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