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00:02that was the day my husband told me he was marrying someone else and i was pregnant look
00:07isabella i love you okay you know that but i have to marry olivia i don't have a choice
00:11my wedding has to be perfect so i have to erase every trace of us every single one i stare
00:17at
00:17alexander i'm in shock he lifts the hand the bodyguard behind him flicks the lighter and
00:21heads straight for the apartment in a heartbeat the flames swallow everything i'm wiping down
00:26the counter when alexander loris walks in i look up rag still in my hand i'm marrying olivia
00:32silverwood in three days i'm alexander loris heir to the loris group her and me we run in the same
00:37circles it's already a done deal i freeze the rag hits the floor
00:45i'll buy you a house outside the city you and the baby will want for nothing
00:51so i'm just gonna be your dirty little secret forever
00:55she's chill as long as you don't make a scene in front of her i can give you and the
00:59baby
00:59everything everything except the title three years together and all of it means nothing to him
01:05what if i told you i can be your equal too
01:13isabella i know i screwed up hiding who i am moving on to someone else but it is what it
01:18is
01:18in this whole city the silverfields are the only family on my level we've played house in this tiny
01:23apartment for three years i know exactly who you are you don't have some powerful family
01:28i look around this tiny apartment the walls we painted together the furniture we picked out the
01:33daisies he planted for me on the balcony i can't make myself believe this alexander i'm having your
01:39baby can't we just go back to how it was please don't marry her please if he just says yes
01:45i'll pretend
01:46none of this ever happened he presses his lips together i already hooked up with her okay i have
01:53to make this right and what about me you don't think you owe me and your baby the same alexander
01:58wipes my tears the pain in his eyes looks so real baby i'm just taking a new wife i am
02:04not leaving you
02:06there's a three-story house on long island i already bought it you love flowers right i'll
02:11have roses planted all over the yard whatever you want i'll do it trust me you want me stuck in
02:17some
02:17house being your dirty little secret no i'm not letting me and my kid live in the shadows
02:23not anymore i've never treated you like a mistress long as you don't make a scene in front of olivia
02:29you'll still be my woman there okay he still hasn't said wife not once to him i'm only ever
02:35the mistress no i'm not going anywhere i'm staying here then a sharp pain at the back of my neck
02:42i black out when i wake up i'm locked inside that long island villa
02:49the lawrences actually called the anderson's for olivia's ring pulled strings to get that heirloom
02:55designer the silver sids are old money too they deserve that kind of treatment i remember all
03:01the sweet things alexander once said my woman deserves nothing but the best i mean even those
03:06anderson jewels and now that ring is on olivia's finger funny thing nobody knows this but that ring's
03:14designer he's been designing for me since i was little i'm isabella anderson the only heir to one of
03:20the biggest business empires in north america three years ago i had a massive fight with my father and
03:26ran away from home i wanted to prove i could survive on my own no family no nothing i ditched
03:33my body
03:33guards and landed a job at a convenience store in some forgotten corner of the city that's where i met
03:38alexander he pushed the door open that day suit soaked from the rain got any umbrellas aisle three
03:47he grabbed one came to the register glanced down at my name tag isabella you knew yeah he slid the
03:56change back towards me keep it i'm alexander i'm a lawyer and then he smiled eyes crinkling at the
04:04corners and i fell hard he told me later he never even needed an umbrella his car was parked right
04:11across the street he just saw a girl with a ponytail through the window and something pulled
04:16him inside on our hundredth day together he took me to that old church on the corner
04:21no flowers no guests just a silver-haired priest and two silver rings i can't give you a mansion
04:29or a fancy car but every morning i'll make the coffee every week i'll push the cart at the grocery
04:36store isabella will you marry me i held out my hand after everything thing we've been through
04:45i decide to give him one last chance alexander can you just not marry her not marry her and marry
04:56you
04:56instead you're really gonna make me say the ugly part out loud she's olivia silverwood and you
05:03a cashier at a convenience store how exactly would you be fit to be mrs loris all the blood drains
05:09from
05:09my face but i can't let it go so three years together that means nothing if i don't have the
05:15right status in our cycle status is everything he pauses then that guilt-stricken look slides back
05:20across his face olivia she might be pregnant i blank when did that happen my voice is shaking
05:27alexander can't even look at me your birthday my birthday alexander just vanished i searched for him
05:37the whole damn night every floor of the apartment building everywhere he didn't show up until the
05:43next day looking wrecked telling me he got lost trying me to find me the perfect gift then like
05:49he was unveiling some grand gesture he pulled a tiffany necklace from behind his back i'd been up all
05:54night but seeing how much effort he'd put in i couldn't be mad i just tucked the necklace away
06:01and now he's telling me that whole time my birthday he was with olivia a sick feeling twists in my
06:08stomach the villa on long island fences everywhere the only way i can see the outside world is from
06:13that second floor window at dusk alexander comes in carrying a whole box of my favorite tiramisu
06:19he sits across from me eat something the baby's hungry so i pick up the spoon tiny bites
06:27just a few bites in a sharp pain starts spreading through my lower belly i curl up on the couch
06:32cold sweat soaks through my clothes alexander my belly it really hurts he glances at me there's pity
06:40in his eyes sure but mostly just resignation isabella just it'll pass get a doctor i'm gripping
06:45the cushion so hard my knuckles are white please please call a doctor he shakes his head isabella
06:50the drug's already working just give up after olivia has her baby we can try again alexander
06:55listen to me i have a name okay i'm not nobody please just get a doctor you're disappointing me
07:07big time if you're gonna lie at least make it believable a miscarriage won't kill you you made
07:13your bed i watch him walk away the very last flicker of hope inside me just died i collapse
07:18onto the couch my mind going dark and right when i think i'm gonna die in this place nobody even
07:23knows the door smashes then someone's right next to me calling out panicked miss miss we're here
07:28my father's personal assistant
07:31the chairman get the hospital on the line have the best ob team standing by right now as they rush
07:36me
07:36into a black suv i barely make out her voice on the phone sir we found her they gave her
07:41something
07:41to end the pregnancy the baby might not make it after that i don't remember a thing
07:52dad don't talk the baby's still here
07:58what the baby's still here the doctors fought for six straight hours the baby made it
08:05but your body's been through a lot next few months bed rest total bed rest you can't move
08:11not one step out that man and the loris family i'm gonna make them pay
08:15no dad don't tip them off i want them to walk into hell on their own and i want them
08:22to watch
08:22in front of everyone while they lose everything they threw away the wedding day loris state red
08:28carpet stretching out the whole place buzzing the anderson air rest is here
08:35silence the crowd goes dead quiet olivia's bouquet trembles a faint smile flickers at the corner of
08:41her mouth she never actually thought the anderson's would show up the anderson heiress the lorais has
08:47actually got the anderson family to come they say she never attends any social events nobody's ever
08:51even seen her face she's a complete mystery the murmurs haven't died down when a black stretch limo
08:56pulls up at the entrance the door opens custom heels hit the red carpet i'm wearing the anderson
09:01family's signature gown the crest embroidered right over my chest on my head the diamond tiara the one
09:07the heirloom designer made the one everyone talks about flanked by bodyguards and my assistant i walk
09:13slowly into the loris mansion the ring box slips from alexander's hands hits the floor with a sharp
09:18crack is isabella i stop in the middle of the red carpet you could hear a pin drop olivia rips
09:25off
09:25her veil a cold laugh the anderson heiress you she looks me up and down mouth twisting into a sneer
09:32i've been in new york society for three years i've never once laid eyes on you does anyone here
09:38actually buy this enough miss silverwood do you recognize this
09:45she raises her hand an antique signet ring every classified letter every billion dollar contract
09:51the anderson family sends sealed with the wax stamp of this exact ring olivia's smirk freezes solid
09:57this is isabella anderson the sole heir to the anderson family emily finishes then her gaze drops
10:04to olivia's hand oh and that ring on your finger it was made by our family's heirloom designer too
10:09yours he was a little short on cash took a side job that's all olivia's face goes from white to
10:15green
10:15then green to gray no no she yanks the ring off her finger and hurls it at the ground diamonds
10:21scatter everywhere you lied to me everyone lied to me she jabs her finger at the noble ladies heads
10:26bound her voice sharp enough to cut glass lena hannah say something not a single person looks up
10:32olivia's knees buckle she crumbles to the floor i i am olivia silverwood i cannot lose to a cashier
10:38i cannot dead silence i walk slowly over to alexander he kneels on the red carpet looking up at me
10:44tears falling silently isabella i didn't know i swear i didn't know didn't know what my voice is
10:50perfectly calm didn't know i'm the anderson air ret if i were still just that cashier at the
10:54convenience store would you be down on your knees right now i let the silence stretch his mouth opens
10:59shuts nothing comes out i crouch down right next to his face do you know what it felt like lying
11:05on
11:05that operating table alexander's whole body starts shaking the doctor said if they'd gotten there 10
11:11minutes later i would have died and our baby i pause alexander's face drains completely his body
11:18trembles violently now she was already gone inside me you killed her i take a step back my voice thick
11:26with disgust alexander loris you will never get her forgiveness not ever the wedding can go on
11:32i wish you both a lifetime of happiness isabella isabella isabella please three years three years
11:41together does that mean nothing to you when you burned down our home when you killed our baby
11:48did it mean anything to you i was wrong i was so wrong i shouldn't have married her for the
11:56family
11:57i shouldn't have drugged you isabella just give me one chance i'll divorce her i'll divorce her right
12:03now we can start over please alexander get up you're begging another woman in front of the entire
12:13new york elite what exactly am i to you there's nothing between me and her you know that it's just
12:19a family arrangement the one i love has always been you isabella always alexander loris say that
12:27one more time i said i want a divorce the wedding's off i'll take responsibility for that baby in your
12:35stomach i'll send money every month but don't you dare try to trap me olivia stares at him and then
12:43a
12:43smile slowly creeps across her lips alexander loris you are the biggest fool on this earth
12:49alexander sobs choke off he looks up at her olivia wipes the laughter tears from her eyes
12:55you actually thought this baby in my tummy was yours alexander freezes
13:02what do you say alivia glances down at her barely there bump a mocking smirk on her face this baby's
13:08my
13:08cousins we hooked up a few times didn't bother with protection i was gonna get rid of it but then
13:15i did
13:15some digging and guess what you're the eldest son of the loris family she tilts her head looking at
13:21him still there on his knees and you were so damn easy i said the baby was yours and you
13:27just believed
13:28it wedding all set up and everything i figured i'd keep the secret forever but today since you're about
13:36to throw me away for that woman i see no reason to protect your pride anymore right you pathetic
13:46chump alexander is completely frozen his mouth opens and closes no sound and then his whole body
13:54starts shaking violently
14:00you whore you ruined me you ruined everything
14:08olivia screaks clawing and trashing at him the guests rush in and pull them apart
14:13i turn and walk out of the estate i don't look back
14:18the next few months i stay at our family's private hospital my father locks down all information
14:25the official story i'm recovering in europe and alexander he's drowning in his own mess
14:31olivia was humiliated in public at the wedding the silverwood family was furious the whole alliance
14:36between the two families turned into a complete circus every day they tear each other apart
14:40pointing fingers the entire upper clard laughing at the spectacle seven months later in the delivery
14:45room i give birth to a baby girl the nurse lays her in my arms her tiny hand wraps around
14:52my finger
14:52and won't let go i name her scarlet starlight she's my starlight my father holds her his big
15:00rough hands cradle her tiny head so carefully his eyes are all red just like you when you were little
15:07exactly the same my brother stands beside him reaching out awkwardly to touch her face
15:12then pulling back afraid he'll hurt her
15:16my mother flies back from italy brings the best children's designer from milan straight to our home
15:21box after box of tiny dresses fill the nurbury that day the whole anderson estate overflows with joy
15:30nobody mentions alexander nobody needs to this baby from beginning to end is the anderson family's
15:37most precious jewel and nothing else matters whenever i'm bored my best friend sophie comes
15:43over she shows up with a ton of snacks and gossip flops onto the couch and starts filling me in
15:49on
15:49everything going on out there alexander and olivia divorce not happening i flip a magazine page i don't
15:56even look up the lorix and silverwood families are locked in deep joint ventures cross shareholderships
16:01billions in projects all tangled up together divorce no way in hell sophie takes a sip of her coke
16:07pure shed and dagae in her voice so now they're stuck in the same mansion separate bedrooms i heard
16:12they don't even eat at the same table the staff have to make two separate meals delivered to different
16:16rooms last week at the family dinner they went at each other in front of everyone
16:25and there's more
16:28olivia's baby you remember that whole thing alexander had been drinking they got into another fight
16:35and he shoved her she fell down the stairs my hand freezes the baby's gone seven months a boy didn't
16:42make it sophie lets out a sigh i heard when olivia came out of surgery she was laughing and crying
16:49at
16:49the same time total breakdown like she's lost her mind the entire new york elite is watching them crash
16:56and work i set the magazine aside i look down at scarlet's tiny sleeping face and gently stroke her cheek
17:07all right no more about them they're not worth it yes yes no more about them now look what i
17:16brought
17:16for the little princess a birth gift after that alexander starts coming for me first time he shows up at
17:23the
17:23estate gates and stands there all night in the pouring rain emily comes in to tell me
17:29i'm feeding scarlet let him stand even if he drops dead out there it's none of my business
17:39next morning they carry him away for three months after that the same act plays out over and over i
17:47never
17:47see him not once scarlet's growing every day one afternoon the weather's gorgeous the nanny takes
17:55her out to the garden to get some sun she spots a butterfly in the grass and just laughs this
18:01perfect
18:01little giggle i didn't know alexander was here he didn't come through the main gate he climbed over a
18:07side fence into the garden i hear something when i look up he's already standing at the entrance to the
18:12garden eyes locked on the tiny person in the grass scarlet happens to look up and gives him a big
18:17grin
18:17soft little cheeks big bright eyes she looks so much like him who is she i don't answer isabella who
18:26is she you said the baby you're mistaken that's my brother's daughter my niece you're lying to me
18:36she looks just like me look at her eyes alexander you're seeing things there is no child of yours
18:43here leave now the nanny scoops up scarlet and heads straight for the house alexander tries to go
18:50after her two bodyguards blocking he struggles against them eyes fixed on the direction scarlet
18:55disappeared that's my daughter isn't it isn't it i don't answer i turn and walk inside
19:03three days later emily finds alexander's lost his mind he pulled some strings got hold of scarlet's
19:08birth certificate he knows he's on his way here right now from downstairs i can already hear it
19:14bodyguards trying to hold him back and alexander shouting isabella i know she's my daughter let me
19:21see her and that's only the beginning every single day after that he shows up some days he brings toys
19:28some days some days little clothes other days nothing at all he just stands at the gate calling
19:33her name we upgrade security again and again he always finds a way leak stories to the press
19:40bribes the staff to pass along messages he even bursts into my father's office to beg
19:45let me see her she's my daughter i have rights lawyers letters one after another it just keeps
19:52escalating and somehow word of it reaches olivia emily bursts into the nursery olivia knows my hand
20:01freezes she just lost her child she's not right the staff says she locks herself in her room all day
20:08talking to the air going over that one ultrasound photo again and again and now she knows your baby
20:13is alive isabella something's very wrong with her before i can speak a scream tears through the house
20:19i walk to the window olivia is standing outside the estates's iron gates she's in her nightgown
20:25hair a wild mess clutching a pillow to her chest i know you're in there i know you have a
20:33daughter
20:34my baby's dead why does yours get to live touch me why don't touch me don't you dare touch me
20:44she stumbles backward still clutching that pillow then stops isabella anderson your daughter
20:51is going to join my son in the grave just you wait and then she smiles turns and walks away
20:59emily stands behind me her voice shaking isabella you need to tell the family this is not a game
21:04that night i call alexander keep your people in line silence then a few seconds later she came to you
21:11she stood at my gate and told me my daughter would join her son in the grave
21:14then one afternoon the nanny is in the garden with scarlet playing six bodyguards spread around
21:22the perimeter everything normal a delivery truck pulls up at the estates back gate the driver hands
21:27over a manifest baby supplies ordered by mr anderson security checks the information cleared the truck
21:32drives into the back courtyard the driver gets out and starts unloading nobody notices the second
21:35person slipping out of the cargo hold within minutes someone comes up behind the nanny in the garden
21:39and clamps a hand over her mouth by the time the bodyguards realize something's wrong scarlet is
21:44gone on the other end the nancy can barely get the words out through the sobs there's this buzzing
21:50in my head within minutes every anderson family asset is mobilized my father's private security unit
21:57the family surveillance network every connection that can be pulled all of it in motion my brother
22:03calls from london i'm already on a plane my father says exactly one thing find her i don't care what
22:10it costs i don't care whose strings you have to pull an hour later emily gets a lead olivia left
22:14the
22:14mansion she shares with alexander this morning destination unknown and a remote property under
22:18the silverwood name someone spotted a black suv coming and going two hours later our car pulls up up in
22:25front of that house the door isn't locked i push it open from upstairs scarlet's crying i run up the
22:36stairs the second floor bedroom olivia is sitting on the edge of the bed holding scarlet in her arms
22:40scarlet is thrashing against her little face bright red tears everywhere olivia looks down at her this
22:44soft smile on her lips you came her voice look how beautiful she is my son if he had lived
22:50he would
22:50have been this beautiful too olivia give scarlet to me why my baby is gone why does yours get to
22:59live
23:00give scarlet to me don't come any closer
23:06i stopped dead my heart feels like someone's squeezing it in their fist olivia don't do anything
23:11from behind me stupid think about what happens next you hurt her not even the silverwood family can save
23:16you olivia laughs my son is dead what consequences could i possibly be afraid of i take a deep breath
23:23force myself to stay calm olivia put her down whatever you want i'll give it to you i don't
23:28want any she looks down at scarlet her voice suddenly goes soft almost tender i just want
23:32her to stay with me my son's all alone it's too lonely for him the scissors go up the door
23:38gets kicked
23:38open alexander bursts in the second he sees the scissors in olivia's hand all the blood drains from his
23:43face olivia put her down you let her go i'll give you anything the divorce the assets whatever you
23:47want anything then can you give me back my baby alexander falters just for a split second in that
23:53split second olivia raises the scissors a gunshot outside the window my father's sniper already in
24:00position olivia takes the bullet in her wrist the scissors hit the floor she collapses i lunge forward
24:06and scoop up scarlet she's trembling all over her tiny hands clutching my collar not letting go
24:11it's okay baby mommy's here she buries her face against my chest the crying slowly fades i crouch
24:17there on the floor holding her and the tears finally break free alexander stands in the doorway
24:22eyes red trying to step forward stay away from them emily blocks him he opens his mouth nothing
24:27comes out from that day on the anderson family launches an all-out assault on the silver hose their
24:31stocks get hammered business partners poached banks call in loans supply trains snap scarlet is three
24:37years old now mommy i love you i thought that nightmare was behind us for good then the phone
24:46rings miss anderson your daughter's blood work shows her bone marrow is failing did you take any
24:50medication during your pregnancy it's caused a congenital blood disorder my hand holding the
24:53phone such a shame the drug alexander gave me right now the only a marrow transplant or a full
24:57blood exchange with a specific antibody serum we need all immediate family members tested for a
25:01match immediately right now the only options are a bone marrow transplant or a full blood
25:04exchange with a specific antibody serum the doctor's voice is urgent no match i'm the first
25:07to get blood judge on match no match immediately my brother flies back no match the entire anderson
25:12family not a single match what about the biological father the doctor asks i don't answer scarlet's
25:19condition he's the one who caused it how could i possibly go to him
25:26but scarlet doesn't have time day three her face turns pale she can barely stand mommy i'm tired day
25:34four i'm holding her i dial the number i swore i'd never dial again he comes he stands at the
25:39door
25:39of the hospital room staring through the glass at scarlet completely hollowed out she is it because of
25:46me i don't say a word he drops his head his shoulders start to shake
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