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I Lost My Memory and Accidentally Upgraded My Husband
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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!
18:29Carter!
18:35have you lost your mind this is quinn property you dare a sharp fat cut her off before she could
18:41finish the sentence one of damon's men backhanded her across the face she screamed and dropped the
18:47broken glass on the floor opened her cheek and the blood came fast mason stood at the top of
18:52the spiral staircase watching it all screaming the nanny had her arms locked around him one hand
18:58pressed over his mouth damon glanced at the boy he went still for half a second then he looked away
19:06and she is my wife if she loses one more drop of blood because of you i will repay it
19:12a thousand
19:12fold those sharp unreadable eyes were burning now fury had swallowed them whole carter could do
19:19nothing but stand there seething as damon carried me away the quinn family was one of new york's elite
19:25but measured against the vances they were nothing he couldn't make sense of it how had someone like
19:30emily shaw plain unremarkable ended up tangled with damon vance carter pressed his hand against his
19:36shoulder the color in his face was getting worse ambulance please selena was already crying into
19:42her phone calling an ambulance carter my face am i going to scar carter pulled her against him and
19:46rubbed slow circles on her back his voice wasn't quite steady lena what if emily was telling the truth
19:53what if she really did marry damon vance the image of eye nestled against a man so far beyond
19:58her reach selena's jealousy nearly choked her that's impossible something like that we would
20:04have heard about it never damon must have been manipulated i don't believe for a second that a man
20:11like him would stay with her if he knew she'd done time or knew how sick she really is she's
20:16nothing
20:16she's garbage you threw out carter went very still he had never seen selena like this before
20:22the venom in her voice was sharp and ugly and it sent a chill through him but he'd lost too
20:27much
20:27blood to think straight he intended to bring his son with him he also intended to bring emily back
20:32the quinn family was one of new york's elite but measured against the vances they were nothing
20:37he couldn't make sense of it how had someone like emily shaw plain unremarkable ended up tangled
20:44with damon vance carter pressed his hand against his shoulder the color in his face was getting
20:48worse ambulance please selena was already crying into her phone calling an ambulance carter my face
20:54am i going to scar carter pulled her against him and rubbed slow circles on her back his voice wasn't
20:59quite steady lena what if emily was telling the truth what if she really did marry damon vance
21:05the image of eye nestled against a man so far beyond her reach selena's jealousy nearly choked her
21:11impossible something like that we would have heard about it never damon 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
21:23or knew how sick she really is she's nothing she's garbage you threw out carter went very still
21:30he had never seen selena like this before the venom in her voice was sharp and ugly and it sent
21:35a chill
21:35through him but he'd lost too much blood to think straight he intended to bring his son with him
21:40he also intended to bring emily back i'd lost too much blood they rushed me straight into the icu
21:46the memories kept surfacing one after another they were worse than i'd let myself remember
21:51in 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 at first i'd laughed it off
22:05it was absurd that same night carter had me dragged to a clinic and strapped down
22:10they 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
22:22and 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 do 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
22:54the very first day i met him
22:56i'd fallen into the river
22:57he was nearby on a yacht
22:59hosting a lavish dinner
23:00he sent his people to pull me out
23:02and brought in the best medical team money could buy
23:04when i woke up
23:05my first thought was that the prison guards had caught me again
23:08i came apart
23:08i tried to end it more than once
23:10damon stayed with me through all of it
23:12telling 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
23:21the day i was finally well enough to stand on my own
23:24he proposed
23:25he was afraid that another shock might trigger a relapse
23:28so we'd kept the marriage private
23:29we had planned to hold a proper wedding once i made a full recovery
23:32i 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
23:49damon 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
23:56he walked away from a contract worth millions without a second thought
24:00he'd cried the entire flight home
24:02but now that every memory of carter had come back to me
24:05ab couldn't stop the doubt from creeping in
24:07even toward damon
24:09would 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
24:17with hands that weren't quite steady
24:19he tucked the blanket carefully around me
24:22wait for me
24:22carter and selena were already waiting at the hospital entrance
24:26they tried to force their way in
24:27and were stopped by damon's men
24:29damon walked out
24:30rolling up his sleeves as a vent
24:32the moment he laid eyes on carter
24:34he swung without hesitating
24:41you piece of filth
24:42how dare you put your hands on emily
24:44i had spent so long watching her become the woman she was now
24:47i spent a year looking for her
24:49i 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 gonna choose you
24:59mr vance don't let her play you
25:01she was married to carter for years
25:03their son is 8 years old
25:05and she did 3 years in prison
25:06for an entire year
25:07damon hadn't been able to bring himself to mention her scars
25:10he 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
25:27damon only called them off
25:29when carter and selena were a bloody swollen mess
25:32he had them hauled down to the basement
25:34damon turned the pages one by one
25:36his expression darkened with everyone who turned
25:39his jaw sat hard
25:41abuse
25:41coerced confession
25:43extortion
25:44unlawful 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 you 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 damon hadn't been able to bring himself to mention her scars
26:12he 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
26:31when carter and selena were a bloody swollen mess
26:34he had them hauled down to the basement
26:36damon turned the pages one by one
26:38his expression darkened with everyone who turned
26:41his jaw set hard
26:43abuse
26:43coerced 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
26:54and 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
27:01you can do whatever you want
27:03the quinn's aren't people you want to push
27:05touch me one more time
27:06and i'll drag both our families down with me
27:08mr vance please
27:10emily 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 selena'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 emily will never forgive you for this
27:45i'm her child's father do 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 then 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
28:11he 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 selena
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
28:47he gestured for someone to bring in a thick stack of documents
28:52this is a divorce agreement i've already signed it
28:54if i ever let you down you walk
28:56no arguments
28:57this is the asset transfer
28:59everything 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
29:10i kissed him pressing my lips to the rest of his promises before he could finish them
29:15you idiot
29:16i trust you
29:20there's one more thing i need to talk to you about
29:22he had mason brought in the boy was clearly frightened
29:25but the moment his eyes landed on me
29:29they filled with contempt
29:31you where did you hide my mom and dad
29:33give them back
29:34i had nearly died bringing him into the world
29:36hearing him speak to me like that broke something loose in my chest
29:39i held my breath
29:40my eyes blurred
29:41with a gentleness that hurt to look at
29:43i know he's your son
29:43if you want him i'll raise him as my own
29:45i'll have a vasectomy
29:46he can be the vance heir
29:48no i don't want him
29:49after carter divorced me
29:51he handed mason to selena to make her happy
29:54selena is mason takes his mother now
29:56i lost custody before i even went to prison
29:58he doesn't love me
29:59but as time went on
30:01he began to resent my weakness
30:03he turned toward her instead
30:04he stopped calling me mom
30:05he called me that wicked woman
30:07he refused to let me tuck him in
30:08he said i was dirtier than the maids
30:10and had no right to touch him
30:11the night before i went in
30:13i begged for just five minutes with him
30:15on the other end of the line
30:16mason 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
30:31all right
30:32i'll take you to them
30:34you
30:34you
30:35you
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