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He Divorced Me For Her, Now He Begs On His Knees - Ep ✅ FULL [Eng Sub]
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00:00Three years into our marriage, Dante knelt before the Mareti altar and begged for family punishment, just to end our
00:06marriage.
00:07Because Sarah, his kidnapped childhood sweetheart, had returned.
00:12Now they pushed the divorce papers toward me.
00:14Sarah suffered because of me. I can't fail her.
00:18What about our daughter?
00:19Dante lowered his eyes.
00:21Sarah can't have children anymore, and she can't bear to see mine.
00:25Lily will be struck from the family registry. I'll place her with another family.
00:30I took the papers, folded them, and slipped them inside my coat.
00:34Fine. I'll sign. But Lily is mine.
00:37From tonight on, Lily and I are no longer part of the Mareti family.
00:41Whether we live or die, it has nothing to do with you.
00:44The chapel went so quiet. I tightened my arms around Lily.
00:47He hadn't expected me to agree so readily. His mother, Lucia, hurried over.
00:51Elena, you're being foolish. He can't just end this marriage. We won't allow it.
00:56Vittorio stood up, shaking with rage.
00:58You ungrateful bastard. Elena bore your child and ran this household for you.
01:02What did she ever do wrong?
01:04That woman has poisoned your mind.
01:06The old conciliere, Carlo, leaned forward.
01:08Dante, no man in this family has ever thrown out his wife and child.
01:12If you insist on doing so, you must first endure hundreds of lashes.
01:15This is on me alone, but Sarah suffered because of me.
01:18I can't fail her again.
01:19Lily, I can't keep her.
01:22But I'll make sure she never wants her anything.
01:28A dark and heavy rattan whip was brought out.
01:31Dante took off his jacket and knelt upright.
01:34When the whip cracked, gasps filled the family chapel.
01:39After a hundred lashes, blood soon streaked across his back, but he clenched his teeth and made no sound.
01:44Get out of my sight. Kneel outside until you come to your senses.
01:49Dante struggled to his feet, walked to the chapel doors and knelt in the rain.
01:52His face was paper white. His lips were blue from the cold.
01:56Still, he clung to that one sentence.
01:57Even if I freeze to death here today, I still want to end this marriage.
02:01I watched Dante stand there, ready to die for Sarah, and my chest stung.
02:05Once, he had knelt before his parents and sworn he would marry only me.
02:09Back then, he was the Moretti heir.
02:11I was just an accountant's daughter.
02:13The gap between us was huge.
02:15Everyone called him crazy, but he still insisted on marrying me with the highest Moretti honors.
02:19The altar lights shone in his eyes as he said gently,
02:23Elena, I will be good to you for the rest of my life.
02:27How the hell did we end up here?
02:29It all started yesterday.
02:32Yesterday, we were holding Lily's christening.
02:34The Moretti compound was packed with guests.
02:37That was when Sarah appeared.
02:39She was thin as a ghost, with torn clothes and hollow eyes.
02:44She stood in the doorway.
02:46Dante!
02:47At that sound, Dante, always so calm and untouchable,
02:51dropped the champagne glass in his hand.
02:53He pushed past the guests who came to congratulate him and stumbled toward her.
02:57Then he pulled her tightly into his arms.
02:59I had never seen him lose control like that.
03:02I'm sorry.
03:03It was my fault, Sarah.
03:05I shouldn't have followed the rules so blindly.
03:08I shouldn't have said those cruel things.
03:10I did this to you.
03:13I knew he never got over her.
03:15She is finally back.
03:17I watched my husband hold another woman and told myself it was fine.
03:20He only felt guilty.
03:21He loved me now.
03:22We had Lily.
03:23This family would not fall apart.
03:25Elena, I want a divorce.
03:28I'm sorry, but Sarah was taken because of me.
03:31She was abused for years and now she can't have children.
03:33I owe her too much.
03:34I have to spend the rest of my life making it up to her.
03:39You want to end our marriage?
03:40What about Lily?
03:41What happens to our daughter?
03:43Sorry.
03:44I really can't keep her.
03:46I hit him, screaming and sobbing.
03:48He took every blow without moving.
03:50His jaw clenched and his eyes full of pain, but he never took it back.
03:53By dawn, I had no fight left.
03:55No tears left.
03:57Fine.
03:59The blade wounds and the cold finally took Dante down in the rain.
04:03His men rushed over and carried him back inside.
04:05A doctor was called.
04:07I stood outside the room, listening to Lucia cry softly inside.
04:11I felt nothing but cold inside.
04:13Back in my room, I started packing.
04:15I had lived in the Moretti house for three years.
04:17I was surprised by how much I had collected.
04:20Almost all of them were gifts from him.
04:21But now, every piece felt like a joke.
04:24I was folding my usual clothes into the suitcase when I heard footsteps outside.
04:27Dante came in.
04:28He was still too weak to stand alone.
04:30Elena, I'm sorry.
04:31This was all my doing.
04:32I kept packing.
04:33I'll tell everybody we ended the marriage by agreement,
04:35not that I cast you aside so your reputation stays intact.
04:38He paused.
04:38You're still young.
04:39You'll find someone better one day.
04:41I'll give you enough to start over.
04:42I stopped and turned to look at him.
04:44He looked so sincere.
04:45Dante, don't pretend you're doing this for me.
04:48He froze for a second.
04:49You just want to feel better so you can marry Sarah without guilt.
04:54You said you don't want to miss her again.
04:56Then what was I to you these three years?
04:58His lips moved and he swallowed hard.
05:00At last he spoke.
05:01Elena, regret is part of life.
05:03Not everything can be made right.
05:05I looked at him quietly.
05:07That face had once made my heart race.
05:09Now it was full of fake sorrow.
05:10So Lily and I together still mean less than your regret?
05:13Pain flashed in his eyes, but he still only said one thing.
05:16I'm sorry.
05:17Fuck your apologies!
05:20I stopped looking at him and kept packing.
05:23But my thoughts slipped back to the past on their own.
05:26It pulled me back to Christmas Eve three and a half years ago.
05:30A masquerade in midtown Manhattan.
05:33Everything in that ballroom screamed money.
05:37I slipped away from the crowd and found a fortune teller booth in the corner.
05:46There was a card on the table.
05:48A riddle was written under it in gold ink.
05:54I was born the moment you looked and I died the moment you touched.
05:58I was born the moment you touched a reflection.
06:00I turned.
06:01A man in a black mask stood there.
06:04I believe the prize is a dance.
06:07Would you like to claim it?
06:10I nodded blankly.
06:12He held out his hand.
06:18The untouchable man I had only heard about in rumors was now holding my hand on the dance floor.
06:24The second time was a hotel uptown.
06:27A storm knocked the power out.
06:29Guests were stranded.
06:30Hallways were dark.
06:31And everyone was panicking.
06:33He found me sitting alone in a corridor.
06:37He just handed me his room key.
06:40Told me his driver would be waiting in the morning.
06:42And disappeared.
06:43I found out later that he spent the night on a chair in the lobby.
06:47Then came the garden party at the Meretti estate.
06:49His mother was showing him potential brides.
06:53I was only there as a courtesy invite.
06:56I sat alone in the corner of the garden.
06:58I was trying to find a way to leave without being rude.
07:02Then Dante found me.
07:07Hiding in the corner at my mother's party.
07:10Bold move.
07:12Maybe it was the champagne, or maybe I was just tired of pretending.
07:16So I told him the truth.
07:18Because I know I don't belong here.
07:20And I know I'll never be good enough for someone like you.
07:25That's funny.
07:26I was just thinking the opposite.
07:30Three months later, he married me against his mother's wishes.
07:33And Carlo Bianchi's advice.
07:36Everyone in the city said he married for love.
07:39Not leverage.
07:40I believed them.
07:42I believed we'd grow old in that house.
07:45Turned out I was just the intermission.
07:49For the first two years, Dante was the kind of husband other women dreamed about.
07:53He traced my eyebrows with his thumb when I was still half asleep.
07:58When I had a cold,
08:01he walked out of meetings to come home to me.
08:04When I got pregnant with Lily,
08:06he became softer and more careful.
08:09I thought this was what forever felt like.
08:12Then one afternoon,
08:14I knocked over a picture frame in his study.
08:17I picked it up.
08:21It was an old photo of Sarah.
08:27I was still staring at the photo when the door opened behind me.
08:41Dante crossed the room and nearly knocked me aside as he snatched the frame from my hands.
08:45I caught myself on the desk and stared at his back.
08:48He checked the glass for cracks and ran his fingers over the frame.
08:51Who is she?
08:52He stayed silent for a long time.
08:54Then he said,
08:55Someone I grew up with.
08:57Serafina.
08:58And then he told me everything.
08:59Sarah's parents had been family allies.
09:01They were killed by a Volkov hit when she was eight.
09:04Don Vittorio took her in and raised her under his roof.
09:06He gave Dante one order.
09:08You were responsible for protecting her,
09:10training her, and keeping her alive.
09:12So Dante taught Sarah to shoot,
09:14fight,
09:15read people,
09:16and survive in their world.
09:17Day after day,
09:18year after year,
09:19she became his shadow,
09:20and he became her shield.
09:22She told me she was in love with me.
09:24I rejected her.
09:26I told her it could never happen.
09:28My father had put her life in my hands,
09:30and crossing that line would have been a betrayal.
09:32That night,
09:33Sarah left the compound alone and got drunk.
09:35The Volkovs took her from the street.
09:37Three years,
09:38I tore the whole city apart looking for her.
09:41But everyone told me she was dead.
09:43Then Dante turned around and took my hands.
09:45Meeting you was when I finally stopped looking.
09:48You were the reason I stopped drowning, Elena.
09:50We had the worst fight of our marriage that night.
09:53Dante could not answer.
09:55In the end,
09:55he grabbed the photo and threw it into the fireplace in front of me.
09:58I watched the flames eat Sarah's face.
10:01Dante pulled me into his arms.
10:02He said there was only me now,
10:03and I believed him.
10:05After that,
10:06he became even better to me.
10:07Everyone in New York envied me.
10:08I thought the past was dead
10:09until Sarah walked through our front door.
10:11She said Dante's name was...
10:13And three years of marriage went up in smoke.
10:16The bag was packed.
10:18I took one last look around the room
10:20I had called mine for three years.
10:22Elena, I...
10:23Don't.
10:23Don't say you're sorry again.
10:24I can't hear it one more time.
10:27We're done here.
10:28And I hope she was worth it.
10:30His jaw tightened.
10:30It took him a moment to speak.
10:32I had my people draw up a full accounting of everything I own.
10:34I took it and flipped through without hesitation.
10:36Two estates outside the city,
10:38three commercial properties in Manhattan,
10:40five million in cash.
10:42He was generous because guilt was expensive.
10:44When a scream tore through the next room,
10:46the nanny screamed from Lily's nursery,
10:48and I dropped the folder and ran.
10:51My heart stopped.
10:52No!
10:54Sarah's hands were wrapped around my baby's throat.
10:57Get off her!
10:58The nanny clawed at Sarah's hands.
11:00I grabbed my Lily and held her against my chest.
11:03One more second and she would have been...
11:05I snapped.
11:06I grabbed Sarah by the hair and dragged her to the floor.
11:09You put your hands on my baby!
11:10You touched her!
11:11There can't be any babies!
11:13Dante can only have me!
11:14He can only have me!
11:16Then Dante grabbed me from behind,
11:17pulled me back.
11:18She's sick, Elena.
11:19You're taking Lily away anyway,
11:20so Sarah will never see her again.
11:21Dante!
11:23Do you know who you are?
11:25You're the Moretti heir.
11:26Look at you.
11:27You're protecting the woman
11:28who had her hands around your daughter's neck.
11:29So much for Moretti's honor.
11:34That was for the three years I'll never get back.
11:36And that was for Lily!
11:37Red bloomed across both cheeks.
11:39He did not move, did not flinch,
11:41did not let go of Sarah.
11:42I turned away.
11:43Nanny, we're leaving.
11:45Right now.
11:46He called after me.
11:47Elena!
11:48Lily takes my name.
11:49She'll never carry yours.
11:51And if you ever come near her again,
11:53I'll put you in the ground myself.
11:56We're done.
11:57Forever.
12:00It was still raining.
12:01I held my daughter against my chest
12:03and walked out of the Moretti estate.
12:04At the end of the driveway,
12:06I stopped and looked back one last time.
12:08The highway stretched south,
12:09and New York slowly disappeared
12:11in the rearview mirror.
12:12The nanny sat beside me in the back seat
12:14with our only bag,
12:16while Lily slept in my arms.
12:17I sold everything Dante gave me
12:19and put the money under my maiden name.
12:21Now it was my war chest to keep Lily safe
12:23and far from the Moretti name.
12:25Three days into the drive,
12:26Lily got a fever.
12:27She would not eat,
12:28would not nurse,
12:29and soon stopped crying altogether.
12:31I held her through the night
12:32as her little face burned red with fever.
12:34If we were still in the Moretti house,
12:36a doctor would have arrived in ten minutes.
12:40Ma'am, please let me hold her while you sleep.
12:42I shook my head and pulled Lily closer.
12:44Then I remembered Lily's christening.
12:47My daughter Lily.
12:49God protect her.
12:50God keep her happy.
12:52Those words were still warm in my mind,
12:54but the man who said them
12:55had already become a stranger.
12:58A week later,
12:59we reached Savannah.
13:01My parents were waiting on the porch.
13:02My mother saw me step out with Lily in one bag,
13:05and her face collapsed.
13:06My father took the bag without asking questions.
13:09You're home.
13:10The house looked exactly how I remembered.
13:13Your father retired last year,
13:15and we moved back here to grow old, quietly.
13:18She smoothed my hair like I was still a child,
13:20her eyes filling with tears.
13:22We never thought you would come home like this.
13:24I left out Sarah's hands around Lily's neck,
13:26and Dante choosing Sarah over his own daughter.
13:29A hundred years of Morelli money and power,
13:32and that was the best they could do.
13:34My mother held Lily and me and rocked us both.
13:37She kept saying,
13:38My poor sweet girl.
13:40There was no judgment and no shame,
13:41only fury, grief, and love.
13:43Lily slowly got better in Savannah.
13:45The southern air suited her,
13:46and her cheeks filled out again.
13:48When she started laughing,
13:50every terrible thing felt a little farther away.
13:52I took over my parents' small businesses,
13:54including a boutique and a few rental properties.
13:57They were not glamorous,
13:58but they were mine.
13:59The days became full enough to keep me from drowning.
14:02Sometimes, late at night,
14:03I still thought about New York,
14:05but every time I did,
14:06the ache grew quieter.
14:07My mother was right.
14:11On a Tuesday in early spring,
14:14I had Lily at the boutique with me.
14:16I was halfway through the numbers
14:18when I heard Lily crying.
14:19I was out the door in three seconds flat,
14:21and there was a man crouched in front of the stroller,
14:24holding up a little music box,
14:26trying to get her to smile.
14:27Sorry about that.
14:28She's too cute.
14:29I couldn't help myself.
14:30Didn't mean to make her cry.
14:31I scooped Lily up
14:32and forced myself to sound normal.
14:33It's fine.
14:35You're from up north, aren't you?
14:37Something about your voice.
14:39My guard went all the way up.
14:40Born here.
14:41Spent some time in New York.
14:43He nodded.
14:44Did not push it.
14:45Tipped his head and walked away.
14:46I asked around later.
14:48His name was Nico Santoro.
14:50Nico came from old southern money
14:52with rumored underworld ties.
14:53But three years ago,
14:55after a health scare,
14:56he walked away and came here to disappear.
14:58Most people in town just knew him as Nico.
15:00Quiet.
15:03I saw him again at an open mic night
15:05at a bookstore downtown.
15:06The theme was spring.
15:08Everyone was writing little poems
15:09and reading them aloud.
15:10I scribbled something on a napkin
15:12without really thinking.
15:13Wind still carries petals through that gate
15:15like it's waiting for someone who won't return.
15:17That's gorgeous.
15:18But Jesus, that's sad.
15:20I turned around.
15:21Nico.
15:21My napkin in his hand.
15:22I reached for it.
15:23He pulled it back.
15:24Let me keep it.
15:26I'll trade you a painting.
15:27The next morning, Nico sent me a watercolor.
15:29Nico started coming to the boutique,
15:31sometimes buying something,
15:32but mostly just sitting,
15:33talking, and never asking about my past.
15:35Once Nico learned I was raising Lily alone,
15:37little gifts began appearing for her.
15:42She babbled, grabbing at his collar.
15:44He let her.
15:45Every time.
15:46My mother noticed.
15:47One evening, she cornered me in the kitchen.
15:49Elena.
15:50You're still young.
15:51Mom.
15:52The only thing I want right now
15:53is to raise my daughter.
15:54On Lily's first birthday,
15:55he sent a gold locket.
15:56I tried to give it back.
15:59He would not take it.
16:01It's not for you.
16:02It's for her.
16:03A kid shouldn't have to pay
16:04for the mess her parents made.
16:06That night, I held Lily in the rocking chair,
16:08watched the locket catch the light,
16:09and cried until I could not stop.
16:11He was right.
16:12He was right.
16:13Lily did not do anything wrong.
16:15The whole city was there.
16:17All of them were saying the same thing.
16:19Dante Moretti, the loyal one,
16:21finally reunited with his true love.
16:23Sir, it's nearly time.
16:24I nodded, but I was looking past it,
16:26out the window.
16:27Elena had planted the magnolia tree herself
16:29when she moved in,
16:30saying she wanted the courtyard
16:31to smell like home when it bloomed.
16:33The tree was still there.
16:34She was not.
16:34Sir?
16:35I blinked.
16:36Took the veil from him,
16:37white and silk.
16:38It turned my stomach.
16:39Three years ago,
16:40I lifted Elena's veil under candlelight
16:41and made a promise I thought I meant.
16:43I'll be good to you for the rest of my life.
16:45Sir, the car's waiting.
16:47I breathed, turned, walked out.
16:52The drive to the second estate
16:53felt like driving to my own funeral.
16:55People on the street were watching.
16:57Is that the new wife?
16:58The one he threw everything away for?
16:59He heard he kicked out the first one.
17:01Her and the baby, both.
17:02Jesus.
17:03My knuckles went white on the wheel.
17:05At the altar,
17:06I looked at Sarah in her white gown,
17:07and all I saw was Elena.
17:09Do you take this woman?
17:10I nodded.
17:11It was done.
17:11I wanted to get drunk enough
17:12to forget Elena walking out.
17:14But the more I drank,
17:15the clearer it got.
17:16Late that night,
17:17after everyone had gone,
17:18I pushed open the bedroom door.
17:20Dante.
17:21She stood,
17:22reached for my shirt buttons.
17:24I stepped back.
17:26You're still thinking about her?
17:29No.
17:30I turned away,
17:30walked to the table,
17:31poured water.
17:32Then why won't you touch me?
17:34She came up behind me,
17:35wrapped her arms around my waist.
17:36I waited so long for this.
17:38I went through so much.
17:40And tonight was supposed to be...
17:42I peeled Sarah's hands off me.
17:44I'm tired.
17:45Get some sleep.
17:46Dante!
17:47I lost everything for you.
17:49My body,
17:49my future,
17:50my ability to ever have a child,
17:52and you can't even look at me?
17:53Sarah,
17:54give me time.
17:57I gave you three years
17:59to love somebody else.
18:00Three years to build a life with her.
18:02To have a baby with her.
18:03And that still wasn't enough?
18:05She grabbed my face,
18:06kissed me hard.
18:07I'm sorry.
18:14I'm sorry.
18:15Then fall asleep waiting for me to finish work.
18:18I lay there staring at the ceiling
18:20and did not close my eyes until sunrise.
18:24Three months into this marriage,
18:26I barely recognized myself in the mirror.
18:28I tried with Sarah.
18:29Dinners,
18:30conversations,
18:31gifts,
18:32and every promise that she was safe now.
18:34But every time she touched me,
18:36I saw Lily's purple face
18:37and the cold madness in Sarah's eyes.
18:40My head told me she was a victim,
18:42that she was broken,
18:44that she needed help.
18:45My body would not let her
18:46within three feet of me.
18:48One rainy afternoon,
18:49I was driving back from a sit-down in Jersey
18:52and I pulled into a diner
18:53to wait out the storm.
18:55A few guys at the counter
18:56were talking over coffee and pie.
18:58I was heading for a booth in the back
19:00when I heard it.
19:02That Moretti kid,
19:04real piece of work,
19:05dumped his wife and baby for some girl.
19:07Piece of work is generous.
19:09You know who that girl actually is?
19:11What do you mean?
19:12She's some dead friend's daughter, right?
19:13Grew up in the house?
19:14Friend's daughter, my ass.
19:15She was Volkov,
19:16born and raised,
19:17trained as a sleeper
19:18to get close to men like Dante.
19:20The diner sounds disappeared.
19:22There was just a ringing in my ears.
19:24The kidnapping three years ago
19:25was staged to compromise the Morettis,
19:27but Dante moved on
19:28and married someone else,
19:28so the plan died.
19:30When the Volkovs heard his wife had a daughter,
19:32they sent her back to break the marriage,
19:34isolate him,
19:35and use the child as leverage.
19:37I did not hear the rest.
19:39I ran through the rain,
19:40got behind the wheel,
19:41and tore down the back row
19:43while the wipers fought to keep up.
19:48Allie's daughter?
19:50Volkov's sleeper?
19:51Staged?
19:52Was the kidnapping staged?
19:54For three years,
19:55I had searched for her
19:56and drowned in guilt,
19:57only to learn
19:58every second of it
19:59had been manufactured.
20:01I tore through the compound gates,
20:04left the car running in the drive,
20:05and went straight to Sarah's wing.
20:14Dante, what?
20:17Who are you?
20:19I'm Sarah.
20:20You're hurting me.
20:21Volkov.
20:23You're Volkov,
20:25aren't you?
20:25Her face did something
20:27I had never seen before.
20:28The mask slipped for a fraction of a second,
20:30and underneath,
20:31there was nothing.
20:32No fear,
20:33no love,
20:33just a calculation.
20:35That was all I needed.
20:36For a pawn,
20:37a carefully manufactured weapon
20:39aimed at my family,
20:40I threw away my wife.
20:42Dante, please,
20:43let me explain.
20:44Explain what?
20:45How you played me for years?
20:46How you wrapped your hands
20:47around my daughter's throat?
20:49No, I didn't.
20:50That day,
20:51I lost control.
20:53I was jealous.
20:54Bullshit.
20:55The plan was working perfectly,
20:57but the baby
20:58made things complicated.
20:59She tied Elena to me
21:00in a way you couldn't undo,
21:01so you tried to remove the problem.
21:04Permanently.
21:06Lock her downstairs.
21:07Nobody opens that door
21:08without my say-off.
21:11Her screaming followed me
21:12down the hall,
21:13but quieter.
21:14Stop.
21:16Dante!
21:16Dante!
21:22I stood alone in the courtyard.
21:24Rain poured down on me
21:25for the second time in my life
21:26because of this woman,
21:27and Elena's voice came back,
21:29clear as glass.
21:30Do you know who you are?
21:31You're the Moretti heir.
21:33What did I do?
21:34For a lie,
21:34a perfect lie,
21:35I took my own family apart
21:36with my own hands.
21:37The day we dealt with Sarah for good,
21:39both my parents were in the room.
21:40We did it in the chapel
21:41where everything had started,
21:43and somehow that felt right.
21:44The evidence was laid out on the altar
21:45where my blood had dried six months ago.
21:48Documents.
21:48Intercepted communications.
21:50Testimony from a Volkov defector.
21:51All of it pointed in the same direction.
21:53Sarah knelt on the marble,
21:54hands bound,
21:55and finally,
21:55she stopped pretending.
21:57She told us everything.
21:58She was Volkov.
21:58Had been since birth.
22:00Raised from childhood
22:01as an infiltration asset.
22:02Her assignment,
22:03get close to the Moretti heir.
22:04Use him to tear the family apart
22:05from the inside.
22:06The kidnapping was a theater.
22:08Every minute of it was orchestrated.
22:09The plan was to push me
22:10so far over the edge
22:11that I'd go to war
22:12with my own father
22:13trying to save her.
22:14Then I met Elena,
22:14and everything the Volkovs
22:16had worked towards
22:16started falling apart.
22:17I was happy.
22:18Stable.
22:19Building something new.
22:20Moving on.
22:20They shelved the operation.
22:21Wrote it off.
22:22Until Elena got pregnant.
22:25A baby deepens the bond,
22:27Sarah said.
22:27She was kneeling on stone,
22:29mascara running,
22:30but she was smiling.
22:30This empty,
22:31poisoned smile
22:32that made my skin crawl.
22:33My handler reactivated me.
22:35Told me I had to break you apart
22:36no matter what.
22:37He said Dante Moretti
22:38was a man who ran on guilt.
22:40Give him something
22:40to feel guilty about
22:41and he'd destroy himself.
22:43So she built her story.
22:44The abuse.
22:45The infertility.
22:46The broken,
22:46fragile woman
22:47who'd been destroyed
22:48because of him.
22:48Every word of it.
22:49Fiction.
22:50She timed her return
22:51for the christening on purpose.
22:52Maximum impact.
22:54Maximum witnesses.
22:55She knew exactly
22:56what it would do to me
22:56to see her standing there,
22:58ruined,
22:58while I held my newborn daughter.
23:00And Lily!
23:01The baby was a problem,
23:02Sarah said flatly.
23:03As long as the child existed,
23:05Elena would always be tied to you.
23:06To the family.
23:08The job was to sever
23:09all connections.
23:10Permanently.
23:11She meant to kill my daughter.
23:12It wasn't a breakdown.
23:13It wasn't madness.
23:14It was the mission.
23:15My mother did not make it
23:16to the end of the confession.
23:17She went down
23:18and they had to carry her out.
23:19My father,
23:20Don Moretti,
23:20stood with tears
23:21streaming down his collar.
23:22You fool.
23:24You stupid,
23:25stupid boy!
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