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00:02My husband had spent six months fighting a rival family for territory along the Gulf Coast.
00:07When he came home, a heavily pregnant young woman was at his side.
00:10I asked him over and over,
00:12Is the baby yours?
00:14He dropped to his knees at my feet in front of the entire family.
00:17But all he said was,
00:18I'm sorry, I can't tell you.
00:20After six months of family war, my husband, Rafe DeLuca, finally came home alive.
00:25Twelve black sedans rolled into the estate one after another.
00:28I stood on the steps of the main house with Sam in my arms.
00:31A car door opened, Rafe stepped out, helping a young woman whose belly was already showing.
00:37My expression hardened all around me.
00:39The wives of the capos who had come to welcome the dawn home broke into shocked whispers.
00:43The moment Rafe saw me, his gaze flickered away.
00:46Nora, let me explain.
00:48I gave a cold laugh, turned around, and walked away.
00:51Sam looked at his father, then at the woman beside him.
00:54Mommy, who's that lady next to Daddy?
00:56You don't have a Daddy. Your Daddy's dead.
00:58A commotion broke out behind me.
01:01Rafe hurried after us, his dress shoes striking sharply against the pavement.
01:04He cut in front of me and, in full view of every capo,
01:08every capo's wife and every soldier in the family, dropped straight to his knees.
01:12Nora, let me explain.
01:14I shifted Sam to my other arm and looked down at Rafe.
01:17We hadn't seen each other in six months.
01:19I never imagined this was how we'd meet again.
01:22Go ahead. I'm listening.
01:24The young woman came over, too.
01:25She stopped beside Rafe, both hands protectively cupping her stomach.
01:30Donna, my name is Lily. Lily Carter.
01:33The Caruso family attacked the town where I live.
01:35My whole family was killed.
01:37Don DeLucco got me out of a safe house.
01:39Whose baby is it?
01:41Lily lowered her head and said nothing.
01:43I turned back to Rafe.
01:44He knelt there with his head bowed and his hands braced on his knees,
01:47as if someone had ripped the spine out of him.
01:49I asked you whose baby it is.
01:53Don't ask. I really can't tell you.
01:55A gasp suddenly came from the crowd.
01:57Bianca DeLucco, Rafe's mother, raised her voice.
02:00Her belly's already that big.
02:01Do you really have to ask? Isn't it obvious?
02:04Sounding almost excited, I crouched down with Sam in my arms.
02:08Rafe, I'm only going to ask you three things.
02:12Rafe's Adam's apple bobbed.
02:14First, is the baby yours?
02:19Second, what exactly happened between you and her on the Gulf Coast?
02:24Third, before you brought her home,
02:26did you ever think about how you were going to tell me?
02:29I did. I just never figured out how to say it.
02:32I laughed once, then I stood and hitched Sam higher in my arms.
02:36Sam wrapped both little arms around my neck
02:38and buried his face against my shoulder.
02:40I stepped around Rafe, still kneeling on the ground,
02:42and headed for the main house.
02:44Bianca spoke to the Capo's wives beside her,
02:46not quite loudly enough to be called shouting,
02:49but more than loudly enough for me to hear.
02:52Who does she think she is acting like that?
02:54What? My son spent six months fighting enemies out there.
02:59So what if you brought a woman home?
03:01Adana can't afford to be this jealous!
03:03My steps paused.
03:04I didn't look back until I had reached the top of the stairs.
03:07Rafe was still kneeling where I'd left him,
03:09his knees seemingly nailed to the ground.
03:12Lily was still there too, looking down at him.
03:14Get up. You're the dawn.
03:17How can you kneel to that woman?
03:19She's not worth it.
03:20I carried Sam into the main house.
03:22He leaned close to my ear and whispered,
03:24Mommy, why won't Daddy get up?
03:27Because Mommy hasn't told him he can.
03:28Oh. Who's that lady?
03:30I kicked the bedroom door open,
03:32set Sam down, then crouched so we were eye to eye.
03:35Your father brought her back with him.
03:37Starting today, she's living here with us.
03:39Then whose baby is in her tummy?
03:41Good question, kid.
03:43Mommy would like to know too.
03:44That afternoon, Vincent Marino personally delivered the paperwork for Lily's stay.
03:49Vincent was the DeLuca family's consigliere.
03:52The paperwork stated that Lily was under the dawn's personal protection
03:55and would stay temporarily at the estate.
03:58Without the dawn's permission,
04:00no one was allowed to look into her background.
04:02The paperwork had barely landed on my desk
04:05when Bianca arrived with several capos' wives.
04:07They didn't even knock before coming upstairs.
04:10Bianca pushed open the door to Sam's room and walked around inside.
04:15This room is perfect.
04:16It's bright and airy, just what a pregnant woman needs.
04:19I pulled Sam to my side and leaned against the doorframe, watching her.
04:24Mrs. DeLuca, this is Sam's room.
04:29So move the boy somewhere else.
04:30What's the big deal?
04:31She's pregnant.
04:32Is it really so much to ask that he give up a room for her?
04:35Before I could answer, a voice came from behind me.
04:38Lily stood in the hallway holding a canvas duffel bag.
04:41Ma'am, I can stay anywhere.
04:42Please don't make things difficult for the Donna.
04:44All I need is a bed.
04:47Bianca grabbed Lily's hand and pulled her to her side.
04:50The way she did it, anyone would have thought she was protecting her own daughter.
04:56What are you scared of?
04:57I'm here.
04:59Rafe brought you home.
05:00You think the DeLuca family is going to leave you sleeping in the street?
05:03The other women nodded along.
05:05One capo's wife even tried to lecture me.
05:08Nora, you're the Donna.
05:10You need to be more generous.
05:12Since you're so generous, why don't you take Lily home with you?
05:15She shut her mouth.
05:17That night, the estate held a welcome home dinner.
05:20Rafe came over carrying three plates and carefully set them in front of Sam and me.
05:25I sat down with Sam.
05:26I had barely picked up my fork when Lily approached with her own plate.
05:29She didn't dare sit beside me.
05:31She just stood across the table, looking at me expectantly.
05:34Sam glanced at her, then at me, and tugged lightly on my sleeve.
05:38I looked up at her but said nothing.
05:40Only then did she sit, stiff and awkward, keeping her head down as she ate in silence.
05:44Bianca came over with her plate.
05:46She dropped into the seat next to Lily and placed a large piece of stewed meat on Lily's plate.
05:51Eat more.
05:52You're eating for two now.
05:54My fork paused.
05:55Rafe sat across from me, watching me cautiously.
05:58I ignored him and kept cutting Sam's meat.
06:00Bianca smiled at Lily again.
06:02Rafe was a big, strong boy even when he was little.
06:05This baby will probably take after him too.
06:07I finished my meal calmly and set my napkin on the table.
06:11As I passed Rafe, I tossed out one word.
06:15Outside.
06:17There was a stretch of stone wall behind the estate's private chapel.
06:21I shoved him back against it.
06:23Is the baby yours or not?
06:25Rafe leaned against the wall with his head down, refusing to meet my eyes.
06:28After a long silence, he said,
06:30Give me a little more time.
06:31How much time?
06:32Didn't you see how your mother moked me today?
06:34Are you deaf or are you blind?
06:36If Lily is your mistress, then say it to my face.
06:39I'll step aside and let you have each other.
06:42He went silent again.
06:43I turned and walked away.
06:45Early the next morning, I went to the soldiers who had returned from the fighting with Rafe and asked about
06:49Lily.
06:49One soldier's expression changed instantly.
06:53Donna, don't ask.
06:54The Don gave a direct order.
06:55Please don't push a pregnant woman into a corner.
06:57With that, they turned and left.
06:59I stood in the garden, the sun beating down so fiercely that my scalp prickled from the heat.
07:04Then someone called my name from behind.
07:06Donna.
07:06I turned and saw Gabriel, one of Rafe's most trusted men.
07:13Gabriel pulled me into the shade and lowered his voice.
07:16Donna.
07:16The day Lily arrived in New Orleans, the first place she went was the Don's office.
07:21When we came out of the meeting room later, she was already sitting in the Don's car.
07:25You know the Don isn't that kind of man.
07:27Just give him a little more time.
07:28Please don't assume the worst.
07:29I looked at him without saying anything.
07:31He seemed to realize there was no reasonable way not to assume the worst.
07:34He gave me an awkward smile and left.
07:36Back in my room, I opened the safe and pulled out the letters Rafe had sent me from the Gulf
07:41Coast over the past six months.
07:43There were eight in total.
07:44The first three were completely normal.
07:47Starting with the fourth, his tone changed.
07:49Looking back now, that must have been when something happened.
07:52Sam ran in and leaned against my knees, tipping his face up at me.
07:56Mommy, what are you reading?
07:59Some old debts.
08:01Within days, people in the family had started calling me a jealous bitch behind my back.
08:05One afternoon, I passed the storage room behind the chapel.
08:08Several Capo's wives were inside sorting donations for a charity sale, talking animatedly.
08:13The Don spent six months fighting a war.
08:16So what if he has a mistress?
08:17Who does she think she is?
08:19Glaring at everyone all day?
08:21That poor girl is pregnant and has already been through enough.
08:25And Nora acts like she wants to throw her out on the street.
08:28I pushed the door open.
08:29The room went silent instantly.
08:31The three women each grabbed a box and hurried out.
08:35Lily, on the other hand, kept her head down and stayed out of trouble.
08:38She helped with whatever work she could around the estate.
08:41Whenever she saw me walking past with Sam, she lowered her head and called me Donna, always careful and respectful.
08:48Several of the older women at the estate praised her for being so well-mannered and spoke about her with
08:53obvious affection.
08:54Once, Bianca took Lily's hand right in front of me and said,
08:57Good girl, don't be afraid.
09:00No one here is going to bully you.
09:02I tried asking Lily directly once.
09:04That day, she was in the kitchen arranging washed fruit on a plate.
09:07I walked over and helped her sort it.
09:09She looked up at me and her eyes brightened.
09:11The more I looked at those clear, bright eyes, the more confused I became.
09:15Lily didn't look at me the way a mistress looked at a wife.
09:17Lily, where are you from?
09:20A small town near the Gulf Coast.
09:22What were your parents' names?
09:25They died a long time ago.
09:27How did you meet Rafe?
09:32I asked again, more softly.
09:34Lily, is the baby you're carrying Rafe's?
09:38All the color drained from her face, as if she'd been shot point-blank.
09:42Donna, just tell me the truth.
09:45Tears rushed into her eyes.
09:46One hand covered her stomach while the other braced against the edge of the sink.
09:50Donna, are you going to force me to leave?
09:51Then she clutched her belly and hurried out of the kitchen.
09:54She couldn't move quickly, and Bianca happened to see her rushing out.
09:57I stood there, stunned.
09:59That afternoon, Bianca showed up at my bedroom door with several Capo's wives.
10:03The four of them stood in a row like debt collectors.
10:05She's pregnant, and you still made her cry.
10:08What exactly are you trying to do?
10:10Sam stood beside my leg, hugging my knee.
10:12I pulled him behind me.
10:14If you're so worried about her, Mrs. DeLula, then move her into the room next to your,
10:17and take care of her yourself.
10:20Otherwise, stop gossiping and keep your mouth shut.
10:22Before any of them could answer, I shut the door.
10:24At the end of the month, the family held a charity committee meeting.
10:27Bianca stood at the head of the long table to speak.
10:30Near the end, her tone suddenly shifted.
10:32Some women are so consumed by jealousy that they forget the family entirely.
10:37A real Donna should never make life difficult for a homeless pregnant woman,
10:41much less make herself a laughingstock in front of the whole family.
10:44My back went rigid, and I started to stand.
10:46Under the table, Rafe grabbed my wrist and held me in place.
10:49I tried to pull away, but he wouldn't let go.
10:51I turned toward him.
10:52Let go.
10:53Not now.
10:54She's accusing me in front of everyone.
10:56I know.
10:57You know, and you're still stopping me from defending myself?
11:00His hand didn't move.
11:01Anger burned through me.
11:02The moment the meeting ended, I went straight to the records room Vincent managed.
11:07I want to see Lily's file.
11:09I'm sorry, Donna.
11:11The file has been sealed.
11:12The Don also gave strict orders that not a single detail about Lily is to be disclosed.
11:17Who handled Lily's file?
11:22Don Salvador.
11:23Don Salvatore DeLuca, Rafe's father and the former head of the family, had stepped down
11:27three years earlier.
11:29He no longer involved himself in the family's day-to-day affairs and only stepped in when
11:33something serious happened.
11:34I turned and left the records room to find him.
11:36When Don Salvatore saw me, a conflicted look crossed his face.
11:39Nora, take my advice.
11:41Let this go.
11:42Stop making things difficult for her.
11:45I clenched my teeth.
11:47I hated letting it go, but I turned and left anyway.
11:49I had just reached the estate gates when my brother Jake's car came tearing through them.
11:53He was the heir to the Valenti family.
11:55And before I married Rafe, he'd always been the one who spoiled me most.
11:59The car hadn't even come to a full stop before he shoved the door open and jumped out.
12:04He'd rolled up his sleeves, veins standing out on his arms, his face dark with fury.
12:09Nora, just wait here.
12:10I'm going inside to kill Rafe right now.
12:12He pulled out a gun, looking ready to murder someone.
12:15Not yet.
12:16First, I need you to investigate someone for me.
12:19Who?
12:20Lily Carter.
12:21Everything about her.
12:22Three days.
12:23I'll have an answer for you in three days.
12:25Three days later, Jake came back the moment I saw him walk through the front doors of the
12:29main house.
12:30I knew something was wrong.
12:31His head was down, his shoulders slumped, all his usual fire gone.
12:35He walked into the living room, dropped into a chair, picked up a glass, and drained half
12:40of it.
12:40Then he said nothing.
12:41I had a servant take Sam out to the garden and sat across from Jake.
12:46You found something?
12:48Whose baby is it?
12:50I found out.
12:51Then tell me whose it is.
12:53Nora, can't we just say the baby is Rafe and leave it at that?
12:58What do you mean?
13:00Rafe didn't do anything wrong.
13:02Listen to me on this one.
13:04Let it go.
13:05He didn't do anything wrong?
13:06He brought home a pregnant woman and you're telling me he did nothing wrong?
13:10Jake fell silent.
13:12That afternoon, my parents arrived too.
13:14My father walked in, saw Rafe standing at the foot of the stairs, strode straight over,
13:18and slapped him across the face.
13:20Every guard nearby reached for a gun at once.
13:23Rafe lifted one hand.
13:24They all lowered their weapons again.
13:26He stood there without dodging.
13:27Papa, don't call me Papa.
13:30What did you promise in front of both families?
13:33On the day you married my daughter?
13:34I remember.
13:36If that baby is yours, then as of tonight, the alliance between the Valti and DeLuca families
13:40is over.
13:42Let's talk in the study.
13:43My father and mother followed Rafe inside.
13:46The doors and windows were shut.
13:47All I could hear was my father's voice, rising louder and louder.
13:51Then the room suddenly went quiet.
13:53A long time later, the door opened.
13:54My mother came out first.
13:57Take your mother's advice.
13:58Let this go.
14:00Do it for the child.
14:02My head buzzed.
14:03They had gone into that study one way and come out completely changed.
14:06What the hell had Rafe told them?
14:09Why should I let it go?
14:11You haven't even asked me what happened and you're already telling me to let it go?
14:15Because dropping this is best for everyone, especially you and Sam.
14:19I stared at her.
14:20Her eyes were firm.
14:21Then I looked at my father.
14:23He stood by the window with his back to me and the hand holding his gun was still trembling.
14:28If none of you will tell me, I'll find out myself.
14:31Enough!
14:32Stop investigating.
14:35I'm asking you one last time.
14:37Is the baby yours?
14:39I can't tell you.
14:41Fine.
14:43That night after everyone left, Rafe stood outside my door.
14:46I didn't let him in.
14:47I held Sam and cried for a long time, tears dripping onto the back of his neck.
14:51Sam turned around.
14:52He was only four.
14:54He lifted his sleeve and wiped my face.
14:56Mommy.
14:57Yeah?
14:58Let's leave together.
15:00This place is bad.
15:01It makes Mommy sad.
15:03Mommy isn't happy here.
15:07That night, I packed one travel bag.
15:09I only took our documents, a few changes of clothes, and Sam's favorite storybook.
15:15At two in the morning, I carried Sam to the estate's side gate.
15:18A guard stopped me.
15:21Donna, the Don said no one is allowed to leave.
15:23I raised my hand and let him see the obsidian ring clearly.
15:26What?
15:27You listen when the Don speaks, but when the Donna gives an order, suddenly it means nothing?
15:34The guard's face changed.
15:35He lowered his head and opened the iron gate.
15:38The night wind slipped down my collar, and I shivered from the cold.
15:41Mommy, where are we going?
15:43Away from here first.
15:44The next morning, Rafe came back from the port.
15:48Nora?
15:48No one answered.
15:50A sense of dread tightened in Rafe's chest.
15:52He pushed hard on the door.
15:53It swung open.
15:54The bed was cold.
15:55As if no one had slept in it all night, the closet stood open and half empty.
16:01Sam's pillow and storybook were gone too.
16:04His face slowly draining of color.
16:05At that moment, he finally understood.
16:08I had taken our son and left.
16:09Nora!
16:11How could you do something this reckless?
16:13The father of Lily's baby is...
16:16He stopped.
16:17His expression changed.
16:19Then Rafe swallowed the words that had almost escaped and spun toward the door, shouting,
16:23Lock down every exit!
16:25Rafe turned all of the city upside down, looking for me.
16:27He took a group of men to the bus station first, showing my photo to ticket agents one
16:33by one.
16:33Someone said they'd seen me carrying Sam onto a bus headed downtown.
16:38He rushed into the city and searched every hotel and rental apartment along the route.
16:45Vincent took two teams to the airport and the docks and pulled every piece of surveillance
16:49footage they could access.
16:51They searched all day and found nothing.
16:53That night, Rafe sat in the station waiting room and didn't leave until morning.
16:58He kept the obsidian ring clenched in his fist, the one I'd dropped after leaving the estate.
17:03By dawn, its edge had dug a bloody groove into his palm.
17:06The estate was in chaos, too.
17:09What respectable Donna.
17:11Sneaks out in the middle of the night with the air?
17:14Her husband spent six months fighting a war, and she can't even tolerate one woman in the
17:19house.
17:19If she has the nerve to leave, she can forget about my son getting down on his knees to beg
17:23her to come back.
17:26He's the Don of this family.
17:28She doesn't care how much she humiliates her husband.
17:31The words had barely left her mouth when an ebony cane tapped lightly against the floor
17:35at the doorway.
17:36Don Salvatore stood there, leaning on his cane.
17:38The chapel storage room fell silent instantly.
17:42He had been retired for three years and rarely spoke unless necessary.
17:46None of the women expected him to appear in person.
17:49Nora is Rafe's wife.
17:51She's your daughter-in-law.
17:53Aren't you ashamed of standing here gossiping about her every day?
17:57She's the one being petty.
17:58So what if the Don has a mistress?
18:00What do you know?
18:02Bianca didn't dare say another word.
18:04Don Salvatore said nothing more.
18:06He turned and slowly walked away with his cane.
18:10Then again, the sound fading farther and farther away.
18:13That afternoon, Don Salvatore personally went to Rafe's study.
18:17When he came out, his expression was grim.
18:20Don Salvatore.
18:22Don't address me as Don.
18:24I mishandled this.
18:26Nora never should have been kept in the dark.
18:29Jake searched for me for two days.
18:31When he finally found Sam and me at a cheap hotel on the west side of the city,
18:35I was sharpening Sam's crayons.
18:36Sam lay over the table drawing a picture of an adult holding a child's hand.
18:42Uncle Jake.
18:47Jake sat across from me, pulled a black envelope from inside his coat,
18:51and slid it across the table.
18:52I opened it.
18:53Inside was a death certificate.
18:55Name.
18:55Michael Doyle.
18:56Dot of death.
18:57One week before Rafe returned to New Orleans.
19:00A photograph was clipped behind the certificate.
19:03In it, an unfamiliar man stood behind Lily.
19:05Lily, one hand resting on her still-flat stomach,
19:08while the other held a tiny pair of baby shoes still in their packaging.
19:11They were both smiling.
19:13Who is this?
19:14Michael Doyle.
19:15Rafe's head of security,
19:16and one of the DeLucco family's most important associates.
19:19He wasn't a made man, but he'd worked for Rafe for nine years,
19:22and saved his life twice.
19:24Jake pulled another piece of paper from his pocket,
19:26this one stained with blood.
19:28Don, I'm leaving Lily and the baby with you.
19:30Don't let Caruso find them.
19:32Michael.
19:32I clenched the paper in my hand.
19:34The baby's Michael's?
19:37Yes.
19:38After Caruso attacked the port,
19:40Michael had been investigating the mole inside the family.
19:44In the final ambush,
19:46he took two bullets for Rafe
19:47and killed the Caruso heir.
19:50He didn't survive the night.
19:54Michael and Lily never made their relationship public.
19:57Caruso only knew he'd left behind a pregnant woman.
19:59They didn't know who she was.
20:01They put the word out that they intended to wipe out Michael's bloodline, too.
20:05No wonder she'd looked at me that way in the kitchen.
20:07No wonder she'd looked so deeply hurt when she burst into tears.
20:11She hadn't come to steal my husband.
20:13She simply couldn't say the name of the man she loved who had died.
20:16Why did Rafe let everyone think the baby was his?
20:19Because there was still a mole inside the DeLuca family.
20:22As long as he didn't deny it,
20:23everyone would assume Lily was the Don's woman.
20:26No one would dare keep digging into her.
20:27Only after they found the mole
20:29and eliminated the killers Caruso left behind,
20:31could the truth come out.
20:34Why didn't you tell me before?
20:38Rafe didn't tell me.
20:39I found it out myself.
20:41What about Mom and Dad?
20:43Dad went after him with a gun.
20:45The two families almost went to war.
20:47Rafe had no choice but to tell him
20:48and make him swear on the honor of the Velati family
20:50that he would keep it secret.
20:51So you were allowed to investigate.
20:53Dad was allowed to point a gun at him
20:54and force the truth out of him.
20:56Vincent and Don Salvatore knew from the beginning,
20:57and the one person who had the greatest right to know the truth
21:00was the one all of you decided to lie to.
21:02No, Rafe didn't betray you.
21:03He just couldn't tell you.
21:04You should forgive him.
21:05Couldn't tell me?
21:07Forgive him?
21:08I can understand why he couldn't tell me who Michael was.
21:11I can understand why he couldn't tell me he was hunting a mull,
21:14but he couldn't even tell me in private
21:15that the baby wasn't his.
21:16Do any of you understand how much the truth mattered?
21:19Who was the one people pointed at and insulted for two months?
21:22Who was the one Rafe's mother told
21:24to give up her son's room to a pregnant woman
21:26who tried to stand up and defend herself
21:28only to have her husband physically hold her down?
21:30Did any of you ever think about how humiliated I was,
21:32and now you want me to forgive him?
21:34Dream on.
21:35Get out.
21:36I don't want to see you right now.
21:40Nor.
21:41If you don't leave,
21:42I'll take Sam and switch hotels right now.
21:49Rafe hasn't slept in two days.
21:51He seemed to sleep just fine during the two months
21:53everyone was insulting me.
21:55Jake said nothing else.
21:56I slammed the door in his face.
21:59That night, after Sam fell asleep,
22:01a crayon was still clutched in his hand.
22:02I gently pulled it free and picked up the picture he'd drawn.
22:05There were only two people in it.
22:07Sam and me.
22:08Two little figures,
22:09one big and one small,
22:11holding hands beneath the sun.
22:13I'd asked him where his father was.
22:15He'd said daddy was very far away.
22:17I folded the picture,
22:18turned off the light,
22:19and lay down.
22:21The next morning,
22:22I checked out of the hotel.
22:24I didn't go back to the DeLuca estate,
22:25and I didn't return to the Valenti home either.
22:28I sent Sam to stay with my mother for a while,
22:30and went alone to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
22:32There was a private physical rehabilitation center there
22:35called Harbor House.
22:37My grandmother had left it to me.
22:38After I got married,
22:40I handed it over to professional management
22:41and hadn't been back in six years.
22:43Mrs. Coleman, the director,
22:45was in her 50s,
22:46finished going through the past few years of accounts,
22:49then looked up at me.
22:50What brought you back all of a sudden?
22:52My husband has passed away.
22:54I told her my husband was dead.
22:56Mrs. Coleman didn't ask any more questions.
22:58She pushed a ring of keys across the desk.
23:01There's only enough money left
23:02to keep us running for two months.
23:03The East Wing leaks,
23:05the kitchen owes money to suppliers,
23:06and we're short six caregivers.
23:09Where do we start?
23:11With the unpaid wages.
23:14Working at Harbor House wasn't easy.
23:16I got to the office at six every morning.
23:18During the day I went through the books,
23:20called contractors,
23:21interviewed staff,
23:22and helped on the wards
23:23whenever we were shorthanded.
23:24Call bells rang nonstop.
23:26Carts rattled through the halls.
23:27Patients pressed their call buttons.
23:29Relatives argued,
23:30and nurses called for help.
23:31The noise never stopped.
23:33The first week,
23:34I got three blisters on my hands moving supplies,
23:36covered them with gauze,
23:37and kept working.
23:38By the second week,
23:39the blisters had turned into calluses.
23:42I sold several pieces of my personal jewelry
23:44and used the money
23:45to cover the back pay owed to 27 employees.
23:48When my father found out,
23:50he called me.
23:52The Volante family isn't short on money.
23:54I know.
23:55Then why are you selling your own things?
23:59Because Harbor House is mine.
24:02The other end of the line was silent for a long time.
24:05You're really not coming back?
24:07No.
24:08My father hung up.
24:14At the end of the month,
24:16Mrs. Coleman slid a piece of paper
24:17with an address across my desk.
24:19It was the apartment I'd asked her to help me find.
24:21It was right across from the rehab center.
24:24One bedroom,
24:25one living room,
24:25and a small balcony.
24:27I signed the lease that afternoon.
24:29That weekend,
24:29I went back to Galveston to pick up Sam.
24:31My parents were waiting in front of the estate.
24:33When my father saw me,
24:34his lips moved.
24:35What happened to your hands?
24:38Moving supplies.
24:40The next day,
24:41as I was leaving,
24:42my mother caught my sleeve.
24:43You're really not going back to Rafe?
24:46No.
24:47He came by the day before yesterday.
24:49He's lost a lot of weight.
24:50Every single one of them
24:51had helped keep the truth from me.
24:53None of them had the right
24:54to talk me into reconciling with him.
24:56No one at the DeLuca estate
24:57knew where I'd gone.
24:58They only knew that Rafe
25:00returned to the main house
25:01less and less.
25:02He spent his days at the port,
25:04slept in his study at night,
25:05and barely spoke to anyone
25:07even during meals.
25:08Vincent tried to talk to him once.
25:10Rafe shut the door in his face.
25:11Lily wasn't doing well either.
25:13One evening,
25:14she was carrying a plate of dessert
25:16toward the dining room
25:17when her legs suddenly gave out beneath her.
25:19The plate shattered,
25:20cream splattering across the floor.
25:23After examining her,
25:24the doctor said she was malnourished.
25:26Her blood pressure was dangerously low,
25:28and the pregnancy was at serious risk.
25:30If things continued like this,
25:32she could lose the baby.
25:33When Bianca went to see her,
25:35she brought a basket of fruit.
25:37Lily leaned against the headboard,
25:39her face as white as the sheets.
25:40Bianca sat for a while
25:42before finally asking the question
25:43she'd been holding in for two months.
25:45Lily, tell me the truth.
25:47Whose baby are you carrying?
25:50Lily didn't take the fruit
25:52Bianca offered her.
25:53If the baby isn't Rafe's,
25:54why didn't you say so?
25:55The Don saved me.
25:58I can't ruin his plan.
26:01What about Nora?
26:04Every single day,
26:05I wanted to tell her.
26:06When Bianca returned from the clinic,
26:07she ran into Don Salvatore in the hallway.
26:10Salvador.
26:11Don Salvatore stood in front of her
26:12for a long moment.
26:13Bianca,
26:14when you married me,
26:15I told you one thing.
26:17Do you remember it?
26:18Bianca answered nervously.
26:20I remember.
26:21You said a Delina woman
26:22either helps hold the family together,
26:24or knows when to keep her mouth shut.
26:26For the past two months,
26:27you've done neither.
26:29You humiliated your own daughter-in-law
26:30over a girl whose background
26:32you didn't even know.
26:33I didn't know.
26:34Then that was even more reason
26:35to keep your mouth shut.
26:39Nora is the only person in this house
26:41who hasn't done a single thing wrong
26:43from beginning to end.
26:44Go ask Vincent.
26:46Once you have,
26:47think very carefully
26:48about what you're going to do next.
26:49By the time Bianca left the hallway,
26:51her legs were shaking.
26:52She went straight to Vincent's office.
26:54Lily's baby isn't Rafe's, is it?
26:56Vincent closed the file
26:57in front of him
26:58and didn't answer.
27:00Then whose baby is it?
27:02There are still things
27:02I can't tell you.
27:04Think about it yourself.
27:06If the baby really was the Dons,
27:08why did every man
27:08who came back from the Gulf Coast
27:10protect Lily,
27:10yet not one of them congratulate him?
27:13A living person's pride
27:14will never matter more
27:15than protecting the child
27:16of a dead man.
27:20Michael's belongings
27:21were returned to the estate.
27:22The package wasn't large.
27:24It was a metal box
27:25recovered from the burned warehouse.
27:27Rafe opened it.
27:28Inside were a neatly folded black suit,
27:30an old watch,
27:31a bill folded in half,
27:33and a letter
27:33that had never been sent.
27:34Lily's name was written
27:35on the envelope.
27:36Rafe opened the letter.
27:37If I don't make it back,
27:39tell my child
27:39his father didn't run away.
27:41I died trying to come home.
27:43Rafe took the letter
27:44to Vincent's study,
27:45that two of them
27:46shut the door
27:47and stayed inside
27:47all afternoon.
27:49Vincent took apart
27:50the old watch
27:50and found a tiny folded
27:52ledger page
27:52hidden inside the casing.
27:54It listed several
27:55DeLuca shipments
27:56whose schedules
27:56had been leaked.
27:57The same initials
27:59were written
27:59beside every entry
28:00CG Carlo Greco,
28:02a capo responsible
28:03for coordinating
28:04the DeLuca port operations.
28:06That night,
28:07Carlo was caught
28:07while trying
28:08to leave New Orleans.
28:09He was dragged
28:10into the basement,
28:11still shouting
28:12that he'd served
28:12the DeLuca family
28:13for 20 years.
28:15Were you the one
28:15who sold our movements
28:16to Caruso
28:17before those attacks?
28:18Carlo stopped shouting.
28:20Using the addresses
28:21he gave up,
28:22DeLuca men found
28:23the last group
28:23of Carusas
28:24still hiding in the city.
28:26Before dawn,
28:27the threat was gone.
28:28The next morning,
28:30Don Salvatore
28:31ordered Vincent
28:31to summon every
28:32core member of the family
28:33to the private chapel.
28:35It wasn't a family meeting.
28:36It was a formal
28:37family tribunal
28:38presided over
28:39by Don Salvatore himself.
28:41The chapel was packed.
28:43Bianca sat in the front row.
28:44The women who had
28:45insulted me
28:46sat behind her.
28:47Rafe stood beside the altar
28:48instead of taking
28:49the Don's seat.
28:50That chair had been left
28:51for Don Salvatore.
28:53Don Salvatore walked
28:54slowly toward the altar,
28:55leaning on his ebony cane.
28:57He had been retired
28:58for three years.
28:59This was the first time
29:00in three years
29:01that he had sat
29:01in that old chair.
29:03I've been retired
29:04for three years.
29:06Today,
29:06I'm stepping into
29:08family business
29:08one more time.
29:10Because this time,
29:11the family owes a debt
29:12to one dead man
29:14and justice
29:15to one woman.
29:18He looked at Bianca,
29:19then at the Capos' wives
29:21seated behind her.
29:23Vincent walked
29:24to the long table
29:25and placed three things
29:26on it.
29:27Michael's cufflinks,
29:28the farewell letter
29:29he'd written to Lily,
29:30and the bloodstained note
29:31entrusting Lily
29:32and the baby to Rafe.
29:33Michael Doyle
29:34was not a made man.
29:35For nine years,
29:36he carried out
29:3727 operations
29:38for the DeLuca family
29:39and saved my son's life
29:41twice.
29:42The last time,
29:43he didn't come home alive.
29:49If I don't make it back,
29:51tell my child
29:52his father didn't run away.
29:54I died trying to come home.
29:57The woman the Don
29:58brought back
29:58from the Gulf Coast
29:59was not his mistress.
30:01She was the fiance
30:02of a man
30:02who died
30:03for the DeLuca family
30:04and she was carrying
30:06his child.
30:08The handkerchief
30:08slipped from Bianca's hand.
30:13Until Carlo was caught
30:15and the killers
30:15were eliminated,
30:17anyone learning
30:17the child's identity
30:18would have put Lily
30:19and the baby
30:20in mortal danger.
30:21That's why the Don
30:22couldn't explain publicly.
30:27I was the one
30:28who ordered everyone
30:29to believe Lily
30:30was my woman.
30:31I take responsibility
30:32for every consequence.
30:36Over the past
30:37two months,
30:38several people
30:39in this house
30:39said ugly things
30:40to the Donna's face.
30:42I won't name names.
30:44If you were one of them,
30:45stand up!
30:46After a long time,
30:47two Capo's wives
30:48stood first.
30:50We're sorry.
30:51We were wrong.
30:52Then four more stood.
30:53Then five.
30:55Bianca was the last.
30:57She slowly rose
30:58from the front row
30:58and turned to face
30:59the entire chapel.
31:00I'm Rafe's mother.
31:02I tried to force Nora
31:04to give Lily
31:05her son's room.
31:07I humiliated her
31:08in public
31:09at the charity
31:09committee meeting.
31:12Everyone in this house
31:13who spoke badly
31:14about Nora
31:14followed my lead.
31:16I was wrong.
31:19Don Salvatore
31:21watched her in silence
31:21for a long time.
31:22Tell Nora that.
31:24Not us.
31:27After the tribunal ended,
31:28Bianca didn't leave
31:29right away.
31:30She stood for a long time
31:31staring at the empty seat
31:33reserved for the Donna
31:33beside the altar
31:34as tears kept slipping
31:36down her cheeks.
31:37Three days later,
31:38she wrote me a letter
31:38by hand.
31:39She wrote that
31:40if I was willing
31:41to come back,
31:41she would move out
31:42of the main house
31:43and hand over
31:44the estate keys,
31:45along with everything
31:47that belonged to the Donna.
31:48If I still couldn't
31:49forgive her,
31:50she would come kneel
31:51before me herself.
31:52By the end of the letter,
31:53the ink had bled
31:55across the page.
31:56Gabriel came to
31:57Harbor House
31:57with two men.
31:58At the time,
31:59I was pushing a cart
32:00of clean sheets
32:01toward the inpatient wing.
32:02Mrs. Coleman called me
32:03twice from the end
32:04of the hallway
32:05before I heard her.
32:06I handed the cart
32:06to a caregiver
32:07and went outside.
32:10Donna, two days ago,
32:12Don Salvatore
32:12personally presided
32:13over a family tribunal
32:14in the chapel
32:15and explained everything.
32:17Michael saved
32:17the Don's life.
32:18Lily and the baby
32:19were both entrusted
32:20to him by Michael.
32:21Bianca and the others
32:21were all there.
32:22Don Salvatore ordered
32:23Bianca to apologize
32:24to you herself.
32:27I opened Bianca's letter,
32:29read it,
32:29then folded it again.
32:30She said that if you'd
32:31come back,
32:31she'd move out.
32:33And she said
32:34if you want her to kneel,
32:35she'll come and kneel
32:36before you herself.
32:38Tell her she doesn't
32:39need to kneel.
32:42Then when are you
32:43coming back to the estate?
32:44I never said
32:45I was going back.
32:46But the baby
32:47isn't the Don's.
32:48I know.
32:50The Don never
32:51touched Lily either.
32:52I know.
32:53Then why?
32:56Because my shift
32:57isn't over yet.
33:00That night,
33:01I went back to the
33:01DeLuca estate
33:02not to move back in
33:03to collect what I'd
33:04left behind.
33:05A winter coat,
33:06two pairs of shoes,
33:07and a photo album.
33:08On the last page
33:09was a picture of the
33:10three of us standing
33:11in front of the estate
33:12before Rafe left
33:13for the Gulf Coast
33:14to fight the rival family.
33:16Sam sat on Rafe's shoulders,
33:17grinning wide enough
33:18to show a row
33:19of tiny teeth.
33:20I stood beside them,
33:22straightening Rafe's collar.
33:23My lips were parted
33:24as if I were still speaking.
33:26I was probably telling him
33:27to come home safe.
33:28I closed the album
33:29and placed it
33:30in the cardboard box.
33:31As I stepped outside,
33:32I ran into Bianca.
33:33The moment she saw
33:34the box in my arms,
33:35she went rigid
33:36at the foot of the stairs.
33:38Nora,
33:39I got your letter.
33:41Stay tonight.
33:44If you don't want to see me,
33:45I'll move into
33:46the West House right now.
33:47The main house is yours.
33:49So is your place as Donna.
33:51Mrs. DeLuca,
33:52I'm not staying away
33:53because I'm still angry with you.
33:55Then why?
33:56Everyone here calls me Donna,
33:58but when something
33:59actually happened,
34:00not one person
34:00treated me like the Donna.
34:03You expected me
34:05to accept a woman
34:05who might have been
34:06carrying my husband's child.
34:08Rafe told me
34:09to keep quiet.
34:11Everyone else stood there
34:12and watched me be humiliated.
34:15Now that the truth is out,
34:16you all think
34:17that if you give me back
34:18the room
34:19and the ring,
34:20everything can go back
34:21to the way it was.
34:25Nora,
34:26I'm sorry.
34:27I accept your apology,
34:29but I'm not coming back.