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00:00My husband had spent six months fighting a rival family for territory along the Gulf Coast.
00:05When he came home, a heavily pregnant young woman was at his side.
00:08I asked him over and over,
00:10Is the baby yours?
00:12He dropped to his knees at my feet in front of the entire family.
00:14But all he said was,
00:16I'm sorry, I can't tell you.
00:17After six months of family war, my husband, Rafe DeLuca, finally came home alive.
00:23Twelve black sedans rolled into the estate one after another.
00:26I stood on the steps of the main house with Sam in my arms.
00:29A car door opened, Rafe stepped out, helping a young woman whose belly was already showing.
00:34My expression hardened all around me.
00:37The wives of the capos who had come to welcome the Don home broke into shocked whispers.
00:41The moment Rafe saw me, his gaze flickered away.
00:44Nora, let me explain.
00:46I gave a cold laugh, turned around, and walked away.
00:49Sam looked at his father, then at the woman beside him.
00:51Mommy, who's that lady next to Daddy?
00:54You don't have a Daddy. Your Daddy's dead.
00:56A commotion broke out behind me.
00:58Rafe hurried after us, his dress shoes striking sharply against the pavement.
01:02He cut in front of me, and in full view of every capo, every capo's wife, and every soldier in
01:08the family dropped straight to his knees.
01:10Nora, let me explain.
01:12I shifted Sam to my other arm and looked down at Rafe.
01:15We hadn't seen each other in six months.
01:17I never imagined this was how we'd meet again.
01:20Go ahead. I'm listening.
01:22The young woman came over, too.
01:23She stopped beside Rafe, both hands protectively cupping her stomach.
01:28Donna, my name is Lily. Lily Carter.
01:30The Caruso family attacked the town where I live.
01:33My whole family was killed.
01:35Don DeLucco got me out of a safe house.
01:37Whose baby is it?
01:39Lily lowered her head and said nothing.
01:41I turned back to Rafe.
01:42He knelt there with his head bowed and his hands braced on his knees, as if someone had ripped the
01:46spine out of him.
01:47I asked you whose baby it is.
01:51Don't ask. I really can't tell you.
01:53A gasp suddenly came from the crowd.
01:54Bianca DeLuca, Rafe's mother, raised her voice.
01:57Her belly's already that big.
01:59Do you really have to ask? Isn't it obvious?
02:02Sounding almost excited, I crouched down with Sam in my arms.
02:06Rafe, I'm only going to ask you three things.
02:10Rafe's Adam's apple bobbed.
02:12First, is the baby yours?
02:17Second, what exactly happened between you and her on the Gulf Coast?
02:22Third, before you brought her home, did you ever think about how you were going to tell me?
02:27I did. I just never figured out how to say it.
02:30I laughed once, then I stood and hitched Sam higher in my arms.
02:33Sam wrapped both little arms around my neck and buried his face against my shoulder.
02:37I stepped around Rafe, still kneeling on the ground, and headed for the main house.
02:42Bianca spoke to the Capo's wives beside her, not quite loudly enough to be called shouting,
02:47but more than loudly enough for me to hear.
02:50Who does she think she is acting like that?
02:52My son spent six months fighting enemies out there.
02:57So what if he brought a woman home?
02:59Adana can't afford to be this jealous.
03:01My steps paused.
03:02I didn't look back until I had reached the top of the stairs.
03:05Rafe was still kneeling where I'd left him, his knees seemingly nailed to the ground.
03:10Lily was still there too, looking down at him.
03:12Get up. You're the Don.
03:15How can you kneel to that woman?
03:17She's not worth it.
03:18I carried Sam into the main house.
03:20He leaned close to my ear and whispered,
03:22Mommy, why won't Daddy get up?
03:25Because Mommy hasn't told him he can.
03:26Oh, who's that lady?
03:28I kicked the bedroom door open, set Sam down, then crouched so we were eye to eye.
03:33Your father brought her back with him.
03:35Starting today, she's living here with us.
03:37Then whose baby is in her tummy?
03:39Good question, kid.
03:41Mommy would like to know too.
03:43That afternoon, Vincent Marino personally delivered the paperwork for Lily's stay.
03:47Vincent was the DeLuca family's consigliere.
03:49The paperwork stated that Lily was under the Don's personal protection
03:53and would stay temporarily at the estate.
03:56Without the Don's permission, no one was allowed to look into her background.
04:00The paperwork had barely landed on my desk when Bianca arrived with several capos' wives.
04:05They didn't even knock before coming upstairs.
04:08Bianca pushed open the door to Sam's room and walked around inside.
04:13This room is perfect.
04:14It's bright and airy, just what a pregnant woman needs.
04:17I pulled Sam to my side and leaned against the doorframe, watching her.
04:22Mrs. DeLuca, this is Sam's room.
04:27So move the boy somewhere else.
04:28What's the big deal?
04:29She's pregnant.
04:30Is it really so much to ask that he give up a room for her?
04:33Before I could answer, a voice came from behind me.
04:36Lily stood in the hallway holding a canvas duffel bag.
04:39Ma'am, I can stay anywhere.
04:40Please don't make things difficult for the Donna.
04:43All I need is a bed.
04:45Bianca grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her to her side.
04:48The way she did it, anyone would have thought she was protecting her own daughter.
04:53What are you scared of?
04:55I'm here.
04:56Rafe brought you home.
04:58You think the DeLuca family is going to leave you sleeping in the street?
05:01The other women nodded along.
05:03One capo's wife even tried to lecture me.
05:06Nora, you're the Donna.
05:08You need to be more generous.
05:10Since you're so generous, why don't you take Lily home with you?
05:13She shut her mouth.
05:15That night, the estate held a welcome home dinner.
05:18Rafe came over carrying three plates and carefully set them in front of Sam and me.
05:23I sat down with Sam.
05:24I had barely picked up my fork when Lily approached with her own plate.
05:27She didn't dare sit beside me.
05:29She just stood across the table, looking at me expectantly.
05:32Sam glanced at her, then at me, and tugged lightly on my sleeve.
05:36I looked up at her but said nothing.
05:38Only then did she sit, stiff and awkward, keeping her head down as she ate in silence.
05:42Bianca came over with her plate.
05:44She dropped into the seat next to Lily and placed a large piece of stewed meat on Lily's plate.
05:49Eat more.
05:50You're eating for two now.
05:52My fork paused.
05:53Rafe sat across from me, watching me cautiously.
05:56I ignored him and kept cutting Sam's meat.
05:58Bianca smiled at Lily again.
06:00Rafe was a big, strong boy even when he was little.
06:03This baby will probably take after him too.
06:05I finished my meal calmly and set my napkin on the table.
06:08As I passed Rafe, I tossed out one word.
06:12Outside.
06:15There was a stretch of stone wall behind the estate's private chapel.
06:19I shoved him back against it.
06:21Is the baby yours or not?
06:23Rafe leaned against the wall with his head down, refusing to meet my eyes.
06:26After a long silence, he said,
06:28Give me a little more time.
06:29How much time?
06:30Didn't you see how your mother moped me today?
06:32Are you deaf or are you blind?
06:34If Lily is your mistress, then say it to my face.
06:37I'll step aside and let you have each other.
06:40He went silent again.
06:41I turned and walked away.
06:43Early the next morning, I went to the soldiers who had returned from the fighting with Rafe and asked about
06:47Lily.
06:47One soldier's expression changed instantly.
06:51Donna, don't ask.
06:52The Don gave a direct order.
06:53Please don't push a pregnant woman into a corner.
06:55With that, they turned and left.
06:57I stood in the garden, the sun beating down so fiercely that my scalp prickled from the heat.
07:02Then someone called my name from behind.
07:04Donna.
07:04I turned and saw Gabriel, one of Rafe's most trusted men.
07:11Gabriel pulled me into the shade and lowered his voice.
07:13Donna, the day Lily arrived in New Orleans, the first place she went was the Don's office.
07:19When we came out of the meeting room later, she was already sitting in the Don's car.
07:22You know the Don isn't that kind of man.
07:25Just give him a little more time.
07:26Please don't assume the worst.
07:27I looked at him without saying anything.
07:29He seemed to realize there was no reasonable way not to assume the worst.
07:32He gave me an awkward smile and left.
07:34Back in my room, I opened the safe and pulled out the letters Rafe had sent me from the Gulf
07:39Coast over the past six months.
07:41There were eight in total.
07:42The first three were completely normal.
07:45Starting with the fourth, his tone changed.
07:47Looking back now, that must have been when something happened.
07:50Sam ran in and leaned against my knees, tipping his face up at me.
07:54Mommy, what are you reading?
07:57Some old debts.
07:58Within days, people in the family had started calling me a jealous bitch behind my back.
08:03One afternoon, I passed the storage room behind the chapel.
08:06Several Capo's wives were inside sorting donations for a charity sale, talking animatedly.
08:11The Don spent six months fighting a war.
08:14So what if he has a mistress?
08:15Who does she think she is?
08:17Glaring at everyone all day?
08:19That poor girl is pregnant and has already been through enough.
08:23And Nora acts like she wants to throw her out on the street.
08:26I pushed the door open.
08:27The room went silent instantly.
08:29The three women each grabbed a box and hurried out.
08:33Lily, on the other hand, kept her head down and stayed out of trouble.
08:36She helped with whatever work she could around the estate.
08:39Whenever she saw me walking past with Sam, she lowered her head and called me Donna, always careful and respectful.
08:46Several of the older women at the estate praised her for being so well-mannered and spoke about her with
08:51obvious affection.
08:52Once, Bianca took Lily's hand right in front of me and said,
08:55Good girl, don't be afraid.
08:58No one here is going to bully you.
09:00I tried asking Lily directly once.
09:01That day, she was in the kitchen arranging washed fruit on a plate.
09:05I walked over and helped her sort it.
09:07She looked up at me and her eyes brightened.
09:09The more I looked at those clear, bright eyes, the more confused I became.
09:13Lily didn't look at me the way a mistress looked at a wife.
09:15Lily, where are you from?
09:18A small town near the Gulf Coast.
09:20What were your parents' names?
09:23They died a long time ago.
09:24How did you meet Rafe?
09:30I asked again, more softly.
09:32Lily, is the baby you're carrying Rafe's?
09:36All the color drained from her face, as if she'd been shot point-blank.
09:40Donna, just tell me the truth.
09:42Tears rushed into her eyes.
09:44One hand covered her stomach while the other braced against the edge of the sink.
09:48Donna, are you going to force me to leave?
09:49Then she clutched her belly and hurried out of the kitchen.
09:52She couldn't move quickly, and Bianca happened to see her rushing out.
09:55I stood there, stunned.
09:56That afternoon, Bianca showed up at my bedroom door with several Capo's wives.
10:00The four of them stood in a row like debt collectors.
10:03She's pregnant, and you still made her cry.
10:06What exactly are you trying to do?
10:07Sam stood beside my leg, hugging my knee.
10:10I pulled him behind me.
10:11If you're so worried about her, Mrs. DeLula, then move her into the room next to your, and
10:16take care of her yourself.
10:17Otherwise, stop gossiping and keep your mouth shut.
10:19Before any of them could answer, I shut the door.
10:22At the end of the month, the family held a charity committee meeting.
10:25Bianca stood at the head of the long table to speak.
10:28Near the end, her tone suddenly shifted.
10:30Some women are so consumed by jealousy that they forget the family entirely.
10:35A real Donna should never make life difficult for a homeless pregnant woman,
10:39much less make herself a laughingstock in front of the whole family.
10:42My back went rigid, and I started to stand.
10:44Under the table, Rafe grabbed my wrist and held me in place.
10:47I tried to pull away, but he wouldn't let go.
10:49I turned toward him.
10:50Let go.
10:51Not now.
10:52She's accusing me in front of everyone.
10:54I know.
10:55You know, and you're still stopping me from defending myself?
10:58His hand didn't move.
10:59Anger burned through me.
11:00The moment the meeting ended, I went straight to the records room Vincent managed.
11:05I want to see Lily's file.
11:07I'm sorry, Donna.
11:09The file has been sealed.
11:11The Don also gave strict orders that not a single detail about Lily is to be disclosed.
11:15Who handled Lily's file?
11:20Don Salvador.
11:21Don Salvatore DeLuca, Rafe's father and the former head of the family, had stepped down
11:25three years earlier.
11:26He no longer involved himself in the family's day-to-day affairs and only stepped in when
11:30something serious happened.
11:32I turned and left the records room to find him.
11:34When Don Salvatore saw me, a conflicted look crossed his face.
11:37Nora, take my advice.
11:39Let this go.
11:40Stop making things difficult for her.
11:43I clenched my teeth.
11:45I hated letting it go, but I turned and left anyway.
11:47I had just reached the estate gates when my brother Jake's car came tearing through them.
11:51He was the heir to the Valenti family.
11:53And before I married Rafe, he'd always been the one who spoiled me most.
11:57The car hadn't even come to a full stop before he shoved the door open and jumped out.
12:02He'd rolled up his sleeves, veins standing out on his arms, his face dark with fury.
12:07Nora, just wait here.
12:07I'm going inside to kill Rafe right now.
12:10He pulled out a gun, looking ready to murder someone.
12:13Not yet.
12:14First, I need you to investigate someone for me.
12:17Who?
12:18Lily Carter, everything about her.
12:20Three days.
12:21I'll have an answer for you in three days.
12:23Three days later, Jake came back the moment I saw him walk through the front doors of the
12:27main house.
12:28I knew something was wrong.
12:29His head was down.
12:30His shoulders slumped.
12:32All his usual fire gone.
12:33He walked into the living room, dropped into a chair, picked up a glass.
12:37And drained half of it.
12:38Then he said nothing.
12:39I had a servant take Sam out to the garden and sat across from Jake.
12:45You found something?
12:46Whose baby is it?
12:48I found out.
12:49Then tell me whose it is.
12:51Nor.
12:51Can't we just say the baby is Rafe and leave it at that?
12:56What do you mean?
12:58Rafe didn't do anything wrong.
13:00Listen to me on this one.
13:01Let it go.
13:03He didn't do anything wrong?
13:05He brought home a pregnant woman and you're telling me he did nothing wrong?
13:08Jake fell silent.
13:10That afternoon, my parents arrived too.
13:12My father walked in, saw Rafe standing at the foot of the stairs, strode straight over,
13:16and slapped him across the face.
13:18Every guard nearby reached for a gun at once.
13:21Rafe lifted one hand.
13:22They all lowered their weapons again.
13:24He stood there without dodging.
13:25Papa.
13:26Don't call me Papa.
13:28What did you promise in front of both families?
13:31On the day you married my daughter.
13:32I remember.
13:33If that baby is yours, then as of tonight, the alliance between the Valti and DeLuca families
13:38is over.
13:40Let's talk in the study.
13:41My father and mother followed Rafe inside.
13:43The doors and windows were shut.
13:45All I could hear was my father's voice rising louder and louder.
13:49Then the room suddenly went quiet.
13:50A long time later, the door opened.
13:52My mother came out first.
13:55Take your mother's advice.
13:56Let this go.
13:58Do it for the child.
14:00My head buzzed.
14:01They had gone into that study one way and come out completely changed.
14:05What the hell had Rafe told them?
14:07Why should I let it go?
14:09You haven't even asked me what happened and you're already telling me to let it go?
14:13Because dropping this is best for everyone.
14:15Especially you and Sam.
14:17I stared at her.
14:18Her eyes were firm.
14:19Then I looked at my father.
14:21He stood by the window with his back to me and the hand holding his gun was still trembling.
14:26If none of you will tell me, I'll find out myself.
14:29Enough!
14:30Stop investigating.
14:33I'm asking you one last time.
14:35Is the baby yours?
14:37I can't tell you.
14:39Fine.
14:41That night after everyone left, Rafe stood outside my door.
14:44I didn't let him in.
14:45I held Sam and cried for a long time, tears dripping onto the back of his neck.
14:49Sam turned around.
14:50He was only four.
14:51He lifted his sleeve and wiped my face.
14:54Mommy.
14:55Yeah?
14:56Let's leave together.
14:58This place is bad.
14:59It makes mommy sad.
15:01Mommy isn't happy here.
15:05That night, I packed one travel bag.
15:07I only took our documents, a few changes of clothes, and Sam's favorite storybook.
15:13At two in the morning, I carried Sam to the estate's side gate.
15:16A guard stopped me.
15:19Donna, the Don said no one is allowed to leave for the time being.
15:21I raised my hand and let him see the obsidian ring clearly.
15:24What?
15:25You listen when the Don speaks, but when the Donna gives an order, suddenly it means nothing?
15:32The guard's face changed.
15:33He lowered his head and opened the iron gate.
15:36The night wind slipped down my collar and I shivered from the cold.
15:39Mommy, where are we going?
15:41Away from here first.
15:42The next morning, Rafe came back from the port.
15:46Nora?
15:47No one answered.
15:48A sense of dread tightened in Rafe's chest.
15:50He pushed hard on the door.
15:51It swung open.
15:52The bed was cold.
15:53As if no one had slept in it all night, the closet stood open and half empty.
15:59Sam's pillow and storybook were gone too.
16:02His face slowly draining of color.
16:04At that moment, he finally understood.
16:06I had taken our son and left.
16:07Nora!
16:09How could you do something this reckless?
16:11The father of Lily's baby is...
16:14He stopped.
16:15His expression changed.
16:17Then Rafe swallowed the words that had almost escaped and spun toward the door, shouting,
16:21Lock down every exit!
16:23Rafe turned all of the city upside down, looking for me.
16:26He took a group of men to the bus station first, showing my photo to ticket agents one
16:30by one.
16:31Someone said they'd seen me carrying Sam onto a bus headed downtown.
16:36He rushed into the city and searched every hotel and rental apartment along the route.
16:43Vincent took two teams to the airport and the docks and pulled every piece of surveillance
16:47footage they could access.
16:49They searched all day and found nothing.
16:51That night, Rafe sat in the station waiting room and didn't leave until morning.
16:55He kept the obsidian ring clenched in his fist, the one I'd dropped after leaving the estate.
17:01By dawn, its edge had dug a bloody groove into his palm.
17:04The estate was in chaos, too.
17:07What respectable Donna.
17:09Sneaks out in the middle of the night with the air?
17:12Her husband spent six months fighting a war, and she can't even tolerate one woman in the house.
17:17If she has the nerve to leave, she can forget about my son getting down on his knees to beg
17:21her to come back.
17:28The words had barely left her mouth when an ebony cane tapped lightly against the floor at the doorway.
17:34Don Salvatore stood there, leaning on his cane. The chapel storage room fell silent instantly.
17:40He had been retired for three years and rarely spoke unless necessary.
17:44None of the women expected him to appear in person.
17:47Nora is Rafe's wife. She's your daughter-in-law.
17:51Aren't you ashamed of standing here gossiping about her every day?
17:54She's the one being petty. So what if the Don has a mistress?
17:58What do you know?
18:00Bianca didn't dare say another word. Don Salvatore said nothing more.
18:04He turned and slowly walked away with his cane.
18:08Then again, the sound fading farther and farther away.
18:11That afternoon, Don Salvatore personally went to Rafe's study.
18:14When he came out, his expression was grim.
18:18Don Salvatore.
18:20Don't address me as Don.
18:22I mishandled this.
18:24Nora never should have been kept in the dark.
18:27Jake searched for me for two days.
18:29When he finally found Sam and me at a cheap hotel on the west side of the city,
18:33I was sharpening Sam's crayons.
18:35Sam lay over the table drawing a picture of an adult holding a child's hand.
18:40Uncle Jake.
18:45Jake sat across from me, pulled a black envelope from inside his coat, and slid it across the table.
18:50As I opened it, inside was a death certificate, name.
18:53Michael Doyle, dot of death.
18:55One week before Rafe returned to New Orleans,
18:58a photograph was clipped behind the certificate.
19:01In it, an unfamiliar man stood behind Lily, one hand resting on her still-flat stomach,
19:06while the other held a tiny pair of baby shoes still in their packaging.
19:09They were both smiling.
19:10Who is this?
19:12Michael Doyle, Rafe's head of security and one of the DeLucco family's most important associates.
19:17He wasn't a made man, but he'd worked for Rafe for nine years and saved his life twice.
19:22Jake pulled another piece of paper from his pocket, this one stained with blood.
19:26Don, I'm leaving Lily and the baby with you.
19:28Don't let Caruso find them.
19:30Michael, I clenched the paper in my hand.
19:32The baby is Michael's?
19:34Yes.
19:36After Caruso attacked the port, Michael had been investigating the mole inside the family.
19:42In the final ambush, he took two bullets for Rafe and killed the Caruso heir.
19:48He didn't survive the night.
19:52Michael and Lily never made their relationship public.
19:55Caruso only knew he'd left behind a pregnant woman.
19:57They didn't know who she was.
19:59They put the word out that they intended to wipe out Michael's bloodline too.
20:03No wonder she'd looked at me that way in the kitchen.
20:05No wonder she'd looked so deeply hurt when she burst into tears.
20:09She hadn't come to steal my husband.
20:11She simply couldn't say the name of the man she loved who had died.
20:14Why did Rafe let everyone think the baby was his?
20:17Because there was still a mole inside the DeLuca family.
20:20As long as he didn't deny it, everyone would assume Lily was the Don's woman.
20:23No one would dare keep digging into her.
20:25Only after they found the mole and eliminated the killers Caruso left behind, could the truth come out.
20:32Why didn't you tell me before?
20:36Rafe didn't tell me.
20:37I found it out myself.
20:39What about mom and dad?
20:41Dad went after him with a gun.
20:43The two families almost went to war.
20:44Rafe had no choice but to tell him and make him swear on the honor of the Vlati family that
20:48he would keep it secret.
20:49So you were allowed to investigate.
20:51Dad was allowed to point a gun at him and force the truth out of him.
20:53Vincent and Don Salvatore knew from the beginning.
20:56And the one person who had the greatest right to know the truth was the one all of you decided
20:59to lie to.
21:00No, Rafe didn't betray you.
21:01He just couldn't tell you.
21:02You should forgive him.
21:03Couldn't tell me?
21:05Forgive him?
21:06I can understand why he couldn't tell me who Michael was.
21:09I can understand why he couldn't tell me he was hunting a mull.
21:12But he couldn't even tell me in private that the baby wasn't his.
21:15Do any of you understand how much the truth mattered?
21:17Who was the one people pointed at and insulted for two months?
21:20Who was the one Rafe's mother told to give up her son's room to a pregnant woman?
21:24Who tried to stand up and defend herself only to have her husband physically hold her down?
21:28Did any of you ever think about how humiliated I was and now you want me to forgive him?
21:32Dream on.
21:33Get out.
21:34I don't want to see you right now.
21:38Noor.
21:39If you don't leave, I'll take Sam and switch hotels right now.
21:47Rafe hasn't slept in two days.
21:48He seemed to sleep just fine during the two months everyone was insulting me.
21:53Jake said nothing else.
21:54I slammed the door in his face.
21:57That night, after Sam fell asleep, a crayon was still clutched in his hand.
22:01I gently pulled it free and picked up the picture he'd drawn.
22:03There were only two people in it.
22:05Sam and me.
22:06Two little figures, one big and one small, holding hands beneath the sun.
22:11I'd asked him where his father was.
22:13He'd said daddy was very far away.
22:15I folded the picture, turned off the light, and lay down.
22:19The next morning, I checked out of the hotel.
22:21I didn't go back to the DeLuca estate, and I didn't return to the Valenti home either.
22:26I sent Sam to stay with my mother for a while and went alone to the north shore of Lake
22:30Pontchartrain.
22:31There was a private physical rehabilitation center there called Harbor House.
22:34My grandmother had left it to me.
22:36After I got married, I handed it over to professional management and hadn't been back in six years.
22:41Mrs. Coleman, the director, was in her 50s, finished going through the past few years of accounts,
22:46then looked up at me.
22:48What brought you back all of a sudden?
22:50My husband has passed away.
22:52I told her my husband was dead.
22:54Mrs. Coleman didn't ask any more questions.
22:56She pushed a ring of keys across the desk.
22:59There's only enough money left to keep us running for two months.
23:01The East Wing leaks, the kitchen owes money to suppliers, and we're short six caregivers.
23:07Where do we start?
23:09With the unpaid wages.
23:11Working at Harbor House wasn't easy.
23:14I got to the office at six every morning.
23:16During the day I went through the books, called contractors, interviewed staff,
23:19and helped on the wards whenever we were shorthanded.
23:22Call bells rang nonstop.
23:24Carts rattled through the halls, patients pressed their call buttons,
23:27relatives argued, and nurses called for help.
23:29The noise never stopped.
23:31The first week, I got three blisters on my hands moving supplies,
23:34covered them with gauze, and kept working.
23:36By the second week, the blisters had turned into calluses.
23:39I sold several pieces of my personal jewelry,
23:42and used the money to cover the back pay owed to 27 employees.
23:46When my father found out, he called me.
23:49The Volante family isn't short on money.
23:52I know.
23:53Then why are you selling your own things?
23:57Because Harbor House is mine.
24:00The other end of the line was silent for a long time.
24:03You're really not coming back?
24:05No.
24:06My father hung up.
24:12At the end of the month, Mrs. Coleman slid a piece of paper with an address across my desk.
24:17It was the apartment I'd asked her to help me find.
24:19It was right across from the rehab center.
24:22One bedroom, one living room, and a small balcony.
24:25I signed the lease that afternoon.
24:26That weekend, I went back to Galveston to pick up Sam.
24:29My parents were waiting in front of the estate.
24:31When my father saw me, his lips moved.
24:33What happened to your hands?
24:36Moving supplies.
24:38The next day, as I was leaving, my mother caught my sleeve.
24:41You're really not going back to Rafe?
24:43No.
24:45He came by the day before yesterday.
24:46He's lost a lot of weight.
24:48Every single one of them had helped keep the truth from me.
24:51None of them had the right to talk me into reconciling with him.
24:54No one at the DeLuca estate knew where I'd gone.
24:56They only knew that Rafe returned to the main house less and less.
25:00He spent his days at the port, slept in his study at night,
25:03and barely spoke to anyone even during meals.
25:06Vincent tried to talk to him once.
25:08Rafe shut the door in his face.
25:09Lily wasn't doing well either.
25:11One evening, she was carrying a plate of dessert toward the dining room,
25:15when her legs suddenly gave out beneath her.
25:17The plate shattered, cream splattering across the floor.
25:20After examining her, the doctor said she was malnourished.
25:24Her blood pressure was dangerously low, and the pregnancy was at serious risk.
25:28If things continued like this, she could lose the baby.
25:31When Bianca went to see her, she brought a basket of fruit.
25:35Lily leaned against the headboard, her face as white as the sheets.
25:38Bianca sat for a while before finally asking the question she'd been holding in for two months.
25:43Lily, tell me the truth.
25:45Whose baby are you carrying?
25:48Lily didn't take the fruit Bianca offered her.
25:51If the baby isn't Rafe's, why didn't you say so?
25:53The Don saved me.
25:56I can't ruin his plan.
25:59What about Nora?
26:01Every single day, I wanted to tell her.
26:04When Bianca returned from the clinic, she ran into Don Salvatore in the hallway.
26:08Salvador.
26:09Don Salvatore stood in front of her for a long moment.
26:11Bianca, when you married me, I told you one thing.
26:15Do you remember it?
26:16Bianca answered nervously.
26:18I remember.
26:19You said a Delina woman either helps hold the family together or knows when to keep her mouth shut.
26:24For the past two months, you've done neither.
26:27You humiliated your own daughter-in-law over a girl whose background you didn't even know.
26:31I didn't know.
26:32Then that was even more reason to keep your mouth shut.
26:37Nora is the only person in this house who hasn't done a single thing wrong from beginning to end.
26:42Go ask Vincent.
26:43Once you have, think very carefully about what you're going to do next.
26:47By the time Bianca left the hallway, her legs were shaking.
26:50She went straight to Vincent's office.
26:52Lily's baby isn't Rafe's, is it?
26:54Vincent closed the file in front of him and didn't answer.
26:57Then whose baby is it?
26:59There are still things I can't tell you.
27:02Think about it yourself.
27:04If the baby really was the Dons, why did every man who came back from the Gulf Coast protect Lily,
27:08yet not one of them congratulate him?
27:11A living person's pride will never matter more than protecting the child of a dead man.
27:18Michael's belongings were returned to the estate.
27:20The package wasn't large.
27:22It was a metal box recovered from the burned warehouse.
27:25Rafe opened it.
27:25Inside were a neatly folded black suit, an old watch, a bill folded in half,
27:30and a letter that had never been sent.
27:32Lily's name was written on the envelope.
27:34Rafe opened the letter.
27:35If I don't make it back, tell my child his father didn't run away.
27:39I died trying to come home.
27:41Rafe took the letter to Vincent's study that two of them shut the door and stayed inside all afternoon.
27:47Vincent took apart the old watch and found a tiny folded ledger page hidden inside the casing.
27:52It listed several DeLuca shipments whose schedules had been leaked.
27:55The same initials were written beside every entry CG Carlo Greco,
28:00a capo responsible for coordinating the DeLuca port operations.
28:03That night, Carlo was caught while trying to leave New Orleans.
28:07He was dragged into the basement, still shouting that he'd served the DeLuca family for 20 years.
28:13Were you the one who sold our movements to Caruso before those attacks?
28:16Carlo stopped shouting.
28:18Using the addresses he gave up, DeLuca men found the last group of Carusas still hiding in the city.
28:24Before dawn, the threat was gone.
28:26The next morning, Don Salvatore ordered Vincent to summon every core member of the family to the private chapel.
28:32It wasn't a family meeting.
28:34It was a formal family tribunal presided over by Don Salvatore himself.
28:39The chapel was packed.
28:40Bianca sat in the front row.
28:42The women who had insulted me sat behind her.
28:45Rafe stood beside the altar instead of taking the Don's seat.
28:48That chair had been left for Don Salvatore.
28:50Don Salvatore walked slowly toward the altar, leaning on his ebony cane.
28:55He had been retired for three years.
28:57This was the first time in three years that he had sat in that old chair.
29:01I've been retired for three years.
29:04Today, I'm stepping into family business one more time.
29:07Because this time, the family owes a debt to one dead man and justice to one woman.
29:16He looked at Bianca, then at the capos' wives, seated behind her.
29:21Vincent walked to the long table and placed three things on it.
29:25Michael's cufflinks, the farewell letter he'd written to Lily, and the bloodstained note entrusting Lily and the baby to Rafe.
29:31Michael Doyle was not a maid man.
29:33For nine years, he carried out 27 operations for the DeLuca family and saved my son's life twice.
29:40The last time, he didn't come home alive.
29:47If I don't make it back, tell my child his father didn't run away.
29:52I died trying to come home.
29:55The woman that Don brought back from the Gulf Coast was not his mistress.
29:58She was the fiancé of a man who died for the DeLuca family, and she was carrying his child.
30:05The handkerchief slipped from Bianca's hand.
30:11Until Carlo was caught and the killers were eliminated, anyone learning the child's identity would have put Lily and the
30:18baby in mortal danger.
30:19That's why the Don couldn't explain publicly.
30:25I was the one who ordered everyone to believe Lily was my woman.
30:29I take responsibility for every consequence.
30:34Over the past two months, several people in this house said ugly things to the Donna's face.
30:40I won't name names.
30:42If you were one of them, stand up!
30:44After a long time, two Capo's wives stood first.
30:48We're sorry.
30:49We were wrong.
30:50Then four more stood.
30:51Then five.
30:53Bianca was the last.
30:54She slowly rose from the front row and turned to face the entire chapel.
30:58I'm Rafe's mother.
31:00I tried to force Nora to give Lily her son's room.
31:05I humiliated her in public at the charity committee meeting.
31:10Everyone in this house who spoke badly about Nora followed my lead.
31:14I was wrong.
31:17Don Salvatore watched her in silence for a long time.
31:20Tell Nora that.
31:22Not us.
31:25After the Tribunal ended, Bianca didn't leave right away.
31:28She stood for a long time staring at the empty seat reserved for the Donna beside the altar
31:32as tears kept slipping down her cheeks.
31:35Three days later, she wrote me a letter by hand.
31:37She wrote that if I was willing to come back, she would move out of the main house and hand
31:42over
31:42the estate keys, along with everything that belonged to the Donna.
31:46If I still couldn't forgive her, she would come kneel before me herself.
31:50By the end of the letter, the ink had bled across the page.
31:53Gabriel came to Harbor House with two men.
31:56At the time, I was pushing a cart of clean sheets toward the inpatient wing.
32:00Mrs. Coleman called me twice from the end of the hallway before I heard her.
32:04I handed the cart to a caregiver and went outside.
32:08Donna, two days ago, Don Salvatore personally presided over a family tribunal in the chapel
32:13and explained everything.
32:14Michael saved the Don's life.
32:16Lily and the baby were both entrusted to him by Michael.
32:19Bianca and the others were all there.
32:20Don Salvatore ordered Bianca to apologize to you herself.
32:25I opened Bianca's letter, read it, then folded it again.
32:28She said that if you'd come back, she'd move out.
32:31And she said if you want her to kneel, she'll come and kneel before you herself.
32:36Tell her she doesn't need to kneel.
32:40Then when are you coming back to the estate?
32:42I never said I was going back.
32:44But the baby isn't the Don's.
32:46I know.
32:48The Don never touched Lily either.
32:50I know.
32:50Then why?
32:54Because my shift isn't over yet.
32:58That night, I went back to the DeLuca estate not to move back in to collect what I'd left behind.
33:03A winter coat, two pairs of shoes, and a photo album.
33:06On the last page was a picture of the three of us standing in front of the estate,
33:10before Rafe left for the Gulf Coast to fight the rival family.
33:13Sam sat on Rafe's shoulders, grinning wide enough to show a row of tiny teeth.
33:18I stood beside them, straightening Rafe's collar.
33:21My lips were parted as if I were still speaking.
33:24I was probably telling him to come home safe.
33:26I closed the album and placed it in the cardboard box.
33:29As I stepped outside, I ran into Bianca.
33:31The moment she saw the box in my arms, she went rigid at the foot of the stairs.
33:36Nora, I got your letter.
33:39Stay tonight.
33:41If you don't want to see me, I'll move into the West House right now.
33:45The main house is yours.
33:47So is your place as Donna.
33:49Mrs. DeLuca, I'm not staying away because I'm still angry with you.
33:53Then why?
33:54Everyone here calls me Donna.
33:56But when something actually happened, not one person treated me like the Donna.
34:01You expected me to accept a woman who might have been carrying my husband's child.
34:06Rafe told me to keep quiet.
34:09Everyone else stood there and watched me be humiliated.
34:13Now that the truth is out, you all think that if you give me back the room and the ring,
34:18everything can go back to the way it was.
34:23Nora, I'm sorry.
34:25I accept your apology, but I'm not coming back.