The Runaway Bride and the Cold CEO is a captivating short drama featuring billionaire romance, forced marriage, modern love, and emotional redemption. After escaping her arranged wedding, Lena is rescued by a mysterious billionaire CEO who offers her refuge on his private island. As love blossoms between them, dangerous enemies and painful betrayals threaten to tear them apart. Watch the full episode to discover whether true love can overcome fate.
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00:05Tell Nakamura I'll have the contracts ready before the flight. No de lease.
00:16Pleasure doing business with you.
00:19Mr. Victor.
00:22My name is Ethan Cross, CEO of M Corp International.
00:25Forbes calls me one of the most eligible bachelors in the world.
00:27I call myself a man who has everything, except a reason to come home.
00:42Hey! Hey, stay with me!
00:49Gerald, bring the car around. Now. I need a doctor.
00:53I didn't know it then, but this woman, this stranger covered in ash and fire, was about to change everything.
01:00My name is Lena Vidal.
01:03Hairess to the Vidal Fuentes Empire.
01:05At least, that's what they call it.
01:07What they don't tell you is that empires are built on the bones of their children.
01:12Darling, the guests are arriving.
01:15Your father, I need you downstairs.
01:18Mother, before the engagement party, I need to tell you something. Can we please reconsider?
01:21Your father and I have discussed this. The merger depends on this marriage.
01:26But I don't love Marco. I've never loved him. This company, it's swallowing my entire life.
01:30Leave this room, smile, and do what this family needs you to do.
01:45There she is.
01:47My beautiful bride-to-be.
01:52They announced my engagement like a business deal.
01:56Because that's exactly what it was.
02:05I had given everything to this family.
02:07My education, my career, my dreams.
02:10I studied finance and economics.
02:13Not because I wanted to.
02:14Because as they needed to, they could marry off to secure their crumbling empire.
02:18Father, please.
02:19I'll do anything else for this company, but I can't marry I don't love.
02:22Love? You think love keeps 3,000 employees fed?
02:25Our stock is 40%.
02:27The Duarte merger is the only thing standing but us in bank.
02:30Then let me find another way.
02:31I can restructure the debt, find new investors.
02:33You will follow my instructions.
02:35There is no more discussion. You may go.
02:38Either you agree, or I hand everything to the Duarte family myself.
02:43Your choice.
02:47In that moment, I understood.
02:49I would never be enough for them.
02:51I was never their daughter. I was their transaction.
02:54So I decided to run.
02:59My mother arranged everything.
03:01A private jet, booked under a friend's name.
03:03Leaving at dawn from a private airstrip outside the estate.
03:06All I had to do was walk out the front gate.
03:08Long night, isn't it?
03:11Have a drink.
03:12You deserve it.
03:23Mom, thank you.
03:24I can't stop your father, and I may not be able to protect you after this, but I can give
03:28you a head start.
03:28Promise to make care of yourself.
03:30I promise.
03:31I'll find a way to save the company, too.
03:34I just need time.
03:35My brave girl.
03:37Now go.
03:38You have maybe six hours before he realizes you're gone.
03:48I didn't know where I was going.
03:50I only knew I was finally free.
03:56She's fine.
03:57Just shock and minor cuts.
03:59She'll wake in a few hours.
04:00The explosion destroyed the cafe next to the restaurant.
04:02She was caught in the blast.
04:03No ID.
04:04Just a woman in a ruined wedding dress, alone in the middle of chaos.
04:08Find out who she is.
04:08Check hospital records, missing persons, everything.
04:10Yes, sir.
04:11I told myself it was responsibility.
04:12I found her.
04:13I should make sure she's okay.
04:14But something about the way she looked, fragile and fierce at the same time, I couldn't walk away.
04:21Where, where am I?
04:23Who?
04:23Easy.
04:24You're safe.
04:25My name is Ethan Cross.
04:26There was an explosion.
04:28You were caught in it.
04:29I brought you here.
04:31I'm Lena.
04:32Lena.
04:34Are you all right?
04:35Is there someone I should call?
04:39No.
04:41There's no one to call.
04:51Good morning.
04:52How are you feeling?
04:55Better.
04:56Thank you for everything.
04:58I should probably go.
05:05Go where, exactly?
05:09I, I'll figure something out.
05:11You have no phone, no ID, and you were wearing a wedding dress in the middle of an explosion.
05:16You don't know anything about me.
05:20You're right.
05:21But I have a proposal.
05:23I'm leaving for my private island tomorrow.
05:24A vacation off the grid.
05:26Come with people.
05:26No press.
05:27Recover.
05:28No strings attached.
05:29You're asking a complete stranger to vacation on your private island?
05:32I'm asking someone who clearly needs to disappear for a while, and I happen to have the perfect place.
05:38Why would you help me?
05:39Why would you help me?
05:41Because I can.
05:47Fine.
05:48But this is temporary.
05:50And I'm not your charity case.
05:54Wouldn't dream of it.
05:57This is...
05:59excessive.
06:01Says the woman who is wearing a couture wedding gown.
06:07Touché.
06:12We'll stop to refuel once.
06:14Total flight time about ten hours.
06:16Get some rest.
06:17Ten hours?
06:18Where exactly is this island?
06:21Somewhere no one will find you.
06:23I should have been terrified.
06:25A strange man, a private plane, an unknown destination.
06:29But for the first time in years, I wasn't afraid.
06:32I was relieved.
06:41I've built companies, closed billion-dollar deals, controlled every variable in my life.
06:45But this woman...
06:47Sleeping on my shoulder, trusting me without reason.
06:49I had no plan.
07:08Oh my God.
07:09Welcome to Isla Serena.
07:10Population currently two.
07:24This isn't what I expected.
07:26What did you expect?
07:27I don't know.
07:27Gold toilets?
07:28A helipad shaped like your initials?
07:32The helipad is around back.
07:38I mean, Ethan.
07:39You didn't tell me you were bringing someone.
07:42Mom, this is my friend, Lena.
07:44Lena, this is my mother, Eleanor.
07:46And my grandfather, Henry.
07:48About time this boy brought someone home, we were starting to worry.
07:55It's wonderful to meet you both.
07:58Watching my mother hug her, watching Lena's walls come down for just a second,
08:01I knew I'd made the right call bringing her here.
08:03He thought of everything.
08:05Clothes that actually fit.
08:07Sunscreen.
08:08Books.
08:10Even a journal.
08:12I don't know how he'd reach other less than two days.
08:14Oh, you dishonor Summer.
08:17What's I kidding you enough for, Bet?
08:27That looks good on you.
08:32Thanks.
08:33Your mother has excellent taste.
08:35Or was this you?
08:37I may have made some suggestions.
08:44Lena, dear, you look lovely.
08:46Ethan, stop staring and pour the girl some juice.
08:50Can I ask you something?
08:52Anything.
08:53Why are you really doing this?
08:55Rich men don't know strangers and fly them to private islands out of kindness.
08:59What's the catch?
09:00No catch.
09:02I saw someone who needed help.
09:04And honestly,
09:06I needed to get away too.
09:08From what?
09:09From being the person everyone expects me to be.
09:13I understand that.
09:15More than you know.
09:18I'll be with a stout gay.
09:31So tell me about the great Ethan Cross.
09:34The internet says you're worth 12 billion dollars and you've never been Feta Draft smiling.
09:40The internet exaggerates.
09:42It's only 11 billion.
09:44I'm serious.
09:46Who are you when no one's watching?
09:51My father built Cross Industries from nothing.
09:54Shipping, real estate, finance.
09:56When I was 18, he handed me the keys and said,
09:58Don't lose it.
09:59That was his version of love.
10:02And your mother?
10:04She's the opposite.
10:06All warmth, all heart.
10:07When dad died, she moved here.
10:09Said she'd spent enough years in boardrooms.
10:12She wanted sand between her toes.
10:15She sounds wonderful.
10:20She is.
10:21She's also the only person who's ever told me it's okay to want something other than success.
10:27And do you want something else?
10:32No.
10:33I'm starting to.
10:35So no girlfriend?
10:37No fiancé?
10:38Waiting somewhere with a pitchfork?
10:40There was someone.
10:42It ended badly.
10:44She wanted the name, not the man.
10:48I'm sorry.
10:49Don't be.
10:51It taught me something.
10:53The only people worth keeping are the ones who see you, not your bank account.
10:58Then I think we have more in common than either of us expected.
11:09This is, there are no words.
11:17I come here when I need to think.
11:21Or when I need to stop thinking.
11:24Ethan, I want to thank you, not just for the island or the clothes or the food, for not questions,
11:30for just letting me breathe.
11:32You don't have to thank me for basic decency.
11:37You'd be surprised how rare that is in my world.
11:43Whatever you're carrying, whenever you're ready to put it down, I'll be here.
11:49I won't push, but I'll be here.
11:54You know what my little cousin Tommy calls you?
11:57What?
11:59Superheroes.
12:00He says you're my superheroes.
12:08Superheroes don't have private islands.
12:10No.
12:12He has something better.
12:14He shows up when it matters.
12:18Then I'll keep showing up.
12:20Come on, superheroes.
12:22Your mom's making dinner and I'm starving.
12:25That's when I knew.
12:27She wasn't just someone I wanted to help.
12:29She was someone I wanted to keep.
12:31Before I was an heiress, before I was a business degree, before I was someone's arranged bride.
12:36I was a girl who loved to sing.
12:42I was already falling before I knew you were to sing.
12:47Don't let me shatter, darling.
12:49Just hold on to my hand.
12:57How long have you been standing there?
13:06Long enough, that was...
13:08Lena, that was incredible.
13:10Why didn't you tell me you could sing like that?
13:13It was never important.
13:14Not to my family.
13:16They wanted spreadsheets, not songs.
13:18It's important.
13:19Your voice is important.
13:21Promise me you won't stop.
13:26You don't know how much that means.
13:32I think I do.
13:38We should...
13:38The stars are out.
13:40Want to see them from the beach?
13:43Yeah.
13:44Yeah, let's do that.
13:55Ethan.
13:57What is this?
13:59I realized we've spent a week together and never had a proper date.
14:02If you'd like one.
14:06This is the most beautiful thing anyone has ever done for me.
14:10Okay, your turn.
14:12Biggest fear?
14:14Losing someone I love
14:16and not being able to do anything about it.
14:27You won't lose me.
14:35Is that a promise?
14:40It's a promise.
14:49Lena, I need to tell you something.
14:52This week,
14:53being with you,
14:54it's changed something in me.
14:55I don't want this to end.
14:59Neither do I.
15:02Stay with me.
15:08I'm not going anywhere.
15:26Do you believe in wishes?
15:29I believe in making things happen.
15:32That's such a billionaire answer.
15:43Okay, here's the deal.
15:44We each make one wish on that star,
15:47the bright one,
15:47but you can't tell me.
15:49Why not?
15:51Because then it won't come to be yours,
15:53obviously.
15:56Obviously.
16:01Done.
16:02Done.
16:04Can I at least ask,
16:05are you happy?
16:08Right now, in this moment?
16:10This is the happiest I've been in my entire life.
16:13And it terrifies me.
16:15Why?
16:16Because happy never lasts.
16:19Not for me.
16:26Then let me prove you wrong.
16:29We made the same wish that night.
16:32I know because months later,
16:33he told me.
16:35We both wished for the same thing.
16:45Whatever happens when we leave this island,
16:47I want you to have already changed my life.
16:49You've already changed my life.
17:00Three weeks.
17:02Three weeks.
17:03Three weeks.
17:03Three weeks since she vanished.
17:04Her father's people found nothing.
17:07The police found nothing.
17:10But I will find her.
17:12I always get what's mine.
17:14Sir, we've checked every airline,
17:16every border crossing.
17:17No record of Alina Vidal leaving the country.
17:19Then she used a different name.
17:21She had help.
17:22Find out who.
17:27Where are you hiding, my love?
17:34Sir, Mr. Vidal is online too.
17:36He wants an update.
17:38Tell Rodrigo I'll have his daughter back.
17:40And when I do,
17:41the wedding happens immediately.
17:42No more delays.
17:45No one leaves me, Lena.
17:49No one.
17:54It's me.
17:55I need you to expand the search.
17:57Prive Investigation is international contacts.
17:59I don't care what it costs.
18:00I checked every just Prive's a pair
18:02within 200 miles of Viotta State.
18:03Someone flew her out.
18:04She thinks she can escape.
18:06She thinks distance will save her.
18:08But she doesn't understand.
18:09There is no distance far enough.
18:11I've waited too long.
18:13Sacrifice too much.
18:15She belongs to me.
18:26Hey.
18:27You're up early.
18:31What's wrong?
18:32I need to tell you something.
18:34About who I am.
18:36About why I was in that wedding dress.
18:39My real name is Lena Vidal.
18:42My family owns Vidal Fiends Industries.
18:46Or they did.
18:48The company's been failing for years.
18:51My father arranged a marriage
18:53to a man named Marco Duarte
18:55to save the business through a merger.
18:57And you ran?
19:00I ran.
19:01The night of my engagement party.
19:03My mother helped me escape.
19:04I flew to the States with nothing.
19:06Fake name.
19:08Borrowed money.
19:11I was trying to get to a friend's place
19:13when the explosion happened.
19:18Marco isn't just my ex-fianche.
19:20He's obsessive.
19:22Controlling.
19:23He's been watching me for years.
19:26Following me.
19:29Threatening anyone who got close.
19:31And my father doesn't care.
19:33Because Marco's money
19:35is the only thing
19:37keeping the company alive.
19:39Has he hurt you?
19:40Not physically.
19:42But there are other ways
19:43to cage someone.
19:46Thank you for telling me.
19:48None of this changes anything.
19:50You're not angry?
19:53That I lied?
19:54You didn't lie.
19:56You survived.
19:58There's a difference.
20:04Listen to me.
20:06No one is going to touch you.
20:08Not Marco.
20:09Not your father.
20:10Not anyone.
20:11I promise you that.
20:13You can't promise that.
20:14Watch me.
20:21Ethan, I've looked into
20:22the Vidal-Fanis situation.
20:23The company's hemorrhaging money.
20:24Rothergo Vidal has been
20:25selling off assets for months.
20:27The Duarte merger
20:28is their last play.
20:32And Marco Duterte?
20:33Bad news.
20:34He's connected.
20:35Politically.
20:36Financially.
20:37His family has ties
20:38to some very powerful people.
20:39If he's looking for Lena,
20:41he has the resources
20:42to find her.
20:43Then we need to be smarter.
20:45I want a full security assessment.
20:48Upgrade everything
20:50on the island.
20:51And Harris,
20:52start looking into
20:53Duarte's business dealings.
20:55Everyone has skeletons.
20:57You're going to war
20:58with Marco Duarte?
21:02If I have to.
21:11Hey, what's going on
21:13in that billionaire brain
21:14of yours?
21:16Just work stuff.
21:20Liar.
21:23You looked into Marco,
21:25didn't you?
21:27I needed to understand
21:28what we're dealing with.
21:30You keep saying we.
21:32Because that's what
21:33this is now.
21:35Ethan,
21:35I can't let you risk
21:36everything for me.
21:37Your company,
21:38your reputation.
21:39My company means nothing
21:40if I can't protect
21:40the people I care about.
21:42And I care about you,
21:43Lena.
21:44More than I planned to.
21:46More than I probably should.
21:47I care about you, too.
21:49That's what scares me.
21:50Everyone I care about
21:51gets hurt.
21:53Then we'll be scared together.
21:54My wife helped her escape.
21:57I'm certain of it.
21:59Then your wife is a problem.
22:01Sophia has been dealt with.
22:04She won't interfere again.
22:10And the private air filed?
22:12We traced the flight plan.
22:14The jet landed in Miami.
22:16But after that,
22:17the trail goes cold.
22:19She's with someone.
22:20A woman like Lena
22:22doesn't survive alone
22:23for three weeks without help.
22:24Find out who.
22:25Marco.
22:26Perhaps we should consider
22:28that she doesn't want
22:29this marriage.
22:33Perhaps what?
22:34Perhaps I should let
22:35your company collapse?
22:37Perhaps I should call in
22:38every loan your family owes mine?
22:41Is that what you prefer?
22:43Find your daughter.
22:45Bring her to me.
22:46Or I will find her myself
22:48and you won't like my methods.
22:51It's Duarte.
22:52I need your best man.
22:53Someone discreet.
22:54I'm looking for a woman
22:55and whoever's hiding her.
22:58Soon, my love.
23:00Very soon.
23:13Lena?
23:14Mom?
23:16Are you okay?
23:17I heard...
23:17I'm fine.
23:18Listen to me.
23:19Your father knows I helped you.
23:20Marco's hired investigators.
23:22They traced the jet to Miami.
23:24Do they know where I am?
23:26Not yet.
23:28But it's only a matter of time.
23:30Lena, whoever is helping you,
23:32you need to tell them the truth.
23:34All of it.
23:35Marco won't stop.
23:37I already told him, Mom.
23:39He...
23:39He's a good man.
23:41And hold on to him.
23:42Don't make my mistake.
23:43Don't let fear choose your life for you.
23:45I'm so sorry.
23:49I'm sorry I left you there.
23:51Don't you dare apologize.
23:54You are the bravest thing I've ever done.
23:57Now be brave a little longer.
24:11Lena?
24:18We're going to figure this out.
24:20Together.
24:22I promise.
24:25He's coming, Ethan.
24:28Marco's coming.
24:31Let him come.
24:38Sir, Mr. Harris called, Ethan.
24:41He says the security team arrives this afternoon.
24:46Good.
24:47And the background check on Duarda?
24:53Preliminary results are in.
24:55There's quite a lot, sir.
25:04This man is a produtor.
25:08What are you looking at?
25:11Nothing you need to worry about right now.
25:14Don't do that.
25:17Don't protect me from the truth.
25:19I've had enough of men deciding what I can handle.
25:28Marco Duarte has a history.
25:30Fraud.
25:31Inimidation.
25:32A woman filed a restraining order against him two years ago.
25:35It disappeared from the records.
25:38I knew he was controlling.
25:40I didn't know about the other woman.
25:46This is leverage, Lena.
25:48If we can find her, get her testimony.
25:52You don't understand.
25:54Marco destroys people who stand against him.
25:57That woman probably disappeared because she was terrified.
26:02Then we make sure you don't have to be terrified anymore.
26:07I have resources.
26:09Lawyers, security.
26:11We can build a case against him, but I need you to trust me.
26:14I trust you.
26:16I just don't trust the world to be fair.
26:19Then we'll make it fair.
26:21Brother, I need you back.
26:22The Tokyo deal is falling apart without you,
26:25and the board is asking questions about your extended vacation.
26:30Tell them I'm handling things remotely.
26:32For how long?
26:34Ethan, you've been gone three weeks.
26:35People are talking.
26:36Let them talk.
26:40This is about the woman, isn't it?
26:42The one from the explosion.
26:44Ethan, be careful.
26:46You can't save everyone.
26:48I'm not trying to save everyone.
26:50Just one person.
27:00I heard your call.
27:02You need to go back.
27:04I'm not leaving you.
27:06Ethan, you have a company.
27:07Thousands of employees.
27:09A life.
27:09You can't put it all on hold for me.
27:13Watch me.
27:14Stop saying that!
27:15I won't be the reason you lose everything you've built!
27:19And I won't be the man who walked away when it mattered.
27:22I've done that before.
27:23I won't do it again.
27:24What do you mean?
27:27You've done that before?
27:34My ex.
27:35I chose the company over her.
27:37Every time.
27:38I realized I'd never really been there at all.
27:39I won't make that mistake with you.
27:41Then we go together.
27:43Back to the real world.
27:45And we face it.
27:46All of it.
27:46Side by side.
27:47Are you sure?
27:49I'm terrified.
27:50But I'm sure.
27:55I'm going to miss that place.
27:59It's not going anywhere.
28:01We'll come back.
28:02Before we land, there's something I need to tell you.
28:05I've had my lawyers working on something.
28:07What kind of something?
28:09A legal strategy against Marco and your father's arrangement.
28:14Harris found enough evidence of financial artitianship to Scott to challenge the merger entirely.
28:21Ethan, that could take years in court.
28:23Or it could take weeks if we have the right pressure points.
28:26And we do.
28:34Duarte has been laundering money through three shell companies.
28:37Your father may not even know.
28:38If we bring this to the financial regulators.
28:41The merger collapses.
28:43Marco loses leverage over my family.
28:46Exactly.
28:46Your father won't need Marco's money if the deal is toxic.
28:49And Marco can't force a marriage if he's facing federal charges.
28:52You did all this for me?
28:56I did this for us.
28:58And for every person Marco has ever hurt.
29:04You're insane.
29:05You know that, right?
29:07Clinically?
29:09Probably.
29:13Penny, for your thoughts?
29:14I was just thinking.
29:16A month ago, I was planning my escape from an engagement party.
29:19Now I'm standing in a pen to York with who makes me believe in second chances.
29:23Is that a good thing?
29:26It's the best thing.
29:39I run a 12 billion dollar company.
29:42And I can't boil Spadetti.
29:4511 billion.
29:49You're never going to let that go, are you?
29:51Never.
29:54Ethan?
29:56Hmm?
29:57I want to start writing music again.
30:01For real this time.
30:03I want to record something.
30:05I know a producer.
30:06I can set up a studio session.
30:08No.
30:09I want to do this on my own.
30:11No billionaire shortcuts.
30:13I need to earn it.
30:14Then earn it.
30:16I'll be your biggest fan.
30:19You already are.
30:27I was already falling before I knew your name.
30:31You pulled me from the fire and taught me love's not pain.
30:37That's the one.
30:38That's the take.
30:46Perfect.
30:52I did it.
30:53I actually did it.
30:55You did it.
30:56All you.
30:58Ethan, do you remember our wish?
31:00On the island?
31:03The star wish?
31:04I wished for love.
31:06Real love.
31:08The kind that stays.
31:10So did I.
31:12I know.
31:13I think I always knew.
31:15I love you, Lena Vidal.
31:20I love you, too.
31:22My superhero.
31:24My impossible, ridiculous, wonderful man.
31:31When?
31:32How close?
31:34Lock everything down.
31:36Now.
31:45Lina.
31:48Marco's people found us.
31:55What?
31:55One of his investigators traced a purchase I made.
31:59Clothes shipped to the island.
32:01They connected it to my name.
32:03You're with me.
32:05No.
32:06No.
32:06No.
32:07No.
32:07No.
32:11Look at me.
32:12We prepared for this.
32:13Harris has the evidence read.
32:15The financial regulators are already reviewing Duarte's files.
32:18We just need a little more time.
32:20And he won't give us more money.
32:21He won't give us time.
32:22You don't know him, Ethan.
32:24He'll come here.
32:25He'll...
32:31Sir, there's a man in the lobby demanding to see you.
32:33He says his name is Marco Duarte.
32:39Send him up.
32:41Finn, don't!
32:42I told you.
32:44Let him come.
32:46So this is where you've been hiding her.
32:50Impressive.
32:52You're in my home.
32:54I suggest you choose your next words carefully.
32:56Lina, darling.
32:57You've had your little adventure.
32:59It's time to come home.
33:04I'm not going anywhere with you, Marco.
33:07Not now.
33:08Not ever.
33:09Your father disagrees.
33:10The merger.
33:14The merger is dead.
33:15I know about the shell companies.
33:17The laundering.
33:18The fraud.
33:19Right now, my lawyers are presenting evidence to federal regulators.
33:22By tomorrow morning, your ass will be frozen.
33:24You have no idea who you're dealing with, Cross.
33:28Actually, I do.
33:29You're a man who confuses ownership with love.
33:34Who thinks money buys people?
33:36But here's what your money can't buy.
33:38Her.
33:40She's not yours.
33:41She never was.
33:42This what you want?
33:44This stranger over your own family?
33:46My family used me as currency.
33:48You treated me like property.
33:50Ethan is the first person who ever asked me what I wanted.
33:53So yes, this is what I want.
34:01This isn't over.
34:02This isn't over.
34:03Yes, it is.
34:06Enjoy it while it lasts.
34:08Cross.
34:10You were incredible.
34:17I think I'm going to throw up.
34:20That's all so incredible.
34:21That's all so incredible.
34:21The regulators move fast and freezing her this morning.
34:25Duarte's accounts are frozen as lawyers are scrambling.
34:27And my father.
34:28Rodrigo Dall has been cooperating reluctantly.
34:32Once he saw the evidence of fraud, he was the merger would have destroyed his company, not saved it.
34:37So now he listens.
34:39There's more.
34:41The woman who filed the restraining order, her name is Clara Mendez.
34:44She's agreed to testify.
34:49How?
34:54We offered her protection.
34:55A new identity if she needs it.
34:57She's been waiting years for someone to stand up to Marco.
34:59Lena, I just wanted you to know that you're not alone.
35:01All those years I thought I was the only one.
35:03You were never the only one.
35:06But you might be the one who ends it.
35:09Ms. Vidal.
35:11Is it true you're pressing charges against Marco Dutate?
35:14I'm here to tell the truth.
35:17That's all.
35:20Ms. Vidal, can you describe the nature of your relationship with the defendant?
35:24It was never a relationship.
35:26It was an arrangement made by my father and Marco's family for financial gain.
35:30I was never consulted.
35:31Rodrigo was told I had no choice.
35:33And when you attempted to leave?
35:35Marco made it clear through threats, surveillance, and intimidation that leaving was not an option.
35:40He monitored my movements.
35:42He threatened people close to me.
35:43He believed he owned me.
35:49He did the same to me.
35:51The surveillance, the threats.
35:54When I filed a restraining order, it disappeared.
35:56His lawyers made sure of it.
35:58I was terrified for three years.
36:03On the charges of financial fraud, money laundering, and criminal intimidation,
36:07and the court finds the defendant, Marco Duarte, guilty on all counts.
36:25You did it.
36:27We did it.
36:29I am so proud of you.
36:37That was already filing by newcomer Lena Vidal.
36:41And folks, this one is climbing the charts fast.
36:46Heard you on the radio.
36:48The barista recognized your voice.
36:49I think you're famous now.
36:51Don't let it go to your head.
36:53You're still only worth 11 billion.
36:58Lena.
37:01Father.
37:02I owe you an apology.
37:04I put the company above my own daughter.
37:06I was wrong.
37:08Yes.
37:10You were.
37:11I'm not asking for forgiveness.
37:13I'm asking for a chance to earn it.
37:15Then earn it.
37:16Starting now.
37:20So, your song is a hit.
37:21Your father's actually trying.
37:23Marco's in prison.
37:24What's next for Lena Vidal?
37:26World domination?
37:27A Grammy?
37:28Teaching your mother how to use FaceTime?
37:30She's 73.
37:31That might be harder than the Grammy.
37:38I have something for you.
37:43Before you panic, it's not a ring.
37:45Not yet.
37:47Open it.
37:50The wishing star.
37:52I had it made after our night on the beach.
37:54One star for one wish.
37:57Put it on me.
37:59I love you, Ethan Cross.
38:00To every impossible, stubborn, generous part of you.
38:05I love you, Lena.
38:11You look like freedom.
38:14That's exactly what I feel like.
38:16Are you ready?
38:18I've been ready since the night he carried me out of the fire.
38:20Most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
38:22You say that every morning.
38:24And I mean it every morning.
38:26Lena, a year ago I found a woman in a ruined dress in the middle of chaos.
38:33I thought I was saving her.
38:34But she saved from a life success meant everything connection by nothing.
38:37You touched me.
38:38You taught me.
38:38That the bravest thing a person can do is stay.
38:40So here I am.
38:42Staying.
38:42Ethan, I spent my whole life being told what to want, who to be, where to go.
38:46Then a building exploded and a stranger with gray eyes picked me up and said no one had ever said
38:49that to me before.
38:50You gave me a place to land.
38:52By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife.
38:56You may kiss.
39:00Remember our wish?
39:02Real love.
39:04The kind that stays.
39:06Wish granted.
39:11So what do we wish for now?
39:13Everything else.
39:16Together.
39:18They say billionaires can buy anything.
39:20But the thing wanted most, the thing we both wanted, was never for sale.
39:23It was built in fire, carried across oceans, and sealed under a sky full of stars.
39:27It was just love.
39:28Simple, spectrinary love.
39:29And it was ours.
39:30It was just love.
39:30It was just love.
39:30It was just love.
39:30It was just love.
39:31It was just love.
39:31It was just love.
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