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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.

00:02:05So 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.

00:02:14If he 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's 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.

00:03:10GPS 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.

00:03:52Convinced he was still stuck with me.

00:03:56Forget it.

00:03:56I 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.

00:04:21And don't waste your time trying to take off the bracelet.

00:04:24I pushed the door open.

00:04:25I looked 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,

00:04:40and the bastard daughter they'd spent years polishing into exactly the kind of obedient, presentable girl Damien wanted.

00:04:47You reek of alcohol, and you wore a Blackwood engagement bracelet to a night cup.

00:04:51Have 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.

00:06:06When are you going to learn to do or told?

00:06:08Not in this lifetime.

00:06:10Right on Cuse, 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.

00:06:31All 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, nails 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, Manhattan's most coveted

00:07:59heir stepped forward and reached right past me, his actual fiancée, to offer his hand

00:08:04to Clara.

00:08:05The socialite crowd broke into sharp, delighted whispers.

00:08:08Did you see that?

00:08:10He chose the stepsister?

00:08:11Honestly, 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, then threw me a cold parting shot.

00:08:21You do not know how to dance at this level.

00:08:24Stay 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

00:08:38feel 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

00:08:49and vicious.

00:08:50Poor Scarlet.

00:08:51Your mother could not beat mine, and now you cannot beat me either.

00:08:55Losing 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?!

00:09:16I closed the distance and grabbed her by the neck.

00:09:20Hit 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.

00:10:05The bodyguards grabbed me before I could fight them off.

00:10:08No matter how hard I struggled, they 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, when 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, I 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, he 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, and I am not promising you a damn thing.

00:11:31Mr. Blackwood, Clara 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.

00:11:48Run to your real fiancée.

00:11:49On the day I was discharged, Damien forced me back into the car and drove me to the Vale Estate.

00:11:54But when I pushed open my bedroom door, my blood went cold.

00:11:58Clara was sitting at my vanity, dangling 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, everything in this house is going to be mine.

00:12:25Daddy, I only wanted to look at Scarlet's necklace, and 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, I will give you the components of your life.

00:12:45I grabbed a metal pen from the vanity and drove it straight at the Clara's palm.

00:12:49Clean through, pinned to the hardwood.

00:12:51Ah!

00:12:51You fucking psycho, you're all dead!

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.

00:13:04It was raining.

00:13:05I stood sosed under an ornery until a black roll 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.

00:13:25She 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.

00:13:40He 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 arms.

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.

00:14:18In front of every guest in the room, took out a velvet box, and clasped a diamond necklace worth a

00:14:22small 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.

00:15:11Stone 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.

00:17:11You could not pay me to go.

00:17:40Don't be nervous, Scarlet.

00:17:41I will teach you everything you need to know to become the perfect Mrs. Blackwood.

00:17:47Go on, Damien.

00:17:49Marry 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 and flagged

00:18:00a cab to JFK.

00:18:02Inside the car, I pulled a small remote from my coat pocket and looked back at the house one last

00:18:07time.

00:18:08My mother had designed it.

00:18:10Now it sheltered the woman who had replaced her and 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, the 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, watching the bride walk toward

00:18:41him.

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 how to submit.

00:18:52The priest began to bow.

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 as camera flashes stirred across the room.

00:19:04Then came the moment everyone had been waiting for.

00:19:06The groom lifted the veil.

00:19:07Damien reached up with calm, certain fingers, caught the edge of the lace and swept it back.

00:19:10For 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.

00:19:23The 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.

00:19:42The 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?

00:19:56Tell 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.

00:20:11Clara. We 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?

00:20:44It 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,

00:21:02feeling as if something had been carved straight out 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. Smoldering 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.

00:21:52In the area where my bedroom had been, he finally dug out a small jewelry box, warped and half-melted,

00:21:57with the black wood crest barely recognizable on the surface.

00:22:00His hands shook as he pried it open.

00:22:01Inside lay a diamond necklace, fused it 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, walked out of the Vale estate at an

00:22:44easy 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.

00:23:20She 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, his eyes shot through with red, and his voice scraped raw.

00:23:29But there was something in it now beyond rage, something 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!

00:23:51After giving the orders, he drove straight to the Four Seasons where Richard's family had taken up 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, who 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, she is well-behaved, and she is far more appropriate for you than that wreckage.

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 Blackoard's wife.

00:24:35That woman is Scarlet, and has always been 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,

00:24:59looking up at him with tears streaming down her face.

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.

00:25:17Just 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.

00:25:35You 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.

00:25:44I 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, sir!

00:25:53He walked out.

00:25:54Back at Blackwood Tower, in the top floor office.

00:25:57He 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?

00:26:23His 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.

00:26:40It had never been recklessness.

00:26:42It had never been a tantrum or some desperate game for attention.

00:26:46She had planned everything carefully, putting every piece in place long before he had ever thought she was capable of

00:26:52it.

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.

00:27:19He suddenly remembered how different I had been during those days.

00:27:22I had screamed the same thing at him again and again.

00:27:26I told him I was not marrying him.

00:27:27I told him we were done.

00:27:29Back 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, lock me up for a

00:27:37few days,

00:27:38force me to sign a public statement, and 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?

00:27:53Was 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 questions spread through Damien's mind like poison.

00:28:12But 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, he had to get me back.

00:28:24Even if I hated him, even if I resented him, even if I made him suffer for the rest of

00:28:28his life,

00:28:29he was going to keep me by his side forever.

00:28:34Keep searching. Don't stop until you find it.

00:28:37He told him to use every connection the Blackwood family had,

00:28:40from finance circles to private security networks.

00:28:44He did not care what it cost.

00:28:45He did not care who they had to pressure.

00:28:48They 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, and 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 Bale family.

00:29:15Blackwood Group launched a full-scale commercial attack on the Bale businesses.

00:29:19Their methods were merciless, and they left no room for survival.

00:29:23The Bale company had already been falling apart.

00:29:26Within two weeks, its assets were liquidated,

00:29:29its stock price collapsed, and bankruptcy was waiting at the door.

00:29:38Richard 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.

00:29:49After the bankruptcy,

00:29:50Clara became the easiest target for Damien's despair.

00:29:56She could not accept it.

00:29:59She kept trying to use the media to get Damien's attention.

00:30:02She even stood outside Blackwood Tower in the pouring rain,

00:30:06waiting there like someone with nowhere else to go.

00:30:08Finally, she threw herself in front of Damien's stretch limousine,

00:30:12and refused to move.

00:30:14Clara pressed her face against the rain streak window,

00:30:17crying so hard she could barely speak.

00:30:20She begged Damien to stop destroying the Bale family.

00:30:23She 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,

00:30:34revealed Damien's cold, hollow face,

00:30:36and 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.

00:30:55The limousine drove off,

00:30:56leaving Clara sitting in the mud,

00:30:59sobbing in the rain.

00:31:00Damien closed his eyes and let the alcohol and sleepless nights swallow him whole.

00:31:05He had started relying on heavy doses of sleeping pills

00:31:08just to get a few hours of rest.

00:31:10But every time he fell asleep,

00:31:12the same nightmares came back.

00:31:15He saw me in the fountain,

00:31:16bleeding and pale.

00:31:17He heard me screaming in the wine cellar while the current tore through me.

00:31:24He saw the explosion and the fire swallowing the Bale 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 and more violent with each passing day.

00:31:37Everyone in Blackwood's upper management walked on eggshells around him.

00:31:41One week later,

00:31:43Damien's mother forced him to attend a 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 most powerful air with her.

00:31:52Damien stood in a corner with a glass of whiskey,

00:31:54staring blankly at the dance floor.

00:31:56Then for one second,

00:31:56he thought he saw a familiar figure in a bright red dress,

00:31:59laughing with that proud, dazzling profile he could not forget.

00:32:03He 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!

00:32:17It was not me.

00:32:18The light in Damien's eyes went out instantly,

00:32:20replaced by despair and humiliation.

00:32:21He released her as if all the strength had left his body.

00:32:24The wealthy guests around him stared with confusion and thinly hidden mockery.

00:32:28Sir, please.

00:32:28You need to be careful.

00:32:30This is not appropriate.

00:32:31It does not meet Blackwood family standards.

00:32:33Damien repeated the word with a bitter laugh.

00:32:36Standards?

00:32:37To hell with the standards.

00:32:38I do not care about any of it anymore.

00:32:41I only want Scarlet.

00:32:43Then he pulled his fist back

00:32:44and slammed it into the decorative stone pillar beside him.

00:32:48His knuckles split open immediately

00:32:50and blood ran down the column.

00:32:52But he did not feel the physical pain.

00:32:55All he felt was the hollow space in his chest

00:32:57where something vital used to be.

00:33:02Another week passed.

00:33:05The thick curtains were drawn shut.

00:33:07The ashtrays were overflowing with cigar beats.

00:33:10The air smelled of tobacco and bitter coffee.

00:33:14Inside the top floor office of Blackwood Tower,

00:33:16the atmosphere was so heavy it felt like the silence before a storm.

00:33:20Damien 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.

00:33:43He 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-shart 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

00:34:30walking towards a quieter boarding gate

00:34:32with a small suitcase.

00:34:34The figure was familiar enough

00:34:35to burn through his bones.

00:34:37He knew it was a new lead on me.

00:34:40Hope 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.

00:34:50Heathrow transit records are complicated,

00:34:51and she seems to have avoided the major national flights

00:34:53that required strector identity checks.

00:34:55She chose smaller, cheaper airlines

00:34:57that attracted less attention.

00:34:58It will take time.

00:35:00We do not have time.

00:35:03Get the jet ready.

00:35:04We are leaving for Heathrow right now.

00:35:06Yes, sir.

00:35:07Sir, 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

00:35:17tore through the clouds above Manhattan

00:35:18and landed at Heathrow Airport in London.

00:35:21The plane had not even fully stopped

00:35:22before Damien was already opening the door.

00:35:25He could not wait for the stairs

00:35:26to lower all the way and jump down.

00:35:28His 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.

00:35:34He 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,

00:35:41his sharp eyes scanning every woman he passed.

00:35:44Finally,

00:35:44he saw the boarding gate,

00:35:46just 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-brained hat,

00:35:55and sunglasses

00:35:56was 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

00:36:03were staring in shock.

00:36:05He grabbed my wrist

00:36:06and held on like his life depended on it.

00:36:08My body went stiff.

00:36:13Let go of me, Mr. Blackwood.

00:36:15Grabbing a woman in public like this

00:36:16is not very appropriate, is it?

00:36:18I thought your precious family code

00:36:20cared about appearances.

00:36:21The cold sarcasm in my voice

00:36:23hit Damien like ice water,

00:36:25but 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,

00:36:38one by one.

00:36:41Come back to what?

00:36:42That cage with 3,000 stupid rules?

00:36:45Am I supposed to go back

00:36:46and play Mrs. Blackwood again?

00:36:47His face turned paler.

00:36:49I looked at him with open disgust.

00:36:52Did you forget your perfect bride

00:36:53is Clara now?

00:36:55Your sweet, sensible little bride

00:36:57is waiting for you.

00:36:58Chasing your ex-fiancee

00:37:00through an airport

00:37:00is a bad look, Damien.

00:37:02The man who had once been

00:37:03Manhattan's coldest

00:37:04and most untouchable heir

00:37:05fell to his knees

00:37:05in that foreign airport,

00:37:06surrounded by cameras and strangers,

00:37:08looking smaller than dirt.

00:37:10Damien looked up at me,

00:37:11and tears finally broke through.

00:37:13The wedding did not count.

00:37:14I never wanted her.

00:37:15I do not care about

00:37:17the family code anymore.

00:37:18If you come back with me,

00:37:19you can do whatever you want.

00:37:20I will agree to anything.

00:37:22Just do not leave me like this.

00:37:24I took a step back

00:37:25as if avoiding something filthy.

00:37:27Your apology came too late,

00:37:30and honestly,

00:37:31I do not need it.

00:37:32Then I turned around,

00:37:33handed my boarding pass

00:37:34to the gate agent,

00:37:35and walked straight into the jet bridge

00:37:37with my back straight.

00:37:38Damien tried to follow,

00:37:40but airport security

00:37:41and his assistant held him back.

00:37:43Scarlett!

00:37:45He screamed my name

00:37:46toward the closing door,

00:37:47sounding like a man

00:37:48being torn apart.

00:37:53Three months later,

00:37:55in Monaco,

00:37:55inside the Monte Carlo Casino,

00:37:57money and desire

00:37:58blurred together

00:37:58under the glittering lights.

00:37:59The sound of poker chips

00:38:01never stopped.

00:38:01At a crowded Bacarmo table,

00:38:03every man nearby

00:38:04had his eyes fixed

00:38:05on the woman

00:38:05sitting across from the dealer.

00:38:09That woman was me.

00:38:11I wore a black silk slip dress

00:38:13with thin straps

00:38:14and a high clip

00:38:15that revealed my pale ankles

00:38:17and silver heels.

00:38:19The next round of cards came out.

00:38:20I barely glanced at my hand

00:38:22before tapping my fingers

00:38:23lightly on the table.

00:38:26Raise.

00:38:27Player wins.

00:38:29Then he pushed

00:38:30a mountain of chips toward me.

00:38:31The crowd around us

00:38:33broke into amazed whispers.

00:38:34They said the socialite

00:38:36from New York

00:38:36had won seven hands in a row.

00:38:38They said my psychological game

00:38:40was terrifying.

00:38:41I took a sip of champagne

00:38:43and almost laughed

00:38:44at the irony.

00:38:45This was not luck.

00:38:46It was probability,

00:38:47statistics and psychology.

00:38:49All the things Damien

00:38:50had once forced me to learn

00:38:51so I could become

00:38:52the perfect high society wife.

00:38:54I never thought

00:38:55those lessons

00:38:55would become my best weapon

00:38:57for burning through money

00:38:58in a place like this.

00:38:59Just as I was about

00:39:00to place another bet,

00:39:01a drunk local heir

00:39:02named Charles

00:39:03shoved through the crowd.

00:39:04His face was red

00:39:05from losing too much money

00:39:06and he reeked of alcohol.

00:39:08Come play with me tonight.

00:39:11I will split my winnings with you.

00:39:13Before his hand

00:39:14could touch me,

00:39:14I stepped back

00:39:15and lifted my right foot

00:39:16in its seven centimeter heel.

00:39:18Then I kicked him hard

00:39:19and precisely between the legs,

00:39:21using every bit of strength

00:39:22I had built

00:39:23through years of training.

00:39:25I was about to leave

00:39:26with my chip card

00:39:27when the crowd suddenly parted.

00:39:28A young mixtape man

00:39:29walked toward me

00:39:30with his hands in his pockets.

00:39:31He wore a black suit

00:39:32with the top three buttons undone,

00:39:34looking relaxed and arrogant

00:39:35in a way that came naturally

00:39:36to men who had never been told no.

00:39:37A limited edition watch

00:39:38gleamed on his wrist.

00:39:39It was Nathaniel.

00:39:43Nathaniel had an unlit cigar

00:39:44between his lips.

00:39:45He used the polished tip

00:39:46of his shoe

00:39:46to nudge Charles,

00:39:47who was still curled up

00:39:48on the floor groaning.

00:39:49His expression was pure contempt.

00:39:50You put your hands

00:39:51on someone I am interested in,

00:39:53in my casino.

00:39:54That is not flirting, Charles.

00:39:56That is a death wish.

00:39:59If I ever see you near her again,

00:40:01what she broke tonight

00:40:03will be the least

00:40:04of your problems.

00:40:05Charles scrambled away

00:40:06with the help of his friends,

00:40:07too scared to look back.

00:40:08Then Nathaniel turned to me.

00:40:10His deep,

00:40:11flirtious eyes landed on mine,

00:40:12and he did not bother

00:40:13hiding his interest.

00:40:14He stepped forward naturally,

00:40:15slid one arm around my waist

00:40:17and pulled me closer

00:40:17with a confidence

00:40:18that was almost insulting.

00:40:19His hold was intimate,

00:40:21possessive,

00:40:21and far too practiced.

00:40:23My body tensed,

00:40:24and I tried to pull away,

00:40:25but his arm stayed relaxed

00:40:26while still leaving

00:40:27no room to escape.

00:40:28He lowered his head

00:40:29close to my ear,

00:40:30his warm breath

00:40:31brushing my skin.

00:40:32I have been watching

00:40:33the little wild cat

00:40:34from New York

00:40:34for a while now.

00:40:36Those claws are impressive.

00:40:37Then he lifted his head

00:40:38and announced it

00:40:39to the whole casino

00:40:40with the kenless arrogance

00:40:41of a spoiled playboy.

00:40:42Damien Blackwood

00:40:43was blind enough

00:40:44not to want her.

00:40:45Lucky me,

00:40:46because I do.

00:40:48The Monaco socialists

00:40:49watching from nearby

00:40:50immediately started

00:40:51buzzing with gossip.

00:40:53Everyone knew Nathaniel

00:40:54had impossibly high standards,

00:40:55and now he was publicly

00:40:57chasing a runaway bride

00:40:58from New York.

00:40:59I looked up at him,

00:41:01met his burning gaze,

00:41:02and smiled.

00:41:05I appreciate the offer,

00:41:07but do I look like

00:41:08I need a man

00:41:09to get whatever I want?

00:41:10Nathaniel did not get angry.

00:41:12Instead,

00:41:13he pulled me a little closer,

00:41:14and the admiration

00:41:15in his eyes

00:41:16almost overflowed.

00:41:17That mouth of yours

00:41:19is dangerous.

00:41:20I like dangerous.

00:41:24I stayed in Monaco

00:41:26for a while,

00:41:26and Nathaniel kept his word.

00:41:28He pursued me

00:41:28loudly, aggressively,

00:41:29and with absolutely no shame.

00:41:31The next morning,

00:41:31a limited edition

00:41:32bright yellow Lamborghini

00:41:33was parked outside

00:41:34my apartment building.

00:41:35The keys were delivered

00:41:36with a card

00:41:36written in messy handwriting.

00:41:37It was just a way

00:41:38to get around.

00:41:39If you crash it,

00:41:40I will pay for it.

00:41:41A few days later,

00:41:42he rented a massive luxury yacht

00:41:43and threw an extravagant party

00:41:44on the water,

00:41:45insisting that I be

00:41:46the center of it.

00:41:52Have fun anywhere you want.

00:41:54Use my name

00:41:55if anyone gets in your way.

00:41:57He took me skydiving,

00:41:58deep-sea diving,

00:41:59and even snuck us

00:42:00onto an F1 track

00:42:01to race cars

00:42:02in the middle of the night.

00:42:03He did every crazy,

00:42:04dangerous,

00:42:04reckless thing with me,

00:42:05and none of it

00:42:06had anything to do

00:42:07with family codes,

00:42:08rules,

00:42:08or proper behavior.

00:42:09What got to me most

00:42:10was that he never asked me

00:42:11to be gentle,

00:42:12quiet, or obedient.

00:42:13He never wanted me

00:42:14to behave.

00:42:14Whenever I pushed a race car

00:42:15up to 200 miles per hour,

00:42:17showing every wild edge I had,

00:42:18he sat in the passenger seat

00:42:20whistling and cheering

00:42:20like he had never seen

00:42:21anything better.

00:42:22After we landed

00:42:23on the soft sand

00:42:23from a 10,000 meter skydive,

00:42:25Nathaniel pulled off

00:42:26his goggles.

00:42:27His hair was a mess,

00:42:28and he was smoking a cigarette

00:42:29while looking at my flushed face

00:42:30with a chalky smile.

00:42:31This is how you are supposed

00:42:32to live, Scarlett.

00:42:33Wild, loud,

00:42:34and impossible to leash.

00:42:35It suits you a hell of a lot better

00:42:36than playing some polished

00:42:37fake heiress in New York.

00:42:38Looking at this loud,

00:42:39arrogant man,

00:42:39I felt something inside me

00:42:41start to loosen.

00:42:42A frozen part of my heart,

00:42:43locked away by Damien

00:42:44for two lifetimes,

00:42:45began to thaw just a little.

00:42:46When I was with Nathaniel,

00:42:47I 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,

00:42:52we were playing a huge game

00:42:53of Texas Hold Us

00:42:53at a private club,

00:42:54and I had lost

00:42:55several hands in a row.

00:42:56I was hesitating over

00:42:57whether to call the bet

00:42:58when Nathaniel lazily pushed

00:42:59more than half of his kips

00:43:00towards me.

00:43:01Call it.

00:43:01Do not get scared now.

00:43:03If you lose,

00:43:03it is on me.

00:43:04If you win,

00:43:05it's your fun money.

00:43:06On the way home that night,

00:43:07with the wind blowing

00:43:08through the car,

00:43:09he was quiet for once.

00:43:11Then,

00:43:12he said something

00:43:13I did not expect.

00:43:15You know,

00:43:16we met a long time ago.

00:43:21I turned my head in surprise

00:43:23and looked at his

00:43:24handsome profile.

00:43:28Nathaniel kept his eyes

00:43:30on the road

00:43:30and let out a bitter laugh.

00:43:32Years ago,

00:43:33at a horse track

00:43:34in New York,

00:43:36you were 18.

00:43:38Richard,

00:43:39Monica,

00:43:39and Clara,

00:43:40they are embarrassed

00:43:40to embarrass you

00:43:41in front of half

00:43:42the social crowd.

00:43:43Do you remember

00:43:44what you did?

00:43:46You jumped your horse

00:43:47over the highest obstacle

00:43:48and beat the guy

00:43:49who had been looking down

00:43:50on you all day.

00:43:51You were sitting

00:43:52on that horse,

00:43:53laughing like you

00:43:53owned the whole world,

00:43:54loud,

00:43:55arrogant,

00:43:56impossible to ignore.

00:43:57I remember thinking,

00:43:58damn,

00:43:59that girl is something else.

00:44:02I was stunned.

00:44:04I had almost forgotten

00:44:05that miserable day

00:44:06when Richard had tried

00:44:08so hard to humiliate me.

00:44:10Too bad your eyes

00:44:11were only on that

00:44:12fake gentleman,

00:44:13Damien Blackwood.

00:44:15I was wild back then,

00:44:16too,

00:44:17but I knew one thing.

00:44:18You cannot force

00:44:19someone to want you.

00:44:21So I did not step in

00:44:23just to get rejected.

00:44:26His words landed

00:44:27like a stone

00:44:28dropped into the

00:44:28dead still lake

00:44:29of my heart.

00:44:31So there had been

00:44:32someone watching

00:44:33the real Scarlet Vals

00:44:34all along,

00:44:35even when I had

00:44:36not known it.

00:44:37What truly changed

00:44:38the way I saw him

00:44:38happened during

00:44:39a dirt bike accident.

00:44:40We were racing

00:44:41on a mountain road

00:44:42in southern Europe.

00:44:43On the way down,

00:44:43the pavement was wet

00:44:44and I was going too fast.

00:44:45My tire lost traction

00:44:46on a sharp turn

00:44:47and both my bike

00:44:48and I flew toward

00:44:48a steep drop

00:44:49hundreds of feet below.

00:44:51In that split second,

00:44:53Nathaniel was right

00:44:53behind me.

00:44:54He did not hesitate.

00:44:55He hit the gas

00:44:55and shot toward me,

00:44:56using his heavier bike

00:44:57to slam into mine

00:44:58and change the direction

00:44:59of my fall.

00:44:59But because of the force

00:45:00and the rebound,

00:45:01he and his bike

00:45:02went tumbling

00:45:02down the steep slope

00:45:03and found him

00:45:04among the rocks.

00:45:04His right leg

00:45:05was pinned under

00:45:06the heavy bike.

00:45:06Blood covered his forehead

00:45:07and his face

00:45:08was white from pain.

00:45:09Do not cry.

00:45:10I am too damn tough

00:45:11to die like this.

00:45:12Even then,

00:45:13he forced an ugly,

00:45:14cocky smile,

00:45:14like he was still trying

00:45:15to make me feel better.

00:45:18In the private hospital

00:45:20in Monaco,

00:45:20Nathaniel had thick bandages

00:45:21wrapped around his head

00:45:22and a cased on his right arm.

00:45:24But he still acted

00:45:24like the same wild,

00:45:25carenless trouble mare.

00:45:27He lay in the hospital bed,

00:45:28looking at me

00:45:29as I sat beside him

00:45:29with slightly red eyes.

00:45:31For once,

00:45:31he put away

00:45:32all his cocky,

00:45:33unserious attitude.

00:45:34His deep,

00:45:35flurchous eyes

00:45:36locked onto mine

00:45:37with a seriousness

00:45:38I had never seen

00:45:39from him before.

00:45:40I know you've been hurt.

00:45:42I know Black Hill

00:45:43broke you

00:45:44with his rules and chains.

00:45:48I am not asking you

00:45:49to get over it for me.

00:45:50Take all the time you need.

00:45:52I can wait.

00:45:54I can wait.

00:45:56When you are ready

00:45:57to want someone again,

00:45:59I want you to think

00:46:00of me first.

00:46:00His honesty,

00:46:01the way he had risked

00:46:02his life to save me

00:46:03and the way he accepted

00:46:04every wild part of me

00:46:05without trying to change it

00:46:06all hit me at once.

00:46:07It felt like hot sunlight

00:46:08breaking through the frozen walls

00:46:09around my heart.

00:46:10For this time,

00:46:10I did not answer

00:46:11with something sharp.

00:46:12I only lowered my eyes

00:46:13and felt some of those

00:46:14cold hard chains inside me

00:46:15begin to crack.

00:46:16But the peace

00:46:16did not last long.

00:46:18A few days later,

00:46:19the nightmare found me again.

00:46:21Late one night,

00:46:22after I had been out

00:46:23dancing with Mia,

00:46:24I was walking back

00:46:25to my apartment

00:46:25when the air around me

00:46:26turned cold

00:46:27in a way I knew too well.

00:46:28A thin, worn out figure

00:46:30stood under the shadow

00:46:31of a streetlight,

00:46:31his eyes red

00:46:32with endless obsession.

00:46:33Damien Blackwood.

00:46:34He looked terrifying.

00:46:35His suit was wrinkled,

00:46:36his eyes were bloodshot

00:46:37and violent desperation

00:46:38seemed to radiate

00:46:39from his entire body,

00:46:40like he was one step away

00:46:41from losing his mind.

00:46:42He stepped forward

00:46:42and grabbed my arm,

00:46:43squeezing so hard

00:46:44it felt like he was

00:46:45trying to break it.

00:46:46His voice was rough,

00:46:47like sandpaper

00:46:48dragged over concrete.

00:46:50Scarlet,

00:46:50are you done playing games?

00:46:52Come back with me.

00:46:54Now.

00:46:56Let go of me,

00:46:57Mr. Blackwood.

00:46:58Do we even know each other?

00:47:10Just as Damien was about

00:47:11to force me into his car,

00:47:13a hand with long defined fingers

00:47:14and a limited edition watch

00:47:16cut through the air

00:47:16faster than anyone expected.

00:47:18It caught Damien's wrist

00:47:19with a sharp smack

00:47:20and held tight.

00:47:24A Blackwood CEO

00:47:25should know better

00:47:26than to put his hands

00:47:27on my woman in public.

00:47:30Even a three-year-old knows

00:47:31you cannot force someone

00:47:32to want you.

00:47:33He twisted Damien's wrist

00:47:35with sudden,

00:47:35explosive strength,

00:47:37forcing him to let go of me.

00:47:40At the same time,

00:47:41he slid his arm

00:47:42around my waist

00:47:43and pulled me behind him,

00:47:44natural and protective.

00:47:46Damien's eyes

00:47:47shot to Nathaniel's hand

00:47:48on my waist

00:47:49like poison daggers.

00:47:50The jealousy and rage

00:47:52burned through

00:47:52the last thread of sanity

00:47:53the New York air had left.

00:47:55Damien's veins

00:47:56stood out on his forehead

00:47:57and he spat Nathaniel's name

00:47:58through his teeth.

00:47:59Take your hands off her.

00:48:01You are a spoiled piece of trash

00:48:03who changes women

00:48:04more often than cars.

00:48:06Do not touch her

00:48:07with your filthy hands.

00:48:08If you do not let go,

00:48:10I will destroy

00:48:12your entire family

00:48:13in Europe.

00:48:18I am a mess, sure.

00:48:20I sleep around

00:48:21and I have never

00:48:22pretended to be a saint.

00:48:24Then his tones

00:48:24changed completely

00:48:25and every word

00:48:27came out cold

00:48:27and poisoned.

00:48:28But I have never

00:48:29been sick enough

00:48:30to make a woman

00:48:31write a 10,000 word

00:48:32Tumblr apology.

00:48:33I have never locked her

00:48:34in a dark wine cellar

00:48:35for three days

00:48:36without food

00:48:37but water.

00:48:38I have never thrown her

00:48:39into a freezing fountain

00:48:40at a gala.

00:48:42Watched her bleed

00:48:42in the water

00:48:43and then told my guards

00:48:45to keep going

00:48:45because she needed

00:48:46to learn a lesson.

00:48:54So tell me, Blackwood

00:48:56what the hell

00:48:57kind of man

00:48:58do you think you are?

00:49:03Every word out of Nathaniel's mouth

00:49:04cut open the guilt

00:49:05Damien had been trying

00:49:06not to face.

00:49:07Right there

00:49:08on a foreign street,

00:49:09Nathaniel stripped away

00:49:10every pathetic excuse

00:49:11Damien had ever made

00:49:12about love,

00:49:13discipline,

00:49:13and protection,

00:49:14leaving him with nothing

00:49:15to hide behind.

00:49:16The color drained

00:49:17from Damien's face.

00:49:18His lips trembled

00:49:19and he tried to argue back

00:49:20but his throat was so dry

00:49:22that not a single word

00:49:23came out.

00:49:23Two months of guilt

00:49:25and regret

00:49:25crashed over him

00:49:26all at once.

00:49:27His vision went dark

00:49:28and he could barely stand.

00:49:30Then he snapped.

00:49:32Shut up.

00:49:33His voice was hazy

00:49:35and shaking.

00:49:39Shut your mouth!

00:49:41The last thread

00:49:42holding him to get broke.

00:49:43He pulled his fist back

00:49:44and charged forward

00:49:45trying to tear me away

00:49:47from Nathaniel.

00:49:48Nathaniel had run out

00:49:49of patience.

00:49:50His eyes went cold

00:49:52and he lunged forward

00:49:53throwing a punch

00:49:54straight at Damien.

00:49:55Two powerful men

00:49:56who were used to

00:49:57commanding boardrooms

00:49:57and making entire markets move

00:49:59started brawling

00:50:00on the streets of Monaco

00:50:01like common street thugs.

00:50:02The heavy sound

00:50:03of fists hitting flesh

00:50:04and the raw grails of age

00:50:05made casino guests

00:50:06scream and scattered.

00:50:07In the chaos,

00:50:09Damien used that reckless

00:50:10almost suicidal force

00:50:11to break through the guards

00:50:12and reach me again.

00:50:14Come with me.

00:50:15I am not losing you again.

00:50:17He grabbed my shoulders

00:50:18with his bloody hands,

00:50:19his eyes obsessive

00:50:21and unhinged.

00:50:22Damien forced me

00:50:22into the black armored car

00:50:24waiting on the street

00:50:25and ordered his men

00:50:26to clear up hay.

00:50:27Clear the way,

00:50:27now!

00:50:30Drive to the private airport.

00:50:32Now,

00:50:32we are leaving for New York.

00:50:36By the time Nathaniel

00:50:37ran back into the street

00:50:38with blood on his face,

00:50:40all he could see

00:50:40were the taillights

00:50:41disappearing toward the coast.

00:50:46Find Blackwood's private flight

00:50:48path across the Atlantic.

00:50:49Get my people ready.

00:50:50I am going to New York

00:50:52and I am tearing

00:50:53his tower down

00:50:54if I have to.

00:50:56Twelve hours later,

00:50:57the Gulfray landed

00:50:58a heavily guarded

00:50:58private estate

00:50:59outside New York City,

00:51:00completely isolated

00:51:01from the outside world.

00:51:02It was Damien's

00:51:03most hidden asset,

00:51:04a beautiful golden cage

00:51:05built with the best

00:51:06security systems

00:51:07money could buy.

00:51:08I was locked inside

00:51:09the luxurious living room,

00:51:10but I stayed

00:51:11completely silent.

00:51:12I did not cry.

00:51:13I did not scream.

00:51:15I did not make a scene.

00:51:16I only looked at Damien

00:51:18with a coldness

00:51:18that made it clear

00:51:19he was already dead to me.

00:51:22Damien's heart

00:51:22cracked piece by piece

00:51:24under that look.

00:51:25He desperately wanted

00:51:26to make things right.

00:51:28Then he suddenly remembered

00:51:30that I had once mentioned

00:51:31liking a certain

00:51:32French dessert.

00:51:33He had never been

00:51:34in a kitchen in his life,

00:51:35but he took off his jacket

00:51:36and walked into

00:51:37the kitchen anyway,

00:51:38clumsily cutting ingredients

00:51:39with his ruined hands.

00:51:40Hot oil splashed up

00:51:41and burned blisters

00:51:42across the backs

00:51:42of his hands,

00:51:43but he did not seem

00:51:44to notice.

00:51:45An hour later,

00:51:45he came out carrying

00:51:46a plate of dessert

00:51:47that looked terrible

00:51:47and slightly burnt.

00:51:49He walked up to me

00:51:50with a tired,

00:51:50worn-out face

00:51:51that carried a pathetic

00:51:52kind of hope.

00:51:52His whole body

00:51:53was shaking.

00:51:54His eyes were red,

00:51:55and he could barely stand

00:51:56as he held the plate

00:51:57out to me.

00:51:57You used to say

00:51:58you used to say

00:51:59you liked this.

00:51:59I made it myself.

00:52:00Please, Scarlet,

00:52:01just try one bite.

00:52:03I leaned against the couch,

00:52:04completely different,

00:52:05and did not even bother

00:52:06to look at him.

00:52:07I treated him

00:52:07like he was invisible.

00:52:08Damien's heart sank deeper

00:52:09into that frozen silence

00:52:11until there was nothing

00:52:11left but despair.

00:52:13All his pride fell away

00:52:14as he dropped to his knees

00:52:15in front of me

00:52:15and looked up like a beggar.

00:52:16I know that now.

00:52:17I do want the family code anymore.

00:52:18I will never lock you down again.

00:52:19Just do not look at me

00:52:20like I'm already dead.

00:52:21It's driving me insane.

00:52:22Why you can't forgive me?

00:52:26I finally turned my head

00:52:28and looked at his broken face.

00:52:31Beneath my calm surface

00:52:32was the frozen cold

00:52:34of two lifetimes.

00:52:35You really want to know why?

00:52:37Fine, Damien.

00:52:38I will tell you.

00:52:40I looked at him

00:52:40without blinking.

00:52:41Because at the charity gala,

00:52:44you let your guards

00:52:45throw me into a freezing fountain.

00:52:48You knew I was bleeding.

00:52:49And when they asked

00:52:50if they should stop,

00:52:51you told them to keep going.

00:52:54His face went white

00:52:55because in the pouring rain,

00:52:57you brought me back

00:52:58to your mansion.

00:52:59But the second Clara

00:53:00put on her innocent little act,

00:53:02you protected her

00:53:03from the boiling water

00:53:04and left me on the floor

00:53:06while my skin peeled off.

00:53:08His breathing turned unsteady

00:53:09because you locked me

00:53:10in that dark wine cellar

00:53:12and gave Clara

00:53:13the perfect chance

00:53:14to torture me

00:53:14with an electroshock chair.

00:53:16When I told you the truth

00:53:17with injuries all over my body,

00:53:19you called me a liar.

00:53:22His face went pale.

00:53:23Every time you had to choose

00:53:25between me and Clara,

00:53:26you chose her.

00:53:29You chose your family's reputation.

00:53:31You chose control.

00:53:33And now you are kneeling here

00:53:34asking me to believe

00:53:35you loved me?

00:53:37Every word struck Damien

00:53:39like a judgment.

00:53:40Damien's face was completely pale.

00:53:41His body shook so hard

00:53:43he could barely stay upright.

00:53:44He tried to argue,

00:53:45to say I had misunderstood.

00:53:46But in front of those brutal facts,

00:53:48he realized words meant nothing.

00:53:49Regret tore through him.

00:53:51He tried to stand

00:53:52but accidentally knocked over the bag

00:53:54tucked between the couch hips.

00:53:55Everything inside spilled onto the floor.

00:53:58As he scrambled to pick it up,

00:54:00his fingers touched a medical file

00:54:01hidden deep inside.

00:54:07Damien opened the medical report

00:54:08from the private hospital in Monaco

00:54:10before he could think better of it.

00:54:12Large area deep second degree burns

00:54:14with severe PSTD

00:54:15caused prolonged psychological

00:54:16compulsion of pressure.

00:54:18Burns.

00:54:19Boiling water.

00:54:22He stared at the date on the report.

00:54:24It was the same day

00:54:25he had knocked over the hot water

00:54:27and 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,

00:54:33my mind had been damaged too.

00:54:35And what had he been doing then,

00:54:36the man who claimed to love me?

00:54:38He had been holding Clara,

00:54:39the person at the center of all of it,

00:54:42asking if she was okay.

00:54:43Meanwhile, he had left me

00:54:44in boiling water to suffer.

00:54:46Damien completely lost control.

00:54:47He punched the wall so hard

00:54:48that the crack of his knuckles

00:54:49breaking was audible.

00:54:51Blood splattered across the wall,

00:54:52but the physical pain was nothing

00:54:53compared to the feeling of his heart

00:54:55being crushed piece by piece.

00:54:56He crawled back to my feet

00:54:57like a dying dog

00:54:58and grabbed the hem of my dress

00:55:00with his broken, bleeding hand.

00:55:02His voice was wrecked

00:55:03as he apologized over and over again.

00:55:05I did not know it was that bad.

00:55:08Scarlett, I swear,

00:55:09I did not know.

00:55:10Kill me if you want.

00:55:11Take a knife and do it right now.

00:55:14Just give me one chance.

00:55:15Please.

00:55:17Just one chance.

00:55:20I looked down at him,

00:55:21my long lashes

00:55:22casting cold shadows over my eyes.

00:55:25There was no emotion in them at all.

00:55:27I heard your apology, Damien.

00:55:30I just do not forgive you.

00:55:35At that moment,

00:55:37the roar of Moletter cycle engines

00:55:38screaming security alarms

00:55:40exploded outside the villa.

00:55:41Through the chaos of guards

00:55:42yelling and fighting,

00:55:44the thick bulletproof front door

00:55:45of the living room

00:55:46was slammed open from the outside.

00:55:48Nathaniel burst in

00:55:48covered in injuries,

00:55:49his eyes wild with rage,

00:55:51carrying the kind of fury

00:55:52that looked ready to kill.

00:55:55Nathaniel strode in

00:55:56over the shattered glass,

00:55:58his black leather jacket

00:55:59stained with the blood

00:56:00of Damien's guards.

00:56:02The usual lazy charm

00:56:03in his eyes was gone,

00:56:05replaced by something

00:56:06savage and deadly.

00:56:10He pulled me behind him

00:56:11in one swift motion.

00:56:14His right fist trembled

00:56:16from the force

00:56:17he was barely holding back.

00:56:22Damien Blackwood,

00:56:23you really had the nerve

00:56:24to take her

00:56:25right under my nose.

00:56:26You think because

00:56:27your family runs New York,

00:56:29I cannot touch you.

00:56:31Damien was still on the floor.

00:56:32His broken hand

00:56:33hung at his side,

00:56:34blood dripping

00:56:34from his fingertips

00:56:35onto the expensive

00:56:36wool carpet.

00:56:37Slowly he stood.

00:56:38His proud,

00:56:39untouchable spine

00:56:40looked bent now,

00:56:40but the moment

00:56:41he saw Nathaniel,

00:56:42jealousy and violence

00:56:43flared back to life

00:56:44in his hollow eyes.

00:56:45Let her go.

00:56:47Nathaniel,

00:56:47this is New York.

00:56:52This is my territory.

00:56:54When the council

00:56:55I'm assailed,

00:56:56you are not

00:56:57taking her anywhere.

00:56:59Nathaniel looked

00:57:00as if he had just heard

00:57:01the funniest thing

00:57:02in the world.

00:57:06He stepped forward

00:57:07and grabbed Damien

00:57:08by the collar,

00:57:09lifting him

00:57:10with brutal force.

00:57:11Your territory?

00:57:12Look outside.

00:57:15Beyond the windows,

00:57:16countless armored vehicles

00:57:17flashed with warning

00:57:18lights surrounding

00:57:19the private estate.

00:57:20Nathaniel's men

00:57:21had already formed

00:57:22a standoff

00:57:23with Blackwood's guards.

00:57:24look.

00:57:25I am not just taking her

00:57:26out of here today.

00:57:29I am going to go

00:57:30and collect.

00:57:31I select the life

00:57:32you should have lost

00:57:33in Monaco,

00:57:34right here in New York.

00:57:39Damien did not fight back.

00:57:41He let Nathaniel

00:57:42hold him by the collar,

00:57:43but his eyes

00:57:43stayed locked on my face

00:57:45over Nathaniel's shoulder.

00:57:46There was no trace

00:57:47of his old arrogance

00:57:48left in that look,

00:57:49only a plea so desperate

00:57:51it had sunk

00:57:51into his bones.

00:57:53Scarlet,

00:57:54do not go.

00:57:55I am begging you.

00:57:58Stay,

00:57:59even if all you want

00:58:00is to kill me.

00:58:01I looked at him

00:58:02without emotion,

00:58:03as if I were looking

00:58:04at something already dead.

00:58:06Damien,

00:58:07the moment you threw yourself

00:58:09in front of Clara,

00:58:10we became enemies

00:58:11in both lifetimes.

00:58:12Do not make me hate you

00:58:13more than I already do.

00:58:15Then I turned

00:58:16and took Nathaniel's

00:58:17blooded hand myself.

00:58:19Nathaniel,

00:58:20let's go.

00:58:21Nathaniel froze

00:58:22for half a second,

00:58:23then clasped my hand tightly,

00:58:25locking his fingers

00:58:26with mine.

00:58:26With a look of disgust,

00:58:27he shoved Damien away

00:58:29as if pushing aside trash.

00:58:30Damien staggered back

00:58:32and crashed

00:58:32into the luxury wine cabinet

00:58:34behind him.

00:58:35Countless bottles

00:58:36shattered across the floor,

00:58:37and dark red wine

00:58:38spread over the wreckage

00:58:39like blood.

00:58:42He sat collapsed

00:58:43in the ruin,

00:58:44able to do nothing

00:58:44but watch

00:58:45as Nathaniel shielded me

00:58:46and led me out

00:58:47of that beautiful

00:58:48golden cage

00:58:49without looking back.

00:58:51Nathaniel shielded me

00:58:52and led me out

00:58:53without looking back.

00:58:58The door slammed shut

00:59:00behind us.

00:59:01Behind it

00:59:02came Damien's

00:59:03broken,

00:59:04desperate growl.

00:59:13The suffocating gloom

00:59:14of New York

00:59:15was left behind

00:59:16on the other side

00:59:17of the Atlantic.

00:59:19Nathaniel did not

00:59:20take me back to Modico

00:59:21in its glittering,

00:59:22noisy world

00:59:22of money and pleasure.

00:59:24Instead,

00:59:24he put me on his private jet

00:59:25and flew me straight

00:59:26to an extremely private estate

00:59:28in the south of France.

00:59:29The estate sat deep

00:59:31in the quiet

00:59:31Provence countryside,

00:59:32far away from the world.

00:59:37When I opened the windows,

00:59:38I could see endless fields

00:59:40of lavender.

00:59:40The air smelled clean,

00:59:43full of grass,

00:59:44sunlight,

00:59:45and peace.

00:59:46There was no Richard Will

00:59:47calculating what I was worth.

00:59:49There was no Damien Blackfield

00:59:50haunting me

00:59:51with his obsession.

00:59:52There was only a silence

00:59:53gentle enough

00:59:54to make breathing

00:59:54feel easy again.

00:59:56Cancel all meetings.

00:59:58Nathaniel threw away

00:59:59every bit of his

01:00:00Southern European

01:00:00playboy image

01:00:01and became

01:00:02surprisingly patient.

01:00:04He canceled

01:00:05business mootings,

01:00:06turned down parties,

01:00:07and simply sat with me

01:00:08during breakfast

01:00:09in the flower-filled garden.

01:00:11At sunset,

01:00:12he would lie

01:00:13half on the grass

01:00:13beneath the grapevines

01:00:14with a book in his hand.

01:00:16Every now and then,

01:00:17he would look up

01:00:18and flash me

01:00:19that lazy,

01:00:20troublemaking smile.

01:00:21He never mentioned

01:00:22New York.

01:00:22He never mentioned

01:00:23Damien Blackwood.

01:00:24He never mentioned

01:00:25any part of the past

01:00:27that hurt me.

01:00:28With that strange,

01:00:29reckless tenderness

01:00:30only he had,

01:00:31he slowly chased

01:00:32the shadows

01:00:33of my last life

01:00:33from between my brows.

01:00:38The skin burned

01:00:39by deep second-degree

01:00:40scalds still arced

01:00:41at night,

01:00:42and the PTSD

01:00:43left by my past life

01:00:45often dragged me

01:00:46awake from nightmares.

01:00:47Every time I sat up

01:00:48covered in cold sweat,

01:00:49I saw a faint light

01:00:50glowing outside

01:00:51on the terrace.

01:00:52Nathaniel was always there,

01:00:53guarding my bedroom

01:00:54from the soap

01:00:54outside the glass doors.

01:00:55He held an old guitar

01:00:56in his arms,

01:00:57his long fingers

01:00:58moving over the strings.

01:00:59The melodies

01:01:00were never perfect,

01:01:01but somehow they were

01:01:02gentle enough

01:01:02to calm my heart.

01:01:05Nightmare again,

01:01:06wildcat?

01:01:07Do not be scared.

01:01:09I am right here.

01:01:10Not even God

01:01:11gets past me tonight.

01:01:16Paint whatever you want.

01:01:17Turn my face

01:01:18into a pig

01:01:19if it makes you happy.

01:01:23During the years,

01:01:24Damien controlled me.

01:01:26Painting had been dismissed

01:01:27as a useless distraction,

01:01:29but here,

01:01:30it was freedom.

01:01:31It belonged

01:01:32to Scarletta Vale.

01:01:36Under Nathaniel's

01:01:36shameless indulgements

01:01:37and steady companionship,

01:01:39I smiled more and more.

01:01:40It was the kind of joy

01:01:42that came from being

01:01:42accepted without conditions

01:01:44and encouraged

01:01:44to release every part

01:01:45of myself.

01:01:46One day,

01:01:47he secretly arranged

01:01:48a 10,000 meter skydive.

01:01:49The Hellifter climbed

01:01:50higher and higher

01:01:51with a violent roar.

01:01:52Beneath us were

01:01:53the jewel blue Mediterranean

01:01:54and the distant line

01:01:55of the Alps.

01:01:56Wind poured in

01:01:56through the open cabin door,

01:01:58whipping my hair

01:01:58into chaos.

01:01:59The instructor checked

01:02:00our gear one final time.

01:02:01I looked at the shrinking world

01:02:03outside the door,

01:02:04took a deep breath,

01:02:05and felt the brightest

01:02:05rush of anticipation

01:02:06I had known

01:02:07since my rebirth.

01:02:08Nathiel Hulma

01:02:09hailed my tightly,

01:02:09his palm burning hot

01:02:11at against mine.

01:02:12He leaned close to my ear

01:02:13and shouted over the engine.

01:02:14He grinned,

01:02:15wild and dazzling.

01:02:16Just as the green light

01:02:17came on and the instructor

01:02:18signaled that we were

01:02:19ready to jump,

01:02:20he suddenly gestured

01:02:21for him to wait.

01:02:22He turned to me

01:02:22and stared straight

01:02:23into my eyes,

01:02:24deep and burning.

01:02:25Above the deafening engine,

01:02:26his voice somehow

01:02:27reached me clearly.

01:02:28Scarlet,

01:02:29before we jump,

01:02:30Scarlet Veil,

01:02:31I know you are hurt.

01:02:33I know that bastard

01:02:34in New York

01:02:34broke something in you.

01:02:35I am not gonna feed

01:02:37you pretty lies.

01:02:37I am asking you straight.

01:02:39Give me a chance.

01:02:44Let me take care of you.

01:02:47Everything Damien Blackwood

01:02:48did to you,

01:02:49I will spend the rest

01:02:49of my life

01:02:51helping you heal from it.

01:02:54If the sky falls,

01:02:56I will hold it up for you.

01:02:57If you wanna walk

01:02:58through the world

01:02:59like you own it,

01:03:00I will clear the road.

01:03:01If you want the stars,

01:03:02I will build you

01:03:02a damn ladder.

01:03:04I have never been

01:03:05this serious

01:03:05about anyone,

01:03:06Scarlet.

01:03:08I choose you.

01:03:09His confession

01:03:10was direct,

01:03:11arrogant,

01:03:11and rough around

01:03:12the edges

01:03:12just like him,

01:03:13but it burned

01:03:14through me

01:03:14like sunlight,

01:03:15melting the deepest

01:03:16ice inside my heart.

01:03:17There was no prophet

01:03:18binding us together,

01:03:19no rules,

01:03:20no cage,

01:03:21only the purest

01:03:22kind of desire

01:03:23to love someone

01:03:23as they were.

01:03:24I looked into

01:03:25those flirtious eyes,

01:03:26now filled

01:03:27with love

01:03:28and nervousness,

01:03:29and the string

01:03:29that had been

01:03:30pulled in my heart

01:03:31for two lives

01:03:32finally snapped loose.

01:03:34The heavy chains

01:03:35were scattered

01:03:35by the wind

01:03:3610,000 meters

01:03:37above the earth.

01:03:39Yes!

01:03:40I will give you

01:03:41that chance!

01:03:42All right,

01:03:43loveards,

01:03:43time to jump!

01:03:55The wind thundered

01:03:56past my ears

01:03:57as I opened

01:03:58my arms to freedom.

01:03:59This time,

01:04:00my guardian

01:04:00was falling beside me.

01:04:05The sun

01:04:06in southern France

01:04:07was warm and gentle,

01:04:08but the top floor

01:04:10of Blackwood Tower

01:04:11in New York

01:04:11was a great place

01:04:12The heavy curtains

01:04:12were drawn tight,

01:04:13shutting out

01:04:13every trace of daylight.

01:04:15Damien Sack collapsed

01:04:15in his oversized leather chair,

01:04:17surrounded by

01:04:18empty vodka bottles.

01:04:19He had grown

01:04:19painfully thin,

01:04:20his face was hangered,

01:04:22his eyes sunken,

01:04:23and the hair

01:04:23he had once kept

01:04:24perfectly styled

01:04:24for the sake

01:04:25of the family code

01:04:25now hung in a mess.

01:04:26His phone screen

01:04:27was still lit.

01:04:28On it was a blurry

01:04:28Pemperazzi photo

01:04:29taken in southern France.

01:04:30Sunlight poured over

01:04:31an outdoor cafe.

01:04:32I was wearing

01:04:33a bright yellow dress,

01:04:34laughing with Nathaniel

01:04:35a spoonful of ice cream.

01:04:36Nathaniel was looking

01:04:37at me with open affection,

01:04:38gently tapping my nose

01:04:39with his finger.

01:04:39The photo was beautiful

01:04:40enough to hurt.

01:04:41Scarlett,

01:04:42I only found out recently

01:04:43that Clara used

01:04:44an electroshock chair

01:04:45on you in the wine feller.

01:04:46I have locked her away.

01:04:48I will make her pay back

01:04:49every bit of pain

01:04:50she caused you.

01:04:54Scarlett,

01:04:56Scarlett,

01:04:59tears mixed with blood

01:05:01at the corner of his mouth.

01:05:03He whispered my name

01:05:04like a prayer

01:05:05and a punishment.

01:05:07I was smiling,

01:05:09bright and unrhynd,

01:05:10but that happiness

01:05:11no longer belonged to him.

01:05:13That place beside me

01:05:15should have been his.

01:05:16He was the one

01:05:17who had pushed me away

01:05:18with those damned rules.

01:05:29He wrote like a madman.

01:05:31Sometimes his handwriting

01:05:33was messy.

01:05:34Sometimes it was

01:05:35painfully neat.

01:05:36Before long,

01:05:37the white paper

01:05:38was covered in tear marks

01:05:39and bloody fingerprints

01:05:41from his broken hand.

01:05:42He wrote about

01:05:43how stupid he had been

01:05:45to believe

01:05:45the Vail family's act.

01:05:47He wrote about

01:05:47forcing me to write apologies,

01:05:49locking me in the wine cellar.

01:05:50I bled and bound me

01:05:51standing right

01:05:52and spilled about

01:05:52then hot water

01:05:53to protect Clara

01:05:54while leaving me

01:05:55with second degree burns

01:05:56and PTSD.

01:05:58Scarlett,

01:05:58I only found out recently

01:06:00that Clara used

01:06:00an electroshock chair

01:06:01on you in the wine cellar.

01:06:03I have locked her away.

01:06:05I will make her pay back

01:06:06every bit of pain

01:06:07she caused you.

01:06:15The letter was sent

01:06:16by International Courier

01:06:17to Southern France

01:06:18and eventually

01:06:19reached my hands.

01:06:21I did not read

01:06:22a single line.

01:06:23I threw it straight

01:06:24into the roaring fireplace.

01:06:26The pages curled

01:06:27in the flailed

01:06:28in the flames

01:06:29and turned to ash.

01:06:36No answer ever came.

01:06:40After the letter was sent,

01:06:42no reply came back.

01:06:44Damien's last bit of hope

01:06:45died completely.

01:06:47Ignoring the furious

01:06:48objections of his

01:06:49private doctor,

01:06:50he tore the IV from his hand

01:06:51and booked the nearest flight

01:06:53to the south of France.

01:06:54Through the Blackwood family's

01:06:55underground channels

01:06:56in Europe,

01:06:57he eventually located

01:06:58the quiet estate

01:06:58surrounded by lavender fields.

01:07:00But he did not dare

01:07:02go near it.

01:07:02He was afraid of

01:07:03disturbing me.

01:07:04Even more than that,

01:07:05he was afraid of seeing

01:07:06the disgust in my eyes.

01:07:08So he stayed outside

01:07:09the thorny fence

01:07:09like a ghost,

01:07:10watching from far away

01:07:11day and night.

01:07:12He saw Nathaniel's Lamborghini

01:07:13come and go.

01:07:14He saw us walking

01:07:15hand in hand

01:07:15along the country road

01:07:16at sunset.

01:07:17At night,

01:07:17he saw Nathaniel's shadow

01:07:18on the second floor balcony

01:07:19as he gently held me

01:07:20in his arms.

01:07:21Every scene was a dull knife,

01:07:23slowly cutting through

01:07:24his body and soul.

01:07:25One day,

01:07:25a violent storm

01:07:26broke over southern France.

01:07:28Lightning split the night sky.

01:07:29Damien stood outside

01:07:30the fence without moving,

01:07:31letting the cold rain

01:07:32soak him through.

01:07:33He was running a fever

01:07:34of 104 degrees,

01:07:36his body burning

01:07:36under the creasing rain,

01:07:37but he stood there

01:07:38like a statue

01:07:39and refused to leave.

01:07:42In his sick,

01:07:43desperate mind,

01:07:44he imagined that

01:07:46maybe the rain

01:07:46was heavy enough

01:07:47to soften my heart.

01:07:49Maybe I would come out

01:07:50with an umbrella

01:07:51and look at him

01:07:52just once.

01:07:53Only when his body

01:07:54finally gave out

01:07:56did he collapse

01:07:56into the muddy water.

01:07:58Before he lost

01:07:59consciousness completely,

01:08:01he thought he saw

01:08:02the curtain move

01:08:03in a second floor window.

01:08:12Scarlet,

01:08:13let me see her.

01:08:17Keep dreaming,

01:08:18Blackwood.

01:08:19She does not

01:08:20want to see you.

01:08:22She would feel dirty

01:08:23wasting even one second

01:08:24on you.

01:08:29She told me

01:08:30to give you four words.

01:08:32No forgiveness.

01:08:35No pity.

01:08:36No return.

01:08:42Keep whatever dignity

01:08:43the Blackwood family

01:08:44still has.

01:08:46Every word struck Damien

01:08:47like an ice hook

01:08:48through the heart,

01:08:49shattering the last bit

01:08:50of hope left in him.

01:08:51He understood.

01:08:52I was not even willing

01:08:54to waste hatred

01:08:54on him anymore.

01:08:56Between us,

01:08:56everything had ended

01:08:57in the second of the car crash

01:08:58in my last life

01:08:59and in the moment

01:09:00he ordered the guards

01:09:00to keep me in the fountain

01:09:01in this life.

01:09:03After his fever broke,

01:09:04he was put on a plane

01:09:05back to New York

01:09:06by Nathaniel's private guards.

01:09:09He left like a puppet

01:09:10with its soul pulled out.

01:09:18Damien's forced departure

01:09:19did not stop

01:09:20the next storm

01:09:20from arriving.

01:09:22After recovering

01:09:23in southern France,

01:09:24I was no longer

01:09:25the weak woman

01:09:25from my past life

01:09:26who could only endure pain.

01:09:28With Nathaniel's

01:09:28financial power

01:09:29and international

01:09:30underground network

01:09:31behind me,

01:09:32I personally planned

01:09:32the final reckoning

01:09:33against the Vale family.

01:09:34using hackers,

01:09:35I gathered hard evidence

01:09:36of Richard's years

01:09:37of tax evasion,

01:09:38money laundering,

01:09:39embezzlement

01:09:40of my mother's trust assets

01:09:41and massive commercial

01:09:42brewery.

01:09:43Then I anonymously

01:09:44submit everything

01:09:44to the highest federal

01:09:45prosecutors in New York.

01:09:49The evidence was overwhelming.

01:09:51Richard was arrested

01:09:52by federal agents

01:09:53during a Vale group

01:09:54board meeting

01:09:55right in front of the cameras

01:09:56and the entire press.

01:09:58The Vale family trust

01:09:59and company

01:09:59collapsed overnight.

01:10:01Their assets were seized

01:10:02and liquidated

01:10:03and bankruptcy

01:10:04followed almost immediately.

01:10:05In the visiting room

01:10:06of New York's

01:10:07first federal prison,

01:10:08I sat behind

01:10:09thick bulletproof glass

01:10:10and looked coldly

01:10:11at Richard.

01:10:12He had gone

01:10:12white-haired overnight.

01:10:13He looked old,

01:10:14broken,

01:10:15and frantic.

01:10:16Scarlet,

01:10:16I am your father!

01:10:17My blood runs

01:10:18in your veins!

01:10:19You sent your own father

01:10:20to hell with your own hands!

01:10:21You'll pay for this!

01:10:22Pay for it?

01:10:23Richard,

01:10:23did you think about payback

01:10:24when you brought Monica

01:10:25into my mother's house?

01:10:26Did you think about it

01:10:27when you let

01:10:28try to sell me

01:10:28into the Blackwood family

01:10:29like a piece of property?

01:10:33This is your payback.

01:10:35Spend the rest of your life

01:10:37repenting in there.

01:10:43Monica could not survive

01:10:45the shock of the Vale family

01:10:46collapsing overnight.

01:10:48Her mind broke completely

01:10:49and she was forced

01:10:51into the cheapest

01:10:52psychiatric hospital

01:10:53in New York.

01:10:54Every day,

01:10:55she wandered

01:10:56with tangled hair,

01:10:57muttering nonsense

01:10:58to herself.

01:11:04Damien,

01:11:05please save my mom!

01:11:05mother!

01:11:06Please save the Vale family!

01:11:08I know I was wrong!

01:11:09I will bring Scarlet

01:11:10back if you want!

01:11:10I will beg that bitch

01:11:11to come back!

01:11:12Just look at me once!

01:11:14The iron gate slowly opened.

01:11:16Damien came out

01:11:17with a cane.

01:11:19He looked down

01:11:20at the woman kneeling

01:11:20at his feet

01:11:21like she was filth

01:11:22on the road.

01:11:23There was no emotion

01:11:24in his eyes,

01:11:25only disgust.

01:11:27Love?

01:11:28Clara,

01:11:29I know exactly

01:11:30how you and Monica

01:11:30schemed your way

01:11:31through Manhattan society

01:11:32and bullied Scarlet

01:11:33for years.

01:11:34I did not touch you

01:11:35before because

01:11:36you were not worth

01:11:37dirtying my hands.

01:11:39Also,

01:11:40I was saving you

01:11:41for Scarlet.

01:11:44Now that she has

01:11:45made her move,

01:11:46I am satisfied.

01:11:47Get this disgusting

01:11:48woman out of my sight.

01:11:54After that,

01:11:55a filthy,

01:11:55ragged woman

01:11:56appeared on the

01:11:57underground streets

01:11:57of Manhattan.

01:11:58She smelled rotten,

01:11:59laughed at strangers,

01:12:00and screamed at shadows.

01:12:02Damien had his men

01:12:03watch her from a distance.

01:12:04He did not allow her

01:12:05to die.

01:12:05He made sure

01:12:06she stayed alive

01:12:07long enough

01:12:07to suffer every humiliation

01:12:08the bottom of society

01:12:09had to offer.

01:12:10It was exactly

01:12:11what I had wanted

01:12:12for her.

01:12:12She would live

01:12:13like a rat in the gutter,

01:12:14slowly and painful.

01:12:17After hearing

01:12:18how everything ended,

01:12:19I stood before

01:12:20the floor to clear

01:12:20windows of the estate

01:12:21in southern France

01:12:22and watched the sun

01:12:23sink below the horizon.

01:12:24For the first time,

01:12:25my heart felt

01:12:26strangely calm.

01:12:27The nightmare

01:12:27and karma

01:12:28that had followed me

01:12:29through two lifetimes

01:12:29had finally come to an end.

01:12:31Bad people

01:12:32got what they deserved.

01:12:33From now on, baby,

01:12:34let me be the only one

01:12:35who gets to spoil you.

01:12:36Over the next half year,

01:12:38Nathaniel and I

01:12:38grew closer and closer.

01:12:40We traveled

01:12:40from country to country,

01:12:42enjoying our freedom

01:12:42and love

01:12:43anywhere in the world

01:12:44we wanted.

01:12:45We both thought

01:12:45the blood and storms

01:12:46were finally behind us.

01:13:04But no one expected

01:13:06Clara,

01:13:06who had long gone mad

01:13:08and been forgotten

01:13:08in the trash-filled corners

01:13:10of New York,

01:13:10to be planning

01:13:11one last act of revenge.

01:13:27Nathaniel reacted instantly.

01:13:29With a low growl,

01:13:29he shoved open the car door

01:13:30and threw him himself

01:13:31into the fight,

01:13:31doing everything he could

01:13:32to protect me.

01:13:33But there were too many of them

01:13:34and they had come prepared.

01:13:35Nathaniel was soon

01:13:36cut across the arm

01:13:36while shielding me,

01:13:37then forced to the ground

01:13:38under several guns.

01:13:39His face was covered in blood

01:13:41and his eyes were wild

01:13:42with rage.

01:13:42Do not touch her!

01:13:44Let her go!

01:13:51A burst of crazed applause

01:13:53rang out.

01:13:53Clara slowly stepped out

01:13:54from behind one of the vants.

01:13:55She wore a filthy,

01:13:56torn dress stained with grime.

01:13:57Her hair was a tangled mess

01:13:58and her eyes were cloudy

01:13:59and insane.

01:14:00In her hand,

01:14:00she gripped a loaded glock.

01:14:01Her ruined face twisted

01:14:02like something out of a nightmare

01:14:03as she laughed at me.

01:14:04Charlotte, you bitch.

01:14:06I have requested

01:14:06when I say I'm PayPal

01:14:07beyond drink it

01:14:07a hundred times

01:14:08or thousands over.

01:14:09You and the man you love

01:14:10are both going to hell today!

01:14:11At that deadly moment,

01:14:12just as one of the thugs

01:14:13was about to pull the trigger,

01:14:14the roar of an engine

01:14:15ripped through the sea wind.

01:14:16A black armored SUV

01:14:17came crashing in from behind,

01:14:19ramping the van,

01:14:19blocking the road

01:14:20and screeched to a stop

01:14:21in the middle of the chaos.

01:14:22A thin figure

01:14:23with a slight limp

01:14:23stepped out,

01:14:24carrying an automatic rifle

01:14:26and surrounded by cold,

01:14:27murderous and tate.

01:14:28Damien.

01:14:29He had been following

01:14:29my movements

01:14:30from a distance all along.

01:14:31When he found out

01:14:32Clara had disappeared

01:14:33under strange circumstances,

01:14:34he sensed something was wrong

01:14:35and tracked the rive route

01:14:36here for the sea.

01:14:42Let her go,

01:14:43Clara.

01:14:44Get that filthy gun

01:14:45away from her head.

01:14:52Damien, you came too?

01:14:54Good.

01:14:54Perfect.

01:14:55The head of the Blackwood family

01:14:57and Nathaniel's family

01:14:58are both here.

01:14:59I can send all of you

01:15:00to hell together.

01:15:00What do you want?

01:15:02I will give you

01:15:04every Blackwood trust,

01:15:05every share,

01:15:06every asset I have.

01:15:08Take my life if you want.

01:15:10Just let Scarlet go.

01:15:13That's it.

01:15:13I do not want

01:15:14anything anymore.

01:15:15I want her to suffer.

01:15:18I want you,

01:15:19the high and mighty

01:15:20king of Manhattan,

01:15:21to watch with your own eyes

01:15:22while I tear her apart.

01:15:25Watching both men suffer

01:15:26because of me

01:15:27tore my heart open

01:15:28and tears blurred my vision.

01:15:29Stop!

01:15:30Nathaniel, Damien,

01:15:31just go!

01:15:32Do not worry about me!

01:15:33You want her alive?

01:15:33Fine!

01:15:34Damien, king of Manhattan,

01:15:35get on your knees!

01:15:36Kneel and beg me!

01:15:37Damien looked at my

01:15:38deathly pale face

01:15:39and did not hesitate

01:15:39for even a second.

01:15:40He threw away the rifle

01:15:41in his hand

01:15:42and dropped to his knees

01:15:43on rough gravel-covered road.

01:15:44The heavy sound of his bones

01:15:45hitting the ground

01:15:45tore through the sea wind.

01:15:46This was a man

01:15:47who had been pathologically proud

01:15:48in both lifetimes,

01:15:49a man who had never

01:15:50lowered his head to anyone.

01:15:51For my life,

01:15:52he threw away

01:15:52every last bit of dignity.

01:15:59Look at you!

01:16:01You finally know

01:16:02what it feels like.

01:16:04Beat him.

01:16:05Beat him until

01:16:06he cannot move.

01:16:09The thugs rushed forward.

01:16:11Iron rods and fists

01:16:12fell on Damien like rain.

01:16:13He curled tightly

01:16:14around himself,

01:16:15blood pouring from his mouth,

01:16:16but he stubbornly

01:16:17kept his body angled toward me,

01:16:18blocking the sand and gravel

01:16:19that flew in my direction.

01:16:20Stop!

01:16:22Please stop!

01:16:36In that split second,

01:16:38no one saw

01:16:38where Damien found the strength.

01:16:40Like a black panther

01:16:41burning through its last breath,

01:16:42he threw himself up

01:16:43from the ground

01:16:43and slammed me

01:16:44with that ounce of life

01:16:44he had left.

01:16:45He knocked me hard

01:16:46onto the road

01:16:46and covered completely

01:16:47with his broad,

01:16:48bloodied back,

01:16:48leaving no gap

01:16:49between me and the bullet.

01:16:50The sound that followed

01:16:51tore into his back,

01:16:52exploding only a few millimeters

01:16:53from his heart.

01:16:55Blood sprayed across the air

01:16:56and instantly stained

01:16:58my white dress,

01:16:59a shocking red.

01:17:05For a moment,

01:17:06the whole world seemed to stop.

01:17:07Damien's heavy body

01:17:08pressed down over mine.

01:17:09With impossible effort,

01:17:10he slowly raised his head.

01:17:12His deathly plale face

01:17:13was covered in blood.

01:17:14When he saw that I was safe,

01:17:15Claire Crenn with him,

01:17:16without a cloud,

01:17:17his mouth lifted

01:17:18into a relieved smile.

01:17:19In that smile

01:17:19was a kind of longing

01:17:20and regret I had never seen

01:17:21from him in either lifetime.

01:17:22He struggled to raise

01:17:23his bleeding hand

01:17:24as if he wanted to touch

01:17:25my face one last time.

01:17:27But his fingers shook violently

01:17:28in the air,

01:17:29never quite reaching me,

01:17:30before falling wheatly

01:17:31into the mud.

01:17:33He looked at me

01:17:33as the light in his eyes

01:17:35began to scatter.

01:17:35Scarlet,

01:17:37Scarlet,

01:17:37I am sorry.

01:17:40This time,

01:17:42I finally protected you.

01:17:45Live well with Nathaniel.

01:17:48Goodbye.

01:17:58Damien!

01:18:08But I only held

01:18:09the blood-covered man-in-arms

01:18:10tears streaming down my face.

01:18:12Did I hate him?

01:18:13Did I resent him?

01:18:14The moment that bullet

01:18:15tore through his body,

01:18:16the chains from my past life

01:18:17and the hatred from this life

01:18:18were shattered with it.

01:18:19With his own life,

01:18:20he completed a redemption

01:18:21that had come

01:18:22two life teams too late.

01:18:26Above the Southeast Asian island,

01:18:27the roar of a rescue helicopter

01:18:29tore through the humid air.

01:18:30A team of top international medics

01:18:32carefully lifted Damien,

01:18:33covered in blood

01:18:34and deep in shock,

01:18:35onto a stretcher.

01:18:35His face had turned acid,

01:18:37almost like a corpse.

01:18:38His breathing and heartbeat

01:18:39were so weak

01:18:39the machines could barely detect them.

01:18:41I stood beside the helicopter,

01:18:42his warm blood still

01:18:43on my face and clothes.

01:18:45My fate's control is now,

01:18:46wrapped in bandages

01:18:47and looking grim.

01:18:47Poor self through the pain

01:18:48of his fractures

01:18:49and pulled me hard

01:18:49into his arms,

01:18:50using his broad chest

01:18:51to hold me up.

01:18:52His eyes were complicated

01:18:53as he watched Damien

01:18:53he'd always despised

01:18:54he'd really been willing

01:18:55to trade his life

01:18:56for my freedom.

01:18:57The helicopter rushed

01:18:58toward the nearest

01:18:58international medical center.

01:19:00The doors of the operating room

01:19:02stayed shut

01:19:03and the red light above them

01:19:05burned for 12 full hours.

01:19:08Nathania and I waited

01:19:09in the hallway

01:19:10as time stretched

01:19:11until it felt like a century.

01:19:15The surgery succeeded.

01:19:17The bullet is out,

01:19:18but he's not out of danger.

01:19:20Recovery will be long.

01:19:21The damage,

01:19:22it's severe.

01:19:23Irreversible.

01:19:34Damien remained unconscious

01:19:36in the sterile ICU

01:19:37for more than half a month.

01:19:39During that time,

01:19:40with no one in control

01:19:41of Blackwood Group,

01:19:42rival financial powers

01:19:43in New York

01:19:43began tearing into it.

01:19:44The stock price plunged

01:19:45and the company started

01:19:46from the inside.

01:19:47Through Nathaniel's

01:19:47underground channels,

01:19:48Iannoy passed Damien's

01:19:49confidential medical trial

01:19:50to a relatively loyal elder

01:19:51inside the Blackwood family.

01:19:53That elder stepped in

01:19:54and barely stabilized

01:19:55the chaos in New York.

01:19:56Half a month later,

01:19:57Damien finally opened his eyes

01:19:58to the beeping

01:19:59of medical machines.

01:20:00His vision slowly focused

01:20:02until he's standing

01:20:03outside the satiral glass.

01:20:04Our eyes met

01:20:05and the air in the room

01:20:06seemed to freeze.

01:20:07My gaze was complicated.

01:20:08There was concern in it.

01:20:09There was release.

01:20:10There was no love left.

01:20:11There was no hatred

01:20:12left either.

01:20:13Damien wore an oxygen mask.

01:20:14His dry lips parted

01:20:15as if he wanted

01:20:16to say my name,

01:20:17but only a weak,

01:20:18poor breath came out.

01:20:19He saw the calm

01:20:19in my eyes.

01:20:20He also saw Nathaniel

01:20:21behind me,

01:20:22covered in casts

01:20:23and bandages

01:20:23still gripping my shoulder

01:20:24in a posture

01:20:25of absolute protection.

01:20:26Damien understood,

01:20:27but the last faint,

01:20:28impossible hope

01:20:29in his soul

01:20:29went out like a candle

01:20:30in the wind.

01:20:31Two silent lines of tears

01:20:32slid from the corners

01:20:33of his eyes

01:20:34into his hair.

01:20:34He had used his life

01:20:36to save me.

01:20:36Whatever remained between us

01:20:38had died with that redemption.

01:20:41Three months later,

01:20:42at Geneva International Airport

01:20:44in Switzerland,

01:20:45morning fog covered

01:20:46up the runway bound

01:20:46for one of Switzerland's

01:20:47top private rehabilitation

01:20:48plants waited in silence.

01:20:50Damien could barely sit

01:20:51in a wheelchair now.

01:20:52He looked older and thinner

01:20:53than any disability

01:20:53in his left leg.

01:20:54For the rest of his life,

01:20:55he would have to rely

01:20:55on a cane and a wheelchair

01:20:56to move.

01:20:57His body had been drained

01:20:58almost beyond repair.

01:21:00He never tried

01:21:00to contact me again.

01:21:02He even refused visits

01:21:03from the core members

01:21:04of the Blackwood family.

01:21:05Before boarding,

01:21:06he calmly signed

01:21:07every equity transfer document

01:21:09and full management

01:21:10authorization agreement,

01:21:11handing away the business empire

01:21:13he had once treated

01:21:14as his life.

01:21:14He sold all of his

01:21:16Manhattan properties,

01:21:17poured every dollar

01:21:17into a newly established

01:21:19Global Wildlife

01:21:19and Freedom Photography Trust.

01:21:21It was an anonymous gift

01:21:23that would benefit me forever

01:21:24without requiring my signature.

01:21:25The medical plane's

01:21:26engines roared.

01:21:27Damien leaned beside the window

01:21:28and looked out at the endless,

01:21:29freezing white cloud sea

01:21:30above the Alps.

01:21:31His eyes held nothing

01:21:32but quiet acceptance

01:21:33and deathly stillness.

01:21:34He had finally removed himself

01:21:35from my world.

01:21:36Scarlet, I love you.

01:21:37Not because I want to lock you

01:21:39in a house like some pretty bird

01:21:40and not because what you're following

01:21:41own any damn family rules.

01:21:43I love you exactly like this.

01:21:44Wild, proud, bright

01:21:45and impossible to tame.

01:21:47Let me be the man

01:21:48who protects you

01:21:49for the rest of your life.

01:21:50Marry me.

01:21:57Yes, I will marry you.

01:21:59The last light of sunset

01:22:00wrapped around us in gold

01:22:01as he pulled me into his arms.

01:22:03The chains for my past life

01:22:05were finally broken.

01:22:06In this life,

01:22:07I finally had the wide open sky

01:22:08I deserved.

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