The Housewife He Threw Away Is a Billionaire follows a devoted housewife who sacrifices everything for her marriage, only to be betrayed and cast aside. After revealing her true identity as a billionaire heiress, she returns stronger than ever to reclaim her life, expose every lie, and prove that those who underestimated her will pay the price. Watch the full episode with English subtitles and enjoy this emotional billionaire revenge short drama filled with shocking twists and unforgettable moments.
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00:00My husband told me to sleep with other men. This was the 10th time this month. I caught him with
00:06his new assistant at the office.
00:08Aria, you find someone, I find someone. Open marriage. Nobody gets hurt.
00:14Damon dropped onto the couch. He didn't look sorry. He thought I would cry. I used to cry. Not anymore.
00:21Every billionaire on Wall Street does this.
00:23He lit a cigar.
00:25Stop acting like a saint. Try it. You might like it.
00:28I smiled. He had no idea who he married three years ago. He thought he married a quiet housewife, soft
00:33spoke, always looking down. That was a costume.
00:36I was the only daughter of the Vale family, one of the oldest fortunes in New York.
00:40Every rich boy on the East Coast wanted me. None of them got me.
00:46I threw it all away for a guy with nothing.
00:50Lone sharks beat him half to death and left him in an alley. It was a mistake.
00:55Okay. His head snapped up.
00:57What?
00:58I said okay. I smiled at him. Remember, you asked for this. He laughed at me. He didn't believe me.
01:04Aria, you've got no one. What are you going to do besides sit at home?
01:07He was half right. I had no friends. I cut off everyone in New York for him.
01:14But there were other people. The ones I used to blow money with in Manhattan clubs three years ago.
01:19They were still waiting. Damon ripped off his tie and threw it on the floor.
01:23Get some sleep. You'll thank me later.
01:26He went upstairs. The next morning, he brought her home. Camille. The intern. Twenty-two years old.
01:32Her skirt barely covered anything. She plopped down on my Persian rug. Her coffee spilled in the middle of it.
01:38Oops. Sorry, ma'am. She wasn't sorry. Damon walked out of the studio. He looked at the stain. He put
01:44his arm around her.
01:45It's just a rug. We can buy a new one.
01:49I picked up my phone and called the housekeeper. Throw the rug out. Throw out the men's slippers next to
01:55it, too. In the trash.
01:57Damon's face stiffened. He grabbed Camille's waist and pulled her toward the door.
02:01I'm taking her to the charity gala tonight. You don't mind, do you?
02:04He was waiting for me to break. I smiled.
02:08Have fun. Don't bother coming home. The door slammed shut. I went to my closet.
02:14In the very back, behind a pink gown I hadn't touched in three years, there was a black travel bag.
02:18I hadn't touched it since my wedding day. Inside was one red slip dress and three black cards with no
02:23limit.
02:24A set of Ducati keys. One Borster phone with one number sword.
02:28I picked up the phone and dialed. It rang twice. A voice burst through the line over loud metal music.
02:34Aria? Oh my god, you're alive?
02:37I looked in the mirror. Soft. Pale. Wearing a boring dress Damon picked out.
02:42Black Diamond Club. Tomorrow night. Eight.
02:46Tell me what you want.
02:47Clear the place out. Round up every billionaire left in the city. I'm back.
02:52The next night was the Crawford family dinner. I walked in wearing that red slip dress.
02:57Camille was already sitting in the hostess spot. She had Damon's jacket thrown over her shoulders.
03:02Around her neck was the emerald necklace. Every Crawford bride had worn it at her engagement.
03:07It went all the way back to Damon's great-grandmother. Damon's mother, Alessonor, used to keep it locked in a
03:13safe.
03:14She told everyone I came up from the slums on the Lower East Side.
03:18According to her, I didn't deserve the Crawford name. That's why I never got to wear it.
03:23Now it sat on her son's mistress, placed there by her own hands.
03:30Vivian looked at me sideways.
03:32Is that the Crawford necklace?
03:34Mom finally took it out of the safe?
03:37Eleanor raised her voice.
03:39Camille knows her place. She deserves it.
03:42Damon sat at the head of the table, playing with his lighter.
03:45He wouldn't even look at me.
03:47Eleanor held Camille's hand and laughed.
03:49Camille is so warm and well-behaved.
03:51Not like some women. Stiff as a board. Boring. No wonder men go looking elsewhere.
03:58The whole table laughed. These were Damon's Wall Street friends.
04:02Tech money. Heirs.
04:05Men who used to follow him around and call me Mrs. Crawford.
04:08Camille stood up with a wine glass. She walked over to me slowly.
04:12Smug.
04:13Aria.
04:15Don't be upset.
04:16Damon said you agreed to the open marriage.
04:18We all live under one roof now. Let's keep the peace, okay?
04:23Damon's friends laughed at me.
04:25God, she is such a coward.
04:27The mistress is in the main seat and she doesn't say a word.
04:31Damon, you're a genius.
04:33A wife at home and women everywhere else.
04:36Best of both worlds.
04:37They thought I was still the housewife.
04:39Damon smirked.
04:40He waited for me to sit down quietly like always.
04:43I didn't take her glass.
04:44Instead, I picked up the crystal rickanger and poured the entire bottle of red wine over her head.
04:51Dark red ran down her hair, down her cheeks, into her dress.
04:55The laughing stopped.
04:57Aria!
04:58Let!
05:00I didn't move.
05:01I just looked at him.
05:03He'd never seen me like this.
05:09I agreed to an open marriage.
05:11I looked around the table at those Wall Street men who thought they were special.
05:15I never agreed to sit down for dinner with some cheap intern.
05:29The night air hit my face.
05:31For the first time in three years, I finally felt alive.
05:35Eight o'clock.
05:36The Black Diamond Club, every top supercar in New York, was sitting out front.
05:42Damon's Porsche rolled up right then.
05:45Camille was on his arm.
05:47He was planning to show her off.
05:49He was planning to walk right in and pop the most expensive bottle on the menu.
05:54Sorry, sir.
05:54The club's closed to the public tonight.
05:56Closed?
05:58I'm Damon Crawford.
05:59I'm on your VIP list.
06:00Get your manager out here.
06:01Now.
06:02The bodyguards did not blink.
06:03Mr. Crawford, the whole place has been bought by a VIP tonight.
06:06Management said nobody gets in.
06:07Not even you.
06:09In all of New York, you could count on one hand the people who could shut down the Black Diamond
06:13Club with a single call.
06:15These were some of the ten wealthiest people in the country.
06:17These were the people Damon had been chasing for years, and never got close.
06:22Who is in there?
06:23Camille whispered.
06:24How should I know?
06:25Damon said through his teeth.
06:26Can we just go somewhere else?
06:28Camille pulled his sleeve.
06:29I already ordered the champagne for tonight.
06:32Shut up!
06:32Right then, the front doors opened from the inside.
06:39Heavy music hit the street.
06:42Spotlights flooded the VIP booth in the center of the room.
06:45A woman was stretched out on a black velvet couch.
06:48She had on a red-slip dress with a deep-open back.
06:52Her long, dark hair peeled over her pale shoulders.
06:56God, she's gorgeous.
06:58Camille gasped.
06:59And around her were all those men.
07:01The men Damon had been trying to get a meeting with for years.
07:04Wall Street kings and tech giants.
07:07Forbes cover guys.
07:08And they were all crowded around her booth.
07:13Camille's breath caught.
07:16I thought he never set foot in Manhattan.
07:18And Whitrock!
07:19He was at the president's dinner!
07:21Damon's face drained white.
07:23The woman on the couch slowly turned.
07:25Casual.
07:25Like none of them mattered.
07:27She glanced toward the door.
07:28No real interest.
07:29That's not possible.
07:31It was his wife.
07:32The quiet woman he'd called boring.
07:35Who only wore plain dresses because he picked them out.
07:38He was convinced she couldn't survive a day on her own.
07:42Aria!
07:43What the hell are you doing?
07:45Dressed like that?
07:46Get up!
07:52Come home with me.
07:54Right now.
07:55The music cut.
07:56Every eye in the room landed on him.
07:59I sat on the couch and looked at him.
08:01My face was blank.
08:02Then I felt a heavy presence step up behind me.
08:05Tall.
08:06Built.
08:06Black shirt open at the collar.
08:08He tugged at his collar.
08:10His eyes were cold violence.
08:12Cade Ashford.
08:13Head of Ashford Group.
08:17Good evening, Damon.
08:19Cade's voice was almost gentle.
08:20The whole room went dead quiet.
08:28Your wife told me something interesting tonight.
08:31She said the two of you have an open marriage.
08:34His hand slid to my waist and pulled me into him.
08:37His warmth wrapped around me.
08:40So I showed your wife what a real man feels like.
08:43You get to watch.
08:45Damon couldn't breathe.
08:47Kay's shoe was pressing the air out of his chest.
08:49Cade, please.
08:51This is a private matter.
08:53Aria's my wife.
08:53She was your wife.
08:54Cade did not even look at him.
08:56A scream tore through the room.
08:57Damon!
08:58Mr. Ashford!
08:59Please!
09:00Let him go!
09:01She actually thought her tears could fix this.
09:03Aria, how could you side with this stranger against your own husband?
09:09Cade glanced over.
09:10His eyes swept over her.
09:12Pure disgust.
09:14What's that smell?
09:15Cheap perfume?
09:16Before she could say another word, two bodyguards grabbed her.
09:20They dragged her out and tossed her down the steps.
09:23She hit the concrete.
09:24Her scream cut off.
09:26Every eye in the room went back to Damon.
09:29I settled back onto the velvet couch, picked up my glass, and swirled the champagne.
09:35Then I looked down at the man pinned under Cade's foot, my husband.
09:39A smile crept across my face.
09:42What's got you so mad, Damon?
09:45I tipped his chin up with the point of my heel, just like he used to do to me.
09:51Didn't you say this was just a game?
09:53Didn't you tell me every man on Wall Street does this?
09:56I leaned back against Cade's chest.
09:59The warmth of him came right through his shirt.
10:01His arm wrapped around my waist, firm and steady.
10:05A low, satisfied laugh came from behind me.
10:09Tonight, I found a real man.
10:11I'm going to sleep with him.
10:12I looked down at Damon and smiled.
10:15Feel free to pull up a chair and take notes.
10:19Aria!
10:21Damon's eyes were bloodshot.
10:23You-
10:24Get him out of here.
10:24He's annoying my woman.
10:26The bodyguards tossed Damon down the steps.
10:28He landed right on Camille.
10:31Inside, everyone laughed.
10:33The crowd took the hint and cleared out.
10:35The doors swung shut behind them.
10:38Cade pushed me back against the mirrored wall.
10:41His hand slid down my waist.
10:43Three years, Aria.
10:45He bit my lower lip.
10:49Do you know what I thought about every morning for three years?
10:53Hmm?
10:53Taking you back from that loser.
10:56Pinning you down on my bed.
10:59Making you say my name until you lost your voice.
11:02He laid me back on the bed and started unbuttoning his shirt.
11:09In such a rush, he smiled.
11:13Come here.
11:15Take it off for me.
11:19I sat up slowly.
11:21I slipped the straps of the red dress off my shoulders.
11:24I was not wearing a bra.
11:26I only had black lace panties on.
11:29He swallowed hard.
11:30Aria.
11:31You're beautiful.
11:33Now you.
11:35He pulled off his shirt and threw it on the floor.
11:37He was down to black boxers.
11:40He used his knee to push my legs apart.
11:42He leaned down over me.
11:44His kisses started on my lips.
11:46They ended at my chest.
11:48Make some noise.
11:50I want to hear it.
11:52Cade.
11:53Good girl.
11:54Just like that.
11:55His hand slid down my stomach.
11:57It went into my panties.
11:59The moment his first finger went in, I grabbed his shoulder and gasped.
12:03He added a second finger right away.
12:06Slow but precise.
12:07He pressed the spot that drove me crazy.
12:10His thumb made slow circles.
12:12The rhythm was enough to drive me crazy.
12:16But not enough to finish.
12:18So wet.
12:20He whispered in my ear.
12:21So eager?
12:22Shut up.
12:23He bit my earlope as a reward.
12:25His fingers moved faster.
12:27Right as I was about to come, he pulled his fingers out.
12:30No!
12:31I opened my eyes in disbelief.
12:33Not yet.
12:34He pushed himself up.
12:35I want to be inside you when you come.
12:38He slowly pushed inside me.
12:40Three years.
12:41My body had forgotten this feeling.
12:43He was much bigger than Damon.
12:45Every inch sent shocks through my body.
12:48Relax.
12:49He whispered, kissing my forehead.
12:51I will take care of you.
12:53Too deep.
12:54It can go deeper.
12:56We both groaned when he was all the way in.
12:58Look at me, Aria.
13:00I looked at him.
13:01You're mine now.
13:03He started moving.
13:04The first thrust was deep and hard.
13:07It pushed me up the sheets.
13:10He pulled me back by the waist.
13:12Another hard thrust.
13:13The bed started hitting the wall.
13:16Faster.
13:17Harder.
13:18He bent down and took my breast in his mouth.
13:20His tongue matched the rhythm.
13:23Kade, lower.
13:24No.
13:25He was breathing hard.
13:27Three years.
13:28I can't wait.
13:29He changed the angle.
13:31Every thrust hit that spot.
13:33Pleasure came in waves.
13:35My moans mixed with his low breaths.
13:43Kade, I'm going to...
13:46Say my name.
13:50Kade.
13:51I can't.
13:53Kade, please.
13:55On his next hard thrust, I lost control.
13:59My body squeezed him tight.
14:01He hissed through his teeth.
14:03He did not give me time to recover.
14:05He flipped me over and made me kneel on the bed.
14:07Then he pushed back in from behind.
14:15Not done yet.
14:18He leaned over my ear.
14:20I said you would scream until your voice was gone.
14:24This angle was deeper.
14:25My body could not recover before new pleasure hit.
14:27Too much.
14:29Kade.
14:30You can handle it.
14:33One more time.
14:35He bit my shoulder.
14:36After that, I lost track of time.
14:43By the time the sky started to lighten, I had lost count of how many times I came.
14:48I was lying on his sweaty chest, breathing hard.
14:52His fingers ran leisurely through my tangled hair.
14:55He whispered in my ear.
14:57Can you even move?
14:59No.
15:03Liar.
15:06Kade.
15:07Yes?
15:08One more time.
15:12He gave a low laugh.
15:14He rolled over and prinned me under him again.
15:16That was the first time in three years I felt like myself in any man's bed.
15:21By sunrise, news of Damon being thrown out of the Black Diamond Club had spread through all of Wall Street.
15:27Every power layer on Wall Street saw it.
15:29The Crawford group became a joke.
15:32So did Damon.
15:33But Damon was not giving up.
15:35He stormed home.
15:37The sight of the empty closet made him punch the wall.
15:41By then, he already knew where I had spent the night and whose bed it had been.
15:50My phone lit up.
15:51A message from Camille.
15:52Area, don't get cocky.
15:54Damon says Cade is just playing with you.
15:56When he gets bored, you are finished.
15:57Damon has frozen all the joint accounts.
15:59You'll be out on the street by next week.
16:01You'll come crawling back.
16:02Just wait.
16:05I was lying in Cade's bed reading these messages.
16:09I started laughing.
16:11What's so funny?
16:13Cade walked out of the bathroom.
16:14He was drying his hair.
16:16My ex-husband, he wants to freeze my accounts.
16:20Oh?
16:21He raised in highbrow.
16:23That is funny.
16:26Freeze my accounts?
16:27Did Damon really think Crawford group made its money because of him?
16:31Did he really think the stock price went up for three years because of his pathetic business skills?
16:37He forgot one thing.
16:39My maiden name is Vale.
16:41The Vale family pulled out of Wall Street decades ago.
16:44But a sleeping giant is still a giant.
16:47And my grandfather left a network of offshore companies.
16:51Nobody at Crawford group ever checked them.
16:53Darling, it's time.
16:57Yes.
16:58For three years, I had been on my knees.
17:02I begged every senior Vale relative who had stepped back from the business and moved the family's secret funds out
17:07of Switzerland.
17:09Every revenue stream that kept Crawford group alive was something I built.
17:13Damon's empire was my work.
17:15I rolled over and called.
17:18Pull every Vale dollar out of Crawford group.
17:20Cut every supply chain.
17:22Let it go bankrupt.
17:23Two hours later, the Crawford group headquarters was a war zone.
17:28Damon was sitting in his CEO office.
17:31Camila was crying on his lap.
17:33He was telling her everything would be fine.
17:36His assistant kicked open the door.
17:38He'd gone pale.
17:40Boss, the European suppliers just ended the contracts.
17:43All cargo is stuck in port.
17:46Damon stood up.
17:47What?
17:48The penalty fees alone will bankrupt us!
17:52His phone would not stop ringing.
17:54The office phone would not stop ringing.
17:57Every line had a panicked voice on it.
18:00Boss, the Wall Street banks just denied the loan extension.
18:04They want full payment in 48 hours.
18:07Boss, three top investors just dumped their Crawford group stock.
18:10Our share price is crashing.
18:15Boss, the Manhattan real estate project pulled out.
18:19They say our cash flow has collapsed.
18:26In half a day, the empire Damon had built for three years was crumbling.
18:32Who did this?
18:33Cade?
18:34Was this an Ashfield groupie?
18:35Tell me!
18:38An hour later, his assistant came back.
18:41His hands were shaking.
18:42He held a file.
18:44Boss, it wasn't Ashfield groupie.
18:46Damon ripped the file out of his hand.
18:49He flipped to the last page.
18:53The name of the offshore parent company that cut all the funding was sitting there.
18:56Quiet.
18:57Choking him.
18:59Owner.
18:59Sole shareholder.
19:01Founder.
19:02Aria Vile.
19:03Damon dropped to the floor.
19:05All the color had drained from his face.
19:09No, no.
19:11No, no.
19:12He whispered.
19:13The boring wife he thought couldn't even dress herself had been holding him by the throat
19:18this whole time.
19:19Ah!
19:20This can't be right!
19:21The woman who washed his shirts.
19:23The silent decoration at his bored dinners.
19:26That was the same person?
19:27He was about to run out when Camille grabbed his arm.
19:30Damon.
19:30Damon.
19:31Wait.
19:33I need to tell you something.
19:34Her voice shook just the right amount.
19:36I'm pregnant.
19:37Damon stopped cold.
19:38What did you just say?
19:39I'm carrying your child.
19:42Aria was married to you for three years and gave you nothing.
19:46I'm already pregnant.
19:48I'm carrying the only legal heir of the Crawford family.
19:52Your grandfather's family trust says it clearly.
19:55You need a Crawford blood hair to touch the main fund.
19:58When the baby is born, he will use that money to save us.
20:04Damon turned around slowly.
20:06He grabbed Camille's shoulders.
20:09Are you sure?
20:11100% sure.
20:13A child.
20:14A legal heir for Crawford Group.
20:17Grandfather Arthur would not let the last of the Crawford bloodline end up on the street.
20:21Dame kissed Camille hard on the forehead.
20:23He had no idea Camille's play was about to blow up in both their faces.
20:28The next morning, Camille charged into the Ashvin Group tower.
20:32She caught word that Cade was passing through the lobby.
20:35She pushed past security.
20:36Her voice cut through the whole lobby.
20:38Mr. Ashvin!
20:40Don't let that liar fool you!
20:42Every executive in custom suits turned to look.
20:45Aria is a dirty whore.
20:47She acted clean for three years married to Damon, but she was sleeping with tons of men behind his back.
20:53Now she dares to seduce you?
20:55She just wants to use you for revenge on Damon!
20:58She's damaged goods!
20:59Every executive in the room held their breath.
21:03His voice stayed soft.
21:05You say you are carrying Damon's child?
21:07Yes!
21:08Camille thought Cade was listening.
21:10She got louder.
21:11She's a cold-blooded lunatic!
21:13What I'm carrying is Damon's flesh and blood!
21:15She destroyed Crawford Group because she is jealous of my relationship with Damon!
21:20Mr. Ashford, a man like you, how could you want a woman like that?
21:26Damon ran into the lobby sweating.
21:27He slapped Camille hard across the face.
21:30The sharp sound made the executives flinch.
21:33Shut your filthy mouth!
21:35Damon was shaking with rage.
21:37He grabbed Camille's arm.
21:39You stupid fool!
21:41You have no idea who you just offended!
21:45Cade laughed coldly.
21:46He snapped his fingers.
21:47His assistant handed him an envelope.
21:50Cade tossed the envelope at their feet.
21:52Mr. Crawford, since you are here, let me show you your unborn lair.
21:57The envelope landed on the floor.
21:59The contents spilled out.
22:03The first showed Camille on the lap of a bald rich man.
22:07In another, she was hanging off the arm of an old man.
22:10A third caught her on a yacht, surrounded by three men.
22:14At the bottom was a medical report.
22:16Patient, Camille Ross.
22:19Diagnosis, permanent infertility.
22:22Three abortions, severe damage to the uterine wall.
22:25Damon stopped breathing.
22:26Permanent, infertility.
22:28He stared at the words and read them again.
22:30When his eyes lifted to Camille, he grabbed her hair and slapped her again, hard.
22:35You dared to lie to me?
22:37Her lips split open.
22:39Blood ran down her chin.
22:42Damon, please, let me explain.
22:46She cried and crawled toward him.
22:48Damon lifted his foot and kicked her hard in the stomach.
22:51In front of every executive, security guard, and front desk worker in the lobby.
22:56The former CEO of Crawford Group and his lying mistress were rolling on the floor like a couple of animals.
23:02Cade took out his phone, snapped a photo, and sent it straight to me.
23:06With a message, darling, two stray dogs are fighting in my lobby.
23:12Can I get a little reward tonight?
23:14Three days later, Crawford Group officially filed for bankruptcy.
23:18Breaking news from Wall Street.
23:20Crawford Group filed Chapter 11 this morning.
23:22Sources say CEO Damon Crawford has gone missing from his offices.
23:26Damon went from a rising Wall Street star to flat broke.
23:29Lone harks were coming for him all over the city.
23:32You've got until Friday, Crawford.
23:35One growled through his phone.
23:37Then we come find you.
23:39His board fired him overnight.
23:42Every rich friend he used to run with blocked his number.
23:45Camille cleared out what was left in his safe and vanished.
23:49The worst blow came from the nursing home.
23:52Crawford Group's founder, his grandfather Arthur, saw the news and had a stroke right in his armchair.
23:57You ruined us.
23:59The old man slurred from the hospital bed.
24:01Arthur was partly paralyzed.
24:04Damon had to pawn his last Rolex to pay the hospital bill.
24:08After that, he had nothing.
24:12That night, a storm hit the city.
24:15I was on my way back from the Vale family's private estate,
24:18when my headlights caught a figure kneeling outside Cade's iron gate.
24:24It was Damon.
24:26Damon, he was soaked through, his custom suit caked in mud, his hair stuck to his face.
24:33He'd been kneeling out in the rain for hours.
24:36He saw my car.
24:37He threw himself at the gate.
24:39Aria!
24:41Aria!
24:41Aria, it is me!
24:42Open the gate!
24:44Please!
24:45His voice was shot.
24:47I sat in the warm car and looked at him without a word.
24:50He cried.
24:52This time the tears were real.
24:55That CEO mask he'd been wearing for years finally cracked.
25:00Aria, I was wrong.
25:03I was dead wrong.
25:06Do you remember?
25:08Three years ago, the rain was just like this.
25:12Those lone hares beat me half to death.
25:14They left me in a back alley like trash.
25:19You were the only one who came.
25:22You took me home.
25:23You said you would stay with me forever.
25:27For you!
25:28I climbed and fought my way up!
25:33Camille means nothing.
25:34I was just jealous of Cade.
25:36I just wanted to make you mad.
25:37But I swear, I never wanted to let you go.
25:41I swear to God!
25:43Aria!
25:44Aria!
25:44Just give me one more chance!
25:47Let me come back to you!
25:49I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to you!
25:53I swear!
25:58Damon banged his forehead against the cold iron gate.
26:01The car door opened.
26:03With a black umbrella raised over my head,
26:05I stepped out and walked through the puddles to the gate.
26:09Damon's bloodshot eyes lit up with joy.
26:11He thought I was softening.
26:14He reached through the gate bars.
26:16He tried to grab the hem of my coat.
26:18Just like three years ago in that muddy alley.
26:21A strong arm wrapped around my waist.
26:24Cade was standing behind me.
26:26I had not heard him come up.
26:28He took off his expensive black caramere coat.
26:31His wrapped-it body blocked all the wind and rain.
26:34Cade looked down at Damon in the mud.
26:36Damon's hand froze in the air.
26:39I stepped out of Cade's arms.
26:41I threw a folder at Damon.
26:43Divorce papers.
26:45I already signed.
26:46Damon stared at the folder.
26:49Damon.
26:50Remember the night you wanted to divorce me for that woman?
26:53I gave you a last chance.
26:55I kicked the folder into the mud at his knees.
26:59You're not just a cheating husband.
27:02You are a fool.
27:03I turned and stepped back into Cade's arms.
27:06Rising on my toes to whisper in his ear.
27:09Just get him to sign it.
27:11Don't let him stop me from going home with my man.
27:14Cade smiled.
27:15He picked me up in his arms.
27:17He walked through the gate.
27:20The gate slammed shut behind us.
27:23Damon was still kneeling in the storm.
27:28Damon didn't sign.
27:30He lost it.
27:32He camped outside my apartment every day and blew up my phone with texts.
27:36Crying.
27:37Threatening.
27:38Begging.
27:38Area.
27:39I know I was wrong.
27:40Three years of love.
27:41You cannot be this cold.
27:42Did Cade force you into this?
27:44Tell me.
27:44I'll kill him.
27:46Let me come back.
27:47I'll be your driver.
27:48Your bodyguard.
27:49Please.
27:50I didn't reply to any of them.
27:56I blocked his number.
28:01Damon waited for me at the racetrack and at the riding club.
28:06Twice he threw himself in front of my car.
28:08Cade was patient.
28:09Until one day, Damon ran to the gate of the Vale private club.
28:13He cut off my car and screamed that he'd die right there.
28:17Cade's Bucati pulled up next to my car at the same moment.
28:20Cade rolled down his window.
28:24He looked at me and smiled softly.
28:27Darling.
28:28Close your eyes.
28:30Count to a hundred.
28:32I closed my eyes.
28:34The window went up.
28:35The rain sounds outside cut off.
28:38I heard Damon scream.
28:40A dull thunt.
28:42Then dead silence.
28:44I counted to one hundred and opened my eyes.
28:46Damon was gone.
28:48Cade was leaning on my car door.
28:50He was playing with a custom silver lidding.
28:53He smiled like a gentleman.
28:55Trash is handled, darling.
28:57Let's go home.
28:58The next day, the news hit Wall Street.
29:01Ashfield Group buys out all of bankrupt Crawford Group's debt.
29:06When Crawford Group collapsed, the debt got split up across dozens of investors.
29:11Damon still dreamed of a comeback.
29:13But now Cade was his one and only creditor.
29:16Cade's top law team went in.
29:18Within a week, Damon's penthouse was seized.
29:21His sports car was towed.
29:22His grandfather Arthur's offshore trust was frozen.
29:26Seizage notice.
29:27Please cooperate.
29:30Cade Ashfield?
29:31That bastard!
29:33Damon roared.
29:34He smashed a vase.
29:36Sir, if you keep breaking things, we call the police.
29:41Damon was personally responsible for two billion dollars in debt.
29:45The court declared him completely bankrupt.
29:48His bank accounts were frozen.
29:50Every credit card was canceled.
29:52He could not even pay for a cup of coffee.
29:54His old rich friends avoided him like the plague.
29:57He called them one by one.
29:59Nobody picked up.
30:00Henry.
30:01It's me!
30:02He yelled into voicemail.
30:04Pick up!
30:06Lend me some money.
30:07I'll pay you back.
30:08I promise!
30:10No one called back.
30:12The last thing that broke him was his mother, Eleanor.
30:14When she found out Cade was now in control of Crawford Group, she had her second stroke.
30:19Damon pawned his last gold chain to put her in the cheapest hospital in Brooklyn.
30:22The grand lady who used to look down on me was now stuck in a bed that reeked of disinfectant.
30:27She cursed out Damon and Camellia around the clock.
30:30You useless fool!
30:32The old woman raised a trembling hand.
30:34I should have pushed you to marry the Veil girl!
30:38Damon froze.
30:40Mom, what did you just say?
30:42The Veil heiress.
30:43Half the men in this city would have done anything to get near her.
30:46She breathed hard.
30:48And you had to go and marry some girl with nothing.
30:50He couldn't bring himself to tell his mother that the girl with nothing was the Veil heiress.
30:55He couldn't get the words out.
30:57A week later, a wet envelope arrived for me.
31:00The signed divorce papers.
31:04The day I got the divorce decree, I didn't cry.
31:08I headed straight to the Veil international racetrack.
31:12A red Ferrari roared down the straight.
31:14I took the last turn at 190 miles per hour.
31:17She's pushing 200! She's gonna crash!
31:19Someone in the stand screamed.
31:21The crowd went crazy as I crossed the finish line in first.
31:24My helmet came off and my long hair fell loose.
31:29Did she just break the track record?
31:31A reporter gasped into his mic.
31:34The whole place went dead quiet.
31:36The crowd parted for me.
31:38Cade walked through the crowd towards me.
31:40In a black custom suit.
31:41A huge bouquet of red roses in his arms.
31:44In front of New York's top elite and media, he went down on one knee.
31:48He opened a black velvet box.
31:50Inside was a pink diamond.
31:52Flawless.
31:52Huge.
31:53Aria.
31:54Cade's dark eyes were locked on me.
31:56I don't want an open relationship or some fling.
31:59I'm not here for a short-term thrill.
32:02He raised the ring.
32:04I want every morning with you.
32:06The arguments.
32:08The gray hair.
32:08All of it.
32:10Take my name.
32:11My empire.
32:12My life if you want it.
32:14He smiled.
32:16Dangerous and beautiful.
32:18Marry me, darling.
32:20Be mine.
32:22I looked down at him.
32:23I grabbed him by the tie and pulled him up.
32:25In front of the whole crowd, I kissed him hard.
32:29The whole racetrack went crazy.
32:32The cheers were deafening.
32:36Across the city.
32:37Hot sun.
32:38The edge of Manhattan.
32:39A construction site.
32:40Heavy heat.
32:41Damon was carrying two heavy bags of cement.
32:43His expensive suit trance were rags.
32:45His face was covered in mud and sweat.
32:47His hands had bloodbusters.
32:48Hey, new guy.
32:50Faster.
32:50The foreman shouted.
32:51Coming.
32:52Damon said with his head down.
32:54Two billion in the hole.
32:55Cut off from everyone he used to know.
32:57He worked 12-hour days at this site.
33:00Just trying to scrape together enough for his mother's hospital bills.
33:03He stopped.
33:04He wiped the sweat off his face with the back of his dirty hand.
33:08Hey.
33:09Look at the screen.
33:11An older worker nodged him.
33:12That woman is beautiful.
33:18Damon looked up.
33:20The giant LED screen in Timescreet was playing the racetrack proposal on loop.
33:26The red racing suit.
33:28The huge pink diamond.
33:32And the woman laughing in the sunlight.
33:36The man who had all of Wall Street scared was down on one knee in front of her.
33:41Is that Cade from Ashford Group?
33:44The old worker gasped.
33:46Where is he?
33:46He's married in the Vale Heiress.
33:48She's the one who took Crawford Group down.
33:50Cold-blooded.
33:51The cement bag slipped off Damon's shoulder and landed right on his foot.
33:55Hey.
33:56Your foot.
33:56Did it hit you?
33:57He didn't feel it.
33:57The old worker pushed him.
33:59He couldn't hear.
33:59He recognized her.
34:00It was the wife he'd called boring.
34:02The one he threw away for an intern.
34:04And now she was the queen of the Ashford Empire.
34:06The most powerful woman in New York.
34:08Damon's knees buckled.
34:09He went down.
34:10This guy is not okay.
34:11Heat stroke?
34:12Leave him.
34:13Keep working.
34:14He sat there in the dirt.
34:15Face buried in his bloody hands.
34:17Over the noise of the construction site, he sobbed.
34:20He'd thrown away a priceless diamond with his own two hands.
34:23All to chase after garbage.
34:25At the racetrack, I slipped into the passenger seat of Cade's black Bugatti.
34:30He fired up the engine while I slipped on my sunglasses.
34:35The window dropped and the wind hit my hair.
34:39I never looked back.
34:42We tore down the open road towards the life that was always mine to begin with.
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