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00:00:05She is the real killer!

00:00:08You have been arrested.

00:00:11I was in prison for 10 years for intentional homicide.

00:00:1510 years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied, my uterus damaged from the beatings, my ankle shattered.

00:00:23The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.

00:00:30Why?

00:00:32Miles had been my knight, my loyal, unwavering protector.

00:00:36Junior year of high school, a girl tried to bully me.

00:00:39The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.

00:00:45She never recovered.

00:00:46Senior year, an older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.

00:00:51Miles put him in the hospital.

00:00:54Partial paralysis.

00:00:56He never walked right away.

00:01:00After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.

00:01:03Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was 10 years old.

00:01:08Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.

00:01:11He kept that promise from the time I was 10 until I was 19.

00:01:16Miles was like my shadow.

00:01:19Wherever I was, he was behind me.

00:01:22Until I turned 19, Miles fell in love with someone else.

00:01:28She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.

00:01:34Prove to me you're completely crazy about me and I'll be yours.

00:01:40So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.

00:01:43Again and again, the man bled out.

00:01:47When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.

00:01:50Then he pointed at me.

00:01:53As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,

00:01:57I'm sorry.

00:01:59The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.

00:02:03I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.

00:02:09But I recognized him instantly.

00:02:20Jade.

00:02:23I came to take you home.

00:02:26Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.

00:02:30He looked composed.

00:02:32Polished.

00:02:32Miles.

00:02:33My voice came out quiet.

00:02:35No anger in it.

00:02:36I didn't have the energy for anger.

00:02:38Why?

00:02:38My parents had died because of him.

00:02:40Murdered by his family's enemies.

00:02:42He'd taken my 10-year-old hand and we'd run together.

00:02:45We slept under highway overspants.

00:02:47We fought rats for scraps of food.

00:02:50On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.

00:02:53He worked three jobs to put me through school.

00:02:56Worked himself until he coughed up blood.

00:02:59I cried when I saw it.

00:03:01He just wiped his mouth and said,

00:03:04I'm done for Jade, but you're not.

00:03:06You've got something better ahead of you.

00:03:08I never understood why someone who was basically my family would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get

00:03:14arrested.

00:03:15For a woman he'd known five minutes.

00:03:23I'm sorry, Jade.

00:03:24I was out of my mind over Fiona.

00:03:27I'd never met anyone like her.

00:03:29Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.

00:03:32She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.

00:03:34I couldn't risk it.

00:03:35I knew you'd get hurt.

00:03:37But I couldn't lose her.

00:03:39He said that while pulling Fiona closer.

00:03:44I was just talking when I said that.

00:03:46I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.

00:03:48But the second he did, I was gone for him.

00:03:53Don't feel too bad.

00:03:55Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.

00:03:58How many people would kill for that kind of payout?

00:04:01Literally.

00:04:02Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person spare change.

00:04:07None of it mattered to me.

00:04:08Not the money.

00:04:09Not the house.

00:04:10I had a fascicle cancer.

00:04:12Stage four.

00:04:13One month left, maybe.

00:04:16Okay.

00:04:18It's freezing out here, Jade.

00:04:20Get in the car.

00:04:22Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona, laughing at something she said.

00:04:32He didn't notice me limping behind them.

00:04:34Didn't notice that every step cost me something.

00:04:39We drove to Fiona's estate.

00:04:41Security guards, a staff of five, a house that looked like a hotel.

00:04:46Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.

00:04:50He'd gotten all of it.

00:04:51He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.

00:04:55And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.

00:04:59When we pulled up, Fiona stepped in front of the door.

00:05:05Hold on.

00:05:08I have a thing about germs.

00:05:10You need to clean up before you come inside.

00:05:12Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.

00:05:17I understood exactly what she was doing.

00:05:20The temperature was somewhere below 20.

00:05:23A cold shower outside would kill me.

00:05:27I smiled, politely.

00:05:29That's fine.

00:05:30I don't need to come in.

00:05:31Fiona's eyes sharpened.

00:05:33She thought I was trying to make her look bad.

00:05:36Don't play victim with me.

00:05:37You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?

00:05:41I looked at Miles.

00:05:42He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.

00:05:45Then he said,

00:05:46She's a little spoiled.

00:05:47It's just a shower.

00:05:48Can you just go along with it?

00:05:50I went still.

00:05:51The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.

00:05:55Then I won't come in.

00:05:57I said,

00:05:58Thank you for the offer.

00:05:59I turned to go.

00:06:01His voice stopped me.

00:06:02Are you seriously still holding a grudge?

00:06:05I said I'd make it up to you.

00:06:06What more do you want?

00:06:07I turned back.

00:06:09Did I kill someone?

00:06:11Did I put you in prison for 10 years?

00:06:13Did I invite myself into your house?

00:06:15Three questions.

00:06:17His face went red.

00:06:19You're coming inside.

00:06:20And you're doing it clean.

00:06:22The staff came out with a pressure hose.

00:06:26The water hit me like a wall of ice.

00:06:29I curled into myself,

00:06:30arms wrapped around my chest,

00:06:32shaking so hard my teeth rattled.

00:06:34My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.

00:06:36I lifted my head.

00:06:38There you go.

00:06:39I took care of it.

00:06:40Stop being mad.

00:06:41You're too pretty to make that face.

00:06:42She pressed herself against him and kissed him,

00:06:44and right there on the steps,

00:06:45like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water 10 feet away.

00:06:49I stopped fighting.

00:06:50I let the water hit me.

00:06:52A night years ago,

00:06:53also snowing,

00:06:55Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass,

00:06:57one rotting blanket between us.

00:06:59This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.

00:07:02I swear,

00:07:03I will never let you freeze again.

00:07:05I had believed him completely,

00:07:07but he had forgotten completely now.

00:07:10Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.

00:07:12I was soaking wet and shaking

00:07:18when my body went forward instead of upright.

00:07:27I woke up three days later.

00:07:31Miles was talking to the house doctor.

00:07:35When he saw my eyes open,

00:07:37he came to the bed quickly.

00:07:40Jade, I'm sorry.

00:07:41I didn't know your body was this bad.

00:07:43Is anything still hurting?

00:07:44I shook my head.

00:07:45He waited.

00:07:46I didn't say anything.

00:07:48Finally, he asked, quietly,

00:07:50Your leg.

00:07:52Why are you...

00:07:52How did that happen?

00:07:53I looked at the ceiling.

00:07:54The block leader in my unit.

00:07:56I wouldn't hand over the money I earned doing labor.

00:08:00So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.

00:08:05After that, they decided that was boring,

00:08:07so they stopped letting me eat.

00:08:09Whatever food I got, they took.

00:08:11Then that got boring too,

00:08:12so they held me down

00:08:14and force-fed me scalding food

00:08:15straight from the pot.

00:08:17Silence.

00:08:18Why didn't you tell me yesterday?

00:08:20His voice came out strange.

00:08:22Tight.

00:08:24I used to.

00:08:25I said.

00:08:28The first time they hit me,

00:08:30I screamed your name.

00:08:31Miles.

00:08:32Help me.

00:08:33Miles, come get me.

00:08:34Then I figured out it didn't work.

00:08:37Eventually, you stopped calling for someone

00:08:39who isn't coming.

00:08:40He grabbed my hand.

00:08:41His was shaking.

00:08:42I'm getting you the best doctors.

00:08:44You're going to get better.

00:08:45I'll give you back everything I took from you.

00:08:47Stay here while you recover.

00:08:48I'll have someone with you around the clock.

00:08:50When you're well,

00:08:51I'll feel better about you leaving.

00:08:53I gave him a small smile.

00:08:56Okay.

00:08:58He was going to be disappointed.

00:09:00I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.

00:09:04Rest.

00:09:05I'll check on you later.

00:09:07Then walked out fast,

00:09:09like the room was on fire.

00:09:11That afternoon,

00:09:12he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds

00:09:15into my name

00:09:15and put ten million dollars in a new bank account.

00:09:20He started to say something else,

00:09:21but seemed to lose it.

00:09:23You're old things.

00:09:25Everything's in here.

00:09:26Do you have to be this formal with me?

00:09:29I know I didn't-

00:09:29Miles?

00:09:30Dinner.

00:09:31I didn't want to go.

00:09:33I physically couldn't eat anymore.

00:09:34The cancer made sure of that.

00:09:36But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me

00:09:38to help me get my strength back,

00:09:39and I had to come down.

00:09:41So I did.

00:09:42I took one sip of the soup.

00:09:45My esophagus felt like it caught fire.

00:09:48I set down my spoon.

00:09:50Thank you for making this, Fiona.

00:09:52It's really good.

00:09:54I'm full.

00:09:56Are you doing this on purpose?

00:09:58You had one sip.

00:10:00I cooked for three hours.

00:10:01You're finishing every bite.

00:10:06The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.

00:10:11I'm not well, I said.

00:10:12My face had gone white.

00:10:14I genuinely can't.

00:10:15Because I scared you into the hospital last week,

00:10:17I made this as an apology.

00:10:19And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.

00:10:22I should have saved myself the trouble.

00:10:24The housekeeper piped up from the corner.

00:10:27She burned her hands making it.

00:10:28Got blisters.

00:10:29Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.

00:10:32Ungrateful.

00:10:33Without looking up, he said,

00:10:35Jade, don't cause a scene.

00:10:37She put in the effort.

00:10:38Just finish it.

00:10:39I laughed before I could stop myself.

00:10:41Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly,

00:10:44Miles, I have ethophical cancer.

00:10:47Stage four.

00:10:48I can't eat.

00:10:51And now you're cursing yourself?

00:10:53You're going to die next, I assume?

00:10:57It's one meal, Jade.

00:10:58Stop being dramatic.

00:11:21She is the real killer!

00:11:23You have been arrested.

00:11:26I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.

00:11:30Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied.

00:11:34My uterus damaged from the beatings.

00:11:36My ankle shattered.

00:11:38The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.

00:11:47Miles had been my knight.

00:11:49My loyal, unwavering protector.

00:11:51Junior year of high school.

00:11:53A girl tried to bully me.

00:11:54The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.

00:12:00She never recovered.

00:12:02Senior year.

00:12:03An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.

00:12:07Miles put him in the hospital.

00:12:09Partial paralysis.

00:12:12He never walked right again.

00:12:16After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.

00:12:19Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.

00:12:23Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.

00:12:27He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.

00:12:32Miles was like my shadow.

00:12:34Wherever I was, he was behind me.

00:12:38Until I turned nineteen, Miles fell in love with someone else.

00:12:43She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.

00:12:49Prove to me you're completely crazy about me and I'll be yours.

00:12:56So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.

00:12:59Again and again, the man bled out.

00:13:02When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.

00:13:06Then he pointed at me.

00:13:08As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,

00:13:12I'm sorry.

00:13:14The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.

00:13:19I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.

00:13:24But I recognized him instantly.

00:13:36Jade.

00:13:38I came to take you home.

00:13:42Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.

00:13:45He looked composed.

00:13:47Polished.

00:13:48Miles.

00:13:49My voice came out quiet.

00:13:50No anger in it.

00:13:51I didn't have the energy for anger.

00:13:53Why?

00:13:54My parents had died because of him.

00:13:56Murdered by his family's enemies.

00:13:58He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.

00:14:01We slept under highway overspance.

00:14:03We fought rats for scraps of food.

00:14:05On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.

00:14:08He worked three jobs to put me through school.

00:14:12Worked himself until he coughed up blood.

00:14:15I cried when I saw it.

00:14:16He just wiped his mouth and said,

00:14:19I'm done for Jade, but you're not.

00:14:22You've got something better ahead of you.

00:14:24I never understood why someone who was basically my family

00:14:27would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get arrested.

00:14:30For a woman he'd known five minutes.

00:14:39I'm sorry, Jade.

00:14:40I was out of my mind over Fiona.

00:14:42I'd never met anyone like her.

00:14:44Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.

00:14:47She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.

00:14:50I couldn't risk it.

00:14:51I knew you'd get hurt.

00:14:52But I couldn't lose her.

00:14:54He said that while pulling Fiona closer.

00:14:59I was just talking when I said that.

00:15:01I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.

00:15:03But the second he did, I was gone for him.

00:15:09Don't feel too bad.

00:15:11Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.

00:15:14How many people would kill for that kind of payout?

00:15:17Literally.

00:15:18Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person spare change.

00:15:22None of it mattered to me.

00:15:23Not the money, not the house.

00:15:25I had a fascicle cancer.

00:15:27Stage four.

00:15:29One month left, maybe.

00:15:32Okay.

00:15:34It's freezing out here, Jade.

00:15:36Get in the car.

00:15:38Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona, laughing at something she said.

00:15:47He didn't notice me limping behind them.

00:15:49Didn't notice that every step cost me something.

00:15:54We drove to Fiona's estate.

00:15:57Security guards, a staff of five, a house that looked like a hotel.

00:16:02Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.

00:16:05He'd gotten all of it.

00:16:07He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.

00:16:10And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.

00:16:15When we pulled up, Fiona stepped in front of the door.

00:16:20Hold on.

00:16:23I have a thing about germs.

00:16:25You need to clean up before you come inside.

00:16:27Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.

00:16:33I understood exactly what she was doing.

00:16:36The temperature was somewhere below 20.

00:16:39A cold shower outside would kill me.

00:16:42I smiled.

00:16:44Politely.

00:16:45That's fine.

00:16:46I don't need to come in.

00:16:47Fiona's eyes sharpened.

00:16:48She thought I was trying to make her look bad.

00:16:51Don't play victim with me.

00:16:53You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?

00:16:56I looked at Miles.

00:16:58He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.

00:17:01Then he said,

00:17:02She's a little spoiled.

00:17:03It's just a shower.

00:17:04Can you just go along with it?

00:17:05I went still.

00:17:07The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.

00:17:11Then I won't come in.

00:17:12I said,

00:17:13Thank you for the offer.

00:17:15I turned to go.

00:17:16His voice stopped me.

00:17:18Are you seriously still holding a grudge?

00:17:20I said I'd make it up to you.

00:17:22What more do you want?

00:17:23I turned back.

00:17:24Did I kill someone?

00:17:26Did I put you in prison for 10 years?

00:17:29Did I invite myself into your house?

00:17:31Three questions.

00:17:32His face went red.

00:17:34You're coming inside.

00:17:35And you're doing it clean.

00:17:38The staff came out with a pressure hose.

00:17:41The water hit me like a wall of ice.

00:17:44I curled into myself,

00:17:46arms wrapped around my chest,

00:17:47shaking so hard my teeth rattled.

00:17:49My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.

00:17:52I lifted my head.

00:17:53There you go.

00:17:54I took care of it.

00:17:55Stop being mad.

00:17:56You're too pretty to make that face.

00:17:58She pressed herself against him and kissed him

00:18:00and right there on the steps,

00:18:01like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water 10 feet away.

00:18:04I stopped fighting.

00:18:05I let the water hit me.

00:18:07A night years ago,

00:18:09also snowing,

00:18:10Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass,

00:18:13one rotting blanket between us.

00:18:14This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.

00:18:17I swear.

00:18:18I will never let you freeze again.

00:18:20I had believed him completely.

00:18:23But he had forgotten completely now.

00:18:25Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.

00:18:28All right.

00:18:29That's enough.

00:18:30You're clean.

00:18:31Come inside.

00:18:32I was soaking wet and shaking

00:18:34when my body went forward instead of upright.

00:18:42I woke up three days later.

00:18:46Miles was talking to the house doctor.

00:18:51When he saw my eyes open,

00:18:53he came to the bed quickly.

00:18:55Jade, I'm sorry.

00:18:57I didn't know your body was this bad.

00:18:58Is anything still hurting?

00:18:59I shook my head.

00:19:00He waited.

00:19:01I didn't say anything.

00:19:04Finally, he asked, quietly,

00:19:06Your leg.

00:19:07Why are you...

00:19:08How did that happen?

00:19:09I looked at the ceiling.

00:19:10The block leader in my unit.

00:19:12I wouldn't hand over the money I earned during labor.

00:19:16So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.

00:19:20After that, they decided that was boring.

00:19:23So they stopped letting me eat.

00:19:24Whatever food I got, they took.

00:19:27Then that got boring too.

00:19:28So they held me down and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.

00:19:32Silence.

00:19:34Why didn't you tell me yesterday?

00:19:36His voice came out strange.

00:19:38Tight.

00:19:39I used to, I said.

00:19:43The first time they hit me, I screamed your name.

00:19:47Miles.

00:19:47Help me.

00:19:48Miles, come get me.

00:19:50Then I figured out it didn't work.

00:19:53Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.

00:19:55He grabbed my hand.

00:19:57His was shaking.

00:19:58I'm getting you the best, doctors.

00:19:59You're going to get better.

00:20:01I'll give you back everything I took from you.

00:20:02Stay here while you recover.

00:20:04I'll have someone with you around the clock.

00:20:06When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.

00:20:08I gave him a small smile.

00:20:11Okay.

00:20:13He was going to be disappointed.

00:20:16I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.

00:20:19Rest.

00:20:21I'll check on you later.

00:20:23Then walked out fast, like the room was on fire.

00:20:27That afternoon, he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds into my name

00:20:31and put ten million dollars in a new bank account.

00:20:35He started to say something else, but seemed to lose it.

00:20:39You're old things.

00:20:40Everything's in here.

00:20:42Do you have to be this formal with me?

00:20:44I know I didn't-

00:20:45Miles?

00:20:46Dinner.

00:20:47I didn't want to go.

00:20:48I physically couldn't eat anymore.

00:20:50The cancer made sure of that.

00:20:51But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me to help me get my strength back, and I had to come

00:20:56down.

00:20:56So I did.

00:20:57I took one sip of the soup.

00:21:00My esophagus felt like it caught fire.

00:21:04I set down my spoon.

00:21:06Thank you for making this, Fiona.

00:21:08It's really good.

00:21:09I'm full.

00:21:11Are you doing this on purpose?

00:21:13You had one sip.

00:21:15I cooked for three hours.

00:21:17You're finishing every bite.

00:21:22The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.

00:21:26I'm not well, I said.

00:21:28My face had gone white.

00:21:29I genuinely can't.

00:21:30Because I scared you into the hospital last week, I made this as an apology.

00:21:35And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.

00:21:38I should have saved myself the trouble.

00:21:40The housekeeper piped up from the corner.

00:21:42She burned her hands making it.

00:21:44Got blisters.

00:21:45Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.

00:21:48Ungrateful.

00:21:49Without looking up, he said.

00:21:51Jade, don't cause a sweet.

00:21:52She put in the effort.

00:21:53Just finish it.

00:21:55I laughed before I could stop myself.

00:21:57Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly.

00:22:00Miles, I have ethophical cancer.

00:22:02Stage four.

00:22:04I can't eat.

00:22:07And now you're cursing yourself?

00:22:08You're going to die next, I assume?

00:22:12It's one meal, Jade.

00:22:14Stop being dramatic.

00:22:36She is the real killer!

00:22:38You have been arrested.

00:22:42I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.

00:22:46Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied.

00:22:49My uterus damaged from the beatings.

00:22:52My ankle shattered.

00:22:54The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.

00:23:01Why?

00:23:03Miles had been my knight, my loyal, unwavering protector.

00:23:07Junior year of high school.

00:23:08A girl tried to bully me.

00:23:10The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.

00:23:15She never recovered.

00:23:17Senior year, an older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.

00:23:22Miles put him in the hospital.

00:23:25Partial paralysis.

00:23:27He never walked right away.

00:23:31After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.

00:23:34Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.

00:23:38Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.

00:23:43He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.

00:23:47Miles was like my shadow.

00:23:50Wherever I was, he was behind me.

00:23:53Until I turned nineteen, Miles fell in love with someone else.

00:23:59She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.

00:24:05Prove to me you're completely crazy about me, and I'll be yours.

00:24:11So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.

00:24:14Again and again, the man bled out.

00:24:18When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.

00:24:21Then he pointed at me.

00:24:24As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,

00:24:27I'm sorry.

00:24:30The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.

00:24:34I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.

00:24:40But I recognized him instantly.

00:24:51Jade.

00:24:54I came to take you home.

00:24:57Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.

00:25:01He looked composed.

00:25:03Polished.

00:25:03Miles.

00:25:04My voice came out quiet.

00:25:06No anger in it.

00:25:07I didn't have the energy for anger.

00:25:09Why?

00:25:09My parents had died because of him.

00:25:11Murdered by his family's enemies.

00:25:13He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.

00:25:16We slept under highway overspants.

00:25:18We fought rats for scraps of food.

00:25:20On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.

00:25:24He worked three jobs to put me through school.

00:25:27Worked himself until he coughed up blood.

00:25:29I cried when I saw it.

00:25:32He just wiped his mouth and said,

00:25:35I'm done for, Jade.

00:25:36But you're not.

00:25:37You've got something better ahead of you.

00:25:39I never understood why someone who was basically my family would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get

00:25:45arrested.

00:25:46For a woman he'd known five minutes.

00:25:54I'm sorry, Jade.

00:25:55I was out of my mind over Fiona.

00:25:57I'd never met anyone like her.

00:26:00Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.

00:26:03She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.

00:26:05I couldn't risk it.

00:26:06I knew you'd get hurt.

00:26:08But I couldn't lose her.

00:26:10He said that while pulling Fiona closer.

00:26:15I was just talking when I said that.

00:26:17I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.

00:26:19But the second he did, I was gone for him.

00:26:24Don't feel too bad.

00:26:26Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.

00:26:29How many people would kill for that kind of payout?

00:26:32Literally.

00:26:33Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person's fair change.

00:26:38None of it mattered to me.

00:26:39Not the money.

00:26:40Not the house.

00:26:41I had a fascicle cancer.

00:26:43Stage four.

00:26:44One month left, maybe.

00:26:47Okay.

00:26:49It's freezing out here, Jade.

00:26:51Get in the car.

00:26:53Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona, laughing at something she said.

00:27:02He didn't notice me limping behind them.

00:27:05Didn't notice that every step cost me something.

00:27:10We drove to Fiona's estate.

00:27:12Security guards, a staff of five, a house that looked like a hotel.

00:27:17Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.

00:27:21He'd gotten all of it.

00:27:22He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.

00:27:26And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.

00:27:30When we pulled up, Fiona stepped in front of the door.

00:27:36Hold on.

00:27:39I have a thing about germs.

00:27:41You need to clean up before you come inside.

00:27:43Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.

00:27:48I understood exactly what she was doing.

00:27:51The temperature was somewhere below 20.

00:27:54A cold shower outside would kill me.

00:27:58I smiled, politely.

00:28:00That's fine.

00:28:01I don't need to come in.

00:28:02Fiona's eyes sharpened.

00:28:04She thought I was trying to make her look bad.

00:28:07Don't play victim with me.

00:28:08You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?

00:28:12I looked at Miles.

00:28:13He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.

00:28:16Then he said,

00:28:17She's a little spoiled.

00:28:18It's just a shower.

00:28:19Can you just go along with it?

00:28:21I went still.

00:28:22The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.

00:28:26Then I won't come in.

00:28:28I said,

00:28:29Thank you for the offer.

00:28:30I turned to go.

00:28:32His voice stopped me.

00:28:33Are you seriously still holding a grudge?

00:28:36I said I'd make it up to you.

00:28:37What more do you want?

00:28:38I turned back.

00:28:40Did I kill someone?

00:28:41Did I put you in prison for 10 years?

00:28:44Did I invite myself into your house?

00:28:46Three questions.

00:28:48His face went red.

00:28:49You're coming inside.

00:28:51And you're doing it clean.

00:28:53The staff came out with a pressure hose.

00:28:57The water hit me like a wall of ice.

00:29:00I curled into myself,

00:29:01arms wrapped around my chest,

00:29:03shaking so hard my teeth rattled.

00:29:05My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.

00:29:07I lifted my head.

00:29:09There you go.

00:29:09I took care of it.

00:29:11Stop being mad.

00:29:12You're too pretty to make that face.

00:29:13She pressed herself against him and kissed him

00:29:15and right there on the steps,

00:29:16like I wasn't on my knees

00:29:18in the ice water 10 feet away.

00:29:20I stopped fighting.

00:29:21I let the water hit me.

00:29:23A night years ago,

00:29:24also snowing,

00:29:26Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass,

00:29:28one rotting blanket between us.

00:29:30This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.

00:29:33I swear,

00:29:34I will never let you freeze again.

00:29:35I had believed him completely.

00:29:38But he had forgotten completely now.

00:29:41Eventually,

00:29:42Fiona clapped her hands.

00:29:43All right.

00:29:44That's enough.

00:29:45You're clean.

00:29:46Come inside.

00:29:47I was soaking wet and shaking

00:29:49when my body went forward instead of upright.

00:29:58I woke up three days later.

00:30:02Miles was talking to the house doctor.

00:30:06When he saw my eyes open,

00:30:08he came to the bed quickly.

00:30:11Jade, I'm sorry.

00:30:12I didn't know your body was this bad.

00:30:14Is anything still hurting?

00:30:15I shook my head.

00:30:16He waited.

00:30:17I didn't say anything.

00:30:19Finally, he asked, quietly,

00:30:21Your leg.

00:30:23Why are you...

00:30:23How did that happen?

00:30:24I looked at the ceiling.

00:30:25The block leader in my unit.

00:30:27I wouldn't hand over the money I earned doing labor.

00:30:31So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.

00:30:36After that, they decided that was boring.

00:30:38So they stopped letting me eat.

00:30:40Whatever food I got, they took.

00:30:42Then that got boring too.

00:30:44So they held me down

00:30:45and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.

00:30:48Silence.

00:30:49Why didn't you tell me yesterday?

00:30:51His voice came out strange.

00:30:53Tight.

00:30:55I used to.

00:30:56I said.

00:30:59The first time they hit me,

00:31:01I screamed your name.

00:31:02Miles.

00:31:03Help me.

00:31:04Miles, come get me.

00:31:05Then I figured out it didn't work.

00:31:08Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.

00:31:11He grabbed my hand.

00:31:12His was shaking.

00:31:13I'm getting you the best doctors.

00:31:15You're going to get better.

00:31:16I'll give you back everything I took from you.

00:31:18Stay here while you recover.

00:31:19I'll have someone with you around the clock.

00:31:21When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.

00:31:24I gave him a small smile.

00:31:27Okay.

00:31:29He was going to be disappointed.

00:31:31I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.

00:31:35Rest.

00:31:36I'll check on you later.

00:31:38Then walked out fast,

00:31:40like the room was on fire.

00:31:42That afternoon,

00:31:43he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds

00:31:46into my name

00:31:46and put ten million dollars in a new bank account.

00:31:51He started to say something else,

00:31:52but seemed to lose it.

00:31:54You're old things.

00:31:56Everything's in here.

00:31:57Do you have to be this formal with me?

00:32:00I know I didn't-

00:32:00Miles?

00:32:01Dinner.

00:32:02I didn't want to go.

00:32:03I physically couldn't eat anymore.

00:32:05The cancer made sure of that.

00:32:07But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me

00:32:09to help me get my strength back,

00:32:10and I had to come down.

00:32:12So I did.

00:32:13I took one sip of the soup.

00:32:16My esophagus felt like it caught fire.

00:32:19I set down my spoon.

00:32:21Thank you for making this, Fiona.

00:32:23It's really good.

00:32:24I'm full.

00:32:27Are you doing this on purpose?

00:32:29You had one sip.

00:32:31I cooked for three hours.

00:32:32You're finishing every bite.

00:32:37The smell of the food alone

00:32:39had my stomach turning.

00:32:42I'm not well, I said.

00:32:43My face had gone white.

00:32:45I genuinely can't.

00:32:46Because I scared you into the hospital last week,

00:32:48I made this as an apology.

00:32:50And you can't even give me

00:32:51the decency of eating it.

00:32:53I should have saved myself the trouble.

00:32:55The housekeeper piped up from the corner.

00:32:57She burned her hands making it.

00:32:59Got blisters.

00:33:00Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.

00:33:03Ungrateful.

00:33:04Without looking up, he said,

00:33:06Jade, don't cause a seed.

00:33:07She put in the effort.

00:33:09Just finish it.

00:33:10I laughed before I could stop myself.

00:33:12Then I pressed the laugh down and said,

00:33:14quietly,

00:33:15Miles,

00:33:16I have ethophical cancer.

00:33:18Stage four.

00:33:19I can't eat.

00:33:22And now you're cursing yourself?

00:33:24You're going to die next, I assume?

00:33:28It's one meal, Jade.

00:33:29Stop being dramatic.

00:33:52She is the real killer!

00:33:54You have been arrested.

00:33:57I was in prison for ten years

00:33:59for intentional homicide.

00:34:01Ten years of being screamed at,

00:34:04beaten,

00:34:04bullied,

00:34:05my uterus damaged from the beatings,

00:34:07my ankle shattered.

00:34:09The only thing that kept me alive

00:34:11was one question I needed to ask

00:34:13my boyfriend, Miles.

00:34:18Miles had been my knight,

00:34:20my loyal,

00:34:21unwavering protector.

00:34:22Junior year of high school,

00:34:24a girl tried to bully me.

00:34:25The next day,

00:34:26her naked photos were plastered

00:34:28across the school's main screen

00:34:30for everyone to see.

00:34:31She never recovered.

00:34:33Senior year,

00:34:34an older guy wanted me

00:34:35and slipped something into my drink.

00:34:38Miles put him in the hospital.

00:34:40Partial paralysis.

00:34:43He never walked right again.

00:34:47After that,

00:34:48anyone who hurt me

00:34:48got hurt back

00:34:49because he'd made a promise

00:34:51in the front of my parents' graves

00:34:52when I was ten years old.

00:34:54Mr. and Mrs. Gratian,

00:34:55I swear I'll protect Jade

00:34:56for the rest of my life.

00:34:58He kept that promise

00:34:59from the time I was ten

00:35:00until I was nineteen.

00:35:03Miles was like my shadow.

00:35:05Wherever I was,

00:35:06he was behind me.

00:35:08Until I turned nineteen,

00:35:11Miles fell in love

00:35:11with someone else.

00:35:14She was loud

00:35:16and dazzling

00:35:16and nothing like anyone

00:35:17we'd ever known.

00:35:20Prove to me

00:35:21you're completely crazy

00:35:23about me

00:35:23and I'll be yours.

00:35:27So Miles drove a knife

00:35:28into her fiancé

00:35:29again and again.

00:35:31The man bled out.

00:35:33When the police arrived,

00:35:35Miles pressed the knife

00:35:36into my hand.

00:35:37Then he pointed at me.

00:35:39As they dragged me away,

00:35:41the last thing

00:35:42I heard him say was,

00:35:43I'm sorry.

00:35:45The day I got out,

00:35:47it snowed so hard

00:35:48I could barely see.

00:35:50I stood at the prison gates

00:35:52feeling like I'd stepped out

00:35:53of a different century.

00:35:56But I recognized him instantly.

00:36:07Jade.

00:36:09I came to take you home.

00:36:13Ten years had stripped

00:36:14every trace of the boy

00:36:15he used to be.

00:36:16He looked composed,

00:36:18polished.

00:36:19Miles.

00:36:20My voice came out quiet.

00:36:21No anger in it.

00:36:22I didn't have the energy

00:36:23for anger.

00:36:24Why?

00:36:25My parents had died

00:36:26because of him,

00:36:27murdered by his family's enemies.

00:36:29He'd taken my ten-year-old hand

00:36:30and we'd run together.

00:36:32We slept under

00:36:32highway overspance.

00:36:34We fought rats

00:36:35for scraps of food.

00:36:36On the coldest nights,

00:36:37we held each other

00:36:38and shook until morning.

00:36:39He worked three jobs

00:36:41to put me through school.

00:36:43Worked himself

00:36:44until he coughed up blood.

00:36:45I cried when I saw it.

00:36:47He just wiped his mouth

00:36:48and said.

00:36:50I'm done for, Jade.

00:36:52But you're not.

00:36:53You've got something

00:36:54better ahead of you.

00:36:55I never understood

00:36:56why someone who was

00:36:57basically my family

00:36:58would hand me a murder weapon

00:36:59and watch me get arrested.

00:37:01For a woman he'd known

00:37:02five minutes.

00:37:10I'm sorry, Jade.

00:37:11I was out of my mind

00:37:12over Fiona.

00:37:13I'd never met anyone like her.

00:37:15Everything she did,

00:37:16every look,

00:37:16every word,

00:37:17it got under my skin.

00:37:18She said if I went to prison,

00:37:19she'd end up with someone else.

00:37:21I couldn't risk it.

00:37:22I knew you'd get hurt.

00:37:23But I couldn't lose her.

00:37:25He said that while

00:37:26pulling Fiona closer.

00:37:30I was just talking

00:37:31when I said that.

00:37:32I didn't think he'd

00:37:33actually stabbed Marcus.

00:37:35But the second he did,

00:37:37I was gone for him.

00:37:40Don't feel too bad.

00:37:42Miles left you a house

00:37:43and ten million dollars.

00:37:45How many people would kill

00:37:46for that kind of payout?

00:37:48Literally.

00:37:49Her voice had the easy

00:37:50confidence of someone

00:37:51giving a homeless person

00:37:52spare change.

00:37:53None of it mattered to me.

00:37:54Not the money.

00:37:55Not the house.

00:37:56I had a fascicle cancer.

00:37:58Stage four.

00:38:00One month left, maybe.

00:38:03Okay.

00:38:05It's freezing out here, Jade.

00:38:07Get in the car.

00:38:09Miles turned and walked

00:38:10toward the house with Fiona,

00:38:11laughing at something she said.

00:38:17He didn't notice me

00:38:19limping behind them.

00:38:20Didn't notice that every step

00:38:22cost me something.

00:38:25We drove to Fiona's estate.

00:38:28Security guards,

00:38:29a staff of five,

00:38:30a house that looked

00:38:31like a hotel.

00:38:33Everything Miles and I

00:38:34used to dream about

00:38:34from under our overpass.

00:38:36He'd gotten all of it.

00:38:38He'd gotten every single thing

00:38:39we imagined.

00:38:41And I'd gotten ten years

00:38:43of concrete floors

00:38:44and iron bars.

00:38:46When we pulled up,

00:38:47Fiona stepped in front

00:38:48of the door.

00:38:51Hold on.

00:38:54I have a thing about germs.

00:38:56You need to clean up

00:38:57before you come inside.

00:38:58Someone who's been

00:38:59in prison for a decade

00:39:00needs a proper scrub

00:39:01before setting foot

00:39:03in my house.

00:39:04I understood exactly

00:39:05what she was doing.

00:39:07The temperature

00:39:08was somewhere below 20.

00:39:10A cold shower outside

00:39:11would kill me.

00:39:13I smiled.

00:39:15Politely.

00:39:16That's fine.

00:39:17I don't need to come in.

00:39:18Fiona's eyes sharpened.

00:39:19She thought I was trying

00:39:20to make her look bad.

00:39:22Don't play victim with me.

00:39:24You scrubbed down

00:39:25in cold water

00:39:26every day in there,

00:39:27didn't you?

00:39:27I looked at Miles.

00:39:28He met my eyes

00:39:29with something

00:39:30that might have been apology.

00:39:32Then he said,

00:39:33She's a little spoiled.

00:39:34It's just a shower.

00:39:35Can you just go along with it?

00:39:36I went still.

00:39:38The man standing

00:39:39in front of me

00:39:39was not the Miles

00:39:40I grew up with.

00:39:42Then I won't come in.

00:39:43I said,

00:39:44Thank you for the offer.

00:39:46I turned to go.

00:39:47His voice stopped me.

00:39:49Are you seriously

00:39:49still holding a grudge?

00:39:51I said I'd make it up to you.

00:39:52What more do you want?

00:39:53I turned back.

00:39:55Did I kill someone?

00:39:57Did I put you in prison

00:39:58for 10 years?

00:39:59Did I invite myself

00:40:01into your house?

00:40:02Three questions.

00:40:03His face went red.

00:40:05You're coming inside

00:40:06and you're doing it clean.

00:40:09The staff came out

00:40:10with a pressure hose.

00:40:12The water hit me

00:40:13like a wall of ice.

00:40:15I curled into myself,

00:40:17arms wrapped around my chest,

00:40:18shaking so hard

00:40:19my teeth rattled.

00:40:20My spring jacket

00:40:21went soaked through

00:40:22in seconds.

00:40:23I lifted my head.

00:40:24There you go.

00:40:25I took care of it.

00:40:26Stop being mad.

00:40:27You're too pretty

00:40:28to make that face.

00:40:29She pressed herself

00:40:29against him

00:40:30and kissed him

00:40:31and right there

00:40:31on the steps

00:40:32like I wasn't on my knees

00:40:33in the ice water

00:40:3410 feet away.

00:40:35I stopped fighting.

00:40:37I let the water hit me.

00:40:38A night years ago,

00:40:40also snowing,

00:40:41Miles and I huddled

00:40:42under a highway overpass,

00:40:44one rotting blanket

00:40:44between us.

00:40:45This is the last cold winter

00:40:47we'll ever have, Jade.

00:40:48I swear,

00:40:49I will never let you

00:40:50freeze again.

00:40:51I had believed him

00:40:52completely,

00:40:54but he had forgotten

00:40:55completely now.

00:40:57Eventually,

00:40:57Fiona clapped her hands.

00:40:59All right,

00:41:00that's enough.

00:41:00You're clean.

00:41:01Come inside.

00:41:03I was soaking wet

00:41:04and shaking

00:41:05when my body

00:41:06went forward

00:41:06instead of upright.

00:41:13I woke up

00:41:14three days later.

00:41:17Miles was talking

00:41:18to the house doctor.

00:41:22When he saw

00:41:23my eyes open,

00:41:24he came to the bed

00:41:25quickly.

00:41:26Jade,

00:41:27I'm sorry.

00:41:28I didn't know

00:41:28your body was this bad.

00:41:29Is anything still hurting?

00:41:30I shook my head.

00:41:31He waited.

00:41:32I didn't say anything.

00:41:35Finally,

00:41:35he asked,

00:41:36quietly,

00:41:37Your leg.

00:41:38Why are you,

00:41:39how did that happen?

00:41:40I looked at the ceiling.

00:41:41The block leader

00:41:41in my unit.

00:41:43I wouldn't hand over

00:41:44the money I earned

00:41:45doing labor.

00:41:47So they broke

00:41:47my ankle

00:41:48to teach me a lesson.

00:41:51After that,

00:41:52they decided

00:41:53that was boring,

00:41:54so they stopped

00:41:54letting me eat.

00:41:55Whatever food I got,

00:41:56they took.

00:41:57Then that got boring too,

00:41:59so they held me down

00:42:00and force-fed me

00:42:01scalding food

00:42:02straight from the pot.

00:42:03Silence.

00:42:05Why didn't you

00:42:05tell me yesterday?

00:42:07His voice came out

00:42:08strange,

00:42:09tight.

00:42:10I used to,

00:42:11I said.

00:42:14The first time

00:42:15they hit me,

00:42:16I screamed your name.

00:42:17Miles,

00:42:18help me,

00:42:19Miles,

00:42:19come get me.

00:42:21Then I figured out

00:42:22it didn't work.

00:42:23Eventually,

00:42:24you stopped calling

00:42:25for someone

00:42:25who isn't coming.

00:42:26He grabbed my hand.

00:42:27His was shaking.

00:42:28I'm getting you

00:42:29the best doctors.

00:42:30You're going to get better.

00:42:32I'll give you back

00:42:32everything I took from you.

00:42:33Stay here while you recover.

00:42:34I'll have someone

00:42:35with you around the clock.

00:42:37When you're well,

00:42:37I'll feel better

00:42:38about you leaving.

00:42:39I gave him

00:42:40a small smile.

00:42:42Okay.

00:42:44He was going

00:42:45to be disappointed.

00:42:47I wouldn't live

00:42:48long enough

00:42:48for any of that.

00:42:50Rest.

00:42:52I'll check on you later.

00:42:54Then walked out fast,

00:42:55like the room

00:42:56was on fire.

00:42:58That afternoon,

00:42:59he transferred

00:42:59the deed on a house

00:43:00in the Soberds

00:43:01into my name

00:43:02and put ten million dollars

00:43:03in a new bank account.

00:43:06He started to say

00:43:07something else,

00:43:08but seemed to lose it.

00:43:10You're old things.

00:43:11Everything's in here.

00:43:13Do you have to be

00:43:14this formal with me?

00:43:15I know I didn't-

00:43:16Miles?

00:43:17Dinner.

00:43:18I didn't want to go.

00:43:19I physically

00:43:19couldn't eat anymore.

00:43:20The cancer

00:43:21made sure of that.

00:43:22But Fiona said

00:43:23she'd cooked

00:43:24specifically for me

00:43:25to help me

00:43:25get my strength back

00:43:26and I had to come down.

00:43:27So I did.

00:43:28I took one sip

00:43:29of the soup.

00:43:31My esophagus

00:43:32felt like it caught fire.

00:43:35I set down my spoon.

00:43:37Thank you for making this,

00:43:38Fiona.

00:43:39It's really good.

00:43:40I'm full.

00:43:42Are you doing this

00:43:43on purpose?

00:43:44You had one sip.

00:43:46I cooked for three hours.

00:43:47You're finishing

00:43:48every bite.

00:43:53The smell of the food alone

00:43:54had my stomach turning.

00:43:57I'm not well,

00:43:58I said.

00:43:59My face had gone white.

00:44:00I genuinely can't.

00:44:01Because I scared you

00:44:02into the hospital last week,

00:44:04I made this as an apology.

00:44:05And you can't even give me

00:44:07the decency of eating it.

00:44:08I should have saved myself

00:44:10the trouble.

00:44:11The housekeeper piped up

00:44:12from the corner.

00:44:13She burned her hands

00:44:14making it.

00:44:14Got blisters.

00:44:15Some people don't know

00:44:16how to appreciate kindness.

00:44:19Ungrateful.

00:44:20Without looking up,

00:44:21he said,

00:44:22Jade, don't cause a scene.

00:44:23She put in the effort.

00:44:24Just finish it.

00:44:26I laughed before

00:44:27I could stop myself.

00:44:28Then I pressed the laugh down

00:44:29and said quietly,

00:44:31Miles,

00:44:31I have ethophical cancer.

00:44:33Stage four.

00:44:34I can't eat.

00:44:37And now you're cursing yourself?

00:44:40You're going to die next,

00:44:41I assume?

00:44:43It's one meal, Jade.

00:44:45Stop being dramatic.

00:44:46I can't.

00:45:07She is the real killer!

00:45:09You have been arrested.

00:45:12I was imprisoned for ten years

00:45:15for intentional homicide.

00:45:17Ten years of being screamed at,

00:45:19beaten, bullied,

00:45:20my uterus damaged from the beatings,

00:45:23my ankle shattered.

00:45:25The only thing that kept me alive

00:45:27was one question I needed

00:45:28to ask my boyfriend, Miles.

00:45:31Why?

00:45:34Miles had been my night.

00:45:35My loyal, unwavering protector.

00:45:38Junior year of high school.

00:45:39A girl tried to bully me.

00:45:41The next day,

00:45:42her naked photos

00:45:43were plastered across

00:45:44the school's main screen

00:45:45for everyone to see.

00:45:47She never recovered.

00:45:48Senior year.

00:45:49An older guy wanted me

00:45:50and slipped something into my drink.

00:45:53Miles put him in the hospital.

00:45:56Partial paralysis.

00:45:58He never walked right again.

00:46:02After that,

00:46:03anyone who hurt me got hurt back.

00:46:05Because he'd made a promise

00:46:06in the front of my parents' graves

00:46:08when I was ten years old.

00:46:09Mr. and Mrs. Gratian,

00:46:11I swear I'll protect Jade

00:46:12for the rest of my life.

00:46:13He kept that promise

00:46:14from the time I was ten

00:46:16until I was nineteen.

00:46:18Miles was like my shadow.

00:46:21Wherever I was,

00:46:22he was behind me.

00:46:24Until I turned nineteen,

00:46:26Miles fell in love

00:46:27with someone else.

00:46:30She was loud and dazzling

00:46:32and nothing like anyone

00:46:33we'd ever known.

00:46:36Prove to me

00:46:37you're completely crazy about me

00:46:39and I'll be yours.

00:46:42So Miles drove a knife

00:46:44into her fiancé.

00:46:45Again and again,

00:46:46the man bled out.

00:46:49When the police arrived,

00:46:50Miles pressed the knife

00:46:51into my hand.

00:46:52Then he pointed at me.

00:46:55As they dragged me away,

00:46:56the last thing

00:46:57I heard him say was,

00:46:58I'm sorry.

00:47:01The day I got out,

00:47:02it snowed so hard

00:47:04I could barely see.

00:47:05I stood at the prison gates

00:47:07feeling like I'd stepped out

00:47:08of a different century.

00:47:11But I recognized him instantly.

00:47:22Jade.

00:47:24I came to take you home.

00:47:28Ten years had stripped

00:47:29every trace of the boy

00:47:31he used to be.

00:47:32He looked composed,

00:47:34polished.

00:47:34Miles.

00:47:35My voice came out quiet.

00:47:37No anger in it.

00:47:38I didn't have the energy

00:47:39for anger.

00:47:40Why?

00:47:40My parents had died

00:47:41because of him.

00:47:42Murdered by his

00:47:43family's enemies.

00:47:44He'd taken my ten-year-old hand

00:47:46and we'd run together.

00:47:47We slept under

00:47:48highway overspants.

00:47:49We fought rats

00:47:50for scraps of food.

00:47:51On the coldest nights,

00:47:52we held each other

00:47:53and shook until morning.

00:47:55He worked three jobs

00:47:56to put me through school.

00:47:58Worked himself

00:47:59until he coughed up blood.

00:48:01I cried when I saw it.

00:48:03He just wiped his mouth

00:48:04and said,

00:48:06I'm done for Jade,

00:48:07but you're not.

00:48:08You've got something

00:48:09better ahead of you.

00:48:10I never understood

00:48:12why someone

00:48:12who was basically

00:48:13my family

00:48:14would hand me

00:48:14a murder weapon

00:48:15and watch me

00:48:15get arrested.

00:48:17For a woman

00:48:18he'd known five minutes.

00:48:25I'm sorry, Jade.

00:48:26I was out of my mind

00:48:27over Fiona.

00:48:28I'd never met

00:48:29anyone like her.

00:48:30Everything she did,

00:48:31every look,

00:48:32every word,

00:48:32it got under my skin.

00:48:34She said if I went to prison,

00:48:35she'd end up with someone else.

00:48:36I couldn't risk it.

00:48:37I knew you'd get hurt,

00:48:39but I couldn't lose her.

00:48:41He said that

00:48:42while pulling Fiona closer.

00:48:46I was just talking

00:48:47when I said that.

00:48:48I didn't think

00:48:48he'd actually

00:48:49stabbed Marcus,

00:48:50but the second he did,

00:48:52I was gone for him.

00:48:55Don't feel too bad.

00:48:57Miles left you a house

00:48:58and ten million dollars.

00:49:00How many people

00:49:01would kill

00:49:01for that kind of payout?

00:49:03Literally.

00:49:04Her voice had

00:49:05the easy confidence

00:49:06of someone giving

00:49:07a homeless person

00:49:08spare change.

00:49:09None of it mattered to me.

00:49:10Not the money.

00:49:11Not the house.

00:49:12I had a thasical cancer.

00:49:14Stage four.

00:49:15One month left, maybe.

00:49:18Okay.

00:49:20It's freezing out here, Jade.

00:49:22Get in the car.

00:49:24Miles turned

00:49:25and walked toward the house

00:49:26with Fiona,

00:49:27laughing at something

00:49:28she said.

00:49:33He didn't notice me

00:49:34limping behind them.

00:49:36Didn't notice that every step

00:49:37cost me something.

00:49:40We drove to Fiona's estate.

00:49:43Security guards,

00:49:44a staff of five,

00:49:46a house that looked

00:49:46like a hotel.

00:49:48Everything Miles and I

00:49:49used to dream about

00:49:50from under our overpass.

00:49:51He'd gotten all of it.

00:49:53He'd gotten every single

00:49:55thing we imagined.

00:49:57And I'd gotten ten years

00:49:58of concrete floors

00:50:00and iron bars.

00:50:01When we pulled up,

00:50:02Fiona stepped in front

00:50:03of the door.

00:50:07Hold on.

00:50:10I have a thing

00:50:11about germs.

00:50:12You need to clean up

00:50:12before you come inside.

00:50:14Someone who's been

00:50:15in prison for a decade

00:50:16needs a proper scrub

00:50:17before setting foot

00:50:18in my house.

00:50:19I understood exactly

00:50:21what she was doing.

00:50:22The temperature was

00:50:23somewhere below 20.

00:50:25A cold shower outside

00:50:27would kill me.

00:50:29I smiled, politely.

00:50:31That's fine.

00:50:32I don't need to come in.

00:50:33Fiona's eyes sharpened.

00:50:35She thought I was

00:50:36trying to make her

00:50:36look bad.

00:50:38Don't play victim

00:50:38with me.

00:50:39You scrubbed down

00:50:40in cold water

00:50:41every day in there,

00:50:42didn't you?

00:50:43I looked at Miles.

00:50:44He met my eyes

00:50:45with something

00:50:45that might have

00:50:46been apology.

00:50:47Then he said,

00:50:48She's a little spoiled.

00:50:49It's just a shower.

00:50:50Can you just go

00:50:51along with it?

00:50:52I went still.

00:50:53The man standing

00:50:54in front of me

00:50:55was not the Miles

00:50:55I grew up with.

00:50:57Then I won't come in.

00:50:58I said,

00:51:00Thank you for the offer.

00:51:01I turned to go.

00:51:02His voice stopped me.

00:51:04Are you seriously

00:51:05still holding a grudge?

00:51:06I said I'd make it up to you.

00:51:08What more do you want?

00:51:09I turned back.

00:51:11Did I kill someone?

00:51:12Did I put you in prison

00:51:14for 10 years?

00:51:15Did I invite myself

00:51:16into your house?

00:51:17Three questions.

00:51:19His face went red.

00:51:21You're coming inside

00:51:22and you're doing it clean.

00:51:24The staff came out

00:51:25with a pressure hose.

00:51:28The water hit me

00:51:29like a wall of ice.

00:51:31I curled into myself,

00:51:32arms wrapped around my chest,

00:51:34shaking so hard

00:51:35my teeth rattled.

00:51:36My spring jacket

00:51:37went so clean seconds.

00:51:38I lifted my head.

00:51:40There you go.

00:51:40I took care of it.

00:51:42Stop being mad.

00:51:42You're too pretty

00:51:43to make that face.

00:51:44She pressed herself

00:51:45against him

00:51:45and kissed him

00:51:46right there on the steps

00:51:47like I wasn't on my knees

00:51:49in the ice water

00:51:4910 feet away.

00:51:50I stopped fighting.

00:51:52I let the water hit me.

00:51:54A night years ago,

00:51:55also snowing,

00:51:57Miles and I huddled

00:51:58under a highway overpass,

00:51:59one rotting blanket

00:52:00between us.

00:52:01This is the last cold winter

00:52:02we'll ever have, Jade.

00:52:04I swear,

00:52:05I will never let you

00:52:06freeze again.

00:52:07I had believed him

00:52:08completely,

00:52:09but he had forgotten

00:52:10completely now.

00:52:12Eventually,

00:52:13Fiona clapped her hands.

00:52:14All right.

00:52:15That's enough.

00:52:16You're clean.

00:52:17Come inside.

00:52:18I was soaking wet

00:52:20and shaking

00:52:20when my body

00:52:21went forward

00:52:22instead of upright.

00:52:28I woke up

00:52:29three days later.

00:52:32Miles was talking

00:52:33to the house doctor.

00:52:37When he saw my eyes open,

00:52:39he came to the bed quickly.

00:52:42Jade, I'm sorry.

00:52:43I didn't know

00:52:43your body was this bad.

00:52:45Is anything still hurting?

00:52:45I shook my head.

00:52:47He waited.

00:52:48I didn't say anything.

00:52:50Finally, he asked,

00:52:51quietly,

00:52:52Your leg.

00:52:54Why are you...

00:52:54How did that happen?

00:52:55I looked at the ceiling.

00:52:56The block leader in my unit.

00:52:58I wouldn't hand over

00:52:59the money I earned

00:53:00doing labor.

00:53:02So they broke

00:53:03my ankle

00:53:03to teach me a lesson.

00:53:07After that,

00:53:08they decided

00:53:08that was boring,

00:53:09so they stopped

00:53:10letting me eat.

00:53:11Whatever food I got,

00:53:12they took.

00:53:12Then that got boring too,

00:53:14so they held me down

00:53:16and force-fed me

00:53:17scalding food

00:53:17straight from the pot.

00:53:19Silence.

00:53:20Why didn't you

00:53:21tell me yesterday?

00:53:22His voice came out

00:53:23strange,

00:53:24tight.

00:53:25I used to,

00:53:27I said.

00:53:30The first time

00:53:31they hit me,

00:53:31I screamed your name.

00:53:33Miles.

00:53:34Help me,

00:53:34Miles,

00:53:35come get me.

00:53:36Then I figured out

00:53:37it didn't work.

00:53:39Eventually,

00:53:39you stopped calling

00:53:40for someone

00:53:41who isn't coming.

00:53:41He grabbed my hand.

00:53:43His was shaking.

00:53:44I'm getting you

00:53:44the best doctors.

00:53:46You're going to get better.

00:53:47I'll give you back

00:53:47everything I took from you.

00:53:49Stay here while you recover.

00:53:50I'll have someone

00:53:51with you around the clock.

00:53:52When you're well,

00:53:53I'll feel better

00:53:53about you leaving.

00:53:55I gave him

00:53:56a small smile.

00:53:57Okay.

00:54:00He was going

00:54:00to be disappointed.

00:54:02I wouldn't live

00:54:03long enough

00:54:03for any of that.

00:54:06Rest.

00:54:07I'll check on you later.

00:54:09Then walked out fast,

00:54:11like the room

00:54:12was on fire.

00:54:13That afternoon,

00:54:14he transferred

00:54:15the deed on a house

00:54:16in the Soberds

00:54:17into my name

00:54:17and put ten million dollars

00:54:19in a new bank account.

00:54:22He started to say

00:54:22something else,

00:54:23but seemed to lose it.

00:54:25You're old things.

00:54:26Everything's in here.

00:54:28Do you have to be

00:54:29this formal with me?

00:54:30I know I didn't...

00:54:31Miles?

00:54:32Dinner.

00:54:33I didn't want to go.

00:54:34I physically

00:54:35couldn't eat anymore.

00:54:36The cancer

00:54:37made sure of that.

00:54:38But Fiona said

00:54:39she'd cooked

00:54:39specifically for me

00:54:40to help me

00:54:40get my strength back

00:54:41and I had to come down.

00:54:43So I did.

00:54:44I took one sip

00:54:45of the soup.

00:54:47My esophagus

00:54:48felt like it caught fire.

00:54:50I set down my spoon.

00:54:52Thank you for making this,

00:54:54Fiona.

00:54:54It's really good.

00:54:55I'm full.

00:54:58Are you doing this

00:54:59on purpose?

00:55:00You had one sip.

00:55:01I cooked for three hours.

00:55:03You're finishing

00:55:03every bite.

00:55:08The smell of the food alone

00:55:10had my stomach turning.

00:55:12I'm not well,

00:55:14I said.

00:55:14My face had gone white.

00:55:16I genuinely can't.

00:55:17Because I scared you

00:55:18into the hospital last week,

00:55:19I made this as an apology.

00:55:21And you can't even give me

00:55:22the decency of eating it.

00:55:24I should have saved myself

00:55:25the trouble.

00:55:26The housekeeper piped up

00:55:27from the corner.

00:55:28She burned her hands

00:55:29making it.

00:55:30Got blisters.

00:55:31Some people don't know

00:55:32how to appreciate kindness.

00:55:34Ungrateful.

00:55:35Without looking up,

00:55:36he said,

00:55:37Jade, don't cause a scene.

00:55:38She put in the effort.

00:55:40Just finish it.

00:55:41I laughed before

00:55:42I could stop myself.

00:55:43Then I pressed the laugh

00:55:44down and said,

00:55:45quietly,

00:55:46Miles,

00:55:47I have ethophical cancer.

00:55:49Stage four.

00:55:50I can't eat.

00:55:53And now you're cursing yourself?

00:55:55You're going to die next,

00:55:56I assume?

00:55:59It's one meal, Jade.

00:56:00Stop being dramatic.

00:56:23She is the real killer!

00:56:25You have been arrested.

00:56:28I was in prison for ten years

00:56:30for intentional homicide.

00:56:32Ten years of being screamed at,

00:56:34beaten,

00:56:35bullied,

00:56:36my uterus damaged

00:56:37from the beatings,

00:56:38my ankle shattered.

00:56:40The only thing that kept me alive

00:56:42was one question I needed

00:56:43to ask my boyfriend, Miles.

00:56:47Why?

00:56:49Miles had been my knight,

00:56:51my loyal, unwavering protector,

00:56:53junior year of high school.

00:56:54A girl tried to bully me.

00:56:56The next day,

00:56:57her naked photos

00:56:58were plastered across

00:56:59the school's main screen

00:57:01for everyone to see.

00:57:02She never recovered.

00:57:03Senior year,

00:57:04an older guy wanted me

00:57:06and slipped something

00:57:06into my drink.

00:57:09Miles put him in the hospital.

00:57:11Partial paralysis.

00:57:13He never walked right again.

00:57:18After that,

00:57:19anyone who hurt me

00:57:19got hurt back

00:57:20because he'd made a promise

00:57:22in the front of my parents' graves

00:57:23when I was ten years old.

00:57:25Mr. and Mrs. Gratian,

00:57:26I swear I'll protect Jade

00:57:27for the rest of my life.

00:57:29He kept that promise

00:57:30from the time I was ten

00:57:31until I was nineteen.

00:57:34Miles was like my shadow.

00:57:36Wherever I was,

00:57:37he was behind me.

00:57:40Until I turned nineteen,

00:57:41Miles fell in love

00:57:42with someone else.

00:57:45She was loud and dazzling

00:57:47and nothing like anyone

00:57:48we'd ever known.

00:57:51Prove to me

00:57:52you're completely crazy about me

00:57:54and I'll be yours.

00:57:58So Miles drove a knife

00:57:59into her fiancé.

00:58:00Again and again,

00:58:02the man bled out.

00:58:04When the police arrived,

00:58:06Miles pressed the knife

00:58:07into my hand.

00:58:08Then he pointed at me.

00:58:10As they dragged me away,

00:58:12the last thing I heard him say was,

00:58:14I'm sorry.

00:58:16The day I got out,

00:58:18it snowed so hard

00:58:19I could barely see.

00:58:21I stood at the prison gates

00:58:22feeling like I'd stepped out

00:58:24of a different century.

00:58:26But I recognized him instantly.

00:58:38Jade.

00:58:40I came to take you home.

00:58:44Ten years had stripped

00:58:45every trace of the boy

00:58:46he used to be.

00:58:47He looked composed,

00:58:49polished.

00:58:50Miles.

00:58:51My voice came out quiet.

00:58:52No anger in it.

00:58:53I didn't have the energy

00:58:54for anger.

00:58:55Why?

00:58:56My parents had died

00:58:57because of him,

00:58:58murdered by his family's enemies.

00:59:00He'd taken my ten-year-old hand

00:59:01and we'd run together.

00:59:02We slept under

00:59:03highway overspants.

00:59:05We fought rats

00:59:06for scraps of food.

00:59:07On the coldest nights,

00:59:08we held each other

00:59:09and shook until morning.

00:59:10He worked three jobs

00:59:12to put me through school.

00:59:14worked himself

00:59:14until he coughed up blood.

00:59:16I cried when I saw it.

00:59:18He just wiped his mouth

00:59:19and said,

00:59:21I'm done for, Jade.

00:59:23But you're not.

00:59:24You've got something

00:59:25better ahead of you.

00:59:26I never understood

00:59:27why someone who was

00:59:28basically my family

00:59:29would hand me a murder weapon

00:59:30and watch me get arrested.

00:59:32For a woman

00:59:33he'd known five minutes.

00:59:40I'm sorry, Jade.

00:59:42I was out of my mind

00:59:43over Fiona.

00:59:44I'd never met anyone like her.

00:59:46Everything she did,

00:59:47every look,

00:59:47every word,

00:59:48it got under my skin.

00:59:49She said if I went to prison

00:59:50she'd end up with someone else.

00:59:51I couldn't risk it.

00:59:53I knew you'd get hurt.

00:59:54But I couldn't lose her.

00:59:56He said that while

00:59:57pulling Fiona closer.

01:00:01I was just talking

01:00:02when I said that.

01:00:03I didn't think

01:00:04he'd actually stab Marcus.

01:00:06But the second he did,

01:00:08I was gone for him.

01:00:10Don't feel too bad.

01:00:13Miles left you a house

01:00:14and ten million dollars.

01:00:16How many people would kill

01:00:17for that kind of payout?

01:00:18Literally.

01:00:20Her voice had the easy confidence

01:00:21of someone giving

01:00:22a homeless person

01:00:23spare change.

01:00:24None of it mattered to me.

01:00:25Not the money.

01:00:26Not the house.

01:00:27I had a fascicle cancer.

01:00:29Stage four.

01:00:31One month left, maybe.

01:00:34Okay.

01:00:36It's freezing out here, Jade.

01:00:37Get in the car.

01:00:40Miles turned and walked

01:00:41toward the house with Fiona,

01:00:42laughing at something she said.

01:00:48He didn't notice me

01:00:50limping behind them.

01:00:51Didn't notice that every step

01:00:53cost me something.

01:00:56We drove to Fiona's estate.

01:00:58Security guards,

01:01:00a staff of five,

01:01:01a house that looked

01:01:02like a hotel.

01:01:03Everything Miles and I

01:01:05used to dream about

01:01:05from under our overpass.

01:01:07He'd gotten all of it.

01:01:08He'd gotten every single thing

01:01:10we imagined.

01:01:12And I'd gotten ten years

01:01:14of concrete floors

01:01:15and iron bars.

01:01:16When we pulled up,

01:01:18Fiona stepped in front

01:01:19of the door.

01:01:22Hold on.

01:01:25I have a thing

01:01:26about germs.

01:01:27You need to clean up

01:01:28before you come inside.

01:01:29Someone who's been

01:01:30in prison for a decade

01:01:31needs a proper scrub

01:01:32before setting foot

01:01:34in my house.

01:01:35I understood exactly

01:01:36what she was doing.

01:01:38The temperature was

01:01:39somewhere below 20.

01:01:41A cold shower outside

01:01:42would kill me.

01:01:44I smiled.

01:01:46Politely.

01:01:47That's fine.

01:01:48I don't need to come in.

01:01:49Fiona's eyes sharpened.

01:01:50She thought I was trying

01:01:51to make her look bad.

01:01:53Don't play victim with me.

01:01:55You scrubbed down

01:01:56in cold water

01:01:57every day in there,

01:01:57didn't you?

01:01:58I looked at Miles.

01:01:59He met my eyes

01:02:00with something

01:02:01that might have been apology.

01:02:03Then he said,

01:02:03She's a little spoiled.

01:02:05It's just a shower.

01:02:06Can you just go along with it?

01:02:07I went still.

01:02:09The man standing

01:02:10in front of me

01:02:10was not the Miles

01:02:11I grew up with.

01:02:13Then I won't come in.

01:02:14I said,

01:02:15Thank you for the offer.

01:02:17I turned to go.

01:02:18His voice stopped me.

01:02:20Are you seriously

01:02:20still holding a grudge?

01:02:22I said I'd make it up to you.

01:02:23What more do you want?

01:02:24I turned back.

01:02:26Did I kill someone?

01:02:28Did I put you in prison

01:02:29for 10 years?

01:02:30Did I invite myself

01:02:31into your house?

01:02:33Three questions.

01:02:34His face went red.

01:02:36You're coming inside.

01:02:37And you're doing it clean.

01:02:40The staff came out

01:02:41with a pressure hose.

01:02:43The water hit me

01:02:44like a wall of ice.

01:02:46I curled into myself,

01:02:48arms wrapped around my chest,

01:02:49shaking so hard

01:02:50my teeth rattled.

01:02:51My spring jacket

01:02:52went soaked through in seconds.

01:02:54I lifted my head.

01:02:55There you go.

01:02:56I took care of it.

01:02:57Stop being mad.

01:02:58You're too pretty

01:02:58to make that face.

01:02:59She pressed herself

01:03:00against him

01:03:01and kissed him

01:03:02and right there on the steps,

01:03:03like I wasn't on my knees

01:03:04in the ice water

01:03:0510 feet away.

01:03:06I stopped fighting.

01:03:07I let the water hit me.

01:03:09A night years ago,

01:03:11also snowing,

01:03:12Miles and I huddled

01:03:13under a highway overpass,

01:03:15one rotting blanket

01:03:15between us.

01:03:16This is the last cold winter

01:03:18we'll ever have, Jade.

01:03:19I swear.

01:03:20I will never let you

01:03:21freeze again.

01:03:22I had believed him

01:03:23completely.

01:03:25But he had forgotten

01:03:26completely now.

01:03:27Eventually,

01:03:28Fiona clapped her hands.

01:03:30All right.

01:03:30That's enough.

01:03:32You're clean.

01:03:32Come inside.

01:03:34I was soaking wet

01:03:35and shaking

01:03:36when my body went forward

01:03:37instead of upright.

01:03:44I woke up

01:03:45three days later.

01:03:48Miles was talking

01:03:49to the house doctor.

01:03:53When he saw my eyes open,

01:03:55he came to the bed quickly.

01:03:57Jade, I'm sorry.

01:03:58I didn't know

01:03:59your body was this bad.

01:04:00Is anything still hurting?

01:04:01I shook my head.

01:04:02He waited.

01:04:03I didn't say anything.

01:04:06Finally, he asked, quietly,

01:04:08Your leg.

01:04:09Why are you...

01:04:10How did that happen?

01:04:11I looked at the ceiling.

01:04:12The block leader in my unit.

01:04:14I wouldn't hand over

01:04:15the money I earned

01:04:16doing labor.

01:04:18So they broke my ankle

01:04:19to teach me a lesson.

01:04:22After that,

01:04:23they decided that was boring.

01:04:24So they stopped

01:04:25letting me eat.

01:04:26Whatever food I got,

01:04:27they took.

01:04:28Then that got boring too.

01:04:30So they held me down

01:04:31and force-fed me

01:04:32scalding food

01:04:33straight from the pot.

01:04:34Silence.

01:04:36Why didn't you tell me yesterday?

01:04:37His voice came out strange.

01:04:40Tight.

01:04:41I used to.

01:04:42I said.

01:04:45The first time they hit me,

01:04:47I screamed your name.

01:04:48Miles.

01:04:49Help me.

01:04:50Miles, come get me.

01:04:52Then I figured out

01:04:53it didn't work.

01:04:54Eventually you stopped

01:04:55calling for someone

01:04:56who isn't coming.

01:04:57He grabbed my hand.

01:04:58His was shaking.

01:04:59I'm getting you

01:05:00the best doctors.

01:05:01You're going to get better.

01:05:02I'll give you back

01:05:03everything I took from you.

01:05:04Stay here while you recover.

01:05:05I'll have someone with you

01:05:06around the clock.

01:05:08When you're well,

01:05:08I'll feel better

01:05:09about you leaving.

01:05:10I gave him a small smile.

01:05:13Okay.

01:05:15He was going to be disappointed.

01:05:18I wouldn't live long enough

01:05:19for any of that.

01:05:21Rest.

01:05:23I'll check on you later.

01:05:25Then walked out fast,

01:05:26like the room was on fire.

01:05:28That afternoon,

01:05:30he transferred the deed

01:05:31on a house in the Soberds

01:05:32into my name

01:05:33and put ten million dollars

01:05:34in a new bank account.

01:05:37He started to say

01:05:38something else

01:05:39but seemed to lose it.

01:05:40You're old things.

01:05:42Everything's in here.

01:05:44Do you have to be

01:05:45this formal with me?

01:05:46I know I didn't...

01:05:46Miles?

01:05:48Dinner.

01:05:49I didn't want to go.

01:05:50I physically couldn't

01:05:51eat anymore.

01:05:51The cancer made sure of that.

01:05:53But Fiona said

01:05:54she'd cooked specifically

01:05:55for me to help me

01:05:56get my strength back

01:05:57and I had to come down.

01:05:58So I did.

01:05:59I took one sip of the soup.

01:06:02My esophagus felt like

01:06:04it caught fire.

01:06:06I set down my spoon.

01:06:08Thank you for making this,

01:06:09Fiona.

01:06:10It's really good.

01:06:11I'm full.

01:06:13Are you doing this on purpose?

01:06:15You had one sip.

01:06:17I cooked for three hours.

01:06:18You're finishing every bite.

01:06:24The smell of the food alone

01:06:25had my stomach turning.

01:06:28I'm not well,

01:06:29I said.

01:06:30My face had gone white.

01:06:31I genuinely can't.

01:06:32Because I scared you

01:06:33into the hospital last week,

01:06:34I made this as an apology.

01:06:36And you can't even give me

01:06:38the decency of eating it.

01:06:39I should have saved myself

01:06:41the trouble.

01:06:42The housekeeper piped up

01:06:43from the corner.

01:06:44She burned her hands

01:06:45making it.

01:06:45Got blisters.

01:06:46Some people don't know

01:06:47how to appreciate kindness.

01:06:50Ungrateful.

01:06:51Without looking up,

01:06:52he said,

01:06:53Jade, don't cause a scene.

01:06:54She put in the effort.

01:06:55Just finish it.

01:06:56I laughed before

01:06:58I could stop myself.

01:06:59Then I pressed the laugh down

01:07:00and said quietly,

01:07:01Miles,

01:07:02I have ethophical cancer.

01:07:04Stage four.

01:07:05I can't eat.

01:07:08And now you're cursing yourself?

01:07:10You're going to die next,

01:07:12I assume?

01:07:14It's one meal, Jade.

01:07:16Stop being dramatic.

01:07:38She is the real killer!

01:07:40You have been arrested.

01:07:43I was imprisoned for ten years

01:07:45for intentional homicide.

01:07:48Ten years of being screamed at,

01:07:50beaten, bullied,

01:07:51my uterus damaged from the beatings,

01:07:53my ankle shattered.

01:07:56The only thing that kept me alive

01:07:57was one question

01:07:58I needed to ask

01:07:59my boyfriend, Miles.

01:08:02Why?

01:08:05Miles had been my knight,

01:08:06my loyal, unwavering protector.

01:08:09Junior year of high school,

01:08:10a girl tried to bully me.

01:08:12The next day,

01:08:13her naked photos

01:08:14were plastered across

01:08:15the school's main screen

01:08:16for everyone to see.

01:08:18She never recovered.

01:08:19Senior year,

01:08:20an older guy wanted me

01:08:21and slipped something

01:08:22into my drink.

01:08:24Miles put him in the hospital.

01:08:27Partial paralysis.

01:08:29He never walked right again.

01:08:33After that,

01:08:34anyone who hurt me

01:08:35got hurt back

01:08:36because he'd made a promise

01:08:37in the front of my parents' graves

01:08:39when I was ten years old.

01:08:40Mr. and Mrs. Gratian,

01:08:42I swear I'll protect Jade

01:08:43for the rest of my life.

01:08:44He kept that promise

01:08:45from the time I was ten

01:08:47until I was nineteen.

01:08:49Miles was like my shadow.

01:08:51Wherever I was,

01:08:53he was behind me.

01:08:55Until I turned nineteen,

01:08:57Miles fell in love

01:08:58with someone else.

01:09:01She was loud

01:09:02and dazzling

01:09:03and nothing like anyone

01:09:04we'd ever known.

01:09:07Prove to me

01:09:08you're completely crazy

01:09:09about me

01:09:10and I'll be yours.

01:09:13So Miles drove a knife

01:09:15into her fiancé.

01:09:16Again and again,

01:09:17the man bled out.

01:09:20When the police arrived,

01:09:21Miles pressed the knife

01:09:22into my hand.

01:09:23Then he pointed at me.

01:09:25As they dragged me away,

01:09:27the last thing

01:09:28I heard him say was,

01:09:29I'm sorry.

01:09:32The day I got out,

01:09:33it snowed so hard

01:09:35I could barely see.

01:09:36I stood at the prison gates

01:09:38feeling like I'd stepped out

01:09:39of a different century.

01:09:42But I recognized him instantly.

01:09:53Jade.

01:09:55I came to take you home.

01:09:59Ten years had stripped

01:10:00every trace of the boy

01:10:01he used to be.

01:10:03He looked composed,

01:10:04polished.

01:10:05Miles.

01:10:06My voice came out quiet.

01:10:07No anger in it.

01:10:09I didn't have the energy

01:10:10for anger.

01:10:11Why?

01:10:11My parents had died

01:10:12because of him.

01:10:13Murdered by his family's enemies.

01:10:15He'd taken my ten-year-old hand

01:10:17and we'd run together.

01:10:18We slept under

01:10:19highway overspance.

01:10:20We fought rats

01:10:21for scraps of food.

01:10:22On the coldest nights,

01:10:23we held each other

01:10:24and shook until morning.

01:10:26He worked three jobs

01:10:27to put me through school.

01:10:29Worked himself

01:10:30until he coughed up blood.

01:10:32I cried when I saw it.

01:10:34He just wiped his mouth

01:10:35and said,

01:10:37I'm done for, Jade.

01:10:38But you're not.

01:10:39You've got something

01:10:40better ahead of you.

01:10:41I never understood

01:10:43why someone who was

01:10:44basically my family

01:10:44would hand me a murder weapon

01:10:46and watch me get arrested.

01:10:48For a woman he'd known

01:10:49five minutes.

01:10:56I'm sorry, Jade.

01:10:57I was out of my mind

01:10:58over Fiona.

01:10:59I'd never met anyone like her.

01:11:01Everything she did,

01:11:02every look,

01:11:03every word,

01:11:03it got under my skin.

01:11:05She said if I went to prison,

01:11:06she'd end up with someone else.

01:11:07I couldn't risk it.

01:11:08I knew you'd get hurt.

01:11:10But I couldn't lose her.

01:11:12He said that while

01:11:13pulling Fiona closer.

01:11:16I was just talking

01:11:18when I said that.

01:11:19I didn't think

01:11:19he'd actually stabbed Marcus.

01:11:21But the second he did,

01:11:23I was gone for him.

01:11:26Don't feel too bad.

01:11:28Miles left you a house

01:11:29and ten million dollars.

01:11:31How many people would kill

01:11:32for that kind of payout?

01:11:34Literally.

01:11:35Her voice had the easy confidence

01:11:37of someone giving

01:11:38a homeless person

01:11:38spare change.

01:11:39None of it mattered to me.

01:11:41Not the money.

01:11:42Not the house.

01:11:42I had a fascicle cancer.

01:11:44Stage four.

01:11:46One month left, maybe.

01:11:49Okay.

01:11:51It's freezing out here, Jade.

01:11:53Get in the car.

01:11:55Miles turned and walked

01:11:56toward the house with Fiona,

01:11:58laughing at something she said.

01:12:04He didn't notice me

01:12:05limping behind them.

01:12:07Didn't notice that every step

01:12:08cost me something.

01:12:11We drove to Fiona's estate.

01:12:14Security guards,

01:12:15a staff of five,

01:12:17a house that looked

01:12:17like a hotel.

01:12:19Everything Miles and I

01:12:20used to dream about

01:12:21from under our overpass.

01:12:22He'd gotten all of it.

01:12:24He'd gotten every single thing

01:12:26we imagined.

01:12:28And I'd gotten ten years

01:12:29of concrete floors

01:12:30and iron bars.

01:12:32When we pulled up,

01:12:33Fiona stepped in front

01:12:34of the door.

01:12:37Hold on.

01:12:41I have a thing about germs.

01:12:43You need to clean up

01:12:43before you come inside.

01:12:45Someone who's been

01:12:46in prison for a decade

01:12:47needs a proper scrub

01:12:48before setting foot

01:12:49in my house.

01:12:50I understood exactly

01:12:52what she was doing.

01:12:53The temperature was

01:12:54somewhere below 20.

01:12:56A cold shower outside

01:12:58would kill me.

01:13:00I smiled.

01:13:01Politely.

01:13:02That's fine.

01:13:03I don't need to come in.

01:13:04Fiona's eyes sharpened.

01:13:06She thought I was trying

01:13:07to make her look bad.

01:13:08Don't play victim with me.

01:13:10You scrubbed down

01:13:11in cold water

01:13:12every day in there,

01:13:13didn't you?

01:13:13I looked at Miles.

01:13:15He met my eyes

01:13:16with something

01:13:16that might have been apology.

01:13:18Then he said,

01:13:19She's a little spoiled.

01:13:20It's just a shower.

01:13:21Can you just go along with it?

01:13:23I went still.

01:13:24The man standing

01:13:25in front of me

01:13:26was not the Miles

01:13:26I grew up with.

01:13:28Then I won't come in.

01:13:30I said,

01:13:30Thank you for the offer.

01:13:32I turned to go.

01:13:33His voice stopped me.

01:13:35Are you seriously

01:13:36still holding a grudge?

01:13:37I said I'd make it up to you.

01:13:39What more do you want?

01:13:40I turned back.

01:13:42Did I kill someone?

01:13:43Did I put you in prison

01:13:45for 10 years?

01:13:46Did I invite myself

01:13:47into your house?

01:13:48Three questions.

01:13:50His face went red.

01:13:51You're coming inside.

01:13:53And you're doing it clean.

01:13:55The staff came out

01:13:56with a pressure hose.

01:13:59The water hit me

01:14:00like a wall of ice.

01:14:02I curled into myself,

01:14:03arms wrapped around my chest,

01:14:05shaking so hard

01:14:05my teeth rattled.

01:14:07My spring jacket

01:14:08went soaked through

01:14:08in seconds.

01:14:09I lifted my head.

01:14:11There you go.

01:14:11I took care of it.

01:14:12Stop being mad.

01:14:13You're too pretty

01:14:14to make that face.

01:14:15She pressed herself

01:14:16against him

01:14:16and kissed him

01:14:17and right there on the steps,

01:14:18like I wasn't on my knees

01:14:20in the ice water

01:14:2010 feet away.

01:14:21I stopped fighting.

01:14:23I let the water hit me.

01:14:25A night years ago,

01:14:26also snowing,

01:14:28Miles and I huddled

01:14:28under a highway overpass,

01:14:30one rotting blanket

01:14:31between us.

01:14:32This is the last cold winter

01:14:33we'll ever have, Jade.

01:14:34I swear.

01:14:35I will never let you

01:14:37freeze again.

01:14:37I had believed him

01:14:39completely.

01:14:40But he had forgotten

01:14:41completely now.

01:14:43Eventually,

01:14:44Fiona clapped her hands.

01:14:45All right.

01:14:46That's enough.

01:14:47You're clean.

01:14:48Come inside.

01:14:49I was soaking wet

01:14:51and shaking

01:14:51when my body went forward

01:14:53instead of upright.

01:14:59I woke up

01:15:00three days later.

01:15:03Miles was talking

01:15:04to the house doctor.

01:15:08When he saw my eyes open,

01:15:10he came to the bed quickly.

01:15:13Jade, I'm sorry.

01:15:14I didn't know

01:15:14your body was this bad.

01:15:16Is anything still hurting?

01:15:16I shook my head.

01:15:18He waited.

01:15:19I didn't say anything.

01:15:21Finally, he asked,

01:15:22quietly,

01:15:23Your leg.

01:15:25Why are you...

01:15:25How did that happen?

01:15:26I looked at the ceiling.

01:15:27The block leader

01:15:28in my unit.

01:15:29I wouldn't hand over

01:15:30the money I earned

01:15:31doing labor.

01:15:33So they broke

01:15:34by my ankle

01:15:34to teach me a lesson.

01:15:38After that,

01:15:39they decided

01:15:39that was boring,

01:15:40so they stopped

01:15:41letting me eat.

01:15:42Whatever food I got,

01:15:43they took.

01:15:44Then that got boring too,

01:15:45so they held me down

01:15:46and force-fed me

01:15:47scalding food

01:15:48straight from the pot.

01:15:50Silence.

01:15:51Why didn't you tell me yesterday?

01:15:53His voice came out strange,

01:15:55tight.

01:15:56I used to,

01:15:58I said.

01:16:01The first time they hit me,

01:16:02I screamed your name.

01:16:04Miles.

01:16:05Help me.

01:16:05Miles, come get me.

01:16:07Then I figured out

01:16:08it didn't work.

01:16:10Eventually,

01:16:10you stopped calling

01:16:11for someone

01:16:11who isn't coming.

01:16:13He grabbed my hand.

01:16:14His was shaking.

01:16:15I'm getting you

01:16:15the best doctors.

01:16:17You're going to get better.

01:16:18I'll give you back

01:16:18everything I took from you.

01:16:20Stay here while you recover.

01:16:21I'll have someone

01:16:22with you around the clock.

01:16:23When you're well,

01:16:24I'll feel better

01:16:24about you leaving.

01:16:26I gave him

01:16:27a small smile.

01:16:28Okay.

01:16:31He was going

01:16:31to be disappointed.

01:16:33I wouldn't live

01:16:34long enough

01:16:34for any of that.

01:16:37Rest.

01:16:38I'll check on you later.

01:16:40Then walked out fast,

01:16:42like the room

01:16:42was on fire.

01:16:44That afternoon,

01:16:45he transferred

01:16:46the deed on a house

01:16:47in the Soberds

01:16:47into my name

01:16:48and put $10 million

01:16:50in a new bank account.

01:16:52He started to say

01:16:53something else

01:16:54but seemed to lose it.

01:16:56You're old things.

01:16:57Everything's in here.

01:16:59Do you have to be

01:17:00this formal with me?

01:17:01I know I didn't...

01:17:02Miles?

01:17:03Dinner.

01:17:04I didn't want to go.

01:17:05I physically

01:17:06couldn't eat anymore.

01:17:07The cancer

01:17:08made sure of that.

01:17:09But Fiona said

01:17:10she'd cooked

01:17:10specifically for me

01:17:11to help me get

01:17:12my strength back

01:17:12and I had to come down.

01:17:14So I did.

01:17:15I took one sip

01:17:16of the soup.

01:17:18My esophagus

01:17:19felt like it caught fire.

01:17:21I set down my spoon.

01:17:23Thank you for making this,

01:17:25Fiona.

01:17:25It's really good.

01:17:26I'm full.

01:17:29Are you doing this

01:17:30on purpose?

01:17:31You had one sip.

01:17:32I cooked for three hours.

01:17:34You're finishing every bite.

01:17:39The smell of the food alone

01:17:41had my stomach turning.

01:17:43I'm not well,

01:17:44I said.

01:17:45My face had gone white.

01:17:46I genuinely can't

01:17:48because I scared you

01:17:49into the hospital last week.

01:17:50I made this as an apology

01:17:52and you can't even give me

01:17:53the decency of eating it.

01:17:55I should have saved myself

01:17:56the trouble.

01:17:57The housekeeper piped up

01:17:58from the corner.

01:17:59She burned her hands

01:18:00making it.

01:18:01Got blisters.

01:18:02Some people don't know

01:18:03how to appreciate kindness.

01:18:05Ungrateful.

01:18:06Without looking up,

01:18:08he said,

01:18:08Jade, don't cause a scene.

01:18:09You should put in the effort.

01:18:11Just finish it.

01:18:12I laughed before I could

01:18:13stop myself.

01:18:14Then I pressed the laugh down

01:18:16and said, quietly,

01:18:17Miles,

01:18:18I have ethophical cancer.

01:18:20Stage four.

01:18:21I can't eat.

01:18:24And now you're cursing yourself?

01:18:26You're going to die next,

01:18:27I assume?

01:18:29It's one meal, Jade.

01:18:31Stop being dramatic.

01:18:35I'm not sure you're cursing myself.

01:18:38I'm not sure you're cursing myself.

01:18:40I'm not sure you're cursing myself.

01:18:42I'm not sure you're cursing myself.

01:18:45I'm not sure you're cursing myself.

01:18:46I'm not sure you're cursing myself.

01:18:47I'm not sure you're cursing myself.

01:18:48I'm not sure you're cursing myself.

01:18:48You

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