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The Housewife He Threw Away Is a Billionaire
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00:00My husband told me to sleep with other men. This was the 10th time this month.
00:05I caught him with his new assistant at the office.
00:09Aria, you find someone, I find someone. Open marriage. Nobody gets hurt.
00:14Damon dropped onto the couch. He didn't look sorry. He thought I would cry.
00:18I used to cry. Not anymore.
00:21Every billionaire on Wall Street does this.
00:23He lit a cigar.
00:25Stop acting like a saint. Try it. You might like it.
00:28I smiled. He had no idea who he married three years ago.
00:31He thought he married a quiet housewife, soft spoke, always looking down.
00:35That was a costume. I was the only daughter of the Vale family.
00:38One of the oldest fortunes in New York.
00:40Every rich boy on the East Coast wanted me. None of them got me.
00:46I threw it all away for a guy with nothing.
00:49Lone sharks beat him half to death and left him in an alley.
00:53It was a mistake.
00:55Okay. His head snapped up.
00:57What?
00:58I said okay. I smiled at him.
01:00Remember, you asked for this.
01:02He laughed at me. He didn't believe me.
01:04Aria, you've got no one. What are you gonna do besides sit at home?
01:07He was half right. I had no friends.
01:11I cut off everyone in New York for him.
01:14But there were other people.
01:15The ones I used to blow money with in Manhattan clubs three years ago.
01:19They were still waiting.
01:21Damon ripped off his tie and threw it on the floor.
01:23Get some sleep. You'll thank me later.
01:26He went upstairs.
01:27The next morning, he brought her home.
01:29Camille.
01:30The intern.
01:3122 years old.
01:32Her skirt barely covered anything.
01:34She plopped down on my Persian rug.
01:36Her coffee spilled in the middle of it.
01:38Oops.
01:39Sorry, ma'am.
01:40She wasn't sorry.
01:41Damon walked out of the studio.
01:42He looked at the stain.
01:43He put his arm around her.
01:45It's just a rug.
01:46We can buy a new one.
01:49I picked up my phone and called the housekeeper.
01:52Throw the rug out.
01:54Throw out the men's slippers next to it, too.
01:56In the trash.
01:57Damon's face stiffened.
01:58He grabbed Camille's waist and pulled her toward the door.
02:01I'm taking her to the charity gala tonight.
02:03You don't mind, do you?
02:04He was waiting for me to break.
02:06I smiled.
02:08Have fun.
02:09Don't bother coming home.
02:11The door slammed shut.
02:12I went to my closet.
02:14In the very back, behind a pink gown I hadn't touched in three years, there was a black travel
02:18bag.
02:18I hadn't touched it since my wedding day.
02:20Inside was one red slip dress and three black cards with no limit.
02:24A set of Ducati keys.
02:25One Borster phone with one number sword.
02:28I picked up the phone and dialed.
02:30It rang twice.
02:32A voice burst through the line over loud metal music.
02:34Aria?
02:35Oh my god, you're alive?
02:37I looked in the mirror.
02:39Soft.
02:39Pale.
02:40Wearing a boring dress Damon picked out.
02:43Black Diamond Club.
02:44Tomorrow night.
02:45Eight.
02:46Tell me what you want.
02:47Clear the place out.
02:49Round up every billionaire left in the city.
02:51I'm back.
02:52The next night was the Crawford family dinner.
02:54I walked in wearing that red slip dress.
02:57Camille was already sitting in the hostess spot.
03:00She had Damon's jacket thrown over her shoulders.
03:02Around her neck was the emerald necklace.
03:05Every Crawford bride had worn it at her engagement.
03:07It went all the way back to Damon's great-grandmother.
03:11Damon's mother, Alessonor, used to keep it locked in a safe.
03:14She told everyone I came up from the slums on the Lower East Side.
03:18According to her, I didn't deserve the Crawford name.
03:21That's why I never got to wear it.
03:23Now it sat on her son's mistress, placed there by her own hands.
03:30Vivian looked at me sideways.
03:32Is that the Crawford necklace?
03:34Mom finally took it out of the safe?
03:37Eleanor raised her voice.
03:39Camille knows her place.
03:41She deserves it.
03:42Damon sat at the head of the table playing with his lighter.
03:45He wouldn't even look at me.
03:47Eleanor held Camille's hand and laughed.
03:49Camille is so warm and well-behaved.
03:51Not like some women.
03:53Stiff as a board.
03:54Boring.
03:55No wonder men go looking elsewhere.
03:57The whole table laughed.
03:59These were Damon's Wall Street friends.
04:02Tech money.
04:04Heirs.
04:04Men who used to follow him around and call me Mrs.
04:08Crawford.
04:08Camille stood up with a wine glass.
04:10She walked over to me slowly.
04:12Smug.
04:13Aria.
04:15Don't be upset.
04:16Damon said you agreed to the open marriage.
04:18We all live under one roof now.
04:21Let's keep the peace, okay?
04:22Damon's friends laughed at me.
04:25God, she is such a coward.
04:27The mistress is in the main seat and she doesn't say a word.
04:31Damon, you're a genius.
04:33A wife at home and women everywhere else.
04:36Best of both worlds.
04:37They thought I was still the housewife.
04:39Damon smirked.
04:40He waited for me to sit down quietly like always.
04:43I didn't take her glass.
04:44Instead, I picked up the crystal racanger and poured the entire bottle of red wine over
04:49her head.
04:51Dark red ran down her hair, down her cheeks, into her dress.
04:56The laughing stopped.
04:57Aria!
04:58Let!
05:00I didn't move.
05:01I just looked at him.
05:03He'd never seen me like this.
05:09I agreed to an open marriage.
05:11I looked around the table at those Wall Street men who thought they were special.
05:15I never agreed to sit down for dinner with some cheap intern.
05:29The night air hit my face.
05:31For the first time in three years, I finally felt alive.
05:35Eight o'clock.
05:36The Black Diamond Club, every top supercar in New York, was sitting out front.
05:42Damon's Porsche rolled up right then.
05:45Camille was on his arm.
05:46He was planning to show her off.
05:49He was planning to walk right in and pop the most expensive bottle on the menu.
05:54Sorry, sir.
05:54The club's closed to the public tonight.
05:56Closed?
05:58I'm Damon Crawford.
05:59I'm on your VIP list.
06:00Get your manager out here.
06:01Now.
06:02The bodyguards did not blink.
06:03Mr. Crawford, the whole place has been bought by a VIP tonight.
06:06Management said nobody gets in.
06:07Not even you.
06:09In all of New York, you could count on one hand the people who could shut down the Black Diamond
06:13Club with a single call.
06:15These were some of the ten wealthiest people in the country.
06:17These were the people Damon had been chasing for years and never got close.
06:22Who is in there?
06:23Camille whispered.
06:24How should I know?
06:25Damon said through his teeth.
06:26Can we just go somewhere else?
06:28Camille pulled his sleeve.
06:29I already ordered the champagne for tonight.
06:32Shut up.
06:32Right then, the front doors opened from the inside.
06:39Heavy music hit the street.
06:41Spotlights flooded the VIP booth in the center of the room.
06:45A woman was stretched out on a black velvet couch.
06:48She had on a red slip dress with a deep open back.
06:52Her long dark hair peeled over her pale shoulders.
06:55God, she's gorgeous.
06:58Camille gasped.
06:59And around her were all those men.
07:01The men Damon had been trying to get a meeting with for years.
07:04Wall Street kings and tech giants.
07:07Forbes cover guys.
07:08And they were all crowded around her booth.
07:13Camille's breath caught.
07:16I thought he never set foot in Manhattan.
07:18And Whitrock.
07:19He was at the president's dinner.
07:21Damon's face drained white.
07:23The woman on the couch slowly turned.
07:25Casual, like none of them mattered.
07:27She glanced toward the door.
07:28No real interest.
07:29That's not possible.
07:31It was his wife.
07:32The quiet woman he'd called boring.
07:35Who only wore plain dresses because he picked them out.
07:38He was convinced she couldn't survive a day on her own.
07:42Arya!
07:43What the hell are you doing?
07:45Dressed like that?
07:46Get up!
07:52Come home with me.
07:53Right now.
07:55The music cut.
07:56Every eye in the room landed on him.
07:59I sat on the couch and looked at him.
08:01My face was blank.
08:03Then I felt a heavy presence step up behind me.
08:05Tall.
08:06Built.
08:06Black shirt open at the collar.
08:08He tugged at his collar.
08:10His eyes were cold violence.
08:11It's Cade Ashford.
08:13Head of Ashford Group.
08:17Good evening, Damon.
08:18Cade's voice was almost gentle.
08:21The whole room went dead quiet.
08:27Your wife told me something interesting tonight.
08:31She said the two of you have an open marriage.
08:34His hand slid to my waist and pulled me into him.
08:37His warmth wrapped around me.
08:40So I showed your wife what a real man feels like.
08:43You get to watch.
08:45Damon couldn't breathe.
08:47Kay's shoe was pressing the air out of his chest.
08:49Cade, please.
08:51This is a private matter.
08:53Aria's my wife.
08:53She was your wife.
08:54Cade did not even look at him.
08:56A scream tore through the room.
08:57Damon!
08:58Mr. Ashford!
08:59Please!
09:00Let him go!
09:01She actually thought her tears could fix this.
09:03Aria, how could you side with this stranger against your own husband?
09:09Cade glanced over.
09:10His eyes swept over her.
09:12Pure disgust.
09:14What's that smell?
09:15Cheap perfume?
09:16Before she could say another word, two bodyguards grabbed her.
09:20They dragged her out and tossed her down the steps.
09:23She hit the concrete.
09:24Her scream cut off.
09:26Every eye in the room went back to Damon.
09:29I settled back onto the velvet couch, picked up my glass, and swirled the champagne.
09:35Then I looked down at the man pinned under Cade's foot, my husband.
09:39A smile crept across my face.
09:42What's got you so mad, Damon?
09:45I tipped his chin up with the point of my heel, just like he used to do to me.
09:50Didn't you say this was just a game?
09:53Didn't you tell me every man on Wall Street does this?
09:56I leaned back against Cade's chest.
09:59The warmth of him came right through his shirt.
10:01His arm wrapped around my waist, firm and steady.
10:05A low, satisfied laugh came from behind me.
10:08Tonight I found a real man.
10:10I'm going to sleep with him.
10:12I looked down at Damon and smiled.
10:15Feel free to pull up a chair and take notes.
10:19Aria!
10:21Damon's eyes were bloodshot.
10:23You-
10:24Get him out of here.
10:24He's annoying my woman.
10:26The bodyguards tossed Damon down the steps.
10:28He landed right on Camille.
10:31Inside, everyone laughed.
10:33The crowd took the hint and cleared out.
10:35The doors swung shut behind them.
10:38Cade pushed me back against the mirrored wall.
10:41His hand slid down my waist.
10:43Three years, Aria.
10:45He bit my lower lip.
10:49Do you know what I thought about every morning for three years?
10:53Hmm?
10:53Taking you back from that loser.
10:56Pinning you down on my bed.
10:59Making you say my name until you lost your voice.
11:02He laid me back on the bed and started unbuttoning his shirt.
11:09In such a rush, he smiled.
11:13Come here.
11:15Take it off for me.
11:19I sat up slowly.
11:21I slipped the straps of the red dress off my shoulders.
11:24I was not wearing a bra.
11:26I only had black lace panties on.
11:29He swallowed hard.
11:30Aria, you're beautiful.
11:33Now you.
11:34He pulled off his shirt and threw it on the floor.
11:37He was down to black boxers.
11:40He used his knee to push my legs apart.
11:42He leaned down over me.
11:44His kisses started on my lips.
11:46They ended at my chest.
11:48Make some noise.
11:50I want to hear it.
11:52Cade.
11:53Good girl.
11:54Just like that.
11:55His hand slid down my stomach.
11:57It went into my panties.
11:59The moment his first finger went in, I grabbed his shoulder and gasped.
12:03He added a second finger right away.
12:06Slow but precise.
12:07He pressed the spot that drove me crazy.
12:10His thumb made slow circles.
12:12The rhythm was enough to drive me crazy.
12:15But not enough to finish.
12:18So wet.
12:19He whispered in my ear.
12:21So eager?
12:22Shut up.
12:23He bit my earlobe as a reward.
12:25His fingers moved faster.
12:27Right as I was about to come, he pulled his fingers out.
12:30No!
12:31I opened my eyes in disbelief.
12:33Not yet.
12:34He pushed himself up.
12:35I want to be inside you when you come.
12:38He slowly pushed inside me.
12:40Three years.
12:41My body had forgotten this feeling.
12:43He was much bigger than Damon.
12:45Every inch sent shocks through my body.
12:48Relax.
12:48He whispered, kissing my forehead.
12:51I will take care of you.
12:53Too deep.
12:54It can go deeper.
12:56We both groaned when he was all the way in.
12:58Look at me, Aria.
13:00I looked at him.
13:01You're mine now.
13:03He started moving.
13:04The first thrust was deep and hard.
13:07It pushed me up the sheets.
13:09He pulled me back by the waist.
13:12Another hard thrust.
13:13The bed started hitting the wall.
13:16Faster.
13:17Harder.
13:18He bent down and took my breast in his mouth.
13:20His tongue matched the rhythm.
13:23Lower.
13:24No.
13:24He was breathing hard.
13:27Three years.
13:28I can't wait.
13:29He changed the angle.
13:31Every thrust hit that spot.
13:33Pleasure came in waves.
13:35My moans mixed with his low breaths.
13:42Cade.
13:44I'm going to...
13:46Say my name.
13:50Cade.
13:51Again.
13:53Cade.
13:54Please.
13:55On his next hard thrust, I lost control.
13:59My body squeezed him tight.
14:01He hissed through his teeth.
14:03He did not give me time to recover.
14:05He flipped me over and made me kneel on the bed.
14:07Then he pushed back in from behind.
14:15Not done yet.
14:18He leaned over my ear.
14:20I said you would scream until your voice was gone.
14:24This angle was deeper.
14:25My body could not recover before new pleasure hit.
14:27Too much.
14:29Cade.
14:30You can handle it.
14:33One more time.
14:35He bit my shoulder.
14:36After that, I lost track of time.
14:43By the time the sky started to lighten, I had lost count of how many times I came.
14:48I was lying on his sweaty chest, breathing hard.
14:52His fingers ran leisurely through my tangled hair.
14:55He whispered in my ear.
14:57Can you even move?
14:59No.
15:03Liar.
15:06Cade.
15:07Yes.
15:08One more time.
15:12He gave a low laugh.
15:14He rolled over and prinned me under him again.
15:16That was the first time in three years I felt like myself in any man's bed.
15:21By sunrise, news of Damon being thrown out of the Black Diamond Club had spread through all of Wall Street.
15:26Every power layer on Wall Street saw it.
15:29The Crawford group became a joke.
15:31So did Damon.
15:33But Damon was not giving up.
15:35He stormed home.
15:37The sight of the empty closet made him punch the wall.
15:41By then, he already knew where I had spent the night and whose bed it had been.
15:50My phone lit up.
15:51A message from Camille.
15:52Area, don't get cocky.
15:54Damon says Cade is just playing with you.
15:56When he gets bored, you are finished.
15:57Damon has frozen all the joint accounts.
15:59You'll be out on the street by next week.
16:01You'll come crawling back.
16:02Just wait.
16:05I was lying in Cade's bed reading these messages.
16:08I started laughing.
16:11What's so funny?
16:12Cade walked out of the bathroom.
16:14He was drying his hair.
16:16My ex-husband, he wants to freeze my accounts.
16:20Oh?
16:21He raised in highbrow.
16:23That is funny.
16:25Freeze my accounts?
16:27Did Damon really think Crawford Group made its money because of him?
16:31Did he really think the stock price went up for three years because of his pathetic business skills?
16:37He forgot one thing.
16:38My maiden name is Vale.
16:41The Vale family pulled out of Wall Street decades ago.
16:44But a sleeping giant is still a giant.
16:47And my grandfather left a network of offshore companies.
16:51Nobody at Crawford Group ever checked them.
16:53Darling, it's time.
16:57Yes.
16:58For three years, I had been on my knees.
17:02I begged every senior Vale relative who had stepped back from the business and moved the family's secret funds out
17:07of Switzerland.
17:09Every revenue stream that kept Crawford Group alive was something I built.
17:13Damon's Empire was my work.
17:15I rolled over and called.
17:18Pull every Vale dollar out of Crawford Group.
17:20Cut every supply chain.
17:22Let it go bankrupt.
17:24Two hours later, the Crawford Group headquarters was a war zone.
17:28Damon was sitting in his CEO office.
17:31Camila was crying on his lap.
17:33He was telling her everything would be fine.
17:36His assistant kicked open the door.
17:38He'd gone pale.
17:40Boss, the European suppliers just ended the contracts.
17:43All cargo is stuck in port.
17:46Damon stood up.
17:47What?
17:48The penalty fees alone will bankrupt us.
17:52His phone would not stop ringing.
17:54The office phone would not stop ringing.
17:57Every line had a panicked voice on it.
18:00Boss, the Wall Street banks just denied the loan extension.
18:04They want full payment in 48 hours.
18:07Boss, three top investors just dumped their Crawford Group stock.
18:10Our share price is crashing.
18:15Boss, the Manhattan real estate project pulled out.
18:19They say our cash flow has collapsed.
18:26In half a day, the empire Damon had built for three years was crumbling.
18:32Who did this?
18:33Cade?
18:34Was this an Ashfield Groupie?
18:35Tell me!
18:38An hour later, his assistant came back.
18:41His hands were shaking.
18:42He held a file.
18:44Boss, it was an Ashfield Group.
18:46Damon ripped the file out of his hand.
18:48He flipped to the last page.
18:52The name of the offshore parent company that cut all the funding was sitting there.
18:56Quiet.
18:57Choking him.
18:59Owner.
18:59Sole shareholder.
19:01Founder.
19:01Aria Vile.
19:03Damon dropped to the floor.
19:04All the color had drained from his face.
19:09No, no.
19:11No, no.
19:12He whispered.
19:13The boring wife he thought couldn't even dress herself had been holding him by the throat
19:18this whole time.
19:19Ah!
19:20This can't be right!
19:21The woman who washed his cherts.
19:23The silent decoration at his bored dinners.
19:26That was the same person?
19:27He was about to run out when Camille grabbed his arm.
19:30Damon.
19:31Wait.
19:33I need to tell you something.
19:34Her voice shook just the right amount.
19:36I'm pregnant.
19:37Damon stopped cold.
19:38What did you just say?
19:39I'm carrying your child.
19:41Aria was married to you for three years and gave you nothing.
19:46I'm already pregnant.
19:48I'm carrying the only legal heir of the Crawford family.
19:52Your grandfather's family trust says it clearly.
19:54You need a Crawford blood hair to touch the main fund.
19:58When the baby is born, he will use that money to save us.
20:04Damon turned around slowly.
20:06He grabbed Camille's shoulders.
20:09Are you sure?
20:11100% sure.
20:13A child.
20:14A legal heir for Crawford Group.
20:17Grandfather Arthur would not let the last of the Crawford bloodline end up on the street.
20:21Dame kissed Camille hard on the forehead.
20:23He had no idea Camille's play was about to blow up in both their faces.
20:27The next morning, Camille charged into the Ashvin Group tower.
20:32She caught word that Cade was passing through the lobby.
20:35She pushed past security.
20:36Her voice cut through the whole lobby.
20:38Mr. Ashford!
20:40Don't let that liar fool you!
20:42Every executive in custom suits turned to look.
20:45Aria is a dirty whore.
20:47She acted clean for three years married to Damon,
20:49but she was sleeping with tons of men behind his back.
20:53Now she dares to seduce you?
20:55She just wants to use you for revenge on Damon.
20:58She's damaged goods!
20:59Every executive in the room held their breath.
21:02Oh?
21:03His voice stayed soft.
21:05You say you are carrying Damon's child?
21:07Yes.
21:08Camille thought Cade was listening.
21:09She got louder.
21:11She's a cold-blooded lunatic!
21:13What I'm carrying is Damon's flesh and blood!
21:15She destroyed Crawford Group because she is jealous of my relationship with Damon!
21:20Mr. Ashford, a man like you, how could you want a woman like that?
21:25Damon ran into the lobby sweating.
21:27He slapped Camille hard across the face.
21:30The sharp sound made the executives flinch.
21:33Shut your filthy mouth!
21:35Damon was shaking with rage.
21:37He grabbed Camille's arm.
21:39You stupid fool!
21:41You have no idea who you just offended!
21:44Cade laughed coldly.
21:46He snapped his fingers.
21:48His assistant handed him an envelope.
21:50Cade tossed the envelope at their feet.
21:52Mr. Crawford, since you are here, let me show you your unborn lair.
21:57The envelope landed on the floor.
21:59The contents spilled out.
22:03The first showed Camille on the lap of a bald, rich man.
22:06In another, she was hanging off the arm of an old man.
22:10A third caught her on a yacht, surrounded by three men.
22:14At the bottom was a medical report.
22:17Patient, Camille Ross.
22:19Diagnosis.
22:20Permanent infertility.
22:22Three abortions.
22:23Severe damage to the uterine wall.
22:25Damon stopped breathing.
22:26Permanent infertility.
22:28He stared at the words and read them again.
22:30When his eyes lifted to Camille, he grabbed her hair and slapped her again hard.
22:36You dared to lie to me?
22:37Her lips split open.
22:39Blood ran down her chin.
22:42Damon, please, let me explain.
22:46She cried and crawled toward him.
22:48Damon lifted his foot and kicked her hard in the stomach.
22:51In front of every executive, security guard, and front desk worker in the lobby.
22:56The former CEO of Crawford Group and his lying mistress were rolling on the floor like a couple of animals.
23:01Cade took out his phone, snapped a photo, and sent it straight to me with a message.
23:08Darling, two stray dogs are fighting in my lobby.
23:12Can I get a little reward tonight?
23:14Three days later, Crawford Group officially filed for bankruptcy.
23:18Breaking news from Wall Street.
23:20Crawford Group filed Chapter 11 this morning.
23:22Sources say CEO Damon Crawford has gone missing from his offices.
23:26Damon went from a rising Wall Street star to flat broke.
23:29Lone harks were coming for him all over the city.
23:33You've got until Friday, Crawford.
23:35One growled through his phone.
23:37Then we come find you.
23:39His board fired him overnight.
23:41Every rich friend he used to run with blocked his number.
23:45Camille cleared out what was left in his safe and vanished.
23:49The worst blow came from the nursing home.
23:52Crawford Group's founder, his grandfather Arthur, saw the news and had a stroke right in his armchair.
23:57You ruined us.
23:59The old man slurred from the hospital bed.
24:02Arthur was partly paralyzed.
24:04Damon had to pawn his last Rolex to pay the hospital bill.
24:08After that, he had nothing.
24:12That night, a storm hit the city.
24:15I was on my way back from the Vale family's private estate,
24:18when my headlights caught a figure kneeling outside Cade's iron gate.
24:24It was Damon.
24:26He was soaked through, his custom suit caked in mud, his hair stuck to his face.
24:33He'd been kneeling out in the rain for hours.
24:36He saw my car.
24:37He threw himself at the gate.
24:39Aria!
24:40Aria, it is me!
24:42Open the gate!
24:43Please!
24:45His voice was shot.
24:46I sat in the warm car and looked at him without a word.
24:50He cried.
24:52This time the tears were real.
24:55That CEO mask he'd been wearing for years finally cracked.
25:01Aria, I was wrong.
25:03I was dead wrong.
25:06Do you remember?
25:08Three years ago, the rain was just like this.
25:12Those lone hares beat me half to death.
25:14They left me in a back alley like trash.
25:19You were the only one who came.
25:22You took me home.
25:23You said you would stay with me forever.
25:27For you, I climbed and fought my way up!
25:33Camille means nothing.
25:34I was just jealous of Cade.
25:35I just wanted to make you mad.
25:37But I swear, I never wanted to let you go.
25:41I swear to God!
25:43Aria!
25:44Aria!
25:44Just give me one more chance!
25:47Let me come back to you!
25:49I'll spend the rest of my limelife making it up to you.
25:53I swear.
25:58Damon banged his forehead against the cold iron gate.
26:01The car door opened.
26:03With a black umbrella raised over my head,
26:05I stepped out and walked through the puddles to the gate.
26:09Damon's bloodshot eyes lit up with joy.
26:11He thought I was softening.
26:13He reached through the gate bars.
26:16He tried to grab the hem of my coat.
26:18Just like three years ago in that muddy alley,
26:21a strong arm wrapped around my waist.
26:24Cade was standing behind me.
26:26I had not heard him come up.
26:28He took off his expensive black caramere coat.
26:31His wrapped-it body blocked all the wind and rain.
26:34Cade looked down at Damon in the mud.
26:36Damon's hand froze in the air.
26:39I stepped out of Cade's arms.
26:41I threw a folder at Damon.
26:43Divorce papers.
26:45I already signed.
26:46Damon stared at the folder.
26:48Damon.
26:50Remember the night you wanted to divorce me for that woman?
26:52Damon, I gave you a last chance.
26:55I kicked the folder into the mud at his knees.
26:59You're not just a cheating husband.
27:02You are a fool.
27:03I turned and stepped back into Cade's arms,
27:06rising on my toes to whisper in his ear.
27:09Just get him to sign it.
27:11Don't let him stop me from going home with my man.
27:14Cade smiled.
27:15He picked me up in his arms.
27:17He walked through the gate.
27:20The gate slammed shut behind us.
27:23Damon was still kneeling in the storm.
27:28Damon didn't sign.
27:30He lost it.
27:32He camped outside my apartment every day
27:34and blew up my phone with texts.
27:36Crying.
27:37Threatening.
27:37Begging.
27:38Area, I know I was wrong.
27:40Three years of love.
27:41You cannot be this cold.
27:43Did Cade force you into this?
27:44Tell me.
27:44I'll kill him.
27:45Let me come back.
27:47I'll be your driver.
27:48Your bodyguard.
27:49Please.
27:50I didn't reply to any of them.
27:56I blocked his number.
28:01Damon waited for me at the racetrack and at the riding club.
28:06Twice he threw himself in front of my car.
28:08Cade was patient.
28:10Until one day, Damon ran to the gate of the Vail private club.
28:13He cut off my car and screamed that he'd die right there.
28:17Cade's Bucati pulled up next to my car at the same moment.
28:20Cade rolled down his window.
28:24He looked at me and smiled softly.
28:27Darling.
28:28Close your eyes.
28:30Count to a hundred.
28:32I closed my eyes.
28:34The window went up.
28:35The rain sounds outside cut off.
28:38I heard Damon scream.
28:40A dull thunt.
28:42Then dead silence.
28:43I counted to one hundred and opened my eyes.
28:46Damon was gone.
28:48Cade was leaning on my car door.
28:50He was playing with a custom silver lidding.
28:53He smiled like a gentleman.
28:55Trash is handled, darling.
28:57Let's go home.
28:58The next day, the news hit Wall Street.
29:01Ashfield Group buys out all of bankrupt Crawford Group's debt.
29:06When Crawford Group collapsed, the debt got split up across dozens of investors.
29:11Damon still dreamed of a comeback.
29:13But now Cade was his one and only creditor.
29:15Cade's top law team went in.
29:18Within a week, Damon's penthouse was seized.
29:21His sports car was towed.
29:22His grandfather Arthur's offshore trust was frozen.
29:25Seizage notice.
29:27Please cooperate.
29:30Cade Ashfield?
29:31That bastard!
29:33Damon roared.
29:34He smashed a vase.
29:36Sir, if you keep breaking things, we call the police.
29:41Damon was personally responsible for two billion dollars in debt.
29:45The court declared him completely bankrupt.
29:48His bank accounts were frozen.
29:50Every credit card was canceled.
29:52He could not even pay for a cup of coffee.
29:54His old, rich friends avoided him like the plague.
29:57He called them one by one.
29:59Nobody picked up.
30:00Henry.
30:01It's me!
30:02He yelled into voicemail.
30:04Pick up!
30:06Lend me some money.
30:07I'll pay you back.
30:08I promise!
30:10No one called back.
30:12The last thing that broke him was his mother, Eleanor.
30:14When she found out Cade was now in control of Crawford Group, she had her second stroke.
30:19Damon pawned his last gold chain to put her in the cheapest hospital in Brooklyn.
30:22The grand lady who used to look down on me was now stuck in a bed that reeked of disinfectant.
30:27She cursed out Damon and Camellia around the clock.
30:30You useless fool!
30:32The old woman raised a trembling hand.
30:34I should have pushed you to marry the Veil girl!
30:38Damon froze.
30:40Mom, what did you just say?
30:42The Veil heiress.
30:43Half the men in this city would have done anything to get near her.
30:46She breathed hard.
30:48And you had to go and marry some girl with nothing.
30:50He couldn't bring himself to tell his mother that the girl with nothing was the Veil heiress.
30:55He couldn't get the words out.
30:57A week later, a wet envelope arrived for me.
31:00The signed divorce papers.
31:04The day I got the divorce decree, I didn't cry.
31:08I headed straight to the Veil International Racetrack.
31:12A red Ferrari roared down the straight.
31:14I took the last turn at 190 miles per hour.
31:17She's pushing 200!
31:18She's gonna crash!
31:19Someone in the stand screamed.
31:21The crowd went crazy as I crossed the finish line in first.
31:24My helmet came off and my long hair fell loose.
31:29Did she just break the track record?
31:31A reporter gasped into his mic.
31:34The whole place went dead quiet.
31:36The crowd parted for me.
31:38Cade walked through the crowd towards me.
31:40In a black custom suit.
31:41A huge bouquet of red roses in his arms.
31:44In front of New York's top elite and media, he went down on one knee.
31:48He opened a black velvet box.
31:50Inside was a pink diamond.
31:52Flawless.
31:52Huge.
31:53Aria.
31:54Cade's dark eyes were locked on me.
31:56I don't want an open relationship or some fling.
31:59I'm not here for a short-term thrill.
32:02He raised the ring.
32:04I want every morning with you.
32:06The arguments, the gray hair, all of it.
32:09Take my name, my empire, my life if you want it.
32:14He smiled.
32:16Dangerous and beautiful.
32:18Marry me, darling.
32:20Be mine.
32:22I looked down at him.
32:23I grabbed him by the tie and pulled him up.
32:25In front of the whole crowd, I kissed him hard.
32:29The whole racetrack went crazy.
32:32The cheers were deafening.
32:36Across the city, hot sun, the edge of Manhattan, a construction site, heavy heat.
32:41Damon was carrying two heavy bags of cement.
32:43His expensive suit trance were rags.
32:45His face was covered in mud and sweat.
32:47His hands had bloodbusters.
32:49Hey, new guy, faster!
32:50The foreman shouted.
32:51Coming.
32:52Damon said with his head down.
32:54Two billion in the hole.
32:55Cut off from everyone he used to know.
32:57He worked 12-hour days at this site, just trying to scrape together enough for his mother's hospital bills.
33:03He stopped.
33:04He wiped the sweat off his face with the back of his dirty hand.
33:08Hey, look at the screen.
33:10An older worker nodged him.
33:12That woman is beautiful.
33:18Damon looked up.
33:20The giant LED screen in Timescreet was playing the racetrack proposal on loop.
33:26The red racing suit.
33:28The huge pink diamond.
33:32And the woman laughing in the sunlight.
33:36The man who had all of Wall Street scared was down on one knee in front of her.
33:41Is that Cade from Ashford Group?
33:44The old worker gasped.
33:46Where is he?
33:46He's married to the Vale Heiress.
33:48She's the one who took Crawford Group down.
33:50Cold-blooded.
33:51The cement bag slipped off Damon's shoulder and landed right on his foot.
33:55Hey, your foot.
33:56Did it hit you?
33:57He didn't feel it.
33:57The old worker pushed him.
33:58He couldn't hear.
33:59He recognized her.
34:00It was the wife he'd called boring.
34:02The one he threw away for an intern.
34:04And now she was the queen of the Ashford Empire.
34:06The most powerful woman in New York.
34:08Damon's knees buckled.
34:09He went down.
34:10This guy is not okay.
34:11Heat stroke?
34:12Leave him.
34:13Keep working.
34:13He sat there in the dirt.
34:15Face buried in his bloody hands.
34:17Over the noise of the construction site, he sobbed.
34:20He'd thrown away a priceless diamond with his own two hands.
34:23All to chase after garbage.
34:25At the racetrack, I slipped into the passenger seat of Cade's black Bugatti.
34:30He fired up the engine while I slipped on my sunglasses.
34:35The window dropped and the wind hit my hair.
34:38I never looked back.
34:42We tore down the open road towards the life that was always mine to begin with.
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