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00:00On our wedding day, my husband whispered in my ear.
00:03Damiano pointed at the giant screen above the banquet hall, smiling.
00:06Three years ago, your ex-boyfriend Kieran dumped you for Isabella.
00:11I vowed that I would make him experience betrayal too.
00:14I stared frozen.
00:15My eyes drifted to the screen.
00:16Slowly, it wasn't our wedding photos.
00:18It's a man and a woman, tangled and sexing.
00:20Damiano, years ago, my ex-fiancé Kieran and Isabella,
00:23the scholarship student I had personally sponsored through,
00:25he had gutted me the same way.
00:28Tears fell before I could stop them.
00:30Damiano frowned.
00:32Sarah, why are you crying?
00:34I avenged you.
00:35You should be happy.
00:37Dead silence.
00:38Then the ballroom erupted.
00:39Laughter, whispers, camera flashes.
00:41In the far corner of the ballroom, a man set down his champagne glass.
00:44He didn't laugh.
00:45My stepbrother, Rafael Moretti.
00:48He had told me not to marry Damiano.
00:50I hadn't listened.
00:52Damiano leaned in again, still smiling.
00:54I made a bet with Isabella on what you'd do when you saw this, cry, or scream.
00:58He wiped my tears with his thumb, more gently.
01:01You cried.
01:02I won.
01:03Damiano pulled out his phone.
01:04A call was already live.
01:05Isabella's voice drifted through, lazy and amused.
01:08Fine, you win.
01:09I'll get into that lace set you love and try every position you asked for.
01:13Send the pictures as your dessert.
01:14My mind went blank.
01:15Green changed.
01:16Forever bonded flashed in gold.
01:18Damiano took my cold hand and raised his glass to the guests.
01:21Just a joke.
01:22Livin's up the mood, uh-huh.
01:24Laughter.
01:24Applause before he carried me off the stage like a doll.
01:27I slapped him.
01:28Damiano turned his face slowly.
01:29His eyes rimmed red.
01:31I remembered three families.
01:32Three bloodlines.
01:33The Valentis.
01:34The Dravens.
01:34The Morettis.
01:35Three of New York's five werewolf houses.
01:37Old money.
01:38Older grudges.
01:39Damiano, Valenti, and Kieran Draven had grown up snarling at each other across ballrooms and
01:42boardrooms.
01:43They fought over territory.
01:45Deals and me.
01:45At 22, they demanded a blood duel under the full moon.
01:48No guns.
01:49No mercy.
01:50Whoever walked out first would claim me as his Luna.
01:53Damiano's ribs were crushed.
01:55His wolf nearly didn't shift back.
01:57Flatlined twice on the surgeon's table.
02:00Kieran dragged himself out on a shattered leg.
02:02I chose Kieran.
02:03The one who bled less.
02:04The week before our wedding, I was pregnant.
02:06I went to Kieran's penthouse as a surprise.
02:08I found Isabella in his bed instead.
02:10A half-formed bite mark bloomed on her throat.
02:12Kieran's mark.
02:13Fresh.
02:13He smiled at me.
02:15Kieran says I'm tighter than you.
02:16Better at fucking.
02:18He says I know how to please him in ways you never could.
02:21Kieran didn't deny it.
02:22Nor did he stop fucking her.
02:23I ran into the rain.
02:25Stumbled through the streets of Little Italy for three hours.
02:27Something inside my chest was ripped out.
02:29My wolf howled inside me and I couldn't shut her up.
02:31Damiano found me.
02:32He held an umbrella over my head.
02:34His coat still smelled like gunpowd.
02:36He didn't ask a single question.
02:37Just said,
02:38Come home with me.
02:39The next morning, my father collapsed.
02:41Don Salvatore Morty.
02:42Godfather of the Morty Pack.
02:43His wolf heart was failing.
02:45A rare disease that ate at old bloodlines like ours.
02:47The kind no human surgeon could touch and no pack doctor could cure.
02:50Damiano knelt beside my hospital chair.
02:52Marry me, Syrah.
02:54I'll find him a heart.
02:56Alpha to alpha.
02:57I swear it on my wolf.
02:58I was empty, broken, pregnant with another man's child.
03:01Damiano never cared that I was pregnant with Kieran's child.
03:03I'll raise the pup as my own once it's born.
03:06But I couldn't accept it.
03:07I wouldn't let the proud Valenti heir be humiliated,
03:10reduced to a pathetic substitute or a vac-up plan just because of me.
03:13On a rainy night, I swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills.
03:16Damiano kicked the door off, scooped me into his arms,
03:18sped through the streets of Manhattan, running every red light.
03:21Rain and tears mingled, streaming down my face.
03:23He was sobbing his heart out.
03:24I survived.
03:25The baby didn't.
03:26That night, Damiano knelt in the hospital corridor and prayed the entire night.
03:29Today is our wedding.
03:31I don't blame you slapping me.
03:33But Sarah, you better smile more.
03:35Damiano took my hand and gently blew on my cheek where I had struck him.
03:38Does it hurt now?
03:39I'll put some balm on it.
03:40His tone was as gentle as if nothing had ever happened.
03:43I incredulously shook off his hand.
03:44Damiano frowned.
03:46I let you hit me.
03:48Isn't that enough to get it out of yourself?
03:50My tears welled up uncontrollably.
03:52Who are you?
03:53Where did the man who loved me to death go?
03:56Damiano didn't reach out to hold my hand again.
03:58After a long pause, he spoke.
04:00Sarah, I've really done everything I could for you.
04:03Stop treating me like a fool.
04:04You only came back to me after you were done playing around with Kyren.
04:08I don't care that you lost a kid for Kyren.
04:10Why can't you stand it just because I slept with Isabella?
04:12I froze in place and it took me a long moment to find my voice.
04:16But I love you.
04:17Damiano's gaze was so unfamiliar it chilled my heart.
04:20I love you too.
04:21That's exactly why I deliberately got close to Isabella just to avenge you.
04:24Sleep with her.
04:25Take photos.
04:26Let every pack in New York know she's a bitch.
04:29But after being with Isabella more than once, I finally understand why Kyren chose her over you.
04:33My whole body shuddered.
04:35Damiano looked at me, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
04:39Because Kyren really does have good taste.
04:41Isabella is a lot hotter than you.
04:44Damiano!
04:45Isabella has my name marked on her inner thigh.
04:48When we're fucking, the mark swells.
04:51She let her throb like they're alive.
04:53Can you do that?
04:55Every time I get rough with you, you'd whip her about the pain.
04:58It just breaks my heart.
04:59His eyes stained a deep, bleeding red.
05:01His wolf was back, but it wasn't looking at me, at a boy who always came in second.
05:05What do I lack compared to Kyren?
05:07Why, from the day we were kids, is he always one step ahead of me?
05:10Behind him, the door opened.
05:11Raphael, my stepbrother, walked in.
05:13He didn't look at me, he looked at Damiano.
05:15Step away from my sister, Valenti.
05:17Before I remembered which one of us is supposed to be civilized.
05:20This is between me and my wife, Morelli.
05:22Raphael smiled.
05:23It didn't reach his eyes.
05:24Your wife?
05:25He took one step closer.
05:26My father gave you his daughter because you swore on your wolf to protect her.
05:29Tonight, you humiliated her in front of all packs.
05:31Contract is broken.
05:33Raphael, I whispered.
05:35Damiano laughed, low and dangerous.
05:36You've been waiting years to say that, haven't you, Moretti?
05:39Don't think I haven't noticed.
05:41The way you look at your little sister.
05:43The room went cold.
05:44The doors of the ballroom burst open behind him.
05:46His men filed in.
05:48Moretti soldiers, all alphas.
05:50They didn't have to, you know?
05:52Raffle took one step forward.
05:53Every Moretti asset tied to the Velotti name is frozen.
05:56And if you touch my sister one more time tonight without my permission, I'll personally drag
06:00you out of this ballroom by your throat.
06:02Damiano's jaw tightened.
06:03He didn't speak.
06:04Turn to me.
06:04I'll have the makeup artist come fix your face.
06:06Our wedding.
06:06No.
06:07Raphael said.
06:08You are my wife.
06:10Sarah, nothing can't get over.
06:11We'll talk about when we get home.
06:13Then he left.
06:14Raphael finally turned to me.
06:15After my father, one of the reasons why all the packs in New York dared not offend Moretti
06:18was because of Raphael.
06:19His eyes were softer than they had any right to be.
06:22But it made me panic.
06:23Sarah, you don't have to decide anything tonight.
06:25Wedding is over.
06:26I'm going home, brother.
06:28My throat was full of glass.
06:29He nodded once.
06:30Something was suppressed in his eyes.
06:32Then he leaned down to my ear, so close.
06:34You always have somewhere to come back to.
06:37Remember that.
06:38Sarah.
06:38I know.
06:39Then I left.
06:40The door clicked.
06:41On the way home, the car was completely silent.
06:43The rain hadn't stopped.
06:45My hand rested on my lower abdomen.
06:47I once carried a 12-week-old baby.
06:49How could history repeat itself once again?
06:51The doctor had warned me three days ago.
06:53The baby is very weak because of my previous miscarriage that could easily miscarry if I'm
06:57not careful.
06:57I hadn't told anyone.
06:59Not Damiano.
07:00Not even Papa.
07:01Not Raphael.
07:02Raphael is usually a man of his word, but tonight he only threatened Damiano.
07:05Because Papa's heart is also fragile.
07:07If he knew about the disgraceful events at wedding, his heart might fail immediately.
07:11So I stayed quiet too.
07:12I made myself look weak for the baby.
07:14Please stay.
07:15Please.
07:16Just this once.
07:16Tears blurred my vision, and I closed my eyes against the window.
07:19And for the first time in nine years, I let myself remember.
07:22I was 16.
07:23Raphael was 19.
07:24We had been step-siblings for exactly four months.
07:27I fell asleep on his shoulder.
07:28But I woke up because his lips brushed against mine.
07:30Soft.
07:31Barely a breath.
07:32I'm sorry, Sarah.
07:33He was already standing by the door when I opened my eyes.
07:35It won't happen again.
07:36It didn't.
07:37For nine years.
07:38He never touched me again.
07:39Never sat too close.
07:40On the day Daminti and I got engaged, his seat was vacant.
07:43He used the excuse of going to other areas to raid other gangs.
07:47Until tonight, when he walked through that door and I remembered every brick.
07:50The car stopped.
07:51I opened my eyes.
07:53I pushed the door open.
07:54And frosed.
07:55The penthouse was buried in flowers.
07:57White roses, from floor to ceiling.
07:59The out-of-print book set I'd mentioned in college.
08:01The antique music box I'd glanced at twice.
08:04A crate of handmade chocolates flown in from Sicily.
08:06Everything wrapped in silk ribbon and arranged like an apology.
08:09My legs went weak.
08:10I gripped the doorframe.
08:11The little one inside me is getting restless.
08:12Something is wrong.
08:13Damiano, can you come home, please?
08:15Sarah, you really are a complete loser.
08:17On our wedding day, my husband whispered in my ear.
08:20Damiano pointed at the giant screen above the banquet hall, smiling.
08:23Three years ago, your ex-boyfriend Kieran dumped you for Isabella.
08:28I vowed that I would make him experience betrayal too.
08:31Stared frozen.
08:32My eyes drifted to the screen.
08:33Slowly, it wasn't our wedding photos.
08:35It's a man and a woman, tangled and sexing.
08:37Damiano.
08:38Years ago, my ex-fiancé Kieran and Isabella.
08:40The scholarship student I had personally sponsored through.
08:42He had gutted me the same way.
08:45Tears fell before I could stop them.
08:47Damiano frowned.
08:49Sarah, why are you crying?
08:51I avenged you.
08:52You should be happy.
08:54Dead silence.
08:55Then the ballroom erupted.
08:56Laughter, whispers, camera flashes.
08:58In the far corner of the ballroom, a man set down his champagne glass.
09:01He didn't laugh.
09:02My stepbrother, Rafael Moretti.
09:05He had told me not to marry Damiano.
09:07I hadn't listened.
09:09Damiano leaned in again, still smiling.
09:11I made a bet with Isabella on what you'd do when you saw this, cry, or scream.
09:15He wiped my tears with his thumb, more gently.
09:18You cried.
09:19I won.
09:20Damiano pulled out his phone.
09:21A call was already live.
09:22Isabella's voice drifted through, lazy and amused.
09:25Fine.
09:25You win.
09:26I'll get into that lace set you love and try every position you asked for.
09:29Send the pictures as your dessert.
09:31My mind went blank.
09:32Green changed.
09:33Forever bonded flashed in gold.
09:35Damiano took my cold hand and raised his glass to the guests.
09:38Just a joke.
09:39Livin's up the mood, uh-huh.
09:41Laughter.
09:41Applause before he carried me off the stage like a doll.
09:44I slapped him.
09:45Damiano turned his face slowly.
09:46His eyes rimmed red.
09:48I remembered three families.
09:49Three bloodlines.
09:50The Valentis.
09:51The Dravens.
09:51The Morettis.
09:52Three of New York's five werewolf houses.
09:54Old money.
09:55Older grudges.
09:56Damiano, Valenti, and Kieran Draven had grown up snarling at each other across ballrooms and
09:59boardrooms.
10:00They fought over territory.
10:02Deals and me.
10:02At 22, they demanded a blood duel under the full moon.
10:05No guns.
10:06No mercy.
10:07Whoever walked out first would claim me as his Luna.
10:09Damiano's ribs were crushed.
10:12His wolf nearly didn't shift back.
10:14Flatlined twice on the surgeon's table.
10:17Kieran dragged himself out on a shattered leg.
10:19I chose Kieran.
10:20The one who bled less.
10:21A week before our wedding, I was pregnant.
10:23I went to Kieran's penthouse as a surprise.
10:25I found Isabella in his bed instead.
10:27A half-formed bite mark bloomed on her throat.
10:29Kieran's mark.
10:30Fresh.
10:30He smiled at me.
10:32Kieran says I'm tighter than you.
10:33Better at fucking.
10:35He says I know how to please him in ways you never could.
10:38Kieran didn't deny it.
10:39Nor did he stop fucking her.
10:40I ran into the rain.
10:42Stumbled through the streets of Little Italy for three hours.
10:44Something inside my chest was ripped out.
10:46My wolf howled inside me and I couldn't shut her up.
10:48Damiano found me.
10:49He held an umbrella over my head.
10:51His coat still smelled like gunpowd.
10:53He didn't ask a single question.
10:54Just said,
10:55Come home with me.
10:56The next morning, my father collapsed.
10:58Don Salvatore Morty.
10:59Godfather of the Morty Pack.
11:00His wolf heart was failing.
11:02A rare disease that ate at old bloodlines like ours.
11:04The kind no human surgeon could touch and no pack doctor could cure.
11:07Damiano knelt beside my hospital chair.
11:09Marry me, Syrah.
11:11I'll find him a heart.
11:13Alpha to alpha.
11:14I swear it on my wolf.
11:15I was empty, broken, pregnant with another man's child.
11:18Damiano never cared that I was pregnant with Kieran's child.
11:20I'll raise the pup as my own once it's born.
11:23But I couldn't accept it.
11:24I wouldn't let the proud Valenti heir be humiliated,
11:27reduced to a pathetic substitute or a vac-up plan just because of me.
11:29On a rainy night, I swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills.
11:33Damiano kicked the door off, scooped me into his arms,
11:35sped through the streets of Manhattan, running every red light.
11:38Rain and tears mingled, streaming down my face.
11:40He was sobbing his heart out.
11:41I survived.
11:42The baby didn't.
11:43That night, Damiano knelt in the hospital corridor and prayed the entire night.
11:46Today is our wedding.
11:48I don't blame you slapping me.
11:50But Sarah, you better smile more.
11:52Damiano took my hand and gently blew on my cheek where I had struck him.
11:55Does it hurt now?
11:56I'll put some balm on it.
11:57His tone was as gentle as if nothing had ever happened.
12:00I incredulously shook off his hand.
12:01Damiano frowned.
12:03I let you hit me.
12:05Isn't that enough to get it out of yourself?
12:07My tears welled up uncontrollably.
12:09Who are you?
12:10Where did the man who loved me to death go?
12:13Damiano didn't reach out to hold my hand again.
12:15After a long pause, he spoke.
12:17Sarah, I've really done everything I could for you.
12:19Stop treating me like a fool.
12:21You only came back to me after you were done playing around with Kyren.
12:24I don't care that you lost a kid for Kyren.
12:27Why can't you stand it just because I slept with Isabella?
12:29I froze in place and it took me a long moment to find my voice.
12:33But I love you.
12:34Damiano's gaze was so unfamiliar it chilled my heart.
12:37I love you too.
12:38That's exactly why I deliberately got close to Isabella just to avenge you.
12:41Sleep with her.
12:42Take photos.
12:43Let every pack in New York know she's a bitch.
12:46But after being with Isabella more than once, I finally understand why Kyren chose her over you.
12:50My whole body shuddered.
12:52Damiano looked at me, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
12:56Because Kyren really does have good taste.
12:58Isabella is a lot hotter than you.
13:01Damiano!
13:02Isabella has my name marked on her inner thigh.
13:05When we're fucking, the mark swells.
13:07She let her throb like they're alive.
13:10Can you do that?
13:12Every time I get rough with you, you'd whip her about the pain.
13:15It just breaks my heart.
13:16His eyes stained a deep bleeding red.
13:17His wolf was back, but it wasn't looking at me, at a boy who always came in second.
13:22What do I lack compared to Kyren?
13:24Why, from the day we were kids, is he always one step ahead of me?
13:27Behind him, the door opened.
13:28Raphael, my stepbrother, walked in.
13:30He didn't look at me, he looked at Damiano.
13:32Step away from my sister, Valenti.
13:34Before I remembered which one of us is supposed to be civilized.
13:37This is between me and my wife, Morelli.
13:39Raphael smiled.
13:40It didn't reach his eyes.
13:41Your wife?
13:42He took one step closer.
13:43My father gave you his daughter because you swore on your wolf to protect her.
13:46Tonight you humiliated her in front of all packs.
13:48Contract is broken.
13:50Raphael, I whispered.
13:52Damiano laughed, low and dangerous.
13:53You've been waiting years to say that, haven't you, Moretti?
13:56Don't think I haven't noticed.
13:58The way you look at your little sister.
13:59The room went cold.
14:01The doors of the ballroom burst open behind him.
14:03His men filed in.
14:05Moretti soldiers, all alphas.
14:07They didn't have to, you know?
14:09Raffle took one step forward.
14:10Every Moretti asset tied to the Velotti name is frozen.
14:13And if you touch my sister one more time tonight without my permission, I'll personally drag
14:17you out of this ballroom by your throat.
14:19Damiano's jaw tightened.
14:20He didn't speak.
14:20Turned to me.
14:21I'll have the makeup artist come fix your face.
14:23Our wedding.
14:23No.
14:24Raphael said.
14:25You are my wife.
14:27Sarah, nothing can't get over.
14:28We'll talk about when we get home.
14:30Then he left.
14:31Raphael finally turned to me.
14:32After my father, one of the reasons why all the packs in New York dared not offend Moretti
14:35was because of Raphael.
14:36His eyes were softer than they had any right to be.
14:38But it made me panic.
14:40Sarah, you don't have to decide anything tonight.
14:42Wedding is over.
14:43I'm going home, brother.
14:45My throat was full of glass.
14:46He nodded once.
14:47Something was suppressed in his eyes.
14:49Then he leaned down to my ear, so close.
14:51You always have somewhere to come back to.
14:54Remember that.
14:55Sarah.
14:55I know.
14:56Then I left.
14:57The door clicked.
14:58On the way home, the car was completely silent.
15:00The rain hadn't stopped.
15:02My hand rested on my lower abdomen.
15:04I once carried a 12-week-old baby.
15:06How could history repeat itself once again?
15:08The doctor had warned me three days ago.
15:10The baby is very weak because of my previous miscarriage that could easily miscarry if I'm
15:14not careful.
15:14I hadn't told anyone.
15:16Not Damiano.
15:17Not even Papa.
15:18Not Raphael.
15:19Raphael is usually a man of his word, but tonight he only threatened Damiano.
15:22Because Papa's heart is also fragile.
15:24If he knew about the disgraceful events at wedding, his heart might fail immediately.
15:28So I stayed quiet too.
15:29I made myself look weak for the baby.
15:31Please stay.
15:32Please.
15:32Just this once.
15:33Tears blurred my vision, and I closed my eyes against the window.
15:36And for the first time in nine years, I let myself remember.
15:39I was 16.
15:40Raphael was 19.
15:41We had been step-siblings for exactly four months.
15:44I fell asleep on his shoulder.
15:45But I woke up because his lips brushed against mine.
15:47Soft.
15:48Barely a breath.
15:49I'm sorry, Sarah.
15:50He was already standing by the door when I opened my eyes.
15:52It won't happen again.
15:53It didn't.
15:54For nine years.
15:55He never touched me again.
15:56Never sat too close.
15:57On the day Daminti and I got engaged, his seat was vacant.
16:00He used the excuse of going to other areas to raid other gangs.
16:04Until tonight, when he walked through that door and I remembered every brick.
16:07The car stopped.
16:08I opened my eyes.
16:10I pushed the door open.
16:11And frosed.
16:12The penthouse was buried in flowers.
16:14White roses from floor to ceiling.
16:16The out-of-print book set I'd mentioned in college.
16:18The antique music box I'd glanced at twice.
16:21A crate of handmade chocolates flown in from Sicily.
16:23Everything wrapped in silk ribbon and arranged like an apology.
16:26My legs went weak.
16:27I gripped the doorframe.
16:27The little one inside me is getting restless.
16:29Something is wrong.
16:30Damiano, can you come home, please?
16:31Sarah, you really are a complete loser.
16:34On our wedding day, my husband whispered in my ear.
16:37Damiano pointed at the giant screen above the banquet hall, smiling.
16:40Three years ago, your ex-boyfriend Kieran dumped you for Isabella.
16:45I vowed that I would make him experience betrayal too.
16:48Stared frozen.
16:49My eyes drifted to the screen.
16:50Slowly, it wasn't our wedding photos.
16:52It's a man and a woman, tangled and sexing.
16:54Damiano, years ago, my ex-fiancé Kieran and Isabella.
16:57The scholarship student I had personally sponsored through, he had gutted me the same way.
17:02Tears fell before I could stop them.
17:04Damiano frowned.
17:06Sarah, why are you crying?
17:08I avenged you.
17:09You should be happy.
17:11Dead silence.
17:12Then the ballroom erupted.
17:13Laughter, whispers, camera flashes.
17:15In the far corner of the ballroom, a man set down his champagne glass.
17:18He didn't laugh.
17:19My stepbrother, Rafael Moretti.
17:22He had told me not to marry Damiano.
17:24I hadn't listened.
17:26Damiano leaned in again, still smiling.
17:28I made a bet with Isabella on what you'd do when you saw this, cry, or scream.
17:32He wiped my tears with his thumb, more gently.
17:35You cried.
17:36I won.
17:37Damiano pulled out his phone.
17:38A call was already live.
17:39Isabella's voice drifted through, lazy and amused.
17:42Fine, you win.
17:43I'll get into that lace set you love and try every position you asked for.
17:46Send the pictures as your dessert.
17:48My mind went blank.
17:49Green changed.
17:50Forever bonded flashed in gold.
17:52Damiano took my cold hand and raised his glass to the guests.
17:55Just a joke.
17:56Livin's up the mood, uh-huh.
17:58Laughter.
17:58Applause before he carried me off the stage like a doll.
18:01I slapped him.
18:02Damiano turned his face slowly.
18:03His eyes rimmed red.
18:05I remembered three families.
18:06Three bloodlines.
18:07The Valentis.
18:08The Dravens.
18:08The Morettis.
18:09Three of New York's five werewolf houses.
18:11Old money.
18:12Older grudges.
18:12Damiano, Valenti, and Kieran Draven had grown up snarling at each other across ballrooms and
18:16boardrooms.
18:17They fought over territory.
18:18Deals and me.
18:19At 22, they demanded a blood duel under the full moon.
18:22No guns.
18:23No mercy.
18:23Whoever walked out first would claim me as his luna.
18:27Damiano's ribs were crushed.
18:29His wolf nearly didn't shift back.
18:31Flatlined twice on the surgeon's table.
18:34Kieran dragged himself out on a shattered leg.
18:36I chose Kieran.
18:37The one who bled less.
18:38A week before our wedding, I was pregnant.
18:40I went to Kieran's penthouse as a surprise.
18:42I found Isabella in his bed instead.
18:44A half-formed bite mark bloomed on her throat.
18:46Kieran's mark.
18:47Fresh.
18:47She smiled at me.
18:49Kieran says I'm tighter than you.
18:50Better at fucking.
18:52He says I know how to please him in ways you never could.
18:55Kieran didn't deny it.
18:56Nor did he stop fucking her.
18:57I ran into the rain.
18:58Stumbled through the streets of Little Italy for three hours.
19:01Something inside my chest was ripped out.
19:03My wolf howled inside me and I couldn't shut her up.
19:05Damiano found me.
19:06He held an umbrella over my head.
19:08His coat still smelled like gunpowd.
19:10He didn't ask a single question.
19:11Just said,
19:12Come home with me.
19:13The next morning, my father collapsed.
19:15Don Salvatore Morty.
19:16Godfather of the Morty Pack.
19:17His wolf heart was failing.
19:19A rare disease that ate at old bloodlines like ours.
19:21The kind no human surgeon could touch and no pack doctor could cure.
19:24Damiano knelt beside my hospital chair.
19:26Marry me, Sira.
19:28I'll find him a heart.
19:30Alpha to alpha.
19:31I swear it on my wolf.
19:32I was empty, broken.
19:33Pregnant with another man's child.
19:35Damiano never cared that I was pregnant with Kieran's child.
19:37I'll raise the pup as my own once it's born.
19:40But I couldn't accept it.
19:41I wouldn't let the proud Valenti heir be humiliated.
19:44Reduced to a pathetic substitute or a vac-up plan just because of me.
19:46On a rainy night, I swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills.
19:49Damiano kicked the door off.
19:51Scooped me into his arms.
19:52Sped through the streets of Manhattan, running every red light.
19:55Rain and tears mingled, streaming down my face.
19:57He was sobbing his heart out.
19:58I survived.
19:59The baby didn't.
20:00That night, Damiano knelt in the hospital corridor and prayed the entire night.
20:03Today is our wedding.
20:05I don't blame you slapping me.
20:06But Sarah, you better smile more.
20:08Damiano took my hand and gently blew on my cheek where I had struck him.
20:12Does it hurt now?
20:13I'll put some balm on it.
20:14His tone was as gentle as if nothing had ever happened.
20:17I incredulously shook off his hand.
20:18Damiano frowned.
20:20I let you hit me.
20:22Isn't that enough to get it out of yourself?
20:24My tears welled up uncontrollably.
20:26Who are you?
20:27Where did the man who loved me to death go?
20:30Damiano didn't reach out to hold my hand again.
20:32After a long pause, he spoke.
20:33Sarah, I've really done everything I could for you.
20:36Stop treating me like a fool.
20:38You only came back to me after you were done playing around with Kieran.
20:41Kieran, I don't care that you lost a kid for Kieran.
20:44Why can't you stand it just because I slept with Isabella?
20:46I froze in place and it took me a long moment to find my voice.
20:50But I love you.
20:51Damiano's gaze was so unfamiliar it chilled my heart.
20:54I love you too.
20:55That's exactly why I deliberately got close to Isabella, just to avenge you.
20:58Sleep with her, take photos, let every pack in New York know she's a bitch.
21:03But after being with Isabella more than once, I finally understand why Kieran chose her over you.
21:07My whole body shuddered.
21:09Damiano looked at me, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
21:13Because Kieran really does have good taste.
21:15Isabella is a lot hotter than you.
21:18Damiano!
21:19Isabella has my name marked on her inner thigh.
21:22When we're fucking, the mark swells.
21:24She let her throb like they're alive.
21:27Can you do that?
21:29Every time I get rough with you, you'd whip her about the pain.
21:32It just breaks my heart.
21:33His eyes stained a deep, bleeding red.
21:35His wolf was back, but it wasn't looking at me.
21:37At a boy who always came in second.
21:39What do I lack compared to Kieran?
21:41Why, from the day we were kids, is he always one step ahead of me?
21:44Behind him, the door opened.
21:45Raphael, my stepbrother, walked in.
21:47He didn't look at me, he looked at Damiano.
21:49Step away from my sister, Valenti.
21:51Before I remembered which one of us is supposed to be civilized.
21:54This is between me and my wife, Morelli.
21:56Raphael smiled.
21:57It didn't reach his eyes.
21:58Your wife?
21:59He took one step closer.
22:00My father gave you his daughter because you swore on your wolf to protect her.
22:03Tonight you humiliated her in front of all packs.
22:05Contract is broken.
22:07Raphael, I whispered.
22:09Damiano laughed, low and dangerous.
22:10You've been waiting years to say that, haven't you, Moretti?
22:13Don't think I haven't noticed.
22:15The way you look at your little sister.
22:16The room went cold.
22:18The doors of the ballroom burst open behind him.
22:20His men filed in.
22:22Moretti soldiers, all alphas.
22:24They didn't have to, you know?
22:26Raffle took one step forward.
22:27Every Morelti asset tied to the Velotti name is frozen.
22:30And if you touch my sister one more time tonight without my permission, I'll personally drag
22:34you out of this ballroom by your throat.
22:36Damiano's jaw tightened.
22:37He didn't speak.
22:37Turned to me.
22:38I'll have the makeup artist come fix your face.
22:40Our wedding.
22:40No.
22:41Raphael said.
22:42You are my wife.
22:44Sarah, nothing can't get over.
22:45We'll talk about when we get home.
22:47Then he left.
22:48Raphael finally turned to me.
22:49After my father, one of the reasons why all the packs in New York dared not offend Moretti
22:52was because of Raphael.
22:53His eyes were softer than they had any right to be.
22:55But it made me panic.
22:57Sarah, you don't have to decide anything tonight.
22:59Wedding is over.
23:00I'm going home, brother.
23:02My throat was full of glass.
23:03He nodded once.
23:04Something was suppressed in his eyes.
23:06Then he leaned down to my ear, so close.
23:08You always have somewhere to come back to.
23:11Remember that.
23:12Sarah.
23:12I know.
23:13Then I left.
23:14The door clicked.
23:15On the way home, the car was completely silent.
23:17The rain hadn't stopped.
23:19My hand rested on my lower abdomen.
23:21I once carried a 12-week-old baby.
23:23How could history repeat itself once again?
23:25The doctor had warned me three days ago.
23:27The baby is very weak because of my previous miscarriage that could easily miscarry if
23:31I'm not careful.
23:31I hadn't told anyone.
23:33Not Damiano.
23:34Not even Papa.
23:35Not Raphael.
23:36Raphael is usually a man of his word, but tonight he only threatened Damiano.
23:39Because Papa's heart is also fragile.
23:41If he knew about the disgraceful events at wedding, his heart might fail immediately.
23:45So I stayed quiet too.
23:46I made myself look weak for the baby.
23:48Please stay.
23:49Please.
23:49Just this once.
23:50Tears blurred my vision, and I closed my eyes against the window.
23:53And for the first time in nine years, I let myself remember.
23:56I was 16.
23:57Raphael was 19.
23:58We had been step-siblings for exactly four months.
24:01I fell asleep on his shoulder.
24:02But I woke up because his lips brushed against mine.
24:04Soft.
24:05Barely a breath.
24:06I'm sorry, Sarah.
24:07He was already standing by the door when I opened my eyes.
24:09It won't happen again.
24:10It didn't.
24:11For nine years.
24:12He never touched me again.
24:13Never sat too close.
24:14On the day Daminti and I got engaged, his seat was vacant.
24:17He used the excuse of going to other areas to raid other gangs.
24:21Until tonight, when he walked through that door and I remembered every brick.
24:24The car stopped.
24:25I opened my eyes.
24:27I pushed the door open.
24:28And froze.
24:29The penthouse was buried in flowers.
24:31White roses, from floor to ceiling.
24:33The out-of-print book set I'd mentioned in college.
24:35The antique music box I'd glanced at twice.
24:37A crate of handmade chocolates flown in from Sicily.
24:40Everything wrapped in silk ribbon and arranged like an apology.
24:42My legs went weak.
24:43I gripped the doorframe.
24:44The little one inside me is getting restless.
24:46Something is wrong.
24:47Damiano, can you come home, please?
24:49Sarah, you really are a complete loser.
24:51On our wedding day, my husband whispered in my ear.
24:53Damiano pointed at the giant screen above the banquet hall, smiling.
24:57Three years ago, your ex-boyfriend Kieran dumped you for Isabella.
25:02I vowed that I would make him experience betrayal, too.
25:05I stared frozen.
25:06My eyes drifted to the screen.
25:07Slowly, it wasn't our wedding photos.
25:09It's a man and a woman, tangled and sexing.
25:11Damiano.
25:12Years ago, my ex-fiancee Kieran and Isabella, the scholarship student I had personally sponsored
25:16through, he had gutted me the same way.
25:19Tears fell before I could stop them.
25:21Damiano frowned.
25:23Sarah, why are you crying?
25:25I avenged you.
25:26You should be happy.
25:28Dead silence.
25:29Then the ballroom erupted.
25:30Laughter, whispers, camera flashes.
25:32In the far corner of the ballroom, a man set down his champagne glass.
25:35He didn't laugh.
25:36My stepbrother, Rafael Moretti.
25:39He had told me not to marry Damiano.
25:41I hadn't listened.
25:43Damiano leaned in again, still smiling.
25:45I made a bet with Isabella on what you'd do when you saw this, cry, or scream.
25:49He wiped my tears with his thumb, more gently.
25:52You cried.
25:53I won.
25:54Damiano pulled out his phone.
25:55A call was already live.
25:56Isabella's voice drifted through, lazy and amused.
25:59Fine, you win.
26:00I'll get into that lace set you love and try every position you asked for.
26:03Send the pictures as your dessert.
26:05My mind went blank.
26:06Green changed.
26:07Forever bonded flashed in gold.
26:09Damiano took my cold hand and raised his glass to the guests.
26:12Just a joke.
26:13Livin's up the mood, uh-huh.
26:15Laughter.
26:15Applause before he carried me off the stage like a doll.
26:18I slapped him.
26:19Damiano turned his face slowly.
26:20His eyes rimmed red.
26:22I remembered three families.
26:23Three bloodlines.
26:24The Valentis.
26:25The Dravens.
26:25The Morettis.
26:26Three of New York's five werewolf houses.
26:28Old money.
26:29Older grudges.
26:29Damiano, Valenti, and Kieran Draven had grown up snarling at each other across ballrooms
26:33and boardrooms.
26:34They fought over territory.
26:35Deals and me.
26:36At 22, they demanded a blood duel under the full moon.
26:39No guns.
26:40No mercy.
26:41Whoever walked out first would claim me as his luna.
26:44Damiano's ribs were crushed.
26:46His wolf nearly didn't shift back.
26:48Flatlined twice on the surgeon's table.
26:51Kieran dragged himself out on a shattered leg.
26:53I chose Kieran.
26:54The one who bled less.
26:55The week before our wedding, I was pregnant.
26:57I went to Kieran's penthouse as a surprise.
26:59I found Isabella in his bed instead.
27:01A half-formed bite mark bloomed on her throat.
27:03Kieran's mark.
27:04Fresh.
27:04He smiled at me.
27:06Kieran says I'm tighter than you.
27:07Better at fucking.
27:09He says I know how to please him in ways you never could.
27:12Kieran didn't deny it.
27:13Nor did he stop fucking her.
27:14I ran into the rain.
27:15Stumbled through the streets of Little Italy for three hours.
27:18Something inside my chest was ripped out.
27:20My wolf howled inside me and I couldn't shut her up.
27:22Damiano found me.
27:23He held an umbrella over my head.
27:25His coat still smelled like gunpowder.
27:27He didn't ask a single question.
27:28Just said,
27:29Come home with me.
27:30The next morning, my father collapsed.
27:32Don Salvatore Morty.
27:33Godfather of the Morty pack.
27:34His wolf heart was failing.
27:36A rare disease that ate at old bloodlines like ours.
27:38The kind no human surgeon could touch and no pack doctor could cure.
27:41Damiano knelt beside my hospital chair.
27:43Marry me, Sira.
27:45I'll find him a heart.
27:47Alpha to alpha.
27:48I swear it on my wolf.
27:49I was empty, broken, pregnant with another man's child.
27:52Damiano never cared that I was pregnant with Kieran's child.
27:54I'll raise the pup as my own once it's born.
27:57But I couldn't accept it.
27:58I wouldn't let the proud Valenti heir be humiliated,
28:01reduced to a pathetic substitute or a vac-up plan just because of me.
28:04On a rainy night, I swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills.
28:06Damiano kicked the door off, scooped me into his arms,
28:09sped through the streets of Manhattan, running every red light.
28:12Rain and tears mingled, streaming down my face.
28:14He was sobbing his heart out.
28:15I survived.
28:16The baby didn't.
28:17That night, Damiano knelt in the hospital corridor and prayed the entire night.
28:20Today is our wedding.
28:22I don't blame you slapping me.
28:23But, Sarah, you better smile more.
28:25Damiano took my hand and gently blew on my cheek where I had struck him.
28:29Does it hurt now?
28:30I'll put some balm on it.
28:31His tone was as gentle as if nothing had ever happened.
28:34I incredulously shook off his hand.
28:35Damiano frowned.
28:37I let you hit me.
28:39Isn't that enough to get it out of yourself?
28:41My tears welled up uncontrollably.
28:43Who are you?
28:44Where did the man who loved me to death go?
28:47Damiano didn't reach out to hold my hand again.
28:49After a long pause, he spoke.
28:50Sarah, I've really done everything I could for you.
28:53Stop treating me like a fool.
28:55You only came back to me after you were done playing around with Kyren.
28:58I don't care that you lost a kid for Kyren.
29:01Why can't you stand it just because I slept with Isabella?
29:03I froze in place and it took me a long moment to find my voice.
29:06But I love you.
29:08Damiano's gaze was so unfamiliar, it chilled my heart.
29:11I love you too.
29:12That's exactly why I deliberately got close to Isabella, just to avenge you.
29:15Sleep with her, take photos, let every pack in New York know she's a bitch.
29:20But after being with Isabella more than once, I finally understand why Kyren chose her over you.
29:25My whole body shuddered.
29:26Damiano looked at me, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
29:29Because Kyren really does have good taste.
29:32Isabella is a lot hotter than you.
29:35Damiano!
29:36Isabella has my name marked on her inner thigh.
29:39When we're fucking, the mark swells.
29:41She let her throb like they're alive.
29:44Can you do that?
29:46Every time I get rough with you, you'd whip her about the pain.
29:49It just breaks my heart.
29:50His eyes stained a deep, bleeding red.
29:52His wolf was back, but it wasn't looking at me.
29:54At a boy who always came in second.
29:56What do I lack compared to Kyren?
29:58Why, from the day we were kids, is he always one step ahead of me?
30:00Behind him, the door opened.
30:02Raphael, my stepbrother, walked in.
30:04He didn't look at me, he looked at Damiano.
30:06Step away from my sister, Valenti.
30:08Before I remembered which one of us is supposed to be civilized.
30:11This is between me and my wife, Morelli.
30:13Raphael smiled.
30:14It didn't reach his eyes.
30:15Your wife?
30:16He took one step closer.
30:17My father gave you his daughter because you swore on your wolf to protect her.
30:20Tonight you humiliated her in front of all packs.
30:22Contract is broken.
30:24Raphael, I whispered.
30:26Damiano laughed, low and dangerous.
30:27You've been waiting years to say that, haven't you, Moretti?
30:30Don't think I haven't noticed.
30:31The way you look at your little sister.
30:33The room went cold.
30:35The doors of the ballroom burst open behind him.
30:37His men filed in.
30:39Moretti soldiers, all alphas.
30:41They didn't have to, you know?
30:43Raphael took one step forward.
30:44Every Moretti asset tied to the Velotti name is frozen.
30:47And if you touch my sister one more time tonight without my permission,
30:50I'll personally drag you out of this ballroom by your throat.
30:52Damiano's jaw tightened.
30:54He didn't speak.
30:54Turn to me.
30:55I'll have the makeup artist come fix your face.
30:57Our wedding-
30:57No.
30:58Raphael said,
30:59You are my wife!
31:01Sarah, nothing can't get over.
31:02We'll talk about when we get home!
31:04Then he left.
31:04Raphael finally turned to me.
31:06After my father, one of the reasons why all the packs in New York dared not offend Moretti was because
31:10of Raphael.
31:10His eyes were softer than they had any right to be.
31:12But it made me panic.
31:14Sarah, you don't have to decide anything tonight.
31:16Wedding is over.
31:17I'm going home, brother.
31:19My throat was full of glass.
31:20He nodded once.
31:21Something was suppressed in his eyes.
31:23Then he leaned down to my ear, so close.
31:25You always have somewhere to come back to.
31:27Remember that.
31:29Sarah.
31:29I know.
31:30Then I left.
31:31The door clicked.
31:32On the way home, the car was completely silent.
31:34The rain hadn't stopped.
31:36My hand rested on my lower abdomen.
31:37I once carried a 12-week-old baby.
31:40How could history repeat itself once again?
31:42The doctor had warned me three days ago.
31:44The baby is very weak because of my previous miscarriage that could easily miscarry if I'm not careful.
31:48I hadn't told anyone.
31:50Not Damiano.
31:51Not even Papa.
31:52Not Raphael.
31:53Raphael is usually a man of his word, but tonight he only threatened Damiano.
31:56Because Papa's heart is also fragile.
31:58If he knew about the disgraceful events at wedding, his heart might fail immediately.
32:02So I stayed quiet too.
32:03I made myself look weak for the baby.
32:05Please stay.
32:06Please.
32:06Just this once.
32:07Tears blurred my vision, and I closed my eyes against the window.
32:10And for the first time in nine years, I let myself remember.
32:13I was 16.
32:14Raphael was 19.
32:15We had been step-siblings for exactly four months.
32:18I fell asleep on his shoulder.
32:19But I woke up because his lips brushed against mine.
32:21Soft.
32:22Barely a breath.
32:23I'm sorry, Sarah.
32:24He was already standing by the door when I opened my eyes.
32:26It won't happen again.
32:27It didn't.
32:28For nine years.
32:29He never touched me again.
32:30Never sat too close.
32:31On the day Daminti and I got engaged, his seat was vacant.
32:34He used the excuse of going to other areas to raid other gangs.
32:38Until tonight, when he walked through that door and I remembered every brick.
32:41The car stopped.
32:42I opened my eyes.
32:44I pushed the door open.
32:45And frosed.
32:46The penthouse was buried in flowers.
32:48White roses from floor to ceiling.
32:50The out-of-print book set I'd mentioned in college.
32:52The antique music box I'd glanced at twice.
32:54A crate of handmade chocolates flown in from Sicily.
32:57Everything wrapped in silk ribbon and arranged like an apology.
32:59My legs went weak.
33:01I gripped the doorframe.
33:01The little one inside me is getting restless.
33:03Something is wrong.
33:04Damiano, can you come home, please?
33:05Sarah, you really are a complete loser.
33:08On our wedding day, my husband whispered in my ear.
33:10Damiano pointed at the giant screen above the banquet hall, smiling.
33:14Three years ago, your ex-boyfriend Kieran dumped you for Isabella.
33:19I vowed that I would make him experience betrayal too.
33:22I stared frozen.
33:23My eyes drifted to the screen.
33:24Slowly, it wasn't our wedding photos.
33:26It's a man and a woman, tangled in sexing.
33:28Damiano, years ago, my ex-fiancé Kieran and Isabella.
33:31The scholarship student I had personally sponsored through, he had gutted me the same way.
33:36Tears fell before I could stop them.
33:38Damiano frowned.
33:40Sarah, why are you crying?
33:42I avenged you.
33:43You should be happy.
33:45Dead silence.
33:46Then the ballroom erupted.
33:47Laughter whispers.
33:48Camera flashes.
33:49In the far corner of the ballroom, a man set down his champagne glass.
33:52He didn't laugh.
33:53My stepbrother, Rafael Moretti.
33:56He had told me not to marry Damiano.
33:58I hadn't listened.
34:00Damiano leaned in again, still smiling.
34:02I made a bet with Isabella on what you'd do when you saw this, cry, or scream.
34:06He wiped my tears with his thumb, more gently.
34:09You cried.
34:10I won.
34:11Damiano pulled out his phone.
34:12A call was already live.
34:13Isabella's voice drifted through, lazy and amused.
34:16Fine.
34:16You win.
34:17I'll get into that lace set you love and try every position you asked for.
34:20Send the pictures as your dessert.
34:22My mind went blank.
34:23Green changed.
34:24Forever bonded flashed in gold.
34:26Damiano took my cold hand and raised his glass to the guests.
34:29Just a joke.
34:30Livin's up the mood, uh-huh.
34:32Laughter.
34:32Applause before he carried me off the stage like a doll.
34:35I slapped him.
34:36Damiano turned his face slowly.
34:37His eyes rimmed red.
34:39I remembered three families.
34:40Three bloodlines.
34:41The Valentis.
34:42The Dravens.
34:42The Morettis.
34:43Three of New York's five werewolf houses.
34:45Old money.
34:46Older grudges.
34:46Damiano, Valenti, and Kieran Draven had grown up snarling at each other across ballrooms and boardrooms.
34:51They fought over territory.
34:52Deals and me.
34:53At twenty-two, they demanded a blood duel under the full moon.
34:56No guns.
34:57No mercy.
34:58Whoever walked out first would claim me as his luna.
35:00Damiano's ribs were crushed.
35:03His wolf nearly didn't shift back.
35:05Flatlined twice on the surgeon's table.
35:08Kieran dragged himself out on a shattered leg.
35:10I chose Kieran.
35:10The one who bled less.
35:11The week before our wedding, I was pregnant.
35:14I went to Kieran's penthouse as a surprise.
35:16I found Isabella in his bed instead.
35:17A half-formed bite mark bloomed on her throat.
35:20Kieran's mark.
35:21Fresh.
35:21She smiled at me.
35:23Kieran says I'm tighter than you.
35:24Better at fucking.
35:26He says I know how to please him in ways you never could.
35:29Kieran didn't deny it.
35:30Nor did he stop fucking her.
35:31I ran into the rain.
35:32Stumbled through the streets of Little Italy for three hours.
35:35Something inside my chest was ripped out.
35:37My wolf howled inside me and I couldn't shut her up.
35:39Damiano found me.
35:40He held an umbrella over my head.
35:42His coat still smelled like gunpowd.
35:43He didn't ask a single question, just said,
35:46Come home with me.
35:47The next morning my father collapsed.
35:49Don Salvatore Morty.
35:50Godfather of the Morty pack.
35:51His wolf heart was failing.
35:53A rare disease that ate at old bloodlines like ours.
35:55The kind no human surgeon could touch and no pack doctor could cure.
35:58Damiano knelt beside my hospital chair.
36:00Marry me, Sira.
36:02I'll find him a heart.
36:04Alpha to alpha.
36:05I swear it on my wolf.
36:06I was empty, broken, pregnant with another man's child.
36:09Damiano never cared that I was pregnant with Kieran's child.
36:11I'll raise the pup as my own once it's born.
36:14But I couldn't accept it.
36:15I wouldn't let the proud Valenti heir be humiliated,
36:18reduced to a pathetic substitute or a vac-up plan just because of me.
36:21On a rainy night, I swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills.
36:23Damiano kicked the door off, scooped me into his arms,
36:26sped through the streets of Manhattan running every red light.
36:29Rain and tears mingled streaming down my face.
36:31He was sobbing his heart out.
36:32I survived.
36:33The baby didn't.
36:34That night Damiano knelt in the hospital corridor and prayed the entire night.
36:37Today is our wedding.
36:39I don't blame you slapping me, but Sarah, you better smile more.
36:42Damiano took my hand and gently blew on my cheek where I had struck him.
36:46Does it hurt now?
36:47I'll put some balm on it.
36:48His tone was as gentle as if nothing had ever happened.
36:51I incredulously shook off his hand.
36:52Damiano frowned.
36:54I let you hit me.
36:56Isn't that enough to get it out of yourself?
36:58My tears welled up uncontrollably.
37:00Who are you?
37:01Where did the man who loved me to death go?
37:04Damiano didn't reach out to hold my hand again.
37:06After a long pause, he spoke.
37:07Sarah, I've really done everything I could for you.
37:10Stop treating me like a fool.
37:12You only came back to me after you were done playing around with Kyren.
37:15I don't care that you lost a kid for Kyren.
37:18Why can't you stand it just because I slept with Isabella?
37:20I froze in place and it took me a long moment to find my voice.
37:24But I love you.
37:25Damiano's gaze was so unfamiliar it chilled my heart.
37:28I love you too.
37:29That's exactly why I deliberately got close to Isabella just to avenge you.
37:32Sleep with her.
37:33Take photos.
37:34Let every pack in New York know she's a bitch.
37:37But, after being with Isabella more than once, I finally understand why Kyren chose her over you.
37:42My whole body shuddered.
37:43Damiano looked at me, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
37:46Because Kyren really does have good taste.
37:49Isabella is a lot hotter than you.
37:51Damiano!
37:53Isabella has my name marked on her inner thigh.
37:56When we're fucking, the mark swells.
37:58She let her throb like they're alive.
38:01Can you do that?
38:03Every time I get rough with you, you'd whip her about the pain.
38:05It just breaks my heart.
38:07His eyes stained a deep, bleeding red.
38:09His wolf was back.
38:09But it wasn't looking at me.
38:11At a boy who always came in second.
38:13What do I lack compared to Kyren?
38:15Why, from the day we were kids, is he always one step ahead of me?
38:17Behind him, the door opened.
38:19Raphael, my stepbrother, walked in.
38:21He didn't look at me.
38:21He looked at Damiano.
38:23Step away from my sister, Valenti.
38:25Before I remembered which one of us is supposed to be civilized.
38:28This is between me and my wife, Morelli.
38:30Raphael smiled.
38:31It didn't reach his eyes.
38:32Your wife?
38:33He took one step closer.
38:34My father gave you his daughter because you swore on your wolf to protect her.
38:37Tonight you humiliated her in front of all packs.
38:39Contract is broken.
38:41Raphael, I whispered.
38:42Damiano laughed, low and dangerous.
38:44You've been waiting years to say that, haven't you, Moretti?
38:47Don't think I haven't noticed.
38:48The way you look at your little sister.
38:50The room went cold.
38:51The doors of the ballroom burst open behind him.
38:54His men filed in.
38:56Moretti soldiers, all alphas.
38:58They didn't have to, you know?
39:00Raffle took one step forward.
39:01Every Moretti asset tied to the Velotti name is frozen.
39:04And if you touch my sister one more time tonight without my permission,
39:07I'll personally drag you out of this ballroom by your throat.
39:10Damiano's jaw tightened.
39:11He didn't speak.
39:11Turn to me.
39:12I'll have the makeup artist come fix your face.
39:14Our wedding.
39:14No.
39:15Raphael said.
39:16You are my wife.
39:18Sarah, nothing can't get over.
39:19We'll talk about when we get home.
39:21Then he left.
39:21Raphael finally turned to me.
39:23After my father, one of the reasons why all the packs in New York dared not offend Moretti
39:26was because of Raphael.
39:27His eyes were softer than they had any right to be.
39:29But it made me panic.
39:30Sarah, you don't have to decide anything tonight.
39:33Wedding is over.
39:34I'm going home, brother.
39:36My throat was full of glass.
39:37He nodded once.
39:38Something was suppressed in his eyes.
39:40Then he leaned down to my ear, so close.
39:42You always have somewhere to come back to.
39:44Remember that.
39:46Sarah.
39:46I know.
39:47Then I left.
39:48The door clicked.
39:49On the way home, the car was completely silent.
39:51The rain hadn't stopped.
39:53My hand rested on my lower abdomen.
39:55I once carried a 12-week-old baby.
39:57How could history repeat itself once again?
39:59The doctor had warned me three days ago.
40:01The baby is very weak because of my previous miscarriage that could easily miscarry if
40:04I'm not careful.
40:05I hadn't told anyone.
40:07Not Damiano.
40:08Not even Papa.
40:09Not Raphael.
40:10Raphael is usually a man of his word, but tonight he only threatened Damiano.
40:13Because Papa's heart is also fragile.
40:15If he knew about the disgraceful events at wedding, his heart might fail immediately.
40:19So I stayed quiet too.
40:20I made myself look weak for the baby.
40:22Please stay.
40:23Please.
40:23Just this once.
40:24Tears blurred my vision, and I closed my eyes against the window.
40:27And for the first time in nine years, I let myself remember.
40:30I was 16.
40:31Raphael was 19.
40:32We had been step-siblings for exactly four months.
40:34I fell asleep on his shoulder.
40:36But I woke up because his lips brushed against mine.
40:38Soft.
40:39Barely a breath.
40:40I'm sorry, Sarah.
40:41He was already standing by the door when I opened my eyes.
40:43It won't happen again.
40:44It didn't.
40:45For nine years.
40:46He never touched me again.
40:47Never sat too close.
40:48On the day Daminti and I got engaged, his seat was vacant.
40:51He used the excuse of going to other areas to raid other gangs.
40:55Until tonight, when he walked through that door and I remembered every brick.
40:58The car stopped.
40:59I opened my eyes.
41:01I pushed the door open.
41:02And frosed.
41:03The penthouse was buried in flowers.
41:05White roses, from floor to ceiling.
41:07The out-of-print book set I'd mentioned in college.
41:09The antique music box I'd glanced at twice.
41:11A crate of handmade chocolates flown in from Sicily.
41:14Everything wrapped in silk ribbon and arranged like an apology.
41:16My legs went weak.
41:17I gripped the doorframe.
41:18The little one inside me is getting restless.
41:20Something is wrong.
41:20Damiano, can you come home, please?
41:22Sarah, you really are a complete loser.
41:25On our wedding day, my husband whispered in my ear.
41:27Damiano pointed at the giant screen above the banquet hall, smiling.
41:31Three years ago, your ex-boyfriend Kieran dumped you for Isabella.
41:36I vowed that I would make him experience betrayal too.
41:39I stared frozen.
41:40My eyes drifted to the screen.
41:41Slowly, it wasn't our wedding photos.
41:43It's a man and a woman, tangled and sexing.
41:45Damiano.
41:46Years ago, my ex-fiancé Kieran and Isabella.
41:48The scholarship student I had personally sponsored through.
41:50He had gutted me the same way.
41:53Tears fell before I could stop them.
41:55Damiano frowned.
41:57Sarah, why are you crying?
41:59I avenged you.
42:00You should be happy.
42:02Dead silence.
42:03Then the ballroom erupted.
42:04Laughter, whispers, camera flashes.
42:06In the far corner of the ballroom, a man set down his champagne glass.
42:09He didn't laugh.
42:10My stepbrother, Rafael Moretti.
42:12He had told me not to marry Damiano.
42:15I hadn't listened.
42:17Damiano leaned in again, still smiling.
42:19I made a bet with Isabella on what you'd do when you saw this, cry, or scream.
42:23He wiped my tears with his thumb, more gently.
42:26You cried.
42:27I won.
42:28Damiano pulled out his phone.
42:29A call was already live.
42:30Isabella's voice drifted through, lazy and amused.
42:33Fine.
42:33You win.
42:34I'll get into that lace set you love and try every position you asked for.
42:37Send the pictures as your dessert.
42:39My mind went blank.
42:40Green changed.
42:41Forever bonded flashed in gold.
42:43Damiano took my cold hand and raised his glass to the guests.
42:46Just a joke.
42:47Livin's up the mood, uh-huh.
42:49Laughter, applause before he carried me off the stage like a doll.
42:52I slapped him.
42:53Damiano turned his face slowly.
42:54His eyes rimmed red.
42:56I remembered three families, three bloodlines, the Valentis, the Dravens, the Morettis.
43:00Three of New York's five werewolf houses.
43:02Old money.
43:03Older grudges.
43:03Damiano, Valenti, and Kieran Draven had grown up snarling at each other across ballrooms
43:07and boardrooms.
43:08They fought over territory, deals, and me.
43:10At twenty-two, they demanded a blood duel under the full moon.
43:13No guns.
43:14No mercy.
43:15Whoever walked out first would claim me as his luna.
43:17Damiano's ribs were crushed.
43:20His wolf nearly didn't shift back.
43:22Flatlined twice on the surgeon's table.
43:25Kieran dragged himself out on a shattered leg.
43:27I chose Kieran, the one who bled less.
43:28The week before our wedding, I was pregnant.
43:30I went to Kieran's penthouse as a surprise.
43:32I found Isabella in his bed instead.
43:35A half-formed bite mark bloomed on her throat.
43:37Kieran's mark.
43:38Fresh.
43:38She smiled at me.
43:39Kieran says I'm tighter than you.
43:41Better at fucking.
43:43He says I know how to please him in ways you never could.
43:46Kieran didn't deny it.
43:47Nor did he stop fucking her.
43:48I ran into the rain.
43:49Stumbled through the streets of Little Italy for three hours.
43:52Something inside my chest was ripped out.
43:54My wolf howled inside me, and I couldn't shut her up.
43:56Damiano found me.
43:57He held an umbrella over my head.
43:59His coat still smelled like gunpowd.
44:01He didn't ask a single question, just said,
44:03Come home with me.
44:04The next morning, my father collapsed.
44:06Don Salvatore Morty.
44:07Godfather of the Morty pack.
44:08His wolf heart was failing.
44:10A rare disease that ate at old bloodlines like ours.
44:12The kind no human surgeon could touch and no pack doctor could cure.
44:15Damiano knelt beside my hospital chair.
44:17Marry me, Sira.
44:19I'll find him a heart.
44:21Alpha to alpha.
44:22I swear it on my wolf.
44:23I was empty, broken, pregnant with another man's child.
44:26Damiano never cared that I was pregnant with Kieran's child.
44:28I'll raise the pup as my own once it's born.
44:31But I couldn't accept it.
44:32I wouldn't let the proud Valenti heir be humiliated,
44:35reduced to a pathetic substitute or a vac-up plan just because of me.
44:38On a rainy night, I swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills.
44:40Damiano kicked the door off, scooped me into his arms,
44:43sped through the streets of Manhattan running every red light.
44:46Rain and tears mingled streaming down my face.
44:48He was sobbing his heart out.
44:49I survived.
44:50The baby didn't.
44:51That night, Damiano knelt in the hospital corridor and prayed the entire night.
44:54Today is our wedding.
44:56I don't blame you slapping me.
44:57But, Sira, you better smile more.
44:59Damiano took my hand and gently blew on my cheek where I had struck him.
45:03Does it hurt now?
45:04I'll put some balm on it.
45:05His tone was as gentle as if nothing had ever happened.
45:08I incredulously shook off his hand.
45:09Damiano frowned.
45:11I let you hit me.
45:13Isn't that enough to get it out of yourself?
45:15My tears welled up uncontrollably.
45:17Who are you?
45:18Where did the man who loved me to death go?
45:21Damiano didn't reach out to hold my hand again.
45:23After a long pause, he spoke.
45:25Sarah, I've really done everything I could for you.
45:27Stop treating me like a fool.
45:29You only came back to me after you were done playing around with Kyren.
45:32I don't care that you lost a kid for Kyren.
45:35Why can't you stand it just because I slept with Isabella?
45:37I froze in place and it took me a long moment to find my voice.
45:40But I love you.
45:42Damiano's gaze was so unfamiliar it chilled my heart.
45:45I love you too.
45:46That's exactly why I deliberately got close to Isabella, just to avenge you.
45:49Sleep with her.
45:50Take photos.
45:51Let every pack in New York know she's a bitch.
45:54But, after being with Isabella more than once, I finally understand why Kyren chose her over you.
45:59My whole body shuddered.
46:00Damiano looked at me, a faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
46:03Because Kyren really does have good taste.
46:06Isabella is a lot hotter than you.
46:08Damiano!
46:10Isabella has my name marked on her inner thigh.
46:12When we're fucking, the mark swells.
46:15She let her throb like they're alive.
46:18Can you do that?
46:20Every time I get rough with you, you'd whip her about the pain.
46:22It just breaks my heart.
46:24His eyes stained a deep, bleeding red.
46:25His wolf was back.
46:26But it wasn't looking at me.
46:28At a boy who always came in second.
46:30What do I lack compared to Kyren?
46:32Why, from the day we were kids, is he always one step ahead of me?
46:34Behind him, the door opened.
46:36Raphael, my stepbrother, walked in.
46:38He didn't look at me.
46:38He looked at Damiano.
46:40Step away from my sister, Valenti.
46:42Before I remembered which one of us is supposed to be civilized.
46:45This is between me and my wife, Morelli.
46:47Raphael smiled.
46:48It didn't reach his eyes.
46:49Your wife?
46:50He took one step closer.
46:51My father gave you his daughter because you swore on your wolf to protect her.
46:54Tonight you humiliated her in front of all packs.
46:56Contract is broken.
46:58Raphael, I whispered.
46:59Damiano laughed, low and dangerous.
47:01You've been waiting years to say that, haven't you, Moretti?
47:04Don't think I haven't noticed.
47:05The way you look at your little sister.
47:07The room went cold.
47:08The doors of the ballroom burst open behind him.
47:11His men filed in.
47:13Moretti soldiers, all alphas.
47:15They didn't have to, you know?
47:17Raphael took one step forward.
47:18Every Morelti asset tied to the Velotti name is frozen.
47:21And if you touch my sister one more time tonight without my permission, I'll personally drag
47:25you out of this ballroom by your throat.
47:26Damiano's jaw tightened.
47:28He didn't speak.
47:28Turn to me.
47:29I'll have the makeup artist come fix your face.
47:31Our wedding.
47:31No.
47:32Raphael said.
47:33You are my wife.
47:35Sarah, nothing can't get over.
47:36We'll talk about when we get home.
47:38Then he left.
47:38Raphael finally turned to me.
47:40After my father, one of the reasons why all the packs in New York dared not offend Moretti
47:43was because of Raphael.
47:44His eyes were softer than they had any right to be.
47:46But it made me panic.
47:47Sarah, you don't have to decide anything tonight.
47:50Wedding is over.
47:51I'm going home, brother.
47:53My throat was full of glass.
47:54He nodded once.
47:55Something was suppressed in his eyes.
47:57Then he leaned down to my ear, so close.
47:59You always have somewhere to come back to.
48:01Remember that.
48:03Sarah.
48:03I know.
48:04Then I left.
48:05The door clicked.
48:06On the way home, the car was completely silent.
48:08The rain hadn't stopped.
48:10My hand rested on my lower abdomen.
48:12I once carried a 12-week-old baby.
48:14How could history repeat itself once again?
48:16The doctor had warned me three days ago.
48:18The baby is very weak because of my previous miscarriage that could easily miscarry if I'm
48:21not careful.
48:22I hadn't told anyone.
48:24Not Damiano.
48:25Not even Papa.
48:26Not Raphael.
48:27Raphael is usually a man of his word, but tonight he only threatened Damiano.
48:30Because Papa's heart is also fragile.
48:32If he knew about the disgraceful events at wedding, his heart might fail immediately.
48:36So I stayed quiet too.
48:37I made myself look weak for the baby.
48:39Please stay.
48:40Please.
48:40Just this once.
48:41Tears blurred my vision, and I closed my eyes against the window.
48:44And for the first time in nine years, I let myself remember.
48:47I was 16.
48:48Raphael was 19.
48:49We had been step-siblings for exactly four months.
48:51I fell asleep on his shoulder.
48:53But I woke up because his lips brushed against mine.
48:55Soft.
48:56Barely a breath.
48:57I'm sorry, Sarah.
48:58He was already standing by the door when I opened my eyes.
49:00It won't happen again.
49:01It didn't.
49:02For nine years.
49:03He never touched me again.
49:04Never sat too close.
49:05On the day Daminti and I got engaged, his seat was vacant.
49:08He used the excuse of going to other areas to raid other gangs.
49:12Until tonight, when he walked through that door and I remembered every brick.
49:15The car stopped.
49:16I opened my eyes.
49:18I pushed the door open.
49:19And froze.
49:20The penthouse was buried in flowers.
49:22White roses, from floor to ceiling.
49:24The out-of-print book set I'd mentioned in college.
49:26The antique music box I'd glanced at twice.
49:28A crate of handmade chocolates flown in from Sicily.
49:31Everything wrapped in silk ribbon and arranged like an apology.
49:33My legs went weak.
49:34I gripped the door frame.
49:35The little one inside me is getting restless.
49:37Something is wrong.
49:38Damiano, can you come home, please?
49:39Sarah, you really are a complete loser.
49:42On our wedding day, my husband whispered in my ear.
49:44Damiano pointed at the giant screen above the banquet hall, smiling.
49:48Three years ago, your ex-boyfriend Kieran dumped you for Isabella.
49:53I vowed that I would make him experience betrayal, too.
49:56I stared frozen.
49:56My eyes drifted to the screen.
49:58Slowly, it wasn't our wedding photos.
50:00It's a man and a woman, tangled and sexing.
50:02Damiano.
50:03Years ago, my ex-fiancee Kieran and Isabella.
50:05The scholarship student I had personally sponsored through, he had gutted me the same way.
50:10Tears fell before I could stop them.
50:12Damiano frowned.
50:14Sarah, why are you crying?
50:16I avenged you.
50:17You should be happy.
50:19Dead silence.
50:20Then the ballroom erupted.
50:21Laughter, whispers, camera flashes.
50:23In the far corner of the ballroom, a man set down his champagne glass.
50:26He didn't laugh.
50:26My stepbrother, Rafael Moretti.
50:29He had told me not to marry Damiano.
50:32I hadn't listened.
50:34Damiano leaned in again, still smiling.
50:36I made a bet with Isabella on what you'd do when you saw this, cry, or scream.
50:40He wiped my tears with his thumb, more gently.
50:42You cried.
50:44I won.
50:45Damiano pulled out his phone.
50:46A call was already live.
50:47Isabella's voice drifted through, lazy and amused.
50:50Fine.
50:50You win.
50:51I'll get into that lace set you love and try every position you asked for.
50:54Send the pictures as your dessert.
50:56My mind went blank.
50:57Green changed.
50:58Forever bonded flashed in gold.
51:00Damiano took my cold hand and raised his glass to the guests.
51:03Just a joke.
51:04Livin's up the mood, uh-huh.
51:06Laughter.
51:06Applause before he carried me off the stage like a doll.
51:09I slapped him.
51:10Damiano turned his face slowly.
51:11His eyes rimmed red.
51:13I remembered three families.
51:14Three bloodlines.
51:15The Valentis.
51:16The Dravens.
51:16The Morettis.
51:17Three of New York's five werewolf houses.
51:19Old money.
51:20Older grudges.
51:20Damiano, Valenti, and Kieran Draven had grown up snarling at each other across ballrooms and
51:24boardrooms.
51:25They fought over territory.
51:26Deals and me.
51:27At 22, they demanded a blood duel under the full moon.
51:30No guns.
51:31No mercy.
51:32Whoever walked out first would claim me as his Luna.
51:34Damiano's ribs were crushed.
51:37His wolf nearly didn't shift back.
51:39Flatlined twice on the surgeon's table.
51:42Kieran dragged himself out on a shattered leg.
51:44I chose Kieran.
51:44The one who bled less.
51:45The week before our wedding, I was pregnant.
51:47I went to Kieran's penthouse as a surprise.
51:50I found Isabella in his bed instead.
51:52A half-formed bite mark bloomed on her throat.
51:54Kieran's mark.
51:54Fresh.
51:55She smiled at me.
51:56Kieran says I'm tighter than you.
51:58Better at fucking.
52:00He says I know how to please him in ways you never could.
52:03Kieran didn't deny it.
52:04Nor did he stop fucking her.
52:05I ran into the rain.
52:06Stumbled through the streets of Little Italy for three hours.
52:09Something inside my chest was ripped out.
52:11My wolf howled inside me and I couldn't shut her up.
52:13Damiano found me.
52:14He held an umbrella over my head.
52:16His coat still smelled like gunpowder.
52:17He didn't ask a single question, just said,
52:20Come home with me.
52:21The next morning, my father collapsed.
52:23Don Salvatore Morty.
52:24Godfather of the Morty pack.
52:25His wolf heart was failing.
52:27A rare disease that ate at old bloodlines like ours.
52:29The kind no human surgeon could touch and no pack doctor could cure.
52:32Damiano knelt beside my hospital chair.
52:34Marry me, Sarah.
52:36I'll find him a heart.
52:38Alpha to alpha.
52:39I swear it on my wolf.
52:40I was empty, broken, pregnant with another man's child.
52:43Damiano never cared that I was pregnant with Kieran's child.
52:45I'll raise the pup as my own once it's born.
52:48But I couldn't accept it.
52:49I wouldn't let the proud Valenti heir be humiliated,
52:51reduced to a pathetic substitute or a back-up plan just because of me.
52:55On a rainy night, I swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills.
52:57Damiano kicked the door off, scooped me into his arms,
53:00sped through the streets of Manhattan running every red light,
53:03rain and tears mingled streaming down my face.
53:05He was sobbing his heart out.
53:06I survived.
53:07The baby didn't.
53:08That night, Damiano knelt in the hospital corridor and prayed the entire night.
53:11Today is our wedding.
53:13I don't blame you slapping me.
53:14But Sarah, you better smile more.
53:16Damiano took my hand and gently blew on my cheek where I had struck him.
53:20Does it hurt now?
53:21I'll put some balm on it.
53:22His tone was as gentle as if nothing had ever happened.
53:24I incredulously shook off his hand.
53:26Damiano frowned.
53:28I let you hit me.
53:30Isn't that enough to get it out of yourself?
53:32My tears welled up uncontrollably.
53:34Who are you?
53:35Where did the man who loved me to death go?
53:37Damiano didn't reach out to hold my hand again.
53:40After a long pause, he spoke.
53:41Sarah, I've really done everything I could for you.
53:44Stop treating me like a fool.
53:46You only came back to me after you were done playing around with Kyren.
53:49I don't care that you lost a kid for Kyren.
53:52Why can't you stand it just because I slept with Isabella?
53:54I froze in place and it took me a long moment to find my voice.
53:57But I love you.
53:59Damiano's gaze was so unfamiliar it chilled my heart.
54:02I love you too.
54:03That's exactly why I deliberately got close to Isabella, just to avenge you.
54:06Sleep with her, take photos, let every pack in New York know she's a bitch.
54:11But after being with Isabella more than once, I finally understand why Kyren chose her over you.
54:15My whole body shuddered.
54:17Damiano looked at me.
54:18A faint smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.
54:20Because Kyren really does have good taste.
54:23Isabella is a lot hotter than you.
54:25Damiano!
54:27Isabella has my name marked on her inner thigh.
54:29When we're fucking, the mark swells.
54:32She let her throb like they're alive.
54:35Can you do that?
54:37Every time I get rough with you, you'd whip her about the pain.
54:39It just breaks my heart.
54:41His eyes stained a deep, bleeding red.
54:42His wolf was back, but it wasn't looking at me.
54:45At a boy who always came in second.
54:47What do I lack compared to Kyren?
54:49Why, from the day we were kids, is he always one step ahead of me?
54:51Behind him, the door opened.
54:53Raphael, my stepbrother, walked in.
54:55He didn't look at me.
54:55He looked at Damiano.
54:57Step away from my sister, Valenti.
54:59Before I remembered which one of us is supposed to be civilized.
55:02This is between me and my wife, Morelli.
55:04Raphael smiled.
55:05It didn't reach his eyes.
55:06Your wife?
55:07He took one step closer.
55:08My father gave you his daughter because you swore on your wolf to protect her.
55:11Tonight you humiliated her in front of all packs.
55:13Contract is broken.
55:15Raphael, I whispered.
55:16Damiano laughed, low and dangerous.
55:18You've been waiting years to say that, haven't you, Moretti?
55:21Don't think I haven't noticed.
55:22The way you look at your little sister.
55:24The room went cold.
55:25The doors of the ballroom burst open behind him.
55:28His men filed in.
55:30Moretti soldiers, all alphas.
55:32They didn't have to, you know?
55:34Raphael took one step forward.
55:35Every Morelti asset tied to the Velotti name is frozen.
55:38And if you touch my sister one more time tonight without my permission,
55:41I'll personally drag you out of this ballroom by your throat.
55:43Damiano's jaw tightened.
55:44He didn't speak.
55:45Turn to me.
55:46I'll have the makeup artist come fix your face.
55:48Our wedding.
55:48No.
55:49Raphael said.
55:50You are my wife.
55:51Sarah, nothing can't get over.
55:53We'll talk about when we get home.
55:55Then he left.
55:55Raphael finally turned to me.
55:57After my father, one of the reasons why all the packs in New York dared not offend Moretti
56:00was because of Raphael.
56:01His eyes were softer than they had any right to be.
56:03But it made me panic.
56:04Sarah, you don't have to decide anything tonight.
56:07Wedding is over.
56:08I'm going home, brother.
56:10My throat was full of glass.
56:11He nodded once.
56:12Something was suppressed in his eyes.
56:14Then he leaned down to my ear, so close.
56:16You always have somewhere to come back to.
56:18Remember that.
56:19Sarah.
56:20I know.
56:21Then I left.
56:22The door clicked.
56:23On the way home, the car was completely silent.
56:25The rain hadn't stopped.
56:26My hand rested on my lower abdomen.
56:29I once carried a 12-week-old baby.
56:31How could history repeat itself once again?
56:33The doctor had warned me three days ago.
56:35The baby is very weak because of my previous miscarriage that could easily miscarry if I'm
56:38not careful.
56:39I hadn't told anyone.
56:41Not Damiano.
56:42Not even Papa.
56:43Not Raphael.
56:44Raphael is usually a man of his word, but tonight he only threatened Damiano.
56:47Because Papa's heart is also fragile.
56:49If he knew about the disgraceful events at wedding, his heart might fail immediately.
56:53So I stayed quiet too.
56:54I made myself look weak for the baby.
56:56Please stay.
56:57Please.
56:57Just this once.
56:58Tears blurred my vision, and I closed my eyes against the window.
57:01And for the first time in nine years, I let myself remember.
57:04I was 16.
57:05Raphael was 19.
57:06We had been step-siblings for exactly four months.
57:08I fell asleep on his shoulder.
57:10But I woke up because his lips brushed against mine.
57:12Soft.
57:13Barely a breath.
57:14I'm sorry, Sarah.
57:15He was already standing by the door when I opened my eyes.
57:17It won't happen again.
57:18It didn't.
57:19For nine years.
57:20He never touched me again.
57:21Never sat too close.
57:22On the day Daminti and I got engaged, his seat was vacant.
57:25He used the excuse of going to other areas to raid other gangs.
57:29Until tonight, when he walked through that door and I remembered every brick.
57:32The car stopped.
57:33I opened my eyes.
57:34I pushed the door open.
57:36And froze.
57:37The penthouse was buried in flowers.
57:39White roses, from floor to ceiling.
57:41The out-of-print book set I'd mentioned in college.
57:43The antique music box I'd glanced at twice.
57:45A crate of handmade chocolates flown in from Sicily.
57:48Everything wrapped in silk ribbon and arranged like an apology.
57:50My legs went weak.
57:51I gripped the door frame.
57:52The little one inside me is getting restless.
57:54Something is wrong.
57:55Damiano, can you come home, please?
57:56Sarah, you really are a complete loser.