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00:01I was counter-signing a $10 million patent license under a Department of Defense classification
00:06stamp when my mother called,
00:08Isabella's marrying into the Marchettis this weekend. You must come home.
00:12Click. She hung up.
00:13The Marchettis, one of the five mafia families.
00:16For a Vitale girl to marry a Marchetti was what my mother had been praying for for 20 years.
00:21I opened the friends and family group chat I'd had muted for a long time.
00:25My brother Elliot had actually mentioned me for once.
00:27Every dawn on the eastern seaboard is going to be at that wedding.
00:30Wear something decent. Don't embarrass Isabella.
00:32Ethan Colombo, who'd grown up two houses down from ours, jumped in right after, ten years out of high school.
00:37If you'd worked half as hard as Isabella and gotten into an ivy, you'd have your foot in the Marchettis'
00:41door by now.
00:42Instead, you're pulling espresso shots in some hole in Queens.
00:45I scrolled down. I stopped at a message from Melanie Ricci, the girl who used to be my best friend.
00:49Hazel, Isabella's gonna be a Marchetti in five days.
00:52If New York isn't working out, come home. Ask Isabella to put in a word.
00:55The Marchettis can place you somewhere respectable. Hostess at the club. Anything is better than what you're doing to the
01:00Vicali name.
01:01I lowered my eyes. The Marchettis.
01:03Over the last three months, Don Salvatore Marchetti himself had reached out to me three times through backchannels, requesting a
01:0930-minute meeting.
01:10Every request went unanswered.
01:12The group chat kept pinging. I couldn't be bothered to read the rest.
01:15I typed back.
01:16Okay. I'll be there.
01:18Isabella sent a Venmo payment within seconds.
01:20Zero dollars and one cent.
01:22The memo read, For your flight home, can't wait to see you, Hazel.
01:25With everything Isabella's spending on this wedding, how do you have the nerve to actually accept that?
01:30Send it back.
01:31Just because Isabella pulls 200 grand a year at McKenzie doesn't make her your personal ATM.
01:35Have some pride. You're a Vittori.
01:37I was about to type a reply. Melanie dropped in with a sighing emoji.
01:41Come on, guys. Out of all of us, she's the one who brought the most shame on the family.
01:45Now she's finally coming home. Let her come home.
01:48I stared at the screen, quietly clenching my fist.
01:52I remembered senior year of high school.
01:54Isabella had transferred back from her Catholic prep school in Los Angeles.
01:57My mother had sent her there for etiquette lessons.
01:59French. Everything she'd need to one day carry the Vitale name into a five-families ballroom.
02:05She effortlessly became part of the little trio.
02:08Ethan, Melanie, and I had grown up together in.
02:10And just like at home, I became the invisible one all over again.
02:14Isabella's voice message snapped me out of my thoughts.
02:18Hazel, don't take the Venmo thing personally.
02:21Her tone was all soft edges.
02:23I know rent in New York is brutal and things are tight for you.
02:26I just wanted to help cover your flight.
02:28That's all I meant by it.
02:30A teary-eyed emoji followed.
02:32Right on cue, the group chat filled up with people praising how thoughtful she was.
02:36I screenshotted the one-cent Venmo payment and sent it back.
02:38The chat went quiet for a few seconds.
02:40Elliot was the first to snap.
02:42Hazel, what the hell?
02:44Not enough for you didn't even finish college?
02:46Isabella's still willing to seat you in the main ballroom instead of in the overflow tables.
02:51She was nice enough to send you money.
02:52You still had the audacity to complain it wasn't enough?
02:55A penny's still a gesture.
02:56Do you have any idea what a position you're putting Isabella in?
03:00I leaned back in my chair and took a sip of coffee.
03:03At 18, that kind of pylon would have kept me up all night.
03:06At 28, I didn't feel a thing.
03:09Isabella sent a voice memo.
03:10Careful.
03:10Hazel, I got so excited when I heard you were coming home.
03:14My hand slipped.
03:16Please don't be upset, okay?
03:18I already talked to Matea about finding you a place with the family.
03:21Maybe hostess at the Newport Club?
03:24Front desk at the restaurant on Belvae?
03:26Given that you never finished college, we can't exactly put you in a high-profile position.
03:31Don't take it the wrong way.
03:33Elliot scoffed.
03:34What right does she have to take it the wrong way?
03:37Every time someone in the family asks about her, I'm too embarrassed to answer.
03:42Ten years ago, when college decisions came in the mail, Isabella got into Yale.
03:46I got one rejection letter and a waitlist notice from community college.
03:50My parents booked a two-week trip through the Amalfi Coast for Isabella and Elliot.
03:54They handed me $50.
03:56You couldn't even get into a community college.
03:59You embarrassed the Vitale name.
04:02You don't deserve to come with us.
04:04I tried to tell them I'd been accepted early.
04:06My mother threw a coffee mug at my friend.
04:08I still had a small scar above my eyebrow.
04:10I never finished the sentence.
04:12I never told them about the USAMO gold medal.
04:15Or that MIT had offered me a full presidential scholarship.
04:18Let Isabella be the one they married into the five families to serve as the Vitale name's public face.
04:23A knock at the door.
04:24Emma, my assistant, stood in the doorway.
04:26Dr. Vitale, Dr. Langley called personally this time.
04:29Don Salvatore is asking for 30 minutes.
04:31Any location.
04:32Any time this month.
04:33The clean side of the Marchetti operation had already sunk half a billion dollars into a defense subcontracting venture.
04:40The Pentagon contract they were desperate to win required a neural signal decoding architecture
04:44capable of defeating the FBI's voice recognition stack.
04:47They had been stalled on the algorithm for two years.
04:50I happened to hold the patent.
04:52Emma hesitated.
04:52Should I decline again?
04:54I gave a soft laugh.
04:55No.
04:56Tell Don Salvatore I'll be in Newport this weekend.
05:00Friday, I flew into Providence.
05:02A black car service picked me up and drove me down to Newport.
05:05No one from the family came to meet me.
05:07The car dropped me off at my parents' house on Bellevue.
05:10Melanie opened the door.
05:11Something flickered behind her eyes.
05:13Hazel!
05:14I almost didn't recognize you.
05:15A coat like that isn't something a girl making two grand a month serving coffee could ever afford.
05:20I didn't answer.
05:21Isabella's eyes tracked to the watch on my wrist, then swept over my coat.
05:25Her lips pressed into a thin line.
05:27Hazel, come on.
05:28We're family.
05:29You don't need to put on a show like this.
05:31How many credit cards did you max out?
05:33Wow, Hazel.
05:34Looks like New York taught you how to wear designer knockoffs.
05:38I looked at the faces in front of me.
05:40Ten years later, they'd changed very little.
05:42Elliot had put on weight.
05:43Melanie had lines at the corners of her eyes.
05:46Ethan's hairline had retreated visibly.
05:47Isabella was the exception.
05:49Porcelain smooth.
05:50Cartier on one wrist.
05:51A Marchetti engagement stone catching the light on her finger.
05:54From the day I graduated until now,
05:56I have never once mentioned my income to any of you,
05:59so where exactly are you getting your numbers from?
06:02Nobody had an answer.
06:03My mother came out of the sitting room.
06:04She didn't even finish college.
06:06Who knows what she's been up to in New York?
06:09It's been ten years,
06:10and she's given this family absolutely nothing in return.
06:12We wasted everything on her.
06:14All right, all right.
06:16We're blood.
06:17Nobody here is going to judge you.
06:19Let's just eat.
06:19Eight dishes, brought out one by one.
06:22Mrs. Vitara, you remembered I love the osso bucco.
06:24You had to make the brinzini again.
06:25I scanned the table.
06:27Every person had their favorite in front of them.
06:29Even the cane corso curled up by the fireplace
06:32had a small bowl of veal.
06:33The only thing in front of me was a casually tossed together salad.
06:37My mother personally cut Isabella's steak and placed it on her plate.
06:40We've been investing in property along the Newport coast these past few years.
06:44Elliot and Isabella both graduated from top schools and have contributed to this family.
06:48They've each earned a house.
06:50As for you, Hazel,
06:52someone who's done nothing but bring shame to the Vitarae name doesn't deserve a thing.
06:56I set down my fork and laughed softly.
06:58So that's how the Vitalis divide property.
07:00Not by blood.
07:01By who's been the most useful to the family.
07:03The table went dead silent.
07:05My mother's palm came down on the wood, hard enough to rattle the glasses.
07:13Hazel!
07:13You don't come home for ten years,
07:15and the moment you show up, you start picking fights?
07:17If I'd known you'd turn out this ungrateful,
07:20I should have left you on the church steps in a basket the night you were born.
07:23Exactly like ten years ago,
07:25the day my mother saw my SAT score report.
07:28The mug threw straight at my forehead.
07:30Blood ran down the side of my face
07:32and dripped onto the hardwood.
07:33She'd worn the same expression then.
07:35The one thing I regret in this life is not leaving you at the church that night.
07:39Would have spared this family the embarrassment.
07:42Ten years was long enough to give up on whatever thin sliver of a mother's love I'd once hoped for.
07:47Right now, I didn't feel a thing.
07:48Just numb.
07:49My father tried to smooth things over.
07:51You know how your mother is.
07:53She says things she doesn't mean.
07:54He forced a laugh and changed the subject.
07:56Isabella, tomorrow we'll bring the Providence construction contract to the wedding.
07:59A gift from the Vitalos to the Marchape operation.
08:02Don Salvatore will remember it.
08:04Isabella's smile went tight at the corners.
08:06Dad, Don Salvatore might not be at the wedding.
08:09What?
08:09What?
08:10It's Mateo's wedding.
08:12Don Salvatore isn't even coming to his own grandson's wedding?
08:15Isabella sighed.
08:16Mateo said Don Salvatore has an important guest coming in this weekend.
08:19He has to be there in person so he can't make the wedding.
08:22Who?
08:23Who's more important than his own grandson at the altar?
08:26Isabella shook her head.
08:27I don't know exactly.
08:29Mateo just said someone from up the coast.
08:31Damn Salvatore has been working every angle he has for three months to get this meeting on the calendar.
08:36Don Salvatore said if the deal closes, the Marchettos don't have to worry about the feds for a decade.
08:41Melanie looked genuinely baffled.
08:43Who makes a Marchetti wait three months?
08:45Isabella paused, then with studied casualness, glanced at me.
08:49Hazel, you've been out there a while.
08:51Ever heard anything about who this might be?
08:53I shook my head.
08:54Not really.
08:56She never even made it through college.
08:58What the hell would she know?
08:59I kept eating and said nothing.
09:01What was I supposed to say?
09:03That the person Don Salvatore had been chasing for three months was me?
09:07They'd think I was insane.
09:11After dinner, my father stopped me on my way out.
09:14Hazel, your mom had the housekeeper air out your old room a few days ago.
09:17New sheets, new pillowcases, all ready for you.
09:19Just as he finished, my mother came out of the sitting room.
09:22Melanie's taking the guest room tonight.
09:24Hazel, you can take the couch.
09:26My father's smile stiffened on his face.
09:28Melanie looked up from the couch and glanced at me.
09:30The corner of her mouth twitched upward.
09:32Mrs. Vitale, I couldn't.
09:34I can just book somewhere in town.
09:35My mother's tone left no room for discussion.
09:38You barely come around anymore.
09:40I'm not letting a reeky girl stay at a stranger's inn.
09:42Hazel's used to being poor.
09:43She can take the couch.
09:44I stood next to the dining table and said nothing.
09:47Hazel?
09:48My mother's voice pulled me back.
09:49That won't be necessary.
09:51I already booked a hotel.
09:52Her face darkened.
09:53So you'd rather sleep in a hotel than under your father's roof?
09:56What is a Vitaro girl doing checking into a hotel in her own town?
10:00I picked up my coat and started toward the door.
10:02I sleep better in a bed behind me.
10:04I heard my mother mutter to my father.
10:06Ten years away and her attitude's out of control.
10:09Every single thing has to be a fight.
10:11The door closed behind me.
10:12Ten years ago, the girl who slept on that couch would have cried into her pillow, unable to
10:16understand why her mother was kinder to a reachy girl than to her own daughter.
10:20Ten years later, Hazel watched deposits land in her account.
10:23Patent licensing fees.
10:25Federal contract royalties.
10:26Equity distributions.
10:28Every payment came with more zeros than she cared to count.
10:30She wasn't sad anymore.
10:32She could take care of herself now.
10:34She was looking forward to seeing their faces when they realized exactly who Don Salvatore
10:38had been waiting for.
10:40The next day, Newport's most famous wedding venue, the Chandler and Cliff Walk.
10:44Black escalades lined the drive.
10:46Men in dark suits with earpieces stood at every entrance, checking names against a list.
10:51Every family on the eastern seaboard had someone in that ballroom.
10:54Boston.
10:54New York.
10:55Philadelphia.
10:56New Haven.
10:56Providence.
10:57Halfway through the toasts, Isabella stood up from the head table, walked onto the platform.
11:02Everyone, thank you for coming out to celebrate Mateo and me today.
11:05While I have the mic, I wanted to do a little something for my sister, Hazel.
11:10Isabella's smile was flawless.
11:11I stiffened.
11:12Every head in the room turned toward me.
11:14Isabella's smile was so earnest.
11:16Hazel Vitale.
11:1928.
11:20High school diploma.
11:21She's not made.
11:22She doesn't work for any family.
11:24Right now, she's pouring espresso in a little shop up in Queens.
11:2718 an hour, plus tips.
11:29A ripple of quiet, incredulous laughter moved through the ballroom.
11:32But she's a wonderful person.
11:34So grounded.
11:34So genuine.
11:36If any of the single gentlemen tonight are open-minded enough to overlook all that,
11:39please come say hi.
11:40Please don't hold her situation against her.
11:42For my sake, as the bride, give her a chance to join a family.
11:47Frankie DeLanca.
11:48I run the vending route out of Cravard.
11:50Divorced.
11:50Three kids.
11:51What do you say, sweetheart?
11:52A shorter man stood up in the corner.
11:54No taller than 5'5".
11:55Bobby.
11:56Out of the Ricci crew.
11:57I do the books for a strip mall in Warfic.
11:59Never married.
11:59Still living with my mother, but that's temporary.
12:01My brows pulled together.
12:03I'm not doing this.
12:04My mother's face turned an ugly shade of red.
12:06These men are respectable!
12:08They're willing to overlook the fact that you've done nothing for the Vittori name in 10 years,
12:11and you're being picky?
12:13Give someone your number.
12:15Do not humiliate Isabella in front of Don Salvatore's people.
12:18I looked up at the stage.
12:20Hazel, is it you don't like any of the ones I picked out?
12:23But, given your situation, I don't know what else I can do for you besides trying at my own wedding.
12:30Hazel, Isabella was up half the night worrying about you.
12:33She's trying to give you a way back into a respectable life.
12:36If they aren't your type, just take a number.
12:38Why are you doing this in front of every family on the coast?
12:40Whispers rippled across the ballroom.
12:42The bride went to Yale, associate at McKinsey, and her sisters.
12:46Barista in Queens.
12:47No wonder the Vitalis don't talk about her.
12:49A Vittori girl serving strangers coffee for tips?
12:52I'd have sent her away, too.
12:55Today is Isabella's wedding!
12:57You just have to ruin it for everyone, don't you?
12:59Get out!
13:02Elliot stood up.
13:03Hazel, leave.
13:04You've been nothing but an embarrassment to our family your entire life.
13:08You don't belong at a Marciotti wedding.
13:11Ethan didn't hold back.
13:12You're jealous.
13:13Now you're just jealous!
13:14Get out!
13:15Hazel, just apologize.
13:17If they throw you out in front of Don Salvatore's people,
13:20no family on this coast will ever place you anywhere.
13:23You'll be pouring coffee for the rest of your life.
13:26So you're all sure you want me to leave?
13:29They didn't know I'd already confirmed the meeting with Don Salvatore.
13:32The location was this wedding.
13:33Ouch! I'll pretend I never had you!
13:35Hazel, this day means everything to me.
13:37You've made it impossible.
13:38Please just go.
13:40If you're not willing to accept Isabella's kindness
13:41and you insist on embarrassing her in front of every family here,
13:44then leave.
13:45Now.
13:46I raised an eyebrow.
13:47You want me gone?
13:48Fine.
13:49Just don't regret it when I walk out that door.
13:51I headed for the exit just then.
13:52Hurried footsteps came from the entrance of the ballroom.
13:55Dr. Vitale, wait!
13:57She cannot leave.
13:58Every head in the room whipped around.
14:00It was Don Salvatore.
14:01The bride may leave.
14:02The groom may leave.
14:04But Dr. Vitale...
14:05Dr. Vitale stays!
14:08Every member of the family in the ballroom looked completely stunned,
14:11as if their world had just been turned upside down.
14:13Dr. Vitale, please give me a moment.
14:15The Marchesi family needs you.
14:19For a moment, the entire ballroom was stunned.
14:22The room fell so silent you could hear the tremor of a single crystal on the chandelier.
14:26My mother's voice caught in her throat.
14:28Don Salvatore, forgive me.
14:29You must be...
14:30You must be mistaken.
14:32That's Hazel.
14:33She barely made it into a community college.
14:36Mateo came down from the stage in quick strides.
14:38Shock and confusion plain on his face.
14:41No, no.
14:41I don't understand.
14:42That's Isabella's sister.
14:43She never even finished...
14:44Enough!
14:45Don Salvatore's palm came down on the nearest table.
14:47The word cut through the room.
14:48You have no idea who is standing in front of you.
14:52Silence.
14:52His voice rose.
14:54Dr. Hazel Vittore, PhD in Biomedical Engineering from MIT.
14:59Youngest tenagid professor in the university's history.
15:02She holds the patents on every serious neural signal decoding architecture that matters to
15:07the people we care about.
15:08She has a top secret clearance from the Department of Defense.
15:12She sits on advisory panels the FBI would give a lung to be read into.
15:17Every family on this coast has been trying to get a meeting with her for the last two years.
15:21Every single one.
15:23And I have been trying for three months.
15:26Title after title.
15:28Hitting like hammer blows.
15:29The ballroom erupted in low, urgent whispers.
15:32The looks turning toward me shifted in real time.
15:34Shock.
15:35Recalculation.
15:36Something close to reverence.
15:38The heavyset DeLuca man shrank half a step back into the crowd.
15:41The 5'5 bookkeeper drained his glass in one pole.
15:43Ears burning red.
15:45At a table near the front, a couple I recognized as reachy leadership leaned over to the man beside
15:49him, unable to keep the shock out of his voice.
15:52Wait.
15:52Wait.
15:53The neural signal woman.
15:54That's her?
15:55A Vitari girl?
15:56How did we not put it together?
15:58The bride kept saying my sister is a barista.
16:00I wasn't looking for anyone at that table.
16:02Nobody was.
16:03Two of our own tried to pick her up like she was somebody's cocktail waitress.
16:06Christ.
16:06The side doors of the ballroom pushed open.
16:10A man in a charcoal Brioni suit walked in, flanked by two men who carried themselves the
16:15way Don Salvatore's people carried themselves.
16:17A murmur ran through the crowd.
16:19That's Frank Colongo.
16:21Out of Jersey.
16:22He hasn't left the city in six years.
16:24There's no way a man like that shows him to a wedding this size.
16:27That's not a wedding face.
16:28That's a business face.
16:29Colangelo reached me and offered his card, his voice warm and eager.
16:32Dr. Vitale, my people have been trying to get on your calendar since spring.
16:37Name the day.
16:38I'll send the car.
16:39I took the card with a polite smile.
16:41Right behind him, a woman in a cream-colored suit hurried over from the head table.
16:47Dr. Vitale, Diane Delgado out of the Providence side.
16:52My family runs the port concern.
16:54May I sit down with you before the weekend is out?
16:57One after another they came.
16:58Names I recognized from Boston to Philadelphia.
17:01Names my father would have crossed a state line to shake hands with.
17:05Dr. Vitale.
17:06Michael Genovato.
17:07It would mean a great deal.
17:08Dr. Vitale, the Deluki table would very much like a moment.
17:11Cards accumulated in my hand like falling snow.
17:13My mother was frozen in place.
17:15Her mouth opened.
17:17The wine glass in her hand tipped.
17:19Merlot bled across the white tablecloth in front of her.
17:22Isabella stood on the platform.
17:23Fingers white-knuckled around the microphone.
17:25Elliot took half a step forward, as if to say something, and stopped.
17:28Ethan's wine glass hung suspended in the air.
17:31His pupils blown wide with disbelief.
17:33How is this possible?
17:35Melanie forced a smile.
17:37Hazel.
17:38I had no idea.
17:39I'm so happy for you.
17:41I glanced at her.
17:42Melanie.
17:43Your line would land better if your nails weren't drawing blood from your own palm.
17:47Her smile faltered.
17:48My parents finally seemed to catch up.
17:50The fury on my mother's face had evaporated.
17:52In its place was something I'd never seen on her before.
17:55Something close to eager.
17:56She hurried over to Don Salvatore.
17:58Her face folding into layers of smiles.
18:00Don Salvatore, please.
18:02Hazel is my own daughter.
18:05My blood.
18:07Whatever business you have with her.
18:09The Vitaro name stands behind it.
18:11Let's finish Isabella's wedding, and then we'll all sit down as family.
18:16Family?
18:17I repeated the word softly.
18:19Funny.
18:20Nobody said family a minute ago when you were pushing me out the door.
18:24The ballroom fell quiet again.
18:26Elliot's face cycled through several shades of red and white.
18:29Ethan had his head down, apparently trying to fold himself into the pattern of the Persian carpet.
18:34A young man's voice broke the silence.
18:36Nonna.
18:37He wore a well-cut, deep, navy three-piece suit.
18:39His features carried the Marchetti line, but there was something steadier behind his eyes.
18:43Sharper.
18:44Sebastian Marchetti.
18:45Matteo's older cousin.
18:47Don Salvatore's firstborn grandson.
18:49The one the family had chosen.
18:51Something you should hear, Nonna.
18:52Sebastian walked over to Don Salvatore, his voice respectful, measured.
18:56Before you arrived, in this room, the Vitalare stood up as a family and put Dr. Vitani out.
19:03Every one of them.
19:05He glanced at Matteo.
19:07Matteo backed them.
19:09Publicly.
19:10In front of every family on the coast.
19:12Dr. Vitari's the most important business the Marchettis have in front of us right now.
19:17Matteo just handed her every reason to walk.
19:19If she takes her parents to the Colingalos, or the Genoves, or the Delgades port operation, it's on him.
19:28On this family.
19:30Matteo's face drained of color.
19:32Don Salvatore was silent.
19:33Only a few seconds.
19:34But those few seconds put a sheen of cold sweat across Matteo's forehead.
19:37The old man's fingers tapped once against the table.
19:39If this ballroom does not want Dr. Vitani in it, then very well.
19:44Continue with the wedding.
19:46Dr. Vitani and I are leaving.
19:48He turned and gestured for me to walk with him.
19:51Matteo lunged forward.
19:52Nonna!
19:53He caught Don Salvatore's arm, his voice cracking.
19:55Nonna, please.
19:57It's my wedding.
19:58You cannot walk out of my wedding!
20:00Don Salvatore looked at him.
20:01Something close to how a man looks at a piece of furniture he has finally decided to throw out.
20:05Do you have any idea what I called in to get 30 minutes with Dr. Vitani?
20:10You and your bride stood up together and put her out of this room.
20:14And now you want me to stay?
20:16He didn't look at Matteo again.
20:17He turned to me and inclined his head.
20:19Dr. Vitani, shall we?
20:22I lifted my clutch, walked past every one of them, and headed for the door.
20:26Behind me, Isabella's composure finally cracked.
20:30Her voice broke over the microphone.
20:31Hazel!
20:32I didn't look back.
20:35A private lounge on the top floor of the Marchetti estate, above Ocean Drive.
20:39Dr. Vitani, what happened in that ballroom was a failure of respect.
20:44My grandson's failure.
20:46The Marchetti name's failure.
20:49I apologize on behalf of my family.
20:53The defense Samjot will not run through Matteo.
20:56He does not have the judgment for what comes next.
20:58He does not have the judgment for you.
21:01I am putting Sebastian on it directly.
21:03A clean team under him reporting to me.
21:05Your terms.
21:06All of them.
21:07The Bureau's voice recognition stack got better every year.
21:11The Marchettis had lost three capos to wiretaps in the last two.
21:14I was the only person on this continent who could hand them a way out.
21:18An hour later, we had the frame of the deal.
21:21Sebastian as the sole point of contact.
21:23Technology contribution in exchange for 20% equity in the defense subsidiary.
21:28A seven-figure upfront licensing fee.
21:30Don Salvatore walked me down to the car himself and held the door open for me.
21:34Every man in the courtyard saw it.
21:36The Four Seasons had put me in the presidential suite on the 42nd floor.
21:39The floor-to-ceiling windows looked out over the whole length of Narragansett Bay.
21:44I showered.
21:44Poured a glass of Sauvignon Blanc.
21:46My phone had been buzzing without pause.
21:48The family group chat had crossed 200 messages.
21:51My mother had sent seven voice memos.
21:53Back to back.
21:54None of them under a minute.
21:55Her tone had nothing in common with the woman who'd screamed at me across the dining table the night before.
22:00Hazel, where are you?
22:02A young woman shouldn't be out alone in Newport at night.
22:06Come home.
22:07I had the housekeeper put fresh sheets on your bed.
22:10Mom said things she didn't mean.
22:13What mother doesn't love her own daughter?
22:15You know what my temper is like.
22:16Remember when you were four and you had pneumonia?
22:19Mom slept in that hospital chair for three nights.
22:22That has to count for something.
22:25Hazel, we are family.
22:27We are blood.
22:28Blood is blood.
22:31Father.
22:32Hazel, Dad knows we haven't been fair to you.
22:35Isabella showed a return on the family's investment.
22:38And there were only so many chairs at the table.
22:41That's how these things go.
22:43Now that you've made a name for yourself, Dad is proud.
22:46Come by the house.
22:48I'll have the kitchen make the pasta al formo.
22:51We used to love.
22:54I swiped past.
22:55Pasta al formo was Isabella's favorite.
22:58Not mine.
22:59Elliot had sent a burst of messages.
23:01Excitement bleeding through the screen.
23:03Hazel!
23:04Do you have any idea how many cappies called me tonight?
23:07My phone hasn't stopped ringing.
23:09The Delgado Conceitier personally asked me for your number.
23:12Every family on this coast knows the name Vitari tonight because of you.
23:16My VP at the firm walked up to me and asked if Dr. Hazel Vitari was really my sister.
23:21Do you know what that means for my standing?
23:24Which hotel are you at?
23:25Let me pick you up tomorrow.
23:27Welcome dinner at the Ocean House.
23:30I'll put it on the family card.
23:33Best table in the house.
23:35Ethan's tone had gone careful in a way I'd never heard from him.
23:39Hazel, I said things tonight I shouldn't have.
23:42Back in school, I always knew you were smarter than the rest of us.
23:46I should have said it then.
23:48Anything you need, you say the word.
23:52I found it funny.
23:53In high school, to get on Isabella's good side, he'd said to my face,
23:57Seriously, Hazel?
23:58How are you not even half as sharp as your sister?
24:03Now, back in school, I always knew you were smarter than the rest of us.
24:08Melanie's message was long.
24:10Hazel, you are incredible.
24:12I'm so proud of you, truly.
24:14You must think the rest of us are pathetic now.
24:16Nine to five, an office in the back of a Richie-owned insurance broker.
24:19And there you are, every family on the coast falling over themselves for you.
24:22Enjoy Newport.
24:23When are you back in New York?
24:24Let me buy you dinner.
24:26Just us.
24:27Like old times.
24:28Every line congratulating me.
24:31Every line telling me exactly how much she envied me.
24:33An Instagram notification lit up my screen.
24:36I opened it.
24:37A post from Isabella.
24:38An hour old.
24:39The image was a carefully edited shot from the reception.
24:42Like nothing had happened.
24:43A LinkedIn connection request came in from Mateo.
24:47Sebastian had also connected.
24:48His note was one line.
24:51The next morning, I was dressed and moving through the hotel lobby.
24:55A black Escalade sat idling at the curb.
24:58Isabella was standing next to it.
25:00When she saw me come through the revolving door, she straightened her back.
25:03Hazel.
25:04Her voice was hoarse.
25:07I want to talk.
25:09About what?
25:11She reached for my sleeve.
25:12Her fingertips were cold.
25:14Hazel, can you give me ten minutes?
25:17Just ten.
25:19This version of Isabella I had never seen before.
25:22Fine.
25:23Ten minutes.
25:25We crossed the street to a blue bottle.
25:27I posted that on Instagram last night.
25:30So no one would suspect a thing.
25:34She bit her lip.
25:35The wedding didn't finish.
25:37After Nomna walked out, Mateo's father called him back to the estate.
25:40It's been twelve hours and Mateo hasn't returned a single one of my calls.
25:43Hazel, I don't know what to do.
25:45I tapped the table once and looked her in the eye.
25:48Say what you actually came to say.
25:51You have eight minutes.
25:52Her eyes reddened.
25:54Hazel, could you say something to Don Salvatore?
25:55Just a word.
25:57Mateo's terrified of his grandfather right now.
26:00That's why he's not calling me.
26:01If you could just tell Don Salvatore not to be so hard on him.
26:06First, I cut her off.
26:07I haven't asked Don Salvatore to do anything to anyone.
26:09I don't have the interest.
26:12Isabella froze.
26:14Second, I held her eyes.
26:16Last night, when the room turned on me,
26:18Mateo's choice was to leave you alone on that stage and walk out.
26:22Whether or not that's the kind of husband you want
26:25is something you should be looking at very carefully.
26:27Isabella's expression stiffened.
26:29She raised her voice.
26:33Hazel Vitari.
26:34She said my full name.
26:35You're loving this, aren't you?
26:38Your whole life, you couldn't touch us.
26:41My grades were better than yours.
26:44Mom and Dad chose me.
26:49In every family photo, you were the one at the edge.
26:56And now you're on top of us.
26:59Watching us squirm.
27:01It's a real thrill for you, isn't it?
27:04She stared at me.
27:05Her eyes shot through in the bed.
27:07Isabella, instead of using your last minute wondering how I feel about you,
27:11use it thinking about how you're going to hold on to Mateo.
27:14Stay in Mateo's good breezes.
27:17Stay in the Marchetti name.
27:19That is the only work in front of you.
27:22I stepped around her and walked out of the cafe.
27:25Coming after me is not going to buy you a single.
27:28Behind me, a horse cried.
27:30Hazel!
27:31You think a couple of peasants make you somebody?
27:34You are nothing!
27:35I didn't turn around.
27:39Several days later, a knock at the door of the presidential suite.
27:44I opened it.
27:45My parents were on the other side.
27:46Hands full.
27:47Faces arranged into eager smiles.
27:49Elliot walked in first.
27:51It's a night in this room run.
27:51It's a night in this room run.
27:51I pulled out his phone, already framing an Instagram story.
27:54Melanie looked around and moved to slip her arm through mine.
27:57We really are living.
27:58Not like the rest of us, grinding away nine to five.
28:01I'm so angry.
28:02I moved my arm out of hers.
28:03Why are you all here?
28:04My mother nudged Isabella forward.
28:06Isabella took a stumbling half-step, her voice thin as a thread.
28:10Hazel in the cafe and at the wedding, I was wrong.
28:13I shouldn't have arranged that march making on my wedding day.
28:16I shouldn't have said what I said at the cafe.
28:18I lost my head.
28:19I said things I didn't mean.
28:21Please don't take it to heart.
28:22That's right.
28:24Isabella knows she was wrong.
28:26She's been crying for days.
28:28Hasn't eaten.
28:29Hasn't slept.
28:29Hazel, you two are sisters.
28:32You are blood.
28:34Hazel, forgive her this once.
28:35That's right, Hazel.
28:36If it makes you feel better, yell at her.
28:38Teach her a lesson.
28:40Not once in all those years had anyone asked Isabella to apologize to me.
28:44Not even to hold back.
28:45Not even that.
28:48Now they had brought her to my hotel door to say sorry.
28:50So preference could be changed after all.
28:53Not because they'd realized they'd been wrong.
28:55Because the ground beneath me had shifted.
29:00Apology accepted.
29:02You can go now.
29:03I fly back to New York in a few days.
29:05There's still a lot to close out.
29:07Elliot's eyes lit up.
29:08New York.
29:09Hazel, we've never been to your place in the city.
29:12Let's come stay.
29:13See how you're set up.
29:14You can come.
29:16I'll take you all out to dinner.
29:17I'll cover the hotel.
29:18My mother's smile faltered.
29:19Hotel?
29:20Why would we stay in a hotel?
29:21One of your licensing fees was $10 million.
29:23You must have a real house in Manhattan by now.
29:25Family doesn't stay in a hotel when they can stay with you.
29:28It creates distance.
29:29Exactly.
29:30A house that size sitting empty and family sleeps at a hotel.
29:33That's a waste.
29:34I do have a house.
29:35But it's my house.
29:37It has nothing to do with any of you.
29:39The temperature in the room dropped several degrees.
29:42When I came back to Newport this weekend, I stayed in a hotel.
29:45Didn't I?
29:46The smile on my mother's face froze in place.
29:48Elliot pretended to study the hotel welcome book on the console.
29:51My father cleared his throat.
29:52There's nothing else.
29:53Please.
29:54I'm busy.
29:57Hazel, you're not going to forgive me, are you?
29:59Yes.
30:01Then close the door.
30:06Back in New York, pieces of news drifted to me from time to time.
30:10Ethan had co-signed a six-figure loan for an associate out of the Columbo crew.
30:13A guy running a construction outfit up in Rhode Island.
30:16The guy skipped.
30:16The bank came knocking.
30:18The Columbos didn't lift a finger to protect Ethan because he wasn't made.
30:21He was a name on the edge of the family.
30:23And the family didn't step in for edges.
30:24His wife took the kids and moved back to her parents' place.
30:27Divorce lawyers were involved.
30:28Emma, my assistant, set a coffee down on my desk and mentioned it in passing.
30:33Dr. Vitale.
30:34My cousin told me Melanie Rico got married last week.
30:36I didn't look up.
30:37Oh.
30:38She met the guy on Hidge, married in six weeks.
30:41He introduced himself as an associate of one of the smaller Boston crews.
30:44Turned out he was carrying $150K in credit card debt and student loans.
30:48The family connection was a story he told at bars.
30:51They're breaking dishes in the apartment every night.
30:53Her Facebook is one long string of adulthood is a scam posts.
30:56I gave a small hum.
30:57My finger paused on the project schedule Emma had just brought in.
31:00Next Wednesday, Marchetti Defense subsidiary kickoff meeting.
31:03Next Friday, Department of Defense classified briefing.
31:06The Monday after, lying to Boston for MIT board meeting.
31:09The chaos in their lives didn't take up a single line on that schedule.
31:13My mother was in the hospital, Emma told me.
31:16Nothing serious.
31:17Overnight observation.
31:18She called you.
31:19I glanced at the missed call count on my phone.
31:2117.
31:22Elliot said work is too busy.
31:24Can't take the time.
31:25Emma hesitated.
31:26And Isabella, well, Matteo recently.
31:28The Marchetti sat Matteo down with a new match.
31:30A girl from an old Newport family.
31:32Carable pedigree.
31:32One clear advantage.
31:33Younger.
31:34Isabella has been refreshing to find my iPhone every day, trying to pin down where Matteo actually is.
31:37She doesn't have time to sit at a bedside.
31:39Meanwhile, my mother reportedly told every nurse who walked in.
31:42My daughter, Hazel.
31:44PhD from MIT.
31:46Sweetest, most devoted girl.
31:48When I get sick, she's the one who takes care of me.
31:51Not afraid of anything.
31:53She'd start to cry every time she said it.
31:55Should I arrange for me to go visit her?
31:57No.
31:57I lowered my head and kept reading files.
31:59Most devoted daughter had cut her out of her life.
32:01The year I was 18, I had a 102 degree fever.
32:04For three straight days, my mother was going over Isabella's SAT practice tests.
32:08I was on the couch in the living room.
32:09Mom.
32:09She didn't even look up.
32:11Fever?
32:12Go get some Tylenol from the fridge yourself.
32:14There was no Tylenol in the fridge.
32:16I walked two blocks by myself to CVS to buy it.
32:19I turned my phone face down on the desk and went back to reviewing the next patent licensing contract.
32:24A week later, the Marchetti defense subsidiary officially opened its books.
32:28Sebastian, as the sole point of contact, flew to New York for the first time.
32:32We signed the operational documents in a conference room in Midtown Manhattan.
32:36Sebastian's pen left its final signature on the page.
32:38He looked up and gave me a small smile.
32:40Dr. Vitale, it's an honor to work with you.
32:44By the way, Matteo has been removed from Nonno's list of succession candidates.
32:47I made a small sound of acknowledgement.
32:49Marchetti family matters don't really concern me.
32:52I know.
32:53But there is one thing you might find interesting.
32:56Matteo and Isabella's wedding was never completed.
32:59Last week, the marriage was annulled.
33:00I paused for a second.
33:02Isabella signed?
33:03No, Matteo moved unilaterally.
33:04The prenup was very clear.
33:05A Marchetti wife has to come for Manchin family.
33:07The Vitale name once barely qualified.
33:10But after that day at the wedding, everyone inside the Marchetti family understood one thing.
33:15The core value of the Vitale name isn't Isabella.
33:18It's you, Elle.
33:19And you clearly have no intention of doing anything for Isabella.
33:22So Isabella lost her last remaining leverage.
33:25She got nothing?
33:26That's right.
33:26One year of severance, that's all she took.
33:28Her position at McKinney has been affected by her mental state.
33:31She's been put on a performance review.
33:33Her situation right now is, to put it plainly, rough.
33:35I capped my pen.
33:36That's not my concern.
33:37I figured you'd say that.
33:40I got back to my apartment in Tribeca after work.
33:43Manhattan skyline stretched beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows.
33:47Lights atop the Empire State Building glowed a soft, warm white.
33:51I opened a bottle of red, had a piece of cheese, and settled on the sofa to review tomorrow's
33:55meeting materials.
33:56The doorbell rang.
33:57Nobody was supposed to be here at this hour.
33:59I looked through the peephole.
34:00Isabella was standing outside.
34:02She had lost a lot of weight.
34:03No makeup.
34:04Deep shadows under her eyes.
34:05No Chanel bag in her hand.
34:07Hazel, I know I have no right to come here.
34:11But right now, I truly have nowhere else to go.
34:14Mateo threw me out.
34:15McKinney is going to fire me.
34:17Mom and Dad told me not to come back to Newport.
34:20They said I've disgraced the Vittorne name.
34:22Elliot blocked me.
34:23I'm begging you.
34:24Let me stay here for a few days.
34:26Just a few days.
34:27I'll get back on my feet soon.
34:29I looked at her.
34:30Ten years ago, I stood at the door of that house in Bellevue, burning with fever.
34:36Nobody opened the door for me.
34:37I looked at her with a calm expression.
34:41Isabella, I remember what you said at the wedding in front of every family on the coast.
34:46My sister is a barista in Queens.
34:48Eighteen an hour, plus tips.
34:51Single gentlemen, please give her a chance to join a family.
34:55Hazel, I didn't know back then.
34:57Whether you knew or not isn't the point.
34:59The point is that you were capable of saying it.
35:02Isabella's face went white.
35:04Now that you need me, you suddenly remember?
35:06I'm your sister.
35:11Isabella, maybe you don't remember.
35:13The hurt you caused me, but I always will.
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