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00:00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:00:34Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:11:44I was already ruined, my pinky, my voice, my broken body, every scar, every memory reminded me of what I'd
00:11:52become.
00:11:55Sophie, are you really going to destroy your own reputation just to make Ian jealous?
00:12:00Olivia looked at our clasped hands, clenched her jaw, and stepped forward, all fake concern.
00:12:06Before I could say a word, Ian's face darkened.
00:12:09He grabbed my wrist, threw me into the garden pool.
00:12:14And turned the hose on me.
00:12:16The freezing water soaked me through instantly.
00:12:22Someone, scrub her down with disinfectant.
00:12:24She doesn't come out until she's clean.
00:12:27Ian gave the order coldly.
00:12:29I froze.
00:12:31For a second, I was back in that crowded tent.
00:12:34My whole body started shaking.
00:12:38Ian, I'm sorry. Please, don't.
00:12:42Hold her down.
00:12:46Ian showed no mercy.
00:12:48The servants pinned my shoulders, while the others poured disinfectant over me.
00:12:56The cold left my skin burning.
00:12:58By the time I collapsed on the wet grass, I was shaking so hard.
00:13:03I didn't even have the strength to kneel and beg forgiveness.
00:13:10Sophie, no matter what you do, I'll never love you.
00:13:13The one I love is Olivia.
00:13:15Do you understand?
00:13:16Ian waved everyone off and stood over me.
00:13:18I looked at his cold, heartless face.
00:13:20It felt like something inside me had been torn away.
00:13:24I understand.
00:13:27I would never love him again.
00:13:29I couldn't risk it.
00:13:31He stared at me for a few seconds, said nothing, and walked away.
00:13:37The garden was warm with spring sunshine, but I felt ice cold.
00:13:41I wrapped my arms around myself.
00:13:45Then I heard a soft meow by my feet and looked down.
00:13:49A tiny ball of fluff rubbed against my leg.
00:13:52It was Snowball, all dirty and scruffy.
00:13:55My parents' faces flashed through my mind.
00:13:58Sweetheart, this kitten will keep you a company for us.
00:14:02Take good care of it.
00:14:03Mom and Dad will come take you home soon.
00:14:08I pulled Snowball into my arms.
00:14:11The warmth of its soft fur made me finally break down and cry.
00:14:16That night, I burned with fever until morning.
00:14:19I dreamed of Mom and Dad.
00:14:22I reached for them.
00:14:24But I could never hold on.
00:14:29The next morning, I was woken by the noise.
00:14:34The servants were moving Olivia's things into the villa.
00:14:43Ian, I love Sophie's room with the mountain view.
00:14:47Can we knock the two rooms together and make it our bedroom?
00:14:52Fine.
00:14:54Ian looked at me.
00:14:55He was silent for a few seconds.
00:14:58Then nodded.
00:14:59Olivia had the staff throw my things out one by one.
00:15:02I didn't say a word, like I wasn't even there.
00:15:07At least you're finally behaving yourself.
00:15:10Ian watched me and frowned.
00:15:12I kept my head down and said nothing.
00:15:17Then I heard a sharp cry upstairs.
00:15:20My heart clenched.
00:15:21Ignoring the dizziness, I ran upstairs.
00:15:26Snowball was on the floor, blood at its mouth.
00:15:29Olivia stood in the doorway with a baseball bat, clutching the back of her hand.
00:15:35Ian's face changed.
00:15:37He shoved me aside.
00:15:39I hit the metal door handle, splitting open my forehead.
00:15:48Ian, that cat jumped at me and scratched me.
00:15:51I was so scared.
00:15:53When I came to, Olivia was in Ian's arms, her eyes red.
00:15:57Sophie, you knew Olivia was afraid of cats.
00:16:01Why did you bring that animal in here?
00:16:03Snowball would never scratch anyone.
00:16:04He's gentle.
00:16:05Enough!
00:16:06You couldn't even control it, and you're still making excuses.
00:16:10Someone kill that cat.
00:16:12Ian cut me off.
00:16:13His voice was icy.
00:16:14My head was spinning, and my fingers wouldn't stop shaking.
00:16:23I'm so sorry.
00:16:24I won't do it again.
00:16:27Please spare Snowball.
00:16:28Snowball.
00:16:29I dropped hard to my knees, and pressed my forehead to the floor.
00:16:34Stop banging your head.
00:16:36He snapped at me coldly, but I acted like I didn't hear him.
00:16:40I just kept slamming my forehead into the floor, until it was a bloody mess.
00:16:46I told you to stop.
00:16:49When he grabbed my hand, he felt what was missing from my pinky.
00:16:53He froze.
00:16:57What happened to your finger?
00:17:02I...
00:17:02It was like waking from a dream.
00:17:08Sophie, even if you can't have Ian, you can't hurt yourself like this.
00:17:13You're trying to make him feel guilty so you can force him to marry you?
00:17:19Olivia rushed over and grabbed my arm, looking heartbroken.
00:17:25Sophie, if you care that much about that cat, then kneel on the gravel all night and think about what
00:17:30you've done.
00:17:31The concern on Ian's face vanishes in an instant, replaced by pure rage.
00:17:36He shoved me away, his voice ice cold.
00:17:39When he finished, he didn't even look at me.
00:17:42He turned and walked away with Olivia in his arms.
00:17:54The garden was cold in the night air.
00:17:56I knelt there, letting the ache in my knees spread through me.
00:18:01Poor Miss Carter.
00:18:03Mr. Payne never used to treat her like this.
00:18:06Yeah.
00:18:06What did she do?
00:18:11The servants kept whispering.
00:18:14What did I do wrong?
00:18:15I loved someone I never should have loved.
00:18:19Ian, don't worry.
00:18:21Soon you'll be rid of me for good.
00:18:22Then something warm brushed against my hand.
00:18:25I looked down.
00:18:27Snowball was rubbing against my finger, almost as if she were telling me not to be sad.
00:18:32Before I go, I'll find you a good home.
00:18:36You'll have a happy life again soon.
00:18:42Snowball seemed to understand.
00:18:44She gently nuzzled my chin.
00:18:47I never imagined I'd find Snowball dead the next day.
00:18:51Someone killed him while I was out getting food.
00:18:54I came back with bread and saw that tiny body curled up on the stone path, completely still.
00:19:01Up close, I saw his little belly caved in, his limbs bent at impossible angles.
00:19:08Only his amber eyes were still turned toward me, like he'd been waiting for me to come back.
00:19:16I stood there clutching the bread, frozen for a long time.
00:19:20As the sun rose, the staff filed out to sweep the grounds and trim the fowers.
00:19:25They looked completely calm, as if they already knew.
00:19:35I walked over and stared down at him.
00:19:38I wanted to cry, but I had no tears left.
00:19:45It started to rain.
00:19:48I dug a small hole in the backyard and laid my kitten to rest with the bread.
00:19:57I'm sorry.
00:19:59I couldn't protect you.
00:20:02Fighting back tears, I slowly covered him with dirt.
00:20:13I walked back into the house, drenched through.
00:20:20The door flew open, and Ian came in, his face dark.
00:20:24Sophie, look what you've done.
00:20:28He shoved his phone in front of me.
00:20:30In huge red letters, it read,
00:20:32Oscar-winning actress Sophie Carter so really loved her adoptive brother for 15 years.
00:20:37Scandalous handwritten diary leak.
00:20:38Underneath were comments tearing me apart.
00:20:40Some even dug up my old photos,
00:20:43turned them into memorial portraits,
00:20:45and wrote,
00:20:46Hope she dies soon.
00:20:48I read each line.
00:20:50The color drained from my face.
00:20:55Do you know what they're saying about you on social media right now?
00:20:59That you're shameless.
00:21:01You bit the hand that fed you.
00:21:04The Payne family wasted 15 years raising an ingrate.
00:21:12Ian's gaze were ice.
00:21:13Cold.
00:21:18No.
00:21:20I didn't.
00:21:22You didn't.
00:21:23Then who did?
00:21:24The screen was filled with words.
00:21:27I love Ian.
00:21:28I want to be his wife.
00:21:29I dream about him every day.
00:21:31I opened my mouth,
00:21:33but no words came.
00:21:35He'd rubbed my stomach and made me honey-silliman tea when I got my first period.
00:21:40He'd scared off the first boy who confessed to me.
00:21:44At my debutante ball,
00:21:45he'd even knelt down to fix my dress.
00:21:49I wrote every bit of that love in my diary.
00:21:52A secret I could never say out loud.
00:21:54And now a hacker had stolen it,
00:21:56and exposed it to the world.
00:21:59Sophie, I'm getting married.
00:22:00Are you really trying to steal your best friend's fiancé?
00:22:04Ian's voice turned even colder.
00:22:06I froze.
00:22:07He'd gotten it all wrong.
00:22:09But the words cut so deep,
00:22:11I thought my heart couldn't be hurt like that anymore.
00:22:14But hearing him say it out loud,
00:22:16the pain came right back.
00:22:18Mr. Payne.
00:22:21Mr. Payne.
00:22:22Ms. Young saw the trending post about her
00:22:24and fell from a platform while filming.
00:22:26She's at the hospital.
00:22:27She needs blood now,
00:22:28and she's RH negative.
00:22:30Just then,
00:22:30Ian's assistant came rushing over,
00:22:32panic written all over his face.
00:22:33Ian's eyes snapped to me.
00:22:35I stepped back.
00:22:36I knew that look too well.
00:22:37It was the same look he had when left me behind
00:22:39and took Olivia away in that helicopter.
00:22:41He was going to use my blood to save her.
00:22:44You have the same blood type as Olivia.
00:22:46Come to the hospital with me.
00:22:47Now.
00:22:48His voice left no room for argument.
00:22:56I was dragged into the car.
00:22:57He drove like hell.
00:22:59I curled up in the back seat,
00:23:00white as a sheet.
00:23:01Ian glanced at me in the rear view mirror.
00:23:03Something in him faltered.
00:23:04He forced himself to look away
00:23:06and pressed harder on the gas.
00:23:12Ian.
00:23:14It hurts so much.
00:23:16At the private hospital,
00:23:17Olivia lay pale in bed.
00:23:19The second she fought Ian,
00:23:20her eyes filled with tears.
00:23:22Don't be afraid.
00:23:23I'll have them start the transfusion right away.
00:23:25Ian and took Olivia's hand.
00:23:28I stood in the doorway.
00:23:29Even after everything,
00:23:31my heart still hurt when I heard it.
00:23:34The second I saw the syringe,
00:23:36numbness turned to fear.
00:23:37Back in the war zone,
00:23:38every syringe meant
00:23:39they were dragging me back into that tent.
00:23:41My body remembered.
00:23:42I covered my head and tried to run.
00:23:45No.
00:23:47I don't want this.
00:23:48Please, no.
00:23:49No matter how hard I screamed,
00:23:50it was useless.
00:23:51They pinned me down.
00:23:52Fear flooded my eyes.
00:23:53Ian wavered for a second,
00:23:54then went cold again.
00:23:55It's just a little blood.
00:23:57It'll be over fast.
00:23:58Ian said it like it meant nothing.
00:24:00I reached for him.
00:24:01I wanted to tell him
00:24:02I would never love him again.
00:24:04Maybe then I could finally let go.
00:24:06Then the needle went in.
00:24:07I curled up as warm blood left my body,
00:24:09and a deep chill ran through me.
00:24:12You have to stop.
00:24:14She's going into shock.
00:24:15Keep going.
00:24:17Olivia has to be okay.
00:24:19The nurse cried out.
00:24:20Then Ian's cold,
00:24:21distant voice reached me.
00:24:22Those words cut deeper than anything.
00:24:24Something in me broke for good,
00:24:26and I felt a strange release.
00:24:28Maybe it was better this way.
00:24:29Dying meant I could finally be at peace
00:24:31with mom, dad, and Snowball.
00:24:37Get her the best room.
00:24:39Bring in blood from the regional medical center.
00:24:41Now.
00:24:45Ian threw that out and hurried off.
00:24:50Mr. Payne is so good to Miss Young.
00:24:52They're getting married in seven days.
00:24:54Such a perfect match.
00:24:55Yeah, unlike that washed-up actress next door,
00:24:58throwing herself at the man who raised her.
00:25:01No wonder she's only got two weeks left.
00:25:03People like her get what's coming to them.
00:25:05I couldn't hear the rest.
00:25:07When I woke up again,
00:25:08I was in the hospital bed,
00:25:09getting a transfusion.
00:25:11The nurses kept talking outside.
00:25:13I lay there, pale and silent.
00:25:22Back at the Payne estate,
00:25:24I found three wooden boards and a knife.
00:25:26One for Snowball.
00:25:28One for myself.
00:25:30The last stayed blank.
00:25:34Maybe I was close to the end.
00:25:36I was so weak I could barely move.
00:25:38It took me three days to finish the three memorial plaques.
00:25:41All the while,
00:25:42the TV was full of Olivia and Ian.
00:25:44walks by the ocean,
00:25:46kissing at sunset,
00:25:47holding each other in a field of flowers.
00:25:50The tenderness in his eyes was almost unbearable.
00:25:53I turned off the TV.
00:25:55I couldn't feel pain anymore.
00:25:59At first light,
00:26:00I took the plaques I'd carved
00:26:02and went to church.
00:26:12The moment I arrived,
00:26:14I saw two familiar figures beneath the wish tree.
00:26:17What would you like to pray for, my child?
00:26:22I'm praying my baby is born safe and healthy.
00:26:26I'm praying my baby is born safe and healthy.
00:26:27I'm praying the woman beside me gets her wish.
00:26:29The priest asked Olivia.
00:26:31She touched her belly and answered sweetly.
00:26:33Ian smiled, his voice gentle.
00:26:38Mr. Payne is so gentle.
00:26:40I heard Olivia is wrapping up this film.
00:26:42Then she's retiring to be a rich wife.
00:26:43That baby is so lucky.
00:26:45Dad's a New York tycoon.
00:26:47Mom's an international star.
00:26:49Beneath the sea of prayer cards,
00:26:51he was all tenderness,
00:26:52holding her hand,
00:26:53helping her hang her wish,
00:26:54guarding her belly.
00:26:55Fans had spotted them
00:26:56and were whispering about how lucky they were.
00:26:59I clutched the blank memorial plaque.
00:27:02I had a child once.
00:27:04Ian's child.
00:27:05But the first time those men came into my tent in the war zone,
00:27:09I lost the baby.
00:27:10If my baby had lived,
00:27:12they'd be running around by now.
00:27:14On the other side of the wish tree,
00:27:17Olivia rose on tiptoe and kissed Ian's cheek.
00:27:20He whispered something in her ear
00:27:22and she blushed,
00:27:23hiding her face against his chest.
00:27:26I watched them.
00:27:28and felt sick to my stomach.
00:27:29I ducked away,
00:27:31head down,
00:27:32into the prayer hall.
00:27:33I set the three memorial plaques
00:27:35beside my parents' plaques,
00:27:36then wiped theirs clean.
00:27:38Mom,
00:27:39Dad,
00:27:40I'm sorry.
00:27:41It took me three years to come see you.
00:27:44My voice was barely above a whisper,
00:27:46like I was afraid of disturbing the dead.
00:27:48But don't worry.
00:27:51We will be together again soon.
00:27:54I paused,
00:27:55forced a smile,
00:27:56and knelt.
00:28:00Footsteps came from behind.
00:28:02I turned.
00:28:14Sophie,
00:28:15aren't you tired of this whole I'm dying act?
00:28:18Ian looked surprised to see me,
00:28:19but the moment his eyes fell on my plaques,
00:28:22his expression dark,
00:28:22his baseless accusation pierced me all over again.
00:28:29Sophie,
00:28:30is this because Ian and I are getting married?
00:28:32Are you making these awful plaques to vent?
00:28:35If that's it,
00:28:37I won't marry him.
00:28:38Please don't do this to yourself.
00:28:42I was just about to tell him I really was dying when Olivia stepped out from behind him,
00:28:47eyes red.
00:28:49You've completely lost it.
00:28:51Smash those memorial plaques.
00:28:53Ian shielded Olivia behind him.
00:28:55When he looked at me again,
00:28:56his anger deepened.
00:28:59The bodyguard behind him raised a plaque high.
00:29:02No,
00:29:02it shattered into pieces.
00:29:05I froze.
00:29:06Something inside me broke with it.
00:29:08I gathered the pieces,
00:29:10my tears soaking into the broken wood.
00:29:14Ian,
00:29:15my stomach hurts.
00:29:24I watched him walk away.
00:29:26Felt hollow inside.
00:29:27Numb and cold.
00:29:29Ian,
00:29:30don't worry.
00:29:31Soon,
00:29:32I won't bother you anymore.
00:29:34I whispered.
00:29:38Sophie Carter,
00:29:39you homewrecker!
00:29:39How dare you show your face here!
00:29:41Shameless bitch!
00:29:42Hit her!
00:29:43Do it for Olivia!
00:29:43After a long while,
00:29:45I got up,
00:29:46clutching the shattered memorial plaque.
00:29:48Then a crowd of fans rushed in.
00:29:50Fists rained down on me.
00:29:52I curled up,
00:29:54clutching the broken pieces to my chest.
00:29:56It hurt everywhere.
00:29:58I almost called Ian's name.
00:30:02Then stopped.
00:30:03Three years in the war zone and he'd never come.
00:30:05How could I expect him to save me now?
00:30:08Shameless bitch,
00:30:10go to hell.
00:30:10A bottle smashed into my head.
00:30:12Everything went black.
00:30:15Before I passed out,
00:30:16I thought I saw Ian running toward me in a panic.
00:30:20When I woke up again,
00:30:22it was the same doctor.
00:30:24His eyes were full of pity.
00:30:26Miss Carter,
00:30:28I'm afraid you only have a week left.
00:30:36The doctor asked if I had any last wish.
00:30:39I thought about it,
00:30:41then shook my head.
00:30:46Miss Carter,
00:30:48it looks like Mr. Payne still cares about you.
00:30:51Ian never came,
00:30:52but gifts kept arising in my room.
00:30:54The maid tried to comfort me.
00:30:56I said nothing.
00:30:57After I was discharged,
00:30:59I took my diary out of the safe.
00:31:02I started it when I was 15.
00:31:05If I was leaving,
00:31:06I wanted to leave for good.
00:31:08Every memory of Ian had to go.
00:31:13I set the diary on the lawn
00:31:15and lit a match.
00:31:17The flames crept across the pages,
00:31:21consuming every word of love
00:31:23I'd never dared to say.
00:31:29What are you burning?
00:31:33Sophie,
00:31:34you think burning your diary
00:31:35will get my attention?
00:31:36He'd appeared out of nowhere.
00:31:38When he saw the burning pages,
00:31:40his face shifted,
00:31:41anger simmering beneath the surface.
00:31:46No,
00:31:47I didn't.
00:31:51Then why burn your diary?
00:31:53You can't even behave now.
00:31:55Do you want to go back to the war zone?
00:31:57Ian's voice was edged with anger.
00:32:00I won't do it again.
00:32:01Please don't send me back.
00:32:03The second I heard war zone,
00:32:05my whole body started shaking.
00:32:07The memories came rushing back.
00:32:10Hunger,
00:32:10fear,
00:32:11the smell of sweat on those men.
00:32:14My knees gave out.
00:32:15I couldn't stop banging my forehead
00:32:17against the ground.
00:32:18I didn't even notice the shock
00:32:20on Ian's face.
00:32:21He just stared at my thin,
00:32:23shaking body,
00:32:24his voice barely steady.
00:32:27Sophie,
00:32:28how did you end up like this?
00:32:33Ian,
00:32:34weren't you going to take Sophie and me
00:32:36to my wrap party today?
00:32:38Why so serious?
00:32:40Before he could finish,
00:32:41a soft voice cut in.
00:32:46Do I have to go?
00:32:49If Olivia wants you there,
00:32:51you go.
00:32:55Okay.
00:32:57I closed my eyes.
00:32:59If he wanted me to go,
00:33:00then I'd go.
00:33:02I'd call it repatement
00:33:03for all the years he raised me.
00:33:05After this,
00:33:06we'd be even.
00:33:07When we got to the set,
00:33:09every eye turned to me.
00:33:15A wealthy man walked over.
00:33:18The look in his eyes
00:33:19was horribly familiar.
00:33:21My whole body went rigid,
00:33:23like the pain were happening
00:33:24all over again.
00:33:30You see an old friend
00:33:31and won't even say hello?
00:33:33He's missed you.
00:33:34See those mercenary bodyguards with him?
00:33:37They've missed that battered body
00:33:38of yours too.
00:33:39She clung to my arm
00:33:40like we were still best friends,
00:33:42but her voice was pure venom.
00:33:44I dug my nails into my palm.
00:33:46My whole body shook.
00:33:48Olivia,
00:33:49take Sophie inside first.
00:33:50I need to take a work call.
00:33:51Just when I was about
00:33:53to lose control,
00:33:54Ian's voice cut in.
00:33:56Sophie,
00:33:57look after Olivia.
00:33:59Even as he left,
00:34:00Ian still warned me.
00:34:01His tone was flat,
00:34:03but the look in his eyes
00:34:04said it all.
00:34:05He was afraid
00:34:05I'd hurt Olivia.
00:34:07I stood there
00:34:07watching him walk away.
00:34:12How does she even
00:34:13have the nerve to show up?
00:34:15Going after the man
00:34:16who raised you?
00:34:17If that were me,
00:34:18I'd be too ashamed to live.
00:34:19A piece of trash like that?
00:34:21Only death
00:34:22could wash away the filth.
00:34:25Olivia's little crew
00:34:26walked past,
00:34:27dripping with disgust.
00:34:29Stop.
00:34:30Sophie is still my friend
00:34:31after all.
00:34:32The director's waiting for me
00:34:33so I should go.
00:34:35Olivia covered her mouth
00:34:36and laughed softly.
00:34:37Once she was gone,
00:34:39I could finally breathe.
00:34:40I never gave a damn
00:34:42about these people before,
00:34:43and I sure as hell
00:34:44didn't now.
00:34:46When filming started up again,
00:34:49Ian came back.
00:34:49maybe to keep up
00:34:51appearances.
00:34:52He kept his eyes
00:34:53glued to Olivia
00:34:54the entire time.
00:34:58As soon as filming wrapped,
00:35:00Ian draped a blanket
00:35:00over Olivia
00:35:01and asked if she was
00:35:02feeling okay.
00:35:03I stood in the corner,
00:35:04my eyes burning,
00:35:05everything blurring.
00:35:06Then the whole room
00:35:07exploded in cheers.
00:35:09Ian had just invited
00:35:10everyone to his wedding.
00:35:11To Olivia.
00:35:13Congratulations flooded
00:35:14the air from every direction.
00:35:15Sophie,
00:35:16all I want in this world
00:35:17is your blessing.
00:35:18Will you be my bridesmaid?
00:35:20Then Olivia walked over to me.
00:35:22If Olivia wants it,
00:35:24then you say yes.
00:35:25Ian was silent for a moment.
00:35:30I wish you both a long,
00:35:32happy life together.
00:35:33I lowered my eyes,
00:35:35hiding the tears,
00:35:36and took the drink.
00:35:37The second it hit my throat,
00:35:40pain tore through me.
00:35:41It felt like my insides
00:35:43were on fire.
00:35:44This broken body of mine
00:35:46couldn't even handle
00:35:47a drop of alcohol.
00:35:49It's one drink, Sophie.
00:35:51Do you have to look
00:35:52like you're dying?
00:35:59I wasn't date.
00:36:00If you weren't,
00:36:02then drink to us again.
00:36:04Ian's words drained
00:36:05the last bit of color
00:36:06from my face.
00:36:07Every single one
00:36:08hit like a hammer
00:36:09to the chest,
00:36:10and all I could feel
00:36:12was grief.
00:36:14I took a breath
00:36:15and poured myself
00:36:16another drink.
00:36:17I forced it down
00:36:18through the burning.
00:36:22It ripped from my throat
00:36:23to my stomach.
00:36:24For a moment,
00:36:25I couldn't tell
00:36:25what hurt more,
00:36:26my body or my heart.
00:36:28Maybe the pain
00:36:29was a good thing.
00:36:30It helped me let him go.
00:36:32I doubled over,
00:36:34just trying to endure it.
00:36:36From now on,
00:36:37Olivia is my fiancé.
00:36:39You behave,
00:36:39and I'll still
00:36:40look after you.
00:36:41I'll treat you
00:36:42like a little sister.
00:36:44Thank you, Ian.
00:36:45I smiled bitterly.
00:36:47Too bad I didn't
00:36:48need that anymore.
00:36:49Ian,
00:36:50come take rap photos
00:36:51with me, please.
00:36:54Go clean yourself up.
00:36:55Don't embarrass me here.
00:37:00Why does she look so bad?
00:37:02Is she faking it?
00:37:03What's the point?
00:37:04Even if she is,
00:37:05Mr. Payne's not going
00:37:06to look at her twice.
00:37:07Exactly.
00:37:08Next to Olivia,
00:37:09she's painful to look at.
00:37:10Ian paused
00:37:11and gave me one look.
00:37:13Then he walked away
00:37:14with Olivia on his arm.
00:37:15And the whispers
00:37:16started up behind my back.
00:37:22Ian,
00:37:22how's Sophie?
00:37:23Her heels clicked
00:37:24down the hallway.
00:37:26Olivia rushed over,
00:37:27looking just worried
00:37:28enough to be convincing.
00:37:29She grabbed Ian's arm.
00:37:31He didn't even look at her.
00:37:32His eyes stayed glued
00:37:33to the operating table
00:37:35through the glass.
00:37:35She followed his gaze,
00:37:37saw my paper white face,
00:37:38and something flickered
00:37:39in her eyes.
00:37:40Sophie will be fine.
00:37:41She cares about you
00:37:42too much to leave you alone.
00:37:43Maybe she's just
00:37:44trying to scare you.
00:37:46Olivia Young's voice
00:37:47was sickeningly sweet.
00:37:48As soon as she said it,
00:37:50the ER doors opened.
00:37:51Who's the family?
00:37:52I am.
00:37:53How is she?
00:37:55I'm sorry.
00:37:56We did everything we could.
00:37:58She's gone.
00:38:00No.
00:38:01That's impossible.
00:38:02She was fine.
00:38:03How could she just
00:38:04die like that?
00:38:08He'd never seen me like this.
00:38:11In his memory,
00:38:12I was always full of life.
00:38:14Eight years old,
00:38:15when he carried me home
00:38:16from my parents' funeral.
00:38:17Fifteen,
00:38:18when I grabbed his arm,
00:38:19screaming I made it
00:38:20after my first film.
00:38:22Eighteen,
00:38:22standing at my debutante ball
00:38:24in a white dress,
00:38:25smiling brighter than the candles.
00:38:27Now every memory
00:38:28is cutting him apart.
00:38:30What he doesn't know is,
00:38:31I'm standing right behind him.
00:38:33My body's still on that table,
00:38:35but my mind has already
00:38:36floated free.
00:38:37I look down at my own pale face,
00:38:39the doctors scrambling around me,
00:38:41the cold steel instruments
00:38:42glinting under the lights.
00:38:43And then I see Ian.
00:38:45One hand pressed against the glass,
00:38:47forehead resting on it,
00:38:48shoulders trembling.
00:38:49When I was eight,
00:38:50my parents died in the war.
00:38:52Ian Payne,
00:38:53tens years older me in.
00:38:54I've seen him in every mood,
00:38:56gentle,
00:38:56doting,
00:38:57cold,
00:38:58disgusted,
00:38:59furious.
00:39:00But never like this,
00:39:01like a mountain
00:39:02caving in from the inside.
00:39:04I loved this man
00:39:05for fifteen years.
00:39:06I waited my whole life
00:39:08to see that look on his face.
00:39:09And now that it's finally here,
00:39:11I don't need it anymore.
00:39:13No.
00:39:14She can't die.
00:39:15She has to be messing with me.
00:39:17I just watch him.
00:39:19Even now,
00:39:20he's still lying to himself.
00:39:22He'll know the truth soon enough.
00:39:29The paramedics burst in
00:39:30and slammed Ian out of the way.
00:39:33He staggered back,
00:39:34helpless,
00:39:35watching them hoist me
00:39:36onto the gurney,
00:39:37tube down my throat,
00:39:38IV in my arm,
00:39:40hands pumping my chest.
00:39:41Family,
00:39:42with us.
00:39:43A doctor yelled for him to follow.
00:39:45He stood there frozen for a second.
00:39:47He froze for a second,
00:39:48then went after them,
00:39:50staring at my paper white face
00:39:51the whole way.
00:39:52At the private hospital ER,
00:39:55the red light blazed on,
00:39:56harsh,
00:39:57blinding.
00:39:58Ian stood outside,
00:40:00covered in my blood.
00:40:01He looked down
00:40:02at the dark stains on his shirt,
00:40:04and his knees just gave out.
00:40:07He sank onto the bench,
00:40:09buried his face in his bloody hands.
00:40:11No sound.
00:40:14But his shoulders were shaking like crazy.
00:40:18The red light stayed on
00:40:19for what felt like forever.
00:40:21Ian stood at the glass,
00:40:22staring through.
00:40:24I lay on the operating table,
00:40:26tubes everywhere.
00:40:27The monitor line barely flickered,
00:40:29every beat like it was taking
00:40:30everything I had left.
00:40:32My face was white as paper.
00:40:34My lips had no color at all.
00:40:36My hair was spread out on the
00:40:38like a dead flower.
00:40:41Ian, I feel awful.
00:40:43She didn't get her way this time,
00:40:45but what if she tries it again?
00:40:47Don't worry.
00:40:48I'll handle it.
00:40:52The next second,
00:40:53the bodyguards forced that
00:40:55drugged wine down my throat.
00:40:57The burn made me choke,
00:40:58and I tried to spit it out,
00:41:01but Ian's hand locked around my throat.
00:41:04Now you know what Olivia felt.
00:41:06Try anything like that again,
00:41:08and I'll leave you in that war zone for good.
00:41:10Then he turned,
00:41:12picked Olivia up,
00:41:13and walked away without one last look.
00:41:16She glanced back,
00:41:18smiled at me,
00:41:19and mouthed,
00:41:20Enjoy it.
00:41:21My blood turned to ice.
00:41:23Faces flashed through my mind.
00:41:25Dark rooms.
00:41:27Cold chains.
00:41:28Men grinning down at me.
00:41:31Then his voice changed.
00:41:33The mockery was gone.
00:41:35In its place was a tremor
00:41:36I'd never heard before.
00:41:38I lay against his chest,
00:41:39listening to his heartbeat.
00:41:40Fast.
00:41:41Too fast.
00:41:42I wanted to tell him.
00:41:43This time,
00:41:44I'm really dying.
00:41:46From 8 to 23,
00:41:47I loved you for 15 years.
00:41:49I waited for you for 3.
00:41:50I let you crush me
00:41:51over and over and over.
00:41:53I'm tired.
00:41:54I can't love you anymore.
00:41:55I don't want to anymore.
00:41:57But the words wouldn't come.
00:41:58Blood filled my throat,
00:41:59and every breath was like
00:42:01swallowing broken glass.
00:42:03Sophie.
00:42:04Sophie.
00:42:05Open your eyes.
00:42:06Open your eyes.
00:42:08Head down,
00:42:09nails digging into my palms,
00:42:11I walked to the restroom
00:42:13one step at a time.
00:42:16Only after the door shut
00:42:17did I dare look up.
00:42:19The woman in the mirror
00:42:20was gray,
00:42:21hollow-eyed,
00:42:22lips cracked,
00:42:23like a walking skeleton.
00:42:25I thought of how gently
00:42:26Ian cared for Olivia.
00:42:28One cherished.
00:42:30One trampled into the dirt.
00:42:35I wasn't the Sophie
00:42:37I used to be.
00:42:39That bright,
00:42:40fearless Sophie
00:42:41died in the war zone
00:42:42three years ago.
00:42:48I'd barely made it out the door
00:42:50when the bodyguards
00:42:51grabbed me,
00:42:52dragged me into the lounge,
00:42:53and threw me at Ian's feet.
00:42:55Sophie,
00:42:55you've got some nerve.
00:42:57You slipped Olivia
00:42:58an afrodysiac?
00:43:00I didn't.
00:43:01Sophie,
00:43:02I know you hate me,
00:43:03but this is beyond cruel.
00:43:05Ruining me wasn't enough.
00:43:06You had to go after my baby, too.
00:43:08An afrodysiac,
00:43:09I looked up in shock
00:43:10and shook my head.
00:43:11Olivia's voice was weak,
00:43:12her eyes welling up,
00:43:14tears spilling down her face.
00:43:15Ian's face went ice cold.
00:43:17His hand came up.
00:43:18Smack!
00:43:19The slap landed across my face.
00:43:21My head whipped to the side,
00:43:23my cheek on fire.
00:43:24He'd never hit me before.
00:43:26Never.
00:43:27I couldn't believe it.
00:43:30There has to be some mistake.
00:43:32She was just talking to me.
00:43:34She even called my name.
00:43:36How could she...
00:43:38Mr. Payne,
00:43:39she had late-stage bone cancer.
00:43:42It had already spread
00:43:43throughout her body.
00:43:45According to her chart,
00:43:46she had less than a month left.
00:43:48What happened today
00:43:49only sped it up.
00:43:50What did you just say?
00:43:52Late-stage bone cancer?
00:43:53What late-stage bone cancer?
00:43:55Sophie Carter,
00:43:56late-stage bone cancer,
00:43:58diagnosed a month ago.
00:43:59It's all in her chart.
00:44:01You...
00:44:01didn't know?
00:44:04Ian stood there
00:44:05like he'd been struck by lightning.
00:44:07A month ago,
00:44:08right after I came back
00:44:09from the war zone,
00:44:10I hid that lab report
00:44:11under my pillow
00:44:12in the hospital room.
00:44:13He pulled it out,
00:44:15glanced at it,
00:44:15and threw it in my face
00:44:17with a cold laugh.
00:44:18A fake chart.
00:44:19You never change.
00:44:20He said that himself.
00:44:22I floated there,
00:44:24watching his face
00:44:25crack apart piece by piece,
00:44:27until it completely caved in.
00:44:28I wanted to cry.
00:44:30So he could feel regret after all.
00:44:33But so what?
00:44:34What does it change?
00:44:36I don't need it anymore.
00:44:43Ian's knees gave out.
00:44:44He sank to the floor,
00:44:46bracing himself with both hands,
00:44:48his shoulders shaking hard.
00:44:49He made no sound,
00:44:51but that silent collapse
00:44:52was more devastating
00:44:53than any scream.
00:44:54No way.
00:44:55That can't be right.
00:44:57Sophie's way too young.
00:44:58Late-stage bone cancer?
00:45:00How?
00:45:03Ian,
00:45:04you know how Sophie
00:45:05used to do things
00:45:06to get your attention?
00:45:07What if this is
00:45:08the same kind of thing?
00:45:11Ian, I just...
00:45:12I just wasn't expecting this.
00:45:16I need to see her myself.
00:45:21He shoved past the doctor
00:45:23and slammed through the ER doors,
00:45:24stumbling inside.
00:45:26Olivia froze,
00:45:27her fingers curling tight.
00:45:29She bit her lip and followed.
00:45:33She had to make sure
00:45:34I was really, truly dead.
00:45:39The ER lights were still on,
00:45:41that cold white glare
00:45:43falling over the operating table
00:45:44and the body beneath the sheet.
00:45:46Ian stood there
00:45:47with his hand hovering over it,
00:45:49unable to bring it down.
00:45:50He finally pulled the sheet back.
00:45:53My face was exposed,
00:45:55pale,
00:45:55still,
00:45:56like wax.
00:45:57My lips were drained of color,
00:45:59my eyes barely closed,
00:46:01and there was still
00:46:02drying blood on my lashes.
00:46:04Ian stared at my face,
00:46:06his pupils shaking.
00:46:09This was the girl
00:46:10he had raised for 15 years,
00:46:12the girl he carried home himself
00:46:14from my parents' funeral,
00:46:15the one he used to treasure,
00:46:17afraid I'd fall,
00:46:18afraid I'd get hurt.
00:46:19Mr. Payne,
00:46:21prepare yourself.
00:46:22Ian said nothing.
00:46:24His gaze dropped
00:46:25from my face
00:46:26to the rest of me.
00:46:27There was barely a patch
00:46:28of skin left untouched.
00:46:29A black-edged burn scar
00:46:31below my collarbone.
00:46:32A long knife scar
00:46:34by my ribs.
00:46:35Layered marks
00:46:36all over my lower abdomen.
00:46:37Some already faded white.
00:46:39Needle marks
00:46:40along my inner arm.
00:46:41Bruises spreading
00:46:42from my wrist
00:46:43to my elbow.
00:46:44And my left hand,
00:46:45part of my pinky was gone,
00:46:47like a branch snapped off.
00:46:49Ian's breathing turned ragged,
00:46:51like something was crushing
00:46:53his chest so hard
00:46:54he couldn't breathe.
00:46:55These injuries,
00:46:56some were cigarette burns,
00:46:57some were caused
00:46:58by heated metal tongs.
00:46:59There were also knife wounds
00:47:01and blunt force trauma.
00:47:02Based on the healing
00:47:03of the scars,
00:47:04they were inflicted
00:47:05over a period
00:47:06of about three years.
00:47:10There's something else.
00:47:12We found signs
00:47:13of multiple miscarriages.
00:47:15Her uterus
00:47:16was severely damaged.
00:47:17And with the drugs
00:47:18in her system,
00:47:19she must have suffered
00:47:20terribly before she died.
00:47:22She had almost
00:47:23no will to live.
00:47:24Even if we had revived her,
00:47:26she only would have
00:47:27had a few days left.
00:47:28The doctor looked at him,
00:47:30hesitated,
00:47:31then said it anyway.
00:47:32Almost no will to live.
00:47:34The words kept echoing
00:47:35in Ian's head.
00:47:37He was the one
00:47:37who pushed me toward death.
00:47:39Again and again.
00:47:40Ian looked at my face,
00:47:42and the room started spinning.
00:47:44Those memories kept flashing
00:47:45through his mind.
00:47:46In me,
00:47:47kneeling hard on the floor,
00:47:49forehead pressed to it,
00:47:50saying,
00:47:50I was wrong.
00:47:52Me begging him on the plane
00:47:53not to lock me up.
00:47:54My face drained white
00:47:56after I accidentally
00:47:57ate shellfish.
00:47:58The smile on my face
00:47:59when I said,
00:48:01Thank you, Ian.
00:48:02But I don't need it anymore.
00:48:04And me at 18,
00:48:05at my debutante ball,
00:48:07in a white dress
00:48:08beside the cake,
00:48:09smiling brighter
00:48:09than the candles.
00:48:10Everything went black
00:48:11for Ian.
00:48:12He heard people
00:48:13calling his name,
00:48:14far away,
00:48:15like it was underwater.
00:48:16Olivia's voice
00:48:17grew fainter and fainter.
00:48:18As he fell,
00:48:19his hands still reached
00:48:20for the operating table.
00:48:21His fingertips
00:48:22barely touched the edge
00:48:23of the white sheet.
00:48:24He was so close
00:48:25to touching me.
00:48:29The moment Ian collapsed,
00:48:30he seemed to see me.
00:48:32I hung there in mid-air
00:48:33watching him.
00:48:34His lips moved,
00:48:36like he was saying something,
00:48:37but I couldn't hear him anymore.
00:48:38I watched them
00:48:39take him away.
00:48:41I turned to leave,
00:48:42but I couldn't move.
00:48:44It was like some invisible thread
00:48:46had tied my soul to him.
00:48:47I drifted beside him,
00:48:49no more than an arm's length away,
00:48:51but I couldn't get any farther.
00:48:53I looked down
00:48:54at my half-transparent hands,
00:48:55then at Ian,
00:48:57lying on the floor.
00:48:58Ian had a dream.
00:48:59He went back to the night
00:49:00of my 18th birthday
00:49:01debutante ball.
00:49:02I stood in front of him,
00:49:04in a white dress,
00:49:05holding a glass,
00:49:06blushing like an apple.
00:49:08There was light in my eyes
00:49:09when I looked at him.
00:49:11He'd seen it
00:49:12so many times before.
00:49:15When I ran after him,
00:49:17calling his name.
00:49:19When I won my Oscar.
00:49:22Every single time
00:49:23I looked at him,
00:49:24he just never wanted
00:49:26to admit what it meant.
00:49:28Ian.
00:49:29I love you.
00:49:36Have you no shame
00:49:37I'm your brother.
00:49:38I raised you.
00:49:41Ian, please.
00:49:43Don't leave me.
00:49:44Please.
00:49:52Stay in the war zone.
00:49:53You can come back
00:49:54when you've killed off
00:49:55those filthy thoughts.
00:49:56He got up and walked away.
00:49:58My crying faded behind him,
00:50:00farther and fainter.
00:50:02He never looked back.
00:50:03Now he stands in those memories,
00:50:06shaking,
00:50:06unable to call out
00:50:08or come to me,
00:50:09forced to watch it all
00:50:10on repeat.
00:50:11He did that.
00:50:14Every frame of it.
00:50:16I drift beside him,
00:50:18looking at his closed eyes,
00:50:19the tears pooled
00:50:20in the corners.
00:50:21I feel nothing.
00:50:23Not because I'm cruel.
00:50:25I've already died once.
00:50:27The dead don't ache
00:50:28for the living.
00:50:28I watch him
00:50:29like a stranger.
00:50:31I want mom and dad.
00:50:34I want Snowball.
00:50:36But I still can't leave.
00:50:39Some invisible tether
00:50:40keeps me bound to him,
00:50:41like the last lock
00:50:42on my freedom.
00:50:48How much longer
00:50:49are you going to
00:50:49keep me trapped here?
00:50:57Find out everything.
00:50:58I want every detail
00:50:59of Sophie's three years
00:51:00in the war zone.
00:51:04Ian sat on the edge
00:51:05of the bed,
00:51:06head down,
00:51:07hands braced
00:51:08on his knees.
00:51:09Sunlight fell across him,
00:51:10but he couldn't feel
00:51:11any warmth.
00:51:12All he could see
00:51:13was me on that
00:51:13operating table.
00:51:14My pale face,
00:51:16the tip of my little finger
00:51:17gone,
00:51:18scars all over me.
00:51:20That was his Sophie,
00:51:22the girl he had raised
00:51:24for 15 years.
00:51:28Mr. Payne,
00:51:30Sophie,
00:51:30she,
00:51:31speak.
00:51:32The assistant drew a breath
00:51:33and opened the file.
00:51:35For three years
00:51:36in the war zone,
00:51:37men went into her tent
00:51:38every day.
00:51:39Refugees,
00:51:40mercenaries,
00:51:41wealthy men,
00:51:42not a single day
00:51:44without it.
00:51:45They cut off
00:51:46her little finger
00:51:46on the stot
00:51:47for spilling a little soup
00:51:49in the refugee soup line.
00:51:50To keep her from escaping,
00:51:52they chained her up
00:51:53every night.
00:51:54She tried to kill
00:51:55herself with pills.
00:51:56When they caught her,
00:51:57they forced disinfectant
00:51:58down her throat.
00:51:59Her vocal cords
00:52:01were permanently damaged.
00:52:02For those three years,
00:52:04she was put through hell.
00:52:05Ian's fingers
00:52:06cleansed tight.
00:52:11Ian snatched up
00:52:12the report.
00:52:14Every word on the page
00:52:15cut like a knife.
00:52:17He saw the words
00:52:18every day.
00:52:19Chains,
00:52:21disinfectant,
00:52:21cut off,
00:52:22packed across it
00:52:23like a net closing in.
00:52:25He dropped to the floor.
00:52:26The report slipped
00:52:28from his hand,
00:52:29pages scattering everywhere.
00:52:31He stared at those
00:52:32horrible words,
00:52:33shaking too hard
00:52:34to pick them up.
00:52:36He opened his mouth,
00:52:37but nothing came out.
00:52:38The images kept flashing
00:52:40through his head.
00:52:41Me on the plane,
00:52:42dropping to my knees,
00:52:44forehead pressed to the floor,
00:52:45terrified,
00:52:46begging,
00:52:46please,
00:52:47don't send me back.
00:52:48Me at that party,
00:52:50automatically sitting
00:52:51in a man's lap
00:52:51and feeding him a drink.
00:52:53That was how I stayed alive.
00:52:54I closed my eyes.
00:52:56I didn't want to watch
00:52:56this man regret it anymore.
00:52:59I just wanted to leave.
00:53:04A glass-topped ice coffin
00:53:05stood in the middle
00:53:06of the room.
00:53:07Under the clear lid,
00:53:08I lay there quietly,
00:53:09in the white dress
00:53:10I wore to my debutante ball
00:53:11at 18.
00:53:12He placed the carved
00:53:13memorial plaques
00:53:14beside the coffin
00:53:15one by one,
00:53:16three of them,
00:53:17Snowball,
00:53:17Sophie Carter,
00:53:18and the blank one
00:53:19he never named.
00:53:20He didn't know why,
00:53:21but he carved it anyway.
00:53:24Then he knelt
00:53:25in front of the coffin,
00:53:26his forehead
00:53:26against the cold glass,
00:53:28his voice so hoarse
00:53:29I could barely hear it.
00:53:30My soul drifted
00:53:32in the corner of the room,
00:53:33watching him.
00:53:36Sophie,
00:53:36I'm sorry.
00:53:37Don't be afraid.
00:53:38I'll stay with you.
00:53:40Always.
00:53:41Ian opened his phone
00:53:42and played that video,
00:53:43the one where I collapsed.
00:53:45He watched it once,
00:53:47then again,
00:53:48then again.
00:53:49Every time,
00:53:50his fingers clenched tighter
00:53:51until his nails
00:53:52dug into his palm
00:53:53and drew blood.
00:53:54But he couldn't feel it.
00:53:56His voice was in pieces.
00:53:58I drifted behind him,
00:53:59watching him punish himself
00:54:01with that video
00:54:01over and over,
00:54:02watching his tears
00:54:03hit the screen
00:54:04one drop at a time.
00:54:06Suddenly,
00:54:07my chest felt tight.
00:54:08On the fourth day,
00:54:10Ian called in his lawyer.
00:54:11I drifted beside him
00:54:13and watched him sign
00:54:14one document after another.
00:54:16His pain group shares
00:54:17every asset in his name,
00:54:19his real estate,
00:54:21funds,
00:54:22savings.
00:54:23He gave all of it away.
00:54:27Mr. Payne,
00:54:29are you sure about this?
00:54:30These assets?
00:54:31I'm done.
00:54:31You can leave.
00:54:33The lawyer hesitated,
00:54:34but he said it anyway.
00:54:35Ian cut him off.
00:54:37The lawyer left.
00:54:38I looked at the signed papers
00:54:40and felt nothing.
00:54:41He was ruthless to me
00:54:42when I was alive.
00:54:43Now he's giving everything away.
00:54:46What's the point?
00:54:47I won't take a dime of it.
00:54:48I don't want to.
00:54:51Sir,
00:54:52please,
00:54:53eat something.
00:54:54Mr. Payne,
00:54:55the company still needs you.
00:54:56You have to pull yourself together.
00:55:00Out.
00:55:04Get out!
00:55:08On the fifth day,
00:55:09someone finally opened the door.
00:55:11The maid bringing through
00:55:12took one look at Ian
00:55:13and nearly dropped the tray.
00:55:15He sat beside the glass-topped ice coffin,
00:55:17gaunt and hollow-eyed,
00:55:19his lips cracked and peeling.
00:55:20Her voice shook.
00:55:21He didn't look up.
00:55:22Then his assistant appeared in the doorway
00:55:24and went white at the sight of him.
00:55:26Ian's voice was raw,
00:55:27like it had been burned away.
00:55:29The assistant tried to speak,
00:55:30but Ian grabbed the glass from the table
00:55:31and smashed it on the floor.
00:55:33Shards flew.
00:55:40I drifted there,
00:55:42watching.
00:55:43Then I saw the bottles on the nightstand.
00:55:46Disinfectant.
00:55:46I knew that bottle.
00:55:48It was exactly the same
00:55:49as what they forced down my throat
00:55:50in the war zone.
00:55:51Ian grabbed a bottle of disinfectant
00:55:53and twisted the cap off.
00:55:55He tilted his head back
00:55:56and poured it into his mouth.
00:55:58It spilled down his chin.
00:56:00His throat convulsed.
00:56:01His whole body folded in on itself.
00:56:04Shaking with pain.
00:56:05But he kept drinking.
00:56:07Once.
00:56:08Twice.
00:56:10Three times.
00:56:11By then,
00:56:12his voice didn't even sound human.
00:56:14I'm gonna feel all of it.
00:56:16Every bit of what you went through.
00:56:18For one second,
00:56:19I was shocked.
00:56:20Just one.
00:56:21Then everything in me went still again,
00:56:23like dead water.
00:56:25Nothing could stir it now.
00:56:26I hovered in the corner
00:56:28and watched him curl up,
00:56:30shaking in agony.
00:56:40The news of Olivia Young's death
00:56:42hit the trending feeds
00:56:43on an ordinary morning.
00:56:44One hashtag after another exploded,
00:56:46like dominoes falling,
00:56:47until that once adored name
00:56:49was shattered into dust.
00:56:50The news kept replaying the jump,
00:56:52grainy, shaky surveillance footage
00:56:54from the hotel.
00:56:55She stood on the rooftop
00:56:56in a white dress,
00:56:58the exact same white dress
00:56:59I was wearing when I collapsed.
00:57:01The wind tore her hair loose.
00:57:02She stood there for a long time,
00:57:04like she was waiting for someone.
00:57:07No one came.
00:57:08Then she jumped.
00:57:10The comments exploded.
00:57:12Apologies, remorse,
00:57:14people calling me a good person.
00:57:16None of it reached me.
00:57:17The people who drove me to my death
00:57:18were the same ones mourning me now.
00:57:20They just put on new faces
00:57:21and typed,
00:57:22I'm sorry,
00:57:23as if that could erase
00:57:24what I suffered.
00:57:25It couldn't.
00:57:27What they did was heavy.
00:57:28Their apologies were light.
00:57:30One gust of wind,
00:57:32and they were gone.
00:57:33My pain was carved
00:57:34into my bones and scars.
00:57:36It would never disappear.
00:57:39Do you see it, Sophie?
00:57:43Everything that was yours,
00:57:44I'll give back.
00:57:45Piece by piece.
00:57:47Your name,
00:57:48your reputation,
00:57:49your career,
00:57:50everything you lost,
00:57:52I'll get it back.
00:57:53Ian Payne sat beside
00:57:54the glass-topped ice coffin,
00:57:56phone in hand,
00:57:56the screen flooded with comments.
00:57:58His voice was quiet,
00:58:00as if he was afraid
00:58:01of disturbing the person inside.
00:58:03Then he turned the screen
00:58:04toward the coffin,
00:58:05toward that still,
00:58:06peaceful face.
00:58:10I drifted behind him,
00:58:12listening to him talk to my body.
00:58:13I said nothing.
00:58:15I don't need any of it now.
00:58:17My name,
00:58:18my reputation,
00:58:19my career,
00:58:20what good are they
00:58:21now that I'm dead?
00:58:22Ian set down his phone
00:58:23and traced my outline
00:58:24through the glass
00:58:25of the ice coffin,
00:58:26slowly,
00:58:27like he was trying
00:58:28to memorize my face.
00:58:29I went still.
00:58:30I looked at him.
00:58:31There was no light
00:58:32left in his eyes.
00:58:33It wasn't love.
00:58:34It was obsession.
00:58:35Heavy, twisted,
00:58:36suffocating obsession.
00:58:37Sophie,
00:58:37you're here, aren't you?
00:58:39I can feel you.
00:58:40I just can't see you.
00:58:41Ian Payne's voice
00:58:42forced beyond recognition.
00:58:44He stared into empty space,
00:58:46nowhere near where I was.
00:58:47I froze.
00:58:48He could feel me.
00:58:49I thought he couldn't
00:58:50sense me at all.
00:58:52I found a spirit medium.
00:58:53He can help me.
00:58:55He said he can let me see you
00:58:56and bring you back.
00:58:58I looked at him
00:58:59and had only one thought.
00:59:01He'd lost his mind.
00:59:02He really had.
00:59:06The door opened
00:59:07and an old man
00:59:09with snow white hair
00:59:10and beard stepped in.
00:59:11He moved so lightly
00:59:12it barely seemed real.
00:59:14He glanced at Ian,
00:59:15then looked straight
00:59:16into the empty space
00:59:17where I was.
00:59:18That look sent
00:59:19a chill through me.
00:59:20He could see me.
00:59:22Mr. Payne,
00:59:23your bond with her is over.
00:59:25Ian went pale,
00:59:26then dropped to his knees
00:59:28with a dull thud.
00:59:29Please,
00:59:30I'll pay any price.
00:59:31Anything.
00:59:32Just bring her back.
00:59:33Ian's voice was shaking.
00:59:34I hovered there,
00:59:35watching him kneel.
00:59:36I felt nothing,
00:59:38just this deep,
00:59:39crushing exhaustion.
00:59:40I didn't want to come back.
00:59:42Living hurt too much.
00:59:43I'd finally died,
00:59:45finally escaped
00:59:46that ruined body.
00:59:47I didn't want to go back.
00:59:49She won't.
00:59:50she doesn't want
00:59:51to see you again.
00:59:56Please,
00:59:56tell her I know
00:59:57I was wrong.
00:59:58I really do.
00:59:59Just let her give me
01:00:00one more chance.
01:00:01Just one.
01:00:02The spirit medium heard me.
01:00:03He looked right at me,
01:00:05calm and full of pity.
01:00:06Ian went rigid,
01:00:07then dropped to his knees.
01:00:09He stayed there
01:00:09a long time.
01:00:10Then his shoulders
01:00:11started shaking,
01:00:12hard and silent.
01:00:14When he spoke,
01:00:15his voice fell apart.
01:00:17I closed my eyes.
01:00:18I didn't want to hear it.
01:00:20I see it.
01:00:21Then I'll help you
01:00:22one last time.
01:00:23He was quiet
01:00:24for a long time,
01:00:25then sighed.
01:00:26He looked at me
01:00:26with something
01:00:27I couldn't name
01:00:27in his eyes.
01:00:28He raised his hand
01:00:29and his wide sleep
01:00:30swept through the air.
01:00:31A wave of dizziness
01:00:32hit me.
01:00:33I hadn't felt
01:00:33anything like it
01:00:34in years.
01:00:35It was like riding
01:00:36a carousel as a kid,
01:00:37the whole world spinning
01:00:38until I couldn't tell
01:00:38up from down.
01:00:39My thoughts began to blur.
01:00:41The last thing I saw
01:00:42was Ian's pale,
01:00:43tear-struck face,
01:00:44fading farther
01:00:45and farther away.
01:00:50When I woke again,
01:00:51I smelled flowers,
01:00:53not disinfectant,
01:00:54not blood,
01:00:55not smoke
01:00:56from the war zone.
01:00:57Flowers,
01:00:58faint and sweet,
01:00:59like spring.
01:01:01I slowly opened my eyes.
01:01:03Above me was a huge tree,
01:01:04thick-trunked
01:01:05and full of leaves.
01:01:06Red wish cards
01:01:07covered the branches,
01:01:09swaying softly
01:01:10in the wind.
01:01:10Every card had writing on it,
01:01:12but I couldn't make out
01:01:13the words.
01:01:13All I could see
01:01:14was the red paper
01:01:15catching the light,
01:01:16a wish tree.
01:01:17I was lying beneath it
01:01:18on soft grass,
01:01:20staring up at the branches,
01:01:21unable to tell
01:01:22if this was a dream
01:01:23or real.
01:01:25Sophie.
01:01:28Is it really you, Sophie?
01:01:31I looked at him.
01:01:33Sunlight slipped
01:01:33through the leaves
01:01:34and fell between us.
01:01:35The red wish cards
01:01:36stirred in the breeze.
01:01:37I said nothing.
01:01:38I didn't know
01:01:39how to answer him.
01:01:41I know I was wrong.
01:01:43I know I hurt you.
01:01:44I'll give you anything.
01:01:45Just forgive me.
01:01:46I didn't understand
01:01:47my own heart
01:01:47until you died.
01:01:48Sophie,
01:01:49I love you.
01:01:50I do.
01:01:51Ian took another
01:01:52half-step forward,
01:01:53his knees starting to buckle.
01:01:55His voice began to shake.
01:01:59Love.
01:02:00I finally turned
01:02:01to look at him.
01:02:02Hearing that word
01:02:02from Ian made me sick,
01:02:04really sick to my stomach.
01:02:05Three years.
01:02:06I spent three years
01:02:07in the war zone.
01:02:08Where was he
01:02:09when they cut off my finger,
01:02:10when they forced
01:02:11disinfectant down my throat,
01:02:12when those men
01:02:13came into my tent,
01:02:14one after another,
01:02:15when I lost the baby,
01:02:16he was with Olivia,
01:02:17and now that I'm dead,
01:02:18he says he loves me.
01:02:21Love,
01:02:21Ian.
01:02:22You're not worthy
01:02:23of that word.
01:02:25I was pregnant
01:02:26with your child,
01:02:27the second year,
01:02:28in the war zone.
01:02:30Too bad the baby died
01:02:32the month you left me there.
01:02:33You killed your own child.
01:02:35Ian went completely still.
01:02:36His lips started trembling,
01:02:38his eyes shaking
01:02:39like something had hit him
01:02:40square in the chest.
01:02:41I just looked at him,
01:02:42still as dead water.
01:02:43At last,
01:02:44Ian Payne's knees gave out.
01:02:46He dropped to the floor,
01:02:47bracing himself
01:02:47with both hands,
01:02:48his shoulders shaking hard.
01:02:50His opened like he wanted
01:02:51to speak,
01:02:52but nothing came out.
01:02:53Just ragged,
01:02:54silent breaths,
01:02:55torn up from deep
01:02:56in his chest.
01:02:56I looked at his ashen face
01:02:58and felt nothing.
01:02:59I stopped hurting
01:03:00a long time ago.
01:03:01The pain belonged
01:03:02to that dead body,
01:03:03not this soul
01:03:04floating above it.
01:03:09Even if I came back to life,
01:03:11I would never be with you.
01:03:12Ian,
01:03:13let me go.
01:03:14The way you are right now,
01:03:15it just disgusts me.
01:03:17I paused,
01:03:18my voice dropping.
01:03:20Then I turned
01:03:20and drifted away.
01:03:21I never looked back.
01:03:25Sophie,
01:03:26wear yourself out playing.
01:03:27Come eat.
01:03:28I stood there
01:03:28and the tears just came.
01:03:30I threw myself
01:03:31into mom's arms,
01:03:31laughing and crying.
01:03:33She startled
01:03:33and dad came over
01:03:34to feel my forehead.
01:03:36What happened?
01:03:37Did somebody pick on you?
01:03:38I only shook my head
01:03:39and buried my face
01:03:40against her,
01:03:41trembling all over.
01:03:42All right,
01:03:43let's go home.
01:03:44It's your birthday today.
01:03:45Then they took my hands,
01:03:47one on each side.
01:03:48It felt like a dream.
01:03:49Sunlight fell over
01:03:50the three of us.
01:03:51Our shadows stretched
01:03:52long behind us,
01:03:53joined together.
01:03:54The three of us
01:03:55disappeared around the corner.
01:03:57You gave up all your fate
01:03:58to buy her a new life.
01:03:59Was it worth it?
01:04:00As long as she's happy,
01:04:01that's enough,
01:04:02even if I'm never
01:04:03in her world again.
01:04:04At the mouth of the alley,
01:04:05the spirit medium
01:04:06stood with Ian Payne,
01:04:07watching the family of three
01:04:08disappear around the corner.
01:04:10Then he turned
01:04:10and saw Ian's body
01:04:11slowly fading transparent,
01:04:13petty in his eyes.
01:04:14Ian kept staring
01:04:14at the corner
01:04:15where Sophie vanished.
01:04:16His face was blank,
01:04:17but something flickered
01:04:18in his eyes.
01:04:19His voice was soft,
01:04:20soft as the wind.
01:04:21He paused,
01:04:21and it broke for a second.
01:04:22Wind swept through the alley,
01:04:24stirring a few fallen leaves.
01:04:25Then Ian was gone.
01:04:27The corner was empty.
01:04:28There was nothing left,
01:04:29only warm sunlight
01:04:30on the ground,
01:04:31as if nothing had happened at all.