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the heiress they called ugly dailymotion
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00:00I'm the most notorious mean girl at school, but because my family's rich, everyone kisses my ass.
00:05They all tolerated me until the new scholarship girl showed up.
00:09She acted so righteous, as if she invented feminism.
00:13I have low blood sugar, so I asked my boyfriend Jake to grab me something from the dessert table.
00:19Violet, you have two perfectly good hands.
00:22Why are you ordering people around?
00:24We're in the 21st century.
00:26Nobody's anyone's servant.
00:28My wrist was sprained, so I asked my brother Leo to open my water bottle.
00:32She looked at me like I was something she'd scraped off her heel.
00:36Pathetic.
00:37A girl who can't do anything without someone doing it for her.
00:40You are an embarrassment to women everywhere.
00:43So I waited.
00:44Then she fractured her foot.
00:46She hobbled into the school gala on someone's arm.
00:50Wow.
00:51So the self-made girl of the century needs help walking now?
00:58Violet!
00:59You are so toxic!
01:01No wonder everyone at this school secretly hates you!
01:05Jake's jaw tightened.
01:07The whole room went silent.
01:09Oh my god, did Jake actually say that?
01:11Doesn't he know her dad could have his dad's company blacklisted by morning?
01:14Honestly, I always knew those two were a disaster.
01:17Violet is a mess, and Jake standing next to her always looked like some guy being bankrolled by his sugar
01:23mama.
01:23What I want to know is, when they kiss, does he have to stop himself from throwing up?
01:28Laughter rippled across the room.
01:30I felt the temperature in my face drop, degree by degree.
01:36He hadn't thought before he spoke, and the regret was already bleeding through his expression.
01:41You.
01:42Jake.
01:43I thought everyone in this circle was just a mindless follower.
01:47Propping up people who coast on their family's money and contribute absolutely nothing.
01:52And the effect on Jake's already tense face was immediate.
01:55He went cold.
01:56Violet, apologize to Serena.
01:58I almost laughed.
02:00Excuse me?
02:03What?
02:03I said, who do you think you are?
02:06What gives you the nerve to tell me what to do?
02:10Did your mom give you that confidence?
02:12Because it certainly wasn't me.
02:15You've gotten real comfortable, haven't you?
02:17A few years of good treatment and suddenly you think you're somebody?
02:20Let me remind you, you're not.
02:23You're broke, you're basic, and the only thing keeping you relevant is the name on my family's donor wall.
02:30Now do yourself a favor and go home.
02:33Jake's face cycled through several colors, each more entertaining than the last.
02:38I look bad?
02:39Look in a mirror, Violet.
02:41You have a birthmark the size of a fist on your face and a temper worse than anyone I've ever
02:45met!
02:46I have let things slide with you for years.
02:48Do not push me like you think I won't push back!
02:53Jake and I grew up next door to each other.
02:56He knows exactly which words land.
02:58I've had a port wine birthmark on my right cheek since I was born.
03:01Irregular shape?
03:02Deep red?
03:03If you cover the birthmark side, the other half of my face is genuinely beautiful.
03:07I know this.
03:08But that's not what people see first.
03:10Here's the thing.
03:10If my parents had done the laser removal surgery when I was a baby, it would barely be a scar
03:15by now.
03:15But when I was born, my family had nothing.
03:18So my parents started from zero.
03:20They worked double shifts, chased every business opportunity, hustled for years because of me.
03:26They couldn't take care of me during those years, so they sent me to live with my grandmother out in
03:31the countryside.
03:31I was six.
03:33Grandma was locally famous.
03:34Not for anything polite.
03:36The neighbors had a nickname for her.
03:38Something like the Pitbull of Pine Street.
03:40She'd earned it.
03:41When someone stole a vegetable from her garden, she would start at one end of the block and curse every
03:46single household until the thief confessed.
03:49The insults she chose were anatomically creative, very specific, very loud.
03:54It always worked.
03:55Thief would crack, apologize, and usually end up paying her damages on top of it.
04:00Honestly, I thought she was iconic.
04:02I practiced every day.
04:04The next time a classmate called my birthmark ugly, I let one fly right at his face.
04:09You little bottom feeder!
04:11I thought you were just an idiot, but now I think you were literally dropped on your head.
04:15And your parents?
04:16What kind of people raised something like you?
04:18Do them a favor and go home!
04:20I hear they're trying to have a better kid to replace you.
04:23I had no idea what half of it meant, but the delivery was flawless.
04:29I turned around, feeling like a general, after a victory, and walked straight into my parents, standing there, eyes red.
04:36My mom was crying.
04:37She pulled me in so tight I couldn't breathe.
04:40We're taking her home.
04:42Another week here and I don't know what she'll become.
04:44I didn't understand why they were so upset, but I went with them.
04:47They had saved enough to pay for a birthmark removal procedure.
04:50I said no, because the doctor's plan involved cutting away the birthmarked skin and pulling the edges together.
04:57Just thinking about it made me want to pass out.
05:00I threw myself on the floor and refused.
05:02Then I sat up, crossed my arms.
05:04If someone won't be my friend because of a birthmark, they were never worth having as a friend anyway.
05:09This thing on my face is a loyalty test.
05:12It filters out the fakes.
05:13I'm not going to some hospital.
05:15You have a business opportunity, right?
05:17Use the money for that.
05:18I'd overheard them talking.
05:20There was an investment window, but the funds were tight.
05:23Surgery or the investment?
05:24Pick one.
05:25I said what I said because I didn't want to be cut open, but my parents completely misread me.
05:30Our girl, so mature, so selfless.
05:33We're going to work so hard for you, we promise.
05:37After that, they worked like they were running from something.
05:40Within a few years, we had a mansion, a private chef, a driver for school pickups.
05:45And that's the year I met Jake next door.
05:47He was the middle child, older sister, younger brother, and him stuck in between, invisible.
05:52His family didn't pay much attention to him.
05:55At school, people walked over him.
05:57I couldn't stand it.
05:58I deployed grandma's full arsenal on behalf of half his class.
06:02Verbal devastation, top to bottom.
06:04After that, Jake and I were best friends.
06:06When he got cornered, I showed up.
06:08When someone called my birthmark a disfigurement, he threw the first punch.
06:13My parents decided he was genuine.
06:14They arranged an engagement between our families and threw some serious business benefits the Calloway family's way as part of
06:21the deal.
06:22Jake went from invisible middle child to the golden boy of his entire household overnight.
06:27From 12 to 22, I became the infamous mean girl with the bad attitude.
06:32Jake became the handsome, charming one everyone adored.
06:35They said he was kind, patient, the perfect gentleman.
06:38I was proud of that.
06:40A man reflects on the woman behind him.
06:42And everyone loving Jake meant everyone had to respect what I represented.
06:46I thought we were unbreakable.
06:48Turns out, he just became another person who called me ugly.
06:52Then, I picked up the nearest cake from the table and drove it directly into his face.
06:57Jake Calloway, we are done.
07:03So that's what you really think, isn't it?
07:05You've always thought my face was disgusting.
07:08Since the beginning?
07:09Was everything a performance?
07:11Were you using me this whole time?
07:13I was past the point of caring who was watching.
07:16The gala exploded.
07:18People trying to pull us apart.
07:19People filming.
07:20People backing into the walls.
07:22I got two more good swipes in at people who'd been talking about me
07:25before security finally managed to drag everyone into a corner.
07:29We all ended up at the police station.
07:31I was the first one out.
07:34Baby girl.
07:35Your hands.
07:36Does it hurt?
07:37Maybe next time, Daddy gets you some gloves, huh?
07:39So it doesn't sting when you...
07:40Sir, perhaps encourage non-violent conflict resolution?
07:44Dad heard none of it.
07:45He kept talking to me in the gentle voice he reserves for when I've had a rough day.
07:49I scanned every person in that room.
07:52Head down.
07:52Not looking at me.
07:53We're not finished.
07:56Not even close to finished.
07:59The moment I got home, I posted across every platform.
08:03The engagement with Jake Calloway is officially over.
08:06Sweetheart, Jake Calloway is one person.
08:10Don't waste one tear.
08:11I'll introduce you to someone tall, good-looking, works out the whole package.
08:14And tell me.
08:15Who said things about you tonight?
08:17Every name.
08:18I'm terminating every business relationship we have with their families by morning.
08:21Which is exactly why the trust fund clicks at Westbrook, never dare talk to my face.
08:26They save their commentary for behind my back.
08:29Mom.
08:31Not this time.
08:32I want to handle this myself.
08:35That's my girl, all grown up.
08:37You need backup.
08:38We're here.
08:40Always.
08:40We are your foundation.
08:44Honestly, Violet.
08:45Real talk?
08:46You should be grateful Jake even looked at you.
08:49You should be on your knees that someone like he was ever engaged to you.
08:52We all heard it.
08:54We're not deaf.
08:56Ever since he started hanging around Serena Voss, his entire personality had been replaced
09:01by hers.
09:02Ask him to get me a glass of water.
09:04And he launches into a lecture about dependent personalities and entitlement.
09:08And how some people act like their arms don't work.
09:10And when I stopped asking, he started using my appearance instead.
09:18Apologize to your sister.
09:22Dad!
09:23You hit me?
09:25For her?
09:26That's it.
09:26I'm leaving.
09:27I'm done with this family.
09:29He turned and walked.
09:32If you walk out, don't come back.
09:34He turned at the stairs and went up to his room.
09:40Dad.
09:41Leave it.
09:43We'll deal with him properly.
09:45Later.
09:45Right now, I need you to call the clinic.
09:47I want to get this birth bot removed.
09:49I'd thought about it before.
09:50Partly because the birthmark had never really bothered me.
09:53Partly because I'd made such a big dramatic thing out of refusing the surgery when I was
09:58seven that it was embarrassing to reverse course.
10:01Using a birthmark as a loyalty test is complete nonsense.
10:04People are visual.
10:06That's just how it is.
10:07Jake passed my so-called loyalty test years ago.
10:10And he still turned on me the second something prettier walked into the room.
10:15Both my parents went very still when I said I wanted the birthmark removed.
10:20Baby, you're finally ready.
10:23I'm calling the clinic right now.
10:25By that evening, he'd booked me an appointment at the most respected dermatology clinic in Los Angeles.
10:30First class flights arranged at the airport.
10:34Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?
10:36You'll be alone out there.
10:37Let me come.
10:38I'm sure.
10:39I want to do this alone.
10:41When I come back, I want to walk through that door and blow your minds.
10:46Violet, baby, you hate pain.
10:48Daddy transferred $10 million into your account.
10:51Please do not try to save money on this.
10:54I am begging you.
10:55You can't eat hospital food for six months.
10:57Chef Marco goes with you.
10:59No arguments.
11:01Okay, stop crying.
11:03Both of you.
11:04I'm going.
11:05Go.
11:08Don't save money.
11:10I won't.
11:13I'd barely landed in L.A. when Jake called.
11:19Why have you been ignoring me?
11:22Do you know how many times I've called?
11:24I went to your house and you weren't there.
11:26Where are you?
11:27Sounds like you were worried about me.
11:29You're my fiancé.
11:30Who else would I be worried about?
11:33Also, that post you put up about ending the engagement?
11:36What was that?
11:38You bit me and I didn't even make a scene about it.
11:41How long are you planning to keep this up?
11:43Jake, what exactly are you performing right now?
11:47You almost convinced yourself, didn't you?
11:50Do you want me to give you an award for that monologue?
11:53And let me be very clear.
11:54You think this is me being dramatic?
11:57You think if you say the right things, I'll come running back and go back to taking care
12:02of you and defending you and propping up your image?
12:05You little social climber.
12:07Go find someone else to leech off.
12:09I hung up.
12:10Then I blocked him on everything.
12:14Then, I went and checked into a $12,000 a night hotel suite with Chef Marco.
12:19The next morning, I slept in, then went to the clinic for the initial consultation.
12:24Because the birthmark was large and deeply pigmented, they told me it would take multiple
12:28laser sessions over several months.
12:30Laser treatment, for the record, is genuinely painful.
12:33And after every session, the treated area swells up so aggressively, I documented everything.
12:39Progress photos, recovery timeline.
12:41Six months later, Leo sent me a message.
12:44Sis, I tried to tell you.
12:46Now Jake and Serena are officially together.
12:49You walked away from that.
12:51Hope you're satisfied.
12:52Below it was a video.
12:54Jake and Serena at a Ferris wheel, kissing like they were in a movie.
12:59Wasted.
13:00They could have been influencers.
13:04Laos, sis, you went viral, BTE.
13:06Called it.
13:07That attitude was always going to catch up with you.
13:09People are calling you a spoiled abuser.
13:11The comments are saying ugly girl goes unhinged.
13:14Which honestly is still flattering compared to what else they're saying.
13:19It was the video from six months ago.
13:21The gala, the cake, the biting.
13:24Heavily edited.
13:25All the context removed.
13:26Rich girl thinks money makes her untouchable.
13:29Breaks up a couple that was clearly in love.
13:31Then attacks the guy.
13:32This woman is feral.
13:33Everything in this video checks out.
13:36Violet Harrington used to send people on errands.
13:38And if they were one minute late, she'd scream at them in the hallway and call them brain damaged.
13:43As for Jake and Serena, I can't say much, but those two are genuinely in love.
13:47She was never a factor.
13:49Replies beneath it.
13:50Of course she was the side piece.
13:52Nobody with eyes would choose her over Serena.
13:54The way Jake looks at Serena.
13:56Oh my god.
13:58Soulmates?
14:01Jake and Serena.
14:03The golden couple.
14:04The tragic love story.
14:05And me.
14:06The villain who showed up for four years and ruined everything.
14:10Everything's packed.
14:11Ready for the airport whenever you are.
14:12I looked at the comment section one more time.
14:15Some conversations should happen in person.
14:20This time, I came back without telling anyone.
14:23Not even my parents.
14:24Noise from inside.
14:25The kind that meant a gathering no one had told me about.
14:28Before I even reached the front door, I heard voices.
14:31Honestly, Leo.
14:32Leo, I think your sister didn't go traveling.
14:35I think she's hiding somewhere because she couldn't handle looking at herself in the mirror.
14:39That was Ryan.
14:40The one I'd run errands through for years.
14:43The one who once showed up a minute late with my latte.
14:45And decided to spend that minute flirting with a girl in the parking lot instead.
14:49Who cares if she's dead or alive?
14:51Dad and mom have been playing favorites with her my whole life.
14:55They won't even tell me where she went.
14:57Leo, don't stress about it.
14:59You're the son.
15:00No matter how much they've always favored Violet, this family's legacy is yours eventually.
15:06If you're tired of looking at her, when the time comes, you kick her out.
15:11Cut her off completely.
15:12Out of sight, out of mind.
15:14You're right.
15:15Why didn't I think of that sooner?
15:19Right now, I'll keep my head down, stay on their good side.
15:23Once the company transfers to me, how I handle Violet is entirely up to my mood.
15:29Your parents aren't dead yet, and you're already drawing up the inheritance plan?
15:34Already working out how to cut your sister out of her own home?
15:37Who are you?
15:39Who let you in?
15:41Six months!
15:42I've gone six months, and this is what you've become!
15:44You sat in my family's house, at my family's table, plotting to take everything and throw me out like trash!
15:51Keep dreaming.
15:52This family's company would go to a goldfish before it went to you.
15:58Wait.
15:58Is that Violet Harrington?
16:00Did she get surgery?
16:01She looks completely different.
16:03What clinic did she go to?
16:04There's literally no scarring.
16:06That doesn't look like surgery, though.
16:08Her face was moving the whole time she was hitting him like full expression.
16:10You can't get results that natural with any procedure I know of.
16:13Can someone find out where she went because I need that doctor's contact?
16:16Three minutes.
16:17Leo ended up on the floor, nose bleeding, one eye already swelling.
16:22He looked up at me, dazed.
16:24You freak.
16:25You think you can just walk in here and you wait.
16:28I'm telling mom and dad.
16:29They'll kick you out.
16:31Save yourself the trouble.
16:32I'm announcing it right now.
16:34You're the one who's out.
16:35You've been in this family for what, ten years?
16:38And you started acting like you built it yourself.
16:40We took you in, we gave you everything, and you came back a snake.
16:45Get out of my house!
16:48Leo is not my biological brother.
16:50My parents only had me.
16:52After I was born, my dad cried so hard about what my mom had gone through
16:55that he went and got a vasectomy the same week.
16:58I was nine when I found Leo.
17:00Winter, on my way home from school, he was curled up next to a dumpster,
17:04barely conscious, hypothermic.
17:06I yelled for my parents.
17:07They got him to the hospital.
17:09Am I dead?
17:10Is that an angel?
17:12There's a flower on your face.
17:15After the police confirmed he'd run away from an orphanage and had no family,
17:19I threw myself on the floor and did not get up until my parents agreed to adopt him.
17:24He was four or five at the time.
17:26The cold had been bad enough to wipe out most of what little memory he had.
17:29He grew up not knowing he was adopted.
17:32We never told him.
17:33We had genuinely loved him, all three of us.
17:36And this is what we got.
17:37Leo!
17:39Oh my god, are you okay?
17:45Violet, what is wrong with you?
17:46That's your brother.
17:47You did that to your own brother.
17:49How cruel can one person be?
17:51I don't care how good your new face looks.
17:53It will never cover what's rotten underneath.
17:56Six months had passed, and Serena was still working from the same script.
18:00Jake and I, we've always had feelings for each other.
18:04If it weren't for certain people, we probably would have been together years ago.
18:11She used her family's connections to make our lives impossible after the breakup.
18:17She went to his parents, threatened them, said if they couldn't make her happy, Jake would
18:23never be allowed to get married.
18:25Someone in the comments had asked for a name.
18:28Serena hadn't posted it herself.
18:29She'd written only VZ, can't say more.
18:32Then a reply account, clearly a second profile, had filled in the rest.
18:36That account is yours, isn't it?
18:41Yes, it's mine.
18:43So what?
18:44I just...
18:45Good.
18:47Now we know who's responsible.
18:51Let me clean that mouth out for you.
18:54Maybe, then you'll think twice before you open it to lie about people.
19:03Don't you dare pass out!
19:05I'm not finished.
19:07You all know the history.
19:09Jake and I were together from the time we were kids.
19:12Engaged at 18.
19:13What you might not know is that my fiancé slept with Serena Voss less than three months
19:18after they met.
19:18Cheating?
19:19Fine.
19:20People are terrible.
19:21But here's the part that actually disgusts me.
19:25He kept coming to me for money.
19:28Said it was for his startup.
19:29Over three months, he borrowed $5 million.
19:33Every cent of it went to her!
19:36The girl who stood in a courtyard and lectured me about the exploitation of people, about
19:42dignity, about the new era of women, was living off my money while sleeping with my fiancé!
19:50The TV was showing security footage, crisp and time-stamped.
19:53Serena's speech from the courtyard, then the hotel check-ins from the weeks after I left
19:57for L.A.
19:58After that, Leo.
20:00Different footage.
20:01Different hotel.
20:02Same story.
20:03A lot of what came next, I'd only found through a private investigator.
20:06The full picture made me lose my appetite for three days.
20:11You played that beautifully.
20:12I genuinely have to hand it to you.
20:15If you wanted out, you could have said so!
20:17I would have let you go!
20:18I would have been fine!
20:20But you came to me for money, Jake, while you were sleeping with someone else!
20:28You have no right to just stand there acting like this is okay, Violet.
20:31I'm streaming this.
20:32The whole world is going to see how unhinged you!
20:37And you, you're the one who posted those comments.
20:42I paid you $2,000 to walk 200 meters.
20:46You were supposed to get me a protein bar.
20:49Instead, you spent 15 minutes in the parking lot trying to get a girl's number, while I
20:54was about to pass out from low blood sugar.
20:56I called you useless, and you went online and wrote a paragraph about my face?
21:02My hands barely work, and I still managed to do more damage with this bottle than you've
21:08done with your entire social media presence.
21:12Here's the thing about Ryan.
21:13He didn't come from the same world as the rest of them.
21:16He was a scholarship student, public school before Westbrook, abusive father, controlling
21:21stepmother, the whole situation.
21:23One day, his dad showed up at school trying to pull him out over money, and Ryan was sobbing
21:28in the hallway.
21:29And I felt something, so I helped.
21:31He attached himself to me after that, ran my errands, never complained.
21:38I paid him well, more than well, for tasks that took under 5 minutes and covered less
21:43than 200 meters of distance.
21:45For years, he ate off that arrangement.
21:47And then he wrote a viral comment, calling my face a liability.
21:55You should have been grateful.
21:57Instead, you picked a side.
21:58The room became chaos.
22:00Serena was hyperventilating on the floor.
22:02I'm suing you!
22:03I'm having you arrested!
22:04You're going to jail!
22:06Go ahead.
22:08File whatever you want.
22:09Your parents will have you signing the settlement paperwork before your lawyer finishes the intake
22:13form.
22:14I scanned the four of them.
22:16Leo, Jake, Serena, Ryan.
22:18I'm being generous right now.
22:20Name your number.
22:22I'll write the check tonight.
22:24Three seconds later, the front door came open, and officers walked in.
22:27I walked toward them without being asked.
22:31Third time in a police station.
22:33Same precinct.
22:34Practically same chairs.
22:35The four of them were bruised but not hospitalized, which meant statements first, ambulances later
22:41if needed.
22:42The officer across from me had the expression of someone who was very tired of seeing my
22:46name on the intake forms.
22:49Mrs. Harrington, whatever the grievance, physical violence is not the answer.
22:54A situation like this, depending on severity, could result in detention.
22:59What if the injured parties consented to it?
23:02I'm not sure I follow.
23:07One million each.
23:08You sign the waivers.
23:10We walk out.
23:11Nobody presses charges.
23:14You want to go to court instead?
23:16I have a legal team that has been waiting for something to do.
23:21For real?
23:22A million?
23:22Each?
23:23You can refuse.
23:26I'll sign.
23:29Vi, you don't have to do this.
23:31I don't want your money.
23:32I'll sign the waiver either way.
23:34I just need you to know, it wasn't planned.
23:38That night I was drunk, and things got out of hand, and I never meant for any of this
23:43to...
23:43That's enough.
23:45Your turn.
23:46Waiver?
23:47You think you can just throw money at everything?
23:48You are shameless, Violet Harrington!
23:53Shameless?
23:54I don't actually need a face to hide behind anymore.
23:56Unlike some people, whose face is just a very expensive kind of thick skin.
24:01A tank couldn't get through that particular armor.
24:03I will destroy that mouth!
24:06Who raised you?
24:08Where are your manners?
24:09Where is your class?
24:10You are a fuck!
24:12I stepped back.
24:13She hit the floor.
24:14She scrambled up and lunged again.
24:19You have grievances.
24:20You file a report.
24:22We will handle it.
24:23But you will not behave like this in this building.
24:25If you continue, you will be charged with assaulting a police officer.
24:29Do you understand me?
24:32I looked at the scratch across the officer's face.
24:35That looks deep.
24:36She might need a rabies shot.
24:38Serena made a sound like a kettle and tried to stand up again.
24:41The same officer turned and fixed me with a look that required no words.
24:45I pinched my fingers together in front of my lips.
24:48Zipped.
24:48This time, the first people through the door weren't my parents.
24:51They were Serena's.
24:52Her mother took one look at her daughter, then at me, then did very quick math.
24:57Serena, this is a million dollars.
25:00You understand what a million dollars means right now?
25:02Your father's company is hemorrhaging money.
25:04We are barely standing.
25:07This is not the moment to have principles.
25:10Sign the waiver.
25:11I won't.
25:12I want her in a cell.
25:14Good instinct.
25:16I respect the conviction.
25:19Three million.
25:20Final offer.
25:22Serena's jaw tightened.
25:23Her mother made a sharp noise of disbelief.
25:25The silence stretched.
25:26I slid the pen across the table.
25:29Sign.
25:30She did.
25:31My parents arrived from out of town after everything had already been processed.
25:35Mom saw me first and stopped in the middle of the room.
25:38Baby.
25:39She crossed to me and pulled me in by the face, holding me at arm's length, staring.
25:44Look at you.
25:45Let me look at you.
25:46Is this my daughter?
25:47Is this really my daughter?
25:49Dad's eyes were red before he even said hello.
25:53Six months.
25:54You wouldn't let us visit once.
25:55Do you know what that did to us?
25:57He looked me over, head to toe, then pulled both me and my mom into his arms at once.
26:03You've lost weight.
26:04Dad, I gained five pounds.
26:05Then you need to gain five more.
26:08What do you want for dinner?
26:10We're going anywhere you want.
26:12Or I cook.
26:14I'll cook right now.
26:15Someone bring me a kitchen.
26:17My parents fussed over me completely, the rest of the room forgotten.
26:23Mom.
26:23Dad.
26:24My dad looked at him.
26:25The warmth evaporated.
26:26Don't call me that.
26:27My mom was gentler, but not by much.
26:30We watched the security footage, Leo.
26:32All of it.
26:33We heard what you planned.
26:35You sat in our home and talked about removing Violet from this family.
26:38We were going to give you 10 company when you graduated.
26:41We had already decided.
26:44That's done now.
26:45You're 18.
26:47Our legal obligation ended the moment you turned 18.
26:51You need to find somewhere else to go.
26:54I'm really not biological.
26:57The security system.
26:58I turned the visible cameras off.
27:00I checked.
27:01Do you think that a house that size has only the cameras you can see?
27:06Five hidden cameras in the living room alone.
27:09Full coverage.
27:10No blind spots.
27:12Every word you said got recorded.
27:14We loved you.
27:15All three of us.
27:17My parents never once treated you differently because of where you came from.
27:22So I genuinely want to understand.
27:27What made you think they didn't?
27:29She said they didn't actually love me.
27:32And you had what evidence for that?
27:37Then you earned this.
27:48Let's go home.
27:49I brought you things from L.A.
27:50My good girl.
27:52Always looking after us.
27:54I love you more every day.
27:57Though I have to say you're still second to your mother.
28:00After everything.
28:01You say that now?
28:04I didn't rest when we got home.
28:07Four million dollars had walked out the door tonight in settlements.
28:09And I was not sentimental enough to just absorb that loss.
28:13I posted the full account online.
28:15Every detail.
28:16Every time stamp.
28:17Every documented piece of evidence attached.
28:19Then I filed defamation claims.
28:20One for the edited video Ryan had amplified.
28:22One for the manufactured story Serena had posted.
28:25The comments.
28:25The fake accounts.
28:26The coordinated pylon.
28:27All of it documented.
28:28All of it filed.
28:29Given how widely the original video had spread.
28:32Hundreds of thousands of interactions.
28:33The legal exposure was significant.
28:35The charges were serious.
28:36The sentencing range for that category of offense.
28:39Ran between three and seven years.
28:41Both their phones started ringing the same night.
28:43Serena called me from a number I didn't recognize.
28:46I could hear her crying.
28:47Before she finished saying hello.
28:48She wanted to return everything.
28:50She wanted me to drop the charges.
28:52She was sorry.
28:53I was in the middle of looking at my fresh manicure.
28:57Mrs. Voss.
28:59I want you to understand something.
29:01Money is genuinely the least interesting thing in my life.
29:06Go serve your time.
29:07And when you get out.
29:08I hope whoever's been managing your family's finances left something for you.
29:11Best of luck.
29:14I hung up.
29:17Serena and Ryan were dealt with.
29:19Leo disappeared.
29:20I didn't look for him.
29:21Jake was next.
29:21I didn't do anything subtle.
29:23I identified the companies that could exert the most pressure on his family's business
29:26and made the calls.
29:27I reached out to their key staff with offers they weren't going to turn down
29:30and hired every significant person away from the inside out.
29:32When the Calloway family company had nothing left worth saving.
29:36I bought it at liquidation price.
29:38Chef Marco and I had returned home by then.
29:40And we rebranded it under our family's name the following quarter.
29:43Jake arrived at our corporate offices and got as far as the lobby.
29:46Violet Harrington, get down here!
29:48After everything we were to each other, you did this to me?
29:51Is this who you are?
29:53I will stand here until you come out!
29:56I'll make a scene!
29:57I'll tell everyone you're the reason I have nothing!
29:59I will light myself on fire in front of this building!
30:03And everyone will know your name!
30:05He was holding a gas can and a lighter.
30:07He was screaming loud enough for the street to hear.
30:10I took the elevator down.
30:12I walked out into the lobby, looked at him calmly, and said,
30:16Jake, if you actually do it, I'll give you back the company.
30:20Cash influsion, 100 million.
30:24Full restart.
30:26He stared at me.
30:29The condition is that you have to actually be dead.
30:34The silence was very long.
30:35Then his face crumpled.
30:37Humiliation and rage, and something exhausted underneath it all.
30:40Two minutes later, he was on his knees in front of me, hands wrapped around the heel of my shoe.
30:44But I...
30:45I was wrong.
30:45I know I was wrong.
30:47I shouldn't have said what I said, and I shouldn't have done what I did.
30:51If you forgive me, I'll do anything.
30:52I'll be better.
30:53I'll prove it.
30:54Just say the word, and I'll sign whatever you need.
30:56I'll move in.
30:56I'll give up my name.
30:57I will spend my entire life making it up to you!
31:01I let him finish.
31:02Then, I crouched down slightly, put one manicured nail against his cheek, and thought about it.
31:06The thing is, I said, pleasantly, you're exactly the type I can't stand.
31:10I stood back up.
31:11You climbed up here on the back of someone else, and the moment there was nothing left to take, you
31:15tried to perform your way back in.
31:17That doesn't work on me.
31:19Also, I looked down at my shoe.
31:21You've touched this one.
31:22I don't want it anymore.
31:24I stepped back, slipped it off, left it there.
31:29Since you brought up old times, you're pretty, objectively speaking.
31:33I know a few women with more money than they know what to do with who would find you very
31:36compelling.
31:37Older, very generous, if you're open to it.
31:40Or, there are gentlemen who pay even better.
31:43Just putting it out there.
31:45I'm happy to make introductions.
31:50I will kill you!
31:55A full rotation of security, around the clock.
31:58You thought a running start was going to solve that problem?
32:06I took the elevator back up, two more days of peace.
32:09Then Leo showed up at the building, with a thermal bag.
32:12I waited two hours for these.
32:13Sliders from the place on 5th you used to love?
32:16I'm not eating that.
32:18You could have put anything in there.
32:21What do you want?
32:25I know what I did.
32:27I know it was Serena who got into my head.
32:29I know I said things I had no right to say.
32:31I know I treated you like you were nothing.
32:33You always cared about me more than anyone.
32:35I know that.
32:35I have always known that.
32:37Please, let me come home.
32:39He was crying.
32:40I looked at him for a long moment.
32:41Then I sneezed, and again, and again.
32:44Seven, eight, nine sneezes.
32:46Directly onto him, before I finally stopped.
32:48I watched his face cycle through revulsion, and the effort of overriding it.
32:53You know what I didn't hear?
32:55Not once during any of that.
32:57You didn't ask if I was coming down with something.
32:59Yes.
33:00Being sneezed on is objectively unpleasant.
33:02No reasonable person would enjoy that, but I have always reserved the right to find fault where I choose to.
33:08Go home, Leo.
33:09I've been burned too many times.
33:11I don't have enough left to try this again.
33:13I have a very large fortune, and I intend to enjoy it by myself.
33:16I had security walk him out.
33:19The loneliness of being completely untouchable.
33:24For a long time after that, Jake and Leo kept showing up.
33:28At the office, at events, occasionally on social media, with coordinated attempts to generate enough public sympathy to pressure me
33:35into forgiving them.
33:36I found it exhausting and handled it the efficient way.
33:40Some people persuaded them, fairly firmly, to stop.
33:43It worked.
33:44They became quiet.
34:15Everything I lost is because of her.
34:18What I did wasn't enough.
34:20My only regret is that I didn't take longer.
34:25If she hadn't come between me and Vi, we would have been married by now.
34:28Maybe had kids.
34:29I sat in the back of the courtroom and shook my head slowly, just tired.
34:36The next morning, I drove to the cemetery.
34:38I prepared a large bouquet of flowers and brought it to her grave.
34:42I spent three million dollars on those flowers.
34:45When the wind blew, it scattered the petals.
34:47Somewhere in the rustling of the leaves, I could almost hear her voice, still furious, still not finished with me.
34:53You're dead.
34:54Try to be less dramatic about it.
34:57Besides, this three million, you don't have to do five years in a cell to earn it.
35:00You were a lot of things, Serena.
35:03But you weren't completely wrong about every person in that circle.
35:05The city was waiting.
35:07My company was waiting.
35:08A dinner reservation.
35:09And a life I had built entirely on my own terms.
35:12Completely untouchable.
35:13And this time, it felt exactly right.
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