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00:03Dante Moretti died on the way to marry me.
00:08At least, that's what they told me.
00:11His convoy hit a car bomb crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.
00:14By the time the fire trucks arrived, the vehicle was ash.
00:18The body inside was unrecognizable.
00:21They cremated him before I could see his face.
00:26Buried an urn I never opened.
00:29I was six weeks pregnant.
00:31I became a widow before I ever became a wife.
00:35For months, I believed every word of it.
00:38The grief.
00:39The loss.
00:41The careful kindness of the Moretti family closing around me like a fist.
00:45Then I heard his voice through a closed door, alive, unhurt, unhurried,
00:51explaining to his mother why leaving me at the altar had been the right call.
00:56He'd faked his death to spend six months with his mistress.
01:00He thought I would wait.
01:01Grieve.
01:02Stay quiet.
01:03Keep his child and his secret until he was ready to come home.
01:08He forgot what kind of woman he'd spent six years building.
01:13I made one call to my brother.
01:15And I gave Dante Moretti exactly what he'd given me.
01:19A body they'd never find.
01:29I hadn't known Dante had a twin.
01:31In six years together, he'd never once mentioned a brother.
01:35But Isabella explained it away easily enough.
01:38Dominic had left Rescure for Sicily at 18.
01:41A falling out with their father.
01:43Old hoons.
01:45Old pride.
01:46He'd built a life there.
01:47Married a Brazilian woman named Ivy.
01:49Ran the family's European operations from a villa outside Polemo.
01:54Now he was standing in the foyer of the Mauricien Hanschen in a black suit.
01:59And I couldn't stop staring.
02:01Because he looked exactly like Dante.
02:05The same sharp jaw.
02:07The same dark eyes.
02:08The same way he held his shoulders.
02:10Slightly forward.
02:12Like he was always ready to move.
02:14You must be Anastasia.
02:17His voice was softer than Dante's.
02:20Or maybe I was imagining that.
02:22I'm sorry about my brother.
02:24I should have come sooner.
02:26I couldn't speak.
02:27My throat had sealed shut.
02:30And the room was tilting sideways.
02:32Isabella caught my elbow before I swayed.
02:36She's been like this.
02:37She sees Dante everywhere.
02:43Dominic stayed.
02:44He was kind to me.
02:46Impossibly kind.
02:48He brought me warm milk before bed.
02:50He drove me to my prenatal appointments.
02:53He asked about the baby with a gentleness that made my chest ache.
02:58And when I cried.
03:00Which was constantly.
03:02He never looked away.
03:04He told me once.
03:05Standing in the doorway of my bedroom.
03:07Dante would have wanted someone to look after you.
03:10Let me do that.
03:13For him.
03:13And God help me.
03:15I wanted to believe him.
03:17I needed something in this house to be real.
03:21Then one night I couldn't sleep.
03:23The baby was restless.
03:25Pressing against my bladder.
03:26And I padded down the hallway toward the kitchen for water.
03:30That's when I heard Isabella's voice.
03:32Low, raw, furious.
03:35Leaking through the gap beneath her bedroom door.
03:37You left your pregnant wife standing at the altar.
03:41For that woman.
03:42You faked your own death so you could run off with some Brazilian putana.
03:46My hand froze on the banister.
03:49The air in my lungs turned to glass.
03:51Then a voice I would know anywhere.
03:54In any room.
03:55In any lifetime.
03:57Dante's voice.
04:03Please.
04:04Ivy's dying, Ma.
04:06Pancreatic cancer.
04:09Six months, maybe less.
04:11It was her only wish.
04:12To have me with her at the end.
04:14And Anastasia.
04:16Your child.
04:17Quieter now.
04:18Six months.
04:19Almost gentle with it.
04:21Like the number made it reasonable.
04:23That's all.
04:24Then Ivy's gone.
04:25And I come home.
04:26Anna and I still have our whole lives.
04:29I'll make it right.
04:30I swear to God I'll make it right.
04:32I stopped breathing.
04:34The hallway shrank to a single white-hot point behind my eyes.
04:38And the world I had stitched back together.
04:40The fragile, terrible world held up by grief and prenatal outomans.
04:45And the memory of a dead man came apart at the seams.
04:49Dante was alive.
04:50He had never died.
04:52There was no car bomb.
04:54No rival hit.
04:55No unrecognizable body.
04:57There was only my husband.
04:59Standing ten feet away.
05:01Wearing his dead brother's name.
05:03Like a mask.
05:04Because he had chosen the other woman.
05:06Over me and our child.
05:08My hands were shaking so hard I nearly dropped the phone.
05:11But I managed to open a text to my brother.
05:13I told Luca, I need a plane crash.
05:17Make it real.
05:18Make it fatal.
05:19He likes playing dead.
05:21I'll show him how it's done.
05:28I sent the message and locked the screen.
05:30My hands wouldn't stop shaking.
05:33Is this really fair to her?
05:36If it weren't for the baby, she would have followed you into that coffin.
05:40She doesn't eat.
05:41She doesn't sleep.
05:43It is killing me to watch.
05:45Ivy only has six months left.
05:47This is the one thing she asked of me.
05:50I can't turn my back on that.
05:52Anna and I have a lifetime ahead of us.
05:54I'll make it up to her.
05:56Every single day.
05:57For the rest of our lives.
05:59Don't worry about it, Ma.
06:00Something inside my chest clenched so tight, I thought my ribs would crack.
06:06I pressed my palm flat against the wall to keep from sliding to the floor.
06:11I made it back to the bedroom on legs that barely held.
06:14My knees buckled the second the door closed behind me, and I hit the hard word.
06:19Phone still clutched against my stomach.
06:22Luca's call came through almost immediately.
06:24What happened?
06:25What's going on?
06:26You said Dante was dead.
06:27I opened my mouth to explain.
06:29Instead, a sound came out that wasn't quite crying.
06:32And wasn't quite breathing.
06:34Something between the two that tore itself loose from somewhere deep.
06:38He was quiet on the other end.
06:40Luca always knew when to be quiet.
06:43Finally, his voice came back.
06:45Low.
06:46Controlled.
06:48The voice he used when he was already planning.
06:51Day after tomorrow.
06:52I'll have a plane on the ground by midnight.
06:54I'll handle everything else.
06:58The line went dead.
07:00I sat on the floor, still holding the phone to my ear.
07:03Listening to nothing.
07:05A knock at the door.
07:08Anna, you in there?
07:12Dominic's voice.
07:13Dante's voice.
07:15He pushed the door open.
07:17A glass of warm milk in his hand.
07:19And froze when he saw me on the floor.
07:21Hey.
07:22What happened?
07:23Why are you on the ground?
07:25He set the glass down and crouched beside me.
07:27His hands hovering like he was afraid to touch me.
07:30Are you crying?
07:32Is it the baby?
07:32Six years.
07:34I knew every micro expression on that face.
07:37The way his brow creased when he was worried.
07:39The way his jaw tightened when he was lying.
07:42Right now, he was doing both.
07:45I'm fine.
07:47The baby kicked and I lost my balance.
07:49That's all.
07:49He exhaled.
07:51Relief washing through his shoulders the way it always did.
07:54And helped me up with both hands.
07:56Careful.
07:57Like I was made of something that might shatter.
07:59This kid's already giving you trouble.
08:01Wait till he's born.
08:02I'll straighten him out.
08:06Drink this.
08:07Get some rest.
08:11Don't sit up thinking too much.
08:13Dante wouldn't want you hurting like this.
08:15Hearing him say his own name in the third person.
08:18He hearing him talk about himself like a dead man while his fingers were still warm on my skin.
08:23I looked up and held his graze.
08:25Are you sure you're not him?
08:27His eyes flickered.
08:28Just once.
08:29A crack in the performance so small anyone else would have missed it.
08:38Then the half smile came back.
08:40Easy and rehearsed.
08:41Get some sleep, Anna.
08:42You're seeing ghosts.
08:45I'll take you to your appointment in the morning.
08:47The doctor said the checkup's important.
08:48We're not skipping it.
08:50The door clicked shut.
08:52I sat in the dark holding the untouched milk and let six years and let years unspool behind my eyes.
08:59Orientation day.
09:00He pushed through the crowd, came up to me and said I was the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen.
09:05The proposal on the rooftop in Manhattan.
09:08His voice crackling when he asked.
09:11His hands shaking worse than mine when he slid the ring on.
09:15Then the pregnancy.
09:16The way he'd pressed his forehead against my belly and whispered,
09:19Perfect timing, Principina.
09:21This baby's coming to celebrate.
09:24I didn't know when the man who said those words became the man behind that door.
09:29I didn't know how to make those two people fit inside the same skin.
09:34Dante knocked at seven.
09:36Showered.
09:37Dressed.
09:38Performing the role of the attentive brother-in-law like he'd been rehearsing in front of a mirror.
09:42Ready.
09:43The car's out front.
09:45We were halfway to the door when Ivy's voice floated down the staircase behind us.
09:52Dante.
09:53She caught herself.
09:54I mean...
09:55Dom.
09:57But not fast enough.
09:58The name hung in the air like smoke.
10:01I don't feel well.
10:05Can you stay?
10:07Just for today?
10:09He didn't look at me.
10:10He didn't hesitate.
10:13He turned on his heel and took the stairs two at a times.
10:16His hand finding her waist like it had done it a thousand times before.
10:21Did you take your medication?
10:24Sit down.
10:25Don't move around so much.
10:26What if you pass out?
10:29Then, over his shoulder.
10:31Barely a glance.
10:33Sorry, Anna.
10:35She's not feeling great.
10:36The driver's waiting outside.
10:37He'll get you there safe.
10:38The doctor knows you're coming.
10:40I watched Ivy's face over his shoulder.
10:43The corner of her mouth tricked.
10:47Finally saw it clearly.
10:48In Dante's heart.
10:49Me and the kid would always come after Ivy.
10:58The driver was waiting at the curb.
11:01Just like Dante said.
11:02The door shut behind me with a sound like a coffin lid.
11:05And I pressed my palm flat against my stomach.
11:08As the Manhattan skyline blurred past the window.
11:14At the clinic, I moved through the appointment like a ghost wearing my skin.
11:19The ultrasound technician smiled and pointed at the screen.
11:22There's the heartbeat.
11:24Strong and steady.
11:25About the size of a peanut right now.
11:28I stared at the grainy black and white image.
11:30At the tiny flicker of light pulsing in all that darkness.
11:33And felt something inside me crack clean down the middle.
11:36That was my child.
11:38Dante's child.
11:39A baby whose father had faked his own death to be with another woman.
11:43I thanked the technician collected the printout.
11:46And walked out of the exam room with my face carefully blank.
11:49Then I found an empty bathroom stall.
11:51Locked the door.
11:52And cried until my ribs ached.
11:57After I left, I picked up the phone and booked another hospital.
12:00Time for an abortion.
12:02A public one.
12:04Somewhere the Morelli name meant nothing.
12:06And no one would report back to the family.
12:09I told the driver I wanted to walk.
12:11Clear my head.
12:12He could go back without me.
12:14He hesitated.
12:15Dante's orders, probably.
12:16But I held his gaze until he looked away.
12:19Yes, Mrs. Moretti.
12:21The title felt like a slap.
12:24I was sitting in the waiting room.
12:26Filling out intake forms with a hand that wouldn't stop trembling.
12:29When my phone buzzed.
12:31A video message.
12:33From Ivy.
12:34I shouldn't have opened it.
12:35I knew that even as my thumb moved across the screen.
12:38But some part of me.
12:39The part that still couldn't believe any of this was real.
12:42Needed to see.
12:43The video was 30 minutes long.
12:46Dante was in it.
12:47My Dante.
12:48My Dante.
12:49He was rivaling naked with another woman.
12:52The man who had held me like I was made of glass.
12:54Who had always been so careful.
12:56So gentle.
12:57So restrained.
12:58He wasn't gentle in that video.
13:00He wasn't restrained.
13:02I watched him move with a ferocity I had never seen.
13:05Heard him say things he had never said to me.
13:08Saw his face twist into expressions I didn't recognize.
13:11Didn't know he was capable of making.
13:13I don't know how long I sat there.
13:15Watching the same 30 minutes loop over and over.
13:18Tears streaming down my face while strangers walked past without looking.
13:26I pulled out my phone.
13:28I would give him one last chance to prove me wrong.
13:31To tell me it wasn't real.
13:33To say something.
13:34Anything that would make this make sense.
13:36My fingers found his number.
13:38The call connected on the third ting.
13:44Anna.
13:46His voice was rough.
13:47Strained.
13:48Distracted.
13:50What's going on?
13:53I'm kind of in the middle of something.
13:54I need you to come.
13:56I need you to come.
13:59My voice cracked on the last word.
14:02Please.
14:03I need to talk to you.
14:04It's important.
14:05A pause.
14:06Heavy breathing.
14:07Then a muffled sound in the background.
14:10Ivy's voice.
14:10Low and petulant.
14:12And the unmistakable creak of bed springs.
14:15Can it wait?
14:16I'll be home later.
14:17We can talk then.
14:19Dominic.
14:21I said later, Anna.
14:23The impatience was sharp now.
14:25Undisguised.
14:26A soft moan leaked through the speaker.
14:29The driver dropped you off, right?
14:30I'll deal with it when I'm done.
14:32Then the line went dead.
14:34I sat there for a long moment.
14:36Phones still pressed to my ear.
14:37Listening to the silence where my husband's voice should have been.
14:40Then I walked into the operating room.
14:43The abortion took less than an hour.
14:45When it was over, I lay on the recovery bed and stared at the ceiling tiles.
14:50Counting them one by one, till the numbers stopped meaning anything.
14:54I didn't cry.
14:55I had nothing left to cry with.
14:57It was dark by the time I got back to the Moretti estate.
15:01The FOIA lights were on.
15:03Spilling gold across the marble floor and Dante was waiting at the bottom of the staircase.
15:10Jesus, Anna.
15:12Where have you been?
15:13The driver said you wanted to walk, but that was hours ago.
15:17I've been calling you.
15:18I went shopping.
15:20Lost track of time.
15:24You scared me.
15:26Dante would have killed me if something happened to you.
15:28Dante.
15:29He was still talking about himself in the third person.
15:32Still wearing his dead brother's name.
15:34still standing in front of me, with another woman's perfume clinging to his collar.
15:39I let him hold me, and I felt nothing at all.
15:49The FOIA
15:50So, you finally figured it out.
15:53She tilted her head, studying me the way a cat studies a mouse it's already caught.
15:58I knew something was off yesterday.
16:01The way you looked at him before you left for your appointment.
16:05Women always know, don't they?
16:07We can smell it on each other.
16:10Ivy's composure flickered just for a second.
16:14You wanna know why he chose me?
16:15He told me everything, you know?
16:17How boring you are.
16:19How being with you felt like, what did he call it?
16:23Going through the motions.
16:24Like checking a box.
16:27She laughed, soft and cruel.
16:29But with me, he loses himself.
16:33He says I'm his black pearl.
16:35His escape.
16:37He says Brazilian women know how to make a man feel alive.
16:41I felt each one sink into my chest like a needle.
16:45But I had stopped bleeding for Dante Morese Morelli the moment I walked out of that clinic.
16:50My palm connected with her face so hard, the sound cracked through the room like a gunshot.
16:56Then footsteps, heavy, fast and Dante burst through the door.
17:01What the hell is going on?
17:02Ivy's face transformed in an instant.
17:05I just, I just came to check on her.
17:08She's been so upset lately and I thought, I thought maybe I could help.
17:12Dante's gaze cut to me, dark with fury.
17:16Anastasia, she's your sister-in-law.
17:18What the hell is wrong with you?
17:21I looked at him.
17:23At the face I had memorized a thousand times.
17:26At the lie wearing my husband's skin.
17:29Is she really my sister-in-law?
17:32Dom, please, take me back to the room.
17:36I don't feel well.
17:37The stress isn't good for me, you know what the doctor said.
17:40I stood in the empty room, listening to their footsteps fade down the hallway and felt the last thread of
17:46something inside me snap clean.
17:49My phone buzzed.
17:51It's Luca.
17:52The plane is ready.
17:53Midnight, East Hangar.
17:56I read the message three times.
17:58Then I deleted it.
18:00Slowly, deliberately, I crossed to the antique writing desk by the window and pulled out a sheet of cream-colored
18:06stationery.
18:07Isabella's stationery, embossed with the Moretti family crest, a serpent eating its own tail.
18:13I picked up a pen and began to write.
18:16Dante, I can't do this anymore.
18:19Every day without you is a day I don't want to live.
18:21The baby was the only thing keeping me here.
18:25The only reason I pinched it a case of breathing.
18:28But now I realize that's not enough.
18:32I need to be with you.
18:34I'm sorry I wasn't stronger.
18:37I am sorry I couldn't stay.
18:40Wait for me.
18:42I'm coming to find you.
18:44All my love, forever.
18:46Finally, I left my name, Anna.
18:51The words tasted like ash in my mouth.
18:54Every sentence was a lie wrapped in the shape of truth.
18:58Designed to break him the same way he had broken me.
19:03I folded the letter carefully and slid it into the drawer of my nightstand.
19:09Let him find it after.
19:11Let him read it with his own eyes and understackly what his choices had cost.
19:25As it was getting dark, I knew it was time for me to leave.
19:29I didn't pack.
19:31There was nothing in this house that belonged to me anyway.
19:34Nothing that mattered.
19:34I grabbed my passport, my emergency credit card, the one Luca had insisted I keep hidden,
19:40and walked out of the bedroom.
19:42Anna, listen about this morning.
19:44I didn't mean to snap at you.
19:47Ivy's just been so fragile lately and...
19:49I'm going out. I need some air.
19:51Now, it's getting late. Let me call the driver.
19:54I don't need a driver.
19:57At least take Marco.
19:59The streets aren't safe after dark.
20:01And with everything that happened to Dante, you shouldn't be alone.
20:05I'll be fine.
20:06Stay here.
20:08Take care of your sister-in-law.
20:10I said, the last two words slowly, deliberately.
20:15Don't be too long.
20:17I'll have the cook make your favorite truffle risotto.
20:20I hate truffle.
20:22The smell, the taste, all of it.
20:24I told him a hundred times, in a hundred different restaurants,
20:28over six years of dinners he apparently never paid attention to.
20:32But I didn't correct him.
20:36I looked back one last time at the house I had tried so hard to turn into a home.
20:41Dante was still standing in the hallway, watching me with an expression I couldn't read.
20:49I closed the door before he could finish.
20:54Luca's plane was waiting.
20:58And Dante Moretti was about to learn what it felt like.
21:01To bury someone who wasn't really dead.
21:09This was what he'd given up everything for.
21:13This woman.
21:16This feeling.
21:20The way she made him forget.
21:22Forget duty.
21:23Forget guilt.
21:24Forget the hollow look in Anna's eyes every time he walked past her in the hallway.
21:29Six months.
21:30That's all he needed.
21:32Then Ivy would be gone.
21:33And he could go back to being the husband Anna deserved.
21:37He told himself that lie every night.
21:42It was the only way he could sleep.
21:47Ignore it.
21:50For fuck's sake!
21:51I said no interruptions!
21:56Marco stood in the hallway, face gray as cemetery stone.
22:00Dante's consigliera.
22:02The man who had helped orchestrated the fake car bombing.
22:05The only person outside the family who knew Dominic Moretti didn't exist.
22:12This better be life or death.
22:14Boss.
22:15Mrs. Morelli, she...
22:16She boarded a private plane.
22:18Luca Benedetti's plane.
22:20It went down over the Atlantic, forty minutes ago.
22:23The words didn't make sense.
22:26What did you say?
22:30Engine failure.
22:31Coast Guard's already searching, but...
22:34Sir, there's no way anyone survived that descent.
22:39Dante's knees buckled.
22:43No.
22:44No.
22:45No, no.
22:46Sir!
22:49You're wrong!
22:51She was just...
22:53Here!
22:55I just talked to her.
22:57She said she was going for a walk.
22:59She said...
23:11The search lasted three days.
23:13He didn't eat or sleep.
23:15Only got a cold answer.
23:18Plane crashed into the sea.
23:20Survival chance nearly zero.
23:22That was the moment he understood.
23:24What Anna felt at their wedding.
23:27Hearing he was dead.
23:28He even tried to jump in and look for her.
23:30They had to pull him out.
23:31He couldn't take it.
23:33Passed out cold.
23:34Ended up in the hospital.
23:37When he woke, Ivy was crying at his bedside.
23:42Why did you save me?
23:45What?
23:46You should have let me drown.
23:49Don't say that.
23:51Don't say that.
23:52You promised me six months.
23:54You promised you'd stay with me until the end.
23:57And if you die?
23:58If you leave me alone, I won't survive it, Dante.
24:02I swear to God, I'll follow you.
24:05He finally looked at her.
24:07Really looked.
24:08She'd had a thing for Dante since college.
24:11Got close.
24:12Became his mistress.
24:14You pancreatic cancer.
24:16Six months to live to get him to stay.
24:18Dante thought it was just a fling.
24:21Anna was the future.
24:23But now, with Anna dead, he realized he lost everything for six months.
24:29Get out.
24:30Dante!
24:31I said get out.
24:33He lay in the hospital bed, staring at the ceiling tiles, and felt something inside him die.
24:38The moment they released him, Dante drove straight to the estate, straight to Anna's bedroom.
24:43Everything was exactly as she'd left it.
24:45He stood in the doorway, glaring at their wedding photo.
24:48Something inside him snapped.
24:50He crossed the room in three strides, and ripped the portrait off the wall.
24:59I'm a monster.
25:01A fucking animal.
25:03It's my fault. All of it.
25:05And for the first time in his life, Dante Morelli had no one left to blame.
25:10Boss, you need to stop.
25:14Why?
25:17Why should I stop?
25:18She's gone because of me!
25:20She knew.
25:22What?
25:23Mrs. Moretti, she knew the truth.
25:26Before she left, she knew you weren't dead.
25:29That's impossible.
25:30How could she-
25:31I don't know how.
25:32The letter.
25:34Dante's hand shat to his pocket where the crumpled paper still pressed against his chest.
25:38He pulled it out, reading the words again with new eyes.
25:40If she knew he was alive.
25:44If she knew he was alive.
25:45If she knew about the deception.
25:47She wouldn't have written this.
25:49Unless she wanted him to find it.
25:52Unless she wanted him to believe.
25:56She's not dead.
25:59Marco, she's not dead.
26:01She faked it.
26:03Just like I did.
26:04She's alive!
26:06And she's punishing me.
26:08She's making me feel exactly what she felt.
26:11The laughter turned to something else.
26:13Something that sounded almost like hope.
26:16Book a flight.
26:17Now.
26:18Everywhere.
26:19Anywhere.
26:20I don't care where she went.
26:22I'll find her.
26:31Boss.
26:32Before you book anything, you need to see this.
26:38Voluntary termination of pregnancy.
26:40Patient consent form.
26:42The signature at the bottom was unmistakable.
26:46Anna's name.
26:47Dated the same day she'd gone for her prenatal appointment.
26:51She terminated the pregnancy.
26:53At a different hospital.
26:55One we don't have connections with.
26:57She switched clinics deliberately.
27:05There's more.
27:06Security footage from the hospital corridor.
27:08Before she went into the procedure room.
27:10The footage was grainy.
27:12Shot from a ceiling mounted camera.
27:14Even blurry.
27:15He knew it was her.
27:17Anna's outside the operating room.
27:19Watching Ivy's video while calling him.
27:21And as the video played.
27:22He watched her crumble.
27:24Watched her face in tort.
27:25Watched her whole body begin to shake with sobs she couldn't contain.
27:29Then, she made a call.
27:31He was in bed with Ivy.
27:32Telling Anna impatiently to talk later.
27:35The phone dropped from her ear.
27:37A nurse walked over.
27:38Patted her shoulder.
27:39She stood up like she was sleepwalking.
27:42Stepped into the ward.
27:44I did this.
27:45She called me.
27:47She was crying.
27:48And I...
27:49There's one more thing.
27:51We pulled Ivy's medical records.
27:53The real ones.
27:54Patient.
27:56Ivy Santos status.
27:57No significant findings.
27:59All markers within normal range.
28:01No cancer.
28:03No terminal diagnosis.
28:05No six months to live.
28:08Nothing but clean bills of health.
28:10Dated every three months for the past two years.
28:14Behind him, Ivy's voice drifted in from the doorway.
28:18Dante?
28:27What's going on?
28:28I heard shouting.
28:29You lied to me.
28:32Dante!
28:33I can explain!
28:34You told me you were dying.
28:36You told me six months.
28:38You made me believe I was giving you a last wish.
28:41I love you.
28:43I did it because I love you.
28:44I couldn't lose you to her.
28:45I couldn't watch you marry someone else.
28:50So you sent her that video you wanted her to see.
28:52You wanted to destroy her.
28:54She was weak.
28:55She didn't deserve you.
28:56I knew if she saw the truth, she'd break.
28:58She'd run and then you'd finally be mine!
29:05Call Romano.
29:06Tell him I have a guest for the basement.
29:08No! No, Dante, please!
29:10You can't do this!
29:11I didn't kill her!
29:13She did this to herself!
29:14That wasn't my fault!
29:16She chose to do that!
29:18She chose to get on that plane!
29:20I didn't make her!
29:22Take her.
29:24You're the monster!
29:26You cheated on her!
29:27You lied to her!
29:28You faked your own death!
29:30Everything that happened is because of you!
29:33She knew the truth before she left!
29:35She knew you were alive!
29:37She terminated that pregnancy on purpose!
29:40She staged that crash to punish you!
29:42She wanted you to feel exactly what she felt!
29:46The door slammed shut.
29:49Silence.
29:50Dante stood in the wreckage of his bedroom.
29:53Glass on the floor.
29:54Sheets scattered.
29:56The empty frame of a wedding portrait leaning against the wall.
30:01Ivy's words echoed in the hollow space behind his ribs.
30:04She knew.
30:05She'd known everything.
30:07And she'd chosen to make him believe she was dead the same way he'd made her believe he was.
30:13She's alive.
30:14Marco.
30:15She's alive.
30:16This whole thing was revenge.
30:18She's out there somewhere and she's making me pay!
30:20Even if that's true, boss?
30:22What then?
30:23She ended the pregnancy.
30:24She faked her death.
30:26She clearly doesn't want to be found.
30:28Dante straightened.
30:29For the first time in days, something like clarity sharpened his features.
30:33Book the flights.
30:35Every city.
30:36Every contact.
30:37I don't care how long it takes.
30:38And if she doesn't want you back, she can hate me.
30:41She can make me suffer.
30:43But she's not disappearing again.
30:47I lost her once because I was a coward.
30:49I'm not losing her twice.
30:58Three weeks since the crash.
31:00Three weeks since Anastasia Morelli ceased to exist.
31:04Luca had handled everything.
31:07The false flight records.
31:08The planted debris.
31:10The anonymous tip to the Coast Guard.
31:12You need to eat something.
31:14The baby...
31:15There is no baby.
31:17What?
31:23I ended the pregnancy before I left New York.
31:27Anna.
31:28I don't want anything that ties me to that family ever again.
31:33The next day, a woman arrived with documents.
31:37New identity.
31:39New history.
31:40By the time she finished, Anastasia Morelli would be nothing but a footnote in a forgotten tragedy.
31:46The name on the passport was Elena Vance.
31:48American.
31:5028.
31:51No family.
31:52No ties.
31:53A blank slate.
31:55Six months passed like water through a cracked vessel.
31:59I learned to answer to Elena.
32:02Learned to walk differently.
32:04Speak differently.
32:05The hardest part wasn't becoming someone new.
32:08It was the silence.
32:10In Florence, I worked for a private security firm Luca had connections with.
32:14Logistics.
32:16Paperwork.
32:17The kind that couldn't exist in official channels.
32:20It turned out six years as a mob wife had given me skills I never realized I possessed.
32:25At night, I checked the news.
32:28Dante Moretti offers $10 million for information on wife's final hours.
32:33He knew.
32:34I should have been afraid.
32:35Instead, I felt satisfaction.
32:38Let him search.
32:40Let him spend every resource chasing a ghost.
32:43Let him understand what it felt like to reach for someone already gone.
32:55Then the packages started arriving.
32:57The first was a diamond bracelet worth more than most houses.
33:01No note.
33:04Just the meriddy crest embossed inside.
33:09He found us.
33:11We need to move.
33:12No.
33:13This isn't a threat.
33:14It's an apology.
33:16His apology gifts rolled in.
33:19Designer bags.
33:20Antique paintings.
33:21Rare jewels.
33:23Then, on a Tuesday, the divorce papers arrived.
33:27I hadn't expected them.
33:28After everything.
33:29After everything.
33:30The fake death.
33:30The chase across two continents.
33:32The million dollar search parties.
33:34I assumed Dante would fight until his last breath.
33:38Instead, the envelope contained clean signatures.
33:42No contest.
33:43No conditions.
33:45Attached was a letter from his lawyer.
33:47The Moretti estate in the Hamptons was mine.
33:50The apartment in Manhattan.
33:52A settlement large enough to fund several lifetimes.
33:55I signed the papers and sent them back unsigned on the property transfers.
33:59Two days later, a black car appeared at the end of the vineyard road.
34:05I was in the kitchen when Luca's voice came through the doorway.
34:09Tight, with warning.
34:10I didn't ask who.
34:17Dante Moratti stood on the stone steps.
34:19Thinner than I remembered.
34:22The suit that once fit him like armor now hung loose on his shoulders.
34:26Dark circles carved shadows beneath his eyes.
34:29And his jaw was rough with stubble he would never have tolerated before.
34:33He looked like a man who had stopped caring whether he lived or died.
34:38Anna.
34:40I've been looking for you.
34:41I know.
34:43The gifts were hard to miss.
34:49I know what I did.
34:50I know I destroyed everything.
34:53But I'm asking.
34:56Begging.
34:58For one chance to make it right.
35:00Make what right?
35:01The voice of a woman speaking to a stranger.
35:05Our child doesn't exist anymore.
35:08Our marriage is over.
35:09There's nothing left to fix.
35:12There's us!
35:14I know you hate me.
35:16I deserve that.
35:17But I can't...
35:18I can't live in a world where you don't exist.
35:22These past months without...
35:24Were exactly what you put me through.
35:27Every sleepless night.
35:29Every moment of wondering if you were alive or dead.
35:33Every second of grief that turned out to be a lie.
35:38I'm sorry.
35:39I'm so sorry.
35:42I'll spend the rest of my life proving it if you let me.
35:45Whatever you want.
35:45Money.
35:46Time.
35:47Distance.
35:47I'll give you everything.
35:48Just tell me there's a way back.
35:49I studied him for a long moment.
35:52The face I had loved for six years.
35:54The man I had planned to build a life with.
35:56He wasn't a monster.
35:58That was the tragedy of it.
35:59He was just a man who had wanted everything and understood nothing.
36:03Do you remember what I told you the day we got together?
36:06I said if you ever fell for someone else, just tell me.
36:10Be honest.
36:12I wouldn't cling.
36:13I smiled.
36:15Not cruel.
36:16Not kind.
36:17Just tired.
36:19You couldn't even give me that.
36:22Anna.
36:24I've already forgiven you.
36:26The words surprised us both.
36:29Not for your sake.
36:31For mine.
36:33Caring hatred is exhausting and I have better things to do with my life.
36:37Then...
36:38But forgiveness isn't reconciliation.
36:42I don't want your money.
36:44I don't want your apologies.
36:47I don't want you, Dante.
36:49Not anymore.
36:53You can't mean that.
36:55We had six years.
36:56We were going to have a family.
36:57We were going to have a lot of things.
37:00Now we're going to have nothing.
37:01And honestly...
37:04That's the kindest ending either of us deserves.
37:08Through the wood I heard him call my name.
37:12Then silence.
37:15I stood in the hallway, palm pressed flat against the door and waited until the sound of his car faded
37:20down the road.
37:27Then I walked to the kitchen, poured myself a glass of wine, and sat by the window to watch the
37:33sunset.
37:33I never saw Dante Moretzzi again.
37:36The news reached me eight months later through channels Luca monitored.
37:41Depression.
37:41A spiral no one could stop.
37:44An ending that felt inevitable from the moment I'd walked away.
37:48I didn't attend the funeral.
37:50What would I have been?
37:53The widow of a man who'd faked his death?
37:56The ex-wife who'd faked hers in return?
38:00Dante Moretti was my past.
38:04Elena Vance was my future.
38:07And I was finally ready to begin.
38:09Like, I'll do some more.
38:09Of course he was still alive.
38:09The end is the end.
38:10I have seen you say.
38:10That's what we're seeing.
38:10The end of the day is.
38:10The end here is the end.
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