On her wedding day, Sarah Marcelia watches her husband kneel and beg for forgiveness. He got her late brother’s widow pregnant. In her past life, Sarah gave in. It ended with a painful childbirth and a death at her husband’s hands.
Now she’s been given a second chance, and she’s not going to submit again. She’ll step back and let the two of them turn on each other. But there’s one thing she doesn’t know. A man everyone believed dead has quietly come home, and he has cared for her since they were children.
This is the full episode, so you can watch the whole story right here. Stay until the end, because the last scenes change how you see everyone involved.
Sarah got a second chance, and this time she isn’t forgiving anyone. Would you have exposed them right there, or let them destroy each other? Tell us in the comments, and follow the channel for the next episode.
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Now she’s been given a second chance, and she’s not going to submit again. She’ll step back and let the two of them turn on each other. But there’s one thing she doesn’t know. A man everyone believed dead has quietly come home, and he has cared for her since they were children.
This is the full episode, so you can watch the whole story right here. Stay until the end, because the last scenes change how you see everyone involved.
Sarah got a second chance, and this time she isn’t forgiving anyone. Would you have exposed them right there, or let them destroy each other? Tell us in the comments, and follow the channel for the next episode.
#RebornToWeddingDay #RebirthRomance #RevengeDrama #SecondChance #WeddingDrama #FullEpisode #RomanceSeries #StrongFemaleLead
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00:00On my wedding day, my husband Marco's sister-in-law Elena collapsed at the reception.
00:07She's pregnant. About two months. Marco dropped to his knees in front of his father,
00:12said the child was his. Marco's mother Isabella had Elena dragged out. They shipped her to a
00:17convent outside the city. Afterwards, Marco felt very guilty towards me. He spent money and jewelry
00:25to make it up to me. The night I went into labor, he locked my servant out of the house.
00:32Elena lost her child because of you. Yours doesn't get to live either. This is what you earn. I heard
00:39Elena laughing outside the window. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself back on my wedding day.
00:45The wedding convoy had just pulled through the gates. The maid of honor screamed. Marco's sister-in-law
00:51Elena was slumped against a bridesmaid. Elena's husband Dominic, the Don's eldest son, had been
00:58shot and killed in a fight 14 months ago. That was the story everyone in this house believed.
01:04Elena had refused to leave the estate after the funeral, said she wanted to honor his memory,
01:09said she'd stay loyal to the Carbone name. The Don gave her the highest level of protection,
01:14ensuring she wouldn't be found by those seeking revenge. Now she was unconscious on the floor of
01:18the reception hall. I shoved through the crowd and grabbed her wrist. Get the doctor, now! Dr. Ferrara
01:23quickly came over, examined her, and then remained silent. Elena was under the Don's personal
01:28protection. Saying she's pregnant is like throwing a bomb in a crowd. What's wrong with her? I leaned
01:36over Elena. My thumb found the nerve below her jaw and pressed in hard. Elena, what's wrong?
01:42Dominic is dead. You can't leave us. The words landed on the Don and his wife like a slap.
01:46Doctor, tell me the truth. Whatever is happening to Elena, there isn't a hospital,
01:53surgeon, or specialist in this country I can't bring to her.
02:00She's pregnant. About two months. I stood up and said it loudly and clearly.
02:04Pregnant? Elena is pregnant?
02:07That can't be right. Dominic's been in the ground over a year.
02:11Check again! Dr. Ferrara, there has to be a mistake. How is this possible?
02:15We called another doctor. He confirmed this too. The Don looks angry. His wife sat down hard.
02:20Marco was both crying and laughing. I watched Elena's eyelids flutter. She'd been awake for a while.
02:26Elena, someone raped you, didn't they? You can tell us.
02:30She was raped! She's been living your home!
02:34Who touched her in my house?
02:37My poor girl! You were scared to say something, I know!
02:41I pulled a pin from my hair. Let me try.
02:43Elena's lashes were trembling harder now. Hold her still.
02:46I brought the pin down toward her face. She made a small sound and opened her eyes.
02:50What happened? You fainted. And the doctor says you're carrying a child!
02:56I cut in before anyone else could speak.
02:58Elena? Dominic has been gone 14 months. How are you pregnant?
03:04You can tell us. Whatever happened, we will handle it.
03:08She looked at Marco, then at me.
03:09Don't ask me that question. It's all my fault.
03:12Elena, if you don't give us a name, people will draw their own conclusions.
03:15You're under the Don's protection. If someone violated that, it's an insult to this entire family.
03:20You know what that means.
03:21Even if it kills me, I won't say his name.
03:23Take her to the docks. Let the sea bury both her and her disgrace.
03:27Elena swayed like she might actually go under. Marco was on his feet in a second.
03:31No! Stop!
03:32Marco got down on his knees.
03:33Marco, if she won't name the father and this gets out the wrong way, that's not just a family problem.
03:38Do you understand what I'm saying?
03:42You won't say his name because you love him.
03:44You're protecting him. Is that it?
03:48Elena, if you wanted to leave this family and start over, the Don has always said the door was open.
03:54Why would you do it this way?
03:55Every pair of eyes in the room drilling into her.
03:57So it's true. You've betrayed this family.
04:01My eldest son treated you with nothing but love and respect.
04:04After he died, you swore you would honor his memory.
04:07We stood by you.
04:09We protected you.
04:10We treated you as our own daughter.
04:12And this is how you repay us?
04:13By disgracing his name and bringing shame upon this family?
04:16Before anyone could react, she stepped forward and struck Sophia hard across the face.
04:20You shameless whore!
04:22Elena crashed to the floor.
04:23Marco rushed to her side without a second thought, pulling her into his arms.
04:26Father, mother, please, stop asking.
04:31He tightened his grip around Elena before saying the words that froze the room.
04:36The baby she's carrying is mine.
04:40Relief washed over me.
04:41He had admitted it with his own mouth.
04:43In my previous life, Marco had sacrificed everything for Elena.
04:46I wanted to see just how much he was willing to lose for her.
04:50I staggered back several steps, covering my mouth in disbelief.
04:54Marco, what are you saying?
04:57Elena is your brother's widow.
04:59How could the child she's carrying possibly be yours?
05:02I shook my head frantically.
05:03This can't be true.
05:05Unless...
05:09Unless the reason she refused to leave after Dominic died was because of you.
05:14You've been involved with your own brother's wife all this time?
05:21While Dominic was risking his life for this family, you were sleeping with the woman he trusted most?
05:27My eyes filled with despair.
05:29If you were already in love with her, then why did you agree to marry me?
05:34The guests weren't whispering anymore.
05:36Full volume now.
05:37I've never seen anything like it.
05:38That woman was supposed to be untouchable.
05:40The whole family is rotten.
05:41Elena was on her knees, clinging to Marco.
05:45Why did you say it?
05:48I was going to take this alone.
05:50I never wanted to ruin you.
05:53I wanted her first, before Dominic ever proposed.
05:57You made that match without asking me.
05:59She doesn't love him.
06:00The Don's voice dropped to something flat and dangerous.
06:03Then she should have said so when she had the chance.
06:06She didn't, because she wanted the power that came with my name.
06:09He turned to Marco.
06:11Do you understand what you've cost this family today?
06:13Marco looked at me.
06:14Sarah.
06:15He thought I would help you.
06:16You come from good people.
06:17A real family.
06:18I'm asking you.
06:19Give Elena a place here.
06:21She's quiet.
06:22She keeps to herself.
06:23She won't threaten you, won't compete with you.
06:24You'll barely know she exists.
06:26He was still on his knees.
06:27In two lifetimes, I had never seen Marco kneel for anything.
06:31He looked certain I would say yes.
06:32Because walking away meant losing everything been promised.
06:36Please.
06:37If Marco doesn't claim this child, I have nothing left.
06:40My voice was even.
06:41You want me to cover for this?
06:43Not a chance.
06:44My family has a name worth protecting.
06:46I'm not dragging it into whatever this is.
06:48This engagement is over.
06:50Whatever happens in your life from now on has nothing to do with me.
06:54I remembered my previous life.
06:56The blood soaking the sheets.
06:58The locked doors.
06:59His voice.
07:00Cold and final.
07:02Telling me my child didn't deserve to live.
07:16Isabella was on her feet instantly.
07:19Sarah, wait.
07:20Don't do something you can't undo.
07:22We'll handle this.
07:24Marco will handle this.
07:25Get Alina to the back.
07:26She turned to her staff.
07:27Get the Vos family on the phone.
07:29This is their problem to clean up.
07:30Alina grabbed Marco's jacket with both hands.
07:32Don't let them take me.
07:34Marco.
07:35Marco looked at his mother.
07:36She's carrying my child.
07:37I can't just hand her to someone else.
07:39If I walk out of here and word reaches the wrong people about an illegitimate pregnancy involving a woman under
07:46the dawn's formal protection, that is not a quiet problem.
07:49I looked at Marco one last time.
07:51You love her that much?
07:52Then fight for her properly.
07:54Call off this engagement.
07:55Go public.
07:58Marco stood there calculating.
08:03Fine, I'll call it off.
08:06I'll marry Alina.
08:07By the time I changed out of my gown, the news was already all over town.
08:12Marco had blown up his own wedding to claim his dead brother's widow.
08:16The baby was his.
08:17My father came through the front doors of the Carbone estate before I'd finished packing.
08:22Where is he?
08:23My brother didn't wait for an answer.
08:25He walked straight into the reception hall and put his foot through Marco's chest.
08:29Hard.
08:59The Macera family is done with yours.
08:59The next morning, my grandfather put on his best suit.
09:03He was 71 years old.
09:05He had served the Carbone organization for decades before my father built the Masseria operation into what it was today.
09:11The Don owed him more than either of them could count.
09:15He said,
09:17My granddaughter walked into this in good faith.
09:19On your son's word.
09:21The Don said nothing.
09:23Marco knew about Alina before this.
09:25He deceived all of us.
09:27My father leaned forward.
09:29That's not a mistake.
09:32That's a calculation.
09:33And it was made at our expense.
09:35Marco acted without the family's knowledge.
09:37The Don had no part in...
09:39I'm not here to argue about what the Don knew.
09:41I'm here because of what happens next.
09:44You must cease protecting the women of the Vos family.
09:47Your family formally acknowledges that the reputation of the Marcella family has been tarnished.
09:51We accept the loss and will no longer have any dealings with you.
09:53I took a document to my mother.
09:55She looked at it for a moment.
09:59Sarah, where did this come from?
10:01These were all things Marco told me in my past life.
10:03When he locked me in that room and humiliated me.
10:06That every Wednesday afternoon since the funeral,
10:08Alina's car left the estate at 2 and came back at 6.
10:12And that between those hours, it sat on Ellery Street.
10:14Outside a building where apartment 4B was leased to a woman who does not exist.
10:19And that this pregnancy was not the first one.
10:21There had been another, in the spring.
10:23Handled quietly by a doctor two hours outside the city, who does not keep records.
10:27My mother put the folder down.
10:29None of this can be guessed, she said.
10:31Some of it I don't think the Don knows.
10:34He doesn't.
10:35Then how do you?
10:37I looked at her.
10:38Does it matter, I said, if all of it is true?
10:44There's one more thing.
10:45Marco had not been hiding Alina from his mother.
10:48Isabella had been paying for the room.
10:49My mother held my eyes for a long moment.
10:51Then she picked up the phone and called the car.
10:54And my mother called on Margaret Hale.
10:56Margaret Hale had no official title.
10:58She didn't need one.
10:59She owned the city's two largest newspapers,
11:02a Sunday magazine that ran in four states,
11:04and a radio network that reached every kitchen table from here to the coast.
11:08She had buried politicians, rehabilitated disgraced families,
11:12and quietly ended the careers of three police commissioners who had made the mistake of crossing
11:17her advertisers.
11:18She was not connected to any organization.
11:20That was the point.
11:21She was something the organizations couldn't touch,
11:23because she wasn't playing their game.
11:25Margaret Hale did not respond to tears.
11:27She responded to facts, delivered cleanly.
11:29I'll need the timeline.
11:30Names, dates, the doctor who confirmed the pregnancy.
11:33Have your people send it to my assistant by five.
11:36And the coverage?
11:37Leave that to me.
11:39The Carboni family has been quietly untouchable for a long time.
11:43I've been waiting for the right story.
11:45She looked at my mother over the top of her glasses.
11:47Now I have one.
11:48The response came down fast and from multiple directions at once.
11:51Marco's title, his rank, his seat at any table that mattered, gone.
11:55Alina's formal protection was stripped the same afternoon.
11:57The Voss family wanted nothing to do with it.
12:00She's brought nothing but disgrace to the Voss family.
12:03How does she still have the nerve to come home?
12:06She should be stripped of our name.
12:07The family's senior members convened a closed meeting and voted to remove her from the official
12:12records entirely.
12:13Alina Voss, as far as her family was concerned, no longer existed.
12:17The Don ordered that she be disciplined.
12:19By the time Marco reached her, she was bruised, bloodied, and barely conscious.
12:23She lost her baby.
12:24The doctor said her emotions were too unstable, and this miscarriage had severely damaged
12:28her.
12:29She would never be able to conceive again.
12:31But Mark didn't tell her.
12:33Marco came to my father's house 11 days after the story broke.
12:36He stood in the front hall.
12:38My brother watched from the top of the stairs.
12:40He had prepared.
12:41It happened once, one night, March.
12:43I'd been drinking since the anniversary of Dominic's death, and she came to my room
12:47crying, and I did not push her out, and I have hated myself every day since.
12:50Once!
12:51Once!
12:51Sarah!
12:52I swear on my brother!
12:56Go on.
12:57He was good at it.
12:58He had a version for everything.
12:59That Alina had threatened to take her own life if he didn't protect her.
13:02That the only reason he claimed the child at all was to keep the Don's name out of a
13:06scandal.
13:07That he had done it for the family, and that everyone had misunderstood him.
13:10I said, Are you done?
13:11Sarah!
13:11Ellery Street.
13:13Apartment 4B.
13:14Leased to a woman who doesn't exist.
13:1619 months of Wednesdays, 2 o'clock to 6.
13:18I watched the color go out of his face, one shade at a time.
13:20He put his hand on the wall.
13:21How do you...
13:22That's not what you should be worried about.
13:26He said, Fine.
13:28Fine.
13:30Tell me what you want.
13:35Nothing.
13:36My brother came down the stairs.
13:38Marco was outside in under a minute.
13:40And his coat came out after him.
13:41It went on for 19 days.
13:44He sent flowers to my mother, who had them left in the street.
13:48On the 11th day it rained, and he knelt down on the pavement outside our gate and stayed
13:53there.
13:55People saw.
13:57By evening, it was in three houses that Marco Carbone was on his knees in the rain for
14:02the Marcilia girl, and that she had left him out there like a dog, and wasn't that a little
14:08much, after everything, when the boy was clearly destroyed.
14:12Then, on the 14th day, at a dinner I did not attend, he told a table of eight people that
14:19we had spoken privately, and that I had forgiven him.
14:23I went out to the gate that night myself.
14:26Marco got up fast, soaked through, unshaven, and underneath all of it, certain.
14:33He thought he had finally found the pressure that worked.
14:36You came out.
14:37Stop telling people I've forgiven you.
14:41Then forgive me.
14:43No.
14:45Sarah.
14:45He wiped the rain off his face.
14:47Tell me what it takes.
14:48There's nothing left I won't do.
14:49Name it.
14:50You have nothing left that I want, including your life.
14:56Then he turned and walked out into the rain without his coat.
14:59The Monday after, I went to my father's office and asked for the port ledgers.
15:04He gave me the ledgers.
15:07I want to be worth something that isn't a wedding.
15:09By August, people had stopped saying the girl the carbones humiliated.
15:12They had started saying the Marsilia woman.
15:14My brother threw a dinner at the end of the month.
15:16Half the city came.
15:17Not for me, for the show of it.
15:19For the pleasure of standing in a house that had beaten the carbones without firing anything.
15:23I was on the stairs when I saw him.
15:24A man near the terrace doors.
15:26Alone.
15:27Not drinking.
15:28Not working the room.
15:29Dark suit.
15:30No jewelry.
15:30No bodyguard within 10 feet of him.
15:32He was looking at me.
15:33When I looked back, he did not smile, and he did not look away.
15:36I started down the stairs.
15:37By the time I reached the floor, he was gone.
15:40I found the butler.
15:40I found my brother by the bar and asked him the same question.
15:43Tommaso looked across the empty terrace, and his face did something complicated.
15:53He set his glass down.
16:02The man by the terrace, who was he?
16:04Mr. Rinaldi, miss.
16:05He asked me to give you his regards and not to introduce him.
16:07Why not?
16:08He didn't say.
16:10Luca Rinaldi.
16:11He has the port.
16:12All of it.
16:13From the grain terminal down to the yard, Sarah.
16:15He asked for you once already.
16:16What?
16:17Two years ago.
16:18Came to father himself.
16:19Father turned him down.
16:20Why would he turn down the man who owns the water?
16:22Because at the time, you wanted Marco Carabone.
16:24Marco and Elena had nothing now but each other, which turned out to be very little.
16:34Marco dropped to his knees before Isabella.
16:36Please.
16:38Don't abandon Elena.
16:40Give her a chance to live.
16:42She pointed a trembling finger at Sophia.
16:45She was your brother's widow.
16:47And now you expect us to welcome her back into this family as your wife?
16:52Have you completely lost your mind?
16:54Marco lowered his head.
16:55If we let things settle for a while, she can leave the city.
17:00She'll take another name.
17:02When the scandal dies down, I'll bring her home.
17:05Isabella's expression hardened.
17:08If all you wanted was to keep her as your mistress, your father and I might have looked
17:13the other way.
17:14But marry her?
17:16Never.
17:17Dreamed down Elena's face as she clutched Marco's arm.
17:21Marco.
17:22I'll accept anything.
17:23I don't need to be your wife.
17:26I'll even be your mistress.
17:28Elena in a rented house two miles from the Carabone estate.
17:31Marco had arranged it.
17:33Staff, security, a housekeeper who reported back to him.
17:36He visited when he could, which was less and less as the weeks passed.
17:40The Carabone organization was in damage control.
17:42Marco had lost his standing.
17:44To get any of it back, he needed allies.
17:47And allies came through family connection.
17:48And family connections came through marriage.
18:03Isabella went to her brother's household and negotiated quietly.
18:06Her brother has an adopted daughter.
18:08Not the kind of match anyone bragged about, but available.
18:11Her name was Claire.
18:12The engagement was announced six weeks after my wedding day collapsed.
18:16Nobody asked Elena.
18:17I saw Elena at a luncheon outside the city.
18:20She was still recovering and her face was very pale.
18:22When she saw me, a slow smile moved across her mouth.
18:26Sarah, are you coming to the party alone?
18:30Elena.
18:31Or, sorry.
18:32What do we call you now?
18:34You were a Voss, then a Carabone.
18:36Now what exactly?
18:47At least I'll be in the house.
18:49At least he chose me.
18:51He chose you as a plan B.
18:53You're just his mistress.
18:55I heard Claire's family is already at the estate.
18:57Did you buy her a gift yet?
18:58You'll want to make a good impression on the woman of the house.
19:01I didn't wait for her response.
19:02I walked back to my table and didn't look back.
19:07Isabella did not go quietly.
19:09She could not defend her son, so she went after me instead.
19:12Within two weeks, the story was in every drawing room in the city.
19:16That I had broken the engagement out of jealousy.
19:19That I had known about Elena for months and staged the scene at my own wedding.
19:24That there was a reason a girl of 22 had that much information about another woman's private life.
19:29And it was not a reason a decent family would want in the house.
19:35Instead, I sent Isabella one page.
19:37No letter with it.
19:38Just a photostat of a lease on Ellery Street.
19:41On the first Thursday of September, the wives played cards at the Barone house.
19:45Isabella stood in the doorway of a house she had been welcome in since she was a bride, holding her
19:49gloves.
19:52She left without speaking to me.
19:55A minute later, a girl I didn't know sat down in the chair beside mine.
19:59You're Sira Marcellia.
20:02I am.
20:07She turned her cup around on its saucer.
20:09Claire, my uncle signed the papers on Tuesday.
20:14Everyone in this room knows what I'm being handed.
20:17Nobody will tell me the details.
20:18She looked at me.
20:19You know all of it.
20:21Tell me everything.
20:22And I'll owe you for the rest of my life.
20:25It was fact.
20:26Marco's engagement to Claire moved quickly.
20:28The Carbone organization needed the stability.
20:32Elena found out from the housekeeper.
20:34She confronted Marco that same night.
20:48Marco was tired and irritable and increasingly short with everyone.
20:52You're marrying her.
20:54You're actually doing it.
20:55We talked about this.
20:56You knew this was coming.
20:57You said we would get married.
20:59I said I'd try.
21:00The situation changed.
21:01You know what you mean to me, but I need this alliance.
21:03I don't have a choice.
21:04I lost the baby and my name and my family.
21:07I lost everything, Marco, for you!
21:15He didn't answer.
21:20Now you want me to walk into that house as your mistress?
21:24He crossed the room and crouched in front of her.
21:31Listen to me.
21:33Whatever happens, you're the one I want.
21:36Claire is a formality.
21:38You'll have everything you were supposed to have.
21:40She looked at him for a long moment.
21:42The morning after the wedding, Elena was dragged into the main hall by the household staff.
21:47Claire's eyes swept over her before she let out a cold laugh.
21:52So, you're the woman willing to throw away her dignity just to become someone's mistress.
21:57Elena's face turned pale.
21:59Miss, Mrs. Claire, I...
22:01No.
22:02You don't speak until you're spoken to.
22:05I'm the lady of this house.
22:06From today on, you answer to me.
22:09Elena clenched her fists but lowered her head.
22:12Yes.
22:14Claire smiled with satisfaction.
22:19At least you know your place.
22:21Prepare a room for her.
22:22She turned to one of the maids.
22:29Whenever I need you, you'll come immediately.
22:33She paused, her smile never reaching her eyes.
22:36If I call and you keep me waiting,
22:40you'll regret it.
22:43Marco visited Elena's room less and less.
22:45A few weeks after the wedding,
22:48Claire arranged for a pretty young staff member to be promoted.
22:52Marco stopped visiting Elena's room almost entirely after that.
22:57One afternoon, Claire summoned Elena to the main sitting room.
23:10Something you should know.
23:11You can't have children.
23:13The doctor noted it after your incident.
23:16Marco's known for months.
23:18Elena said nothing for a long time.
23:21He didn't tell you because he didn't want the drama.
23:25But I think you deserve the truth.
23:27Claire looked at her with something close to pity.
23:29You're welcome to stay,
23:30as long as we're clear on what you are and what you aren't.
23:33Marco came to see Elena that evening.
23:36He told me we'd have more children.
23:38He told me he'd find a way.
23:43Yes.
23:44He is good at deception.
23:54It doesn't change anything between us.
23:56We'll find another way.
23:57Maybe adopt through the family network.
23:59Some cousin's kid who needs a placement.
24:00You'll have someone to raise.
24:02You've known for months.
24:03I didn't want to upset you while you were still recovering.
24:13I'm just a hidden mistress, Marco.
24:15I'm someone they all know, but nobody talks about.
24:17I have no family, no title, no children, no name.
24:24He reached for her hand.
24:26She picked up the heavy glass ashtray from the side table and threw it.
24:30You have me.
24:31It caught him on the side of the head.
24:32He went down hard, didn't move.
24:35The telephone rang at my father's house at 11 at night.
24:39I knew before I picked it up.
24:40There is a particular way a phone rings when it is late and nothing good is coming.
24:45Sarah.
24:46Elena.
24:47Very calm.
24:48Too calm.
24:49He's on the floor.
24:50He isn't moving.
24:51There's a lot of blood in the carpet.
24:52I've been sitting here about an hour looking at it.
24:55Is he breathing?
24:56I don't know.
24:57I haven't checked.
25:00Elena.
25:01I want to ask you something.
25:02Her voice changed then.
25:03Not calm anymore.
25:04Curious.
25:05From the second I went down on the floor at your wedding, from that exact second, you
25:09knew, didn't you?
25:11You called for the doctor before anyone else moved.
25:14You knew to ask me who I were protecting instead of asking me who did it.
25:17Something in her throat cracked.
25:18Everything after that you did your fast.
25:20Nobody.
25:20You fainted at my wedding.
25:22Everything after that you did yourself.
25:24The line was quiet for a long time.
25:26That's fair.
25:27That's actually fair.
25:31Elena.
25:33Put the phone down and open the door and call for the doctor.
25:36Do me one favor.
25:38What?
25:39Don't come to the house tonight.
25:42Then the line went dead.
25:44She locked the door.
25:46She found the utility cabinet in the service corridor and took what she needed.
25:50She worked quickly and without hesitation, moving through her room and into the connecting
25:56hallway, pouring accelerant along the baseboards, across the rugs, under the door frames.
26:03Then she lit the lighter.
26:06The smoke reached the main house within minutes.
26:08Claire appeared at the far end of the corridor with two staff members.
26:11She looked at the smoke, then at the locked door.
26:13She's been unstable for weeks.
26:14The fire department can go in once the fire is smaller.
26:17I won't let my employees take any risks.
26:20She turned back to the reception room.
26:23It was Marco's valet who raised the alarm 20 minutes later, red-faced and gasping.
26:28Mrs. Carbomi.
26:30I can't find him anywhere.
26:32Claire's expression changed.
26:34Two shapes in the wreckage.
26:36They buried them in the same week.
26:39Claire came to see me nine days after the funerals.
26:43The Don had not left his rooms in a week.
26:46Isabella had gone to her sisters in the country, and everyone understood she was not coming back.
26:52They've given me the household accounts and the Vitele contracts because there's nobody else
26:56who can read them.
26:57I'm 20 years old, and on Tuesday, two capos came to me to ask permission for something.
27:04Did you give it?
27:09I said I'd think about it.
27:10She almost smiled.
27:12I poured the coffee.
27:14I want to ask you something, and I'd like the real answer because I'm the only person
27:18left who's on your side of it.
27:21That day at the card table, you already knew they'd destroy each other, didn't you?
27:26You didn't do most of it.
27:27You watched.
27:29I didn't know.
27:31Claire reached into her bag and put a bundle on the table between us.
27:34Envelopes.
27:34Tied with string.
27:36The corners scorched brown.
27:37The whole thing smelling of smoke.
27:39These were in his studio.
27:40The fire didn't reach that side of the house.
27:42Every envelope had my name on it in Marco's handwriting.
27:45No address.
27:46No stamp.
27:47He wrote the top one the night before he died.
27:49I put my hand flat on the bundle and did not pick it up.
27:53There are 11 of them.
27:54I opened one.
27:55Not the last one.
27:56The first one from March.
27:58Four days after his engagement to Claire was announced.
28:01Four pages.
28:02I read 11 lines.
28:03He wrote about the house he would have built.
28:05He wrote about how his mother had ruined his life.
28:08He wrote about how the family had never once let him choose anything.
28:13I burned all of them in the garden without opening the rest.
28:17It took a while.
28:19Then it was October, and my brother filled the house with the sons of every family worth
28:23naming and stood there like a man at an auction.
28:27See anyone you like?
28:28Just tell me.
28:29I'll talk to mom and dad.
28:31I went out to the balcony to get away from it and leaned on the railing.
28:34He looked up at that exact moment.
28:36Our eyes met.
28:37Luca Rinaldi came up the stairs and stood a proper distance away.
28:40Your father turned me down two years ago.
28:43I know.
28:44My brother told me.
28:46So you waited.
28:47So I waited.
28:50Two years is a long time to watch a house you were never invited into.
28:56Longer than that.
28:58Two summers ago, I put my sister into the Carmoni household.
29:02Kitchen staff first, then upstairs.
29:06Nella.
29:08Nella.
29:09I told her one thing.
29:10Whatever else happens in that house, be near that girl's door.
29:14I could not breathe.
29:17Because in the life that burned, on the night the doctor was sent home, and the key went
29:22into his left pocket, there had been one person in the whole world beating her hands against
29:27the outside of that door until they bled.
29:30They had put her out into the rain.
29:33She never told me who sent her.
29:36I asked her not to.
29:39Why?
29:44Because you were going to marry him.
29:47And it would have been a cruel thing to make you know.
29:50I looked at this man who had stood at the edge of my life through two of them, and had
29:54never
29:55once stepped in front of me without being asked.
29:58I knew fate was giving me a second chance.
30:00I knew he was going to marry him.
30:00I knew he was going to be like, I knew I was going to go.