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00:00My screams hauled me all the way to the front gates.
00:03Everyone passing by stopped to watch, sneering, disgusted.
00:08Help me! Someone help me!
00:11No one cared. They just wanted the show.
00:14I heard she'd been feeding our rivals information for months.
00:17Sold us and her husband all out for money.
00:20At her own wedding, can you believe it? Her parents nearly dropped dead on the spite.
00:24Just then, a car phone rang out.
00:27A black car rolled up.
00:29I lifted my head. It was my father's car.
00:33The words scraped out of my throat.
00:36Dad, help me.
00:38He shoved me out of his arms, grabbed his mistress, Gabriela, and ran.
00:46Those men pinned me to the ground.
00:50Right there, in front of every capro and maid man who'd come to watch us marry,
00:56they violated me.
00:57The hall erupted into chaos as people scrambled to escape.
01:02I was barely breathing, broken, bleeding everywhere.
01:07Mom and dad watched it happen.
01:11My old brother, Marco, carried me into the back room with shaking hands.
01:16Then he went and knelt outside the old Don study, begging.
01:21Don, I ask for your permission to go after the shooters.
01:24Please, send the best doctors to her.
01:27Please, save her.
01:30I drifted in and out, but I heard them.
01:33My brother and my husband talking in the next room.
01:37The shooters are gone.
01:39I cleaned it up.
01:40Nobody will ever know you sent them in to do that to my sister.
01:43That was Marco.
01:44But the story has to hold.
01:45What are we telling your father, the old Don?
01:49I'll tell him the story we agreed on.
01:51That she sold me out.
01:52She fed our rivals everything.
01:54The timing, the doors, my movements.
01:57She walked me into a hit at my own wedding.
01:59I escaped before they could get to me, so she became the target of their rage.
02:03Good idea, but be straight with me, though.
02:06You wanted Gabriela as your wife, you could have just said it.
02:09I'd have talked Aurora into stepping aside on her own.
02:11It wouldn't matter if you kept each other as lovers, you didn't have to put her through this.
02:15Lorenzo's voice came back, calm.
02:17A woman as proud as Aurora?
02:20She'd never hand her place to Gabriela, not willingly.
02:23She has to believe she doesn't deserve it.
02:26Only then will she bow her head and answer to Gabriela and I for the rest of her life.
02:32When you were dying, Gabriela donated bone marrow to save your life.
02:38I lost my shot with her for good.
02:40We threw Aurora to the wolves, sure.
02:43But there was no other way.
02:44Not if we wanted Gabriela happy.
02:47My brother actually agreed with him.
02:50So what if people think Aurora betrayed us?
02:52She's still my sister.
02:54Nobody in the family would dare say a word against her.
02:59Just don't treat her badly from here on.
03:02I'm only paying Gabriela back.
03:05The one I love most will always be Aurora.
03:07I've put every property in her name.
03:09Even as a mistress, she'll be the most spoiled woman alive.
03:12She'll be content.
03:14And just like that, the two of them sat there and carved up the rest of my life.
03:20So that was it.
03:22Everything I'd suffered tonight was just paving the road for Gabriela.
03:27They had no idea.
03:28The one donated bone marrow to save Lorenzo was me.
03:32The Owen who took that bullet with Marco was me.
03:36The ring Lorenzo slid onto my finger at the altar.
03:39I scraped together the last of my strength.
03:42I tore it off and smashed it against the floor.
03:45This kind of love.
03:47This kind of family.
03:48I don't want any of it.
03:49The doctors came fast.
03:51They crowded around me, sweating and frantic.
03:57Thank God Marco got us here in time.
03:59She can still be saved.
04:00Their words only made my brother and my husband look worse.
04:03And her chances of having children, she can recover.
04:07With care, she could still be a mother one day.
04:09The moment they said it, Lorenzo's face went cold.
04:13He took a step forward, grabbed a scalpel from the tray beside me,
04:17and drove it toward my lower abdomen.
04:18Don Ferrano!
04:20The doctors were screaming.
04:22Lorenzo's hand was shaking, but he gritted his teeth and drove it in deeper.
04:27Made sure I'd never carry a child again.
04:31Stop!
04:32I can't risk her ever bearing a child.
04:34I howled in pain, unable to move an inch because of the drugs.
04:38Don Ferrano, how could you do this?
04:40She's your wife.
04:41Even if everyone suspects she betrayed us, she doesn't deserve to be hurt like this.
04:45Her womb is ruined.
04:46She'll never carry a child again.
04:49It'll wreck her body.
04:50To be honest, I can't promise she'll live to sea next year.
04:53But none of it swayed him.
04:55He carried on with his plan without the slightest hesitation.
04:58I could never suspect Aurora, but I gave Gabriela my word.
05:02Everything she wants, she gets.
05:04She wants her child to be my only heir.
05:07I won't break a promise to her.
05:09He wiped the sweat from my forehead.
05:12Aurora, you understand, don't you?
05:15Whatever it costs, I swear I'll make sure you live a long, long life.
05:20Marco let out a long breath, then turned to the doctors.
05:24Not one word of this leaves the room.
05:26He set his gun on the table.
05:28None of them dared speak again.
05:29Lorenzo's eyes were red.
05:31Give her something for the pain!
05:33Can't you see she's suffering?
05:38Aurora, I'll never let anyone hurt you again.
05:40Don't be afraid.
05:42Aurora, Lorenzo, and I will watch over you until you're well.
05:44The ones who'd hurt me most were the two people closest to me.
05:49Lorenzo held me tight.
05:50My brother stood guard.
05:52They looked like they were falling apart over me.
05:55Then a maid came to the door.
05:58Miss Gabriela's trying on the gown.
06:00She's asking if you'd come see.
06:01And just like that, both of them forgot how to breathe.
06:04How funny!
06:06One second they were swearing to watch over me, terrified I'd slip away.
06:10The next, their hearts were already somewhere else.
06:14I won't go.
06:15I designed that gown myself.
06:18Picked every detail.
06:19I'll see her in it at the ceremony soon enough.
06:21I won't go either.
06:23I had Gabriela's tiara made.
06:25I already know exactly what it looks like.
06:28Everything for the wedding was ready a month ago.
06:30I told her to rest and look after the baby.
06:32Her truncery's handled too.
06:34Ten years I saved for it.
06:35Enough to fill a ballroom.
06:37No one will ever look down on her.
06:39But Aurora's life is hanging by a thread.
06:41We should stay with her.
06:43For the first time.
06:44They chose me.
06:46And it only broke my heart further.
06:48So they could be this tender.
06:50This careful.
06:51Planning every last detail of another woman's wedding.
06:54A gown designed by hand.
06:56A tiara worth a fortune.
06:58A trousseau ten years in the making.
07:00And me?
07:01We were engaged a full year.
07:04Lorenzo said he didn't like a fuss.
07:07Marco said I shouldn't be extravagant.
07:09All I had were the few battered cases my mother left me before she died.
07:13The other women laughed at me.
07:15Called me a charity case.
07:16I altered my mother's old wedding dress myself.
07:19Stitch by stitch.
07:20My fingers were raw with it.
07:22When I showed it to Lorenzo,
07:24he barely glanced at me.
07:26That careless little smile.
07:28Was it careless because he already knew that whatever I wore,
07:32I'd be torn apart at my own wedding?
07:34Was he smiling because he was thinking of the gown he'd designed for Gabriela?
07:39I passed out to the sound of their horrifying, grieving cry.
07:44When I woke,
07:46Marco and Lorenzo were kneeling by my bed,
07:48unshaven, hollow.
07:50Aurora.
07:51The second I opened my eyes,
07:53their faces lit up.
07:54You're awake.
07:56This is my fault.
07:57I should have protected you.
07:59I couldn't even save my own sister.
08:02I should cut off my own hands.
08:04He pressed a blade to his wrist like he meant to do it.
08:08I shut my eyes and swallowed every bitter tear.
08:13How could I ever blame you?
08:16If anything's to blame,
08:17it's just my own rotten luck.
08:19Blame only me
08:20for loving the wrong man,
08:22for trusting the wrong people.
08:24They looked even more heartbroken,
08:26but there was no guilt in them.
08:28Aurora,
08:29the doctor said,
08:32after what those men did to you,
08:34you'll never be able to have a child again.
08:36But don't worry.
08:38No one outside this room will ever know.
08:40Not this,
08:41not the truth about the wedding.
08:43I'll never look at you any differently.
08:45You'll always be the one I love most.
08:48Just rest.
08:50And if you really want a child someday,
08:53someday we'll adopt one.
08:55You can raise it as your own.
08:57All right?
08:59I laughed without a sound.
09:00Adopt a child?
09:02Gabriella's child?
09:03I'm not even allowed to bear my own.
09:06What right do I have to raise hers?
09:09No need.
09:10I wasn't born lucky enough.
09:12I looked at him,
09:12then at my brother,
09:13and begged.
09:14I only ask you for one thing.
09:16Give me back my babe.
09:18Please.
09:19Their eyes filled with confusion.
09:22Babe?
09:23Aurora,
09:23you mean the baby you'll never get to have?
09:25I swear even the best doctors in the world
09:27couldn't bring that chance back.
09:29Don't torture yourself like this.
09:32I swear nothing like this will ever happen again.
09:34Just treat it as the last thing I'll ever ask of you.
09:39Silly.
09:40How could it be the last thing?
09:42Whatever you want,
09:43we'll find it for you.
09:43They coaxed the medicine down my throat.
09:45They thought the drugs would knock me out,
09:47but they didn't know.
09:48I was already in too much pain
09:50for any drug to touch.
09:51I've already spoken to Donna Vittoria
09:53and the old Don.
09:54I told them Aurora sold me out,
09:56that she fed our rivals everything.
09:58The timing,
09:59the doors,
09:59my movements.
10:00They're sending people for her soon.
10:02Their methods are cruel.
10:03I can't bear to watch Aurora suffer.
10:05I'll go before they arrive.
10:07I've told my father and mother too.
10:09They know Aurora betrayed the family.
10:12They'll come to ask that she be stripped of her place,
10:14cast down to nothing.
10:17If we hadn't staged all of this
10:19and turned the old Don and my parents against Aurora,
10:21there was no way she wouldn't have ended up marrying you.
10:26Don't you think I want to see Roya suffer like this?
10:28I lay there,
10:29listening,
10:31and felt my heart tear clean in two.
10:34After they left,
10:36Donna Vittoria's people came.
10:37My disgrace had already spread through the whole family.
10:41She walked up to my bed,
10:42hand pressed to her chest like the sight of me sickened her.
10:45A filthy little rat.
10:47She sold us out at her own wedding.
10:50Donna Vittoria,
10:50please don't upset yourself.
10:52Yes, she betrayed us.
10:55She nearly got Lorenzo killed.
10:58Also nearly killed some of the most powerful people who attended the wedding.
11:01But look at her now.
11:03Broken.
11:03She'll never even have a child.
11:06She's pitiful enough.
11:07Let it go.
11:07It only stoked the matriarch's rage.
11:10Pitiful?
11:11If those men had finished her off, that would have been a mercy.
11:14From today, Aurora Castellano is stripped of her name.
11:18Cast out!
11:18Drag her into the street and let everyone see what a rat gets.
11:22The men who'd leered at me days ago were waiting outside.
11:26They ignored my screams,
11:28hauled me all the way to the front gates.
11:31Everyone passing by stopped to watch,
11:34sneering,
11:34disgusted.
11:36Help me!
11:37Someone help me!
11:39No one cared.
11:40They just wanted the show.
11:42I heard she'd been feeding our rivals information for months.
11:45Sold us and her husband all out for money.
11:47At her own wedding, can you believe it?
11:49Her parents nearly dropped dead on the spite.
11:52Just then, a car phone rang out.
11:54A black car rolled up.
11:56I lifted my head.
11:58It was my father's car.
12:00The words scraped out of my throat.
12:03Dad, help me!
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