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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.

00:01:07Mr. 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,

00:01:56I'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.

00:02:22I 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 overspans.

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

00:02:49On 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.

00:03:05But 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.

00:03:26I'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.

00:04:31He 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.

00:04:49He'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 ten 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, shaking 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.

00:06:38I took care of it.

00:06:39Stop being mad.

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

00:06:42She pressed herself against him and kissed him and right there on the steps,

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

00:06:49I stopped fighting.

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

00:06:52A night years ago, also 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.

00:07:12All right.

00:07:13That's enough.

00:07:14You're clean.

00:07:15Come inside.

00:07:16I was soaking wet and shaking when 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, he 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?

00:07:43I 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 by 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.

00:08:10Then that got boring, too.

00:08:13So they held me down and force-fed me scalding food straight 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, I 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 who isn't coming.

00:08:39He 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, I'll feel better about you leaving.

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

00:08:55Okay.

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, he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds into my name and put

00:09:16ten million dollars in a new bank account.

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

00:09:28I know I didn't-

00:09:29Miles?

00:09:30Dinner.

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

00:09:32I physically couldn't eat anymore.

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

00:09:36But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me to help me get my strength back, and I had

00:09:40to 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.

00:09:53I'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.

00:10:10I'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, I 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.

00:10:26She 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.

00:10:36You should 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, my uterus damaged from the beatings, my ankle shattered.

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

00:11:45Why?

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.

00:12:02An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.

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

00:12:09Partial paralysis.

00:12:11He 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.

00:12:37Until 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.

00:12:52And I'll be yours.

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

00:12:58Again 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.

00:13:48My 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 overspants.

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.

00:14:14I 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 would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get

00:14:29arrested.

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

00:14:38I'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 I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.

00:15:04But the second he did, I was gone for him.

00:15:08Don't feel too bad.

00:15:11Don'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?

00:15:16Literally.

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.

00:15:24Not 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.

00:15:46He 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.

00:15:56Security guards, a staff of five, a house that looked like a hotel.

00:16:01Everything 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.

00:16:50Don'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.

00:16:57He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.

00:17:00Then 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.

00:17:21What more do you want?

00:17:22I turned back.

00:17:24Did I kill someone?

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

00:17:28Did 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.

00:17:57She 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, also 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, I 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.

00:18:30Come 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 doing labor.

00:19:15So 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.

00:19:26Then 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?

00:19:35His 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, Miles.

00:19:48Come get me.

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

00:19:52Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.

00:19:55He grabbed my hand.

00:19:56His was shaking.

00:19:57I'm getting you the best, doctors.

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

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

00:20:02Stay here while you recover.

00:20:03I'll have someone with you around the clock.

00:20:05When 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.

00:20:26That 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.

00:21:16You'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.

00:21:34And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.

00:21:37I should have saved myself the trouble.

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

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

00:21:43Got blisters.

00:21:44Some 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 seed.

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.

00:22:35I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.

00:22:42Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied, my uterus damaged from the beatings, my ankle shattered.

00:22:51The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.

00:22:58Why?

00:23:00Miles had been my knight.

00:23:02My loyal, unwavering protector.

00:23:04Junior year of high school.

00:23:05A girl tried to bully me.

00:23:07The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.

00:23:13She never recovered.

00:23:14Senior year.

00:23:15An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.

00:23:19Miles put him in the hospital.

00:23:21Partial paralysis.

00:23:24He never walked right at me.

00:23:28After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.

00:23:31Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.

00:23:35Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.

00:23:39He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.

00:23:44Miles was like my shadow.

00:23:47Wherever I was, he was behind me.

00:23:50Until I turned nineteen, Miles fell in love with someone else.

00:23:56She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.

00:24:02Prove to me you're completely crazy about me.

00:24:05And I'll be yours.

00:24:08So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.

00:24:11Again and again, the man bled out.

00:24:15When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.

00:24:18Then he pointed at me.

00:24:20As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,

00:24:24I'm sorry.

00:24:27The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.

00:24:31I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.

00:24:37But I recognized him instantly.

00:24:50Jade, I came to take you home.

00:24:54Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.

00:24:58He looked composed, polished.

00:25:00Miles.

00:25:01My voice came out quiet.

00:25:03No anger in it.

00:25:04I didn't have the energy for anger.

00:25:06Why?

00:25:06My parents had died because of him.

00:25:08Murdered by his family's enemies.

00:25:10He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.

00:25:13We slept under highway overspants.

00:25:15We fought rats for scraps of food.

00:25:17On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.

00:25:21He worked three jobs to put me through school.

00:25:24Worked himself until he coughed up blood.

00:25:27I cried when I saw it.

00:25:29He just wiped his mouth and said,

00:25:32I'm done for Jade, but you're not.

00:25:34You've got something better ahead of you.

00:25:36I never understood why someone who was basically my family would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get

00:25:42arrested.

00:25:43For a woman he'd known five minutes.

00:25:51I'm sorry, Jade.

00:25:52I was out of my mind over Fiona.

00:25:54I'd never met anyone like her.

00:25:56Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.

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

00:26:02I couldn't risk it.

00:26:03I knew you'd get hurt.

00:26:05But I couldn't lose her.

00:26:07He said that while pulling Fiona closer.

00:26:12I was just talking when I said that.

00:26:14I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.

00:26:16But the second he did, I was gone for him.

00:26:21Don't feel too bad.

00:26:23Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.

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

00:26:29Literally.

00:26:30Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person spare change.

00:26:35None of it mattered to me.

00:26:36Not the money.

00:26:37Not the house.

00:26:38I had a fascicle cancer.

00:26:40Stage four.

00:26:41One month left, maybe.

00:26:44Okay.

00:26:46It's freezing out here, Jade.

00:26:48Get in the car.

00:26:50Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona, laughing at something she said.

00:26:59He didn't notice me limping behind them.

00:27:02Didn't notice that every step cost me something.

00:27:06We drove to Fiona's estate.

00:27:09Security guards, a staff of five, a house that looked like a hotel.

00:27:14Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.

00:27:17He'd gotten all of it.

00:27:19He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.

00:27:23And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.

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

00:27:33Hold on.

00:27:36I have a thing about germs.

00:27:37You need to clean up before you come inside.

00:27:40Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.

00:27:45I understood exactly what she was doing.

00:27:48The temperature was somewhere below 20.

00:27:51A cold shower outside would kill me.

00:27:55I smiled, politely.

00:27:57That's fine.

00:27:58I don't need to come in.

00:27:59Fiona's eyes sharpened.

00:28:01She thought I was trying to make her look bad.

00:28:04Don't play victim with me.

00:28:05You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?

00:28:09I looked at Miles.

00:28:10He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.

00:28:13Then he said,

00:28:14She's a little spoiled.

00:28:15It's just a shower.

00:28:16Can you just go along with it?

00:28:18I went still.

00:28:19The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.

00:28:23Then I won't come in.

00:28:25I said,

00:28:26Thank you for the offer.

00:28:27I turned to go.

00:28:29His voice stopped me.

00:28:30Are you seriously still holding a grudge?

00:28:33I said I'd make it up to you.

00:28:34What more do you want?

00:28:35I turned back.

00:28:37Did I kill someone?

00:28:38Did I put you in prison for ten years?

00:28:41Did I invite myself into your house?

00:28:43Three questions.

00:28:45His face went red.

00:28:47You're coming inside.

00:28:48And you're doing it clean.

00:28:50The staff came out with a pressure hose.

00:28:54The water hit me like a wall of ice.

00:28:57I curled into myself.

00:28:58Arms wrapped around my chest, shaking so hard my teeth rattled.

00:29:02My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.

00:29:04I lifted my head.

00:29:06There you go.

00:29:06I took care of it.

00:29:07Stop being mad.

00:29:08You're too pretty to make that face.

00:29:10She pressed herself against him and kissed him and right there on the steps, like I wasn't

00:29:14on my knees in the ice water ten feet away.

00:29:17I stopped fighting.

00:29:18I let the water hit me.

00:29:20A night years ago, also snowing, Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass, one rotting

00:29:26blanket between us.

00:29:27This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.

00:29:30I swear.

00:29:31I will never let you freeze again.

00:29:33I had believed him completely.

00:29:35But he had forgotten completely now.

00:29:38Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.

00:29:40All right.

00:29:41That's enough.

00:29:42You're clean.

00:29:43Come inside.

00:29:44I was soaking wet and shaking when my body went forward instead of upright.

00:29:54I woke up three days later.

00:29:58Miles was talking to the house doctor.

00:30:03When he saw my eyes open, he came to the bed quickly.

00:30:08Jade, I'm sorry.

00:30:09I didn't know your body was this bad.

00:30:11Is anything still hurting?

00:30:11I shook my head.

00:30:13He waited.

00:30:14I didn't say anything.

00:30:16Finally, he asked, quietly.

00:30:18Your leg.

00:30:20Why are you...

00:30:20How did that happen?

00:30:21I looked at the ceiling.

00:30:22The block leader in my unit.

00:30:24I wouldn't hand over the money I earned during labor.

00:30:28So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.

00:30:33After that, they decided that was boring.

00:30:35So they stopped letting me eat.

00:30:37Whatever food I got, they took.

00:30:39Then that got boring too.

00:30:40So they held me down and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.

00:30:45Silence.

00:30:46Why didn't you tell me yesterday?

00:30:48His voice came out strange.

00:30:50Tight.

00:30:51I used to.

00:30:53I said.

00:30:56The first time they hit me, I screamed your name.

00:30:59Miles.

00:31:00Help me.

00:31:01Miles, come get me.

00:31:02Then I figured out it didn't work.

00:31:05Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.

00:31:08He grabbed my hand.

00:31:09His was shaking.

00:31:10I'm getting you the best, doctors.

00:31:12You're going to get better.

00:31:13I'll give you back everything I took from you.

00:31:15Stay here while you recover.

00:31:16I'll have someone with you around the clock.

00:31:18When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.

00:31:21I gave him a small smile.

00:31:23Okay.

00:31:26He was going to be disappointed.

00:31:28I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.

00:31:31Rest.

00:31:33I'll check on you later.

00:31:53Miles.

00:32:01Then walked out fast.

00:32:04Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me to help me get my strength back, and I had

00:32:08to come down.

00:32:09So I did.

00:32:10I took one sip of the soup.

00:32:13My esophagus felt like it caught fire.

00:32:16I set down my spoon.

00:32:18Thank you for making this, Fiona.

00:32:20It's really good.

00:32:21I'm full.

00:32:24Are you doing this on purpose?

00:32:26You had one sip.

00:32:27I cooked for three hours.

00:32:29You're finishing every bite.

00:32:34The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.

00:32:38I'm not well, I said.

00:32:40My face had gone white.

00:32:42I genuinely can't.

00:32:43Because I scared you into the hospital last week, I made this as an apology.

00:32:47And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.

00:32:50I should have saved myself the trouble.

00:32:52The housekeeper piped up from the corner.

00:32:54She burned her hands making it.

00:32:56Got blisters.

00:32:57Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.

00:33:00Ungrateful.

00:33:01Without looking up, he said.

00:33:03Jade, don't cause a scene.

00:33:04You should put in the effort.

00:33:06Just finish it.

00:33:07I laughed before I could stop myself.

00:33:09Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly,

00:33:12Miles, I have ethophical cancer.

00:33:15Stage four.

00:33:16I can't eat.

00:33:19And now you're cursing yourself?

00:33:21You're going to die next, I assume?

00:33:25It's one meal, Jade.

00:33:26Stop being dramatic.

00:33:46She is the real killer!

00:33:48You have been arrested.

00:33:51I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.

00:33:55Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied, my uterus damaged from the beatings, my ankle shattered.

00:34:03The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.

00:34:12Miles had been my knight, my loyal, unwavering protector, junior year of high school.

00:34:18A girl tried to bully me.

00:34:19The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.

00:34:25She never recovered.

00:34:27Senior year, an older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.

00:34:31Miles put him in the hospital.

00:34:34Partial paralysis.

00:34:37He never walked right again.

00:34:41After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.

00:34:44Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.

00:34:48Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.

00:34:52He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.

00:34:57Miles was like my shadow.

00:34:59Wherever I was, he was behind me.

00:35:02Until I turned nineteen, Miles fell in love with someone else.

00:35:08She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.

00:35:14Prove to me you're completely crazy about me, and I'll be yours.

00:35:21So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.

00:35:23Again and again, the man bled out.

00:35:27When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.

00:35:31Then he pointed at me.

00:35:33As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,

00:35:37I'm sorry.

00:35:39The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.

00:35:44I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.

00:35:49But I recognized him instantly.

00:36:02Jade, I came to take you home.

00:36:07Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.

00:36:10He looked composed.

00:36:12Polished.

00:36:13Miles.

00:36:14My voice came out quiet.

00:36:15No anger in it.

00:36:16I didn't have the energy for anger.

00:36:18Why?

00:36:19My parents had died because of him.

00:36:21Murdered by his family's enemies.

00:36:23He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.

00:36:26We slept under highway overspans.

00:36:28We fought rats for scraps of food.

00:36:30On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.

00:36:33He worked three jobs to put me through school.

00:36:37Worked himself until he coughed up blood.

00:36:39I cried when I saw it.

00:36:41He just wiped his mouth and said,

00:36:44I'm done for Jade, but you're not.

00:36:47You've got something better ahead of you.

00:36:49I never understood why someone who was basically my family

00:36:52would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get arrested.

00:36:55For a woman he'd known five minutes.

00:37:04I'm sorry, Jade.

00:37:05I was out of my mind over Fiona.

00:37:07I'd never met anyone like her.

00:37:09Everything she did, every look, every word,

00:37:11it got under my skin.

00:37:12She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.

00:37:15I couldn't risk it.

00:37:16I knew you'd get hurt.

00:37:17But I couldn't lose her.

00:37:19He said that while pulling Fiona closer.

00:37:24I was just talking when I said that.

00:37:26I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.

00:37:29But the second he did, I was gone for him.

00:37:33Don't feel too bad.

00:37:36Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.

00:37:39How many people would kill for that kind of payout?

00:37:41Literally.

00:37:43Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person's fair change.

00:37:47None of it mattered to me.

00:37:48Not the money.

00:37:49Not the house.

00:37:50I had a fascicle cancer.

00:37:52Stage four.

00:37:54One month left, maybe.

00:37:57Okay.

00:37:59It's freezing out here, Jade.

00:38:01Get in the car.

00:38:03Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona,

00:38:05laughing at something she said.

00:38:11He didn't notice me limping behind them.

00:38:14Didn't notice that every step cost me something.

00:38:19We drove to Fiona's estate.

00:38:21Security guards, a staff of five, a house that looked like a hotel.

00:38:26Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.

00:38:30He'd gotten all of it.

00:38:32He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.

00:38:35And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.

00:38:40When we pulled up, Fiona stepped in front of the door.

00:38:45Hold on.

00:38:48I have a thing about germs.

00:38:50You need to clean up before you come inside.

00:38:52Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.

00:38:58I understood exactly what she was doing.

00:39:01The temperature was somewhere below 20.

00:39:04A cold shower outside would kill me.

00:39:07I smiled, politely.

00:39:10That's fine.

00:39:11I don't need to come in.

00:39:12Fiona's eyes sharpened.

00:39:13She thought I was trying to make her look bad.

00:39:16Don't play victim with me.

00:39:18You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?

00:39:21I looked at Miles.

00:39:22He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.

00:39:26Then he said,

00:39:27She's a little spoiled.

00:39:28It's just a shower.

00:39:29Can you just go along with it?

00:39:30I went still.

00:39:32The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.

00:39:36Then I won't come in.

00:39:37I said,

00:39:38Thank you for the offer.

00:39:40I turned to go.

00:39:41His voice stopped me.

00:39:43Are you seriously still holding a grudge?

00:39:45I said I'd make it up to you.

00:39:46What more do you want?

00:39:47I turned back.

00:39:49Did I kill someone?

00:39:51Did I put you in prison for 10 years?

00:39:53Did I invite myself into your house?

00:39:56Three questions.

00:39:57His face went red.

00:39:59You're coming inside.

00:40:00And you're doing it clean.

00:40:03The staff came out with a pressure hose.

00:40:06The water hit me like a wall of ice.

00:40:09I curled into myself, arms wrapped around my chest, shaking so hard my teeth rattled.

00:40:14My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.

00:40:17I lifted my head.

00:40:18There you go.

00:40:19I took care of it.

00:40:20Stop being mad.

00:40:21You're too pretty to make that face.

00:40:22She pressed herself against him and kissed him and right there on the steps,

00:40:26like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water 10 feet away.

00:40:29I stopped fighting.

00:40:30I let the water hit me.

00:40:32A night years ago, also snowing,

00:40:35Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass,

00:40:38one rotting blanket between us.

00:40:39This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.

00:40:42I swear.

00:40:43I will never let you freeze again.

00:40:45I had believed him completely.

00:40:48But he had forgotten completely now.

00:40:50Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.

00:40:53All right.

00:40:54That's enough.

00:40:55You're clean.

00:40:55Come inside.

00:40:57I was soaking wet and shaking when my body went forward instead of upright.

00:41:07I woke up three days later.

00:41:11Miles was talking to the house doctor.

00:41:16When he saw my eyes open, he came to the bed quickly.

00:41:20Jade, I'm sorry.

00:41:21I didn't know your body was this bad.

00:41:23Is anything still hurting?

00:41:24I shook my head.

00:41:25He waited.

00:41:26I didn't say anything.

00:41:29Finally, he asked, quietly,

00:41:31Your leg.

00:41:32Why are you...

00:41:33How did that happen?

00:41:34I looked at the ceiling.

00:41:35The block leader in my unit.

00:41:37I wouldn't hand over the money I earned doing labor.

00:41:41So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.

00:41:45After that, they decided that was boring.

00:41:48So they stopped letting me eat.

00:41:49Whatever food I got, they took.

00:41:51Then that got boring, too.

00:41:53So they held me down and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.

00:41:57Silence.

00:41:59Why didn't you tell me yesterday?

00:42:00His voice came out strange.

00:42:03Tight.

00:42:04I used to, I said.

00:42:08The first time they hit me, I screamed your name.

00:42:12Miles.

00:42:12Help me.

00:42:13Miles, come get me.

00:42:15Then I figured out it didn't work.

00:42:17Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.

00:42:20He grabbed my hand.

00:42:22His was shaking.

00:42:23I'm getting you the best, doctors.

00:42:24You're going to get better.

00:42:25I'll give you back everything I took from you.

00:42:27Stay here while you recover.

00:42:28I'll have someone with you around the clock.

00:42:31When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.

00:42:33I gave him a small smile.

00:42:36Okay.

00:42:38He was going to be disappointed.

00:42:41I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.

00:42:44Rest.

00:42:46I'll check on you later.

00:42:48Then walked out fast, like the room was on fire.

00:42:51That afternoon, he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds into my name

00:42:56and put ten million dollars in a new bank account.

00:43:00He started to say something else, but seemed to lose it.

00:43:03You're old things.

00:43:05Everything's in here.

00:43:07Do you have to be this formal with me?

00:43:09I know I'd-

00:43:10Miles.

00:43:11Dinner.

00:43:12I didn't want to go.

00:43:13I physically couldn't eat anymore.

00:43:15The cancer made sure of that.

00:43:16But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me to help me get my strength back,

00:43:20and I had to come down.

00:43:21So I did.

00:43:22I took one sip of the soup.

00:43:25My esophagus felt like it caught fire.

00:43:29I set down my spoon.

00:43:31Thank you for making this, Fiona.

00:43:33It's really good.

00:43:34I'm full.

00:43:36Are you doing this on purpose?

00:43:38You had one sip.

00:43:40I cooked for three hours.

00:43:41You're finishing every bite.

00:43:47The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.

00:43:51I'm not well, I said.

00:43:53My face had gone white.

00:43:54I genuinely can't.

00:43:55Because I scared you into the hospital last week, I made this as an apology.

00:43:59And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.

00:44:03I should have saved myself the trouble.

00:44:05The housekeeper piped up from the corner.

00:44:07She burned her hands making it.

00:44:08Got blisters.

00:44:09Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.

00:44:13Ungrateful.

00:44:14Without looking up, he said,

00:44:16Jade, don't cause a scene.

00:44:17She put in the effort.

00:44:18Just finish it.

00:44:19I laughed before I could stop myself.

00:44:22Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly,

00:44:25Miles, I have ethophical cancer.

00:44:27Stage four.

00:44:28I can't eat.

00:44:31And now you're cursing yourself?

00:44:33You're going to die next, I assume?

00:44:37It's one meal, Jade.

00:44:39Stop being dramatic.

00:44:40I can't eat.

00:44:48I can't eat.

00:44:58She is the real killer!

00:45:00You have been arrested.

00:45:03I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.

00:45:08Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied,

00:45:11my uterus damaged from the beatings,

00:45:14my ankle shattered.

00:45:16The only thing that kept me alive

00:45:18was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.

00:45:23Why?

00:45:25Miles had been my knight.

00:45:27My loyal, unwavering protector.

00:45:29Junior year of high school.

00:45:30A girl tried to bully me.

00:45:32The next day, her naked photos were plastered

00:45:34across the school's main screen for everyone to see.

00:45:38She never recovered.

00:45:39Senior year.

00:45:40An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.

00:45:44Miles put him in the hospital.

00:45:47Partial paralysis.

00:45:49He never walked right again.

00:45:53After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.

00:45:56Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves

00:45:59when I was ten years old.

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

00:46:02I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.

00:46:04He kept that promise from the time I was ten

00:46:07until I was nineteen.

00:46:09Miles was like my shadow.

00:46:12Wherever I was,

00:46:13he was behind me.

00:46:15Until I turned nineteen,

00:46:17Miles fell in love with someone else.

00:46:21She was loud and dazzling

00:46:23and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.

00:46:27Prove to me you're completely crazy about me

00:46:30and I'll be yours.

00:46:33So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.

00:46:36Again and again,

00:46:37the man bled out.

00:46:40When the police arrived,

00:46:41Miles pressed the knife into my hand.

00:46:43Then he pointed at me.

00:46:46As they dragged me away,

00:46:47the last thing I heard him say was,

00:46:49I'm sorry.

00:46:52The day I got out,

00:46:53it snowed so hard I could barely see.

00:46:56I stood at the prison gates

00:46:58feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.

00:47:02But I recognized him instantly.

00:47:13Jade.

00:47:15I came to take you home.

00:47:19Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.

00:47:23He looked composed.

00:47:25Polished.

00:47:25Miles.

00:47:26My voice came out quiet.

00:47:28No anger in it.

00:47:29I didn't have the energy for anger.

00:47:31Why?

00:47:31My parents had died because of him.

00:47:33Murdered by his family's enemies.

00:47:35He'd taken my ten-year-old hand

00:47:37and we'd run together.

00:47:38We slept under highway overspance.

00:47:40We fought rats for scraps of food.

00:47:42On the coldest nights,

00:47:43we held each other

00:47:44and shook until morning.

00:47:46He worked three jobs

00:47:47to put me through school.

00:47:49Worked himself

00:47:50until he coughed up blood.

00:47:52I cried when I saw it.

00:47:54He just wiped his mouth

00:47:55and said,

00:47:57I'm done for Jade,

00:47:58but you're not.

00:47:59You've got something better

00:48:00ahead of you.

00:48:01I never understood

00:48:03why someone who was basically my family

00:48:05would hand me a murder weapon

00:48:06and watch me get arrested.

00:48:08For a woman he'd known five minutes.

00:48:16I'm sorry, Jade.

00:48:17I was out of my mind over Fiona.

00:48:19I'd never met anyone like her.

00:48:21Everything she did,

00:48:22every look, every word,

00:48:23it got under my skin.

00:48:25She said if I went to prison,

00:48:26she'd end up with someone else.

00:48:27I couldn't risk it.

00:48:28I knew you'd get hurt,

00:48:30but I couldn't lose her.

00:48:32He said that while pulling Fiona closer.

00:48:36I was just talking when I said that.

00:48:39I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus,

00:48:41but the second he did,

00:48:43I was gone for him.

00:48:46Don't feel too bad.

00:48:48Miles left you a house

00:48:49and ten million dollars.

00:48:51How many people would kill

00:48:52for that kind of payout?

00:48:54Literally.

00:48:55Her voice had the easy confidence

00:48:57of someone giving a homeless person

00:48:59spare change.

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

00:49:01Not the money.

00:49:02Not the house.

00:49:03I had a fascicle cancer.

00:49:05Stage four.

00:49:06One month left, maybe.

00:49:09Okay.

00:49:11It's freezing out here, Jade.

00:49:13Get in the car.

00:49:15Miles turned and walked

00:49:16toward the house with Fiona,

00:49:18laughing at something she said.

00:49:24He didn't notice me limping behind them.

00:49:27Didn't notice that every step

00:49:28cost me something.

00:49:31We drove to Fiona's estate.

00:49:34Security guards,

00:49:35a staff of five,

00:49:37a house that looked like a hotel.

00:49:39Everything Miles and I used to dream about

00:49:41from under our overpass.

00:49:42He'd gotten all of it.

00:49:44He'd gotten every single thing

00:49:46we imagined.

00:49:48And I'd gotten ten years

00:49:49of concrete floors and iron bars.

00:49:52When we pulled up,

00:49:54Fiona stepped in front of the door.

00:49:58Hold on.

00:50:01I have a thing about germs.

00:50:03You need to clean up

00:50:03before you come inside.

00:50:05Someone who's been in prison

00:50:06for a decade needs a proper scrub

00:50:08before setting foot in my house.

00:50:10I understood exactly

00:50:12what she was doing.

00:50:13The temperature was somewhere

00:50:15below 20.

00:50:16A cold shower outside

00:50:18would kill me.

00:50:20I smiled.

00:50:21Politely.

00:50:22That's fine.

00:50:23I don't need to come in.

00:50:24Fiona's eyes sharpened.

00:50:26She thought I was trying

00:50:27to make her look bad.

00:50:29Don't play victim with me.

00:50:30You scrubbed down in cold water

00:50:32every day in there,

00:50:33didn't you?

00:50:34I looked at Miles.

00:50:35He met my eyes with something

00:50:36that might have been apology.

00:50:38Then he said,

00:50:39She's a little spoiled.

00:50:40It's just a shower.

00:50:41Can you just go along with it?

00:50:42I went still.

00:50:44The man standing in front of me

00:50:46was not the Miles I grew up with.

00:50:48Then I won't come in.

00:50:50I said,

00:50:51Thank you for the offer.

00:50:52I turned to go.

00:50:54His voice stopped me.

00:50:55Are you seriously

00:50:56still holding a grudge?

00:50:57I said I'd make it up to you.

00:50:59What more do you want?

00:51:00I turned back.

00:51:02Did I kill someone?

00:51:03Did I put you in prison

00:51:05for 10 years?

00:51:06Did I invite myself

00:51:07into your house?

00:51:08Three questions.

00:51:10His face went red.

00:51:11You're coming inside

00:51:13and you're doing it clean.

00:51:15The staff came out

00:51:16with a pressure hose.

00:51:19The water hit me

00:51:20like a wall of ice.

00:51:22I curled into myself,

00:51:23arms wrapped around my chest,

00:51:25shaking so hard

00:51:26my teeth rattled.

00:51:27My spring jacket

00:51:28went soaked through in seconds.

00:51:29I lifted my head.

00:51:31There you go.

00:51:31I took care of it.

00:51:33Stop being mad.

00:51:33You're too pretty

00:51:34to make that face.

00:51:35She pressed herself

00:51:36against him

00:51:36and kissed him

00:51:37and right there on the steps

00:51:38like I wasn't on my knees

00:51:40in the ice water

00:51:4010 feet away.

00:51:41I stopped fighting.

00:51:43I let the water hit me.

00:51:45A night years ago,

00:51:46also snowing,

00:51:48Miles and I huddled

00:51:49under a highway overpass,

00:51:50one rotting blanket

00:51:51between us.

00:51:52This is the last cold winter

00:51:53we'll ever have, Jade.

00:51:55I swear,

00:51:56I will never let you freeze again.

00:51:57I had believed him completely.

00:52:00But he had forgotten

00:52:01completely now.

00:52:03Eventually,

00:52:03Fiona clapped her hands.

00:52:05All right.

00:52:06That's enough.

00:52:07You're clean.

00:52:08Come inside.

00:52:09I was soaking wet

00:52:11and shaking

00:52:11when my body went forward

00:52:13instead of upright.

00:52:19I woke up

00:52:20three days later.

00:52:23Miles was talking

00:52:24to the house doctor.

00:52:28When he saw

00:52:29my eyes open,

00:52:30he came to the bed

00:52:31quickly.

00:52:33Jade, I'm sorry.

00:52:34I didn't know

00:52:34your body was this bad.

00:52:36Is anything still hurting?

00:52:37I shook my head.

00:52:38He waited.

00:52:39I didn't say anything.

00:52:41Finally,

00:52:42he asked,

00:52:42quietly,

00:52:43Your leg.

00:52:45Why are you...

00:52:45How did that happen?

00:52:46I looked at the ceiling.

00:52:47The block leader

00:52:48in my unit.

00:52:49I wouldn't hand over

00:52:50the money I earned

00:52:51doing labor.

00:52:53So they broke

00:52:54my ankle

00:52:54to teach me a lesson.

00:52:58After that,

00:52:59they decided

00:52:59that was boring,

00:53:00so they stopped

00:53:01letting me eat.

00:53:02Whatever food I got,

00:53:03they took.

00:53:04Then that got boring too,

00:53:05so they held me down

00:53:07and force-fed me

00:53:08scalding food

00:53:08straight from the pot.

00:53:10Silence.

00:53:11Why didn't you tell me

00:53:12yesterday?

00:53:13His voice came out

00:53:14strange,

00:53:15tight.

00:53:17I used to,

00:53:18I said.

00:53:21The first time

00:53:22they hit me,

00:53:22I screamed your name.

00:53:24Miles.

00:53:25Help me,

00:53:25Miles,

00:53:26come get me.

00:53:27Then I figured out

00:53:28it didn't work.

00:53:30Eventually,

00:53:30you stopped calling

00:53:31for someone

00:53:32who isn't coming.

00:53:33He grabbed my hand.

00:53:34His was shaking.

00:53:35I'm getting you

00:53:35the best doctors.

00:53:37You're going to get better.

00:53:38I'll give you back

00:53:38everything I took from you.

00:53:40Stay here while you recover.

00:53:41I'll have someone

00:53:42with you around the clock.

00:53:43When you're well,

00:53:44I'll feel better

00:53:44about you leaving.

00:53:46I gave him a small smile.

00:53:48Okay.

00:53:51He was going to be disappointed.

00:53:53I wouldn't live long enough

00:53:54for any of that.

00:53:57Rest.

00:53:58I'll check on you later.

00:54:00Then walked out fast,

00:54:02like the room was on fire.

00:54:04That afternoon,

00:54:05he transferred the deed

00:54:06on a house in the Soberds

00:54:08into my name

00:54:08and put $10 million

00:54:10in a new bank account.

00:54:13He started to say

00:54:13something else

00:54:14but seemed to lose it.

00:54:16You're old things.

00:54:17Everything's in here.

00:54:19Do you have to be

00:54:20this formal with me?

00:54:22I know I didn't...

00:54:22Miles?

00:54:23Dinner.

00:54:24I didn't want to go.

00:54:25I physically

00:54:26couldn't eat anymore.

00:54:27The cancer made sure of that.

00:54:29But Fiona said

00:54:30she'd cooked specifically for me

00:54:31to help me get my strength back

00:54:32and I had to come down.

00:54:34So I did.

00:54:35I took one sip of the soup.

00:54:38My esophagus felt like it caught fire.

00:54:41I set down my spoon.

00:54:43Thank you for making this, Fiona.

00:54:45It's really good.

00:54:46I'm full.

00:54:49Are you doing this on purpose?

00:54:51You had one sip.

00:54:52I cooked for three hours.

00:54:54You're finishing every bite.

00:54:59The smell of the food alone

00:55:01had my stomach turning.

00:55:03I'm not well,

00:55:05I said.

00:55:05My face had gone white.

00:55:07I genuinely can't.

00:55:08Because I scared you

00:55:09into the hospital last week,

00:55:10I made this as an apology.

00:55:12And you can't even give me

00:55:13the decency of eating it.

00:55:15I should have saved myself

00:55:16the trouble.

00:55:17The housekeeper piped up

00:55:18from the corner.

00:55:19She burned her hands

00:55:20making it.

00:55:21Got blisters.

00:55:22Some people don't know

00:55:23how to appreciate kindness.

00:55:25Ungrateful.

00:55:26Without looking up,

00:55:27he said,

00:55:28Jade, don't cause a seed.

00:55:29She put in the effort.

00:55:31Just finish it.

00:55:32I laughed before

00:55:33I could stop myself.

00:55:34Then I pressed the laugh down

00:55:36and said quietly,

00:55:37Miles,

00:55:37I have ethophical cancer.

00:55:40Stage four.

00:55:41I can't eat.

00:55:44And now you're cursing yourself?

00:55:46You're going to die next,

00:55:47I assume?

00:55:49It's one meal, Jade.

00:55:51Stop being dramatic.

00:56:11She is the real killer!

00:56:13You have been arrested.

00:56:16I was in prison for 10 years

00:56:18for intentional homicide.

00:56:2010 years of being screamed at,

00:56:23beaten, bullied,

00:56:24my uterus damaged from the beatings,

00:56:26my ankle shattered.

00:56:28The only thing that kept me alive

00:56:30was one question I needed

00:56:31to ask my boyfriend, Miles.

00:56:35Why?

00:56:37Miles had been my knight,

00:56:39my loyal, unwavering protector.

00:56:41Junior year of high school,

00:56:43a girl tried to bully me.

00:56:44The next day,

00:56:45her naked photos

00:56:46were plastered across

00:56:47the school's main screen

00:56:49for everyone to see.

00:56:50She never recovered.

00:56:52Senior year,

00:56:53an older guy wanted me

00:56:54and slipped something into my drink.

00:56:57Miles put him in the hospital.

00:56:59Partial paralysis.

00:57:01He never walked right away.

00:57:06After that,

00:57:07anyone who hurt me

00:57:07got hurt back

00:57:08because he'd made a promise

00:57:10in the front of my parents' graves

00:57:11when I was 10 years old.

00:57:13Mr. and Mrs. Gratian,

00:57:14I swear I'll protect Jade

00:57:15for the rest of my life.

00:57:17He kept that promise

00:57:18from the time I was 10

00:57:19until I was 19.

00:57:22Miles was like my shadow.

00:57:24Wherever I was,

00:57:25he was behind me.

00:57:28Until I turned 19,

00:57:30Miles fell in love

00:57:30with someone else.

00:57:33She was loud

00:57:35and dazzling

00:57:35and nothing like

00:57:36anyone we'd ever known.

00:57:39Prove to me

00:57:40you're completely crazy

00:57:42about me

00:57:42and I'll be yours.

00:57:46So Miles drove a knife

00:57:47into her fiancé.

00:57:48Again and again,

00:57:50the man bled out.

00:57:52When the police arrived,

00:57:54Miles pressed the knife

00:57:55into my hand.

00:57:56Then he pointed at me.

00:57:58As they dragged me away,

00:58:00the last thing

00:58:01I heard him say was,

00:58:02I'm sorry.

00:58:04The day I got out,

00:58:06it snowed so hard

00:58:07I could barely see.

00:58:09I stood at the prison gates

00:58:11feeling like I'd stepped out

00:58:12of a different century.

00:58:14But I recognized him instantly.

00:58:26Jade.

00:58:28I came to take you home.

00:58:32Ten years had stripped

00:58:33every trace of the boy

00:58:34he used to be.

00:58:35He looked composed,

00:58:37polished.

00:58:38Miles.

00:58:39My voice came out quiet.

00:58:40No anger in it.

00:58:41I didn't have the energy

00:58:42for anger.

00:58:43Why?

00:58:44My parents had died

00:58:45because of him,

00:58:46murdered by his family's enemies.

00:58:48He'd taken my ten-year-old hand

00:58:49and we'd run together.

00:58:51We slept under

00:58:51highway overspants.

00:58:53We fought rats

00:58:54for scraps of food.

00:58:55On the coldest nights,

00:58:56we held each other

00:58:57and shook until morning.

00:58:58He worked three jobs

00:59:00to put me through school.

00:59:02Worked himself

00:59:03until he coughed up blood.

00:59:04I cried when I saw it.

00:59:06He just wiped his mouth

00:59:07and said,

00:59:09I'm done for, Jade.

00:59:11But you're not.

00:59:12You've got something

00:59:13better ahead of you.

00:59:14I never understood

00:59:15why someone who was

00:59:16basically my family

00:59:17would hand me

00:59:18a murder weapon

00:59:18and watch me get arrested

00:59:20for a woman

00:59:21he'd known five minutes.

00:59:28I'm sorry, Jade.

00:59:30I was out of my mind

00:59:31over Fiona.

00:59:32I'd never met anyone

00:59:33like her.

00:59:34Everything she did,

00:59:35every look,

00:59:35every word,

00:59:36it got under my skin.

00:59:37She said if I went to prison,

00:59:38she'd end up with someone else.

00:59:39I couldn't risk it.

00:59:41I knew you'd get hurt,

00:59:42but I couldn't lose her.

00:59:44He said that

00:59:45while pulling Fiona closer.

00:59:49I was just talking

00:59:50when I said that.

00:59:51I didn't think

00:59:52he'd actually stabbed Marcus.

00:59:54But the second he did,

00:59:56I was gone for him.

00:59:58Don't feel too bad.

01:00:01Miles left you a house

01:00:02and ten million dollars.

01:00:04How many people would kill

01:00:05for that kind of payout?

01:00:06Literally.

01:00:08Her voice had the easy confidence

01:00:09of someone giving

01:00:10a homeless person

01:00:11spare change.

01:00:12None of it mattered to me.

01:00:13Not the money.

01:00:14Not the house.

01:00:15I had a fascicle cancer.

01:00:17Stage four.

01:00:19One month left, maybe.

01:00:22Okay.

01:00:24It's freezing out here, Jade.

01:00:26Get in the car.

01:00:28Miles turned

01:00:28and walked toward the house

01:00:29with Fiona,

01:00:31laughing at something she said.

01:00:36He didn't notice me

01:00:38limping behind them.

01:00:39Didn't notice that every step

01:00:41cost me something.

01:00:44We drove to Fiona's estate.

01:00:47Security guards,

01:00:48a staff of five,

01:00:49a house that looked

01:00:50like a hotel.

01:00:51Everything Miles and I

01:00:53used to dream about

01:00:53from under our overpass.

01:00:55He'd gotten all of it.

01:00:57He'd gotten every single thing

01:00:58we imagined.

01:01:00And I'd gotten ten years

01:01:02of concrete floors

01:01:03and iron bars.

01:01:05When we pulled up,

01:01:06Fiona stepped in front

01:01:07of the door.

01:01:10Hold on.

01:01:13I have a thing about germs.

01:01:15You need to clean up

01:01:16before you come inside.

01:01:17Someone who's been

01:01:18in prison for a decade

01:01:19needs a proper scrub

01:01:20before setting foot

01:01:22in my house.

01:01:23I understood exactly

01:01:24what she was doing.

01:01:26The temperature was

01:01:27somewhere below 20.

01:01:29A cold shower outside

01:01:30would kill me.

01:01:32I smiled,

01:01:34politely.

01:01:35That's fine.

01:01:36I don't need to come in.

01:01:37Fiona's eyes sharpened.

01:01:38She thought I was trying

01:01:39to make her look bad.

01:01:41Don't play victim with me.

01:01:43You scrubbed down

01:01:44in cold water

01:01:45every day in there,

01:01:45didn't you?

01:01:46I looked at Miles.

01:01:47He met my eyes

01:01:48with something

01:01:49that might have been apology.

01:01:50Then he said,

01:01:52She's a little spoiled.

01:01:53It's just a shower.

01:01:54Can you just go along with it?

01:01:55I went still.

01:01:57The man standing

01:01:58in front of me

01:01:58was not the Miles

01:01:59I grew up with.

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

01:02:02I said,

01:02:03Thank you for the offer.

01:02:05I turned to go.

01:02:06His voice stopped me.

01:02:08Are you seriously

01:02:08still holding a grudge?

01:02:10I said I'd make it up to you.

01:02:11What more do you want?

01:02:12I turned back.

01:02:14Did I kill someone?

01:02:16Did I put you in prison

01:02:17for 10 years?

01:02:18Did I invite myself

01:02:19into your house?

01:02:21Three questions.

01:02:22His face went red.

01:02:24You're coming inside

01:02:25and you're doing it clean.

01:02:28The staff came out

01:02:29with a pressure hose.

01:02:31The water hit me

01:02:32like a wall of ice.

01:02:34I curled into myself,

01:02:36arms wrapped around my chest,

01:02:37shaking so hard

01:02:38my teeth rattled.

01:02:39My spring jacket

01:02:40went soaked through

01:02:41in seconds.

01:02:42I lifted my head.

01:02:43There you go.

01:02:44I took care of it.

01:02:45Stop being mad.

01:02:46You're too pretty

01:02:46to make that face.

01:02:47She pressed herself

01:02:48against him

01:02:49and kissed him

01:02:50and right there on the steps

01:02:51like I wasn't on my knees

01:02:52in the ice water

01:02:5310 feet away.

01:02:54I stopped fighting.

01:02:55I let the water hit me.

01:02:57A night years ago,

01:02:59also snowing,

01:03:00Miles and I huddled

01:03:01under a highway overpass,

01:03:03one rotting blanket

01:03:03between us.

01:03:04This is the last cold winter

01:03:06we'll ever have, Jade.

01:03:07I swear.

01:03:08I will never let you

01:03:09freeze again.

01:03:10I had believed him

01:03:11completely.

01:03:13But he had forgotten

01:03:14completely now.

01:03:15Eventually,

01:03:16Fiona clapped her hands.

01:03:18All right.

01:03:19That's enough.

01:03:20You're clean.

01:03:20Come inside.

01:03:22I was soaking wet

01:03:23and shaking

01:03:24when my body went forward

01:03:25instead of upright.

01:03:32I woke up

01:03:33three days later.

01:03:36Miles was talking

01:03:37to the house doctor.

01:03:41When he saw my eyes open,

01:03:43he came to the bed

01:03:44quickly.

01:03:45Jade, I'm sorry.

01:03:47I didn't know your body

01:03:47was this bad.

01:03:48Is anything still hurting?

01:03:49I shook my head.

01:03:50He waited.

01:03:51I didn't say anything.

01:03:54Finally, he asked,

01:03:55quietly,

01:03:56Your leg.

01:03:57Why are you...

01:03:58How did that happen?

01:03:59I looked at the ceiling.

01:04:00The block leader

01:04:00in my unit.

01:04:02I wouldn't hand over

01:04:03the money I earned

01:04:04doing labor.

01:04:06So they broke

01:04:06my ankle

01:04:07to teach me a lesson.

01:04:10After that,

01:04:11they decided

01:04:12that was boring.

01:04:13So they stopped

01:04:13letting me eat.

01:04:14Whatever food I got,

01:04:15they took.

01:04:16Then that got boring too.

01:04:18So they held me down

01:04:19and force-fed me

01:04:20scalding food

01:04:21straight from the pot.

01:04:22Silence.

01:04:23Why didn't you

01:04:24tell me yesterday?

01:04:25His voice came out

01:04:27strange,

01:04:28tight.

01:04:29I used to,

01:04:30I said.

01:04:33The first time

01:04:34they hit me,

01:04:35I screamed your name.

01:04:36Miles.

01:04:37Help me,

01:04:38Miles,

01:04:38come get me.

01:04:40Then I figured out

01:04:41it didn't work.

01:04:42Eventually,

01:04:43you stopped calling

01:04:44for someone

01:04:44who isn't coming.

01:04:45He grabbed my hand.

01:04:47His was shaking.

01:04:47I'm getting you

01:04:48the best doctors.

01:04:49You're going to get better.

01:04:50I'll give you back

01:04:51everything I took from you.

01:04:52Stay here while you recover.

01:04:53I'll have someone with you

01:04:54around the clock.

01:04:56When you're well,

01:04:56I'll feel better

01:04:57about you leaving.

01:04:58I gave him a small smile.

01:05:01Okay.

01:05:03He was going to be disappointed.

01:05:06I wouldn't live long enough

01:05:07for any of that.

01:05:09Rest.

01:05:11I'll check on you later.

01:05:13Then walked out fast,

01:05:14like the room was on fire.

01:05:16That afternoon,

01:05:18he transferred the deed

01:05:19on a house

01:05:19in the Soberds

01:05:20into my name

01:05:21and put $10 million

01:05:22in a new bank account.

01:05:25He started to say

01:05:26something else

01:05:27but seemed to lose it.

01:05:28You're old things.

01:05:30Everything's in here.

01:05:32Do you have to be

01:05:33this formal with me?

01:05:34I know I didn't...

01:05:35Miles?

01:05:36Dinner.

01:05:37I didn't want to go.

01:05:38I physically

01:05:38couldn't eat anymore.

01:05:40The cancer

01:05:40made sure of that.

01:05:41But Fiona said

01:05:42she'd cooked

01:05:43specifically for me

01:05:44to help me get

01:05:44my strength back

01:05:45and I had to come down.

01:05:46So I did.

01:05:47I took one sip

01:05:48of the soup.

01:05:50My esophagus

01:05:51felt like it caught fire.

01:05:54I set down my spoon.

01:05:56Thank you for making this,

01:05:57Fiona.

01:05:58It's really good.

01:05:59I'm full.

01:06:01Are you doing this

01:06:02on purpose?

01:06:03You had one sip.

01:06:05I cooked for three hours.

01:06:06You're finishing

01:06:07every bite.

01:06:12The smell of the food alone

01:06:13had my stomach turning.

01:06:16I'm not well,

01:06:17I said.

01:06:18My face had gone white.

01:06:19I genuinely can't.

01:06:20Because I scared you

01:06:21into the hospital last week,

01:06:23I made this as an apology.

01:06:24And you can't even give me

01:06:26the decency of eating it.

01:06:27I should have saved myself

01:06:29the trouble.

01:06:29The housekeeper piped up

01:06:31from the corner.

01:06:32She burned her hands

01:06:33making it.

01:06:33Got blisters.

01:06:34Some people don't know

01:06:35how to appreciate kindness.

01:06:38ungrateful.

01:06:39Without looking up,

01:06:40he said,

01:06:41Jade, don't cause a scene.

01:06:42She put in the effort.

01:06:43Just finish it.

01:06:45I laughed before

01:06:46I could stop myself.

01:06:47Then I pressed the laugh

01:06:48down and said,

01:06:49quietly,

01:06:50Miles,

01:06:50I have ethophical cancer.

01:06:52Stage four.

01:06:53I can't eat.

01:06:56And now you're cursing yourself?

01:06:58You're going to die next,

01:07:00I assume?

01:07:02It's one meal, Jade.

01:07:04Stop being dramatic.

01:07:23She is the real killer!

01:07:25You have been arrested.

01:07:29I was in prison for ten years

01:07:31for intentional homicide.

01:07:33Ten years of being screamed at,

01:07:35beaten,

01:07:36bullied,

01:07:36my uterus damaged from the beatings,

01:07:39my ankle shattered.

01:07:41The only thing that kept me alive

01:07:43was one question I needed to ask

01:07:44my boyfriend, Miles.

01:07:49Miles had been my knight,

01:07:52my loyal,

01:07:52unwavering protector.

01:07:54Junior year of high school,

01:07:55a girl tried to bully me.

01:07:57The next day,

01:07:58her naked photos

01:07:59were plastered across

01:08:00the school's main screen

01:08:01for everyone to see.

01:08:03She never recovered.

01:08:04Senior year,

01:08:05an older guy wanted me

01:08:06and slipped something

01:08:07into my drink.

01:08:09Miles put him in the hospital.

01:08:12partial paralysis.

01:08:14He never walked right again.

01:08:18After that,

01:08:19anyone who hurt me

01:08:20got hurt back

01:08:21because he'd made a promise

01:08:22in the front of my parents' graves

01:08:24when I was ten years old.

01:08:25Mr. and Mrs. Gratian,

01:08:27I swear I'll protect Jade

01:08:28for the rest of my life.

01:08:29He kept that promise

01:08:30from the time I was ten

01:08:32until I was nineteen.

01:08:34Miles was like my shadow.

01:08:36Wherever I was,

01:08:38he was behind me.

01:08:40Until I turned nineteen,

01:08:42Miles fell in love

01:08:43with someone else.

01:08:46She was loud and dazzling

01:08:48and nothing like anyone

01:08:49we'd ever known.

01:08:52Prove to me

01:08:53you're completely crazy about me

01:08:55and I'll be yours.

01:08:58So Miles drove a knife

01:09:00into her fiancé.

01:09:01Again and again,

01:09:02the man bled out.

01:09:05When the police arrived,

01:09:06Miles pressed the knife

01:09:07into my hand.

01:09:08Then he pointed at me.

01:09:11As they dragged me away,

01:09:12the last thing

01:09:13I heard him say was,

01:09:14I'm sorry.

01:09:17The day I got out,

01:09:18it snowed so hard

01:09:20I could barely see.

01:09:21I stood at the prison gates

01:09:23feeling like I'd stepped out

01:09:24of a different century.

01:09:27But I recognized him instantly.

01:09:38Jade.

01:09:40I came to take you home.

01:09:44Ten years had stripped

01:09:45every trace of the boy

01:09:47he used to be.

01:09:48He looked composed,

01:09:49polished.

01:09:50Miles.

01:09:51My voice came out quiet.

01:09:53No anger in it.

01:09:54I didn't have the energy

01:09:55for anger.

01:09:56Why?

01:09:56My parents had died

01:09:57because of him,

01:09:58murdered by his family's enemies.

01:10:00He'd taken my ten-year-old hand

01:10:02and we'd run together.

01:10:03We slept under

01:10:04highway overspants.

01:10:05We fought rats

01:10:06for scraps of food.

01:10:07On the coldest nights,

01:10:08we held each other

01:10:09and shook until morning.

01:10:11He worked three jobs

01:10:12to put me through school.

01:10:14Worked himself

01:10:15until he coughed up blood.

01:10:17I cried when I saw it.

01:10:19He just wiped his mouth

01:10:20and said,

01:10:22I'm done for, Jade.

01:10:23But you're not.

01:10:24You've got something

01:10:25better ahead of you.

01:10:26I never understood

01:10:28why someone who was

01:10:29basically my family

01:10:30would hand me a murder weapon

01:10:31and watch me get arrested.

01:10:33For a woman he'd known

01:10:34five minutes.

01:10:41I'm sorry, Jade.

01:10:42I was out of my mind

01:10:43over Fiona.

01:10:44I'd never met anyone like her.

01:10:46Everything she did,

01:10:47every look,

01:10:48every word,

01:10:48it got under my skin.

01:10:50She said if I went to prison

01:10:51she'd end up with someone else.

01:10:52I couldn't risk it.

01:10:53I knew you'd get hurt.

01:10:55But I couldn't lose her.

01:10:57He said that while

01:10:58pulling Fiona closer.

01:11:02I was just talking

01:11:03when I said that.

01:11:04I didn't think he'd actually

01:11:05stabbed Marcus.

01:11:06But the second he did,

01:11:08I was gone for him.

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

01:11:13Miles left you a house

01:11:14and ten million dollars.

01:11:16How many people would kill

01:11:17for that kind of payout?

01:11:19Literally.

01:11:20Her voice had the easy confidence

01:11:22of someone giving

01:11:23a homeless person

01:11:24spare change.

01:11:24None of it mattered to me.

01:11:26Not the money.

01:11:27Not the house.

01:11:28I had a fascicle cancer.

01:11:30Stage four.

01:11:31One month left, maybe.

01:11:34Okay.

01:11:36It's freezing out here, Jade.

01:11:38Get in the car.

01:11:40Miles turned and walked

01:11:41toward the house with Fiona,

01:11:43laughing at something she said.

01:11:49He didn't notice me

01:11:50limping behind them.

01:11:52Didn't notice that every step

01:11:53cost me something.

01:11:56We drove to Fiona's estate.

01:11:59Security guards,

01:12:00a staff of five,

01:12:02a house that looked like a hotel.

01:12:04Everything Miles and I used to dream about

01:12:06from under our overpass.

01:12:07He'd gotten all of it.

01:12:09He'd gotten every single thing

01:12:11we imagined.

01:12:13And I'd gotten ten years

01:12:14of concrete floors

01:12:16and iron bars.

01:12:17When we pulled up,

01:12:19Fiona stepped in front of the door.

01:12:23Hold on.

01:12:26I have a thing about germs.

01:12:28You need to clean up

01:12:28before you come inside.

01:12:30Someone who's been in prison

01:12:31for a decade

01:12:32needs a proper scrub

01:12:33before setting foot

01:12:34in my house.

01:12:35I understood exactly

01:12:37what she was doing.

01:12:38The temperature was

01:12:39somewhere below 20.

01:12:42A cold shower outside

01:12:43would kill me.

01:12:45I smiled.

01:12:46Politely.

01:12:47That's fine.

01:12:48I don't need to come in.

01:12:49Fiona's eyes sharpened.

01:12:51She thought I was trying

01:12:52to make her look bad.

01:12:54Don't play victim with me.

01:12:55You scrubbed down

01:12:56in cold water

01:12:57every day in there,

01:12:58didn't you?

01:12:59I looked at Miles.

01:13:00He met my eyes

01:13:01with something

01:13:01that might have been apology.

01:13:03Then he said,

01:13:04She's a little spoiled.

01:13:05It's just a shower.

01:13:06Can you just go along with it?

01:13:08I went still.

01:13:09The man standing in front of me

01:13:11was not the Miles

01:13:11I grew up with.

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

01:13:15I said,

01:13:15Thank you for the offer.

01:13:17I turned to go.

01:13:18His voice stopped me.

01:13:20Are you seriously

01:13:21still holding a grudge?

01:13:22I said I'd make it up to you.

01:13:24What more do you want?

01:13:25I turned back.

01:13:27Did I kill someone?

01:13:28Did I put you in prison

01:13:30for 10 years?

01:13:31Did I invite myself

01:13:32into your house?

01:13:33Three questions.

01:13:35His face went red.

01:13:36You're coming inside.

01:13:38And you're doing it clean.

01:13:40The staff came out

01:13:41with a pressure hose.

01:13:44The water hit me

01:13:45like a wall of ice.

01:13:47I curled into myself,

01:13:48arms wrapped around my chest,

01:13:50shaking so hard

01:13:51my teeth rattled.

01:13:52My spring jacket

01:13:53went soaked

01:13:53through in seconds.

01:13:54I lifted my head.

01:13:56There you go.

01:13:56I took care of it.

01:13:58Stop being mad.

01:13:58You're too pretty

01:13:59to make that face.

01:14:00She pressed herself

01:14:01against him

01:14:01and kissed him

01:14:02right there on the steps

01:14:03like I wasn't on my knees

01:14:05in the ice water

01:14:0510 feet away.

01:14:07I stopped fighting.

01:14:08I let the water hit me.

01:14:10A night years ago,

01:14:11also snowing,

01:14:13Miles and I huddled

01:14:14under a highway overpass,

01:14:15one rotting blanket

01:14:16between us.

01:14:17This is the last cold winter

01:14:18we'll ever have, Jade.

01:14:20I swear.

01:14:20I will never let you

01:14:22freeze again.

01:14:23I had believed him

01:14:24completely.

01:14:25But he had forgotten

01:14:26completely now.

01:14:28Eventually,

01:14:29Fiona clapped her hands.

01:14:30I was soaking wet

01:14:36and shaking

01:14:36when my body

01:14:37went forward

01:14:38instead of upright.

01:14:44I woke up

01:14:45three days later.

01:14:48Miles was talking

01:14:49to the house doctor.

01:14:53When he saw my eyes open,

01:14:55he came to the bed

01:14:56quickly.

01:14:58Jade, I'm sorry.

01:14:59I didn't know your body

01:15:00was this bad.

01:15:01Is anything still hurting?

01:15:02I shook my head.

01:15:03He waited.

01:15:04I didn't say anything.

01:15:06Finally,

01:15:07he asked,

01:15:07quietly,

01:15:08Your leg.

01:15:10Why are you...

01:15:10How did that happen?

01:15:11I looked at the ceiling.

01:15:12The block leader

01:15:13in my unit.

01:15:14I wouldn't hand over

01:15:15the money I earned

01:15:16doing labor.

01:15:18So they broke

01:15:19my ankle

01:15:19to teach me a lesson.

01:15:23After that,

01:15:24they decided

01:15:24that was boring.

01:15:25So they stopped

01:15:26letting me eat.

01:15:27Whatever food I got,

01:15:28they took.

01:15:29Then that got boring too.

01:15:30So they held me down

01:15:32and force-fed me

01:15:32scalding food

01:15:33straight from the pot.

01:15:35Silence.

01:15:36Why didn't you

01:15:37tell me yesterday?

01:15:38His voice came out

01:15:39strange,

01:15:40tight.

01:15:42I used to,

01:15:43I said.

01:15:46The first time

01:15:47they hit me,

01:15:47I screamed your name.

01:15:49Miles.

01:15:50Help me,

01:15:50Miles, come get me.

01:15:52Then I figured out

01:15:53it didn't work.

01:15:55Eventually,

01:15:55you stopped calling

01:15:56for someone

01:15:57who isn't coming.

01:15:58He grabbed my hand.

01:15:59His was shaking.

01:16:00I'm getting you

01:16:00the best doctors.

01:16:02You're going to get better.

01:16:03I'll give you back

01:16:03everything I took from you.

01:16:05Stay here while you recover.

01:16:06I'll have someone

01:16:07with you around the clock.

01:16:08When you're well,

01:16:09I'll feel better

01:16:09about you leaving.

01:16:11I gave him

01:16:12a small smile.

01:16:13Okay.

01:16:16He was going

01:16:16to be disappointed.

01:16:18I wouldn't live

01:16:19long enough

01:16:19for any of that.

01:16:22Rest.

01:16:23I'll check on you later.

01:16:25Then walked out fast,

01:16:27like the room

01:16:28was on fire.

01:16:29That afternoon,

01:16:30he transferred

01:16:31the deed on a house

01:16:32in the Soberds

01:16:33into my name

01:16:33and put ten million dollars

01:16:35in a new bank account.

01:16:38He started to say

01:16:38something else,

01:16:39but seemed to lose it.

01:16:41You're old things.

01:16:42Everything's in here.

01:16:44Do you have to be

01:16:45this formal with me?

01:16:46I know I'd-

01:16:47Miles.

01:16:48Dinner.

01:16:49I didn't want to go.

01:16:50I physically

01:16:51couldn't eat anymore.

01:16:52The cancer made sure of that.

01:16:54But Fiona said

01:16:55she'd cooked specifically

01:16:56for me to help me

01:16:56get my strength back

01:16:57and I had to come down.

01:16:59So I did.

01:17:00I took one sip

01:17:01of the soup.

01:17:03My esophagus

01:17:04felt like it caught fire.

01:17:06I set down my spoon.

01:17:08Thank you for making this,

01:17:10Fiona.

01:17:10It's really good.

01:17:11I'm full.

01:17:14Are you doing this

01:17:15on purpose?

01:17:16You had one sip.

01:17:17I cooked for three hours.

01:17:19You're finishing every bite.

01:17:24The smell of the food alone

01:17:26had my stomach turning.

01:17:28I'm not well,

01:17:30I said.

01:17:30My face had gone white.

01:17:32I genuinely can't.

01:17:33Because I scared you

01:17:34into the hospital last week,

01:17:35I made this as an apology.

01:17:37And you can't even give me

01:17:38the decency of eating it.

01:17:40I should have saved myself

01:17:41the trouble.

01:17:42The housekeeper piped up

01:17:43from the corner.

01:17:44She burned her hands

01:17:45making it.

01:17:46Got blisters.

01:17:47Some people don't know

01:17:48how to appreciate kindness.

01:17:50Ungrateful.

01:17:51Without looking up,

01:17:52he said,

01:17:53Jade, don't cause a sweet.

01:17:54She put in the effort.

01:17:56Just finish it.

01:17:57I laughed before I could

01:17:58stop myself.

01:17:59Then I pressed the laugh down

01:18:01and said, quietly,

01:18:02Miles,

01:18:03I have ethophical cancer.

01:18:05Stage four.

01:18:06I can't eat.

01:18:09And now you're cursing yourself?

01:18:11You're going to die next,

01:18:12I assume?

01:18:14It's one meal, Jade.

01:18:16Stop being dramatic.

01:18:29A jam.

01:18:29I'll言.

01:18:29I'll tell you what I'm doing.

01:18:32Bye.

01:18:32You

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