:48:15and ran

00:48:18I was packing

00:48:19before I

00:48:19fully decided

00:48:20to pack

00:48:21the suitcase

00:48:21was open

00:48:22on the bed

00:48:22and my hands

00:48:23were moving

00:48:24and the test

00:48:25was still in

00:48:25my fist

00:48:26I don't know

00:48:26why I kept

00:48:27holding it

00:48:28and Emilio

00:48:29came through

00:48:29the door

00:48:3020 seconds

00:48:30later

00:48:31face pale

00:48:32wait

00:48:32what are you

00:48:34doing

00:48:34what does

00:48:35it look

00:48:35like

00:48:35Mia

00:48:36let's talk

00:48:37I don't

00:48:38negotiate

00:48:38with the

00:48:38devil

00:48:39I tried

00:48:39to pass

00:48:40him

00:48:40he grabbed

00:48:41my arm

00:48:41stop

00:48:43let's talk

00:48:44I jerked

00:48:45free

00:48:45you lied

00:48:46you killed

00:48:47my cousin

00:48:47then you lied

00:48:48again

00:48:49there's nothing

00:48:50left to say

00:48:50he exhaled

00:48:51sharp and frustrated

00:48:53is killing your

00:48:54scumbag cousin

00:48:54really that big

00:48:55of a deal

00:48:55I stared at him

00:48:56I waited for a

00:48:57moment to feel

00:48:58shocked

00:48:58but there was

00:48:58none left

00:48:59of course he

00:48:59said that

00:49:00of course

00:49:00he was a

00:49:01criminal boss

00:49:01who ran an

00:49:02empire built

00:49:02on violence

00:49:03and I had

00:49:03somehow convinced

00:49:04myself that

00:49:05the version of

00:49:05him who kissed

00:49:06my forehead

00:49:06and listened

00:49:06to everything

00:49:07I said

00:49:07was the real

00:49:08one

00:49:08does a human

00:49:09life mean

00:49:10anything to you

00:49:11I'm a criminal

00:49:12boss

00:49:13you knew that

00:49:14when you signed

00:49:15the contract

00:49:17which you forged

00:49:19my aunt never

00:49:20wanted me to

00:49:21marry you

00:49:21did she

00:49:24a long silence

00:49:25he didn't deny

00:49:27it

00:49:27you added the

00:49:28marriage clause

00:49:29to trap me

00:49:30so what

00:49:30I run a mob

00:49:32be grateful

00:49:33I didn't take

00:49:34you by force

00:49:35the words

00:49:36landed like a

00:49:36slap

00:49:37grateful

00:49:37he wanted me

00:49:38to be grateful

00:49:38so grateful

00:49:39grateful

00:49:40grateful you

00:49:41dragged me

00:49:41into this hell

00:49:42got my cousin

00:49:43killed and got

00:49:44me

00:49:44the test was

00:49:45still in my

00:49:46hand

00:49:46I looked down

00:49:47at it

00:49:47the two lines

00:49:48looked back

00:49:49you'll never

00:49:50know I thought

00:49:51you don't

00:49:51deserve to

00:49:53I zipped the

00:49:54suitcase shut

00:49:57just let me go

00:49:58Emilio

00:49:58you know I can't

00:50:00in one motion

00:50:01I reached across

00:50:02him and grabbed

00:50:02the gun from

00:50:03his hip

00:50:03I had it pressed

00:50:05against myself

00:50:05before I thought

00:50:06about what I was

00:50:06doing

00:50:07the barrel cold

00:50:08against my ribs

00:50:08my hand shaking

00:50:09tears running

00:50:10down my face

00:50:11Mia

00:50:13his voice had

00:50:14changed completely

00:50:15all the cold

00:50:16stripped out of it

00:50:17either you let me

00:50:18walk out

00:50:19or I pull this

00:50:20trigger

00:50:23he went very

00:50:24still

00:50:25then he extended

00:50:26his hand

00:50:26palm up

00:50:27the way you'd

00:50:28extend a hand

00:50:29to a frightened

00:50:30animal

00:50:30give me the gun

00:50:31and I'll let you

00:50:32leave

00:50:33just like that

00:50:35yes

00:50:37you know I can't

00:50:38say no to you

00:50:39just give me the

00:50:40gun

00:50:41please

00:50:42the please

00:50:43undid something

00:50:44in my chest

00:50:45I hated that it

00:50:46did

00:50:47after a long

00:50:48moment I laid

00:50:49the gun in his

00:50:49palm

00:50:51he tucked it

00:50:52away without

00:50:52breaking eye

00:50:53contact

00:50:53we can fix

00:50:54this

00:50:54we can pretend

00:50:55none of this

00:50:56happened

00:50:57I can't pretend

00:50:59everything between

00:51:00us was built

00:51:01on lies

00:51:01he stepped

00:51:02closer

00:51:02his voice

00:51:03dropped

00:51:04thick with

00:51:04something he

00:51:05was fighting

00:51:05to contain

00:51:06my feelings

00:51:07for you

00:51:07aren't lies

00:51:08a tear ran

00:51:09down my face

00:51:10I looked at

00:51:11his face

00:51:11really looked

00:51:12at it

00:51:13this man

00:51:14who had

00:51:14saved me

00:51:14and lied

00:51:15to me

00:51:15and killed

00:51:16my cousin

00:51:16and kissed

00:51:17my forehead

00:51:17in the morning

00:51:18all of it

00:51:19true at the

00:51:19same time

00:51:20none of it

00:51:21simple

00:51:21I took his

00:51:22hand

00:51:22I placed

00:51:23the ring

00:51:23in his palm

00:51:24goodbye

00:51:25Emilio

00:51:25he stood

00:51:26frozen

00:51:26fist

00:51:27closing

00:51:27around

00:51:28the ring

00:51:28as I

00:51:29walked

00:51:29out

00:51:29the

00:51:30door

00:51:33I went

00:51:33to Serena's

00:51:34she opened

00:51:35the door

00:51:36before I

00:51:36finished

00:51:37knocking

00:51:37took one

00:51:37look at

00:51:38my face

00:51:38and pulled

00:51:39me inside

00:51:39without asking

00:51:40any questions

00:51:41she made

00:51:42tea

00:51:42she handed

00:51:43me tissues

00:51:43she sat

00:51:44with me

00:51:45on the

00:51:45sofa

00:51:45and let

00:51:46me cry

00:51:46until there

00:51:47was nothing

00:51:47left

00:51:47then she

00:51:48waited

00:51:48he killed

00:51:50my cousin

00:51:52he lied

00:51:53about the

00:51:54inheritance

00:51:56everything from

00:51:57the beginning

00:51:58was fabricated

00:51:59to get me

00:52:00into that

00:52:00house

00:52:01Serena

00:52:01was very

00:52:02quiet

00:52:02she handed

00:52:03me another

00:52:04tissue

00:52:07too quiet

00:52:10I looked

00:52:11at her

00:52:12Serena

00:52:14he killed

00:52:15my cousin

00:52:16why aren't

00:52:16you shocked

00:52:18she couldn't

00:52:19meet my

00:52:19eyes

00:52:19Serena

00:52:22why do

00:52:23you look

00:52:23like you

00:52:23already knew

00:52:24a long

00:52:25silence

00:52:25the kind

00:52:26that means

00:52:26the answer

00:52:27is going

00:52:27to change

00:52:28things

00:52:28I brought

00:52:29Thomas to

00:52:29him

00:52:30the room

00:52:31tilted

00:52:32what

00:52:33what

00:52:36my dad

00:52:37is a mafia

00:52:37don

00:52:40I heard

00:52:40the words

00:52:41I process

00:52:42them in a

00:52:42very distant

00:52:43clinical way

00:52:45the way

00:52:46you process

00:52:46information

00:52:47that is

00:52:48too large

00:52:48to fit

00:52:49into the

00:52:49ordinary

00:52:50world

00:52:51you lied

00:52:52to me

00:52:54for five

00:52:55years

00:52:56I hid it

00:52:57to protect

00:52:58you

00:52:58so you'd

00:52:59never get

00:53:00dragged into

00:53:00this mob

00:53:01world

00:53:02but then

00:53:03Emilio showed

00:53:03up and

00:53:04did you know

00:53:04he killed

00:53:05my cousin

00:53:06the silence

00:53:07that followed

00:53:07was the worst

00:53:08silence of my

00:53:09life

00:53:09yes

00:53:12Emilio shot

00:53:12your cousin

00:53:13in front of

00:53:13me

00:53:13I pulled

00:53:14away from

00:53:15her

00:53:15she reached

00:53:16for my

00:53:16arm

00:53:18Mia

00:53:18please

00:53:19my family

00:53:20doesn't change

00:53:21who I am

00:53:22what you mean

00:53:22to me

00:53:25you sound

00:53:26just like him

00:53:26I lied

00:53:27to protect

00:53:28you

00:53:30you watched

00:53:31him die

00:53:31and you didn't

00:53:32tell me

00:53:33I stood up

00:53:34she scrambled

00:53:35after me

00:53:36saying my

00:53:37name

00:53:37reaching for

00:53:38my arm

00:53:39I got

00:53:39to the

00:53:40door

00:53:41Mia

00:53:41wait

00:53:41we're done

00:53:42Serena

00:53:43I ran

00:53:46the street

00:53:47was cold

00:53:49Serena chased

00:53:50me for half

00:53:51a block

00:53:51before her

00:53:51phone rang

00:53:52and she

00:53:52stopped

00:53:52I didn't

00:53:53look back

00:53:53I just

00:53:54walked

00:53:54arms wrapped

00:53:55around myself

00:53:56no destination

00:53:56no plan

00:53:57just moving

00:53:58because stopping

00:53:59felt like

00:53:59drowning

00:53:59I thought

00:54:00about my

00:54:00mother

00:54:01who had

00:54:01died

00:54:01and left

00:54:02me in

00:54:02a world

00:54:02I didn't

00:54:02understand

00:54:03I thought

00:54:04about

00:54:04Toas

00:54:04who had

00:54:04sold me

00:54:05to a

00:54:05monster

00:54:05for gambling

00:54:06debts

00:54:06I thought

00:54:07about the

00:54:07ring I'd

00:54:08left in

00:54:08Emilio's

00:54:08hand

00:54:09and the

00:54:09test still

00:54:09folded in

00:54:10my pocket

00:54:10and the

00:54:11fact that I

00:54:11was pregnant

00:54:12and alone

00:54:12in the dark

00:54:13with nowhere

00:54:13to go

00:54:13the city

00:54:14moved around

00:54:15me

00:54:15indifferent

00:54:16a car

00:54:17slowed

00:54:17alongside me

00:54:18I squinted

00:54:20Emilio

00:54:20the door

00:54:21opened

00:54:22not Emilio

00:54:23Damien

00:54:28relax

00:54:29I'm not dragging

00:54:30you anywhere

00:54:31then what do you

00:54:32want

00:54:33I have orders

00:54:34to stay with

00:54:34you

00:54:35but

00:54:36I can

00:54:37take you

00:54:37to a

00:54:37safe

00:54:37house

00:54:38Emilio

00:54:39won't

00:54:39know

00:54:39he

00:54:40watched

00:54:40my

00:54:40face

00:54:41patient

00:54:41almost

00:54:42gentle

00:54:43I

00:54:43can

00:54:43even

00:54:44get

00:54:44you

00:54:44out

00:54:44of

00:54:44the

00:54:44country

00:54:47I

00:54:48stared

00:54:48at him

00:54:48Damien

00:54:49was

00:54:49smiling

00:54:50that

00:54:50easy

00:54:50smile

00:54:51hands

00:54:51in his

00:54:51pockets

00:54:52like he

00:54:52was offering

00:54:53him a ride

00:54:53to the

00:54:53airport

00:54:54nothing in

00:54:54his face

00:54:55looked

00:54:55wrong

00:54:55why

00:54:56would

00:54:56you

00:54:56help

00:54:57me

00:54:57you're

00:54:57his

00:54:57brother

00:54:58I'd

00:54:58like

00:54:59to

00:54:59balance

00:54:59out

00:54:59some

00:54:59of

00:55:00the

00:55:00bad

00:55:00I've

00:55:00done

00:55:00I'll

00:55:01handle

00:55:01your

00:55:01phone

00:55:02he

00:55:02put

00:55:03a

00:55:03tracker

00:55:03on

00:55:03it

00:55:03even

00:55:04works

00:55:04when

00:55:04it's

00:55:05off

00:55:05I

00:55:06looked

00:55:06down

00:55:06at

00:55:06my

00:55:06phone

00:55:07then

00:55:08at

00:55:08him

00:55:09then

00:55:09at

00:55:09the

00:55:09dark

00:55:10street

00:55:10stretching

00:55:10in both

00:55:11directions

00:55:11with nowhere

00:55:12to go

00:55:12I handed

00:55:13him the

00:55:13phone

00:55:14he

00:55:14took

00:55:14it

00:55:14and I

00:55:15climbed

00:55:15into

00:55:15the

00:55:15back

00:55:16seat

00:55:17I

00:55:17was

00:55:17so

00:55:17tired

00:55:18I

00:55:18was

00:55:19so

00:55:19tired

00:55:19of

00:55:19being

00:55:19afraid

00:55:20of

00:55:20running

00:55:20of

00:55:21trying

00:55:21to

00:55:21stay

00:55:21one

00:55:22step

00:55:31I

00:55:32reached

00:55:32for

00:55:32the

00:55:32bottle

00:55:33opened

00:55:34it

00:55:34took

00:55:35a

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00:55:36you

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00:56:00lap

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00:56:02was

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00:56:03what

00:56:06the

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00:56:10world

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00:56:13front

00:56:14seat

00:56:14Damien

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00:56:24little

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00:56:26idea

00:56:26what's

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00:56:27you

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00:56:28my

00:56:29arrogant

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00:56:35the

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00:56:42I

00:56:42was

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00:56:43knew

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00:56:46I

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00:56:47the

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00:57:20the

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00:57:29the

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00:57:40brother

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00:58:14the

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00:58:19Franco

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00:58:20thing

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00:58:21Franco

00:58:22Polano

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01:01:58pressed

01:01:58his

01:01:59lips

01:01:59to

01:01:59my

01:01:59forehead

01:01:59quick

01:02:00and

01:02:00fierce

01:02:00follow

01:02:01my

01:02:01lead

01:02:01we're

01:02:01heading

01:02:01to

01:02:01the

01:02:01chopper

01:02:02stay

01:02:02close

01:02:02stay

01:02:02quiet

01:02:03he

01:02:03had

01:02:04a

01:02:04gun

01:02:04in

01:02:04his

01:02:04hand

01:02:15like

01:02:15he'd

01:02:16been

01:02:16waiting

01:02:16since

01:02:17when

01:02:17does

01:02:17the

01:02:18cartel

01:02:18king

01:02:18use

01:02:19knockout

01:02:19drugs

01:02:19to

01:02:20sneak

01:02:20in

01:02:21Emilio

01:02:21stopped

01:02:22gun

01:02:22raised

01:02:23since

01:02:24when

01:02:24do

01:02:24you

01:02:24skip

01:02:24dinner

01:02:28Damien

01:02:28stepped

01:02:29out

01:02:29of the

01:02:29shadows

01:02:30in

01:02:31his

01:02:31hand

01:02:31raised

01:02:32between

01:02:32two

01:02:32fingers

01:02:33like

01:02:33a

01:02:33cigarette

01:02:33was

01:02:34the

01:02:34detonator

01:02:36since

01:02:37the

01:02:37day

01:02:37dad

01:02:38handed

01:02:38you

01:02:38the

01:02:38cartel

01:02:39his

01:02:40thumb

01:02:40hovered

01:02:40over

01:02:41the

01:02:41button

01:02:42Emilio

01:02:42moved

01:02:43in

01:02:43front

01:02:43of

01:02:43me

01:02:43without

01:02:43thinking

01:02:44about

01:02:44it

01:02:44blocking

01:02:45me

01:02:45with

01:02:45his

01:02:45body

01:02:46drop

01:02:46the

01:02:47gun

01:02:47brother

01:02:52Emilio

01:02:52dropped

01:02:52it

01:02:53you

01:02:54want

01:02:54the

01:02:54cartel

01:02:55fine

01:02:55I'll

01:02:56give

01:02:56it

01:02:57to

01:02:57you

01:02:57I

01:02:57don't

01:02:57want

01:02:57the

01:02:58stupid

01:02:58mob

01:02:58it's

01:02:59you

01:02:59it's

01:03:00always

01:03:00been

01:03:01you

01:03:01his

01:03:01voice

01:03:02had

01:03:02broken

01:03:02open

01:03:02and

01:03:03underneath

01:03:03the

01:03:03ease

01:03:04and

01:03:04the

01:03:04planning

01:03:04and

01:03:04the

01:03:05long

01:03:05patient

01:03:05game

01:03:05was

01:03:06something

01:03:06rawer

01:03:06something

01:03:07that

01:03:07had

01:03:08been

01:03:08sitting

01:03:08in

01:03:08that

01:03:08house

01:03:08for

01:03:09years

01:03:09growing

01:03:10in

01:03:10the

01:03:10dark

01:03:10then

01:03:10take

01:03:10me

01:03:11do

01:03:12whatever

01:03:12you

01:03:12want

01:03:13but

01:03:13let

01:03:14Mia

01:03:14go

01:03:14don't

01:03:15drag

01:03:15her

01:03:15into

01:03:16this

01:03:18it

01:03:19happened

01:03:19in less

01:03:19than a

01:03:19second

01:03:20Emio

01:03:20crossing

01:03:21the

01:03:21corridor

01:03:21in

01:03:21two

01:03:21strides

01:03:22shoulder

01:03:22dropping

01:03:22crashing

01:03:23into

01:03:23his

01:03:23brother

01:03:23the

01:03:24deconator

01:03:24flew

01:03:25from

01:03:25Damian's

01:03:25hand

01:03:26but

01:03:26Damian's

01:03:26smile

01:03:27came

01:03:27back

01:03:27colder

01:03:28than

01:03:28before

01:03:28no

01:03:30your

01:03:31offspring

01:03:31isn't

01:03:32getting

01:03:32out

01:03:32today

01:03:32either

01:03:34he

01:03:34turned

01:03:35to

01:03:35me

01:03:35slowly

01:03:36and

01:03:36in

01:03:36that

01:03:36moment

01:03:37nothing

01:03:37in

01:03:37his

01:03:37face

01:03:37was

01:03:38the

01:03:38cartel

01:03:38king

01:03:38nothing

01:03:39was

01:03:39the

01:03:40man

01:03:40who

01:03:40made

01:03:40rooms

01:03:40go

01:03:41silent

01:03:41and

01:03:41had

01:03:41people

01:03:42removed

01:03:42he

01:03:43just

01:03:43looked

01:03:43at

01:03:44me

01:03:44like

01:03:44I

01:03:44was

01:03:44the

01:03:44only

01:03:45thing

01:03:45in

01:03:45the

01:03:45room

01:03:45that

01:03:45mattered

01:03:46you're

01:03:47pregnant

01:03:48I

01:03:48nodded

01:03:49his

01:03:49jaw

01:03:50set

01:03:50he

01:03:51turned

01:03:51back

01:03:51to

01:03:52Damian

01:03:54not

01:03:54happening

01:03:57then

01:03:58we

01:03:58all

01:03:58die

01:03:59his

01:04:00thumb

01:04:00moved

01:04:01Emilio

01:04:01lunged

01:04:02he

01:04:03of

01:04:03them

01:04:03hit

01:04:03the

01:04:03window

01:04:03behind

01:04:04them

01:04:04and

01:04:04went

01:04:04through

01:04:05it

01:04:05in

01:04:05a

01:04:05shower

01:04:05of

01:04:06glass

01:04:06and

01:04:06frame

01:04:07and

01:04:07night

01:04:07air

01:04:11Emilio

01:04:13silence

01:04:15then

01:04:15the

01:04:16night

01:04:16outside

01:04:16was

01:04:16just

01:04:17the

01:04:17ocean

01:04:17and

01:04:18the

01:04:18dark

01:04:18and

01:04:19the

01:04:19sound

01:04:19of

01:04:19my

01:04:19own

01:04:19breathing

01:04:20ragged

01:04:21and

01:04:21desperate

01:04:22I

01:04:23ran

01:04:23for

01:04:23the

01:04:23door

01:04:26they

01:04:26were

01:04:26both

01:04:26on

01:04:27the

01:04:27ground

01:04:27outside

01:04:29unconscious

01:04:30not

01:04:31moving

01:04:31Damian

01:04:32face

01:04:32down

01:04:32in

01:04:33the

01:04:33dirt

01:04:33Emilio

01:04:34on

01:04:34his

01:04:34back

01:04:34with

01:04:35his

01:04:35eyes

01:04:35closed

01:04:35and

01:04:35one

01:04:36arm

01:04:36thrown

01:04:36wide

01:04:37and

01:04:37glass

01:04:37in

01:04:37his

01:04:38hair

01:04:38I

01:04:39heard

01:04:39voices

01:04:39Serena

01:04:40Marco

01:04:41running

01:04:41toward

01:04:41me

01:04:42I

01:04:42dropped

01:04:43to

01:04:43my

01:04:43knees

01:04:43beside

01:04:44Emilio

01:04:47Emilio

01:04:48Emilio

01:04:49wake

01:04:49up

01:04:49we

01:04:50have

01:04:50to

01:04:51go

01:04:51Mia

01:04:53Marco

01:04:54was

01:04:54already

01:04:54beside

01:04:54me

01:04:55hands

01:04:55on

01:04:55Emilio's

01:04:56chest

01:04:56pressing

01:04:57and

01:04:57counting

01:04:58I

01:04:59sat

01:04:59there

01:04:59and

01:04:59held

01:04:59Emilio's

01:05:00hand

01:05:00and

01:05:01watched

01:05:01Marco's

01:05:02face

01:05:02and

01:05:02couldn't

01:05:03breathe

01:05:04come

01:05:05back

01:05:05come

01:05:06back

01:05:06come

01:05:07back

01:05:11Emilio

01:05:12coughed

01:05:12his chest

01:05:14heaved

01:05:14his eyes

01:05:15opened

01:05:16everyone let

01:05:17out a breath

01:05:18at the same

01:05:18time

01:05:19I'm okay

01:05:22we need to

01:05:23move

01:05:23he started

01:05:24to get up

01:05:24I helped

01:05:25him my hands

01:05:26shaking

01:05:26choppers ready

01:05:27this way

01:05:28Emilio stood

01:05:30unsteady

01:05:31and looked

01:05:32at Damien's

01:05:32limp

01:05:33body

01:05:35you go

01:05:36ahead

01:05:37I need

01:05:37to finish

01:05:38him

01:05:41I'm not

01:05:42leaving

01:05:42you

01:05:42you want

01:05:43to watch

01:05:44me shoot

01:05:44my own

01:05:44brother

01:05:46I don't

01:05:47care

01:05:48you're

01:05:49pregnant

01:05:49Mia

01:05:51go

01:05:51his voice

01:05:52was gentle

01:05:53but final

01:05:53the voice

01:05:54that meant

01:05:54he'd already

01:05:55decided

01:05:55promise

01:05:56you'll

01:05:57come

01:05:58I promise

01:05:59Serena

01:05:59took my

01:06:00arm

01:06:00I let

01:06:01her pull

01:06:01me away

01:06:01looking back

01:06:02over my

01:06:02shoulder

01:06:03at Emilio

01:06:03standing over

01:06:04his brother

01:06:04in the dark

01:06:05he didn't

01:06:05look back

01:06:06at me

01:06:06he was already

01:06:07somewhere else

01:06:07somewhere cold

01:06:08and necessary

01:06:09he's going to be

01:06:10fine

01:06:10he's Emilio

01:06:11Reyes

01:06:12we were 20

01:06:12yards from the

01:06:13house

01:06:13then 30

01:06:14the helicopter

01:06:16was somewhere

01:06:16ahead

01:06:16its blades

01:06:17beginning to

01:06:18turn

01:06:18I kept

01:06:18walking

01:06:19he promised

01:06:20he promised

01:06:21he promised

01:06:25the world

01:06:25turned white

01:06:26the sound

01:06:27hit me a full

01:06:28second after

01:06:28the light

01:06:29a wall

01:06:29of pressure

01:06:30and noise

01:06:31that knocked

01:06:31me sideways

01:06:32Serena's grip

01:06:33tearing loose

01:06:34I turned around

01:06:35the house

01:06:36was on fire

01:06:37not catching fire

01:06:39already fire

01:06:40instant and total

01:06:41a column of flame

01:06:42reaching up into

01:06:43the dark sky

01:06:44the windows gone

01:06:45the roof already

01:06:46folding

01:06:46the air tasted

01:06:47like smoke

01:06:50I couldn't move

01:06:51Serena was saying

01:06:52something

01:06:53Marco was saying

01:06:54something

01:06:54the helicopter blades

01:06:55were louder now

01:06:56someone was pulling

01:06:57at my arm

01:06:58and I couldn't

01:06:59move

01:06:59because Emilio

01:07:00was in that

01:07:00house

01:07:00and he had

01:07:01promised

01:07:01and he was

01:07:02in that

01:07:02house

01:07:02the word

01:07:05came out of

01:07:05me like

01:07:05something being

01:07:06torn out

01:07:08Serena had

01:07:08both arms

01:07:09around me

01:07:09from behind

01:07:10holding me

01:07:10back

01:07:10I fought her

01:07:11I don't remember

01:07:12deciding to

01:07:13fight her

01:07:13my body

01:07:14just refused

01:07:15to go anywhere

01:07:15without him

01:07:20Marco was

01:07:21already running

01:07:21back toward

01:07:21the burning

01:07:22house

01:07:22calling into

01:07:23his radio

01:07:24I stopped

01:07:25fighting

01:07:25I just stood

01:07:27there in

01:07:27Serena's arms

01:07:28and watched

01:07:28the fire

01:07:29eat the house

01:07:29and felt

01:07:30the heat

01:07:30on my face

01:07:31and thought

01:07:31about a man

01:07:32in a study

01:07:32saying

01:07:33I listened

01:07:34to everything

01:07:34you say

01:07:35and a man

01:07:35in a corridor

01:07:36with his shoulder

01:07:37dropping

01:07:37and his body

01:07:37going through

01:07:38glass

01:07:38going through

01:07:39glass

01:07:40to keep

01:07:40a detonator

01:07:41out of his

01:07:41brother's hand

01:07:42going through

01:07:42glass for me

01:07:43the flames

01:07:44climbed higher

01:07:45the night

01:07:46was orange

01:07:46and black

01:07:47I pressed

01:07:48both hands

01:07:49over the small

01:07:50life inside me

01:07:51and I waited

01:07:53and I waited

01:07:54and no one

01:07:55came

01:07:57five months

01:07:58later

01:07:59that's what the

01:08:00subtitle would say

01:08:00if my life

01:08:01were a movie

01:08:02five months

01:08:03later

01:08:04a neat

01:08:04jump cut

01:08:06all the grief

01:08:07and the waiting

01:08:08and the nights

01:08:08I lay awake

01:08:09with one hand

01:08:10on my stomach

01:08:10and the other

01:08:11pressed to my

01:08:11mouth to keep

01:08:12quiet

01:08:12compressed into

01:08:13three words

01:08:14and a hard cut

01:08:15to a woman

01:08:15on a street

01:08:16corner in

01:08:16white gloves

01:08:18me

01:08:18I'm eight months

01:08:19pregnant

01:08:20and I'm wearing

01:08:21white gloves

01:08:21and I'm standing

01:08:22on a sidewalk

01:08:23watching a homeless

01:08:24man run

01:08:24he thinks he's

01:08:25running from the

01:08:26two cars that

01:08:27boxed him in

01:08:29he's not

01:08:30he's running

01:08:31from me

01:08:32the car door

01:08:34opens

01:08:35I step out

01:08:36Damien stops

01:08:38he looks older

01:08:39thinner

01:08:40five months

01:08:41on the street

01:08:41will do that

01:08:42five months

01:08:43knowing that

01:08:43the woman

01:08:44whose house

01:08:44you burnt out

01:08:45is carrying

01:08:45the air

01:08:46to the

01:08:46Ray S cartel

01:08:47and is looking

01:08:47for you

01:08:48that will

01:08:49do it

01:08:49too

01:08:49I pull

01:08:50off one

01:08:51gloves

01:08:51finger

01:08:52by finger

01:08:53hello

01:08:54brother-in-law

01:08:57my men

01:08:58take him

01:08:58before he

01:08:59can speak

01:09:01wait

01:09:02Mia

01:09:03we should

01:09:04talk

01:09:04yes

01:09:05we should

01:09:09the basement

01:09:10of the

01:09:10Reyes mansion

01:09:11is very quiet

01:09:12I had Diaz

01:09:13repaint it

01:09:14new lighting

01:09:15a good chair

01:09:16for me to sit

01:09:17in

01:09:17positioned at

01:09:18exactly the

01:09:18right distance

01:09:19I learned

01:09:20from the best

01:09:20after all

01:09:21I watched

01:09:22Emilio run

01:09:22this house

01:09:23for months

01:09:23I know

01:09:24how it's

01:09:24done

01:09:24I sit

01:09:25with my

01:09:26legs

01:09:26rapes

01:09:26crossed

01:09:27and my

01:09:27hands

01:09:28folded

01:09:28over my

01:09:29stomach

01:09:29and I

01:09:30watched

01:09:30two of

01:09:30my

01:09:30men

01:09:31work

01:09:32Damien

01:09:32screams

01:09:33he begs

01:09:34he says

01:09:35my name

01:09:35like it's

01:09:36a password

01:09:36that will

01:09:37open a

01:09:37door

01:09:37like some

01:09:38part of

01:09:38him still

01:09:38believes

01:09:39I'm the

01:09:39nursing

01:09:39student

01:09:40from the

01:09:40fast food

01:09:41restaurant

01:09:41who cried

01:09:42on a

01:09:42sofa

01:09:42and couldn't

01:09:43look Emilio

01:09:43in the

01:09:43eye

01:09:44I'm not

01:09:44her anymore

01:09:48I give

01:09:49the men

01:09:49a look

01:09:50they hit

01:09:50harder

01:09:51after a

01:09:52while I

01:09:52raise a

01:09:52hand

01:09:53and they

01:09:53stop

01:09:53the basement

01:09:54goes quiet

01:09:54except for

01:09:55Damien's

01:09:56raggled

01:09:56breathing

01:09:56and the

01:09:57distant

01:09:57sound

01:09:57of the

01:09:57city

01:09:58outside

01:09:59I stand

01:09:59up and

01:10:00walk over

01:10:00to him

01:10:04tell me

01:10:05where he

01:10:05is

01:10:05Damien

01:10:06looks up

01:10:07at me

01:10:07through

01:10:08blood

01:10:08his smile

01:10:09is still

01:10:10there

01:10:10somehow

01:10:11cracked

01:10:11and

01:10:11terrible

01:10:12come

01:10:13closer

01:10:14I'll tell

01:10:15you

01:10:18I

01:10:18leaned

01:10:19down

01:10:20his mouth

01:10:20was near

01:10:21my ear

01:10:21and I

01:10:22stayed

01:10:22perfectly

01:10:22still

01:10:23and waited

01:10:24he's

01:10:25rotting

01:10:25in hell

01:10:26just like

01:10:27you will

01:10:27be

01:10:28you

01:10:28stupid

01:10:28I

01:10:29straightened

01:10:29up

01:10:31I pulled

01:10:31the gun

01:10:32from the

01:10:32back

01:10:32of my

01:10:32waistband

01:10:35the

01:10:35one

01:10:36Diego

01:10:36had

01:10:36started

01:10:37leaving

01:10:37on my

01:10:37night

01:10:37state

01:10:38three

01:10:38months

01:10:38ago

01:10:38after

01:10:39the

01:10:39first

01:10:39two

01:10:39attempts

01:10:40on my

01:10:40life

01:10:40after

01:10:41I'd

01:10:41started

01:10:41running

01:10:41this

01:10:42operation

01:10:42alone

01:10:43and I

01:10:44shot

01:10:44Damien

01:10:44once

01:10:45he

01:10:46slumped

01:10:46I stood

01:10:47there for

01:10:47a moment

01:10:47and looked

01:10:48at him

01:10:49Emilio's

01:10:49brother

01:10:49the man

01:10:50who had

01:10:50built

01:10:50every trap

01:10:51I'd

01:10:51walked

01:10:51into

01:10:52the man

01:10:53who had

01:10:53burned

01:10:53down

01:10:53the house

01:10:54with Emilio

01:10:54inside

01:10:55it

01:10:55then I

01:10:56peeled

01:10:56off

01:10:56the other

01:10:57glove

01:10:57folded

01:10:58both of

01:10:58them

01:10:59together

01:10:59and walked

01:11:00out

01:11:03Diego

01:11:03was waiting

01:11:04in the

01:11:04Rorto

01:11:04with a

01:11:04package

01:11:05mail

01:11:06address

01:11:06to your

01:11:06name

01:11:07ma'am

01:11:07he held

01:11:08it out

01:11:08the label

01:11:09read

01:11:09Mia

01:11:10Espinoza

01:11:10I

01:11:11frowned

01:11:12I thought

01:11:13I changed

01:11:13my last

01:11:14name

01:11:14on

01:11:14everything

01:11:14could

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01:11:15from

01:11:16before

01:11:19I

01:11:19took

01:11:19it

01:11:23I

01:11:23opened

01:11:23it in

01:11:24the

01:11:24study

01:11:26a

01:11:26file

01:11:27legal

01:11:28documents

01:11:28a

01:11:29will

01:11:29notarized

01:11:30witness

01:11:31dated

01:11:31three

01:11:31months

01:11:32before

01:11:32Leshea

01:11:32died

01:11:33I

01:11:33read

01:11:34the

01:11:34first

01:11:34page

01:11:34and

01:11:34had

01:11:35to

01:11:35sit

01:11:35down

01:11:36100

01:11:36million

01:11:37dollars

01:11:38her

01:11:38actual

01:11:38inheritance

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01:11:40fabricated

01:11:40claws

01:11:40Amicio

01:11:41had

01:11:41invented

01:11:41to get

01:11:41me

01:11:42into

01:11:42his

01:11:42house

01:11:42the

01:11:43real

01:11:43thing

01:11:43the

01:11:44money

01:11:44she'd

01:11:44spent

01:11:44her

01:11:45life

01:11:45accumulating

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01:11:46always

01:11:46meant to

01:11:47give to

01:11:47the

01:11:47niece

01:11:47she wrote

01:11:48letters

01:11:48to

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01:11:48called

01:11:48her

01:11:49girl

01:11:49where

01:11:49it

01:11:49all

01:11:49started

01:11:50I

01:11:50thought

01:11:51Diego

01:11:52stood

01:11:52near

01:11:52the

01:11:52door

01:11:54Mr.

01:11:54Reyes

01:11:54would have

01:11:55found

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01:11:55of

01:11:56the

01:11:56inheritance

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01:12:01like him

01:12:01I

01:12:02turned

01:12:02to

01:12:02the

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01:12:03page

01:12:03and

01:12:03a

01:12:04small

01:12:04piece

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01:12:04paper

01:12:04fell

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01:12:05folded

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01:12:07a

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01:12:07cookie

01:12:07slip

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01:12:08picked

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01:12:13a

01:12:13book

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01:12:14the

01:12:14kitchen

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01:12:15have

01:12:15known

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01:12:16anywhere

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01:12:16said

01:12:17love

01:12:17at

01:12:17first

01:12:18sight

01:12:18I

01:12:19sat

01:12:19there

01:12:19holding

01:12:19that

01:12:19small

01:12:26wherever

01:12:27you

01:12:27are

01:12:30he

01:12:30was

01:12:30in

01:12:31Sicily

01:12:31I

01:12:32didn't

01:12:32know

01:12:32that

01:12:32yet

01:12:33I

01:12:33knew

01:12:34it

01:12:34the

01:12:34way

01:12:34you

01:12:34know

01:12:34things

01:12:35when

01:12:35you've

01:12:35been

01:12:35running

01:12:35someone's

01:12:36empire

01:12:36for

01:12:36five

01:12:36months

01:12:37and

01:12:37you've

01:12:37learned

01:12:37to

01:12:37read

01:12:38Diego's

01:12:38face

01:12:38there

01:12:39was

01:12:39somewhere

01:12:40he

01:12:40wouldn't

01:12:40look

01:12:40some

01:12:41piece

01:12:41of

01:12:41information

01:12:42that

01:12:42lived

01:12:42just

01:12:43behind

01:12:43his

01:12:43careful

01:12:44professional

01:12:44expression

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01:12:45he

01:12:45wouldn't

01:12:46tell

01:12:46me

01:12:46and

01:12:47I

01:12:47understood

01:12:47why

01:12:48Emilio

01:12:49had

01:12:49told

01:12:49him

01:12:50not

01:12:50to

01:12:50so

01:12:51I

01:12:56watch

01:12:56the

01:12:56ocean

01:12:57he'd

01:12:57been

01:12:58watching

01:12:58it

01:12:58for

01:12:58weeks

01:12:58the

01:12:59light

01:13:00changed

01:13:00the

01:13:01water

01:13:01changed

01:13:02he

01:13:02watched

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01:13:03with

01:13:03the

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01:13:04who

01:13:04has

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01:13:05not

01:13:05to

01:13:05go

01:13:05anywhere

01:13:06until

01:13:06they're

01:13:06ready Serena

01:13:08flew

01:13:08to Sicily

01:13:09on

01:13:09a

01:13:09Tuesday she

01:13:10found

01:13:11him

01:13:11on

01:13:11the

01:13:11balcony

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01:13:12than

01:13:12she'd

01:13:13left

01:13:13him

01:13:13the

01:13:13ocean wind

01:13:14moving

01:13:14through

01:13:14his

01:13:15hair

01:13:15she

01:13:16dropped

01:13:16a

01:13:16photograph

01:13:16on

01:13:17his

01:13:17lap

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01:13:17greeting

01:13:18him

01:13:18first

01:13:18in

01:13:19the

01:13:19photo

01:13:19Damien

01:13:20dead

01:13:22Emilio

01:13:22picked

01:13:22up

01:13:22the

01:13:22photo

01:13:23looked

01:13:23at

01:13:23it

01:13:24for

01:13:24a

01:13:24long

01:13:24moment

01:13:24that's

01:13:25my

01:13:26girl

01:13:29she's

01:13:29gonna

01:13:29be

01:13:29pissed

01:13:29if

01:13:30you're

01:13:30not

01:13:30there

01:13:30when

01:13:30she

01:13:30gives

01:13:31birth

01:13:32I

01:13:33can't

01:13:33see

01:13:33her

01:13:33like

01:13:34this

01:13:34you

01:13:35could

01:13:35show

01:13:35up

01:13:35as

01:13:36a

01:13:36worm

01:13:36and

01:13:36she'd

01:13:36still

01:13:37love

01:13:37you

01:13:37I'm

01:13:38tired

01:13:38of

01:13:38lying

01:13:39to

01:13:39my

01:13:39best

01:13:39friend

01:13:39again

01:13:42she'll

01:13:42forgive

01:13:43you

01:13:43Serena

01:13:44ground

01:13:44and sat

01:13:45down

01:13:45on

01:13:45the

01:13:45low

01:13:45wall

01:13:46beside

01:13:46his

01:13:46chair

01:13:47the

01:13:47mediterranean

01:13:48was

01:13:48the

01:13:48specific

01:13:48blue

01:13:49it

01:13:49gets

01:13:49in

01:13:49the

01:13:49late

01:13:50afternoon

01:13:50almost

01:13:51violet

01:13:51at

01:13:51the

01:13:51edges

01:13:52come

01:13:53back

01:13:53with

01:13:53me

01:13:53tomorrow

01:13:54I'm

01:13:54flying

01:13:54out

01:13:54in

01:13:54the

01:13:54morning

01:13:55no

01:13:57Emilio

01:13:58I'll

01:13:58return

01:13:58when I

01:13:59can

01:13:59stand

01:13:59on

01:13:59my

01:13:59own

01:14:00feet

01:14:01I

01:14:01want

01:14:01her

01:14:02to

01:14:02know

01:14:02I'm

01:14:02still

01:14:02the

01:14:02man

01:14:02who

01:14:03can

01:14:03protect

01:14:03her

01:14:04and

01:14:04our

01:14:04baby

01:14:05Serena

01:14:06stared

01:14:06at

01:14:06him

01:14:06for

01:14:07a

01:14:07long

01:14:07moment

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01:14:09a

01:14:09cartel

01:14:09king

01:14:16he

01:14:17helps

01:14:17me

01:14:17to

01:14:17the

01:14:17bathroom

01:14:18Serena

01:14:18laughed

01:14:19a

01:14:19real

01:14:19laugh

01:14:20surprised

01:14:20out

01:14:20of

01:14:21her

01:14:21she

01:14:21stood

01:14:21up

01:14:21and

01:14:22kissed

01:14:22the

01:14:22top

01:14:22of

01:14:22his

01:14:22head

01:14:23don't

01:14:23take

01:14:23too

01:14:23long

01:14:25she

01:14:25walked

01:14:25out

01:14:27Emilio

01:14:28stayed

01:14:28on the

01:14:28balcony

01:14:29until

01:14:29the

01:14:29light

01:14:30was

01:14:30gone

01:14:32he

01:14:33reached

01:14:33into

01:14:33his

01:14:34pocket

01:14:34the

01:14:35ring

01:14:35was

01:14:35small

01:14:36and

01:14:36cold

01:14:36and

01:14:36familiar

01:14:38Mia's

01:14:38engagement

01:14:39ring

01:14:39the

01:14:40one

01:14:40she'd

01:14:40placed

01:14:40in

01:14:40his

01:14:41palm

01:14:41in

01:14:41the

01:14:41bedroom

01:14:41and

01:14:42walked

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01:14:42from

01:14:43he'd

01:14:43been

01:14:43carrying

01:14:44it

01:14:44since

01:14:44that

01:14:44night

01:14:45through

01:14:45the

01:14:45crash

01:14:46through

01:14:46the

01:14:46window

01:14:46through

01:14:47however

01:14:47many

01:14:47surgeries

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01:14:48didn't

01:14:48fully

01:14:49remember

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01:14:49the

01:14:50months

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01:14:50physical

01:14:50therapy

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01:14:51balcony

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01:14:52sea

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01:14:53turned

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01:14:54his

01:14:54fingers

01:14:54he

01:14:55thought

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01:14:55the

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01:14:55in

01:14:56the

01:14:56alley

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01:14:56from

01:14:57the

01:14:57pavement

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01:14:57seen

01:14:57a

01:14:58woman

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01:15:13mother's

01:15:13stubbornness

01:15:14and

01:15:14her

01:15:14own

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01:15:18her

01:15:18face

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01:15:20hand

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01:15:20the

01:15:20ring

01:15:21the

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01:15:26one

01:15:27over

01:15:27Sicily

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01:15:29coming

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01:15:34months

01:15:34later

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01:15:35giving

01:15:35birth

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01:15:36easier

01:15:37I

01:15:37was

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01:15:40hate

01:15:40you

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01:15:41hate

01:15:42you

01:15:42Emilio

01:15:42Reyes

01:15:43almost

01:15:43there

01:15:44one

01:15:44more

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01:15:46hate

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01:15:47pushed

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01:15:49open

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01:15:50then

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01:15:50sound

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01:15:53certain

01:15:53of

01:15:54itself

01:15:54and

01:15:55the

01:15:55doctor

01:15:55was

01:15:56saying

01:15:56something

01:15:56I

01:15:56couldn't

01:15:57hear

01:15:57and

01:15:58someone

01:15:58was

01:15:58crying

01:15:58and

01:15:59I

01:15:59thought

01:15:59it

01:15:59might

01:15:59be

01:15:59me

01:16:00ma'am

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01:16:01need

01:16:01to

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01:16:01us

01:16:01you

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01:16:02seen

01:16:02your

01:16:02baby

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01:16:04just

01:16:04so

01:16:04tired

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01:16:05was

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01:16:06in

01:16:06a

01:16:06way

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01:16:14eyes

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01:16:16name

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01:16:20silhouette

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01:16:21the

01:16:21doorway

01:16:22not

01:16:23Diego

01:16:23not

01:16:24Serena

01:16:24not

01:16:25a

01:16:25doctor

01:16:26a

01:16:26silhouette

01:16:27that

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01:16:28one

01:16:28person

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01:16:29my

01:16:29life

01:16:29had

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01:16:30moved

01:16:32he

01:16:33was

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01:16:33his

01:16:33own

01:16:34feet

01:16:34that

01:16:34was

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01:16:35thing

01:16:35I

01:16:35registered

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01:16:36was

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01:16:40feet

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01:16:41hospital

01:16:41room

01:16:42wearing

01:16:42clothes

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01:16:42I

01:16:43didn't

01:16:43recognize

01:16:43thinner

01:16:44than

01:16:44I

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01:17:09months

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01:17:10he

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01:17:14you

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01:17:17window

01:17:18the

01:17:18city

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01:17:19morning

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01:17:23eyes

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01:17:24him

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01:17:25listened

01:17:25to

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01:17:26perfect

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The Blackmailed Bride - Falling in Love With a Criminal Boss

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