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I Crashed His Wedding with His Lover at My Funeral
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00:00That bitch has turned you against me, ever since you dragged her back here, everything changed!
00:04Crack, Jonathan's hand struck my face.
00:06Lily didn't turn me against you, you did that all by yourself.
00:09Say that again, and you'll regret it.
00:11Jonathan and I ran the desert convoy my father left me.
00:14Three good years, until he brought Lily back.
00:17After that, whatever she wanted, she got.
00:19I got called dramatic.
00:22Two days ago, I saw two lines on a pregnancy test in a gas station bathroom.
00:26I ran back, desperate to tell him we were finally having a baby.
00:30But the words died in my throat when I heard them inside the truck.
00:33A sandstorm is coming tonight.
00:35When it hits, we leave Abigail in it.
00:39Once she's dead, the convoy and the routes are mine.
00:43And after she's gone, I'll give you the baby she never could.
00:47I tightened my grip on the test.
00:49You want me dead?
00:51It won't be that easy.
00:55Two days ago, in a gas station bathroom, I watched two red lines appear on a pregnancy test.
01:00I was saving the news for our next stop.
01:03I wanted Jonathan to hear it from me.
01:04We were having a baby.
01:05But before I could tell him, our convoy got stranded in the desert.
01:09By the third day, the water was gone.
01:14My throat burned.
01:15But I still walked up to the supply truck.
01:17Jonathan, please.
01:20Just one sip of water.
01:22He kept a hand on the valve and didn't even look at me.
01:24This water is rationed.
01:25One extra sip for you and somebody else goes without.
01:28Is that what you want?
01:29Then Lily came over, holding up her glee-stained hands, her voice soft and helpless.
01:34Jonathan had picked her up off the roadside three months ago.
01:37Ever since, she got his water and his attention.
01:44I just got called dramatic.
01:47John, my hands are all greasy.
01:48It feels awful.
01:50Is Abigail still upset with me?
01:52Jonathan opened the valve at once.
01:54Clean water ran over Lily's fingers and soaked into the hot sand.
01:56Wash them off.
01:58Don't worry about her.
02:00She's always making a scene.
02:01Three years of marriage, and I mattered less than Lily's dirty hands.
02:04I turned toward the old red pickup my father left me.
02:06If I'm just dead weight to you, then we're done.
02:09Taking my truck.
02:10You're on your own.
02:11Jonathan gave a cold laugh.
02:13Fine.
02:14But leave this convoyed, and you don't take convoy's property with you.
02:17This truck isn't yours.
02:19My father left it to me long before you took over this route.
02:23Lily tugged in his sleeve.
02:24John, don't fight with Abigail over me.
02:27My truck's out of gas, and it's like an oven in there.
02:29Jonathan's gaze shifted to my pickup.
02:31Siphon the gas.
02:32Take the spare in the toolkit, too.
02:33Few drivers started toward the truck.
02:35I threw my arms out and blocked them.
02:37Jonathan, don't you dare touch that truck!
02:41He ignored me.
02:42The drivers dragged me aside, shoved a siphon hose into the tank,
02:46then stripped the toolbox and spare tire from my truck.
02:49You know this truck is the last thing my dad left me!
02:52Lily needs the fuel more than you do.
02:54Without gas, that truck is just dead weight.
02:56Lily tucked herself against his chest, her voice unstead.
02:59Don't blame John.
03:01I just can't take this heat.
03:03If I had a choice, I'd be out there on foot.
03:07Before I took anything from you.
03:09They poured the fuel into Lily's supply truck, and the AC kicked back on.
03:14Then Jonathan went through my bag and took my last bottle of water and two energy bars.
03:18Those are mine.
03:22You're leaving the convoy, so you don't get convoy supplies.
03:25After dark, they pushed my red pickup down the sand slope.
03:28It crashed against the rocks again and again, each hit tearing through me.
03:33The temperature dropped fast.
03:35Morning sickness rose in waves, and I clutched the cargo container as I dry humped.
03:38Then a piece of candy landed at my feet, covered in sand.
03:41Stop being so stubborn.
03:42Go apologize to Lily, and I'll let today go.
03:46You wrecked my truck, took my water, and now you want me to apologize?
03:50Lower your head for once, and you'll still be my wife.
03:53Nobody can take that from you.
03:54I picked up the sandy candy, walked over, and pressed it into his palm.
03:57Give it to Lily.
03:58She's the one who can't stand it when things don't go her way.
04:01Fine.
04:02Stay out here and starve.
04:04You've never known how to appreciate what you have.
04:05He stormed off.
04:06I leaned against the container and pressed a hand to my belly.
04:09Don't be scared, baby.
04:10You still have me.
04:12I'll get us out of here alive.
04:16Around noon the next day, the convoy pulled over by an abandoned highway sign to wait out the heat.
04:21I crouched in the shade, splitting open a discarded cactus fruit for the last drops of juice.
04:26Lily walked over wearing Jonathan's mother's crystal pendant,
04:30the one he said was too precious for even me to touch.
04:32Abigail, you must be dying of thirst.
04:34I brought you some water.
04:36I know you don't want anything from me, but I couldn't just watch you suffer.
04:41Keep it.
04:42I don't need anything from you.
04:43She turned the pendant between her fingers.
04:46Then she let it fall.
04:48The crystal shattered across the rocks.
04:50Abigail!
04:51Lily stumbled back and grabbed her wrist.
04:53I'm right here.
04:54I never touched you.
04:55Jonathan rushed over.
04:56I offered her water and she went off about how I stole you from her.
04:59Then she shoved me and your mom's pendant hit the ground.
05:03Jonathan saw Lily's red wrist and the broken pendant.
05:06Without asking me a thing, he slapped me hard across the face.
05:09Three years of marriage and it was the first time he'd hit me.
05:11Lily offered you water.
05:12You accused her of stealing me, shoved her, and broken my mother's pendant?
05:16Abigail, when are you going to stop so cruel?
05:18You hit me before you heard my side.
05:21Why ask for an explanation now?
05:24Sleep behind the cargo container tonight.
05:26Maybe the scrap and blown tires teach you some manners.
05:31Late that night, Thomas came over with a tube of cheap ointment.
05:34He'd been my father's closest friend and watched me grow up.
05:37After my father died, he worked for Jonathan.
05:39Miss, Jonathan sent this.
05:41He said use it.
05:41That bruise doesn't embarrass him tomorrow.
05:43I pushed it back.
05:44Not far off, Lily leaned into Jonathan's arms and cried softly.
05:48John, I'm scared.
05:49As long as Abigail's with us, I don't feel safe.
05:52Jonathan looked at me through the firelight, his face gone cold.
05:56Starting tomorrow, someone watches her.
05:58If Lily gets hurt again, Abigail doesn't leave this desert.
06:05The next day at noon, Lily collapsed from heat stroke.
06:08A driver mixed her an electrolyte drink, but the moment she took a sip,
06:11she clutched her throat and spit it up.
06:13There's sand in it.
06:14My throat hurts.
06:16Jonathan picked up the bowl.
06:17Fine sand had settled at the bottom.
06:18He looked at me.
06:19I had just come from the windy side of camp.
06:21You want her dead that badly?
06:22The wind is brutal out here.
06:24Sand gets into everything.
06:25If I wanted her dead, I wouldn't bother with a handful of sand.
06:29He grabbed my arm and dragged me to the middle of the sun-bleached road.
06:32Get on your knees.
06:34You stay there until Lily feels better.
06:36I didn't do anything.
06:37Why should I kneel?
06:38Thomas stumbled forward and put himself between us.
06:40She was behind the cargo container all night.
06:43There's no way she got near that drink.
06:44Move him.
06:45Two drivers pulled Thomas down.
06:47He groaned, but he still reached for me.
06:49Seeing his gray head pressed into the dirt, something inside me snapped.
06:52Stop!
06:52I'll kneel!
06:54My knees hit the scorching pavement.
06:56It felt like my skin was burning straight through.
06:58Jonathan pressed a hand to the back of my neck, forcing me to bow toward Lily's truck.
07:02Say it.
07:03Tell her you were wrong.
07:05I'm sorry.
07:05It was my fault.
07:06Just stop hitting Thomas.
07:08Lily watched from the window, a faint smile on her lips.
07:10Then, as I started to black out, Jonathan bent down and pulled me up.
07:13His voice softened.
07:14See how easy that was?
07:15Learn to behave, and maybe we can start over.
07:18I turned away, sick to my stomach.
07:20He thought this was love.
07:21Even while he was hurting me, he thought he was being kind.
07:27That evening, a wall of black sand rose on the horizon without warning.
07:31The storm came down on us fast.
07:36Everyone bailed from the trucks and ran for higher ground.
07:39My knees were still blistered from the road, and every step felt like walking on knives.
07:43Everybody grab the rope!
07:45Don't fall behind!
07:46Quick!
07:47I stumbled back just as Lily crashed into the side.
07:50The ground gave way beneath us.
07:52We dropped into a quicksand pit together.
07:55Jonathan!
07:56Save me!
07:58Jonathan, pull me up!
07:59He lay flat at the edge, one hand locked around the safety rope, the other reaching down for us.
08:03The quicksand had already climbed to our waist.
08:05That rope could never hold all three of us.
08:06Stop fighting it!
08:07I can only pull one of you out!
08:10I looked up at him and remembered the pregnancy test in my pocket.
08:14I had been saving that surprise for two days.
08:16In the end, I was the only one who would ever know.
08:19Still, I kept telling myself he would pull me up first.
08:22At least for everything we had been through.
08:25John, I don't want to die.
08:27I'm too young to die.
08:29Then he reached for Lily.
08:30His hand hung in the air for one second.
08:32Lily, grab my hand!
08:34Lily locked onto him, and he pulled her out inch by inch.
08:38My outstretched hand closed on nothing but air.
08:41The quicksand rose over my chest and climbed toward my throat.
08:44When it came down to life or death, he didn't hesitate.
08:48He chose her.
08:51Jonathan pulled Lily onto solid ground, while the quicksand crept over my shoulders.
08:56Jonathan!
08:57I can't hold on much longer!
08:59He looked back at me, then pulled the shaking Lily into his arms.
09:01You're stronger than she is.
09:03Let me get Lily somewhere safe, and I'll come right back for you.
09:05Don't go!
09:06Please!
09:08But he carried Lily toward higher ground without looking back.
09:11The sandstorm swallowed him from sight, along with my cries.
09:14I fought to stay above the sand until pain ripped through my abdomen.
09:17Blood spread through the quicksand, and I knew.
09:19I had lost my baby.
09:21The surprise I had waited two days to give him was gone.
09:24Jonathan had always hated Dad's old convoy watching over us.
09:27He said they looked at him like he was trying to steal from me.
09:30To prove I trusted him, I had sent away the only people who would have come looking for me.
09:34Before Owen, the leader of Dad's old convoy, left, he pressed the flare gun into my hand.
09:38No matter where I am, fire this, and I'll come for you.
09:42Now they were the only people who could save me.
09:45With the last of my strength, I pulled the trigger.
09:46A red flare tore through the storm.
09:49Then I heard engines closing in.
09:51A hand broke through the quicksand and locked around my wrist.
09:53Owen and the old convoy dragged me out of the sand.
09:57Abigail, we got here too late.
09:58I stared at the blood-soaked sand and forced the words out.
10:02Jonathan, you took everything from me.
10:03You destroyed everything I had, including our child.
10:08I won't let you die easy.
10:10I'll keep you alive long enough to watch me take everything from you.
10:16Two weeks later, Jonathan had taken over the biggest truck stop in the desert, all for himself.
10:21At the entrance sat a framed black and white photo of me, ringed by a few cheap white flowers.
10:25On the other side of a flimsy divider, gold balloons floated over a champagne tower and an engagement cake that
10:31read,
10:32Jonathan and Lily.
10:33The handful of traders still loyal to Jonathan raised their glasses to toast him.
10:37Lily wore white and sat in a tall chair wrapped in red leather,
10:40torn straight from the seats of my father's pickup.
10:42One woman out, another one in, and a party to celebrate both.
10:45Lucky man, Jonathan.
10:47Jonathan flipped through the cash and freight records I'd left behind, smiling.
10:52Couldn't have asked for better timing.
10:53Now I don't owe her a cut of anything.
10:55Her company, her routes, it's all mine now.
10:58Lily ran her fingers over the red leather and let out a fake little sigh.
11:01If Abigail had just wised up sooner, she never would have ended up like this.
11:05Still, that old pickup of hers makes a pretty comfortable seat.
11:08The room burst out laughing.
11:10Jonathan raised his glass and stepped toward Lily with the ring.
11:12To Abigail, and to me and Lily, here's to starting over.
11:17Then a line of black off-road trucks tore into the lot, kicking sand up across the windows.
11:23Owen and his men slammed through the doors and blocked every exit.
11:27Who the hell let you people in?
11:29The crowd split apart, opening a path.
11:31Dressed in black, I walked in and stopped right in front of my own memorial photo.
11:34Jonathan's glass slipped out of his hand and shattered on the floor.
11:37That's not possible.
11:38You're dead.
11:38You're supposed to be dead.
11:39I lifted the framed photo off its stand and smashed it at his feet.
11:45Who told you I was dead?
11:50I smashed my own memorial photo and took the central seat at the truck stop.
11:56Jonathan looked stunned for a second.
11:57Then he rushed at me with fake relief in his eyes, ready to pull me into his arms.
12:01Abigail, I knew you weren't dead.
12:03Come home with me.
12:04We can start over.
12:05Owen stepped in front of him and stopped him cold.
12:08Jonathan, listen carefully.
12:12This truck stop.
12:14The freight company my father left me.
12:17Every safe route, none of it has anything to do with you anymore.
12:20His face fell, but he still thought I was throwing a tantrum.
12:23He leaned closer and lowered his voice.
12:25Don't humiliate me in front of everyone.
12:27Once we get home, you can act out all you want.
12:34I ran a hand over the red leather armrest.
12:36It had been stripped from the seat of my father's pickup,
12:38still warm from where Lily had been sitting.
12:40I don't have a home anymore.
12:43You destroyed it with your own hands.
12:45Lily shrank behind him and tugged at his sleeve.
12:48Abigail, don't blame John.
12:49He only did it because he thought you were dead.
12:51Shut up.
12:51You don't get a say here.
12:54The second Jonathan saw me speak to Lily that way, he snapped.
12:57Abigail, I've already swallowed my pride and begged you.
13:00You really think?
13:01A few old-timers can run an entire desert freight route without me?
13:07I had Owen escort Jonathan's Carvoy out of the truck stop.
13:12Under the blazing sun, their AC died, and their water and fuel ran out fast.
13:18Outside, I set up a shaded canopy, food, and fuel for any driver willing to leave Jonathan.
13:23Anyone who walks away can forget about ever coming back to my Carvoy.
13:27The night Lily had that fever, you gave her the last two crates of water.
13:31We followed you for three years, but we're not dying a third for you.
13:34Lily hugged an empty canteen and pressed herself against Jonathan.
13:37Her eyes red, as if she were the one being cornered.
13:39More drivers headed for the canopy.
13:41By noon, Jonathan had one broken-down truck and Lily, who had cried herself hosk.
13:45John, Abigail just wants to make you beg.
13:48Don't you dare go to her.
13:50Jonathan stared at the canopy, swallowed hard, then walked into the truck stop anyway.
13:55Abigail, enough.
13:56Call them back and give me a full tank of clean water.
13:59Name your price.
14:00I swirled the ice in my glass.
14:02Owen, bring him his share.
14:06Oven set down a basin of murky boot water.
14:08Mud and grit swirled at the bottom.
14:10Water is ranching by the head, not one drop extra.
14:13Want it? Take it.
14:14Those were the exact words Jonathan had said before he threw me into the quicksand.
14:17He stared at the basin as his face slowly darkened.
14:22Jonathan stared at the basin of black, foamy water.
14:25His hands clenched into fists.
14:27Abigail, don't push this too far.
14:29After three years of marriage, you're making me drink this?
14:31When you threw me into the quicksand, did those three years mean anything to you?
14:35Nearby, the drivers stood with clean water in their hands and watched him like he was a joke.
14:39His throat was burning dry.
14:41He shoved Lily aside, lifted the basin, shut his eyes, and gulped down the filthy water.
14:47It ran down his chin and into his collar as he choked and coughed.
14:51When he finished, he pushed the half-full basin toward Lily.
14:54Drink.
14:55If you don't want to die, drink it.
14:58Lily froze.
14:59It was the first time he had ever spoken to her that way.
15:03John, why are you talking to me like that?
15:05I just drank water they washed their boots in.
15:07What the hell are you complaining about?
15:10I watched the first crack form between them and smiled.
15:16Once Jonathan started giving Lily the cold shoulder, she panicked.
15:21She knew that if he ever truly gave in to me, he could throw her aside without a second thought.
15:29That night, the truck stop held a party.
15:32Lily put on a white dress, carried over two glasses of wine, and stopped in front of me.
15:41Abigail, I was wrong before.
15:43Let me buy you a drink.
15:44Just please stop punishing John.
15:46As she spoke, she slipped white powder into one of the glasses.
15:49I saw it clearly.
15:51It was a strong hallucinogen.
15:52I did not call her out.
15:57The harder she tried to paint me as crazy, the more evidence she would leave behind.
16:02I took the glass and drained it.
16:08Then I let it fall.
16:10The glass hit the floor as I clutched my forehead and stumbled toward her.
16:15Lily blinked, then grabbed my hand, pressed it to her own throat, and threw herself backwards into the champagne tower.
16:21Glass shattered everywhere.
16:22John, save me!
16:23Abigail goes crazy when she drinks!
16:25She's trying to choke me!
16:25Jonathan rushed over, pulled her into his arms, and shoved my hand away.
16:29The red marks on Lily's neck filled his eyes with disgust.
16:32She said she was leaving us alone, and you still came after her?
16:35I never should have believed you could change.
16:37I steadied myself against the table, and watched him believe Lily all over again.
16:43Get this crazy woman out of my sight!
16:45But nobody moved.
16:47The people here had stopped answering to him a long time ago.
16:50Then the hall screen Lily excide.
16:55Security footage showed Lily at the bar, slipping powder into my drink and switching the glasses.
17:00The room erupted.
17:01Lily went pale and clung to Jonathan's shirt.
17:04John, it's not what it looks like.
17:06I was scared.
17:07I thought Abigail would take you away from me.
17:09Jonathan at the screen, his face darkening.
17:11But with everyone watching, he still stepped in front of Lily.
17:14So what if she did?
17:16You drove her to it!
17:17If you hadn't pushed us this far, she never would have done it!
17:21I spit out the antidote I had tucked beneath my tongue and stepped forward, completely sober.
17:26I pulled the wedding ring I had given Jonathan right off his finger and dropped it into the trash.
17:30You're so eager to take the blame for her.
17:32Fine.
17:33Stop calling yourself my husband.
17:35We were over long before today.
17:40After being exposed in front of everyone, Jonathan still refused to admit to fear.
17:44He took Lily and two of his loyal men and drove the last cargo truck out of the supply station.
17:51I can get across this desert just fine without you.
17:57The truck had barely turned onto the abandoned Route 77 when a few modified off-road vehicles came charging out
18:02from behind the dunes and boxed them into a canyon.
18:10The second the gunfire started, Lily curled up under the seat and screamed.
18:15Jonathan gripped the wheel and started cursing.
18:22It has to be Abigail.
18:24She can't stand the thought of me being alive.
18:25I picked up a distress signal from a driver nearby and rushed over with a rescue truck.
18:43The moment Jonathan saw my red pickup, he scrambled out of his vehicle.
18:48Abigail, I knew you couldn't bear to see me die.
18:52I ignored him and lifted the wounded young driver into the truck first.
18:56Get the injured out first.
18:57Everyone else stays where they are.
18:59Great.
18:59The smile froze on Jonathan's face, but Lily seized the chaos to stuff a red bandana under the seat, then
19:05grabbed his sleeve and cried.
19:06John, Abigail really is going to leave us stranded here.
19:10How can she be so heartless?
19:12Jonathan chased after me, shouting, but I shut the truck door.
19:16As the rescue vehicle pulled out of the canyon, one of my men picked that red bandana up out of
19:21his truck.
19:24Back at the supply station, he set the bandana down in front of me.
19:29There were a few curved lines drawn on the inside, root markers that only the raiders used among themselves.
19:40I took the bandana back to the canyon.
19:42Jonathan and Lily were still stuck where I'd left them.
19:52I tossed the bandana at Lily's feet.
19:55Ever since Jonathan brought you back three months ago, the raiders have been able to intercept the convoy every single
20:00time.
20:02Turns out you were the one leaving markers for them.
20:05Lily's face went white, and she immediately hid behind Jonathan.
20:08It wasn't me!
20:09Abigail will make up anything to get rid of me!
20:12Jonathan stared at the bandana.
20:13He clearly recognized it as something Lily used all the time, and yet he pushed my hand row first.
20:21Abigail, enough.
20:23You saved everyone else and deliberately left us here, and now you want to frame her with some scrap of
20:29cloth?
20:32I saved those people because they never betrayed me.
20:35As for you, go ahead and keep protecting her.
20:40When she's sold you off until there's nothing left but bones...
20:45Don't come crawling back to me.
20:47Lily huddled in his arms and cried, and Jonathan only held her tighter.
20:51In that moment, I finally understood.
20:54He'd rather believe her than admit just how pathetically wrong he'd been.
21:01That bandana didn't wake Jonathan up.
21:04If anything, it burned away the last shred of scents he had left.
21:07To clear Lily's name, he started spreading rumors up and down every trade route, saying that I'd come back from
21:13the dead out of my mind, that I'd used my father's old crew to steal his company, and that I
21:18was out to destroy my own ex-husband.
21:21A few days later, he actually showed up at the gates of the supply station, dragging along a bunch of
21:26independent drivers he'd riled up, ready for a fight.
21:29Abigail! Everything you're hoarding belongs to both of us. You have no right to keep it all for yourself!
21:35I didn't argue with him. I walked out with a stack of documents and flung them at his feet.
21:40On those pages was every single record of him quietly siphoning off the money my father left me over these
21:46three years, transfer by transfer, all to keep Lily.
21:49Belongs to both of us. This money is what my father earned with his life, and left to me.
21:55You used my money to keep another woman, and you still have the nerve to talk to me about us.
22:00Those drivers leaned in for a look, and the color drained clean out of their faces.
22:05When they looked at Jonathan again, there was nothing left but contempt.
22:11You forged these! You forged all of it!
22:15Owen stepped up, grabbed him by the collar, drove a fist into his face.
22:22And threw him straight out the gate.
22:27Get lost. Come one step closer to her again and I'll break your legs.
22:32I found out later that in those days, Jonathan and Lily were holed up in a rundown shack at an
22:37abandoned station, splitting a can of expired food between them.
22:42Watching him fall apart, Lily couldn't hide the disgust in her eyes.
22:46That very night, she slipped out of the shack and used a secret signal to reach one-eyed Jack, the
22:52raider chief,
22:53and sold him the fact that my father had left behind an old map of the desert roots, using it
22:57as her bargaining chip.
23:03Back in the shack, she put her pitiful little act back on and nested into Jonathan's arms.
23:12John, we can't just give up like this.
23:14I know Abigail locked the most important shipping files in the old archive room.
23:18If we get our hands on them, we can start fresh in another city and turn everything around.
23:28Hatred had long since scrambled Jonathan's brain, and he agreed on the spot.
23:33That night, the two of them snuck into the old wing of the supply station and pried open the archive
23:38room.
23:48Early the next morning, Thomas came running to me in a panic.
23:52Miss, something terrible has happened.
23:54The old master's file on the safe sandstorm route. Someone stole it!
24:00With the stolen map in hand, Jonathan couldn't wait to take Lily and two beat-up cargo trucks
24:05he'd rented at a steep price out onto the road, trying to claim the new trade route before I could.
24:11But that map was incomplete. I'd already pulled out the most critical markers,
24:15the ones that showed where the death traps were.
24:17The convoy had barely driven into the salt flights when the ground caved in.
24:20Both cargo trucks sank into the man-swallowing soft-salt pits, wheels spinning uselessly, engines pouring out black smoke.
24:29When I arrived with my rescue team, Jonathan was stranded on top of the truck.
24:35His eyes lit up, and he waved at me frantically.
24:38Abigail! Over here! I knew you still cared about me!
24:41I hopped down from my truck, walked right past him, and told Owen to throw the rope to the terrified
24:46young drivers behind him first.
24:50He clawed for the rope with everything he had, but he grabbed nothing but air.
24:55And all he could do was watch as those drivers were pulled to safety one after another.
25:02Abigail! Save me first!
25:05I saved them because they were only doing a job for money.
25:09They never threw me aside, and left me to die the way you did.
25:16Once all the wounded had been rescued, Owen searched Jonathan's dead cargo truck and pulled out a high-frequency walkie
25:22-talkie, its channel locked onto one-eyed Jack's line.
25:26Owen threw the walkie-talkie down in front of him.
25:29Jonathan whipped around and glared at Lily.
25:32What is this?
25:34How do you have Raider equipment?
25:36Lily dropped to her knees in the salt flat and clung to his legs, sobbing.
25:39John, I did it all for us! Abigail is the one who backed us into a dead end! I only
25:44wanted to borrow money from Jack to help you get back on your feet!
25:47Jonathan stared at her, and every Raided Knight must have flashed through his mind.
25:56He finally saw clearly that the helpless girl he'd protected for three months was a Viper he'd invited into his
26:01own home.
26:02But with so many people watching, rather than admit he was a colossal fool, he actually opened his mouth again.
26:08She's just young. The Raiders tricked her.
26:11I stood on solid ground, watching these two put on a show in the mud, and I couldn't even be
26:15bothered to sneer.
26:18I turned and got into my truck.
26:25I wanted to put an end to this whole mess for good, so I deliberately let word get out that
26:30that in three days I'd personally be escorting a shipment of valuables through Death Valley.
26:36Lily took the bait, just as I knew she would.
26:39That very afternoon, she snuck off to the abandoned windmill house to pass along the message.
26:44She'd barely tucked the note with the root into a crack in the bricks when the floodlights all around her
26:48snopped on at once. Owen and his men pinched her down on the spot and pulled cash and a voice
26:53recorder out of her pockets.
26:59That night, in the main hall of the supply station, the drivers and the old crew formed a circle, and
27:04Jonathan was brought to the center.
27:06I pressed play on the recorder. Lily's voice, sweet and vicious all at once, filled the hall.
27:13Just hijack Abigail's shipment, and that idiot Jonathan will run cargo for you like a good little dog if I
27:18tell him to.
27:19He's so easy to fool. All I have to do is cry a couple of times and he believes anything.
27:29When the recording ended, the whole room went dead silent.
27:34Jonathan stood frozen in place, his face going from white to green, shaking like a leaf.
27:41He slowly turned to look at Lily where she'd been pinned to the floor,
27:44and the last flicker of tenderness in his eyes burned into raging fury.
27:51Jonathan suddenly threw himself at Lily and slapped her heart across the face.
27:57You little snake, you were using me the whole time?
28:04I threw Abigail into the quicksand for you, I destroyed my own truck for you,
28:07and you thought of me as some idiot the entire time!
28:10Lily was hit so hard that blood ran from the corner of her mouth, and she just gave up the
28:14act,
28:15laughing shrilly and spitting out a mouthful of blood.
28:21What else would I think of you as? You think you're some devoted man?
28:24You're nothing but a selfish, spineless coward.
28:29Abigail was too capable, you couldn't keep her under your thumb.
28:35So you used me to claw back that pathetic little bit of pride?
28:41You made her kneel under the blazing sun. You shoved her into the quicksand with your own hands.
28:49You couldn't even protect your own flesh and blood.
28:57You deserve to die with no bloodline left, you deserve to lose everything!
29:01Those words were like a dull blade, driving straight into the deepest wound Jonathan had.
29:05The two of them tangled together on the floor, tearing apart every ugly truth about each other.
29:10In the chaos, Lily picked the ropes loose with a hairpin, snatched the last of his cash and the
29:15truck keys from his pocket, and shoved open the back door, fleeing into the pitch black desert.
29:22Jonathan scrambled and crawled after her, only to find that she'd already drained the fuel from
29:26that broken down truck. He knelt in the scorching sand and screamed at the sky, his voice full of nothing
29:32but despair. A night of pouring rain sent the desert temperature plumbing. Like a stray dog,
29:43Jonathan knelt at the entrance of my camp, soaked to the bone from the middle of the night until dawn.
29:51When he saw me come out, he scrambled over on his hands and knees, trying to grab the hen of
29:56my pants.
29:58Abigail, I was wrong. I really do know I was wrong now.
30:03That little snake cheated me out of everything I had and ran off.
30:11Only you, you're the only one who was ever truly good to me.
30:19You even took in all those old drivers.
30:24You have the softest heart.
30:31Save me one more time and we'll start over, okay?
30:34I stood over him, looking down at this man covered in mud and filth,
30:38and all that was left inside me was a dead, silent cold.
30:42Jonathan, do you have any idea what I actually lost that day in the quicksand?
30:48He froze and lifted his bloodshot eyes.
30:54I was carrying your child.
30:58That very day, before I ever got the chance to tell you.
31:04Jonathan went rigid all over, his breathing seeming to stop,
31:08his eyes almost bulging out of their sockets.
31:10A child? We had a child?
31:14Yes. And the very moment you reached out for Lily,
31:18our baby turned into a pool of blood inside me and sank into the quicksand.
31:23His face went wider than a corpse in an instant.
31:27He must have been remembering himself, walking off that day with Lily in his arms, and never looking back.
31:34Remembering those words, you're tough, you can hold on.
31:39Regret shredded whatever sense he had left.
31:41No, my child! I killed my own child!
31:46He started clawing at the sand under him, like a madman.
31:50I watched him rile and lose his mind in the sand, and I couldn't muster a single trace of pity.
31:57Owen?
32:01Throw him somewhere far away.
32:03Don't let him dirty my ground.
32:06He was dragged off like a piece of trash.
32:08By the time he lifted his head again, the last few drivers still following him were shaking their heads,
32:13and turning away, one by one.
32:16In this endless desert, he finally had nothing at all.
32:22Lily, who'd made her escape, didn't get to enjoy a single good day either.
32:26I found out later that she took the money, and ran to one-eyed Jack for shelter.
32:30And he threw her straight into an iron cage.
32:34Jack had no interest in that pretty face of hers.
32:37What he wanted was my whole freight network, and my core files.
32:41To save her own skin, Lily came up with a vicious plan.
32:45She said Thomas was the person I respected most, and that if they took him, I'd surrender without a fight.
32:52That afternoon, she forged a blood-steamed note, saying Jonathan was on the brink of death.
32:58And lured the soft-hearted Thomas out of the station's safe zone.
33:04Not long after, a bloody letter landed on my desk.
33:07One-eyed Jack wanted me, alone, to bring every ownership document and root file to an abandoned quarry 20 miles
33:14out,
33:15and trade for the hostage.
33:21Owen was so furious.
33:23He wanted to muster the heavy trucks and storm the place then and there.
33:27But I raised my hand and stopped him.
33:29Thomas watched me grow up.
33:30I can't gamble with his life.
33:33This is between me and the Raiders, and I'm settling it myself.
33:40Just as I was about to leave, Jonathan, so gaunt he was barely recognizable, came rushing out of nowhere,
33:47and threw himself in front of my truck.
33:51His hair was a tangled mess, his eyes sunken deep, thin down to nothing but bone.
33:56And yet there was a wild, desperate fire in his eyes.
33:58Take me with you.
34:01I know the layout of that quarry.
34:04Lily's terrified of dying.
34:06I know exactly how to handle her.
34:08Owen drew his gun and pressed it to Jonathan's forehead.
34:10Out of the way.
34:14Why should the boss trust a word you say?
34:16I pulled back the truck's curtain.
34:18Let him on.
34:21A faint glimmer crossed his eyes, and he scrambled and clawed his way into the back.
34:27Jonathan, I'm bringing you along, not because I trust you.
34:32It's so you can watch with your own eyes how the woman you chose sent you straight to hell,
34:37step by step.
34:40And this time, if one more person gets hurt because of you, I won't go easy.
34:48Inside the abandoned quarry, the sand and wind whipped through the air.
34:53One-eyed Jack had a boot planted on Thomas.
34:56Who was tied to a stone pillar, and Lily stood beside him in a glaring red dress.
35:01I walked to the center of the yard alone, carrying a black case.
35:04Let Thomas go, and the files are all yours.
35:09Lily rushed over first, and flung the case open.
35:13It was full of blank paper.
35:16She started screaming.
35:18It's fake!
35:19Jack, she's pricking you!
35:21Kill the old man!
35:22At that critical moment, Jonathan, hiding in the shadows, found some courage out of nowhere,
35:27and lunged at the raider holding Thomas.
35:30A blazer clinging through the raider's shoulder, and blood sprayed out.
35:34Go, Abigail!
35:35Get Thomas out of here!
35:37In that one small window, Owen and the men lying in amber, all around, charged out, and smoke and gunfire
35:45blurred together.
35:46Owen quickly got Thomas into the truck.
35:48I pulled back under the cover of my men.
35:51As I left, I glanced back one last time at Jonathan, trampled under the raider's feet, covered in blood.
35:58In that moment, he watched my back through the storm as I walked away.
36:03I think he finally tasted it, that bone-deep despair I'd felt, the day he left me buried in the
36:10quicksand.
36:16After the brawl at the quarry, one-eyed Jack hauled the wounded Jonathan and the lily who hadn't managed to
36:22escape back to the shady side of a dune.
36:24To save his own life, the dying Jonathan showed the ugliest side of his nature all over again.
36:29He collapsed on the ground and clutched at Jack's pant leg.
36:32Don't kill me!
36:35I know Abigail's backup escape route.
36:37She always takes the hidden salt gorge.
36:40Set up an ambush there, and you'll catch her for sure.
36:45Jack dragged him onto the truck with a sinister grin.
36:50But when the raider convoy came charging into the hidden salt gully,
36:54what waited for them wasn't undefended freight truck.
36:57It was the trap I'd set in advance and Owen's wall of firepower.
37:03Explosions went off one after another.
37:06And the raider convoy was crippled in an instant.
37:09I stepped down from the lead vehicle and looked at Jonathan crawling out of the wreckage.
37:15Not the least bit surprised.
37:18I knew all along you'd trade my route for your own life.
37:23Jonathan, you really haven't changed one bit.
37:26He lay sprawled in the scorching sand, his lips trembling, blood mixing with tears running down his face.
37:34I just wanted to survive.
37:37You never loved Lily, and you never loved me.
37:41From beginning to end, the only person you ever loved was yourself.
37:48The raider gang fell apart completely.
37:52In the chaos, Lily stole a motorcycle and raced off.
37:57Only for it to break down 30 miles deep in the desert, in the middle of nowhere.
38:03No water, no fuel, and a sun like a red-hot branding iron.
38:11Half a day later, a few black off-road vehicles pulled up in front of her.
38:21Owen and the men surrounded her on all sides.
38:24Lily collapsed on the ground, and to save her life, she banged her head against the ground
38:28toward Owen like a maniac, dumping every crime onto Jonathan.
38:33Jonathan put me up to all of it.
38:36He was the one who hated Abigail.
38:39He was the one who told me to team up with the Raiders.
38:43He did all of it!
38:46Owen looked at her like she was garbage, and clamped the handcuffs onto her wrists.
38:50I'm sorry.
38:57Ten minutes later, she and the battered Jonathan
39:02were both hauled back to the supply station in the heart of the desert.
39:07This station, which had once watched the two of them act so untouchable,
39:12was now covered in the flags of my freight company.
39:15In the main hall, hundreds of drivers and old crew members
39:19stared coldly at the pair of former winners.
39:23In the center of the hall, Jonathan and Lily were thrown down hard onto the floor.
39:28Two people who used to keep the word love on their lips,
39:31were now tearing at each other like a pair of raved dogs.
39:34Jonathan lunged and clamped his hands around Lily's throat.
39:37You snake!
39:39If you hadn't played the victim, would I be where I am now?
39:43You killed my child.
39:46You destroyed everything I had!
39:50Lily lunged back and clawed at his hair.
39:53It's your own fault for being an idiot. You're the one rotten to the core.
39:57A man who'd throw his own wife into the quicksand.
39:59An animal like you deserves to die with no bloodline.
40:04Deserves to lose everything!
40:06In front of a hall full of guests, the two of them dug up every filthy old secret about each
40:12other.
40:13Yeah!
40:14Curses and screams and sobbing all blending into one.
40:18The copoid boss who'd once been so untouchable and his fragile little darling had become the
40:23biggest joke on the entire desert highway.
40:25I sat in the seat of honor up above, quietly took a sip of my drink, and gently raised my
40:33hand.
40:37That's enough.
40:39Don't dirty my hall.
40:42Take them away and hand them over to the law.
40:49Two weeks later, the verdicts came down.
40:53For repeatedly conspiring with raiders to hijack shipments,
40:57along with assault and stealing trade secrets.
41:01Lily was sentenced to life in prison.
41:03To spend the rest of her days in the harshest prison in the desert.
41:10Jonathan forged documents and embezzled property, and the evidence was ironclad.
41:16All his assets were stripped away, and he faced decades behind bars.
41:22But he was too badly hurt and couldn't afford the medical bills.
41:25So in the end, he was released on medical parole.
41:29A cripple who couldn't even scrape together money for his own medicine.
41:35The day he left the courthouse, he dragged his broken leg and crawled up to my black pickup.
41:42His hair had gone white, he was withered down to nothing, and the dirt was black under his fingernails.
41:50Abigail, please.
41:53Don't leave me all alone in this desert.
41:57I really do know I was wrong.
42:03I pulled that piece of candy out of my pocket.
42:06The cheap, hard candy he'd thrown into the dirt that first night, coated in sand and grit.
42:12I dropped it gently into the dust in front of him.
42:18This is what you tossed me back then.
42:20Now I'm giving it back to you.
42:24A few years later, the largest cross-border transport network in the desert was finished,
42:31and my company's flags flew over every newly built road cutting through the sand.
42:36I was no longer anyone's wife, and I didn't have to rely on anyone's charity to prove my worth.
42:42This vast desert highway answered to me now.
42:46That day, a mighty convoy of red pickups rolled past the biggest supply station.
42:51Beside a dried-up ditch at the roadside sat a ragged old vagrant with one arm missing.
42:57He was holding up a chipped bowl, fighting a stray dog over a scrap of bread a passerby had thrown
43:03away.
43:03The moment he saw the red pickup leading the convoy, his cloudy eyes gave a violent shiver,
43:10and he dragged his broken leg after it like a man gone mad.
43:15Abigail!
43:17It's me!
43:19I'm Jonathan!
43:20Take me with you!
43:22I'm begging you, take me with you!
43:25The car window rolled down a crack.
43:27Behind my sunglasses, I didn't spare him a single glance.
43:30I just tossed a coin out the window.
43:32It landed dead center in his chipped bowl, kicking up a tiny cloud of dust.
43:36Sorry, I don't know you.
43:39The window rolled back up, and the red pickup kicked up a thousand layers of yellow sand
43:44as it vanished into the distance.
43:47All that was left was him, standing in the endless storm.
43:52Cradling that coin, letting out cry after cry that couldn't even bring tears,
43:57until he was swallowed completely by the boundless desert.