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My Ex-Husband Lost Everything After Our Divorce
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00:00in three years of marriage i wore myself down taking care of him until i ruined my own body
00:04yet behind my back he quietly had a second child with another woman until that night
00:10when i suffered massive bleeding from an ectopic pregnancy and desperately begged him to come keep
00:14me company on the phone he said coldly can an embryo that has not even taken shape compare with
00:19my son i did not cry and i did not make a scene i simply disappeared from his world on
00:27my own
00:29later his family went bankrupt and he became a broke worthless stray dog kneeling before me in
00:34tears and begging me to look at him again but by then another man was already standing by my side
00:40on long island new york rain poured down outside the desantis estate pounding against the living
00:45room windows leon's mother donna sat by the fireplace elena
00:54you have been married into the desersti family for three years now what the family values most will
01:01always be bloodlines you have no heir and the elders have already decided sophia and her child
01:09will be accepted i followed her gaze madam this was not what i wanted either
01:18that day leon drank too much i
01:23before she could finish the heavy front door was pushed open leon walked in carrying a chill of rain
01:29shrugging off his suit jacket now soaked through the moment he saw me a flash of panic crossed his
01:35eyes elena let me explain daddy
01:38a childlike voice broke the deadlock the nanny led in a little boy he had a head of dark brown
01:43curls
01:44looking almost like leon carved from the same mold he rushed over and clung tightly to leon's leg
01:49leon lowered his head his hand landing awkwardly on the boy's hair two years old he left me behind
01:55to take over the family business that was exactly three years ago leon we are done in the first year
02:01he sent me videos every day back then he's elena once i get a firm foothold in manhattan
02:09i will bring you over and we will live in that penthouse overlooking central park
02:15now the same face stood before me but this time he was shielding another woman from the wind and
02:21rain elena i can explain explain what i looked at leon explain how you crawled out of her bed and
02:28then
02:29kept saying good night to me on the other side of the screen as usual leon's expression darkened
02:34he lowered his voice elena do not make a scene here mother and the child are both watching
02:41make a scene i sneered i am only tearing open your pathetic lies for everyone to see
02:47i took a silver pocket watch out of my pocket it was the gift he gave before leaving custom made
02:52by
02:53foreign teen cracksman by hand on the back were engraved our vow per semper forever and ever leon
02:58froze then reached out to snatch it i let go the pocket watch hit the floor with a sharp crack
03:03and then i raised my foot and crushed it hard i turned and walked toward the door behind me her
03:08voice trembling my stomach hurts so much sophia suddenly bent over clutching her stomach leon's
03:15steps as he chased after me i pulled open the door and stepped out into the rain back at the
03:21house in
03:21the hamptons i dragged out my suitcase just after i pulled the zipper shut the lock clicked leon was
03:28standing at the door his eyes bloodshot i had not expected him to chase me all the way here
03:33elena calm down he pressed down on my hand as i pulled the suitcase that child was only an accident
03:39that night i drank too much sophia has a special condition a miscarriage would kill her
03:47the first one was an accident i shook off his hand and slapped him hard across the face what about
03:53the second one in her belly also an accident his tone had already turned angry i've said it before
04:00you'll always be my legal wife and all my money is yours sophia doesn't want anything she just wants
04:08the child to have a proper status in the family i lit up my phone screen and held it in
04:13front of him
04:14a place on the screen was an encrypted email i had just received look closely all the cursed
04:20assets of the distantitis family has have been founded in this cintua and the beneficiary your
04:25two-year-old urses you unfine will remains untouched leon panicked
04:34my mother forced me to sign it she was just trying to protect the child nine o'clock tomorrow morning
04:40court if you do not show up i will personally hand over the records of your dealings with sergey
04:48morozov to the federal prosecutor
04:52all i heard was his phone ringing and sophia crying on the other end
05:00leon i i am bleeding leon did not appear in court he only sent a long string of messages
05:06saying sophia was showing signs of miscarriage and that he had to stay at the hospital with her
05:10asking me to calm down first i did not reply i directly hired a lawyer a week later the
05:16desantis family's annual charity gala was held at a private club in midtown manhattan it was the
05:21most important event of the entire family representatives of the five major families
05:25partners from every business line and associates from the french power circles all came as the only
05:31lawful lady of the family i had to be there the moment i entered the ballroom whispers immediately
05:36slipped into my ears that is leon's wife i heard she cannot bear an heir sophia is already pregnant
05:42with the second one and she is still firmly holding the position of mrs desantis the desantis family does
05:47not need a useless woman i did not stop i walked straight toward the main table leon was giving a
05:53speech
05:53on stage his gaze swept over me like a silent warning do not make trouble then the awards began
05:59every year the family gives out the project of the year award to honor the most profitable investment
06:04project of the year everyone knew this year's prize would definitely go to the north shore
06:08revitalization plan that project had consumed nearly half a year of my blood and sweat i had
06:13personally secured the three key plots of land i had opened up the municipal connections one layer
06:18at a time and i had also rested the two most crucial rounds of financing out of the hands of
06:22the five
06:22major families the winner is sophia rossi the host announced the winner's name i tightened my grip on
06:30the champagne glass sophia wore a black armani gown the five-month pregnant belly slightly rounded as she
06:35walked gracefully onto the stage amid a sea of flashing cameras she accepted the crystal trophy i want to
06:40thank leon for his guidance without him i could never have completed such a complicated project and looked at
06:52me their eyes carrying sympathy ridicule or simply the look of people waiting for a show his gaze nailed
06:59to me in addition the family committee has approved that for health reasons elena de santos will
07:05indefinitely suspend all family affairs sophia rossi will take over in her place the hall fell silent for
07:11a moment i sat there my whole body as though frozen that project was something i had built entirely on
07:17my
07:17own sophia could not even understand the valuation model leon was forcing me to bow my ankle wanted to
07:23take away everything i had poured my heart into strip me of my power and tear my dignity to pieces
07:28in
07:28front of everyone all for the sake of proving one thing without him i was nothing i set down my
07:33glass and
07:34stood up the sound of the chair sliding back was not loud yet it was enough to make everyone around
07:39me
07:39look over i walked straight toward the stage leon frowned and lowered his voice elena do not make a scene
07:45here
07:45i looked at that face of his and spoke coldly de santos stealing someone else's work is a crime in
07:51new york elena give the project to her take it as compensation for the child we can talk about
07:58what you want later leon stared at me with a frown use my things to compensate your mistress
08:05leon you really disgust me sophia tugged at his sleeve leon do not blame her i only wanted to prove
08:12i could also help you she turned to me tears in her eyes madam this honor should have been yours
08:18all
08:20along i do not want anything praise instantly rose from all around sophia is so kind that barren woman
08:26is still so arrogant right then a sharp stab of pain suddenly shot through my lower abdomen it felt as
08:31though a knife were violently twisting inside my body i clutched my stomach and cold sweat instantly
08:36broke out on my forehead elena stop acting in front of me leon gave a cold laugh escort mrs de
08:42sacy out
08:43two bodyguards came up and seized my arms from left and right too weak even to struggle i was dragged
08:48out
08:48of the banquet hall like trash and dumped outside the door the door slammed shut behind me i heard
08:52sophia's syrupy sweet voice from inside leon baby just moved i crashed heavily onto the marble floor
08:58and warm liquid began running down the inside of my thigh i reached down and touched it my fingertips
09:03were covered in blood biting my teeth i called 911 in the emergency room the doctor looked at me and
09:09froze you are eight weeks pregnant already you did not know that sentence was like a bolt of lightning
09:15striking my head pregnant a child i had been waiting three years for three years of medicine
09:19three years of injections yet still no news and now on this dirtiest of nights it had quietly arrived
09:24ectopic pregnancy severe bleeding surgery must be done immediately
09:30family member we need a family member's signature the doctor handed me the consent form for surgery i
09:36trembled as i dialed leon's number the phone rang for a long time before it was answered elena what
09:41exactly do you want leon i am at new york presbyteria hospital the doctor said i am pregnant
09:48it is exosick i am bleeding heavily can you come please i am so scared there was silence on the
09:57other
09:57end for two seconds then i heard sophia screaming leon lucas has a fever hurry and come on leon's reading
10:04instantly quickened elena you actually made up this kind of line to trick me into going over there
10:09even if what you said is truth ever that even taken shape compare with my urns i closed my eyes
10:14in despair i am not lying they are about to take me into the operation he cut me off directly
10:19elena
10:20stop acting do not make me hate you even more the call was hung up the busy tone echoed through
10:27the empty emergency room the doctor looked at me his eyes full of sympathy ma'am we cannot wait any
10:32longer i gritted my teeth took the pen and signed my name on the surgical consent form elena vance
10:38the operating room lights came on bright and blinding white anesthetic flowed into my body through my
10:42veins and my limbs gradually lost all sensation at that moment all i felt was that something had
10:47shattered completely not just the child i lost but also the last ridiculous sliver of hope i had left
10:52for leon on the third day after the surgery the doctor handed me a report with a face full of
10:57regret
10:58i am sorry we had to remove your left valerian tube your chances of conceiving naturally are
11:02now almost zero i looked at the ceiling and did not cry on the fourth day i checked myself out
11:07of
11:07the hospital and returned to that house on long island sophia's clothes were still hanging in the
11:12living room i placed the signed divorce agreement in the most conspicuous spot on the coffee table with
11:16the blood-stained medical record form beside it then i changed my phone card deleted all of my social
11:21accounts and dragged my suitcase out the door leon the perfect life you wanted i am giving it back to
11:26you
11:26but this is not the end i swear it a year passed manhattan top floor of rockefeller center i stood
11:33before the floor to ceiling window looking at the sea of lights below my feet
11:39miss vansa the closed door meeting will begin in a few minutes by now i was the co-founder of
11:45vance
11:45studio in the year after the surgery i left long island with almost nothing in my pockets i buried
11:51myself completely in work countless sleepless nights building financial models gathering resources
11:55everywhere and piling up one deal after another to create results step by step i rebuilt my life at
12:01last i had earned the right to sit here at the same table with this pack of sharks who would
12:05not spit out
12:06the bones the desantis family lost a fortune in new jersey this year the losses were massive
12:14even leon desantis himself is here he is probably here to ask for help that name pierced my chest like
12:21a
12:21rusted needle i looked up the man who had once been so overbearing and untouchable was now standing in
12:26a corner much thinner the expensive custom suit hanging loose on him he was humbly handing cigars to
12:31several elders uncle carlo please give me one more chance i really can save that territory
12:43the other man patted his shoulder perfunctorily then turned and saw me elena you are here everyone
12:49has been waiting for you i'm so glad you could make it leon followed his gaze and turned around the
12:55moment our eyes met the lighter in his hand dropped to the floor with a click he looked at me
13:00in disbelief
13:00his voice i walked up to him in high heels a standard business smile on my lips mr desantis long
13:07time no see he stared at me fixedly his eyes full of shock surprise and a trace of belated remorse
13:15where did you go i searched for you for a whole year he subconsciously tried to touch my arm i
13:21turned
13:21slightly and avoided him mr desantis this is a public place please mind your manners
13:29elena i know i was a bastard before sophia and i have already split up there is nothing between us
13:35anymore i cut him off your private life has nothing to do with me if you are here to talk
13:42financing go
13:43make an appointment with my assistant if you are only here for nostalgia sorry i am very busy i did
13:49not
13:49look at him again and walked straight toward the main podium his gaze was nailed to my back like a
13:54red
13:54hot iron but i never once turned around the speech went smoothly i shared the latest investment
14:00strategies for east coast commercial real estate and thunderous applause broke out from the audience
14:05below after the meeting ended i walked alone toward the underground garage just as i took out my car
14:10key a figure suddenly sprang out from behind a pillar and blocked the car elena do not go leon was
14:18panting
14:18hard his hair a mess i am being punished for my sins sofia planted her people inside the family and
14:25emptied all of our overseas assets she angered my mother until she had a stroke and now she is lying
14:30in a
14:30hospital bed unable even to move tears streamed down his face every day when i go back to that house
14:36the
14:36only thing on my mind is you i was wrong elena terribly wrong can you forgive me after hearing him
14:43out i felt
14:44terrifyingly calm inside are you done elena a harsh screech of brakes rang out in the underground garage
14:52a black sports car stopped beside us the door swung open and sophia rushed out in high heels
14:59leon i knew you were rushing to break up with me because of her elena you
15:03how dare you seduce my husband arms folded i sneered
15:10sophia your husband himself was standing in front of my car like a stray dog
15:15not so didn't you get no you here sophia enough if not for your little tricks elena would never have
15:21left sophia staggered a few steps from the throw and crashed into the car door then let out a show
15:26laugh leon what are you acting so deeply in love for now that night you were the one who drank
15:34too much
15:35and crawled into my bed you were also the one who insisted on handing the family trust over to my
15:39son
15:41now that i have emptied the company and your mother is paralyzed only now do you start blaming me
15:48do you really think elaine would even look at a bankrupt loser like you
15:54i could not be bothered to watch this farce
15:58move aside i am going home i opened the car door and got in
16:02but leon clung to the window and refused to let go no matter what elena please give me one more
16:08chance i pressed the power window button and directly trapped his fingers leon the moment you
16:15went to accompany lucas through his fever it was already over between us he froze taking advantage
16:22of his days i stepped on the gas and the car shot forward in the rearview mirror he had collapsed
16:27onto
16:27the ground while sophia was still pointing at his nose and cursing i did not look back again
16:32the next day an uninvited guest appeared in my office leon he was clutching a document tightly in
16:38his hands his eyes red looking like a demon freshly climbed out of hell security wanted to stop him
16:44but i waved them away the moment the door closed he dropped to his knees with a thud in front
16:49of my desk
16:50and placed the file on it it was a copy of the medical record from new york presbyterian hospital
16:55clearly stating ruptured ectopic pregnancy massive bleeding in the abdominal cavity elena
17:03is this true that night when you called were you really taken into the operating room i leaned back
17:09in my chair and looked at him calmly what else did you think i was joking with you he suddenly
17:15grabbed
17:15his hair why did you not tell me if i had known it was that serious how could i have
17:21ignored you
17:23did i not tell you leon i told you i was in the hospital i told you i was pregnant
17:28bleeding heavily
17:29and terrified and you yourself told me not to keep playing those tricks not to force you to hate me
17:35even more i am not human elena i really did not know lucas had a fever his eyes were even
17:46rolling
17:46upwards and sophia was shrieking hysterically on the phone i panicked at the time so i panicked you
17:54were not panicking leon you simply made a choice between me and sophia between my life and your son's
18:00life you chose to abandon me do you know what it feels like to lie on an operating table and
18:05feel your
18:06own blood draining away bit by bit do you know how desperate i was when the doctor told me i
18:10might never
18:11be able to be a mother again leon you did not only kill our child you also took away my
18:19right
18:19to be a mother i'm sorry i truly am sorry since you have already read the medical record then you
18:28should know you owe me a life now get out never let me see you again and security quickly came
18:37in to
18:37forcibly drag him out his cries echoed all the way down the corridor growing more and more distant
18:42i returned to my seat and took a sip of coffee an unprecedented sense of pleasure rose from the
18:48bottom of my heart leon had completely lost his mind the news spread through the family circle like
18:54wildfire he returned to the santa's headquarters and carried out an almost devastating purge of sophia
18:59her little scheme of embezzling public funds was nowhere near sophisticated it was nothing more
19:03than a gamble on his blind trust in her after leon obtained the evidence he did not go to the
19:08family court instead he called the police directly the day sophia was taken away by the fbi
19:16you cannot do this to me i am still carrying your child in my belly the child in your belly
19:26is not mine leon looked at her expressionlessly is not mine he tore through her call records and credit
19:33card bills from top to bottom in order to secure her position sophia had long since secretly
19:38crawled back into her ex-boyfriend's bed the so-called pregnancy was merely a chess piece she used to
19:43kick me out but the truth went even further leon also had lucas's dna tested the child was indeed
19:49his biological son but how the child came into being was prettier than any affair at that banquet many
19:55years ago sophia bribed a waiter to drug leon's whiskey she calculated her own ovulation time with
20:02precision before climbing into his bed leon had always thought it was just one drunk mistake
20:08had all been her carefully laid hunt
20:12on the day the truth was revealed leon de santa smashed his study into a wreck shattered glass and
20:17broken with splinters strewn everywhere like a graveyard for a woman who had schemed against
20:22him for an illegitimate child born out of a trap he drove away the only woman in this world who
20:27had
20:27truly loved him and with his own hands he killed the air they should have had sophia was eventually
20:31sentenced to five years it was said leon once went to visit her through the thick glass of the
20:37visitation room she cried and begged him to save her for the sake of the child no one knew what
20:41he
20:41finally said to her but not long after he left she was carried in prison lucas was sent back to
20:47the
20:47desantis estate and left in donna's care she who was now bedridden the servants were also dismissed and
20:52the entire estate rotted away little by little in its dead silence donna's speech had become slurred and
20:58her mind was no longer clear she could only watch that child with no one to care for him crying
21:03out
21:04amid the ruins of former glory the desantis empire was hollowed out by sophia's greed and then with
21:09leon's collapsing mental state leaving it completely defenseless it was finally swallowed up by the
21:14irish mob and later divided among the five family council
21:19the once glorious leon desantis was now nothing but a joke drowning in debt
21:23a ghost wandering through the ruins of his own life and i during that same year secured one high
21:30profile project after another perfect studio the year-end celebration was held in a hotel in manhattan
21:36i wore a custom vera wong gown standing under the spotlight with a glass of champagne in my hand
21:42i am deeply grateful for everything i went through in the past i smiled at the reporters they taught me
21:48that the most reliable support a woman has will always be herself my photos made the front page of
21:55every major business media outlet i also knew i know leon will see these he lives every day in the
22:02shadow of his own remorse god has his own way of punishing the wicked i do not need to do
22:08it myself
22:09they will drag each other down to hell after the celebration banquet ended i walked alone across the
22:14brooklyn bridge late at night under the dim street lights i saw a hunched figure leon he was wearing
22:20an old coat washed pale white clutching something tightly in his hand standing ten steps away from
22:25me like a homeless drifter too afraid to come closer he had become completely unrecognizable so thin
22:30his hair long enough to cover his eyes his face covered with stubble i stopped walking his voice was
22:37so hoarse it was almost inaudible i said nothing he awkwardly wiped his hands on his pants and
22:42cautiously came closer opening his palm to show me in his palm lay a silver pocket watch it was the
22:49florentine pocket watch that i had crushed back then which he had pieced back together one shard
22:53at a time ugly glue marks covered the case elena i fixed it he looked at me i spent a
23:01lot of money
23:01and found the best watchmaker in the world the mainspring is still running it can keep going
23:08he tremblingly turned the pocket watch over revealing the words per semper on the back see
23:12i truly wanted to spend the rest of my life with you i never never thought things would turn out
23:20like
23:20this i looked at the pocket watch in his hand then at his gaunt face
23:28is this why you came looking for me leon just to show me this a gust of wind blew by
23:33i know i have
23:34no right to ask for your forgiveness and he pulled his coat tighter around himself that coat was too
23:39small it no longer fit i just wanted to see you to look at you one last time you have
23:46seen enough i said
23:47now you can go he stood there without moving his lips trembling slightly i pointed at the pocket
23:53watch in his hand do you know what this pocket watch looks like now just like you once it is
24:01broken
24:02it is broken even if you piece all the fragments back together it is still just a pile of scrap
24:07metal
24:08i took a bottle of liquor from my bag and poured it directly over it he flailed like a madman
24:14desperately trying to wipe the liquor off no this is the only thing i have left please do not destroy
24:24it i am not the one who destroyed it leon you did that to yourself i looked at him put
24:31away that face
24:32of a victim you are not crying for me leon you are crying because you yourself cannot accept where you
24:38have ended up what you truly miss is the leon desantes who had a wife an empire and a mistress
24:45now that you have nothing left you are cleaning this scrap of metal because it only serves your
24:50pitiful pride forcing yourself to feel something he collapsed to the ground at once covering his face
24:57with both hands and crying i have nothing left elena god really has abandoned me
25:07my mother curses me in bed every day lucas he will not even look at me every time i close
25:14my eyes all
25:15i see is you covered in blood i cannot go on living i looked at him my voice steady then
25:22die
25:23he suddenly lifted his head his eyes blood red his lips trembling do you really think you can live on
25:29like this with atonement and still earn my forgiveness you yourself disgust me listen carefully leon
25:39desantis from the second you hung up that phone you had already become meaningless to me i turned and
25:47left while his prime grew farther and farther away behind me one month later harris vance studio won a
25:52massive asset restructuring project in paris and as the person in charge i would be based here for
25:57three years i never imagined i would meet him here mateo ricci the youngest son of the ricci family for
26:02years younger than me yet the youngest godfather in the entire european mafia alliance flipping through my
26:07files reading out my name elena vance the north shore bank reconstruction project is your case he
26:14sat across the conference table i am the one in charge he closed the file and reached out his hand
26:20to me he did not call me desantis welcome to paris elena then lifting his eyes for the ricci family's
26:25projects i will work only with you over the next three weeks we met almost every day discussing the
26:30project negotiating terms and occasionally sharing a meal together he was very quiet unlike leon he did
26:36not need to dominate the room with his voice most of the time he simply listened carefully occasionally
26:41asking one or two questions and every single one struck the key point i have to admit being with him
26:46was easy but that ease was completely shattered in the fourth week that night after we finished discussing
26:51the last few terms at a restaurant by the same he sat down his wine glass and looked at me
26:55and said
26:57there is something i want to tell you first i am interested in you i raised a brow
27:03mateo you are four years younger than me and so what the ricci family will not accept what the
27:09ricci family thinks is up to me he cut into the lamb chop on his plate a faint smile touching
27:13his lips
27:14you do not need to answer me now but do not use age or family as an excuse to reject
27:18me
27:19those things mean nothing to me i did not know how leon got the news at night i received an
27:24encrypted
27:24message it contained only one photo mateo and me in the restaurant shot from an angle that deliberately
27:29made it look ambiguous below it was only one sentence you have a new man beside you do you
27:34know what he does i put the phone back into my bag and did not reply 15 minutes later a
27:39second
27:39message arrived he comes from the sicilian ricci family do you know how much blood is on their hands
27:44elena do not let him fool you then came a third you never belonged in that world come back to
27:50me i
27:50will not hurt you again looking at the messages popping up one after another on the screen i suddenly
27:55found it absurdly ridiculous he had clearly been the one to push me into the abyss and yet now he
28:00still had the nerve to tell me that i did not belong in that world i moved my finger and
28:03directly blocked
28:04him clearly leon did not intend to let go just like that he flew to paris
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