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After Losing My Memory, I Found My Destined Salvation
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00:11a year after a car accident wiped my memory i got married i was on my way to a follow
00:17-up
00:17appointment when a small boy stepped into my path dad sent me to bringing you home
00:21aren't you done sulking yet sweetheart i think you've got me mixed up with someone else
00:27i had no idea what to do with him but i sent him home for his own safety outside a
00:31sprawling estate
00:32a tall man stood waiting sharp featured and stone-faced emily shaw so you finally remembered
00:38the way home baby i think i just walked into a hell of crazy people emily dropped the act so
00:47you did
00:47three years inside for lena it's not like we threw you to the wolves you bailed out of the car
00:51the day
00:51you got out and disappeared lena's been tearing herself up about it for a whole year when you
00:55see her you're going to apologize and mean it something stabbed clean through my chest you've
00:59got the wrong person i don't know any of you i turned to run his hand snapped around my wrist
01:03and hauled me into him we were close enough to breathe each other's air and the anger in his
01:07eyes was unmistakable emily three years inside and you still haven't learned nobody's buying the
01:12performance something tore open in my chest my throat locked up and the air wouldn't come a
01:17formless terror climbed through me then a woman stepped out of the house
01:22she was wearing a tight lace negligee she tipped her head out from behind his shoulder
01:26emily you're back where have you been all year how could you walk out on your child and your
01:31husband that whole thing was carter's fault carter the name brushed past my ear but i couldn't place
01:37him don't touch me i pushed her hand away on instinct she lost her balance and stumbled back
01:45i don't know any of you i want to go home i need to find my stay away from my
01:50mommy
01:52emily don't be angry with mason he's been with me so long he doesn't even remember you're his real
01:57mother she steered me into the house brought out antiseptic and gauze and started dressing a small
02:01cut on my forehead you have no idea what carter put himself through to find you i realized fighting
02:07it was useless and let her work i went quiet my eyes drifted to the framed vacation photos along the
02:12wall two adults and a child hand in hand through spring summer autumn winter the dates ran from
02:17last january all the way through december you said i'm his mother so who exactly are you i
02:28lena is your sister-in-law you know that why are you playing dumb while you were locked up she's
02:32the
02:32one who looked after me and your son you owe her some gratitude you're telling me i'm your wife
02:38then answer me this why exactly did i take the fall for her lena is delicate she wouldn't have
02:45made it in there you can't measure yourself against her then tell me what i like my favorite flower
02:50my dress size when's my birthday enough stop it i let out a cold laugh and lifted my left hand
02:58the massive diamond on my finger flared in the light i'm sorry i don't know what game you people are
03:02running but i don't recognize any of you i'm already married my husband is waiting for me at
03:07home as for my injuries and damages you'll be hearing from my attorney
03:14emily what did you just say husband so that's why you wouldn't come home you've been carrying
03:19on behind carter's back who is he emily who's the other man you've been faking the amnesia for his
03:24benefit haven't you he'd snapped completely he dragged me by the arm up the stairs and pushed me
03:29down onto the bed you lay another hand on me and my husband will find you i pushed back against
03:33him
03:33but he caught both my wrists and held me there stop lying to me i know you emily emily you're
03:41getting brave three years i waited and you come back wearing another man's ring i went still in his
03:48grip then he went still too his eyes had caught the pale marks on my wrist the ones that never
03:53quite
03:53faded he released me and stepped back a frantic knocking started at the bedroom door
03:57he's going to kill me it's all right lena it wasn't your fault if he hadn't hurt you you
04:02wouldn't have fought back it was an accident it's over i'm right here you're safe his low soothing
04:08voice carried back into the room my hands shook when i pushed my hair back i felt the cold damp
04:13on
04:13my cheeks i made it to the door and hammered my fists against it my hands went numb from pounding
04:17no one came i curled up in the corner and whispered his name damon when are you going to find
04:22me
04:22i spent the whole night in that room the housekeeper didn't open the door until the next
04:26morning carter was downstairs working through the financial section the moment he saw me he started
04:31reeling off orders selena's craving your chicken soup go make some mason's milk needs to be at room
04:37temperature my shirts need pressing too the maids don't iron them as well as you do the words drove
04:43straight into my bones before i could even think my feet were already carrying me toward the kitchen
04:47my hand had closed around the apron before i caught myself i stormed back out shaking from
04:51head to foot you're holding me here against my will i'm calling the police emily what's the act
04:58this time i was about to fire back when my eyes caught on the paper damon's photo was on the
05:02front
05:03page he'd been at a charity gala the week before i jabbed my finger down at it my voice rising
05:07that's my husband if you don't believe me call him carter's eyes narrowed and he opened his mouth to
05:14speak emily is this some kind of joke everyone in manhattan knows damon vance doesn't have women
05:20in his life even his pets are male the quinn group is in the middle of a deal with the
05:24vance group
05:24not a single mention of a wife i bawled my fists and started to argue back then a sharp pain
05:29stabbed
05:30through my skull the old head injury flaring without warning but i can't worry about that right now
05:34not the dizziness not now the front door was unguarded
05:40emily where are you going something deep in me came apart i wrenched her hand off and shoved her
05:44away hard enough to make her stumble carter she hurt me emily have you lost your mind apologize to her
05:55now you hurt my mom i sank to the floor the tears came without me asking i pressed my palms
06:00to the
06:00floor and tried to steady myself smonesome shoved me from behind i stumbled and caught myself against the
06:05wall my head wound has reopened please everything tilted the dizziness hit me all at once and i
06:12couldn't hold myself upright i tried to push myself up the room reeled everything went black
06:20when i came to the sharp bite of disinfectant hit me me low voices nearby a skull fracture amnesia what
06:27is this supposed to mean mr quinn it's dispostiative amnesia a defense mechanism the brain triggers after
06:33severe trauma she's been living in a mansion how is that impossible she has lacerations on her scalp
06:39a hairline skull fracture and signs of repeated head trauma this is consistent with long-term physical
06:44abuse i'll get to the bottom of every bit of it but that head injury is severe if we don't
06:50operate
06:50immediately she may never wake up they were going to operate on my brain without asking me without my
06:55consent a few nurses came in something bitter was pressed between my lips please don't he leaned
07:02down and laid his palm over my eyes i went under when i opened my eyes again i was back
07:09at the quinn
07:09estate i was strapped into a reclining chair a cold metal headset had been clamped around my skull
07:14some kind of medical device for stimulating memory emily you're awake carter just told me about your
07:21little memory issue don't you worry we're going to help you remember the dull throb at the back of
07:27my skull pulsed like a second heartbeat and my heart broke all over again carter knelt down at my
07:31side his eyes bloodshot and kissed the tears off my face the doctor said this neurostimulation course
07:37should bring it all back once you remember my head shaking all over to the last one and about the
07:44treatment i ordered it for your sake i hope you understand that no i don't know you please do it
07:49carter rose and gave the order the device was activated a wave of pressure built behind my eyes
07:54inside my skull inside my chest my vision went white everything went dark and then the dam inside
08:00me gave way i remember eight years of agony so deep it had broken something inside me that would never
08:05heal the first time i ever saw carter i was working part-time as a singer at a bar he
08:14fell for me on
08:15site he bought out the entire venue he sent roses enough to line both sides of the street from the
08:23bar to my college dorm after that designer gift started piling up at my door he came around every
08:29day asking how i was what i needed i knew we lived in different worlds so i kept him at
08:34arm's length
08:34then my gambling addict father sold me to an underground auction house to settle his debts
08:42carter walked in alone he fought his way through every man in that room to reach me
08:50he fought his way through every man in that room to reach me he was battered and barely standing
08:56but he carried me out the whole way step by step
09:01emily you are everything to me if you die i die because of those words i became mrs quinn
09:08then carter's older brother adrian came back from abroad with selena on his arm from the scraps of
09:13conversation between carter and his friends i pieced together that she was carter's first love
09:17the one he had never been able to put behind him from that day on carter became someone else
09:22his whole focus shifted to her every gift he had ever bought me he gave to her she said she
09:29didn't
09:29want another woman in the role of the quinn family's lady of the house so carter asked me for a
09:33divorce she wanted a child but she was terrified of the pain of childbirth so my son the child i
09:41had
09:41nearly died to bring into the world was handed over to her every time i tried to push back carter
09:46waved my dying mother's medical bills in my face to keep paying for my mother's care i became selena's
09:51stand-in i took every consequence that should have been hers i pushed back exactly once they stopped
09:58paying my mother's hospital bills her heart gave out i didn't even get to say goodbye something
10:02hollowed out inside me i tried to leave with my son carter stopped me he forced me to serve out
10:07selena's sentence in her place
10:12selena had killed adrian in a moment of desperation fighting back against a man who had beaten her for
10:17years and i was the one paying for it i can't go to prison what about mason that day i
10:27stood in the
10:27rain ripping the hem of his jacket he held selena tight against him
10:36lena is too fragile his voice was as cold as deep winter she wouldn't survive in there
10:41you're strong you've always been strong when you get out we'll make it up to you from my first day
10:47inside the other inmates made clear i wasn't welcome i was an outsider a rich man's wife who
10:53had no business being there the harassment never stopped i was isolated cornered threatened sleep
10:59became something i had to steal in minutes at a time there were days i didn't think i'd make it
11:04to
11:04the next morning three years every single day i prayed for it to end the day i got out
11:11carter sent people to collect me i knew their faces they were the same people who had made those
11:15three years a living nightmare something inside me snapped just like that i threw myself out of the
11:21moving car another car clipped to me i went over the bridge railing into the river below i opened my
11:27eyes everything was sharp and clear now i looked at the two of them they weren't strangers anymore
11:31a hatred i'd buried deep flooded every nerve in my body carter pulled me into his arms and brushed
11:37the tears from my face baby do you remember now i remember and i'll never forgive you
11:46you killed my mother
11:51what's wrong with my wife carter hesitated his eyes on the vial
11:55he had just started to speak when the maid knocked
11:58sir mr vance is downstairs you'd like to see probably about the partnership you go take
12:03care of it carter i've got emily the door clicked shut the sweetness on selena's face dropped away
12:10in an instant like a mask torn off she caught my chin in her hand her face pure venom you
12:16stupid
12:16little fool why'd you come back any woman who dares to take carter from me i destroy you should have
12:22stayed gone the instant she leaned in i drove my foot hard into her stomach the strap snapped i broke
12:29for the door downstairs damon stopped in his traps as he was heading out he spun around at the sound
12:35of my voice his face going white
12:44he watched me burst through the door drenched in blood and then i went straight over the second floor
12:52get the doctor down here now
12:57carter reached me first he hauled me into his arms and roared up the staircase
13:00the house physician came running with his bag and they closed in around me
13:04what did you do to my wife
13:07that was damon he grabbed carter by the collar and drove his fist into his face
13:11then he drew the knife in the belt and scooped me up off the floor the blade swept the room
13:15in a slow cold arc
13:17he spoke through his teeth
13:18anyone who lays another hand on my wife is dead
13:22mr vance the car is ready we'll take her to the hospital now
13:27his warmth closed around me familiar and safe
13:30i found the last of my strength and knotted my fingers in his shirt
13:33the tears finally broke free
13:35my throat locked up and i couldn't find the words
13:38you came
13:39i held on my handshaking
13:42then the blood loss pulled me under
13:43the last thing i saw before the dark took me was the rage in damon's eyes
13:47and the tears running down his face
13:50he turned to carry me out carter planted himself in the doorway
13:54his face twisted his eyes red raw
13:56vance you don't get to march an army into my house and walk out with my wife
14:00our families have a partnership
14:02you can't do this
14:17carter
14:21have you lost your mind
14:23this is quinn property you dare
14:25a sharp crack cut her off
14:26before she could finish the sentence
14:28one of damon's men backhanded her across the face
14:31she screamed and dropped
14:32the broken glass on the floor opened her cheek
14:34and the blood came fast
14:35mason stood at the top of the spiral staircase
14:38watching it all screaming
14:40the nanny had her arms locked around him
14:42one hand pressed over his mouth
14:45damon glanced at the boy
14:47he went still for half a second
14:49then he looked away and
14:50she is my wife
14:51if she loses one more drop of blood because of you
14:54i will repay it a thousand fold
14:56those sharp unreadable eyes were burning now
14:58fury had swallowed them whole
15:00carter could do nothing but stand there
15:02seething as damon carried me away
15:04the quinn family was one of new york's elite
15:07but measured against the vances
15:08they were nothing
15:09he couldn't make sense of it
15:11how had someone like emily shaw
15:12plain unremarkable
15:14ended up tangled with damon vance
15:15carter pressed his hand against his shoulder
15:17the color in his face was getting worse
15:19ambulance please
15:20selena was already crying into her phone
15:22calling an ambulance
15:23carter my face
15:24am i going to scar
15:25carter pulled her against him
15:26and rubbed slow circles on her back
15:27his voice wasn't quite steady
15:29lena
15:30what if emily was telling the truth
15:32what if she really did marry damon vance
15:34the image of eye nestled against a man
15:36so far beyond her reach
15:37selena's jealousy nearly choked her
15:39that's impossible
15:40something like that
15:41we would have heard about it
15:43never
15:43damon must have been manipulated
15:46i don't believe for a second
15:47that a man like him
15:48would stay with her
15:49if he knew she'd done time
15:50or knew how sick she really is
15:52she's nothing
15:53she's garbage you threw out
15:55carter went very still
15:56he had never seen selena like this before
15:58the venom in her voice was sharp and ugly
16:00and it sent a chill through him
16:02but he'd lost too much blood to think straight
16:04he intended to bring his son with him
16:05he also intended to bring emily back
16:07i'd lost too much blood
16:09they rushed me straight into the icu
16:11the memories kept surfacing
16:13one after another
16:13they were worse than i'd let myself remember
16:16in my most vulnerable moments
16:17carter had taken selena to see a fortune teller
16:20the fortune teller told them that my sickness carried a curse
16:23that as long as i recovered selena would be plagued with misfortune
16:27at first i'd laughed it off
16:28it was absurd that same night
16:30carter had me dragged to a clinic and strapped down
16:33they cut off my treatment
16:34they replaced my medication with something designed to make me worse
16:38i survived it
16:39then they came at me harder
16:40then again after that
16:41the pain hit me all at once
16:43and i couldn't breathe
16:44i jolted awake soaked in cold sweat
16:48baby
16:53you're finally awake
16:56david
16:58why did it take you so long do you have any idea how scared i was
17:01i swear to you i will make them pay for every single thing
17:04i'm here now emily
17:05no one is going to hurt you again
17:06they destroyed my body
17:07i'm here now emily
17:09no one is going to hurt you again
17:11i'd heard those words before
17:12the very first day i met him
17:14i'd fallen into the river
17:15he was nearby on a yacht
17:16hosting a lavish dinner
17:18he sent his people to pull me out
17:19and brought in the best medical team money could buy
17:21when i woke up
17:22my first thought was that the prison guards had caught me again
17:24i came apart
17:25i tried to end it more than once
17:27damon stayed with me through all of it
17:28telling me over and over that i was safe
17:30no one will ever hurt you again
17:31his voice was warm as sunlight
17:33the trauma took my memories with it
17:35what remained was all the time i'd spent with damon
17:37the day i was finally well enough to stand on my own
17:39he proposed
17:39he was afraid that another shock might trigger a relapse
17:42so we'd kept the marriage private
17:44we had planned to hold a proper wedding once i made a full recovery
17:46i hadn't expected carter to make me this sick again
17:50this time it was worse than before
17:51i told damon everything
17:53every detail of the two days i'd lost
17:56this is my fault
17:57i never should have left your side
17:59rest now emily
18:00i'll handle everything
18:02damon had been overseas closing a deal
18:04i didn't blame him
18:05his assistant told me that the moment damon heard i was missing
18:08he walked away from a contract worth millions without a second thought
18:11he'd cried the entire flight home
18:13but now that every memory of carter had come back to me
18:16ab couldn't stop the doubt from creeping in
18:18even toward damon would he really stay the same
18:20would he eventually betray me destroy me the way carter had
18:23my mind wouldn't quiet
18:24i closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep
18:26damon said nothing
18:27with hands that weren't quite steady
18:29he tucked the blanket carefully around me
18:31wait for me
18:32carter and selena were already waiting at the hospital entrance
18:34they tried to force their way in and were stopped by damon's men
18:38damon walked out
18:39rolling up his sleeve was cracked
18:40the moment he laid eyes on carter
18:42he swung without hesitating
18:49phil how dare you put your hands on emily
18:51i had spent so long watching her become the woman she was now
18:54i spent a year looking for her i never even blamed you for hiding her and now you attack me
18:59let me be very clear emily has been mine since she was 19 now that she remembers me and her
19:03son you really think she's gonna choose you
19:05mr pants don't let her play you she was married to carter for years their son is eight years old
19:10and she did three years in prison for an entire year damon hadn't been able to bring himself to mention
19:14herself he hadn't dared at it and this woman had just ripped those wounds wide open god only knows how
19:19many men were in that cell with her
19:20you filthy piece of trash you don't get to talk about our boss's wife like that
19:24they had always looked out for me
19:25none of them could stand hearing me dragged through the mud
19:28each blow landed harder than the last
19:30damon only called them off when carter and selena were a bloody swolling mess
19:35he had them hauled down to the basement
19:38damon turned the pages one by one
19:40his expression darkened with everyone he turned
19:42his jaw set hard
19:44abuse
19:44coerced confession
19:45extortion
19:47unlawful imprisonment
19:49i'd say the quinn family is running out of air
19:52damon's boot connected with carter's face and two teeth skidded across the floor
19:55carter raised his chin defiant
19:58vance don't think just because your family's bigger than mine you can do whatever you want
20:02the quinn's aren't people you want to push
20:03touch me one more time and i'll drag both our families down with me
20:07mr vance please
20:09emily of secondhand goods
20:10are you really gonna go to war with the quinn family over one woman
20:13don't forget our families have a partnership agreement this year
20:15damon lit a cigarette without hurry
20:17he was raising it to his lips when he remembered
20:20he'd promised me he'd quit
20:21he bent down and pressed the burning end
20:23if you don't know how to use your mouth properly
20:26every bit of pain you made emily feel
20:27i'm giving back to you tenfold
20:31carter's nerve finally worked
20:32he stared at damon like he was looking at something that had lost its mind
20:35zane emily will never forgive you for this
20:38i'm her child's father
20:39do you have any idea how much she loved me
20:41you saw the scar on her stomach didn't you
20:43she put that knife to herself to save my life
20:45emily valued me more than her own life you hurt me and she will hate you forever
20:49he didn't dare gamble what if carter still meant something to her the boy was right there then he thought
20:53about everything they had done to her he didn't hesitate if emily is angry with me i'll spend the rest
20:57of my life making it up to her but the two of you are going to pay back every last
21:01thing you owe
21:02he turned to go then paused and gave the guards one final order
21:08damon showered before he came to see me when he walked in he smelled like the cedar cologne
21:12i loved his hands were drawn tight at his sides when he saw me he told me everything he'd done
21:16to carter and selena when he finished he watched my face carefully and waited without a word i
21:20smiled and took his hand damon let out a slow breath and pulled me against him
21:26the relief in his eyes was almost unbearable like a man who had just come back from the edge of
21:31losing
21:31everything emily i know what you've been through he gestured for someone to bring in a thick stack
21:38of documents this is a divorce agreement i've already signed it if i ever let you down you walk
21:42no arguments this is the asset transfer everything in my name moves to yours if we divorce i take
21:48nothing if we have children they stay with you something warm flooded through my chest i couldn't
21:54hold back anymore i kissed him pressing my lips to the rest of his promises before he could finish
21:59them you idiot i trust you there's one more thing i need to talk to you about he had mason
22:07brought in
22:07the boy was clearly frightened but the moment his eyes landed on me they filled with contempt you where
22:14did you hide my mom and dad give them back i had nearly died bringing him into the world
22:18hearing him speak to me like that broke something loose in my chest i held my breath my eyes blurred
22:23with a gentleness that hurt to look i know he's your son if you want him i'll raise him as
22:26my own
22:26i'll have a vasectomy he can be the van's heir no i don't want him after carter divorced me he
22:32handed
22:32mason to selena to make her happy selena is mason's mother now i lost custody before i even went to
22:37prison he doesn't love me but as time went on he began to resent my weakness he turned toward her
22:43instead he stopped calling me mom he called me that wicked woman he refused to let me tuck him in
22:47he
22:47said i was dirtier than the maids and had no right to touch him the night before i went in
22:51i begged
22:51for just five minutes with him on the other end of the line mason scoffed she's not my mom i
22:56don't
22:56want to see her that was when i understood my son carried his father's blood the same poison ran
23:00through both of them take care of me anyway i want my real parents all right i'll take you to
23:10them
23:10okay
23:12you
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