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00:25To be continued...
00:54To be continued...
01:28...around each other's shoulders at the bar.
01:29Replaying the beating I had just taken.
01:32My screams continued through the speaker.
01:35Look at her.
01:36Not a decent patch of skin left on her except that face.
01:39She looks like a clown.
01:41If she knew Nico was Cass's cousin, she'd probably drop day from rage.
01:44But hey, next time can we take it up a notch?
01:46I think we can...
01:47Enough!
01:47The moment Cassian spoke, the room went silent.
01:52He took a deep pull from his cigar, his face shadowed and cold.
01:56Don't even fucking think about that sick shit.
01:58On the surface, she's still my woman.
01:59If you do that to her, have you thought about how it makes me feel?
02:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:03We miss both.
02:03A chorus of eager apologies rushed in at once.
02:06I bit down hard on my lip, my mouth full of blood dripping onto the muddy ground.
02:11Before they noticed me, I turned and dragged my ruined body in the opposite direction.
02:16A fine, steady rain washed over my filthy, torn skin.
02:20I thought back to the night I met Cassian.
02:23I was recording data at a race training track.
02:25The track was empty when a black race car suddenly stopped in front of me.
02:28The door popped open, and a tall, lean man took off his helmet.
02:32After glancing at the ID badge on my chest, he lifted an eyebrow.
02:36New here?
02:37I nodded, for some reason gripping my clipboard awkwardly tight.
02:40He tucked the helmet casually under one arm, his eyes landing on the water bottle in my hand.
02:44I'm dying of thirst. Can I steal a sip?
02:46I nodded before I could think.
02:47He shoved the helmet straight into my arms, tilted his head back, and drank more than half the bottle.
02:52A streak of water slid down over his sexy Adam's apple, and my face suddenly burned.
02:57Someone called his name in the distance.
02:59What's your name?
03:01Valentina.
03:01His smile deepened.
03:03Cute name.
03:04Then he ran back toward the track, while the sound of my own heartbeat drowned at the roar of the
03:08engines.
03:09Back then, drunk on sweetness, I had no idea I had already stepped into the trap they had dug so
03:13carefully for me.
03:14When I lifted my eyes again, all I saw was the gaudy glow of nightlight.
03:18After three days without food or water, the bad heart I had carried since childhood finally gave out.
03:23I clutched my chest, my knees slamming onto the scorching asphalt.
03:27As darkness pulsed across my vision, in the last second before consciousness dropped away,
03:32I heard the sharp squeal of drapes in the distance.
03:35Valentina!
03:35The sharp sting of disinfectant jolted me awake.
03:39Val, you're finally awake.
03:42I'm sorry.
03:43I got there too late.
03:45Made you suffer so much.
03:46Don't worry.
03:47This time, I won't let Nico get away with it.
03:49I'll make him pay in blood.
03:52Val, wasn't there a little tavern right beside you?
03:55Why didn't you go inside for help?
03:57Was there?
03:58I didn't notice.
04:00My face was covered in blood.
04:02That was lucky I could see the road.
04:04Cassie invisibly relaxed.
04:05He helped me sit up.
04:07Doctor's orders.
04:08You have to take these as soon as you wake up.
04:10I opened my mouth and swallowed the pills.
04:13Get some rest.
04:14If you need anything, ring for me.
04:17Then came a click.
04:18The hospital room door had been locked from the outside.
04:20I grew dizzier and dizzier, my whole body feeling as if it were on fire.
04:24The ceiling spun wildly above me.
04:26I reached for the call button by the bed, only to find a severed wire cut clean by something
04:31sharp.
04:31I had no choice but to pull the needle from the back of my hand and stagger toward the
04:35bathroom.
04:36The door handle would not budge.
04:37I rushed to the main door.
04:39Locked, too.
04:40My body burned hotter.
04:41I gulped for air and began tearing at my clothes without thinking.
04:44The gauze ripped away inch by inch.
04:46My wounds split open, dark blood seeping out.
04:49I curled up on the cold floor tiles, tears spilling out of my control.
04:55Cassian.
04:56Help me.
04:58The silence inside the room made the laughter outside the door ring in instantly.
05:03Holy shit, boys.
05:05She really looks like she's about to strip.
05:07Look at her crawling around on the floor.
05:09Hurry up and film it.
05:10Sophia said she wants the live stream.
05:13Didn't think this Afrojaic would hit that hard.
05:17Cassian sounded just as careless.
05:19All right, don't forget to open the door when you're done playing.
05:21The Castelloni family is discussing a new partnership lately.
05:24Don't cause me problems.
05:26I stopped moving at once, so this was another game.
05:30My legs shaking.
05:31I stood and lifted my head toward the window.
05:33My naked skin was flushed in unnatural red, and the gauze on my body had long since been
05:38torn to shreds.
05:38Below the second floor was a stretch of shrubs.
05:41I raised the IV stand.
05:43The next second, crack.
05:44The sound of the window shattered and echoed across the whole floor.
05:47Fuck!
05:48That bitch is going to jump!
05:50The instant the cold wind poured in, I stepped barefoot onto the windowsill.
05:56No.
05:57Valina!
05:58Cassian's voice cracked.
05:59He rushed forward, yanked me down from the windowsill, and we crashed to the floor together.
06:04My vision went black.
06:05Doctors!
06:06Nurse!
06:07Get the hell in here!
06:08Now!
06:11Her medication was switched.
06:12It was replaced with an aphrodisiac.
06:14This drug has caused organic damage to the central nervous system.
06:17Without systematic rehabilitation, she may suffer cognitive decline in the future and
06:21plain tux dementia.
06:22The hospital room was very quiet.
06:24Cassian, who exactly did you offend that they would hurt me this badly?
06:28He lowered his head, avoiding my eyes, and came over as if to wipe the sweat from my forehead.
06:33I'm sorry.
06:33Then he turned and left the room, dragging in a terrified man from outside.
06:39What's going on?
06:40Cassian punched him in the face.
06:42The man crashed onto the tile floor, blood splattering across the white surface.
06:45He covered his head with both hands and knelt there, begging desperately.
06:49Cass!
06:49Cass!
06:50Calm down!
06:51I was wrong!
06:52I swear I was wrong!
06:54Cassian did not stop.
06:55Punch!
06:56Punch!
06:57Until blood foamed at the man's mouth, and he had nearly lost consciousness.
07:00Only then did Cassian shake the blood from his hand.
07:03Drag this trash out!
07:04My body trembled softly beyond my control.
07:07Cassian wiped the blood from his knuckles with a towel.
07:09Before turning back to me, his voice was gentle again.
07:11He was the one who told me those were supplements for your heart.
07:13If you hadn't gotten hurt, I never would have known they'd been switched.
07:17Don't worry.
07:17From now on, I'll personally check everything that passes through your hands.
07:22I won't let anyone hurt you again.
07:24I nodded blankly, putting on the look of someone still badly shaken.
07:28He immediately moved as if to hug me, but his phone suddenly ran.
07:32The moment the screen lit up, I saw the smile appear in his eyes.
07:36When he answered, Sofia Ferraro's sugary voice came through.
07:39Cass, baby, where are you?
07:41I miss you. I miss you so much.
07:44His expression shifted.
07:46He glanced at me.
07:48It's my father. Probably about the contract.
07:52He stammered through the lie, and quickly pressed the phone to his ear,
07:56and he strode out of the room and pulled the door shut.
08:00Once the door closed, I slipped barefoot and soundlessly to it,
08:04pressing my ear against the cold panel.
08:07His conversation with the others in the hall came in fragments.
08:11Isn't your anniversary with Valentana in a few days?
08:14I came up with an amazing idea.
08:16Since you and Sofia are about to make the engagement official anyway,
08:19why not use the anniversary as an excuse to bring her to the track
08:22and let her watch you hold the ceremony with another woman?
08:25And the track has that guest driving experience arranged, right?
08:29Put her alone in one car.
08:31Once she starts it, the brakes fail, and the car shoots straight off the track.
08:35Everyone watches her fly out.
08:38Sofia will be thrilled.
08:40No, I don't agree.
08:43Someone brushed it off.
08:44Why not?
08:45Engagement and revenge in one shot.
08:48Sofia gets to watch the person she hates most
08:50make a fool of herself at the happiest moment of her life.
08:53What could be more perfect?
08:55Just then, Sofia's tiny sobs came through the phone.
08:58Cass, didn't you say you'd do anything for me?
09:02Then Cassian spoke, tired and yielding.
09:04Fine, I promise.
09:06Stop crying.
09:07The call ended.
09:08I slowly backed away from the door
09:10and returned to the bed,
09:12leaning weakly against the headboard.
09:14A cold smile tugged at the corner of my mouth.
09:16Then, the encrypted channel on my phone,
09:19silent for nearly three years,
09:21suddenly lit up.
09:23I remembered that family gathering years ago.
09:26My mother, Ilina's face, cold.
09:28A daughter of the Moretti family does not need to swallow humiliation.
09:32He isn't right for you.
09:34If you don't break up with him,
09:37don't contact this family ever again.
09:39I had left in a fit of anger without looking back.
09:42In that moment,
09:43I could not hold it in any longer.
09:46I buried my face in the blanket and cried.
09:49Then, over the encrypted line,
09:51I told her everything that had happened these past few days.
09:54Then I told her my plan.
09:56I was going to turn their anniversary plot back on them.
09:58I needed her people.
10:00The other end was silent for a long time.
10:03Then one word came back.
10:05Good.
10:07On the day of the anniversary,
10:09I was taken to the private racetrack under the Castellano family's name
10:12and seated alone inside a race car.
10:14Do you feel unwell anywhere?
10:15I shook my head,
10:16pretending not to notice the spectacle around us.
10:19Why are there so many people here?
10:21Looks like some kind of ceremony.
10:22His eyes flickered.
10:23In the end,
10:24he only reached out and touched my head.
10:26It's a surprise I prepared for you.
10:28Then he turned and strode away.
10:29I watched his back and smiled silently.
10:31Cassian,
10:32I gave you one last chance to take it.
10:36I immediately lowered my head and checked the car.
10:38The brake line had been tampered with,
10:40very subtly,
10:41but not well enough to fool me.
10:43Cassian didn't know that before I came to Latin America,
10:45I had spent three years running tracks
10:47in the Moretti family's underground training facility.
10:50A woman in a white dress appeared before the crowd,
10:52holding Cassian's hand.
10:54I recognized her.
10:56Sophia.
10:58Look how awful she looks.
11:00That's what she gets for not helping Sophia back then.
11:02A ceremony,
11:04and a race afterward.
11:06This is going to be car.
11:07I put on a lost, bewildered expression.
11:09Next second,
11:10someone pressed the button in his hand,
11:12and the car shot forward.
11:15Roar of the engines swallowed,
11:16cheers and cheers behind him.
11:18Car charged along the track to the bend.
11:21Number the seconds.
11:22Five.
11:23Four.
11:24Three.
11:25Five.
11:26On the blind spot,
11:27I brought it smoothly to a stop.
11:29The Moretti family's people were already waiting for me.
11:32Two agents silently got me into a black SUV.
11:34Once we had withdrawn to a safe distance,
11:37a deafening boom came from behind us.
11:39Flames burst high in the room.
11:41A big smoke blowed up.
11:43Fragments flying everywhere.
11:44The race car blew apart in the towering fire.
11:47A charred body arranged in advance was left inside the wreckage.
11:50At that moment,
11:51in all of their eyes,
11:53Valentina Reyes was dead.
11:59Valentina!
12:02The moment the risk blew off the track.
12:04It went flying!
12:06Think she passed out from fear?
12:08Doesn't she look like a cannonball?
12:09Sofia laughed until she bent over.
12:11Then a ton of the fire moves at the edge of the horizon.
12:14The shockwave from the explosion swept over the track.
12:18All color drained from Cassian's face in a single second.
12:21What did you do?
12:23It had nothing to do with me.
12:24I don't know anything.
12:25The other participants retreated several steps as well.
12:28Their faces bloodless.
12:30Cassian shoved the man away and ran toward the explosion.
12:33Sofia hurriedly grabbed his arm.
12:35Are you insane?
12:36We don't even know if there'll be a second explosion.
12:38What are you running over there for?
12:39Her expression turning vicious.
12:41As if she did not care at all.
12:43Besides,
12:43so what if it blew up?
12:45Didn't she deserve it?
12:46Cassian turned back in disbelief.
12:48What are you saying?
12:50Did I say something wrong?
12:52She was only ever a game.
12:54What about her?
12:55What about...
12:56What of her life?
12:57Does she not even have the right to live?
13:00His roar stunned everyone present.
13:01But none of the enforcers around him dared to go.
13:04The rescue team and private security arrived together,
13:07bringing firefighting equipment.
13:08Let me go!
13:09Anyone who stops me is dead!
13:11And thoroughly dousing the wreckage area.
13:14After the flames went out,
13:16they carried out a body burned black.
13:19No!
13:20Cassian broke violently free from everyone's grip
13:23and stumbled to the wreckage.
13:25He dropped to his knees
13:26and carefully gathered the charred body into his arms.
13:29This bracelet took me so long to make.
13:31You'd better treasure it.
13:33It was the couple's bracelet Valentina had made by hand.
13:35Sometime earlier, she had given it to him.
13:39He had not lifted his head then,
13:41only hummed absently.
13:42She had come closer,
13:43leaning in front of him,
13:44her eyes bright.
13:45When will you be willing to marry me?
13:47Cassian had hesitated.
13:48He had looked at her,
13:49at her radiant smile,
13:50and unconsciously touched the side of her face.
13:53He had imagined exchanging rings with her
13:55in some seaside chapel no one knew about,
13:57imagined what she would look like in a white wedding dress.
13:59But the phone had rung,
14:01seeing his father's name on the screen.
14:02He had said nothing,
14:03and he had not taken the bracelet.
14:05But Valentina had kept wearing it.
14:06Cassian knelt in the muddy water,
14:08his body shaking uncontrollably.
14:10Val, no!
14:12This isn't real!
14:13The sky suddenly darkened,
14:14and without warning,
14:15rain poured down in sheets.
14:17Rain washed the ground,
14:18washed the wreckage,
14:19washed the blackened body in his arms.
14:21On Cassian's face,
14:22rain mixed with tears.
14:24Why?
14:25Why couldn't you wait for me?
14:27Valina,
14:28I had already decided.
14:30Once all of this was over,
14:31I was going to apologize properly.
14:33I was going to beg you to forgive me.
14:36Then I would tell you the whole truth.
14:38I wasn't really going to marry Sophia.
14:39I was going to clean out every accomplice around me, too.
14:43We were going to start over.
14:45We were supposed to have a new beginning.
14:48Why did you?
14:49In that instant,
14:50he remembered the last look she had given him
14:53before setting off at the racetrack.
14:54It had been calm,
14:55too calm for her.
14:56Those amber eyes had looked at him quietly.
14:59He understood.
14:59So that's it?
15:01You already knew?
15:03He laughed and cried at the same time.
15:05No one behind him dared come near.
15:06Only when the rain eased,
15:08did Cassian stagger away,
15:09carrying the charred body in his arms.
15:11I'm going to bury my wife.
15:12He repeated it,
15:13his voice hoarse,
15:14as if rubbed raw by sandpaper.
15:16Sophia stumbled after him,
15:17her skirt dragging through the mud,
15:19stained with gray, black filth.
15:20She grabbed Cassian's arm, furious.
15:22What did you say?
15:24What are you doing?
15:27Cassian, I'm your fiancé.
15:29We've been together since we were 14.
15:32What is she?
15:34She's just a tool you use for fun.
15:36She's our enemy.
15:38I won't let you hold her.
15:40She reached out to shove the body in Cassian's arms.
15:42Cassian shoved her away.
15:45Sophia fell bodily into the standing water,
15:48her white dress soaked through.
15:49When she looked up and saw Cassian's eyes,
15:51she shrank back on instinct.
15:53Get out.
15:53Only those two words.
15:55Sophia opened her mouth, but said nothing.
15:57She watched him disappear into the end of the downpour,
15:59with the body in his arms.
16:01Cassian drove alone,
16:02taking the body to a mountaintop cemetery outside Bogota,
16:05private land belonging to the Castellano family,
16:07with the entire city spread below.
16:09He personally chose an east-facing plot.
16:12I know, Valentina.
16:14You always loved the morning sun best.
16:16His eyes were full of tenderness.
16:17It was nearly dusk.
16:18A crack opened in the lead-gray clouds,
16:20and the last sliver of sunlight fell across the newly-raised headstone.
16:24Cassian knelt and kissed the stone.
16:25I'm sorry.
16:26He sat before the grave the entire night.
16:28At dawn the next day,
16:29he returned to the apartment like a shell.
16:31With its soul ripped out,
16:32the instant he pushed open the door,
16:34he froze.
16:34He walked inside,
16:35and it felt as if Valentina were right beside him,
16:38introducing everything.
16:39I remember you said the lockers at the racetrack changing room were too small.
16:43From now on,
16:44all your racing suits and helmets can hang in the entryway.
16:47And then this whole display wall on the left side of the living room.
16:50I arranged all your trophies and medals by year.
16:53I wiped every single one clean.
16:56The dining table is dark walnut,
16:58and the sofa is the dark gray you like.
17:01And the fridge!
17:03He remembered Valentina handing him a beer.
17:06It's that Mexican dark beer you always drink.
17:08He walked into her closet.
17:09She did not have many clothes,
17:11most of them inexpensive brands she had bought herself,
17:13folded neatly.
17:14In the corner was a blue silk scarf.
17:16He remembered she always liked tying her hair with it.
17:19She loved blue,
17:20but there was not a trace of blue in this apartment.
17:22Cassian opened the fridge.
17:23Inside,
17:24Mexican dark beers were lined up neatly.
17:26Beside them sat only one small bottle of sparkling water.
17:29He closed the fridge door
17:31and rested his forehead against the cold metal panel,
17:33standing there for a long time.
17:35For the next half month,
17:36he stopped going to the company,
17:37stopped taking calls,
17:38stopped seeing anyone.
17:39When his assistant called,
17:40he would order directly.
17:42Call again,
17:43and I'll have someone throw you into the sea.
17:45Every night,
17:45he opened Valentina's closet,
17:47took out the clothes she had worn one by one,
17:49and piled them on the other half of the bed.
17:51Then he lay down
17:52and held the clothes in his arms.
17:53Late on the 16th night,
17:55he seemed to be dreaming.
17:55Valentina wore a lace floral slip dress
17:58and walked barefoot through the sunlight toward him.
18:00Her hair was long,
18:01curled in waves he had never seen before,
18:03falling on either side of her collarbones
18:05and swaying softly with each step.
18:08Cassian stood frozen,
18:10his throat tightening.
18:11He reached out
18:11and pulled her hard into his arms.
18:13He desperately breathed in the scent of her hair.
18:16His voice was very, very low.
18:17Val,
18:18it's been half a month.
18:20This is the first time you've come to see me.
18:23I missed you so much.
18:25She said nothing,
18:26only buried her face in the hollow of his neck.
18:28Her wavy hair brushed his jaw.
18:30He frowned without thinking.
18:31It feels so real.
18:33The next second,
18:34Cassian's eyes snapped open.
18:35In the darkness,
18:36there really was a woman pressed against him.
18:38Long, wavy hair spilled across his chest.
18:40She wore a floral slip dress,
18:42exactly like the one in the dream.
18:44He grabbed the wrist of the hand,
18:45sliding toward his waist,
18:47threw back the covers,
18:48and hurled the body off the bed.
18:49Who are you?
18:50The woman slowly lifted her head from the floor.
18:52It was Sofia Ferraro.
18:53She had always had sleek, straight hair.
18:56But tonight,
18:56she had curled it into waves.
18:58The style,
18:58color,
18:59even the width of the straps on the floral slip dress
19:01were identical to Valentina's.
19:03She knelt on the floor
19:04and looked up at him with wet eyes.
19:06Cassian,
19:07don't you like me like this?
19:08Cassian sprang off the bed
19:10and crossed the room in one stride.
19:11The corners of Sofia's mouth
19:13had just begun to lift when they froze.
19:15Cassian's five fingers locked around her throat,
19:17and he slammed her whole body into the wall.
19:21Pits of plaster fell into her curled hair.
19:23Who taught you this?
19:24All color vanished from Sofia's face in an instant.
19:27She slapped frantically at his forearm.
19:29Her eyes bloodshot from lack of hair.
19:31No one!
19:32I did it myself!
19:33He loosened his grip by an inch,
19:35just enough for her to take a breath.
19:36Sofia gasped desperately.
19:38Cassian,
19:38you haven't contacted me in more than half a week.
19:42You don't answer calls,
19:44you don't reply to messages.
19:45I went to the company to find you,
19:47and they said you hadn't shown up in two weeks.
19:50She swallowed,
19:51her throat moving under his palm.
19:53I only did this because I missed you too much.
19:56Cassian sneered,
19:57looking over the floral dress she wore.
19:59You dressed like her,
20:00wore her perfume,
20:01and climbed into my bed in the middle of the night.
20:04Who doesn't know what you're trying to do?
20:07Sofia,
20:08you really are tired of living.
20:10Sofia's tears ran down through his fingers.
20:12I'm sorry.
20:14I just thought it looked pretty.
20:16I didn't know Valentina dressed like this too.
20:18Before she finished,
20:19she worked up the nerve to rub her calf against his thigh,
20:21pressing her whole body into him.
20:23Just pity me.
20:25Cassian's pupils contracted.
20:26The next second,
20:27he freed one hand,
20:28grabbed the calf trying to coil around him,
20:30and twisted his wrist.
20:31The sound of bone-breaking was bloody pure
20:33in the silent bedroom.
20:34Sofia's scream nearly tore the room apart.
20:36Cold sweat instantly beaded across her forehead,
20:39and her convulsing body slid from his hand to the floor.
20:41Cassian,
20:42what's wrong with you?
20:44Don't you remember what we had?
20:46She trembled,
20:46her voice so shattered it could barely form a sentence.
20:49When we were 18,
20:51you gave me a birthday present,
20:52a silver necklace.
20:54You said you'd always protect me.
20:56We watched the sunset on the library roof,
20:59and you kissed my forehead.
21:01The more she spoke,
21:02the harder Cassian pressed his foot down on her other leg.
21:04Go on.
21:05His voice was ice.
21:06Keep talking until you think I'll soften.
21:08I'd like to see what comes first.
21:11My sympathy,
21:11or this leg breaking.
21:13He had already finished speaking.
21:14A second crack rang out.
21:15Sofia's mouth stretched wide open.
21:19Cassian took a step back,
21:20and looked down at the woman on the floor.
21:22Both her legs twisted at unnatural angles.
21:24She gulped for air,
21:25her eyes full of terror.
21:26No!
21:27Cass, please!
21:28My legs!
21:29No!
21:29Cassian's expression did not change in the slightest.
21:32He bent,
21:33seized her ankle with one hand,
21:34and dragged Sofia from the bedroom toward the front door.
21:37Her back scraped across the marble floor,
21:39and the hem of her floral dress was already soaked through with blood.
21:42Cassian, please!
21:44Her fingers clawed desperately at the floor.
21:46Several nails broke,
21:47leaving shallow streaks of blood behind.
21:49I'll never do it again!
21:51I swear!
21:52Please don't throw me away!
21:54Cassian did not look back.
21:55He opened the front door,
21:57threw her into the cold light of the hallway,
21:59and took out his phone and dialed a number.
22:02Come pick her up.
22:03The Ferraro family's butler sounded panicked on the other end.
22:06Young Castellino, what?
22:07From tonight on,
22:09Sofia Ferrado has nothing to do with the Castellino family.
22:11Cassian had only disgust left.
22:13My engagement to Sofia Ferrani is over.
22:16We have nothing to do with each other anymore.
22:18Come clean the trash from my doorstep quickly,
22:20or I can't guarantee she'll only lose the use of her legs.
22:23Then he hung up, before closing the door.
22:25He gave Sofia one last look.
22:27She was curled on the hallway tiles,
22:28both calves twisted at unnatural angles.
22:31Her waves spilled across the floor,
22:32and large patches of blood on her floral dress
22:35were clotting into black.
22:36She was still crying, but she no longer begged.
22:38She clamped both hands over her mouth,
22:40terrified of making too much noise.
22:41The door closed.
22:42The lock clipped into place.
22:44Soon, a car from the Ferraro family
22:45stopped below the apartment building for 20 minutes.
22:48People came up.
22:49People went down,
22:49and the blood in the hallway was washed clean.
22:52No one dared pause.
22:54For the next half month,
22:56Cassian began his purge.
22:57The first to fall was Mateo.
22:59He was the one who had suggested
23:00arranging the ceremony at the racetrack,
23:02so Valentina could witness the engagement
23:04with her own eyes.
23:05And he had also suggested sabotaging the brakes.
23:08The Castellano family's legal team
23:09sent him to prison on money laundering charges.
23:11Within 48 hours,
23:13three companies under his name
23:14were frozen by the courts,
23:15and his wife fled back to Mexico
23:17with their children overnight.
23:18The second was Diego.
23:20He had been responsible for cutting the call button wire
23:22at the hospital,
23:23and he had recorded the video
23:24and sent it to Sofia.
23:25Cassian had people shut down
23:27the four nightclubs he ran,
23:28then delivered years of corruption evidence
23:30against Diego's uncle,
23:31a politician in Bogota,
23:33to the media all at once.
23:34On the day his uncle was removed from office,
23:36Diego knelt outside the Castellano ancestral estate
23:39and knocked his forehead to the ground
23:41300 times until it was split and bloody.
23:44The door never opened for him.
23:45The third,
23:46the fourth,
23:47the fifth.
23:48Cassian settled accounts one by one.
23:50Some people were driven into a corner
23:51and knelt before Cassian with their whole families.
23:54Cass, we really know we were wrong.
23:56Please spare my family.
23:57They only want to live.
23:58Hit me, curse me, anything.
24:00But don't go after them.
24:01Cassian sat on the sofa,
24:03slowly turning a bullet casing between his fingers.
24:05You want your family left alone?
24:07Fine.
24:08Kill yourself.
24:09No one dared gamble on whether he meant it,
24:11but there were always people forced to the edge of the cliff.
24:14The first to jump was a young man named Felipe.
24:16He had once been a technician on Cassian's racing team.
24:19At the estate,
24:20he had guarded Valentina after she was beaten
24:22and had kicked her a few times for amusement.
24:24He leapt from the rooftop of one of the family's office buildings,
24:27leaving only one sentence in his suicide note.
24:29I'm sorry.
24:30Cassian kept his promise.
24:31That same day,
24:32Felipe's family received enough money to spend for three lifetimes.
24:36After the news spread,
24:37two more people voluntarily fell from high places.
24:40Their families received the same amount.
24:42The entire underground order of Bogota collapsed.
24:47After the third body fell from a rooftop,
24:49Ricardo Castellano finally intervened.
24:52The old Don sent the finest guards from the ancestral estate.
24:55Twelve men with guns broke into Cassian's apartment
24:58and pinned him to the floor.
24:59They took all his communication devices and weapons,
25:02then escorted him back to the Castellano ancestral estate
25:04in an armored car.
25:06The basement door was locked from the outside.
25:08Three days and three nights.
25:09No food.
25:10No water.
25:11Only a stark white fluorescent tube overhead
25:13and concrete walls on all four sides.
25:15On the morning of the fourth day,
25:17the door opened.
25:17Ricardo stood in the doorway
25:19with two personal guards behind him.
25:21He looked at his son crouched in the corner.
25:23His shirt was wrinkled into a mess.
25:25Uneven stubble covered his jaw.
25:26His eyes were sunken and he was thin as a living skeleton.
25:29Do you know what you did wrong?
25:31Cassian did not answer.
25:32He leaned against the wall,
25:33staring hollowly at the opposite wall.
25:35Ricardo's voice carried the restrained fury,
25:38particular to an old generation Don.
25:40For a dead woman,
25:41you turned half of Bogotas upside down.
25:44Three lives,
25:44two family supply chains broken,
25:46and the committee's prosecutors
25:47have already started paying attention to us.
25:49How am I supposed to trust you with Castellano's future?
25:52Cassian still did not speak.
25:53His fingers unconsciously rubbed
25:55the protruding bones of his wrist.
25:57She liked my hands best.
25:58And his lips moving faintly.
26:00They don't look good anymore.
26:01Ricardo stared at him for a long time,
26:03then shook his head.
26:04Then he turned and gestured to a guard.
26:06A thick, cracked paper file was handed to Cassian
26:08and tossed onto the cold cement floor
26:10with a dull smack.
26:11Look for yourself.
26:12Cassian lowered his head
26:14and sluggishly reached out to open the seal.
26:16Inside was a stack of photographs
26:17and several reports.
26:19In the photos,
26:19a woman in a denim jacket
26:21with her long hair tied in a ponytail
26:23was walking down the stairs of a private jet.
26:25Behind her was a sunlit tarmac
26:27with palm trees
26:28and a blue coastline visible in the distance.
26:30Miami,
26:31he recognized that back,
26:32the back he had held countless times.
26:34Valentina.
26:36Your dear girlfriend isn't dead at all.
26:40The charred body in the race car was a substitute.
26:44Her family arranged everything.
26:48They pulled off a vanishing act
26:50right under your nose.
26:51And then she took a private plane back to Miami.
26:54Do you know who her family is?
27:02Moretti.
27:03The head of America's five Camelies.
27:08You thought she was an ordinary international student?
27:13She's that family's only daughter.
27:15Cassian's pupils shrank sharply.
27:17The photographs in his hand began to tremble violently.
27:20He flipped through them one by one.
27:23Valentina walking off the plane.
27:25Valentina being embraced by a tall man
27:27getting into a black armored SUV.
27:29His eyes burned and tears fell.
27:33His lips trembled several times
27:35before he forced out a broken breath of sound.
27:38She's alive.
27:40What do you plan to do now?
27:42Run to Miami to find her?
27:46The Moretti family shoot you full of holes
27:48and carry you back?
27:52Cassian did not hear his father.
27:54He clutched the photos tightly to his chest,
27:57pressed his forehead to the cold cement floor,
27:59and shook hard through the shoulders.
28:01She's alive.
28:04She's alive.
28:05He repeated the sentence again and again.
28:09Miami's sunlight fell over the Moretti private jet.
28:11When I walked down the stairs,
28:12there was only one person on the tarmac.
28:14Marco stood there in a crisp suit,
28:16sunglasses pushed up onto his forehead.
28:17The instant he saw me,
28:19the corner of his mouth twitched.
28:20Then he strode over and pulled me into his arms.
28:23You're home.
28:24That's what matters.
28:25My tears soaked a large patch
28:27into the front of his suit.
28:28He let me go, stepped back,
28:29and looked me over from head to toe
28:31when he saw the bruises
28:32that had not yet faded from my arms
28:34and the gauze wrapped around my fingers.
28:36His gaze darkened for an instant,
28:37but he asked nothing.
28:38He only took off his sunglasses
28:39and put them on me.
28:40Come on.
28:42Mom is waiting for you to eat.
28:43The armored SUV stopped
28:44at the entrance of the estate.
28:45I took a deep breath and opened the door.
28:47Elena stood before the living room's
28:48floor-to-ceiling windows.
28:50With her back to the entrance,
28:51she wore a dark blue silk blouse,
28:53and she heard my footsteps.
28:54She did not turn around.
28:56You're back?
28:57I stood behind her,
28:58twisting the hem of my clothes in my hands.
29:00Mom.
29:00She turned.
29:01I saw that her eyes were red,
29:02but her voice was still cold and hard.
29:05It took you almost a hundred times
29:07of being played before you knew to come home.
29:10Anyone else would have woken up
29:11after the first.
29:14She stepped forward
29:15and jabbed a finger against my forehead.
29:17You what?
29:18Is your brain only there for decoration?
29:19A daughter of the Moretti family
29:21was made a fool of for three years.
29:23If word gets out,
29:24where is the whole family
29:24supposed to put its fate?
29:25Enough.
29:26Stop scolding her.
29:27She's home,
29:28and that's what matters.
29:30But your mother is right.
29:32Falling in love to the point
29:33of disowning your whole family
29:34was ridiculous.
29:35My nose stung.
29:36Mom, I'm sorry.
29:38I'll never do it again.
29:39Her body stiffened for one second,
29:41then one hand settled gently
29:42on the back of my head.
29:44Go wash your hands and eat.
29:46Your room has been made up.
29:48I lifted my head
29:48and saw her turn her face away,
29:50wiping a tear from her cheek.
29:52Come on.
29:53Mom made your favorite pasta.
29:56Marco stood at the dining room entrance
29:58and made a hurrying gesture at me.
30:00It won't be good if it gets cold.
30:01The family sat around the table.
30:03Outside the window
30:04was Miami's endless bright sunshine.
30:06Dad served food to Marco,
30:07and Elena ladled soup for me.
30:09It was as if I had never left.
30:11Marco's wedding was set
30:12at the seaside estate.
30:13The December sun in Miami
30:15was still generous,
30:16shining through the white canopy
30:17until it was almost translucent.
30:19I stood in the dressing room,
30:20pinning the last pearl hairpin
30:22into Nancy's veil.
30:23She smiled at me in the mirror.
30:24Nervous?
30:28Not nervous.
30:29But what about you?
30:32Why are your eyes a little red?
30:34They're not.
30:35It's the light.
30:36Just then,
30:37the door opened.
30:39Elena walked in,
30:40her face extremely grim.
30:44Valentina.
30:44I slowly set down
30:45the hairpin in my hand.
30:46Who's here?
30:47Go see for yourself.
30:48I crossed the hallway,
30:50my heels clicking
30:50against the marble floor.
30:52In the sunlight
30:52at the end of the corridor
30:53stood a man,
30:54Cassian.
30:55He had lost weight.
30:55His suit hung loose on him.
30:57His shirt collar a size too big.
30:58The lines of his collarbones
30:59sharp and clear.
31:00In his hands
31:00was a bouquet of white roses.
31:02The instant he saw me,
31:03it was as if electricity
31:04had struck through him.
31:05Val.
31:06I stopped five paces from him
31:07and went no farther.
31:08Who let you in?
31:09He opened his mouth.
31:10I looked for you for a long time.
31:12And you found me.
31:14My voice was calmer
31:15than I expected.
31:16Now what?
31:16Are you here for your
31:17hundred and firth prank?
31:18No.
31:20I know I was wrong.
31:21Those things.
31:22Which things?
31:23He instinctively
31:24took half a step back.
31:25The ninety-seven times
31:27you toiled with me?
31:29Making me watch you
31:30get engaged to another woman
31:32at the racetrack?
31:33Or
31:35drugging me
31:36until I nearly
31:37became an idiot.
31:38His breathing
31:38suddenly turned ragged.
31:40His throat
31:40worked up and down.
31:42Heavy footsteps
31:42came from the end
31:43of the corridor.
31:44Marco appeared
31:45around the corner.
31:45The instant he saw Cassian
31:47and his face darkened.
31:48How the fuck
31:49did you get in here?
31:51He strode over,
31:52grabbed Cassian
31:52by the collar
31:53and yanked him away from me.
31:54The four guards
31:55closed in at the same time.
31:57Marco.
31:57Don Moretti.
31:58Cassian did not struggle.
32:00He only pulled
32:00a gold embossed invitation
32:01from the inside pocket
32:02of his suit.
32:03I was invited.
32:04Marco snatched
32:05the invitation away
32:05and saw the signature on it
32:07belong to the Rivera family.
32:08Marco looked at me
32:09with a frown.
32:09Nancy's family?
32:10I only shook my head.
32:12He turned and tore
32:12the invitation in half,
32:14throwing it to the floor.
32:15I don't care
32:16who invited you.
32:18Today is my wedding.
32:20You sit quietly
32:21in the last row
32:22and do not go near
32:23my sister.
32:24Otherwise,
32:28these four guns
32:29are not decorations.
32:31but I turned away
32:32and walked straight
32:33toward the banquet hall.
32:34The ceremony went smoothly
32:35and Marco and Nancy
32:36exchanged vows
32:37before the priest.
32:38Applause and whistles
32:39fade the room.
32:40I stood in my bridesmaid's place,
32:41smiling and clapping.
32:43Cassian sat in the corner
32:44of the last row,
32:45staring at me
32:45without moving.
32:46But when I passed
32:46a table of guests
32:47with a glass in my hand,
32:49a thin figure
32:50suddenly appeared
32:50in front of me.
32:51Congratulations.
32:53Your brother
32:54looks very happy.
32:55I looked up.
32:56Cassian stood there
32:56with a glass of champagne
32:57in his hand,
32:58looking painfully nervous.
32:59I did not answer
33:00and turned to leave.
33:01He suddenly spoke,
33:02his voice light
33:03as a breath of wind.
33:04I thought about
33:05our wedding too.
33:06The air froze for a second.
33:07I turned back
33:07and threw the glass
33:08of red wine in my hand
33:09into his face,
33:10glass and all.
33:13The entire room
33:14went quiet.
33:15The deep red liquid
33:16ran down from his brow bone
33:17over the bridge of his nose
33:18and dripped onto his white shirt.
33:20Don't make me sick.
33:22Cassian wiped his face
33:23with the back of his hand.
33:25Then he smiled
33:25and his smile was strange.
33:27At least you're still
33:27willing to be angry at me.
33:29That means you haven't
33:30really forgotten me.
33:32Valentina.
33:32The next second,
33:33Cassian was knocked down
33:34by a punch.
33:35Did I not fucking tell you
33:37to stay away from my sister?
33:38Are you trying to die?
33:40I quickly stepped forward
33:41and grabbed Marco's hand.
33:42Don't, Marco.
33:44It's your wedding today.
33:47Throw him out.
33:48The guard strode over.
33:49One grabbed Cassian
33:50by the back of the neck
33:51and dragged him toward the door.
33:52The muzzle of a gun
33:53pressed once more
33:54against the back of Cassian's head.
33:56But as he was being dragged away,
33:57he suddenly broke free
33:58from the guard,
33:59pulled a stack of documents
34:00from the inside pocket
34:01of his suit,
34:01and held them high.
34:03Val,
34:04these are the transfer documents
34:05for all Castellino shares.
34:06I've already signed them.
34:08Please,
34:09let me make it up to you.
34:11A few pages fluttered loose
34:12from the stack.
34:13I watched the documents
34:14fly through the air
34:15and bent to pick up
34:16the page closest to me.
34:17The heading at the top
34:17read,
34:18Castellano Group.
34:19Then,
34:19in front of him,
34:20I tore the pages apart
34:21one by one.
34:23Shreds of paper
34:24drifted between us
34:24like snow.
34:25I don't need money.
34:26I threw the last scrap
34:27into his face.
34:30I only want you
34:31to disappear from my life
34:33forever.
34:35Cassian stopped
34:36struggling entirely.
34:37The guards dragged him
34:38out of the banquet hall
34:39with a gun
34:40pressed to the back
34:41of his head.
34:41When the banquet hall
34:42doors closed,
34:43Nancy reacted quickly,
34:44immediately lifting
34:45her champagne flute
34:46to the guests.
34:47Just a little interruption.
34:48Let's keep drinking.
34:49The band began
34:50playing again
34:51and laughter
34:51and conversation
34:52gradually
34:52opened the space.
34:54Marco came to my side
34:55and asked in a low voice.
34:57Are you okay?
35:00I'm going to fix my makeup.
35:02In the restroom mirror,
35:04my eyes were red.
35:05A faint red stain
35:06from the wine
35:07still lingered on my wrist.
35:08I turned on the faucet,
35:09splashed cold water
35:11against my cheeks
35:11and took several deep breaths.
35:13Just as I turned off the tap,
35:14another shadow
35:15appeared in the mirror.
35:16I spun around.
35:17Cassian stood in the doorway
35:18of the restroom.
35:19There was a fresh cut
35:20on his forehead,
35:21blood beating
35:22and sliding down
35:23along his brow bone.
35:24His suit jacket was gone.
35:25All that remained
35:26was a white shirt
35:26ruined beyond recognition
35:28by wine and blood.
35:29Why are you still here?
35:30He did not answer.
35:31He took two steps forward
35:32and slowly knelt
35:33an arm's length
35:34away from me.
35:35Belle.
35:35He lifted his head
35:36and looked at me.
35:37Blood and wine
35:38mingled on his face,
35:39dripping down the line
35:40of his jaw
35:41and onto the tile
35:41where he knelt.
35:42If I died,
35:43would you feel better?
35:44He slowly took something
35:45from his trouser pocket.
35:46A car key,
35:47black,
35:48marked with the Castellano
35:49family's falcon crest.
35:50He placed the key
35:51on the floor between us.
35:52My race car
35:53is parked behind the hotel.
35:54The brake line
35:55has been cut.
35:56From here to the sea cliff,
35:57ten minutes is enough.
35:59All it takes
35:59is one word from you.
36:00My breathing blew fast
36:02beyond my control.
36:02What are you talking about?
36:04Cassian smiled.
36:05It was a smile
36:06that made my skin crawl.
36:07You died once
36:08at the racetrack.
36:09Now it's my turn.
36:11That's fair, isn't it?
36:12I bent down,
36:12snatched up the key,
36:14and hurled it hard
36:15at the wall.
36:15The sound of metal
36:16striking tile
36:17was sharp and piercing.
36:18The key bounced
36:19into a corner.
36:20Cassian Castellano,
36:21are you fucking insane?
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