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The Runaway Bride and the Cold CEO EP Forced Marriage Escape, CEO Love Story, ENGSUB
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00:05Tell Nakamura I'll have the contracts ready before the flight.
00:07No delays.
00:16Pleasure doing business with you.
00:19Mr. Victor.
00:22My name is Ethan Cross, CEO of M Corp International.
00:25Forbes calls me one of the most eligible bachelors in the world.
00:27I call myself a man who has everything except a reason to come home.
00:42Hey, hey, stay with me.
00:49Gerald, bring the car around. Now. I need a doctor.
00:52I didn't know it then, but this woman, this stranger covered in ash and fire was about to change everything.
01:00My name is Lena Vidal, heiress to the Vidal Fuentes Empire.
01:05At least, that's what they call it.
01:07What they don't tell you is that empires are built on the bones of their children.
01:12Darling, the guests are arriving.
01:15Your father, I need you downstairs.
01:17Mother, before the engagement party, I need to tell you something. Can we please reconsider?
01:21Your father and I have discussed this. The merger depends on this marriage.
01:26But I don't love Marco. I've never loved him. This company, it's swallowing my entire life.
01:30Leave this room, smile, and do what this family needs you to do.
01:45There she is.
01:47My beautiful bride-to-be.
01:52They announced my engagement like a business deal.
01:55Because that's exactly what it was.
02:05I had given everything to this family.
02:07My education, my career, my dreams.
02:09I studied finance and economics.
02:13Not because I wanted to.
02:14Because as they needed to, they could marry off to secure their crumbling empire.
02:18Father, please.
02:19I'll do anything else for this company, but I can't marry I don't love.
02:22Love? You think love keeps 3,000 employees fed?
02:25Our stock is 40%.
02:27The Duarte merger is the only thing standing but us in bank.
02:30Then let me find another way.
02:31I can restructure the debt, find new investors.
02:33You will follow my instructions.
02:35There is no more discussion. You may go.
02:38Either you agree, or I hand everything to the Duarte family myself.
02:43Your choice.
02:46In that moment, I understood.
02:49I would never be enough for them.
02:51I was never their daughter. I was their transaction.
02:53So I decided to run.
02:59My mother arranged everything.
03:01A private jet, booked under a friend's name.
03:03Leaving at dawn from a private airstrip outside the estate.
03:05All I had to do was walk out the front gate.
03:08Long night, isn't it?
03:11Have a drink.
03:12You deserve it.
03:23Mom, thank you.
03:24I can't stop your father, and I may not be able to protect you after this, but I can give
03:27you a head start.
03:28Promise to make care of yourself.
03:29I promise.
03:31I'll find a way to save the company, too.
03:34I just need time.
03:35My brave girl.
03:37Now go.
03:38You have maybe six hours before he realizes you're gone.
03:48I didn't know where I was going.
03:49I only knew I was finally free.
03:56She's fine.
03:57Just shock and minor cuts.
03:59She'll wake in a few hours.
04:00The explosion destroyed the cafe next to the restaurant.
04:02She was caught in a blast.
04:03No ID.
04:04Just a woman in a ruined wedding dress, alone in the middle of chaos.
04:07Find out who she is.
04:08Check hospital records, missing persons, everything.
04:10Yes, sir.
04:10I told myself it was responsibility.
04:12I found her.
04:13I should make sure she's okay.
04:14But something about the way she looked, fragile and fierce at the same time, I couldn't walk away.
04:21Where, where am I?
04:23Who?
04:23Easy.
04:24You're safe.
04:25My name is Ethan Cross.
04:26There was an explosion.
04:27You were caught in it.
04:29I brought you here.
04:31I'm Lena.
04:32Lena.
04:34Are you all right?
04:35Is there someone I should call?
04:39No.
04:41There's no one to call.
04:51Good morning.
04:52How are you feeling?
04:55Better.
04:56Thank you for everything.
04:58I should probably go.
05:05Go where, exactly?
05:09I'll figure something.
05:10You have no phone, no ID, and you were wearing a wedding dress in the middle of an explosion.
05:16You don't know anything about me.
05:20You're right.
05:21But I have a proposal.
05:22I'm leaving for my private island tomorrow.
05:24A vacation off the grid.
05:26Come with people.
05:26No press.
05:27Recover.
05:28No strings attached.
05:29You're asking a complete stranger to vacation on your private island?
05:32I'm asking someone who clearly needs to disappear for a while, and I happen to have the perfect place.
05:38Why would you help me?
05:41Because I can.
05:47Fine.
05:48But this is temporary, and I'm not your charity case.
05:53I wouldn't dream of it.
05:57This is excessive.
06:01Says the woman who is wearing a couture wedding gown.
06:07Touché.
06:12We'll stop to refuel once.
06:14Total flight time about ten hours.
06:16Get some rest.
06:17Ten hours?
06:18Where exactly is this island?
06:21Somewhere no one will find you.
06:23I should have been terrified.
06:25A strange man, a private plane, an unknown destination.
06:29But for the first time in years, I wasn't afraid.
06:32I was relieved.
06:40I've built companies, closed billion-dollar deals, controlled every variable in my life.
06:45But this woman, sleeping on my shoulder, trusting me without reason, I had no plan.
07:07Oh my god.
07:09Welcome to Isla Serena.
07:10Population currently two.
07:23this isn't what i expected what did you expect i don't know gold toilets a helipad shaped like
07:29your initials the helipad is around back
07:37i mean ethan you didn't tell me you were bringing someone
07:41mom this is my friend lena lena this is my mother eleanor and my grandfather henry
07:47about time this boy brought someone home we were starting to worry
07:55it's wonderful to meet you both watching my mother hug her watching lena's walls come down
08:00for just a second i knew i'd made the right call bringing her here he thought of everything
08:05clothes that actually fit sunscreen books even a journal i don't know how he'd each other less
08:13than two days oh you it's honor summer looks like getting you enough for bet
08:27that looks good on you
08:33thanks your mother has excellent taste or was this you i may have made some suggestions
08:44lena dear you look lovely ethan stop staring and pour the girl some juice
08:50can i ask you something anything why are you really doing this rich men don't know strangers
08:56and fly them to private islands out of kindness what's the catch no catch i saw someone who needed
09:03help and honestly i needed to get away too from what from being the person everyone expects me to be
09:12i understand that more than you know i'll be with a stout gay
09:31so tell me about the great ethan cross
09:34the internet says you're worth 12 billion dollars and you've never been fade a draft smiling
09:39the internet exaggerates it's only 11 billion
09:44i'm serious who are you when no one's watching
09:51my father built cross industries from nothing shipping real estate finance when i was 18 he
09:57handed me the keys and said don't lose it that was his version of love and your mother she's the
10:04opposite all warmth all heart when dad died she moved here said she'd spent enough years in boardrooms
10:12she wanted sand between her toes she sounds wonderful
10:20she is she's also the only person who's ever told me it's okay to want something other than success
10:27and do you want something else no i'm starting to so no girlfriend
10:36no fiancé waiting somewhere with a pitchfork there was someone it ended badly
10:43she wanted the name not the man
10:48i'm sorry don't be it taught me something the only people worth keeping are the ones who see you
10:56not your bank account then i think we have more in common than either of us expected
11:09this is there are no words
11:17i come here when i need to think
11:21or when i need to stop thinking
11:24ethan i want to thank you not just for the island or the clothes or the food
11:29for not questions for just letting me breathe you don't have to thank me for basic decency
11:37you'd be surprised how rare that is in my world
11:43whatever you're carrying whenever you're ready to put it down i'll be here
11:49i won't push but i'll be here
11:54you know what my little cousin tommy calls you what superheroes he says you're my superheroes
12:08superheroes don't have private islands no he has something better he shows up when it matters
12:18then i'll keep showing up come on superheroes your mom's making dinner and i'm starving
12:25that's when i knew she wasn't just someone i wanted to help she was someone i wanted to keep
12:31before i was an heiress before i was a business degree before i was someone's arranged bride i was a
12:37girl who loved to sing
12:42i was already falling before i knew you're to sing don't let me shatter darling just hold on to my
12:51hand
13:05long enough that was lena that was incredible why didn't you tell me you could sing like that
13:12it was never important not to my family they wanted spreadsheets not songs it's important your voice is
13:20important promise me you won't stop thank you you don't know how much that means
13:32i think i do
13:37we should the stars are out want to see them from the beach yeah yeah let's do that
13:55ethan
13:57what is this i realized we've spent a week together and never had a proper date if you'd like one
14:06this is the most beautiful thing anyone has ever done for me okay your turn biggest fear losing
14:14someone i love and not being able to do anything about it
14:27you won't lose me
14:35is that a promise
14:40it's a promise
14:49lena i need to tell you something this week being with you it's changed something in me i don't want
14:55this to end
14:59neither do i
15:02stay with me
15:07i'm not going anywhere
15:26do you believe in wishes
15:28i believe in making things happen that's such a billionaire answer
15:42okay here's the deal we each make one wish on that star the bright one but you can't tell me
15:49why not
15:51because then it won't come be yours obviously
15:55obviously
16:00done
16:01done
16:03can i at least ask
16:06are you happy
16:08right now in this moment
16:10this is the happiest i've been in my entire life
16:13and it terrifies me
16:14why
16:16because happy never lasts
16:18not for me
16:26then let me prove you wrong
16:29we made the same wish that night
16:32i know because months later he told me
16:35we both wished for the same thing
16:45whatever happens when we leave this island
16:47i want you to have already changed my life
16:49you've already changed my life
17:00three weeks
17:02three weeks since she vanished
17:05her father's people found nothing
17:07the police found nothing
17:10but i will find her
17:12i always get what's mine
17:14sir we've checked every airline every border crossing no record of alina vidal leaving the country
17:19then she used a different name she had help find out who
17:27where are you hiding my love
17:34sir mr vidial is online too he wants an update
17:37tell rodrigo i'll have his daughter back
17:39and when i do the wedding happens immediately no more delays
17:45no one leaves me lena
17:48no one
17:54it's me
17:54i need you to expand the search
17:56prive investigators international contacts i don't care what it costs
18:00and check every just prive is a pair up within 200 miles of the other state
18:03someone flew her out
18:04she thinks she can escape
18:05she thinks distance will save her but she doesn't understand there is no distance far enough
18:11i've waited too long
18:13sacrifice too much
18:15she belongs to me
18:27hey you're up early
18:31what's wrong
18:32i need to tell you something about who i am
18:36about why i was in that wedding dress
18:39my real name is lina vidal
18:42my family owns vadol fiends industries
18:46or they did
18:49the company's been failing for years
18:51my father arranged a marriage to a man named marco duarte to save the business through a merger
18:57and you ran
19:00i ran the night of my engagement party my mother helped me escape i flew to the states with nothing
19:06fake name
19:07i borrowed money
19:11i was trying to get to a friend's place when the explosion happened
19:18marco isn't just my ex-fianche
19:21he's obsessive
19:22controlling
19:23he's been watching me for years
19:26following me
19:29threatening anyone who got close
19:31and my father doesn't care
19:33because marco's money is the only thing keeping the company alive
19:39has he hurt you
19:40not physically
19:42but there are other ways to cage someone
19:46thank you for telling me
19:48none of this changes anything
19:50you're not angry
19:53that i lied
19:54you didn't lie
19:56you survived
19:58there's a difference
20:04listen to me
20:06no one is going to touch you
20:08not marco
20:09not your father
20:10not anyone
20:11i promise you that
20:13you can't promise that
20:14watch me
20:21ethan i've looked into the vidolfana situation
20:23the company's hemorrhaging money
20:24rothergo vidal has been selling off assets for months
20:26the duarte merger is their last play
20:32and marco duterte
20:33bad news
20:34he's connected
20:35politically financially
20:36his family has ties to some very powerful people
20:39if he's looking for lena
20:41he has the resources to find her
20:43then we need to be smarter
20:45i want a full security assessment
20:48upgrade everything on the island
20:51and harris start looking into duarte's business dealings
20:55everyone has skeletons
20:57you're going to war with
21:00marco duarte
21:02if i have to
21:11hey what's going on in that billionaire brain of yours
21:16just work stuff
21:19liar
21:23you looked into marco didn't you
21:27i needed to understand what we're dealing with
21:30you keep saying we
21:32because that's what this is now
21:35ethan i can't let you risk everything for me your company your reputation
21:38my company means nothing if i can't protect the people i care about
21:42and i care about you lena more than i plan to
21:46more than i probably should
21:47i care about you too that's what scares me everyone i care about gets hurt
21:52then we'll be scared together my wife helped her escape
21:57i'm certain of it then your wife is a problem
22:01lafia has been dealt with she won't interfere again
22:10and the private air filed we traced the flight plan the jet landed in miami
22:16but after that the trail goes cold she's with someone
22:20a woman like lena doesn't survive alone for three weeks without help find out who
22:25marco
22:26perhaps we should consider that she doesn't want this marriage
22:33perhaps what perhaps i should let your company collapse
22:37perhaps i should call in every loan your family owes mine is that what you prefer
22:43find your daughter bring her to me
22:46or i will find her myself and you won't like my methods
22:51it's duarte i need your best man someone discreet i'm looking for a woman and whoever's hiding her
22:58soon my love very soon
23:13lena
23:15mom are you okay i heard i'm fine listen to me your father knows i helped you marco's hired
23:21investigators they traced the jet to miami do they know where i am not yet but it's only a matter
23:29of
23:29time lena whoever is helping you you need to tell them the truth all of it marco won't stop
23:37i already told him mom he he's a good man and hold on to him don't make my mistake don't
23:44let fear
23:44choose your life for you i'm so sorry i'm sorry i left you there don't you dare apologize you are
23:55the
23:55bravest thing i've ever done now be brave a little longer
24:11lena
24:18we're gonna figure this out together i promise
24:25he's coming ethan marco's coming
24:31let him come
24:38sir mr harris called ethan he says the security team arrives this afternoon
24:46good and the background check on duarte
24:53preliminary results are in there's quite a lot sir
25:04this man is a produtor
25:08what are you looking at
25:11nothing you need to worry about right now
25:14don't do that don't protect me from the truth i've had enough of men deciding what i can handle
25:28marco duarte has a history fraud intimidation a woman filed a restraining order against him two
25:34years ago it disappeared from the records
25:38i knew he was controlling i didn't know about the other woman
25:46this is leverage lena if we can find her get her testimony
25:52you don't understand marco destroys people who stand against him
25:57that woman probably disappeared because she was terrified
26:02then we make sure you don't have to be terrified anymore
26:07i have resources lawyers security we can build a case against him but i need you to trust me
26:14i trust you i just don't trust the world to be fair
26:19then we'll make it fair brother i need you back
26:22the tokyo deal is falling apart without you and the board is asking questions about your extended vacation
26:30tell them i'm handling things remotely for how long ethan you've been gone three weeks people are
26:36talking let them talk
26:40this is about the woman isn't it the one from the explosion
26:44ethan be careful you can't save everyone i'm not trying to save everyone just one person
26:59i heard your call you need to go back i'm not leaving you ethan you have a company thousands of
27:08employees a life you can't put it all on hold for me watch me stop saying that i won't be
27:16the reason
27:17you lose everything you've built and i won't be the man who walked away when it mattered i've done
27:22that before i won't do it again what do you mean
27:27you've done that before
27:34my ex i chose the company over her every time i realized i'd never really been there at all i
27:40won't
27:40make that mistake with you then we go together back to the real world and we face it all of
27:46it
27:46side by side are you sure i'm terrified but i'm sure
27:55i'm gonna miss that place
27:59it's not going anywhere we'll come back before we land there's something i need to tell you
28:04i've had my lawyers working on something what kind of something a legal strategy against marco and
28:11your father's arrangement harris found enough evidence of financial artitionship
28:19scott to challenge the merger entirely then that could take years in court or it could take weeks
28:24if we have the right pressure points and we do
28:34duarte has been laundering money through three shell companies your father may not even know if
28:38we bring this to the financial regulators the merger collapses marco loses leverage over my family
28:45exactly your father won't need marco's money if the deal is toxic and marco can't force a marriage
28:50if he's facing federal charges you did all this for me i did this for us and for every person
28:59marco has ever hurt
29:04you're insane you know that right clinically
29:09probably
29:13penny for your thoughts i was just thinking a month ago i was planning my escape from an engagement party
29:19now i'm standing in a pen to york with who makes me believe in second chances
29:23is that a good thing it's the best thing
29:39i run a 12 billion dollar company and i can't boil spedetti
29:4511 billion
29:48you're never gonna let that go are you never
29:54ethan
29:57hmm i want to start writing music again for real this time i want to record something i know a
30:05producer i can set up a studio session no i want to do this on my own no billionaire shortcuts
30:13i need to earn it then earn it i'll be your biggest fan you already are
30:27i was already falling before i knew your name you pulled me from the fire and taught me love's not
30:35pain that's the one that's the take
30:45perfect
30:51i did it i actually did it you did it all you ethan do you remember our wish on the
31:01island
31:03the star wish i wished for love real love the kind that stays so did i i know
31:13i think i always knew i love you lena vidal
31:20i love you too my superhero my impossible ridiculous wonderful man
31:30when
31:32when how close lock everything down now
31:45lena
31:48marco's people found us
31:55what one of his investigators traced a purchase i made
31:59clothes shipped to the island
32:01they connected it to my name as you're with me
32:05no no no no
32:11look at me we prepared for this harris has the evidence read the financial regulators are already
32:17reviewing duarte's files we just need a little more time and he won't give us my mind he won't
32:21give us time you don't know him ethan he'll come here he'll
32:31i don't know him
32:31sir there's a man in the lobby demanding to see you he says his name is marco duarte
32:39send him up
32:40then don't i told you let him come
32:46so this is where you've been hiding her
32:51impressive you're in my home i suggest you choose your next words carefully you know darling
32:57you've had your little adventure it's time to come home
33:04i'm not going anywhere with you marco not now not ever your father disagrees the merger
33:14the merger is dead i know about the shell companies the laundering the fraud right now
33:19my lawyers are presenting evidence to federal regulators by tomorrow morning your ass will be
33:23frozen you have no idea who you're dealing with cross
33:28actually i do you're a man who confuses ownership with love
33:34who thinks money buys people but here's what your money can't buy her she's not yours she never
33:41was this what you want this stranger over your own family my family used me as currency you treated
33:49me like property ethan is the first person who ever asked me what i wanted so yes this is what
33:55i want
34:01this isn't over yes it is enjoy it while it lasts cross you were incredible
34:16i think i'm gonna throw up
34:20that's also incredible the regulators move fast and freezing her this morning
34:24duarte's accounts are frozen his lawyers are scrambling and my father
34:28rodrigo dal has been cooperating reluctantly once he saw the evidence of fraud he was the merger would
34:34have destroyed his company not saved it so now he listens there's more
34:41the woman who filed the restraining order her name is clara mendez she's agreed to testify
34:49how
34:54we offered her protection a new identity if she needs it she's been waiting years for someone
34:58to stand up to marco lena i just wanted you to know that you're not alone all those years i
35:02thought
35:02i was the only one you were never the only one
35:06but you might be the one who ends it miss vidal is it true you're pressing charges against marco du
35:13tape i'm here to tell the truth that's all
35:19miss vidal can you describe the nature of your relationship with the defendant it was never a
35:25relationship it was an arrangement made by my father and marco's family for financial gain
35:30i was never consulted if he was told i had no choice and when you attempted to leave marco made
35:36it clear
35:36through threats surveillance and intimidation that leaving was not an option he monitored my movements
35:42he threatened people close to me he believed he owned me
35:49he did the same to me the surveillance the threats when i filed a restraining order it disappeared
35:56his lawyers made sure of it i was terrified for three years
36:03on the charges of financial fraud money laundering and criminal intimidation
36:06and the court finds the defendant marco duart guilty on all counts
36:25you did it we did it i am so proud of you
36:37that was already filing by newcomer lena vidal and folks this one is climbing the charts fast
36:46heard you on the radio the barista recognized your voice i think you're famous now
36:51don't let it go to your head you're still only worth 11 billion
36:58lena
37:01father i owe you an apology i put the company above my own daughter
37:06i was wrong yes
37:10you were i'm not asking for forgiveness i'm asking for a chance to earn it then earn it starting now
37:19so your song is a hit your father's actually trying marco's in prison what's next for lena vidal
37:25world domination a grammy teaching your mother how to use facetime she's 73 that might be harder than the
37:33grammy
37:38i have something for you
37:43before you panic it's not a ring not yet open it
37:49the wishing star i had it made after our night on the beach one star for one wish
37:57put it on me i love you ethan cross every impossible stubborn generous part of you
38:05i love you lena
38:11you look like freedom that's exactly what i feel like
38:16are you ready i've been ready since the night he carried me out of the fire
38:20most beautiful thing i've ever seen you say that every morning and i mean it every morning lena
38:26a year ago i found a woman a ruined dress in the middle of chaos
38:33i thought i was saving her but she saved from a life success meant everything connection might
38:36nothing you touched you taught me that the bravest thing a person can do is stay so here i am
38:42staying ethan i spent my whole life being told what to want who to be where to go then a
38:46building
38:46exploded and a stranger with gray eyes picked me up and said no one had ever said that me before
38:49you gave me a place to land by the power vested in me i now pronounce you husband and wife
38:55you may kiss
39:00remember our wish real love the kind that stays wish granted
39:11so what do we wish for now everything else
39:17together they say billionaires can buy anything but the thing wanted most the thing we both wanted
39:22was never for sale it was built in fire carried across oceans and sealed under a sky full of stars
39:27it was just love simple structurinary love and it was ours
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