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Fake My Death , The Mafia King Regret.
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00:00Gabriel's text made my pulse spike.
00:02Ten years sneaking into ground floor apartments,
00:06and suddenly the penthouse?
00:07He's going to announce us.
00:09He has to be.
00:10I wore the red dress he bought me last month,
00:13the one that made his eyes darken with hunger.
00:15My reflection in the golden doors showed a woman drunk on hope.
00:19Stupid.
00:21Stupid girl.
00:22The doors opened to heaven, or what I'd mistaken for it.
00:26You're here.
00:26Dominic stood silhouette against floor-to-clear windows,
00:30New Orleans splattering beneath him like conquered jewels.
00:34He looked like a god.
00:36My god.
00:37I've never been up here before.
00:40No.
00:41You haven't.
00:43His mouth crashed onto mine.
00:46Possessive.
00:46Brutal.
00:47Perfect.
00:48He fucked me against the window overlooking the city,
00:51my palms pressed to glass,
00:53watching the world I thought would finally be mine.
00:57Say you're mine.
00:59He didn't answer.
01:01He never answered.
01:03I lay in his bed afterward,
01:06silk sheets cool against my skin.
01:09Dominic.
01:10I traced the eagle tattoo over his heart.
01:13My design.
01:14My ink.
01:15My mark.
01:16Why tonight?
01:17Why bring me here?
01:18He reached for his cigarette case,
01:21movements unhurried.
01:22I'm getting married.
01:24The words were so casual,
01:27so simple.
01:27For a moment,
01:28I didn't understand the language.
01:30What did you say?
01:31Natalia Volkov.
01:33The wedding is in three months.
01:34No!
01:35No, you're...
01:36This is a joke.
01:38Tell me this is...
01:39It's a strategic alliance.
01:41Her father controls the eastern seaboard.
01:46Strategic?
01:47Dominic, we've been together for ten years!
01:50We fucked for ten years.
01:51Don't confuse the transaction.
01:53Transaction?
01:54The word gutted me.
01:58I love you.
02:00You know I love you.
02:02Love.
02:05You love the idea of me.
02:07The power.
02:08The protection.
02:09That's not...
02:13You think you're special.
02:15He exiled smoke into my face.
02:17You're convenient.
02:18You were always just convenient.
02:21I felt something inside me crack clean through.
02:24Get out.
02:25He stood.
02:26Magnificent and monstrous.
02:27Gabriel will send you the weapon commission details.
02:30You'll forge Natalia's ceremonial blade.
02:32Considerate payment for services rendered.
02:34You want me to make her wedding weapons?
02:36Unless you'd prefer I terminate our arrangement entirely.
02:39Your father's debts to this family aren't fully settled.
02:42There it was.
02:43The leash.
02:44Always the leash.
02:46Of course.
02:48Wouldn't want to upset the great Dominic Cavasso.
02:52Arya.
02:53That eagle on your chest?
02:56I carved it into your skin when you swore you'd never let me go.
03:00Funny how permanence works.
03:01Don't be dramatic.
03:03Dramatic?
03:05You just told your lover of a decade to forge weapons for your bride.
03:11If I'm dramatic, you're a fucking monster!
03:14His hand shat out, gripping my throat.
03:16Not hard enough to hurt.
03:18Hard enough to remind me who owned rooms.
03:20Watch.
03:22Your.
03:23Mouth.
03:24Or what?
03:25You'll marry someone else?
03:28Oh, wait.
03:29You released me with a shove.
03:31I stumbled toward the elevator.
03:33Vision blurred.
03:35Arya.
03:38I didn't turn.
03:39We both knew this day would come.
03:43Did we, Dominic?
03:45Because I was stupid enough to believe the lies you whispered in the dark!
03:50They weren't lies.
03:52They were what you needed to hear.
03:55I hope she destroys you.
03:57The way you just destroyed me.
04:00His face disappeared behind golden metal.
04:04I made it to my car before the screaming started.
04:07Raw, animal sounds tearing from my throat.
04:21I drove to my studio in the warehouse district, barely seeing the road.
04:26Inside, surrounded by ten years of evidence.
04:29Love letters I'd written and never sent.
04:32Photographs I'd stolen from his office.
04:34Sketches of his face I'd drawn in the AM darkness.
04:37I grabbed the lighter fluid.
04:40The first match hit the pile of letters.
04:44Flames ate through I love you and come back to me and I'll wait forever.
04:48Forever lasted ten years.
04:50I threw in the photographs.
04:52Our bodies tangled in sheets.
04:54His rare smile.
04:55My stupid, hopeful face.
04:57Burn.
04:58Burn.
04:59Burn!
05:00The sketches went last.
05:02I'd drawn him like a saint.
05:04Like salvation.
05:05He was neither.
05:06My phone rang.
05:08Papa.
05:09Piccola, it's late.
05:11I need you to erase me.
05:14Seven days.
05:15Can you do it in seven days?
05:17What happened?
05:20He's marrying the Volkov princess.
05:24And I just realized I've spent ten years being his whore.
05:29Aria.
05:31Seven days, Papa.
05:33Make Aria Murado disappear.
05:35New name.
05:36New papers.
05:37New life.
05:38At 3 AM, my phone lit up.
05:41A photo.
05:42Dominic and Natalia at a restaurant.
05:44His hand on her lower back.
05:45His mouth at her ear.
05:46She was blonde.
05:47Porcelain.
05:48Perfect.
05:49Everything I'd never be.
05:50The message below.
05:51This is your replacement.
05:53Know your fucking place.
05:54I stared at the image until it burned into my redness.
05:58Then I texted back.
05:59Acknowledged.
06:00Good.
06:00Aria Morati.
06:01The girl who loved Dominic Cavillo.
06:04Died.
06:05Tonight.
06:13Gabriel found me at dawn.
06:15I was still in my studio, surrounded by ash and broken glass.
06:19Dominic wants you back at the estate.
06:21There's a family dinner tonight.
06:23The Volkovs arrive tomorrow.
06:24He needs all family assets accounted for.
06:27Assets.
06:28That's what I was now.
06:30Fine.
06:31Let's go see what else he wants to destroy.
06:33The Cavro estate looked different in daylight.
06:36Cold.
06:37Mausoleum-like.
06:38Gabriel led my through the main house to the west wing.
06:41My wing.
06:41My studio.
06:42The door was open.
06:44Inside, everything was gone.
06:46My easels.
06:46My paintings.
06:47The weapons I'd spent years perfecting.
06:50What?
06:51Where is everything?
06:54Relocated.
06:55A woman's voice.
06:57Accent and sharp.
06:58Natalia Volkov stood in my doorway.
07:01Blonde hair perfect.
07:02Blue eyes assessing me like I was livestock.
07:05You must be Aria.
07:06The craftsman.
07:09Where are my things?
07:10Dominic said I could redecorate.
07:12This room has the best light.
07:15For my morning yoga.
07:17My studio.
07:18My sanctuary.
07:20Converted into her fucking gym.
07:23You're prettier than I expected.
07:25I can see why Dominic kept you around.
07:29Enjoy the room.
07:31The bloodstains on the floor are from my best work.
07:33They don't come out.
07:35Her smile faltered.
07:36Dinner was a circle of hell Dante forgot to mention.
07:39Dominic at the head.
07:40Natalia at his right.
07:42Me at the far end.
07:43Barely visible.
07:44To new alliances.
07:46And the future of both our families.
07:49Aria!
07:50My daughter tells me you're a weaponsmith.
07:53Then you'll forge Natalia's ceremonial blade.
07:56Of course.
07:56It would be an honor.
07:58Liar.
07:59Liar.
08:00Liar.
08:01Ha ha!
08:01Excellent!
08:02I wanted to bear both family Chris.
08:04A symbol of unity.
08:06Unity.
08:07How romantic.
08:08I excused myself before dessert.
08:11Nobody noticed.
08:12I found my way to the library.
08:14One of the few rooms still unlocked to me.
08:17But even here.
08:18Things had changed.
08:19The photo of Dominic and me at last year's gala.
08:22Gone.
08:23The first blade I'd ever made him.
08:25Displayed in a glass case.
08:27Gone.
08:28Even the fucking chair I used to read in had been replaced.
08:31Don't be here.
08:33Natalia wants to tour the house.
08:34And I don't want complications.
08:37Complications.
08:38That's what ten years of devotion earned me?
08:41Yeah.
08:42Enjoy your tour.
08:43Wait.
08:44I wanted to thank you.
08:46For agreeing to forge my blade.
08:48Dominic speaks so highly of your work.
08:50He says you put your heart into every piece.
08:53I used to.
08:54But hearts are expensive.
08:55I don't waste them anymore.
09:04Six days left.
09:06I sat in my car outside the estate.
09:08Gripping the steering wheel.
09:09My phone buzzed.
09:11A voice message from Papa.
09:12The papers are ready.
09:14New passport.
09:15New identity.
09:16Where do you want to go?
09:17Anywhere with no memories.
09:19Just replied to Papa.
09:20Another buzz.
09:21Unknown number.
09:22A photo.
09:23My old studio.
09:24Now filled with Natalia's yoga mats and decorative pillows.
09:28Thanks for the space.
09:29It's perfect.
09:30I deleted it.
09:32Then, I opened my banking app.
09:34Every account.
09:35Frozen.
09:36My apartment lease.
09:38Transferred to Cavallo Holdings.
09:40He wasn't just erasing me.
09:42He was making sure I had nowhere to run except where he allowed.
09:45But Papa didn't play by Cavallo rules.
09:48Neither would I.
09:50Dominic's text came at 2am.
09:52Message was short.
09:53Underground tunnel.
09:54Now.
09:55Security convoy.
09:56You're in car 3.
09:57No explanation.
09:59No please.
10:00Just orders.
10:01I stared at my phone.
10:02Every instinct screaming to ignore it.
10:05But Papa's new passport wouldn't be ready for 5 more days.
10:095 days of playing dead.
10:11Get in.
10:12Dominic sat up front with the driver.
10:14Natalia was beside me and back.
10:16Her perfume choking.
10:17Where are we going?
10:18The docks.
10:19Voltox shipment arrival.
10:20Why am I here?
10:21Asset inventory requires all craftsmen present.
10:24Asset.
10:25Craftsman.
10:26Never Aria.
10:27Never his.
10:28How long will this take?
10:30An hour.
10:30Maybe two.
10:31The convoy started moving.
10:33Tires echoing off tunnel walls.
10:35Something felt wrong.
10:37The air was too still.
10:39Too quiet.
10:39Dominic!
10:40The lead car erupted in flames.
10:42Metal shrinked.
10:43Glass shattered.
10:44Ambush!
10:44RPG incoming!
10:46Revers!
10:48Get us out!
10:51Dominic!
10:52Dominic twisted in his seat.
10:53Saw the threat.
10:55Saw Natalia frozen in terror.
10:57His hand shat out.
10:59Not to me.
10:59To her.
11:00He grabbed Natalia.
11:02Yanked her forward.
11:03His body covering hers.
11:04Freeze!
11:05I hit the concrete rolling.
11:07Skin tearing.
11:08Bones screaming.
11:09The rocket hit our car dead center.
11:12The world turned to fire and thunder.
11:14I couldn't hear.
11:15Couldn't breathe.
11:16Smoke everywhere.
11:18Flames eating metal.
11:19I tried to stand.
11:21Collapsed.
11:21My ribs were broken.
11:23Maybe my leg.
11:24Blood in my mouth.
11:26My eyes.
11:27Through the smoke, I saw him.
11:29Dominic.
11:30Crawling out of the wreckage.
11:31Natalia in his arms.
11:33He carried her away from the flames.
11:35Gentle.
11:36Protective.
11:37Like she was Portland.
11:38Like she mattered.
11:39He set her down carefully.
11:41Checking her face.
11:42Her arms.
11:42Whispering something.
11:44She clung to him.
11:45Sobbing.
11:45He held her.
11:46I lay in broken glass and gasoline.
11:49Watching.
11:49Waiting.
11:50But he didn't look back.
11:51Not once.
11:59Gabriel found me.
12:01Jesus!
12:02Aria!
12:03Medic!
12:03I need a medic!
12:05Dominic.
12:06Where are you?
12:07He's with Natalia.
12:08She's in shock.
12:08I'm...
12:09I'm bleeding.
12:10I know.
12:11I know.
12:11Stay with me.
12:12Through my fading vision,
12:13I saw Dominic lift Talia into the remaining SUV.
12:16Saw him stroke her hair.
12:18Saw him drive away.
12:19Without me.
12:20He left.
12:21The Volkoffs require immediate evac.
12:24He kicked me out of the car!
12:26Gabriel!
12:26He kicked me out and saved her!
12:29I'm sorry.
12:31God, Aria, I'm so sorry.
12:33Darkness ate the edges of my vision.
12:35The last thing I saw was the tunnel ceiling.
12:38Concrete and shadow like a tomb.
12:40I woke to sterile white light.
12:43Medical wing.
12:44Cavarro estate.
12:45Every breath was agony.
12:47Broken ribs.
12:48Fractured leg.
12:49Concussion.
12:50Second degree burns on my back.
12:51The doctor had left my chart at the foot of the bed.
12:54Patience.
12:54Ara Morelli.
12:55Priority level.
12:56Priority three.
12:58Non-essential personnel.
12:59I laughed.
13:00And it turned into a cough that tasted like blood.
13:02Miss Moretti, you shouldn't...
13:04Where is he?
13:05Mr. Capallo is...
13:06Where is he?
13:07The East Wing.
13:08With Miss Volki.
13:09Of course.
13:10How long was I out?
13:12Eighteen hours.
13:14Eighteen hours.
13:15And he hadn't come.
13:16Not once.
13:17I ripped out my IV.
13:19Miss Morata, you can't...
13:20Watch me.
13:21I dragged myself down the corridor.
13:23One hand on the wall.
13:24Every step was broken glass in my lungs.
13:27But I needed to see.
13:28Needed to know.
13:29The East Wing was the luxury medical suite.
13:31Through the window, I saw them.
13:33Natalia in a pristine hospital bed.
13:35Barely a scratch on her.
13:37Dominic sitting beside her.
13:39Holding her hand.
13:40He looked...
13:41Soft.
13:41The way he used to look at me.
13:43A lifetime ago.
13:44I turned away before the kiss landed.
13:47But the monitor on the wall caught my eye.
13:49The moment of the explosion.
13:51Frame by frame, I watched it again.
13:54Dominic's hand reaching out.
13:56Choosing her.
13:57His boot hitting my chest.
13:58Throwing me to the flames.
14:00Saving her.
14:01Discarding me.
14:02Through the window, I saw Dominic pull something from his pocket.
14:06Natalia's hands flew to her mouth.
14:08Even from here, I could see the diamond catching light.
14:11No.
14:12Dominic slid the ring onto Natalia's finger.
14:15He held her like she was everything.
14:17Like she was worth saving.
14:19Worth choosing.
14:20Worth loving.
14:21I limped back toward my room.
14:23At midnight.
14:24My phone buzzed.
14:25Unknown number.
14:26A photo.
14:27Dominic and Natalia.
14:29Her hand extended.
14:30Showing off the ring.
14:31I stared at the photo until my vision blurred.
14:33Then I texted Papa.
14:35Change of plans.
14:36I need out in 48 hours.
14:46I limped through the medical wing at dawn.
14:49Ribs screaming.
14:50I heard Natalia's voice.
14:52Before I reached the door.
14:54Will it hurt?
14:55Not much.
14:56The cover up is always easier than the original.
14:58Cover up.
14:59My hand froze on the door well.
15:01And it will completely hide the old one.
15:03Completely.
15:04You won't even know it was there.
15:06Do it.
15:06The eagle over Dominic's heart.
15:08My eagle.
15:09My design was being prepared for execution.
15:12Aria.
15:13You shouldn't be here.
15:14Wouldn't miss it.
15:16What's getting buried today?
15:18The old eagle.
15:19Too aggressive.
15:20We decided on something more elegant.
15:23What's the new design?
15:24A double-headed eagle.
15:26The Volkov family cram.
15:27Poetic.
15:30One eagle dies so another can take its place.
15:33It's symbolic of our union.
15:35Just a tattoo.
15:36Just a tattoo?
15:38I sat with you for six hours.
15:41You said it was permanent.
15:43Like us.
15:44Things change.
15:47Do it.
15:48I want to watch.
15:49Leave.
15:50No.
15:51You threw me out of a car and saved her.
15:54Proposed while I was bleeding.
15:56Now you're erasing the last proof I ever mattered.
16:00Let me witness it.
16:03Dominic, maybe.
16:04No.
16:05Victor.
16:06Start.
16:07The needle buzzed to life.
16:08I watched my design die one line at a time.
16:11An hour in, the eagle was half gone.
16:15Buried under Volov black and red.
16:17Baby.
16:18Are you okay?
16:19Finish it.
16:21More black ink.
16:22More red.
16:23The eagle's head disappeared.
16:25Then the wings.
16:26Then the talons.
16:27All of it.
16:27Gone.
16:28Perfect.
16:29It's perfect.
16:31Keep it covered for three days.
16:32It'll heal in two weeks.
16:34Two weeks.
16:34I'd be gone in two days.
16:38I'll tell Papa.
16:40Natalia glided out.
16:41Victorious.
16:42Victor followed.
16:44Shh.
16:45Say something.
16:46What's left to say you've said it all?
16:48With your boot.
16:49With your ring.
16:51With this.
16:52It was necessary.
16:53Funny how everything that destroys me is necessary.
16:57I limped toward the door.
16:59Aria.
17:01Don't say my name like it means something.
17:03We both know it doesn't.
17:05I loved you.
17:06For ten years.
17:08And you couldn't even let me keep a fucking tattoo!
17:11The Volkoffs demanded it.
17:13I had no choice.
17:14You always have a choice, Dominic.
17:16You chose her in that tunnel.
17:17In the hospital.
17:19Today.
17:19You chose yourself.
17:21Like always.
17:22In my room.
17:23I packed what little remained.
17:25My phone buzzed.
17:26A voice message from Papa.
17:28Car arrives tomorrow night.
17:3011pm.
17:31East service entrance.
17:32Tomorrow.
17:33One more day.
17:34Another text.
17:35Unknown number.
17:37A photo of Dominic's banded tattoo.
17:39Text read.
17:40Beautiful, isn't it?
17:41Like he was always meant to be mine.
17:44You were just keeping him warm.
17:45Fighting the tremor in my fingers, I typed and sent.
17:49Enjoy.
17:5036 hours.
17:51Then I'd disappear.
17:53And Dominic Cavallese could live with his choices.
17:56He would stare at that two-headed eagle every morning and remember the woman who loved him with everything.
18:02The woman he threw away.
18:0436 hours, Dominic.
18:06Then you'll have exactly what you wanted.
18:09A life without me in it.
18:11I hope it kills you slowly.
18:20Gabriel's text came at noon.
18:22Industrial district.
18:24Warehouse 7.
18:25One hour.
18:25Bring your tools.
18:26Dominic's orders.
18:2824 hours until I vanished.
18:30One more performance as the obedient asset.
18:35Warehouse 7 was my entire workshop.
18:38Moved.
18:39Every anvil.
18:40Every hammer.
18:42Every blade I'd ever made.
18:44What the fuck is this?
18:46Dominic's orders.
18:48You need a secure location for the commission.
18:51Natalia's ceremonial blade.
18:54Where is he?
18:56The main office.
19:01The table was covered with design frites.
19:05Natalia slid one toward me.
19:06Ornated handle.
19:07Engraved blade.
19:09And on the crossguard, DC plus NV.
19:12Their initials.
19:14Intertwined.
19:15Forever.
19:17You're really gonna make me do this?
19:20It's already decided.
19:22We'll display it at the wedding altar.
19:26Want me to embrave your vows too?
19:28Maybe add a heart?
19:29Excuse me.
19:31You want me to forge a weapon!
19:34Celebrating your marriage to the man I've loved for ten years!
19:38That's not a commission.
19:40That's psychological torture!
19:44Ardia, know your place.
19:47Dominic is going to marry me.
19:50He's never yours.
19:52He was never yours.
19:54You were a convenience.
19:56A playsholder.
19:58You were the help, Arya.
20:01Something inside me snapped.
20:03The help who kept him alive for ten years.
20:06Arya, stop!
20:09Make me.
20:12Gabriel, get her out.
20:15Make the blade, Arya.
20:17That's an order.
20:20An order, of course.
20:25Because that's all I'm good for.
20:28Following orders.
20:29Forging weapons.
20:31Keeping my mouth shut and my legs open!
20:37Don't.
20:38Don't.
20:39Don't you fucking dare.
20:40I'll make your blade.
20:42I'll engrave your fucking initials.
20:46When you hold it on your wedding day, you better remember this.
20:50It's not a blessing.
20:52It's a curse.
21:07I made it to the warehouse floor before the shaking started.
21:11It's not fear.
21:12It's disgust.
21:14I can't believe I'm going to forge the dagger for their wedding with my own hands.
21:21You can't speak to Natalia like that.
21:23Or what?
21:24You'll kick me out of another car?
21:26You already did that.
21:30The Volkov alliance is crucial.
21:33I don't care!
21:34You want your dagger?
21:36You'll get one.
21:40But I won't put love into it.
21:43I'll put rage on!
21:48I'll put hatred.
21:50I'll put every ounce of pain you've caused me.
21:53And when it's done,
21:55when you present it to her at that altar, remember?
22:00You think I wanted this?
22:02Yes.
22:02I think you wanted power more than me.
22:06Safety more than me.
22:08Her more than me.
22:09That's not true.
22:11And in 12 hours,
22:13I'll be someone else.
22:15Someone who never knew Dominic Cavallo.
22:18Someone who never wasted a decade on a man who couldn't love her back.
22:24Arya!
22:24Get out of my workshop.
22:26This isn't over.
22:27Yes, it is.
22:30Dominic stood there, then turned and walked away.
22:36You want a ceremonial blade?
22:37I'll give you one.
22:39I pulled out my own design.
22:41A dagger, yes.
22:42Beautiful, yes.
22:44But the balance would be off.
22:45Just slightly.
22:47The weight distribution wrong.
22:49Imperceptibly.
22:50Not enough to notice immediately.
22:52But enough that in a fight, it would fail.
22:55Would slip.
22:56Would betray.
22:57Just like Dominic.
22:59That day, I didn't go back to the estate.
23:02I slept in the warehouse.
23:04At 3am, my burner phone buzzed.
23:08Eight hours.
23:09Car will be waiting.
23:12I was typing a resploss when the warehouse door exploded open.
23:17Six men in tactical gear stormed in.
23:19Weapons been drawn.
23:21And behind them, Dominic.
23:23Restrain her.
23:26Dominic, what are you doing?
23:30My blood went cold.
23:34No.
23:35You recognize it.
23:37He opened the folder.
23:39Inside yellowed parchment covered in my father's handwriting.
23:42The blood oath.
23:44The blood oath isn't over yet.
23:47What do you mean?
23:51What your father signed back then wasn't just a debt.
23:55I read the final line.
23:57Ceremonial bearer in all family alliances.
24:00No!
24:01Baba wouldn't!
24:02He didn't tell you because he knew you'd run.
24:06But the oath is binding.
24:09At my wedding, you will present the unity blade to Natalia.
24:14You will kneel before both families.
24:16You will speak the words of allegiance.
24:18I'd rather die!
24:20Then your family dies instead.
24:22Your father, your mother, and your little brother Marco.
24:25He's 15 now, right?
24:36You wouldn't.
24:38If you refuse the protection is void, the Moretti's become fair game for every enemy they've made under my shield.
24:47And they've made a lot of enemies, Arya.
24:51This is insane!
24:53This is business.
24:5472 hours to prepare.
24:58At my engagement celebration, you will kneel before Natalia Volkov and pledge your family's eternal allegiance.
25:05Dominic, please!
25:07Please don't make me do this!
25:09Something flickered in Dominic's eyes.
25:11Almost like pain.
25:13Then it was gone.
25:1572 hours.
25:16Don't make me come find you again.
25:20My burner buzzed.
25:22A text from Papa.
25:23Six hours.
25:24Everything is ready.
25:26I stared at it.
25:27Six hours until freedom.
25:29But if I ran, they'd hunt my family.
25:32Marco.
25:33He's only 15.
25:35Delay.
25:3572 hours.
25:37Blood oath.
25:38He's calling it in.
25:40Dio mio.
25:41I'm so sorry, Picanha.
25:44You knew?
25:45I had no choice.
25:47Everyone had no choice.
25:48Everyone except me.
25:51Then I kneel before his bride.
25:53I'll do it.
25:54I'll play his game.
25:56And then I disappear anyway.
25:58What do you need?
26:00Everything.
26:00The ceremonial robes.
26:02The oath script.
26:03And a plan to make sure my family disappears the second I finish that ceremony.
26:07I'll make the arrangements.
26:08Forty-eight hours left, Dominic came alone.
26:12Show me the dagger.
26:14Ruby-stuckled Handel.
26:16Their initials engraved microscopically off-center.
26:19It looked perfect.
26:21It was poison.
26:23Beautiful.
26:25I bled for it.
26:29My blood's in the steel now.
26:32After the ceremony, the debt is paid.
26:35You'll be free.
26:37Free.
26:38You want me to kneel?
26:40Fine.
26:42I'll kneel.
26:44But when I stand back up, I won't be the woman you knew.
26:49I'll be a ghost.
26:51And ghosts don't forgive.
26:53They haunt.
26:55Aria.
26:55Get out.
26:56I have 48 hours to prepare for my public execution.
27:02I pulled out the second blade I'd been forging.
27:06Identical to Natalia's, except this one was perfect.
27:10Balanced.
27:11Sharp.
27:12Lethal.
27:12This one, I'd keep.
27:1448 hours, Dominic.
27:17Then you'll learn what you've really created.
27:20The cathedral was obscene.
27:23Crystal chandeliers.
27:24White roses everywhere.
27:26White roses everywhere.
27:27200 guests in designer suits.
27:29The entire underworld gathered to witness my humiliation.
27:33Dominic and Natalia stood a few steps away.
27:35They looked like royalty.
27:37Perfect.
27:38Aria, the ceremony will begin after dinner.
27:42You know your part.
27:44Kneel.
27:45Pledge.
27:46Hand over the blade.
27:48Any deviation, and your family pays the price.
27:52The ceremony went on.
27:53After dessert, Mikiel stood.
27:55Tapped his glass.
27:57We honor tradition.
27:58The ceremonial pledge.
28:00Aria Morella, bound by blood oath.
28:03Come forward.
28:04Kneel.
28:07I looked at Dominic.
28:11His face was stone.
28:13No mercy.
28:15Nothing.
28:24I knelt.
28:25The marble was cold.
28:28Speak the words.
28:30I opened my mouth.
28:32The cathedral door exploded inward.
28:35Ambush!
28:35Then I saw it.
28:37A grenade, rolling towards us.
28:39Dominic grabbed Natalia, yanked her backward, his body covering hers.
28:45Dominic!
28:47Dominic's boot lashed out, caught me in the chest.
28:50I flew backward, crashed into pews.
28:53The grenade detonated.
28:54Fire.
28:55Sound.
28:56Agony.
28:56Something warm ran down my face.
28:58Blood.
28:59My left arm wouldn't respond.
29:01Broken.
29:01Through smoke, I saw Dominic carrying Natalia toward the exit.
29:06Her arms around his neck.
29:08Wait.
29:09Dominic!
29:11He didn't stop.
29:12Didn't look back.
29:15Dominic!
29:18Aria, fuck!
29:20You're hurt!
29:22He left me.
29:23Again.
29:24We need to move.
29:27He kicked me into a grenade.
29:30Twice now.
29:32Two times he's thrown me to the fire to save her.
29:35Why am I alive?
29:37What's the point?
29:39Tears and blood blurred my vision.
29:42My vision graning.
29:45I woke up in a clinic.
29:47Pekona.
29:48Thank God.
29:51How long?
29:53Six hours.
29:54They reset your arm.
29:56Sixteen stitches.
29:57Concussion.
29:58Broken ribs.
30:00The cathedral?
30:01Volkov family ambush.
30:03Mikhail planned it.
30:05Tried to take out Dominic.
30:07Natalia?
30:08Barely a scratch.
30:10Dominic got her out in time.
30:12Of course he did.
30:14What about the oath?
30:15Interrupted.
30:16Technically, you're still bound.
30:18Then we run.
30:18Tonight.
30:20Bella Fiore, 26.
30:22Art restoration specialist.
30:24Remember your new identity.
30:26There's a plane in four hours.
30:27San Francisco.
30:28Did he ask about me?
30:29After the explosion?
30:31Did Dominic ask if I was alive?
30:34Papa didn't reply.
30:35His silence was answer enough.
30:38Then let's go.
30:40Aria Morey died tonight.
30:42Three hours later, I stood in a private airfield hangary.
30:46Single suitcase.
30:47New passport.
30:48One-way ticket.
30:49Gabriel was there.
30:50Will I see you again?
30:52Probably not.
30:53Aria needed things.
30:55Needed saving.
30:56Needed him.
31:00Bella needs nothing from New Orleans.
31:02He'll look for you!
31:05Let him look.
31:07He'll never find what's already dead.
31:11In my hand, I held the second blade.
31:15The perfect one.
31:18Its edge caught the cabin light gleaming.
31:21Aria Moreci burned in the cathedral.
31:24Bella Fiore rose from her ashes.
31:26Cold, sharp, untouchable.
31:29And finally, finally, free.
31:39Three weeks later, Papa called.
31:45Emergency family meeting.
31:47Volkov situation.
31:49They're demanding your presence.
31:52They know you're alive.
31:53Dominic knows.
31:57The meeting was in Dominic's private office.
32:01So the rooms were true.
32:04The little Moretti girl survived.
32:06Disappointed?
32:07Impressed.
32:08That grenade should have killed you.
32:11Dominic stared at me, taking in every change.
32:14Why am I here?
32:16Why am I here?
32:17Because there's a problem.
32:18Your entire existence is a problem for me.
32:24I touched my split lip.
32:26Tasted blood.
32:28Smiled.
32:30Feel better?
32:31Natalia.
32:33Natalia.
32:34Sit down.
32:40The Volkov family honor demands restitution.
32:46Certain council members have concerns about you.
32:48You know our security systems, our weapons catches, our alliance terms.
32:54You're a liability.
32:56The council has demanded proof of loyalty.
32:59Dominic's loyalty.
33:01They want him to eliminate the threat personally.
33:04Dominic eliminates the threat.
33:07Brings proof.
33:08What kind of proof?
33:11Your heart.
33:13Literally.
33:14In a box.
33:17You're insane.
33:20I'm thorough.
33:21Can't fake death if we have the organ.
33:24Accept the terms or watch your family die.
33:29I looked at him, searching for any trace of the man I'd loved.
33:33Nothing.
33:34Just ice.
33:36That night, I was thrown in the basement.
33:39I opened my eyes.
33:41Dominic stood in the doorway.
33:42Alone.
33:45Get out.
33:48We need to talk.
33:57I'll make it painless.
33:59You won't suffer.
34:01How generous.
34:03Should I thank you?
34:05I don't have a choice.
34:06You always have a choice.
34:08You chose her over me every single time.
34:10The car, the hospital, the cathedral.
34:15To keep you safe.
34:16Safe!
34:17I'm in a basement waiting for my execution.
34:20The Volkovs would have killed you if I'd shown any preference.
34:25So instead, you'll do it yourself?
34:27Yes!
34:28If you die clean.
34:30Officially, with proof.
34:31The Volkovs accept it.
34:33The alliance holds.
34:34Your family stays safe.
34:36It's the only way.
34:39For what it's worth, I did love you.
34:42Once.
34:44Once.
34:45Past tense.
34:46How romantic.
34:4872 hours.
34:49Three days.
34:51Then Dominic Cavallo would personally end me.
34:54Papa texted me.
34:55I know what they're planning.
34:57Say the word.
34:58We fight.
34:59No.
35:00Let it happen.
35:02Keep the family safe.
35:04Be cool, I know.
35:05Promise me.
35:06No retaliation.
35:07No war.
35:09Let me go.
35:11And move on.
35:13I turned off the phone, lay on the cot, stared at the ceiling, and waited for my execution.
35:20Because loving Dominic Cavallo had always been a death sentence.
35:2472 hours.
35:26Then finally, the end.
35:2860 hours remaining.
35:31At dawn, the door opened.
35:33Not Dominic.
35:34Natalia.
35:37Come to gloat?
35:39Come to talk.
35:40Woman to woman.
35:41He's been different since you disappeared.
35:45Volatile.
35:46Obsessive.
35:47Has nightmares.
35:49Wakes up screaming your name.
35:51Guilt will do that.
35:52What if there was another way?
35:55The council wants your heart.
35:57But hearts from Decavers look identical to fresh ones.
36:00I have access to black market organs.
36:03We stage your death.
36:05Use a substitute heart.
36:06Everyone believes you're dead.
36:08Including Dominic.
36:09Why would you do that?
36:11Because a dead ex-lover is a closed chapter.
36:15But a living one.
36:16That's a haunting.
36:18And I don't do well with ghosts.
36:20New identity.
36:22Untraceable.
36:23Money offshore.
36:24And a guarantee.
36:25The Volkovs will never hunt you.
36:26But you have to become a ghost.
36:29Forever.
36:30You're asking me to erase myself.
36:32I'm offering you life instead of death.
36:35You have 12 hours to decide.
36:37I stared at the envelope.
36:40Freedom.
36:41Survival.
36:41At the cost of everyone I loved.
36:45I'll take your deal.
36:46But I have conditions.
36:55You're not in a position to negotiate.
36:58Neither are you.
36:59If I die for real, Dominic mourns forever.
37:02If I escape and tell everyone about your scheme, the council executes you both.
37:07One letter for my father.
37:08And the blade I forged.
37:10Fine.
37:11When does this happen?
37:12Tomorrow night.
37:13At 11pm.
37:14You'll die of a heart attack.
37:16Natural causes.
37:18Very tragic.
37:1912 hours remaining.
37:21He looked terrible.
37:22Unshaven.
37:23Dark circles.
37:24I came to see you.
37:25Before.
37:26Before you murder me.
37:28How thoughtful.
37:29If there was any other way.
37:31There isn't.
37:31Tell me something.
37:32When you cut out my heart.
37:34Will you recognize it?
37:35Will you remember it for you for 10 years?
37:38Dominic didn't answer.
37:39He pulled a velvet box from his pocket.
37:41I bought this two years ago.
37:43I was going to propose.
37:44Make us official.
37:45You should know.
37:46I love you.
37:47Aria Moretti.
37:48I'm just too much of a coward to choose you.
37:50Don't!
37:50You don't get to love me at my execution!
37:53I'm sorry!
37:54Fuck your sorry!
37:56Get out and don't come back!
37:57I want nothing from you!
37:59Dominic left.
38:00The ring stayed on the floor.
38:02Mocking.
38:03Meaningless.
38:04Six hours remaining.
38:05Natalia returned with a doctor.
38:07It's time.
38:09The injection will stop your heart for 90 seconds.
38:12Long enough to declare you dead.
38:13Then the antidote.
38:15And if something goes wrong, then you die for real.
38:17And everyone's problems are solved.
38:20The needle slid in.
38:21My heart stopped.
38:23The world went black.
38:25I woke in a van.
38:26Welcome back.
38:27You were dead for 97 seconds.
38:29Dominic identified your body.
38:31Accepted the heart.
38:32Walked out without a word.
38:33You're officially dead.
38:35I touched my chest.
38:36My heart still beating.
38:37Where are we going?
38:39Airport.
38:39Private charter.
38:41You leave in 30 minutes.
38:42As promised.
38:43Any last words for New Orleans?
38:45Burn it down.
38:47Tokyo.
38:47Three days later.
38:48I woke as Sienna Ross.
38:50Corporate consultant.
38:51No family.
38:52No past.
38:53No love.
38:54My new phone had one message.
38:56It's done.
38:56He mourned.
38:57He buried you.
38:58He cried.
38:59Now he's moving on.
39:00You're free.
39:01I deleted it.
39:02Looked at myself in the mirror.
39:04Short black hair.
39:05Green contacts.
39:05Not Arya.
39:07Sienna.
39:07A ghost.
39:08Hello, Sienna.
39:10Let's see what you can do.
39:12And somewhere, 5,000 miles away, Dominic Cavallo woke the nightmares of a woman he'd murdered.
39:18Not knowing she was alive.
39:20Watching.
39:21Waiting.
39:22This isn't over, my love.
39:23This is just the beginning.
39:25You wanted me dead.
39:27You got your wish.
39:28Now live with the ghost.
39:30Ghost.
39:33Ghost.
39:36After Aaliyah died, I kept staring at the spot where she used to sit.
39:42Sir, the Volkoff representatives are here.
39:44Cancel it.
39:45The treaty signing?
39:46I said cancel it.
39:48You haven't slept in three days.
39:49Yesterday you fired six people for breathing too loud.
39:52She's dead, Gabriel.
39:54Arya is dead.
39:55I killed her.
39:56And you want me to sign treaties?
39:59I'm sorry.
39:59Natalya slipped in at some point, dressed in cream Chanel, pristine.
40:04Darling, you missed breakfast.
40:06Not hungry.
40:07You have to eat something.
40:08I need to be alone.
40:09You've been alone for three days.
40:12Then make it four.
40:13Get out.
40:14I opened my desk drawer.
40:16The ring box sat there, mocking.
40:18The diamond caught the light because I was a coward, because I chose power.
40:23One week later, I started seeing Arya everywhere.
40:26In hallways.
40:27In gardens.
40:28In my bed.
40:30You're hallucinating.
40:31Grief does that.
40:32I'm not grieving.
40:33I'm haunted.
40:34Do you know what her last words were?
40:36Go to hell, Dominic.
40:38Not goodbye.
40:39God, I love you.
40:40I kept returning to Arya's studio, pouring over the drafts, letters, and diaries.
40:46I picked up one letter.
40:47It started, Dear Dominic, today you smiled at me and I forgot how to breathe.
40:52I picked up another.
40:54Dear Dominic, I know you'll never love me the way I love you, but I'll keep trying.
40:58Each one cut like a knife.
41:00You shouldn't be in here.
41:01She loved me for ten years, unconditionally, and I threw her away.
41:08You did what you had to.
41:10I murdered her to save the Alliance, to save everything except the one thing that mattered.
41:16She mattered more than me.
41:17Yes, she always mattered more, and I killed her anyway.
41:21Then you're a monster.
41:22I know.
41:23The wedding is in six weeks.
41:24Will you show up, or will you be in here, talking to a ghost?
41:28I don't know.
41:29She left.
41:29I stayed on the floor, surrounded by Arya's words.
41:33I'm sorry.
41:34Silence.
41:35No forgiveness.
41:36No absolution.
41:37One month later, Gabriel brought news.
41:40The Volkov weapon shipment.
41:41Someone intercepted it.
41:43They left a message.
41:44Gabriel handed me a photo.
41:45The crates, empty.
41:47Burned into concrete.
41:49Ghost.
41:49My blood ran cold.
41:51When?
41:52Last night.
41:53And sir, there's more.
41:54Another photo.
41:55The weapons melted into sag.
41:57Except one blade.
41:59And on the handle, AM, Arya Moretti.
42:09No, she's dead.
42:11I saw her body.
42:12I held her fucking hard.
42:14To see what you choose.
42:15Family or power.
42:16Love or alliance.
42:18Me or the Empire.
42:20No one can copy us.
42:21Do you fail?
42:21Find out who's Arya.
42:22Find him and bring him to me.
42:24And if it really is, it's not.
42:26Dead.
42:26Now I'm just the ghost.
42:28Find the ghost.
42:29Whatever it takes.
42:30Tell your father the alliance is void.
42:32New Orleans belongs to the Morettis now.
42:34Aren't you?
42:35You're fucking alive.
42:36When I catch you.
42:37You're alive.
42:37Disappointed?
42:38Relieved.
42:39One way or another.
42:40Jesus Christ, I thought you saw a corpse.
42:43A fake.
42:43How did it feel?
42:44And now, the wedding.
42:46The same cathedral where Arya had almost died.
42:48Dearly beloved.
42:50You should feel dead.
42:51If anyone objects to this union.
42:53Before the priest befins you.
42:54To see what you choose.
42:56Family or power.
42:57Love or alliance.
42:58Me or the empire.
43:01You fail.
43:02Arya.
43:03You killed me, Dominic.
43:05The girl who loved you.
43:06Dead.
43:07Now I'm just the ghost.
43:09Here to collect.
43:10One.
43:11Tell your father the alliance is void.
43:13New Orleans belongs to the Morettis now.
43:17You're alive.
43:18Disappointed?
43:19Reliefing hard.
43:20Then explain the signature.
43:21That's her work.
43:22No one else makes Damascus like that.
43:25Someone's copying her.
43:26No one can copy her.
43:27Find out who's doing this.
43:29Find them and bring them to me.
43:30And if it really is, it's not.
43:32She's dead.
43:33I made sure of that.
43:34Find the ghost.
43:35Whatever it takes.
43:37And for the first time in a month, I smiled.
43:39You're alive, aren't you?
43:41You're fucking alive.
43:42When I catch you, we're finishing this.
43:45One way or another.
43:46Six weeks of searching for ghost trails that led nowhere.
43:49And now, the wedding.
43:51The same cathedral where Arya had almost died.
43:55Dearly beloved, if anyone objects to this union...
43:59Before the priest could finish, the cathedral doors exploded open.
44:03Mihail stormed in with his crew.
44:05Secure him.
44:07What are you doing?
44:08Taking what's mine.
44:10New Orleans.
44:12Your territory.
44:13Everything.
44:14Natalia picked up the blade, circled me.
44:16You were always so predictable, Dominic.
44:18The cathedral ambush, that was the first test.
44:21See if you'd save her or me.
44:23You passed.
44:25Passed.
44:26You chose correctly.
44:27But we needed to be sure.
44:29So we demanded her death.
44:31And you killed her so obediently.
44:34Perfect little puppet.
44:35Now that you're married to me, everything you own becomes Volkov property.
44:39Any last words?
44:40Before I could speak, another round of gunfire erupted from the windows.
44:44Volkov men fell.
44:45Professional.
44:46Surgical.
44:47Precise.
44:48Retreat!
44:49As Mihail was scrambling away, a figure dropped through the skylight.
44:53The figure stood, pulled off the mask.
44:56Hello, Dominic.
44:57You're dead.
44:58I held your heart.
45:00You held a heart.
45:01Not mine.
45:02Surprise.
45:04Shoot her!
45:07Your turn, princess.
45:10That weapon, I made it defective.
45:12Off balance.
45:13Just like you.
45:16You orchestrated everything.
45:18The ambush.
45:19The execution order.
45:21So what?
45:23Wrong answer.
45:24As for you, Dominic, you are a complete idiot.
45:27The Moretti family was never in Milan.
45:30They've been in Sicily for two months.
45:32Underground.
45:33Protected.
45:34The photo.
45:35Feoship.
45:36It was all a test.
45:44A test.
45:46To see what you choose.
45:47Family or power.
45:49Love or alliance.
45:50Me or the Empire.
45:52You fail.
45:54Aria.
45:54You killed me, Dominic.
45:56The girl who loved you, dead.
45:59Now I'm just the ghost.
46:00Here to collect.
46:02One.
46:02Tell your father the alliance is void.
46:05New Orleans belongs to the Morettis now.
46:08You're alive.
46:10Disappointed?
46:10Relieved.
46:11Jesus Christ.
46:13I thought...
46:13You saw a corpse.
46:14A fake.
46:15How did it feel?
46:17Holding that heart.
46:18Like dying.
46:19Good.
46:22You should feel dead.
46:23You are dead.
46:25To me.
46:25I loved you.
46:26Past tense.
46:27You loved me right up until it was inconvenient.
46:30You threw me out of a car.
46:32You kicked me into a grenade.
46:34You executed me for an alliance.
46:36I was trying to protect you.
46:38By killing me?
46:39By making them think you were dead.
46:41So they'd stop hunting you.
46:43Liar!
46:44You killed me because it was easier than choosing me.
46:47Admit it.
46:47I know, Aria.
46:48I know everything I did wrong.
46:50Every betrayal.
46:52I know.
46:53Then why?
46:53Because power is all I know.
46:55Because I'm a monster who breaks everything he touches.
46:58But mostly because I'm a fucking coward who couldn't admit that you were the Empire.
47:03Not the territory.
47:04You.
47:05Too late.
47:06I know.
47:07I don't love you anymore.
47:08I know.
47:09Wait, where are you going?
47:11Away.
47:12Anywhere you're not.
47:13I'll find you.
47:14No.
47:16Aria Morello died the day you killed her.
47:18I'm someone else now.
47:20Goodbye, Dominic.
47:30She was alive, but to me, she was still dead.
47:34Because the Aria who loved me, she really had died.
47:37I couldn't leave the cathedral.
47:39I couldn't leave the cathedral.
47:39I knelt there for hours.
47:41Back at the estate, I walked through halls like a ghost.
47:43A hidden drawer caught my eye.
47:45Inside, a journal.
47:47Leather bound.
47:48Worn.
47:48Year one, Dominic kissed me tonight.
47:51I know he doesn't feel it, but God, I'm already falling.
47:54Year five.
47:55I designed his eagle tattoo today.
47:57I didn't say I put my heart in this design because I can't give it to you directly.
48:02Year ten.
48:03He's marrying Natalia Voloff.
48:04So tired of loving someone who can't love me back.
48:07The final words were smudged, like she'd been crying.
48:10At a dent.
48:11Written in the cell, hours before execution.
48:14You killed me slowly, over ten years.
48:17Every time you chose power over me.
48:19I don't forgive you.
48:20I don't hate you.
48:21I don't feel anything anymore.
48:23Check the false wall behind my workbench.
48:25I found the hidden panel.
48:27Inside, files.
48:28Dozens of them.
48:29Volkov family communications.
48:32Evidence of their plot.
48:33Everything I'd need to destroy them.
48:35She'd compiled it all.
48:37Been protecting me even as I destroyed her.
48:40She spent two years gathering that intelligence.
48:42Risked her life dozens of times.
48:44All to save me.
48:46I spent three days in that studio.
48:48Reading her journals.
48:49All ten years.
48:50Every entry a knife.
48:52All of these words proved that she had already stopped loving me long before that execution.
48:56Since that she'd stopped loving me before the execution.
48:59I need to find someone.
49:00A ghost named Aria Moretti.
49:02I hired the best trackers.
49:04But weeks passed.
49:05Nothing.
49:06She'd vanished like smoke.
49:08Two months after the cathedral.
49:09I stood at her empty grave.
49:11You were right.
49:12About everything.
49:14I am a monster.
49:15But you're wrong about one thing.
49:17What I want is you.
49:18Not the territory.
49:20Not the power.
49:21You.
49:21Dump.
49:22We found her.
49:23We found her.
49:30We found her.
49:32My heart stopped.
49:34Where?
49:35She left you one last message.
49:37Read it.
49:37And move on.
49:38Dominic.
49:39You found the evidence.
49:41My journals.
49:42Proof.
49:42That I loved you and tried to save you.
49:44Don't feel guilty.
49:46I wrote this to help you understand what you had.
49:49What you lost.
49:50You chose the monster over love.
49:52And I can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.
49:55This is goodbye.
49:57Live your life.
49:58Build your empire.
49:59Find someone who fits better.
50:00And forget about me.
50:02Because I've already forgotten you.
50:04A. P. S.
50:05Stop looking for me.
50:06You'll never find what's already gone.
50:08I read it 17 times.
50:10Then burned it.
50:11Watched her words turn to ash.
50:13Her final goodbye.
50:14She was gone.
50:15Really gone.
50:16Not dead.
50:17Not hiding.
50:18Just done with me.
50:20And I had to live with that.
50:21Had to wake up every day knowing I destroyed.
50:24Destroyed the only person who'd ever really loved me.
50:26Goodbye Aria.
50:27I hope you're happy.
50:29I hope you're free.
50:30I hope you never think of me again.
50:32You were the best thing I ever destroyed.
50:34She left blades behind.
50:36Marks.
50:37Even countless fake trails designed to pull me deeper.
50:4043 cities.
50:42Hope.
50:42After hope.
50:44Despair after despair.
50:45I paid every price.
50:47And the airplanes.
50:48Burned every connection I had.
50:50But every single time.
50:51I was one step too late.
50:54Two years and six months after the cathedral.
50:56I gave up.
50:57Just stopped.
50:58Stopped sending teams.
51:00Stopped chasing.
51:01Stopped destroying myself.
51:02Natalia left me.
51:04You're in love with a ghost.
51:05I refused to compete with the dead.
51:07She signed the annulment papers.
51:09The council demanded I step down.
51:11You're compromised.
51:12Weak.
51:13Unfit to lead.
51:15Fine.
51:16Take it.
51:18Take everything.
51:19I was sitting in his studio when Gabriel burst in.
51:22Sir.
51:23You need to see this.
51:25A news article.
51:26Art gallery in Savannah.
51:27The painting showed a phoenix rising from fire.
51:30A figure beside it.
51:31I zoomed in.
51:32Hidden in the flames.
51:34A signature.
51:35Two letters intertwined.
51:36E and A.
51:38She's in Savannah.
51:40Sir, if she's leaving clues.
51:41Find her.
51:42Even if she only wanted to make me chase another dead end.
51:45I paid a gallery staffer $500 for an address.
51:48Ten minutes later, I stood outside a converted warehouse.
51:52Her studio.
51:54You found me.
51:55You left a trail.
51:57I know.
52:00Why?
52:01Because I needed you to see that I survived.
52:04Come in.
52:05We need to talk.
52:14For two years, I hid as Sienna rose.
52:18I thought Savannah could wash the blood of New Orleans off me.
52:22Then one stormy night, my studio door opened again.
52:27Dominic stood there.
52:28No mafia king.
52:30No power.
52:31Just a man who looked ruined.
52:33I let him in.
52:34And what came next was a trial.
52:36No blood.
52:37No mercy.
52:42I'm not here to take you back.
52:44And I sure as hell don't get to boss you around anymore.
52:49I know what I was two years ago.
52:52A coward.
52:53A damn fool.
52:56I signed over everything.
52:58My whole empire.
52:59Every inch of Cavallo territory.
53:01All of it went to your father, Salvatore.
53:04Free.
53:06I've got nothing left now.
53:09Arya, I gave it all up.
53:12So I could stand here without blood on my hands.
53:15You gave it all up?
53:17So what?
53:18Can that give me back those seconds you stopped my heart?
53:22Can it give me back the ten years I wasted on you?
53:26No.
53:28So I'm not asking you to forgive me.
53:31But please,
53:33let me stay as long as I can see you.
53:36Even if you never say another word to me.
53:38I stared at him.
53:39At the broken man who destroyed me.
53:41At the only person I'd ever truly loved.
53:44The guest room.
53:45Upstairs.
53:46But you stay out of my space except when I allow it.
53:49One week.
53:49You get one week here.
53:51Then you leave Savannah.
53:54Yes.
54:04I thought he'd quit in three days.
54:06He used to rule everyone.
54:09Now he was begging with every little thing he did.
54:13Trying to fix the heart he broke.
54:15Day two.
54:16He started cleaning.
54:18I came back to find my studio Sostivals spotless.
54:22Tools organized.
54:24Floor swept.
54:25The next day he cooked.
54:27Pasta.
54:28Garlic bread.
54:29I took a bite.
54:30It was perfect.
54:32Exactly like I'd made it.
54:34Day four.
54:35I didn't see him.
54:36But at midnight.
54:37I heard sounds from my studio.
54:39He was on his knees in front of my Phoenix painting.
54:42Sobbing.
54:44I'm sorry.
54:46For all of it.
54:47For every time I threw you away.
54:49For killing you.
54:52I know you hate me.
54:54I know I don't deserve forgiveness.
54:56But losing you was losing everything.
55:00I stood alone staring at the painting.
55:02And I realized something terrifying.
55:05I didn't want to be alone anymore.
55:07By day five.
55:08I realized I couldn't pretend I didn't care anymore.
55:13Talk.
55:15About what?
55:16All of it.
55:18Natalia approached me three years ago.
55:20Offered an alliance.
55:22Power.
55:24Control.
55:24And I wanted it.
55:27At least you're honest this time.
55:30Later.
55:31I found out they never wanted an alliance.
55:33They wanted to just swallow Cavallo whole.
55:36So you killed me to stop them?
55:39So I staged your death to save you.
55:41The Volkovs demanded proof.
55:44Your heart.
55:45If I'd refused they would have hunted you forever.
55:49Except I was part of that plan.
55:52Natalia's the one who came to me.
55:54She offered me the deal.
55:55The black market heart.
55:57The staged death.
56:00She wanted me gone.
56:02Couldn't compete with a ghost.
56:05What?
56:06In the most fucked up way possible.
56:09You thought staging my death was protection.
56:12It was protection.
56:14It was betrayal.
56:16You should have told me.
56:18We should have planned it together.
56:20Instead you made the choice for me.
56:23Like always.
56:24I know.
56:25You don't know!
56:29Do you have any idea what it's like to die?
56:32To wake up in a van being told you're a ghost?
56:37That's hell, Dominic.
56:41And you put me there.
56:43Not the Volkovs.
56:46You.
56:47I know.
56:48I'm sorry.
56:49I'm so fucking sorry.
56:51Sorry is enough!
56:55I threw all the rage.
56:57All the grief.
56:58All the love I couldn't kill right at him.
57:00He took every hit.
57:02Until I collapsed against him sobbing.
57:05I hate you.
57:07I hate you so much.
57:09I know.
57:16I hate that.
57:18I still love you.
57:32I know.
57:35I know, Arya.
57:37I know.
57:39I can't do this again.
57:41I can't be your secret.
57:44Your convenience.
57:45Your second choice.
57:47You won't be.
57:49How can I trust that?
57:54Because I love you more than power.
57:56More than empire.
57:58More than my own life.
58:01He pulled out his phone.
58:03Put it on speaker.
58:05Gabriel.
58:07Draw up the transfer papers.
58:08Everything.
58:10Silence.
58:11Sir, are you serious?
58:13Dead serious.
58:14Effective immediately.
58:15I'm done.
58:16I choose Arya.
58:18I should have chosen her two years ago.
58:20I'm choosing her now.
58:22Satisfied?
58:23You just gave up everything.
58:25No.
58:27I gave up nothing.
58:30Because without you, it was all nothing anyway.
58:34I'm insane.
58:35Arya.
58:36For you.
58:38So yes, I'm giving up New Orleans, the family, the legacy, all of it, because you are my legacy.
58:48I looked at him, really looked at the man who destroyed me, who'd haunted me, who'd just given up everything
58:55for me.
58:58One month, you stay here, in Savannah, figuring out if we can salvage anything from this wreckage.
59:06Okay, one month to win back what I destroyed.
59:09We hugged in silence, two ghosts trying to remember how to be alive.
59:14And despite everything, I felt something I hadn't felt in forever.
59:17Hope.
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