00:00That was the day my husband told me he was marrying someone else, and I was pregnant.
00:03Look, Isabella, I love you, okay? You know that. But I have to marry Olivia. I don't have a choice.
00:08My wedding has to be perfect, so I have to erase every trace of us. Every single one.
00:13I stare at Alexander. I'm in shock. He lifts a hand. The bodyguard behind him flicks the lighter and heads
00:19straight for the apartment.
00:20In a heartbeat, the flames swallow everything.
00:22I'm wiping down the counter when Alexander Loras walks in. I look up, rag still in my hand.
00:28I'm marrying Olivia Silverwood in three days. I'm Alexander Loras, heir to the Loras Group.
00:33Her and me, we run in the same circles. It's already a done deal.
00:36I freeze. The rag hits the floor.
00:42I'll buy you a house outside the city. You and the baby will want for nothing.
00:48So, I'm just gonna be your dirty little secret? Forever?
00:52She's chill. As long as you don't make a scene in front of her, I can give you and the
00:56baby everything.
00:57Everything. Except the title.
00:59Three years together. And all of it means nothing to him.
01:03What if I told you I can be your equal too?
01:10Isabella, I know I screwed up. Hiding who I am, moving on to someone else.
01:14But it is what it is. In this whole city, the Silverfields are the only family on my level.
01:19We've played house in this tiny apartment for three years.
01:21I know exactly who you are. You don't have some powerful family.
01:25I look around this tiny apartment. The walls we painted together.
01:28The furniture we picked out. The daisies he planted for me on the balcony.
01:32I can't make myself believe this.
01:34Alexander, I'm having your baby.
01:37Can't we just go back to how it was?
01:39Please, don't marry her. Please.
01:41If he just says yes, I'll pretend none of this ever happened.
01:45He presses his lips together.
01:47I already hooked up with her. Okay? I have to make this right.
01:51And what about me? You don't think you owe me and your baby the same?
01:54Alexander wipes my tears. The pain in his eyes looks so real.
01:58Baby, I'm just taking a new wife. I am not leaving you.
02:03There's a three-story house on Long Island. I already bought it.
02:06You love flowers, right? I'll have roses planted all over the yard.
02:10Whatever you want, I'll do it. Trust me.
02:12You want me stuck in some house, being your dirty little secret?
02:16No. I'm not letting me and my kid live in the shadows. Not anymore.
02:22I've never treated you like a mistress.
02:24Long as you don't make a scene in front of Olivia, you'll still be my woman there. Okay?
02:28He still hasn't said wife. Not once.
02:31To him, I'm only ever the mistress.
02:33No. I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying here.
02:36Then, a sharp pain at the back of my neck. I black out.
02:40When I wake up, I'm locked inside that Long Island villa.
02:46The Lawrences actually called the Andersons for Olivia's ring.
02:50Pulled strings to get that heirloom designer.
02:53The Silver Sids are old money, too. They deserve that kind of treatment.
02:57I remember all the sweet things Alexander once said.
03:00My woman deserves nothing but the best.
03:01I mean, even those Andersons jewels.
03:04And now, that ring is on Olivia's finger.
03:08Funny thing. Nobody knows this, but that ring's designer?
03:12He's been designing for me since I was little.
03:14I'm Isabella Andersen.
03:16The only heir to one of the biggest business empires in North America.
03:20Three years ago, I had a massive fight with my father and ran away from home.
03:24I wanted to prove I could survive on my own.
03:27No family. No nothing.
03:29I ditched my bodyguards and landed a job at a convenience store in some forgotten corner of the city.
03:34That's where I met Alexander.
03:36He pushed the door open that day.
03:39Suit soaked from the rain.
03:41Got any umbrellas?
03:42Aisle 3.
03:44He grabbed one, came to the register, glanced down at my name tag.
03:49Isabella? You knew?
03:51Yeah.
03:52He slid the change back towards me.
03:54Keep it.
03:56I'm Alexander.
03:57I'm a lawyer.
03:58And then he smiled, eyes crinkling at the corners, and I fell.
04:03Hard.
04:04He told me later he never even needed an umbrella.
04:07His car was parked right across the street.
04:10He just saw a girl with a ponytail through the window,
04:12and something pulled him inside.
04:14On our hundredth day together, he took me to that old church on the corner.
04:18No flowers.
04:20No guests.
04:21Just a silver-haired priest and two silver rings.
04:24I can't give you a mansion or a fancy car.
04:27But every morning, I'll make the coffee.
04:31Every week, I'll push the cart at the grocery store.
04:34Isabella, will you marry me?
04:38I held out my hand.
04:41After everything thing we've been through, I decide to give him one last chance.
04:47Alexander, can you just not marry her?
04:50Not marry her?
04:52And marry you instead?
04:54You're really going to make me say the ugly part out loud?
04:57She's Olivia Silverwood.
04:59And you?
05:00A cashier at a convenience store.
05:03How exactly would you be fit to be Mrs. Loris?
05:05All the blood drains from my face.
05:07But I can't let it go.
05:09So three years together?
05:10That means nothing if I don't have the right status?
05:13In our cycle, status is everything.
05:15He pauses.
05:16Then that guilt-stricken look slides back across his face.
05:18Olivia, she might be pregnant.
05:21I blank.
05:22When did that happen?
05:23My voice is shaking.
05:25Alexander can't even look at me.
05:26Your birthday.
05:29My birthday.
05:31Alexander just vanished.
05:33I searched for him the whole damn night, every floor of the apartment building, everywhere.
05:39He didn't show up until the next day, looking wrecked, telling me he got lost trying to find me the
05:44perfect gift.
05:45Then, like he was unveiling some grand gesture, he pulled a Tiffany necklace from behind his back.
05:50I'd been up all night, but seeing how much effort he'd put in, I couldn't be mad.
05:55I just tucked the necklace away.
05:58And now he's telling me, that whole time, my birthday, he was with Olivia.
06:03A sick feeling twists in my stomach.
06:06The villa on Long Island.
06:07Fences everywhere.
06:08The only way I can see the outside world is from that second floor window.
06:12At dusk, Alexander comes in carrying a whole box of my favorite tiramisu.
06:16He sits across from me.
06:17Eat something.
06:18The baby's hungry.
06:21So I pick up the spoon.
06:22Tiny bites.
06:24Just a few bites in, a sharp pain starts spreading through my lower belly.
06:28I curl up on the couch.
06:30Cold sweat soaks through my clothes.
06:32Alexander, my belly.
06:34It really hurts.
06:36He glances at me.
06:37There's pity in his eyes, sure.
06:38But mostly, just resignation.
06:40Isabella, just, it'll pass.
06:41Get a doctor.
06:42I'm gripping the cushion so hard my knuckles are white.
06:44Please, please, call a doctor.
06:46He shakes his head.
06:47Isabella, the drug's already working.
06:49Just give up.
06:50After Olivia has her baby, we can try again.
06:52Alexander, listen to me.
06:54I have a name.
06:56Okay?
06:56I'm not nobody.
06:58Please, just get a doctor.
07:03You're disappointing me big time.
07:05If you're gonna lie, at least make it believable.
07:07A miscarriage won't kill you.
07:09You made your bed.
07:10I watch him walk away.
07:11The very last flicker of hope inside me just die.
07:14I collapse onto the couch, my mind going dark.
07:17And right when I think I'm gonna die in this place, nobody even knows why.
07:20The door smashes.
07:21Then someone's right next to me, calling out, panicked.
07:24Miss, miss, we're here.
07:25My father's personal assistant.
07:28Check the chairman.
07:29Get the hospital on the line.
07:30Have the best OB team standing by right now.
07:32As they rush me into a black SUV, I barely make out her voice on the phone.
07:36Sir, we found her.
07:38They gave her something to end the pregnancy.
07:40The baby might not make it.
07:41After that, I don't remember a thing.
07:48Dad.
07:50Don't talk.
07:52The baby's still here.
07:55What?
07:56The baby's still here.
07:57The doctors fought for six straight hours.
08:00The baby made it.
08:02But your body's been through a lot.
08:05Next few months, bed rest.
08:06Total bed rest.
08:07You can't move.
08:08Not one step out.
08:09That man and the Loris family.
08:11I'm gonna make them pay.
08:13No, Dad.
08:14Don't tip them off.
08:16I want them to walk into hell on their own.
08:18And I want them to watch in front of everyone while they lose everything they threw away.
08:23The wedding day.
08:24Loris state.
08:25Red carpet stretching out.
08:26The whole place buzzing.
08:28The Anderson heiress is here.
08:32Silence.
08:33The crowd goes dead quiet.
08:35Olivia's bouquet trembles.
08:37A faint smile flickers at the corner of her mouth.
08:39She never actually thought the Andersons would show up.
08:42The Anderson heiress?
08:43The Loraises actually got the Anderson family to come?
08:46They say she never attends any social events.
08:48Nobody's ever even seen her face.
08:49She's a complete mystery.
08:50The murmurs haven't died down when a black stretch limo pulls up at the entrance.
08:54The door opens.
08:56Custom heels hit the red carpet.
08:57I'm wearing the Anderson family's signature gown.
09:00The crest embroidered right over my chest.
09:02On my head, the diamond tiara.
09:04The one the heirloom designer made.
09:06The one everyone talks about.
09:07Flanked by bodyguards and my assistant, I walk slowly into the Loris mansion.
09:11The ring box slips from Alexander's hands.
09:14Hits the floor with a sharp crack.
09:16Is Isabella?
09:18I stop in the middle of the red carpet.
09:20You could hear a pin drop.
09:22Olivia rips off her veil.
09:23A cold laugh.
09:25The Anderson heiress?
09:26You?
09:27She looks me up and down, mouth twisting into a sneer.
09:29I've been in New York society for three years.
09:32I've never once laid eyes on you.
09:34Does anyone here actually buy this?
09:36Enough.
09:38Miss Silverwood, do you recognize this?
09:42She raises her hand.
09:44An antique signet ring.
09:46Every classified letter.
09:47Every billion dollar contract.
09:48The Anderson.
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