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After Rebirth, I Gave My Control-Freak Fiancé to My Stepsister #engsubtitle #fullmovie🎉🔥 | Bullet Cinema
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00:00:00My billionaire fiancé, Damien, did not love me. He loved control.
00:00:05In my last life, I tried to become his perfect wife, obedient, quiet, and easy to manage.
00:00:11I gave him everything, but he still chose my scheming stepsister every time.
00:00:15In the end, a car crash killed the woman he had spent years trying to cage,
00:00:19but death sent me back to the start, right before our wedding.
00:00:22This time, I will not beg for love.
00:00:24I am giving my controlling billionaire fiancé to my treacherous stepsister,
00:00:28packing my bags, and leaving New York forever.
00:00:30Their perfect world is going to burn, and I will walk away free.
00:00:36Manhattan's most exclusive VIP mic club was a blur of neon lights.
00:00:40I sat in the center of a private booth,
00:00:45and with perfect intention.
00:00:48Up by the second floor rallying, a paparazzi lens was pointed straight at us.
00:00:53Good. Those photos would be on Damien Blackhood's desk before morning.
00:00:58That was the whole point.
00:01:00Damien needed a wife who was spotless, graceful, and obedient.
00:01:03So I was going to rip his perfect wife fantasy apart with my own hands.
00:01:06If the scandal was ugly enough, he would call off the engagement himself.
00:01:09Then the air around me turned ice cold.
00:01:19In that split second, I could almost hear chains pulling tight from another life.
00:01:23In my past life, I loved him to the point of madness.
00:01:26I told myself his control was love.
00:01:29Then the Blackwood family code was placed in front of me.
00:01:31No nightclubs.
00:01:32No being alone with any man.
00:01:34No leaving New York without permission.
00:01:36He froze my passport and cut off every account I had.
00:01:39Then he clasped a diamond bracelet around my wrist and called it an engagement gift.
00:01:44It was not a gift.
00:01:45It was a GPS tracker.
00:01:47He sanded me down, piece by piece, until I became something quiet and hollow.
00:01:52The perfect Mrs. Blackwood.
00:01:55Then a car crash ended my suffocating life.
00:01:59I had been reborn on the night before our wedding.
00:02:01This time, I did not want Damien.
00:02:03I wanted to be Scarlet Vale again, so the first thing I did was find my father.
00:02:08I want to call off the engagement.
00:02:09What the hell is wrong with you?
00:02:11Marrying to the Blackwood family is the greatest opportunity of your life!
00:02:14He is so perfect, let Clara marry him.
00:02:16She is the dignified, obedient one.
00:02:18The ideal Blackwood wife, right?
00:02:22You are really willing to give it up?
00:02:24I did not wait for the rest.
00:02:26I booked an international flight and moved my passport somewhere Damien could not reach
00:02:31and called my best friend Mia.
00:02:32Come drink with me, which brought me here, to this moment.
00:02:37Who gave you the nerve to come to a place like this?
00:02:40I go where I want.
00:02:41What does that have to do with you?
00:02:58My blood ran cold.
00:03:00That bracelet.
00:03:01The same one that had locked away my freedom in my last life.
00:03:05Don't touch me!
00:03:09GPS tracking, heart rate monitor, entry and exit logs, synced in real time.
00:03:14Every step you take, I will see it.
00:03:17I want a public apology statement by tomorrow morning.
00:03:20You put diamonds on a cage and think that makes it something else?
00:03:25I held his gaze and said it clearly, one word at a time.
00:03:28I am not marrying you Damien.
00:03:30We are done.
00:03:34The car went silent.
00:03:35Damien's eyes snapped mine.
00:03:37Done?
00:03:38Done what?
00:03:39What the hell is that supposed to mean?
00:03:41For a second, I almost told him the truth.
00:03:44That the bride had already been changed.
00:03:46That Clara was the one his family would get.
00:03:49Then I stopped myself.
00:03:50I wanted him dreading every day until the wedding, convinced he was still stuck with me.
00:03:56Forget it.
00:03:57I was just mad.
00:04:02I'm taking you home.
00:04:03Sit properly.
00:04:05I kicked off my heels, pressed my bare feet into his expensive floor mat, and rolled the window down.
00:04:11When are you going to learn to behave like a Blackwood wife?
00:04:15Maybe in my next life.
00:04:16The rose stopped at the Vale Estate gates.
00:04:19I want that apology on my desk by nine tomorrow.
00:04:22And don't waste your time trying to take off the bracelet.
00:04:24I push the door open.
00:04:25I look down at the disgusting thing locked around my wrist.
00:04:29Then you'd better watch closely.
00:04:31I slammed the door and walked inside without looking back.
00:04:34Richard, Monica, and Clara were all waiting in the living room.
00:04:37My father, his ex-mistress turned trophy wife, and the bastard daughter they'd spent years polishing
00:04:42into exactly the kind of obedient, presentable girl Damien wanted.
00:04:47You reek of alcohol, and you wore a Blackwood engagement bracelet to a nightclub.
00:04:52Have you completely lost your mind?
00:04:54Don't be too hard on her, Richard.
00:04:56Though honestly, I'm not sure a family like the Blackwoods can afford that kind of reputation.
00:05:01Scarlet, Dad said he already spoke with the Blackwoods.
00:05:04Are you really sure you want me to take your place?
00:05:07A hundred percent sure.
00:05:09You've always loved picking up what I throw away.
00:05:11This time I'm handing it to you myself.
00:05:14No need to sneak around for it.
00:05:17Watch your mouth!
00:05:18Clara is steadier, smarter, and a far better fit for the Blackwood family than you ever were!
00:05:23Perfect.
00:05:24Just don't come crying to me when the whole thing blows up in your faces.
00:05:29I only hope you won't regret this.
00:05:31I would hate to see you lose everything because of one bad mood.
00:05:38Scarlet Veil never regrets a damn thing.
00:05:44A servant came hammering on my door first thing in the morning.
00:05:47Damien was downstairs.
00:05:48He stood in the living room like last night had never happened.
00:05:51First thing he checked was my wrist.
00:05:54The bracelet.
00:05:55Green light blinking.
00:05:57Then he looked up.
00:05:58The statement.
00:05:59I didn't write one.
00:06:00Blackwood's PR team buried those photos.
00:06:02I need that statement.
00:06:03Your rules do not apply to me anymore.
00:06:05I am not signing anything.
00:06:07When are you going to learn to do or told?
00:06:08Not in this lifetime.
00:06:10Right on cues, Clara appeared in a white dress, eyes faintly red, holding a printed statement.
00:06:15Damien, please don't be angry with Scarlet.
00:06:16She was upset last night.
00:06:18I wrote the statement for her.
00:06:19Will this work?
00:06:20Damien scanned it.
00:06:22When he looked back at me, the disgust was undisguised.
00:06:25Look at Clara.
00:06:26She knows when to be graceful, when to step back, when to put the family first.
00:06:30All you do is create problems.
00:06:35Scarlet just needs more time.
00:06:37The Blackwood charity gala is tonight.
00:06:39I can go with her and help her get through it.
00:06:42Help me with what?
00:06:43How to smile on cue?
00:06:46How to play the innocent girl in white while hiding the snake underneath?
00:06:50Enough.
00:06:51Add her name and release it.
00:06:52I did not sign it.
00:06:53You went to a nightclub as the future Mrs. Blackwood.
00:06:56It stopped being your personal guest the second you dragged my family name into it.
00:06:59If you refuse to do the right thing, I will do it for you.
00:07:02Then take Clara.
00:07:03She is always so good at doing the right thing.
00:07:04You are my fiancé.
00:07:06You will be at that gala tonight.
00:07:07Fine.
00:07:08This life, I was going to give him exactly what he wanted.
00:07:10Clara linked her arm through mine, going upstairs.
00:07:13Warm smiles.
00:07:14Nails digging into my skin.
00:07:15The second the door closed, I shook her off.
00:07:17Nobody is watching.
00:07:18Drop the act.
00:07:19Damien will be mine.
00:07:20On the wedding day, he will be grateful someone made the switch.
00:07:22A disaster like you has no business near the Blackwood name.
00:07:24Then why didn't you tell him just now?
00:07:25Scared that once he knows, he still won't want you?
00:07:27I won't just keep your mouth shut, Scarlet.
00:07:28I don't care about the you or your control freak fiancine.
00:07:31Happy wedding.
00:07:34The Blackwood Family Charity Gala was packed with Manhattan's most powerful people.
00:07:39Old money, new money, and the kind of influence that could buy both.
00:07:42I showed up deliberately in a floor-long thread backless gown, bold, unapologetic,
00:07:47and everything a Blackwood wife was not supposed to be.
00:07:50Clara wore white couture, pristine as a lily.
00:07:54When the waltz began and every eye in the room drifted toward Damis,
00:07:58Manhattan's most coveted heir stepped forward and reached right past me,
00:08:02his actual fiancé, to offer his hand to Clara.
00:08:05The socialite crowd broke into sharp, delighted whispers.
00:08:08Did you see that?
00:08:10He chose the stepsister.
00:08:12Honestly, I get it.
00:08:13Scarlet is a walking scandal.
00:08:14Clara is everything a Blackwood wife should be.
00:08:17Damien led Clara onto the floor without looking back,
00:08:19then threw me a cold parting shot.
00:08:21You do not know how to dance at this level.
00:08:23Stay where you are and watch Clara.
00:08:26Maybe you will finally learn something.
00:08:29I watched them turn beneath the chandeliers and felt nothing but revulsion.
00:08:34I slipped upstairs to the terrace for air, desperate to breathe something that did not feel like a trap.
00:08:39Of course, Clara followed.
00:08:41Her heels clicked up the stairs like she had been attached to my shadow all night.
00:08:45She wore the face of someone who had already won, and when she spoke, her voice was low and vicious.
00:08:50Poor Scarlet.
00:08:51Your mother could not beat mine, and now you cannot beat me either.
00:08:56Losing must run in your blood.
00:08:57She should have said anything else.
00:08:59Anything but that.
00:09:00She had insulted my dead mother.
00:09:02My eyes went cold.
00:09:03Without a word, I drew back and slapped her heart across the face.
00:09:06The crack cut through the night air.
00:09:08Clara's head snapped to the side, and her cheek flushed red almost instantly.
00:09:12She screamed.
00:09:14You crazy bitch!
00:09:15You actually hit me?
00:09:17I closed the distance and grabbed her by the neck.
00:09:19Hit you?
00:09:20I can do a lot worse than hit you.
00:09:22I trained in MMA, Clara.
00:09:25Taking apart a fake, fragile little thing like you would barely count as exercise.
00:09:29I whipped one leg up in a clean sidekick.
00:09:36The courtyard below erupted into screaming chaos.
00:09:38I straightened my dress, picked up my wrap, and turned to leave.
00:09:41But I had not made it three steps before Damien's hand clamped around my wrist like a vice.
00:09:46His eyes were bloodshot with rage, and his voice was cold enough to freeze the air between us.
00:09:50Clara fell from the terrace.
00:09:52Was it you?
00:09:53I met his eyes without flinching.
00:09:55Yes.
00:09:56She had it coming.
00:09:58You are beyond saving.
00:10:00Since she refuses to apologize, she needs to learn a lesson.
00:10:03Throw her into the estate fountain.
00:10:04No one lets her out until I say so.
00:10:06The bodyguards grabbed me before I could fight them off.
00:10:09No matter how hard I struggled,
00:10:10they dragged me across the courtyard and threw me straight into the fountain.
00:10:13The water was freezing cold, but it was liquid water, not ice.
00:10:17The spring night air cut like a blade, and the cold sank straight into my bones.
00:10:21Every time I clawed for the marble rim of the fountain,
00:10:24the guard standing along the edge pushed me back under without a word.
00:10:27The struggle drained me fast.
00:10:30Then something worse hit me.
00:10:31A sharp, familiar cramp twisted low in my abdomen.
00:10:34My period had come early.
00:10:36Blood seeped into the cold water around me,
00:10:38spreading in slow, dark ribbons beneath the surface.
00:10:41I was trembling, barely conscious,
00:10:43when I heard one of the guards call Damien.
00:10:45Sir, Miss Val just got her period.
00:10:46There is blood in the water.
00:10:47Should we keep going?
00:10:48There was a brief silence on the other end.
00:10:50Keep going.
00:10:50She will never learn if she does not suffer the consequences.
00:10:53In that moment, my blood ran colder than the fountain ever could.
00:10:55The despair of two lifetimes crashed down over me,
00:10:58all at once, and the world went black.
00:11:04When I opened my eyes again,
00:11:06I was in a hospital room that smelled sharply of antiseptic.
00:11:08Damien was sitting at my bedside.
00:11:10When he saw me wake up,
00:11:11he released my hand with an expression of careful indifference.
00:11:14I spoke with your father.
00:11:15He will not give you any more trouble.
00:11:17But do not ever go after Clara.
00:11:20Clara is my father's precious little affair daughter.
00:11:23She is not my problem,
00:11:25and I am not promising you a damn thing.
00:11:31Mr. Blackwood,
00:11:32Clara is getting very upset in the next room.
00:11:34She has been crying and asking for you.
00:11:38I will go check on her.
00:11:39She was hurt because of you.
00:11:41As your fiancée, it is only proper that I go.
00:11:47Go on, then.
00:11:47Run to your real fiancée.
00:11:49On the day I was discharged,
00:11:51Damien forced me back into the car
00:11:53and drove me to the Vale Estate.
00:11:54But when I pushed open my bedroom door,
00:11:56my blood went cold.
00:11:58Clara was sitting at my vanity,
00:11:59dangling a sapphire necklace from her fingertips.
00:12:01My mother's sapphire necklace.
00:12:03The only thing she had left me.
00:12:05I crossed the room in three steps.
00:12:07My voice stripped down to nothing.
00:12:09Put it down and get out.
00:12:12Yours?
00:12:14Scarlet,
00:12:14everything in this house is going to be mine.
00:12:25Daddy, I only wanted to look at Scarlet's necklace
00:12:28and she shoved me into the floor.
00:12:38What the hell are you smiling at?
00:12:40I looked straight at Clara.
00:12:41You love putting on a show?
00:12:42Fine.
00:12:43I will give you the performance of your life.
00:12:45I grabbed a metal pen from the vanity
00:12:47and drove it straight at the Clara's palm.
00:12:49Clean through.
00:12:50Pinned to the hardwood.
00:12:51Ah!
00:12:51You fucking psycho, you all sir!
00:12:53Now!
00:12:53Get this animal out of my house!
00:12:55You are no longer welcome in the Vale family!
00:12:57The servants dragged me to the door and threw my luggage into the mud.
00:13:01I bent down, pulled my mother's sapphire necklace out of the dirt and held it tight.
00:13:05It was raining.
00:13:05I stood sosed under an ornery until a black roll's pulled up.
00:13:08Damien got out without a word, put me in the car and drove me to his house.
00:13:12He came back with a first aid kit and started treating the mark my father had left on my face.
00:13:16Then the doorbell rang.
00:13:18Clara, banded hand, fragile expression.
00:13:20She walked straight into Damien's arms like she belonged there.
00:13:23Damien, I had to come.
00:13:24I was worried what she did to me, she is still...
00:13:25Damien's face darkened.
00:13:26Apologize to her.
00:13:27Right now, Scarlet.
00:13:29Not a chance in hell.
00:13:30We started arguing by the entryway.
00:13:31Damien reached for my arm and I shoved him off.
00:13:34In the struggle, his elbow knocked into the glass kettle sitting on the side cabinet.
00:13:37The kettle reacted to the floor and shattered.
00:13:39Scalding water exploded across the marble.
00:13:41He threw himself around Clara and covered her completely.
00:13:43I was on the other side.
00:13:44The boiling water splashed across my legs and arm.
00:13:46My skin turned red almost at once, then started to blister and peel.
00:13:49Damien checked Clara first.
00:13:51She was fine.
00:13:52Then he glanced at me on the floor, bent down, and picked Clara up.
00:13:54Leave her.
00:13:55A little pain might teach her to think before she goes after you again.
00:13:58He left me alone on the floor, with scalding water still spreading around me.
00:14:04I sat on that floor, holding myself together through the pain, and called 911 myself.
00:14:09I got out of the hospital just in time for Clara's birthday party.
00:14:12Richard used the occasion to make a grand announcement.
00:14:14The majority of the Vale family's trust assets and shares would be transferred to Clara.
00:14:17Clara, in front of every guest in the room, took out a velvet box, and clasped a diamond necklace worth
00:14:22a small fortune around Clara's neck.
00:14:24Clara's socialite friends swept over with their glasses, making sure to spill red wine across my dress.
00:14:29Look at the ex-fiancé.
00:14:30You clean up like somebody's charity project.
00:14:37The bottle shattered.
00:14:39Blood and liquor ran together.
00:14:41The room erupted in screams.
00:14:43Damien was on me in seconds, crushing my wrist in his grip, his eyes loaded with contempt.
00:14:48Scarlet, what the hell is wrong with you?
00:14:51Apologize to them.
00:14:52Now.
00:14:53In your dreams!
00:14:54Damien laughed, but there was no humor in it.
00:14:56It was the laugh of a man who had run out of patience completely.
00:14:59He knew exactly what I feared most.
00:15:01Since you refuse to listen, you can sit in the dark and think about what you have done.
00:15:05Locker in the wine cellar.
00:15:06Nobody opens that door without my permission.
00:15:08They dragged me into the estates' basement wine cellar.
00:15:10Stone walls.
00:15:11No windows.
00:15:12No light.
00:15:13The heavy iron door slammed shut, and total darkness swallowed me whole.
00:15:18Three days and three nights.
00:15:19No water.
00:15:20No food.
00:15:21The fear nearly broke me.
00:15:23On the fourth day, the door finally opened, but it was not Damien.
00:15:27It was Clara, pushing in a piece of equipment I did not recognize.
00:15:31She was smiling like something out of hell.
00:15:33Damien said you needed to learn a real lesson, so I brought something to make sure it sticks.
00:15:37Two men in black dragged me to a metal chair and strapped me down.
00:15:40They pressed electrode pads to my temples.
00:15:43Clara hit the switch.
00:15:44The current ripped through me.
00:15:46The pain had no words.
00:15:48It only had sound, and the sound was mine.
00:15:52Then there was nothing at all.
00:15:55I woke up in the main house, in a proper bed.
00:15:58Damien was sitting beside me, frowning.
00:16:00I told you to stay in there and think.
00:16:02Three days.
00:16:03How are you this week?
00:16:04I opened my eyes and looked at him.
00:16:06Your precious Clara brought men into that cellar with an electric shock chair and used it on me.
00:16:10Do you believe me?
00:16:13Impossible.
00:16:14Clara's gentle.
00:16:15She would never do something like that.
00:16:16Scarlet, there is a limit to how far you can take a lie.
00:16:19He would never believe me.
00:16:21Fine.
00:16:21I would collect that debt on my own.
00:16:23That night, I hired a team and made the arrangements myself.
00:16:27That night, Clara had been bound, suspended in the open air through the entire night.
00:16:32Damien kicked my door in, the vein in his temple visible from across the room.
00:16:35You left Clara hanging off a rooftop all night.
00:16:37If it were not for the safety net at the base of the building, she would be dead.
00:16:41I sat by the window, trimming my nails without looking up.
00:16:43Damien slammed his hand on the table hard enough to rattle it.
00:16:45The wedding is in a few days.
00:16:47You are staying in this house until then.
00:16:49You are not going anywhere.
00:16:50Do you understand me?
00:16:51The night before the wedding, a still-shaking Clara was brought back to the Vale estate.
00:16:55Richard took one look at me and started screaming.
00:16:57Stay away from the wedding tomorrow.
00:16:58Don't you dare show your face and humiliate this family.
00:17:01I picked up the luggage I had already packed and smiled at him.
00:17:05Trust me.
00:17:07That suffocating circus is the last place I would ever want to be.
00:17:10You could not pay me to go.
00:17:16Wedding morning.
00:17:18When I came downstairs, Damien was already in the house.
00:17:21At Clara's insistence, the ceremony had been planned as an elaborate, old-fashioned church wedding.
00:17:27Damien couldn't see who was underneath it.
00:17:29He assumed his lessons had finally worked, that the sharp edges had been worn down,
00:17:34and the woman walking toward him had learned to obey.
00:17:37He stepped forward and took the bride's hand gently.
00:17:40Don't be nervous, Scarlet. I'm right here.
00:17:42I will teach you everything you need to know to become the perfect Mrs. Blackwood.
00:17:47Go on, Damien. Marry your dream wife.
00:17:50Consider it my wedding gift to you both.
00:17:53Once the procession left for St. Hart Cathedral, the Vale estate went completely quiet
00:17:59and flagged a cab to JFK.
00:18:02Inside the car, I pulled a small remote from my coat pocket
00:18:05and looked back at the house one last time.
00:18:08My mother had designed it.
00:18:10Now it sheltered the woman who had replaced her
00:18:12and the daughter who had spent years making my life hell.
00:18:15I was done with it.
00:18:20Miss, was that your house?
00:18:24Yes.
00:18:25I blew it up.
00:18:29St. Hart Cathedral.
00:18:31The vaulted ceiling soared overhead, and the pipework and filled the nave and grand with something.
00:18:35Every name that mattered in Hatton had shown up.
00:18:37At the end of the aisle, Damien stood in a perfectly tailored suit, precise, untouchable,
00:18:40watching the bride walk toward him.
00:18:42Today's bride was the long usual lace veil fell all the way down, hiding her face completely.
00:18:46Damien assumed all those cold lessons had finally worked.
00:18:48He assumed I had finally been worn smooth, and that the woman walking towards him had learned
00:18:51how to submit.
00:18:52The priest began the vows.
00:18:53Damien lowered his voice, speaking only to the bride in front of him.
00:18:56After today, I will personally teach you how to be a proper Mrs. Blackwood.
00:18:59He took the bride's hand and guided her toward the altar.
00:19:01As camera flashes stirred across the room, then came the moment everyone had been waiting for.
00:19:05The groom lifted the veil.
00:19:07Damien reached up with calm, certain fingers, caught the edge of the lace, and swept it back.
00:19:11For one breath, the cathedral seemed to freeze.
00:19:13The face in front of him was not the one burned into his memory.
00:19:16It was not the proud, defiant face he had spent years trying to control.
00:19:20It was Clara, flushed with excitement, her eyes bright with smug satisfaction.
00:19:24The cathedral went silent for one stunned second, before the whole room broke into chaos.
00:19:28Why is the younger veil daughter wearing the wedding dress?
00:19:30The half-smile on Damien's face frozen, then vanished completely.
00:19:34His pupils tightened like someone had struck him.
00:19:37In one violent motion, he flung the veil away as if it had burned his hand.
00:19:41Clara had no warning.
00:19:43The force sent her stumbling back and crashing to the floor, her headpiece crooked,
00:19:47and her white gown tangled around her legs in front of the entire congregation.
00:19:52Damien's voice tore through the cathedral.
00:19:54Where is Scarlet? Tell me where she is!
00:19:59The most prestigious society wedding in New York had just turned into the city's biggest scandal.
00:20:05Damien, just finish the ceremony.
00:20:08Richard told us a few days ago that the bride was being changed to Clara.
00:20:12We thought Clara was more suitable, more composed.
00:20:15The arrangement benefits both families' trusts and shareholding, so we agreed to it privately.
00:20:19She had assumed he would be relieved.
00:20:21His reaction told her she had never understood her son at all.
00:20:24Damien's personal stint pushed past security and sprinted into the hall, his face drained of color.
00:20:28Sir, it is bad. The veil estate exploded half an hour ago.
00:20:31The entire mansion is gone. There is nothing left but rubble.
00:20:34That sentence snapped the last thread of Damien's composure.
00:20:37If I had not come to the wedding, I had to be at the estate.
00:20:40That reckless, insane woman. Did she burn herself alive in there?
00:20:43It was enormous and bottomless, the kind of fear that only came when loss had already reached for your throat.
00:20:48He shoved his mother aside, ignored every voice calling after him, and ran.
00:20:53The black rolls tore through red lights one after another before screeching to a stop in front of what remained
00:20:57of the veil estate.
00:20:58Damien stumbled out of the car and stood before the scorched ruins, feeling as if something had been carved straight
00:21:04out of his chest.
00:21:05He screamed my name into the rubble until his voice broke.
00:21:08Then he shoved past the emergency crew and tore into the debris with his bare hands.
00:21:13The entire structure could have caved in at any second, but he did not stop.
00:21:17Get off me! She might still be in there! Let me through!
00:21:23His designer suit was shredded where the debris had caught it, but he did not notice.
00:21:27Rebarm sliced his palms open.
00:21:29Smoldering cinders burned blisters straight into his skin.
00:21:31Blood dripped into the sut, but he did not flinch once.
00:21:34There was only one thought left in him.
00:21:37He had to find her.
00:21:38His voice had gone raw.
00:21:40Scarlet, answer me! Come out here!
00:21:43I will never make you write another apology.
00:21:45I will never lock you down again.
00:21:48Whatever you want, I will give it to you.
00:21:50Just answer me.
00:21:52In the area where my bedroom had been, he finally dug out a small jewelry box,
00:21:56warped and half-melted, with the blackwood crest barely recognizable on the surface.
00:22:00His hands shook as he pried it open.
00:22:01Inside lay a diamond necklace fused into a molten shape.
00:22:04He closed his fist around it.
00:22:06The scorched, twisted metal cut into his palm, but he held on anyway.
00:22:09Guilt hit him like drowning, cold and total, with no way back to the surface.
00:22:13For the first time, he understood what his control had done to the woman he to love.
00:22:17I had always been bright, defiant, but he had spent years trying to grind that fire out of me.
00:22:21His certainty, his rules, and his need to own every part of my life had driven me to this.
00:22:26Then his assistant came sprinting across the debris field, holding a tablet and barely able to breathe.
00:22:30Sir, we found something. You need to see this.
00:22:33It was security footage from a discreet camera at a side exit near the estate.
00:22:36The timestamp was ten minutes before the explosion.
00:22:39A slender figure in a plain coat, pulling a small carry-on.
00:22:42Walked out of the Vale estate at an easy pace.
00:22:44She flacked a cab on the street.
00:22:46Just before getting in, she looked back at the house, raised her hand, and pressed something.
00:22:50Behind her, the fireball rose.
00:22:51The image was grainy, but Damien Crawford knew that face had burned into him for years.
00:22:55It was me, alive and untouched, walking out of the house by my own choice.
00:23:02The relief and a deeper, darker panic hit him at the same time, nearly knocking him off his feet.
00:23:06She was alive.
00:23:08That was everything.
00:23:09But she had done this with clear eyes and steady hands.
00:23:11She had blown up the house she had grown up in, set up a wedding day decoy, and walked away
00:23:14without looking back.
00:23:15This was not a tantrum, and it was not a cry for attention.
00:23:18She truly did not want him.
00:23:19She hated him enough to erase her old life in one morning, and she had meant every word she said.
00:23:24Damien pulled himself up from the wreckage.
00:23:26His eyes shot through with red, and his voice scraped raw.
00:23:28But there was something in it now beyond rage.
00:23:31Something dangerously close to desperation.
00:23:33Listen to me.
00:23:33Use every private aviation resource and every security network the Blackwood family has.
00:23:38I want every private terminal and border crossing in this country locked down.
00:23:41He locked eyes with his assistant.
00:23:42Track that cab.
00:23:43Pull passenger manifels and facial recognition data from every transatlantic departure.
00:23:47Search every route, every airport name she could have used.
00:23:49I want her found, and I want her found now!
00:23:52After giving the orders, he drove straight to the Four Seasons where Richard's family had taken a suite.
00:23:56Inside, Richard, Monica, and a shaken, pale-faced Clara were still trying to recover from the morning's disasters.
00:24:02Damien kicked the door open and walked in like something feral.
00:24:05Hands raised, were scrambled.
00:24:06Damien, please, let me explain.
00:24:07Scarlet refused the marriage herself.
00:24:08She voluntarily handed the contract over to Clara.
00:24:10We had no choice.
00:24:11Clara is gracious.
00:24:12She is well-behaved.
00:24:13And she is far more appropriate for you than that wreckage girl.
00:24:15She handed it over.
00:24:16Damien laughed.
00:24:17Low and terrible was the look you gave something already dead.
00:24:21Do you have any idea what you have done?
00:24:22Do you think I am some piece of property your family can pass around whenever it suits you?
00:24:26He overturned the marble coffee table.
00:24:28Shards scattered across the carpet.
00:24:31There is one woman who carries the name Damien Blackhold's wife.
00:24:35That woman is Scarlet.
00:24:37She was always in Scarlet.
00:24:38Now tell me where she is.
00:24:43Clara had been terrified from the moment Damien walked in.
00:24:46But watching him fall apart like this over the woman who had run away made her envy curdle into something
00:24:52vicious.
00:24:53It became stronger than fear.
00:24:55She threw herself forward and grabbed the leg of his trousers, looking up at him with tears streaming down her
00:25:01face.
00:25:03Damien, what does she have that I do not?
00:25:05I love you more than she ever did.
00:25:08I will follow every rule in that family code.
00:25:11I will be the perfect Mrs. Blackwood.
00:25:16Just look at me, please.
00:25:18Look at me for once.
00:25:20Damien looked down at her.
00:25:21There was nothing in his eyes.
00:25:23Not anger, not pity.
00:25:24Just naked, undisguised disgust.
00:25:26He stepped back, then kicked her away from him.
00:25:28Clara crashed into the corner of the sofa and gasped from the impact.
00:25:31Do not ever compare yourself to her.
00:25:34You do not even get to come close to a single hair on her head.
00:25:38The only reason you and your entire family ever mattered to me was because of Scarlet.
00:25:43Without her, you are nothing.
00:25:45I would waste a second looking at her.
00:25:46He did not stay to hear Richard and Monica beg.
00:25:49Clara!
00:25:50No, Sarah!
00:25:52He walked out.
00:25:54Back at Blackwood Tower, in the top floor office.
00:25:58He moved through the dark like something trapped in a cage.
00:26:02Pacing because he could not stop and could not think.
00:26:06Hours later, his assistant came in looking worse than before, holding a file with both hands.
00:26:11Sir, we found new records.
00:26:13Miss Vale filed an expedited single-entry exit visa through a private channel one week before the nightclub incident.
00:26:20One week before the nightclub?
00:26:22His feet stopped moving.
00:26:25The realization hit him like ice water.
00:26:28The nightclub, the dancer, the paparazzi, and even the bracelet had all been part of the same plan.
00:26:35Every time she pushed him, provoked him, and refused him.
00:26:39It had never been recklessness.
00:26:42It had never been a tantrum or some desperate game for attention.
00:26:45She had planned everything carefully, putting every piece in place long before he had ever thought she was capable of
00:26:51it.
00:26:52She had not stumbled into freedom by accident.
00:26:55She had built her escape step by step, and she had never once intended to come back.
00:27:03Damien braced himself against his desk, his knuckles turning white from the pressure.
00:27:08He stared at the date on the file as if it were the last thing left in the world.
00:27:13His stomach twisted violently, and regret hit him so hard it felt almost physical.
00:27:18He suddenly remembered how different I had been during those days.
00:27:22I had screamed the same thing at him again and again.
00:27:25I told him I was not marrying him.
00:27:27I told him we were done.
00:27:28Back then, he had thought it was just a spoiled heiress throwing a tantrum.
00:27:32He thought all he had to do was snap a tracking bracelet around my wrist,
00:27:36lock me up for a few days,
00:27:38force me to sign a public statement,
00:27:40and I would stay trapped inside that beautiful cage.
00:27:44But the truth was, that I had already decided I did not want him anymore.
00:27:49Was it the insane family code that had driven me away?
00:27:52Was it the way he kept taking Clara's side and blaming me every single time?
00:27:59Was it the night he threw me into that freezing fountain while I was bleeding?
00:28:04Or was it the simple fact that he had never once believed me?
00:28:08The question spread through Damien's mind like poison,
00:28:11but none of it changed the only thing he cared about now.
00:28:15No matter what it took,
00:28:17even if he had to use every dirty trick the Blackwood family had,
00:28:21he had to get me back.
00:28:23Even if I hated him,
00:28:25even if I resented him,
00:28:26even if I made him suffer for the rest of his life,
00:28:28he was going to keep me by his side forever.
00:28:34Keep searching.
00:28:35Don't stop until you find it.
00:28:36He told him to use every connection the Blackwood family had,
00:28:40from finance circles to private security networks.
00:28:43He did not care what it cost.
00:28:45He did not care who they had to pressure.
00:28:47They were going to find me.
00:28:52The entire month that followed turned into a manhunt.
00:28:55I had vanished without a trace.
00:28:57There was no record of me on any private jet manifest,
00:29:00no ferry log,
00:29:01and no clean departure route anyone could find.
00:29:04Anxiety burned through Damien's nerves every second of every day.
00:29:07Since he could not take that rage out on me,
00:29:09he poured all of it onto the already broken Vale family.
00:29:15Blackwood Group launched a full-scale commercial attack on the Vale businesses.
00:29:19Their methods were merciless,
00:29:21and they left no room for survival.
00:29:23The Vale company had already been falling apart.
00:29:26Within two weeks,
00:29:27its assets were liquidated,
00:29:29its stock price collapsed,
00:29:31and bankruptcy was waiting at the door.
00:29:37Richard was completely losing his mind.
00:29:41He went to Blackwood Tower several times,
00:29:44begging for a meeting,
00:29:45but he could not even get past the elevator on the ground floor.
00:29:48After the bankruptcy,
00:29:50Clara became the easiest target for Damien's despair.
00:29:56She could not accept it.
00:29:58She kept trying to use the media to get Damien's attention.
00:30:02She even stood outside Blackwood Tower in the pouring rain,
00:30:05waiting there like someone with nowhere else to go.
00:30:08Finally,
00:30:08she threw herself in front of Damien's stretch limousine,
00:30:11and refused to move.
00:30:13Move.
00:30:14Clara pressed her face against the rain streak window,
00:30:17crying so hard she could barely speak.
00:30:19Go away.
00:30:20She begged Damien to stop destroying the Vale family.
00:30:22She said she was sorry.
00:30:24I promised I would find that bitch Scarlet and bring her back.
00:30:29All I wanted was for him to look at me.
00:30:31The window rolled down only a crick,
00:30:33revealed Damien's cold, hollow face,
00:30:35and the stubble along his jaw.
00:30:37He did not even give her a proper look.
00:30:42Get her out of my way.
00:30:47The guards got out and dragged Clara away like she was nothing,
00:30:51ignoring her screams.
00:30:54The limousine drove off,
00:30:56leaving Clara sitting in the mud,
00:30:58sobbing in the rain.
00:31:00Damien closed his eyes
00:31:01and let the alcohol and sleepless nights swallow him whole.
00:31:04He had started relying on heavy doses of sleeping pills
00:31:07just to get a few hours of rest.
00:31:10But every time he fell asleep,
00:31:12the same nightmares came back.
00:31:14He saw me in the fountain,
00:31:16bleeding and pale.
00:31:17He heard me screaming in the wine cellar
00:31:19while the current tore through me.
00:31:23He saw the explosion and the fire
00:31:25swallowing the Vale estate.
00:31:27Every time,
00:31:28he woke up drenched in cold sweat.
00:31:30His heart pounding with terror and regret.
00:31:33He became darker
00:31:34and more violent with each passing day.
00:31:37Everyone in Blackwood's upper management
00:31:39walked on eggshells around him.
00:31:41One week later,
00:31:42Damien's mother forced him to attend
00:31:44a top-teal private charity gala in Manhattan.
00:31:47No one had expected that after Scarlet Vale left,
00:31:49she would take the soul of Manhattan's
00:31:50most powerful air with her.
00:31:52Damien stood in a corner with a glass of whiskey,
00:31:54staring blankly at the dance floor.
00:31:55Then for one second,
00:31:56he thought he saw a familiar figure in a bright red dress,
00:31:58laughing with that proud,
00:31:59dazzling profile he could not forget.
00:32:02He called my name.
00:32:04His heart almost stopped.
00:32:06He lost every trace of composure,
00:32:08pushed through the crowd of politicians and billionaires,
00:32:11and grabbed the woman's wrist.
00:32:15What the hell are you doing?
00:32:16Let go of me!
00:32:16It was not me.
00:32:17The light in Damien's eyes went out instantly,
00:32:19replaced by despair and humiliation.
00:32:21He released her as if all the strength had left his body.
00:32:23The wealthy guests around him stared with confusion and thinly hidden mockery.
00:32:27Sir, please.
00:32:28You need to be careful.
00:32:29This is not appropriate.
00:32:30It does not meet Blackwood family standards.
00:32:32Damien repeated the word with a bitter laugh.
00:32:36Standards?
00:32:36To hell with the standards.
00:32:38I do not care about any of it anymore.
00:32:41I only want Scarlet.
00:32:42Then he pulled his fist back
00:32:44and slammed it into the decorative stone pillar beside him.
00:32:47His knuckles split open immediately
00:32:49and blood ran down the column.
00:32:52But he did not feel the physical pain.
00:32:54All he felt was the hollow space in his chest
00:32:57where something vital used to be.
00:33:02Another week passed.
00:33:04The thick curtains were drawn shut.
00:33:07The ashtrays were overflowing with cigar beads.
00:33:10The air smelled of tobacco and bitter coffee.
00:33:13Inside the top floor office of Blackwood Tower,
00:33:16the atmosphere was so heavy it felt like the silence before a storm.
00:33:19Damien had been sitting there for five days without real sleep.
00:33:23Every hour felt like torture.
00:33:24His desk was covered with reports from private investigators
00:33:27and they all said the same thing.
00:33:32They could not find me.
00:33:34Just as he was about to lose the last of his sanity,
00:33:37his assistant walked in carefully with a black coffee.
00:33:42He swallowed hard before speaking.
00:33:45Sir, we have new information.
00:33:48We cross-checked blurry facial matches
00:33:50from every non-standard exit channel over the past three months.
00:33:53We found someone who looks a lot like Miss Vale.
00:33:56Damien's head snapped up,
00:33:57His blood-sharp eyes locked onto the assistant like a starving wolf.
00:34:01The assistant quickly continued.
00:34:03She appeared in the transit area of Heathrow Airport.
00:34:08The timing matches.
00:34:10It was three days after the mansion exploded.
00:34:15Damien grabbed the classify file from his assistant,
00:34:18his fingers shaking so badly from desperation and excitement
00:34:21that he could barely hold it steady.
00:34:23He stared at the enlarged surveillance photo.
00:34:26The image was blurry,
00:34:28but it showed someone in a coat,
00:34:29walking towards a quieter boarding gate,
00:34:32with a small suitcase.
00:34:33The figure was familiar enough to burn through his bones.
00:34:37He knew it was a new lead on me.
00:34:39Hope lit up the near-extinction madness in his eyes
00:34:42like the last lifeline thrown to a drowning man.
00:34:45Where was the connecting flight going?
00:34:47We are still working on it.
00:34:49Heathrow transit records are complicated,
00:34:51and she seems to have avoided the major national flights
00:34:53that required stricter identity checks.
00:34:55She chose smaller, cheaper airlines that attracted less attention.
00:34:58It will take time.
00:34:59We do not have time.
00:35:03Get the jet ready.
00:35:04We are leaving for Heathrow right now.
00:35:06Yes, sir.
00:35:06Sir, the Federal Reserve board meeting is this afternoon.
00:35:10Cancel it.
00:35:11Cancel everything.
00:35:12Nothing matters more than finding her.
00:35:14Three hours later,
00:35:15the Blackwood family's private jet
00:35:16tore through the clouds above Manhattan
00:35:18and landed at Heathrow's airport in London.
00:35:20The plane had not even fully stopped
00:35:22before Damien was already opening the door.
00:35:24He could not wait for the stairs to lower all the way
00:35:27and jump down.
00:35:27His tie was crooked.
00:35:29His shirt collar was torn open
00:35:30and deep circles shadowed his eyes.
00:35:32Messy stubble covered his jaw.
00:35:33He looked nothing like the perfectly dressed,
00:35:35untouchable CEO he used to be.
00:35:37Damien repeated the city name under his breath
00:35:39as he ran through the crowded airport.
00:35:40His sharp eyes scanning every woman he passed.
00:35:43Finally, he saw the boarding gate
00:35:45just as it was about to close.
00:35:49Damien's eyes locked onto the end of the boarding line.
00:35:52The slender figure in a cream linen dress,
00:35:54wide-breamed hat and sunglasses
00:35:55was the woman he had been hunting for an entire month.
00:35:59Scarlet?
00:36:00He ran toward her,
00:36:02not caring that travelers around him were staring in shock.
00:36:04He grabbed my wrist and held on like his life depended on it.
00:36:07My body went stiff.
00:36:12Let go of me, Mr. Blackwood.
00:36:14Grabbing a woman in public like this is not very appropriate, is it?
00:36:18I thought your precious family code cared about appearances.
00:36:21The cold sarcasm in my voice hit Damien like ice water,
00:36:24but he did not care anymore.
00:36:27Scarlet, come back with me.
00:36:29Please.
00:36:30I know I was wrong.
00:36:31I screwed up.
00:36:32I will fix it.
00:36:33Just come home with me.
00:36:35I laughed and pried his fingers off me, one by one.
00:36:40Come back to what?
00:36:42That cage with 3,000 stupid rules?
00:36:44Am I supposed to go back and play Mrs. Blackwood again?
00:36:47His face turned paler.
00:36:49I looked at him with open disgust.
00:36:51Did you forget your perfect bride is Clara now?
00:36:54Your sweet, sensible little bride is waiting for you.
00:36:58Chasing your ex-fiancé through an airport is a bad look, Damien.
00:37:01The man who had once been Manhattan's coldest and most untouchable heir fell to his knees
00:37:05in that foreign airport, surrounded by cameras and strangers, looking smaller than dirt.
00:37:10Damien looked up at me, and tears finally broke through.
00:37:12The wedding did not count.
00:37:14I never wanted her.
00:37:15I do not care about the family code anymore.
00:37:18If you come back with me, you can do whatever you want.
00:37:20I will agree to anything.
00:37:22Just do not leave me like this.
00:37:23I took a step back, as if avoiding something filthy.
00:37:27Your apology came too late, and honestly I do not need it.
00:37:32Then I turned around, handed my boarding pass to the gate agent,
00:37:35and walked straight into the jet bridge with my back straight.
00:37:38Damien tried to follow, but airport security and his assistant held him back.
00:37:44He screamed my name toward the closing door, sounding like a man being torn apart.
00:37:53Three months later, in Monaco, inside the Monte Carlo Casino, money and desire blurred together
00:37:58under the glittering lights.
00:37:59The sound of poker chips never stopped.
00:38:01At a crowded Bacarmo table, every man nearby had his eyes fixed on the woman sitting across
00:38:05from the dealer.
00:38:08That woman was me.
00:38:11I wore a black silk slip dress with thin straps and a high clip that revealed my pale ankles
00:38:17and silver heels.
00:38:18The next round of cards came out.
00:38:20I barely glanced at my hand before tapping my fingers lightly on the table.
00:38:25Raise.
00:38:26Player wins.
00:38:28Then he pushed a mountain of chips toward me.
00:38:31The crowd around us broke into amazed whispers.
00:38:34They said the socialite from New York had won seven hands in a row.
00:38:38They said my psychological game was terrifying.
00:38:41I took a sip of champagne and almost laughed at the irony.
00:38:44This was not luck.
00:38:45It was probability, statistics, and psychology.
00:38:49All the things Damien had once forced me to learn so I could become the perfect high
00:38:53society wife.
00:38:54I never thought those lessons would become my best weapon for burning through money in
00:38:57a place like this.
00:38:58Just as I was about to place another bet, a drunk local heir named Charles shoved through
00:39:03the crowd.
00:39:04His face was red from losing too much money, and he reeked of alcohol.
00:39:08Come play with me tonight.
00:39:10I will split my winnings with you.
00:39:12Before his hand could touch me, I stepped back and lifted my right foot in its seven-centimeter
00:39:17heel.
00:39:18Then I kicked him hard and precisely between the legs, using every bit of strength I had
00:39:22built through years of training.
00:39:24I was about to leave with my chip card when the crowd suddenly parted.
00:39:28A young mixed-age man walked toward me with his hands in his pockets.
00:39:31He wore a black suit with the top three buttons undone, looking relaxed and arrogant in a way
00:39:35that came naturally to men who had never been told no.
00:39:37A limited edition watch gleamed on his wrist.
00:39:39It was Nathaniel.
00:39:42Nathaniel had an unlit cigar between his lips.
00:39:45He used the polished tip of his shoe to nudge Charles, who was still curled up on the floor
00:39:48groaning.
00:39:49His expression was pure contempt.
00:39:50You put your hands on someone I am interested in, in my casino.
00:39:53That is not flirting, Charles.
00:39:56That is a death wish.
00:39:59If I ever see you near her again, what she broke tonight will be the least of your problems.
00:40:04Charles scrambled away with the help of his friends, too scared to look back.
00:40:08Then Nathaniel turned to me.
00:40:09His deep, flourishous eyes landed on mine, and he did not bother hiding his interest.
00:40:14He stepped forward naturally, slid one arm around my waist and pulled me closer with
00:40:17a confidence that was almost insulting.
00:40:19His hold was intimate, possessive, and far too practiced.
00:40:22My body tensed, and I tried to pull away, but his arms stayed relaxed while still leaving
00:40:27no room to escape.
00:40:28He lowered his head close to my ear, his warm breath brushing my skin.
00:40:32I have been watching the little wildcat from New York for a while now.
00:40:35Those claws are impressive.
00:40:36Then he lifted his head and announced it to the whole casino with the kenless arrogance
00:40:40of a spoiled playboy.
00:40:42Damien Blackwood was blind enough not to want her.
00:40:45Lucky me, because I do.
00:40:47The Monaco socialists watching from nearby immediately started buzzing with gossip.
00:40:52Everyone knew Nathaniel had impossibly high standards, and now he was publicly chasing a
00:40:57runaway bride from New York.
00:40:59I looked up at him, met his burning gaze, and smiled.
00:41:04I appreciate the offer, but do I look like I need a man to get whatever I want?
00:41:10Nathaniel did not get angry.
00:41:12Instead, he pulled me a little closer, and the admiration in his eyes almost overflowed.
00:41:16That mouth of yours is dangerous.
00:41:19I like dangerous.
00:41:24I stayed in Monaco for a while, and Nathaniel kept his word.
00:41:27He pursued me loudly, aggressively, and with absolutely no shame.
00:41:30The next morning, a limited edition bright yellow Lamborghini was parked outside my apartment
00:41:34building.
00:41:34The keys were delivered with a card written in messy handwriting.
00:41:37It was just a way to get around.
00:41:39If you crash it, I will pay for it.
00:41:40A few days later, he rented a massive luxury yacht and threw an extravagant party on the
00:41:44water, insisting that I be the center of it.
00:41:52Have fun anywhere you want.
00:41:54Use my name if anyone gets in your way.
00:41:56He took me skydiving, deep-sea diving, and even snuck us onto an F1 track to race cars
00:42:01in the middle of the night.
00:42:02He did every crazy, dangerous, reckless thing with me, and none of it had anything to do with
00:42:06family codes, rules, or proper behavior.
00:42:09What got to me most was that he never asked me to be gentle, quiet, or obedient.
00:42:12He never wanted me to behave.
00:42:14Whenever I pushed a race car up to 200 miles per hour, showing every wild edge I had,
00:42:18he sat in the passenger seat, whistling and cheering like he had never seen anything better.
00:42:22After we landed on the soft sand from a 10,000-meter skydive, Nathaniel pulled off his goggles.
00:42:26His hair was a mess, and he was smoking a cigarette while looking at my flushed face with a chalky
00:42:30smile.
00:42:30This is how you are supposed to live, Scarlett.
00:42:32Wild, loud, and impossible to leash.
00:42:34It suits you a hell of a lot better than playing some polished fake heiress in New York.
00:42:38Looking at this loud, arrogant man, I felt something inside me start to loosen.
00:42:41A frozen part of my heart, locked away by Damien for two lifetimes, began to thaw just a little.
00:42:46When I was with Nathaniel, I did not have to pretend.
00:42:48I did not have to be careful.
00:42:49I could let every sharp edge show.
00:42:51One night, we were playing a huge game of Texas Hold Us at a private club, and I had lost
00:42:54several hands in a row.
00:42:55I was hesitating over whether to call the bet when Nathaniel lazily pushed more than half
00:42:59of his kips towards me.
00:43:00Call it.
00:43:01Do not get scared now.
00:43:02If you lose, it is on me.
00:43:04If you win, it's your fun money.
00:43:06On the way home that night, with the wind blowing through the car, he was quiet for once.
00:43:11Then, he said something I did not expect.
00:43:15You know, we met a long time ago.
00:43:21I turned my head in surprise and looked at his handsome profile.
00:43:28Nathaniel kept his eyes on the road and let out a bitter laugh.
00:43:32Years ago, at a horse track in New York, you were 18.
00:43:38Richard, Monica, and Clara there, and they embarrassed to embarrass you in front of half
00:43:42the social crowd as.
00:43:43Do you remember what you did?
00:43:46You jumped your horse over the highest obstacle and beat the guy who had been looking down
00:43:49on you all day.
00:43:50You were sitting on that horse, laughing like you owned the whole world, loud, arrogant,
00:43:55impossible to ignore.
00:43:57I remember thinking, damn, that girl is something else.
00:44:02I was stunned.
00:44:04I had almost forgotten that miserable day when Richard had tried so hard to humiliate me.
00:44:10Too bad your eyes were only on that fake gentleman, Damien Blackwood.
00:44:14I was wild back then, too, but I knew one thing.
00:44:18You cannot force someone to want you.
00:44:21So I did not step in just to get rejected.
00:44:25His words landed like a stone dropped into the dead still lake of my heart.
00:44:30So there had been someone watching the real Scarlet Vals all along, even when I had not
00:44:36known it.
00:44:36What truly changed the way I saw him happened during a dirt bike accident.
00:44:40We were racing on a mountain road in southern Europe.
00:44:42On the way down, the pavement was wet, and I was going too fast.
00:44:45My tire lost traction on a sharp turn, and both my bike and I flew toward a steep drop
00:44:49hundreds of feet below.
00:44:51In that split second, Nathaniel was right behind me.
00:44:53He did not hesitate.
00:44:55He hit the gas and shot toward me, using his heavier bike to slam into mine and change the
00:44:58direction of my fall.
00:44:59But because of the force and the rebound, he and his bike went tumbling down the steep slope
00:45:02When I scrambled down the hill and found him among the rocks, his right leg was pinned under the
00:45:05heavy bike.
00:45:06Blood covered his forehead, and his face was white from pain.
00:45:09Do not cry.
00:45:10I am too damn tough to die like this.
00:45:12Even then, he forced an ugly, cocky smile, like he was still trying to make me feel better.
00:45:18In the private hospital in Monaco, Nathaniel had thick bandages wrapped around his head
00:45:22and a cased on his right arm, but he still acted like the same wild, carenless trouble
00:45:26mare.
00:45:26He lay in the hospital bed, looking at me as I sat beside him with slightly red eyes.
00:45:30For once, he put away all his cocky, unserious attitude.
00:45:34His deep, flurchous eyes locked onto mine with a seriousness I had never seen from him before.
00:45:39I know you've been hurt.
00:45:42I know Black Hill broke you with his rules and chains.
00:45:47I am not asking you to get over it for me.
00:45:50Take all the time you need.
00:45:52I can wait.
00:45:53I can wait.
00:45:55When you are ready to want someone again, I want you to think of me first.
00:46:00His honesty, the way he had risked his life to save me, and the way he accepted every wild
00:46:04part of me without trying to change it all hit me at once.
00:46:06It felt like hot sunlight breaking through the frozen walls around my heart.
00:46:09For this time, I did not answer with something sharp.
00:46:11I only lowered my eyes and felt some of those cold, hard chains inside me begin to crack.
00:46:15But the peace did not last long.
00:46:17A few days later, the nightmare found me again.
00:46:20Late one night, after I had been out dancing with Mia, I was walking back to my apartment
00:46:25when the air around me turned cold in a way I knew too well.
00:46:28A thin, worn-out figure stood under the shadow of a streetlight.
00:46:31His eyes red with endless obsession.
00:46:33Damien Blackwood.
00:46:34He looked terrifying.
00:46:35His suit was wrinkled, his eyes were bloodshot, and violent desperation seemed to radiate from
00:46:38his entire body, like he was one step away from losing his mind.
00:46:41He stepped forward and grabbed my arm, squeezing so hard it felt like he was trying to break it.
00:46:46His voice was rough, like sandpaper dragged over concrete.
00:46:49Scarlet, are you done playing games?
00:46:52Come back with me.
00:46:53Now.
00:46:56Let go of me, Mr. Blackwood.
00:46:58Do we even know each other?
00:47:10Just as Damien was about to force me into his car, a hand with long, defined fingers and
00:47:14a limited edition watch cut through the air faster than anyone expected.
00:47:17It caught Damien's wrist with a sharp smack and held tight.
00:47:23A Blackwood CEO should know better than to put his hands on my woman in public.
00:47:29Even a three-year-old knows you cannot force someone to want you.
00:47:33He twisted Damien's wrist with sudden, explosive strength, forcing him to let go of me.
00:47:39At the same time, he slid his arm around my waist and pulled me behind him, natural and
00:47:45protective.
00:47:46Damien's eyes shot to Nathaniel's hand on my waist like poison daggers.
00:47:50The jealousy and rage burned through the last thread of sanity the New York air had left.
00:47:55Damien's veins stood out on his forehead, and he spat Nathaniel's name through his teeth.
00:47:59Take your hands off her.
00:48:01You are a spoiled piece of trash who changes women more often than cars.
00:48:06Do not touch her with your filthy hands.
00:48:08If you do not let go, I will destroy your entire family in Europe.
00:48:17I am a mess, sure.
00:48:19I sleep around, and I have never pretended to be a saint.
00:48:23Then his tones changed completely, and every word came out cold and poisoned.
00:48:28But I have never been sick enough to make a woman write a 10,000-word tumbleck apology.
00:48:33I have never locked her in a dark wine cellar for three days without food or water.
00:48:37I have never thrown her into a freezing fountain at a gala.
00:48:41Watched her bleed in the water, and then told my guards to keep going because she needed to learn a
00:48:46lesson.
00:48:54So tell me, Blackwood, what the hell kind of man do you think you are?
00:49:02Every word out of Nathaniel's mouth cut open the guilt Damien had been trying not to face.
00:49:07Right there on a foreign street, Nathaniel stripped away every pathetic
00:49:10excuse Damien had ever made about love, discipline, and protection,
00:49:14leaving him with nothing to hide behind.
00:49:16The color drained from Damien's face.
00:49:18His lips trembled, and he tried to argue back,
00:49:20but his throat was so dry that not a single word came out.
00:49:23Two months of guilt and regret crashed over him all at once.
00:49:26His vision went dark, and he could barely stand.
00:49:29Then he snapped.
00:49:31Shut up.
00:49:33His voice was hazy and shaking.
00:49:38Shut your mouth!
00:49:40The last thread, holding him to get broke.
00:49:43He pulled his fist back and charged forward, trying to tear me away from Nathaniel.
00:49:48Nathaniel had run out of patience.
00:49:50His eyes went cold, and he lunged forward, throwing a punch straight at Damien.
00:49:55Two powerful men who were used to commanding boardrooms and making entire markets move,
00:49:59started brawling on the streets of Monaco like common street thugs.
00:50:02The heavy sound of fists hitting flesh and the raw grails of age made casino guests scream and scattered.
00:50:07In the chaos, Damien used that reckless, almost suicidal force to break through the guards and reach me again.
00:50:14Come with me.
00:50:15I am not losing you again.
00:50:16He grabbed my shoulders with his bloody hands, his eyes obsessive and unhinged.
00:50:21Damien forced me into the black armored car waiting on the street, and ordered his men to clear up hay.
00:50:26Clear the way, now!
00:50:30Drive to the private airport.
00:50:31Now, we are leaving for New York.
00:50:36By the time Nathaniel ran back into the street with blood on his face,
00:50:39all he could see were the taillights disappearing toward the coast.
00:50:46Find Blackwood's private flight path across the Atlantic.
00:50:49Get my people ready.
00:50:50I am going to New York, and I am tearing his tower down if I have to.
00:50:56Twelve hours later, the Gulf Ray landed a heavily guarded private estate outside New York City,
00:51:00completely isolated from the outside world.
00:51:02It was Damien's most hidden asset, a beautiful golden cage built with the best security systems money could buy.
00:51:07I was locked inside the luxurious living room, but I stayed completely silent.
00:51:11I did not cry.
00:51:13I did not scream.
00:51:14I did not make a scene.
00:51:16I only looked at Damien with a coldness that made it clear he was already dead to me.
00:51:21Damien's heart cracked piece by piece under that look.
00:51:24He desperately wanted to make things right.
00:51:28Then he suddenly remembered that I had once mentioned liking a certain French dessert.
00:51:32He had never been in a kitchen in his life, but he took off his jacket and walked into the
00:51:36kitchen anyway,
00:51:37clumsily cutting ingredients with his ruined hands.
00:51:40Hot oil splashed up and burned blisters across the backs of his hands, but he did not seem to notice.
00:51:44An hour later, he came out carrying a plate of dessert that looked terrible and slightly burnt.
00:51:48He walked up to me with a tired, worn-out face that carried a pathetic kind of hope.
00:51:52His whole body was shaking.
00:51:54His eyes were red, and he could barely stand as he held the plate out to me.
00:51:57You used to say you liked this.
00:51:59I made it myself.
00:52:00Please, Scarlet, just try one bite.
00:52:02I leaned against the couch, completely different, and did not even bother to look at him.
00:52:06I treated him like he was invisible.
00:52:08Damien's heart sank deeper into that frozen silence until there was nothing left but despair.
00:52:12All his pride fell away as he dropped to his knees in front of me and looked up like a
00:52:15beggar.
00:52:16I know that now. I do want the family code anymore. I will never lock you down.
00:52:18Just do not look at me like I'm already dead. It's driving me insane.
00:52:22Why you can't forgive me?
00:52:26I finally turned my head and looked at his broken face.
00:52:31Beneath my calm surface was the frozen cold of two lifetimes.
00:52:35You really want to know why?
00:52:36Fine, Damien.
00:52:38I will tell you.
00:52:39I looked at him without blinking.
00:52:41Because at the charity gala, you let your guards throw me into a freezing fountain.
00:52:47You knew I was bleeding.
00:52:49And when they asked if they should stop, you told them to keep going.
00:52:53His face went white.
00:52:55Because in the pouring rain, you brought me back to your mansion.
00:52:58But the second Clara put on her innocent little act,
00:53:02you protected her from the boiling water.
00:53:04And left me on the floor while my skin peeled off.
00:53:07His breathing turned unsteady.
00:53:09Because you locked me in that dark wine cellar and gave Clara the perfect chance to torture me with an
00:53:14electroshock chair.
00:53:15When I told you the truth with injuries all over my body, you called me a liar.
00:53:21His face went pale.
00:53:23Every time you had to choose between me and Clara, you chose her.
00:53:37Every word struck Damien like a judgment.
00:53:39Damien's face was completely pale.
00:53:41His body shook so hard he could barely stay upright.
00:53:44He tried to argue, to say I had misunderstood.
00:53:46But in front of those brutal facts, he realized words meant nothing.
00:53:49Regret tore through him.
00:53:51He tried to stand, but accidentally knocked over the bag tucked between the couch hips.
00:53:55Everything inside spilled onto the floor.
00:53:57As he scrambled to pick it up, his fingers touched a medical file hidden deep inside.
00:54:06Damien opened the medical report from the private hospital in Monaco before he could think better of it.
00:54:12Large area deep second degree burns with severe PSTD caused prolonged psychological ambucerial pressure.
00:54:17Burns, boiling water.
00:54:21He stared at the date on the report.
00:54:24It was the same day he had knocked over the hot water and carried Clara away from the mansion.
00:54:29That was how badly I had been hurt.
00:54:31It had not only been my body, my mind had been damaged too.
00:54:35And what had he been doing then, the man who claimed to love me?
00:54:37He had been holding Clara, the person at the center of all of it, asking if she was okay.
00:54:43Meanwhile, he had left me in boiling water to suffer.
00:54:45Damien completely lost control.
00:54:47He punched the wall so hard that the crack of his knuckles breaking was audible.
00:54:50Blood splattered across the wall.
00:54:52But the physical pain was nothing compared to the feeling of his heart being crushed piece by piece.
00:54:56He crawled back to my feet like a dying dog and grabbed the hem of my dress with his broken,
00:55:00bleeding hand.
00:55:01His voice was wrecked as he apologized over and over again.
00:55:15I looked down at him, my long lashes casting cold shadows over my eyes.
00:55:25There was no emotion in them at all.
00:55:27I heard your apology, Damien.
00:55:29I just do not forgive you.
00:55:35At that moment, the roar of Moletter cycle engines screaming security alarms exploded outside the villa.
00:55:41Through the chaos of guards yelling and fighting, the thick bulletproof front door of the living room was slammed open
00:55:46from the outside.
00:55:47Nathaniel burst in covered in injuries, his eyes wild with rage, carrying the kind of fury that looked ready to
00:55:52kill.
00:55:55Nathaniel strode in over the shattered glass, his black leather jacket stained with the blood of Damien's guards.
00:56:01The usual lazy charm in his eyes was gone, replaced by something savage and deadly.
00:56:09He pulled me behind him in one swift motion.
00:56:14His right fist trembled from the force he was barely holding back.
00:56:21Damien Blackwood, you really had the nerve to take her right under my nose.
00:56:26You think because your family runs New York, I cannot touch you.
00:56:30Damien was still on the floor.
00:56:32His broken hand hung at his side, blood dripping from his fingertips onto the expensive wool carpet.
00:56:36Slowly, he stood.
00:56:38His proud, untouchable spine looked bent now.
00:56:40But the moment he saw Nathaniel, jealousy and violence flared back to life in his hollow eyes.
00:56:45Let her go.
00:56:46Nathaniel, this is New York.
00:56:52This is my territory!
00:56:54When the council I'm assailed, you are not taking her anywhere!
00:56:59Nathaniel looked as if he had just heard the funniest thing in the world.
00:57:06He stepped forward and grabbed Damien by the collar, lifting him with brutal force.
00:57:11Your territory?
00:57:12Look outside.
00:57:14Beyond the windows, countless armored vehicles flashed with warning lights surrounding the private estate.
00:57:20Nathaniel's men had already formed a standoff with Blackwood's guards.
00:57:24I am not just taking her out of here today.
00:57:29I am going to go and collect.
00:57:31I collect the life you should have lost in Monaco, right here in New York.
00:57:39Damien did not fight back.
00:57:41He let Nathaniel hold him by the collar, but his eyes stayed locked on my face over Nathaniel's shoulder.
00:57:46There was no trace of his old arrogance left in that look.
00:57:49Only a plea so desperate it had sunk into his bones.
00:57:52Scarlet, do not go.
00:57:54I am begging you.
00:57:58Stay, even if all you want is to kill me.
00:58:01I looked at him without emotion, as if I were looking at something already dead.
00:58:06Damien, the moment you threw yourself in front of Clara, we became enemies in both lifetimes.
00:58:12Do not make me hate you more than I already do.
00:58:15Then I turned and took Nathaniel's blooded hand myself.
00:58:18Nathaniel, let's go.
00:58:21Nathaniel froze for half a second, then clasped my hand tightly, locking his fingers with mine.
00:58:26With a look of disgust, he shoved Damien away as if pushing aside trash.
00:58:30Damien staggered back and crashed into the luxury wine cabinet behind him.
00:58:34Countless bottles shattered across the floor, and dark red wine spread over the wreckage like blood.
00:58:41He sat collapsed in the ruin, able to do nothing but watch as Nathaniel shielded me and led me out
00:58:47of that beautiful golden cage without looking back.
00:58:51Nathaniel shielded me and led me out without looking back.
00:58:58The door slammed shut behind us.
00:59:01Behind it came Damien's broken, desperate growl.
00:59:13The suffocating gloom of New York was left behind on the other side of the Atlantic.
00:59:18Nathaniel did not take me back to Modico in its glittering, noisy world of money and pleasure.
00:59:23Instead, he put me on his private jet and flew me straight to an extremely private estate in the south
00:59:28of France.
00:59:28The estate sat deep in the quiet Prevench countryside, far away from the world.
00:59:36When I opened the windows, I could see endless fields of lavender.
00:59:40The air smelled clean, full of grass, sunlight, and peace.
00:59:45There was no Richard Will calculating what I was worth.
00:59:48There was no Damien Blackfield haunting me with his obsession.
00:59:51There was only a silence gentle enough to make breathing feel easy again.
00:59:55Cancel all meetings.
00:59:57Nathaniel threw away every bit of his southern European playboy image and became surprisingly patient.
01:00:04He canceled business mootings, turned down parties, and simply sat with me during breakfast in the flower-filled garden.
01:00:10At sunset, he would lie half on the grass beneath the grapefines with a book in his hand.
01:00:16Every now and then, he would look up and flash me that lazy, troublemaking smile.
01:00:20He never mentioned New York.
01:00:22He never mentioned Damien Blackwood.
01:00:24He never mentioned any part of the past that hurt me.
01:00:27With that strange, reckless tenderness only he had, he slowly chased the shadows of my last life from between my
01:00:34brows.
01:00:37The skin burned by deep second-degree scalds still arced at night, and the PTSD left by my past life
01:00:44often dragged me awake from nightmares.
01:00:47Every time I sat up covered in cold sweat, I saw a faint light glowing outside on the terrace.
01:00:51Nathaniel was always there, guarding my bedroom from the soap outside the glass doors.
01:00:55He held an old guitar in his arms, his long fingers moving over the strings.
01:00:59The melodies were never perfect, but somehow they were gentle enough to calm my heart.
01:01:05Nightmare again, wildcat?
01:01:07Do not be scared.
01:01:08I am right here.
01:01:10Not even God gets past me tonight.
01:01:15Paint whatever you want.
01:01:17Turn my face into a pig if it makes you happy.
01:01:23During the years Damien controlled me.
01:01:26Painting had been dismissed as a useless distraction.
01:01:29But here, it was freedom.
01:01:31It belonged to Scarletta Vale.
01:01:35Under Nathaniel's shameless indulgements and steady companionship, I smiled more and more.
01:01:40It was the kind of joy that came from being accepted without conditions and encouraged to release every part of
01:01:45myself.
01:01:46One day, he secretly arranged a 10,000-meter skydive.
01:01:49The helipter climbed higher and higher with a violent roar.
01:01:52Beneath us were the jewel-blue Mediterranean and the distant line of the Alps.
01:01:55Wind poured in through the open cabin door, whipping my hair into chaos.
01:01:59The instructor checked our gear one final time.
01:02:01I looked at the shrinking world outside the door, took a deep breath, and felt the brightest rush of anticipation
01:02:06I had known since my rebirth.
01:02:08Nathaniel Hulma hailed my tightly, his palm burning hot at against mine.
01:02:11He leaned close to my ear and shouted over the engine.
01:02:14He grinned, wild and dazzling.
01:02:16Just as the green light came on and the instructor signaled that we were ready to jump, he suddenly gestured
01:02:20for him to wait.
01:02:21He turned to me and stared straight into my eyes, deep and burning.
01:02:25Above the deafening engine, his voice somehow reached me clearly.
01:02:28Scarlet, before we jump.
01:02:30Scarlet Vale?
01:02:31I know you are hurt.
01:02:32I know that bastard in New York broke something in you.
01:02:35I am not going to feed you pretty lies.
01:02:37I am asking you straight.
01:02:39Give me a chance.
01:02:44Let me take care of you.
01:02:46Everything Damien Blackwood did to you, I will spend the rest of my life helping you heal from it.
01:02:54If the sky falls, I will hold it up for you.
01:02:57If you want to walk through the world like you own it, I will clear the road.
01:03:00If you want the stars, I will build you a damn ladder.
01:03:03I have never been this serious about anyone, Scarlet.
01:03:06I choose you.
01:03:12I choose you.
01:04:03And I will run 10,000 metres above the earth.
01:04:06france was warm and gentle but the top floor of blackwood tower in new york the heavy curtains
01:04:12were drawn tight shutting out every trace of daylight damien sat collapsed in his oversized
01:04:16leather chair surrounded by empty vodka bottles he had grown painfully thin his face was hangered
01:04:21his eyes sunken and the hair he had once kept perfectly styled for the sake of the family code
01:04:25now hung in a his phone screen was still lit on it was a blurry pamperazzi photo taken in southern
01:04:29france sunlight poured over an outdoor cafe i was wearing a bright yellow dress laughing with
01:04:34nathaniel a spoonful of ice cream nathaniel was looking at me with open affection gently tapping
01:04:38my nose with his finger the photo was beautiful enough to hurt scarlet i only found out recently
01:04:43that clara used an electroshock chair on you in the wine feller i have locked her away
01:04:48i will make her pay back every bit of pain she caused you scarlet scarlet scar
01:04:59tears mixed with blood at the corner of his mouth he whispered my name like a prayer and a punishment
01:05:07i was smiling bright and unrind but that happiness no longer belonged to him
01:05:13that place beside me should have been his he was the one who had pushed me away with those damned
01:05:18rules
01:05:28he wrote like a madman sometimes his handwriting was messy sometimes it was painfully neat before
01:05:36long the white paper was covered in tear marks and bloody fingerprints from his broken hand he wrote
01:05:43about how stupid he had been to believe the veil family's act he wrote about forcing me to write
01:05:48apologies locking me in the wine cellar i bled and bound me standing up and spilled about then hot
01:05:52water to protect clara while leaving me with second degree burns and ptsd scarlet i only found out
01:05:59recently that clara used an electroshock chair on you in the wine feller i have locked her away
01:06:04i will make her pay back every bit of pain she caused you
01:06:14the letter was sent by international courier to southern france and eventually reached my hands
01:06:21i did not read a single line i threw it straight into the roaring fireplace the pages curled in the
01:06:27flailed
01:06:28in the flames and turned to ash
01:06:36no answer ever came
01:06:40after the letter was sent no reply came back damien's last bit of hope died completely ignoring the furious
01:06:47objections of his private doctor he tore the iv from his hand and booked the nearest flight to the south
01:06:53of france through the blackwood family's underground channels in europe he eventually located the quiet
01:06:58estate surrounded by lavender fields but he did not dare go near it he was afraid of disturbing me
01:07:04even more than that he was afraid of seeing the disgust in my eyes so he stayed outside the thorny
01:07:09fence like a ghost watching from far away day and night he saw nathania's lamborghini come and go
01:07:13he saw us walking hand in hand along the country road at sunset at night he saw nathania's shadow on
01:07:18the second floor balcony as he gently held me in his arms every scene was a dull knife slowly cutting
01:07:23through his body and soul one day a violent storm broke over southern france lightning split the night
01:07:28sky damien stood outside the fence without moving letting the cold rain soak him through he was running
01:07:33a fever of 104 degrees his body burning under the creasing rain but he stood there like a statue
01:07:38and refused to leave
01:07:42in his sick desperate mind he imagined that maybe the rain was heavy enough to soften my heart
01:07:49maybe i would come out with an umbrella and look at him just once only when his body finally gave
01:07:55out did he collapse into the muddy water before he lost consciousness completely he thought he saw
01:08:02the curtain move in a second floor window
01:08:13scarlet let me see her
01:08:17keep dreaming blackwood she does not want to see you she would feel dirty wasting even one second on you
01:08:29she told me to give you four words no forgiveness no pity no return
01:08:41keep whatever dignity the black hood family still has
01:08:45every word struck damien like an ice poop through the heart shattering the last bit of hope left
01:08:50in him he understood i was not even willing to waste hatred on him anymore between us everything
01:08:56had ended in the second of the car crash in my last life and in the moment he ordered the
01:09:00guards to
01:09:00keep me in the fountain in this life after his fever broke he was put on a plane back to
01:09:05new
01:09:05york by nathaniel's private guards he left like a puppet with its soul pulled out
01:09:17damien's forced departure did not stop the next storm from arriving
01:09:22after recovering in southern france i was no longer the weak woman from my past life who could only endure
01:09:27pain with nathaniel's financial power and international underground network behind me i personally
01:09:32planned the final reckoning against the veil family using hackers i gathered hard evidence
01:09:36of richard's years of tax evasion money laundering embezzlement of my mother's trust assets and massive
01:09:41commercial brewery then i anonymously submit everything to the highest federal prosecutors in new york
01:09:49the evidence was overwhelming richard was arrested by federal agents during a veil group board meeting
01:09:54right in front of the cameras and the entire press the veil family trust and company collapsed overnight
01:10:01their assets were seized and liquidated and bankruptcy followed almost immediately in the visiting room
01:10:06of new york's first federal prison i sat behind thick bulletproof glass and looked coldly at richard
01:10:11he had gone white-haired overnight he looked old broken and frantic scarlet i am your father my blood runs
01:10:18in your veins you sent your own father to hell with your own hands you'll pay for this pay for
01:10:22it richard did
01:10:23you think about payback when you brought monica into my mother's house did you think about it when you
01:10:27let tried to sell me into the blackwood family like a piece of property
01:10:33this is your payback spend the rest of your life repenting in there
01:10:43monica could not survive the shock of the veil family collapsing overnight
01:10:47her mind broke completely and she was forced into the cheapest psychiatric hospital in new york
01:10:54every day she wandered with tangled hair muttering nonsense to herself
01:11:04damien please save my mother please save the veil family i know i was wrong i will
01:11:09bring scarlet back if you want i will beg that bitch to come back just look at me once
01:11:13the iron gate slowly opened damien came out with a cane he looked down at the woman kneeling at his
01:11:20feet like she was filth on the road there was no emotion in his eyes only disgust love clara i
01:11:29know
01:11:29exactly how you and monica schemed your way through manhattan society and bullied scarlet for years
01:11:34i did not touch you before because you were not worth dirtying my hands also i was saving you for
01:11:41scarlet
01:11:44now that she has made her move i am satisfied get this disgusting woman out of my sight
01:11:53after that a filthy ragged woman appeared on the underground streets of manhattan
01:11:58she smelled rotten laughed at strangers and screamed at shadows damien had his men watch her
01:12:03from a distance he did not allow her to die he made sure she stayed alive long enough to suffer
01:12:07every humiliation the bottom of society had to offer it was exactly what i had wanted for her
01:12:12she would live like a rat in the gutter slowly and painful
01:12:17after hearing how everything ended i stood before the florida clear windows of the estate in southern
01:12:21france and watched the sun sink below the horizon for the first time my heart felt strangely calm
01:12:26the nightmare and karma that had followed me through two lifetimes had finally come to an end
01:12:30bad people got what they deserved from now on baby let me be the only one who gets to spoil
01:12:36you over the
01:12:36next half year nathaniel and i grew closer and closer we traveled from country to country enjoying our
01:12:42freedom and love anywhere in the world we wanted we both thought the blood and storms were finally behind us
01:13:04but no one expected clara who had long gone mad and been forgotten in the trash filled corners of new
01:13:10york
01:13:27nathaniel reacted instantly with a low growl he shoved open the car door and threw himself into the fight
01:13:31doing everything he could to protect me but there were too many of them and they had come prepared
01:13:34nathaniel was soon cut across the arm while shielding me then forced to the ground under several guns
01:13:39his face was covered in blood and his eyes were wild with rage do not touch her let her go
01:13:51a burst of crazed applause rang out clara slowly stepped out from behind one of the vants
01:13:55she wore a filthy torn dress stained with grime her hair was a tangled mess and her eyes were cloudy
01:13:59and
01:13:59insane in her hand she gripped a loaded glock her ruined face twisted like something out of a nightmare
01:14:03she laughed at me farlet you bitch i have requested nice name paypal beyond drink it a hundred times
01:14:08a thousand's over you and the man you love are both going to hell today at that deadly moment just
01:14:12as
01:14:12one of the thugs was about to pull the trigger the roar of an engine ripped through the sea wind
01:14:15a black
01:14:16armored suv came crashing in from behind ramping the van blocking the road and screech to a stop in the
01:14:21middle of the chaos a thin figure with a slight limp stepped out carrying an automatic rifle and
01:14:25surrounded by cold murderous and tate damien he had been following my movements from a distance all along
01:14:31when he found out clara had disappeared under strange circumstances he sent something was wrong
01:14:35and tracked the rive route here let her go clara get that filthy gun away from her head
01:14:51damien you came too good perfect the head of the blackwood family and nathaniel's family are both here
01:14:58i can send all of you to hell together what do you want i will give you every blackwood trust
01:15:04every share
01:15:05every asset i have take my life if you want just let scarlet go
01:15:12i do not want anything anymore i want her to suffer i want you the high and mighty king
01:15:20of manhattan to watch with your own eyes while i tear her apart watching both men suffer because
01:15:26of me tore my heart open and tears blurred my vision stop nathalia damien just go do not worry
01:15:32about me you want her alive fine damien king of manhattan get on your knees kneel and beg me damien
01:15:37looked
01:15:37at my deathly pale face and did not hesitate for even a second he threw away the rifle in his
01:15:41hand
01:15:41and dropped to his knees on rough gravel covered road the heavy sound of his bones hitting the ground
01:15:45tore through the sea wind this was a man who had been pathologically proud in both lifetimes a man who
01:15:49had never lowered his head to anyone for my life he threw away every last bit of dignity
01:15:59look at you you finally know what it feels like beat him beat him until he cannot move
01:16:08the thugs rushed forward iron rods and fists fell on damien like rain
01:16:12he curled tightly around himself blood pouring from his mouth but he stubbornly kept his body angled
01:16:17toward me blocking the sand and gravel that flew in my direction stop please stop
01:16:36in that split second no one saw where damien found the strength like a black panther burning
01:16:41through its last breath he threw himself up from the ground and slammed me with that ounce of life
01:16:44he had left he knocked me hard onto the road and covered completely with his broad bloodied back
01:16:48leaving no gap between me and the bullet the sound that followed tore into his back exploding only a
01:16:52few millimeters from his heart blood sprayed across the air and instantly stained my white dress a shocking red
01:17:05for a moment the whole world seemed to stop damien's heavy body pressed down over mine
01:17:09with impossible effort he slowly raised his head his deathly pale face was covered in blood when he saw
01:17:14that i was safe queer creme with him without a cloud mixture of his mouth lifted into a relieved
01:17:18smile and that smile was a kind of longing and regret i had never seen from him in either lifetime
01:17:22he struggled to raise his bleeding hand as if he wanted to touch my face one last time
01:17:26but his fingers shook violently in the air never quite reaching me before falling wheatley into the mud
01:17:32he looked at me as the light in his eyes began to scatter scarlet i am sorry
01:17:40this time i finally protected you live well with nathaniel goodbye
01:18:08but i only held the blood-covered man in arms tears streaming down my face did i hate him
01:18:12did i resent him the moment that bullet tore through his body the chains from my past life
01:18:16and the hatred from this life was shattered with it with his own life he completed a redemption
01:18:21that had come two life teams too late above the southeast asian island the roar of a rescue
01:18:28helicopter tore through the humid air a team of top international medics carefully lifted damien
01:18:32covered in blood and deep in shock onto a stretcher his face had turned asin almost like a corpse
01:18:37his breathing and heartbeat were so weak the machines could barely detect them i stood beside the
01:18:41helicopter his warm blood still on my face and clothes my fate's control so wrapped in bandages
01:18:46and looking grim poor self through the pain of his fractures and pulled me hard into his arms
01:18:50using his broad chest to hold me up his eyes were complicated as he watched damien always despised
01:18:54who had really been willing to trade his life for my freedom the helicopter rushed toward the
01:18:58nearest international medical center the doors of the operating room stayed shut and the red light
01:19:04above them burned for 12 full hours nathania and i waited in the hallway as time stretched until it
01:19:11felt like a century the surgery succeeded the bullet is out but he's not out of danger recovery will be
01:19:20long the damage it's severe irreversible
01:19:34damien remained unconscious in the sterile icu for more than half a month during that time with no
01:19:40one in control of blackwood group rival financial powers in new york began tearing into it the stock
01:19:44price plunged and the company started from the inside through nathaniel's underground channels
01:19:48ianoy passed damien's confidential medical trial to a relatively loyal elder inside the blackwood
01:19:52family that elder stepped in and barely stabilized the chaos in new york half a month later damien
01:19:57finally opened his eyes to the beeping of medical machines his vision slowly focused until he's
01:20:02standing outside the satiral glass our eyes met and the air in the room seemed to freeze my gaze was
01:20:07complicated there was concern in it there was release there was no love left there was no hatred left
01:20:12either damien wore an oxygen mask his dry lips parted as if he wanted to say my name but only
01:20:17a
01:20:17weak poor breath came out he saw the calm in my eyes he also saw nathaniel behind me covered in
01:20:22casts and bandages still gripping my shoulder in a posture of absolute protection damien understood
01:20:26the last faint impossible hope in his soul went out like a candle in the wind two silent lines of
01:20:31tears
01:20:32slid from the corners of his eyes into his hair he had used his life to save me whatever remained
01:20:37between us had died with that redemption
01:20:41three months later at geneva international airport in switzerland morning fog covered up the runway bound for one
01:20:46switzerland's top private rehabilitation clamps waited in silence damien could barely sit in a wheelchair
01:20:51now he looked older and thinner than he disability in his left leg for the rest of his life he
01:20:55would
01:20:55have to rely on a cane and a wheelchair to move his body had been drained almost beyond repair he
01:20:59never
01:21:00tried to contact me again he even refused visits from the core members of the blackwood family before
01:21:05boarding he calmly signed every equity transfer document and full management authorization agreement
01:21:10handing away the business empire he had once treated as his life he sold all of his manhattan
01:21:16properties poured every dollar into a newly established global wildlife and freedom
01:21:19photography trust it was an anonymous gift that would benefit me forever without requiring my
01:21:24signature the medical plane's engines roared damien leaned beside the window and looked out
01:21:28at the endless freezing white cloud sea above the alps his eyes held nothing but quiet acceptance
01:21:32and deathly stillness he had finally removed himself from my world scarlet i love you not
01:21:37because i want to lock you in a house like some pretty bird and not because what you're following
01:21:40owing any damn family rules i love you exactly like this wild proud bright and impossible to tame
01:21:47let me be the man who protects you for the rest of your life marry me
01:21:56yes i will marry you the last light of sunset wrapped around us in gold as he pulled me into
01:22:02his arms
01:22:03the chains for my past life were finally broken in this life i finally had the wide open sky i
01:22:08deserved
01:22:08you
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