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ENG The Castaway Daughter
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00:02My mother was the tragic heroine of a story that ended before I was born.
00:08When she died, her four childhood friends cut me out of her body, still breathing.
00:14That's how I got four fathers.
00:16The most powerful senator in the country, kingmaker of presidents.
00:20Garrison, the four-star general who has never lost a war.
00:24Dr. Julian, the Nobel-winning surgeon who built the largest pharmaceutical empire on Earth.
00:30Jax, the underworld king whose name makes the five boroughs go quiet.
00:35Every girl in America in big night.
00:38Until my 18th birthday gala.
00:40That was the night she came home.
00:43Sienna, the daughter of their perfect muse.
00:46From that day forward, my four fathers became strangers.
00:50Sienna claimed I insulted her.
00:52Alistair had his security detail wire my jaw shut and starved me in the basement for 72 hours.
01:00Sienna claimed I poisoned her.
01:02Dr. Julian dragged me into his black site toxicology lab and let the test specimens eat through my cheek and
01:09devour one of my eyes.
01:12Sienna claimed I hired traffickers to violate her.
01:15Dr. Julian lifted me by the collar and threw me into the underground training grounds.
01:20Made me a plaything for the men there.
01:23For three years.
01:24Three years.
01:26And I stopped fighting.
01:27Tonight, when my door opened again, I reached for my zipper like I always did.
01:32Then I heard a voice.
01:34Not from the doorway.
01:35From inside my skull.
01:37Ellen.
01:39Do you want to come home to your mother?
01:40All you have to do, sweet girl, is die.
01:45The voice called itself a neural interface.
01:48It said my mother was the original host.
01:51That she'd left this world in a hurry, never knowing I survived her.
01:54Now she knew.
01:55Now she wanted me back.
01:57I was already moving.
01:58I pulled a combat knife from the weapons rack on the wall.
02:01Pressed the edge to my throat.
02:02Mom is alive.
02:04I'm going to see her.
02:05The joy drowned out every instinct to flinch.
02:08I dragged the blade.
02:09And a hand caught my wrist mid-strike.
02:12Pain exploded through my fingers.
02:14The knife clattered to the floor.
02:16A boot stepped on it.
02:17Allura.
02:18You want to die?
02:19I knew that voice.
02:20I looked up before I could stop myself.
02:22Jax.
02:23His jaw tightened.
02:24Don't call me that.
02:25I cut ties with you three years ago.
02:27Jax.
02:28The underworld king.
02:30When I was seven, a rival cartel kidnapped me.
02:33He walked into their stronghold alone.
02:35Took three bullets and two blades.
02:37When they let me go, I cried at the sight of his wounds.
02:41He'd smiled and said the bullets didn't hurt.
02:43Only my tears did.
02:45Of all four fathers, Jax loved me the most.
02:48Jax picked up the knife.
02:49Glanced at the cut on my throat.
02:51Then, without warning, he slashed the blade across my skin.
02:55His voice came out like ice.
02:57You're as cheap as your mother, Elida.
02:59She at least had the decency to die in front of us.
03:02You picked a sewer.
03:06I almost told him I wasn't performing.
03:09Then I remembered.
03:10They never listened.
03:12I lowered my head.
03:14You're right, Mr. Sterling.
03:15Did you come all the way down here just to watch the show?
03:18Jax froze for a second.
03:20Don't flatter yourself.
03:21It's Sienna's birthday.
03:22Her coronation is America's sweetheart.
03:25She said she's ready to forgive you.
03:27I came to bring you to her gala.
03:32Three days ago, the news had broken.
03:35Alistair was naming Sienna the official Sterling heiress.
03:43It was supposed to be mine.
03:49He'd promised it to me when I was ten.
03:53The old Alara would have set the city on fire.
03:57The new Alara just said,
04:00I'm not going.
04:01He dragged me out by the wrist.
04:03This isn't a request.
04:06Threw me onto the back of his motorcycle.
04:08Took me to his penthouse.
04:10Scrubbed the grime off me.
04:13Put me in a black couture dress.
04:15Then drove me toward the Sterling estate.
04:19In the back of the town car, he kept talking.
04:23Meal when you see her.
04:24Don't provoke her.
04:26Don't speak unless spoken to.
04:28Don't provoke her.
04:29Every word cut deeper than Dr. Julian's scalpel ever had.
04:34I stared at the East River blurring past the window.
04:37I want to see my mother.
04:38I stood up, opened the door, and jumped.
04:42Seventy miles per hour.
04:44A scream ripped through the car behind me.
04:47The pavement rushed up.
04:49And then I was in someone's arms.
04:52Jax.
04:53We rolled twice across the asphalt.
04:55Blood ran down his face from where my skull had struck his.
04:59His voice came out shaking with rage.
05:02Alara, are you insane?
05:05I reached up to wipe the blood from his cheek.
05:07His expression turned to stone.
05:09And he shoved my hand away as if I'd burned him.
05:13If you want to die next time, die.
05:15I won't save you again.
05:22If you want to die next time, die.
05:24I won't save you again.
05:26My hand froze in the air.
05:29Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the Hudson.
05:32Black and glittering under the streetlights.
05:36I laughed, once bitter.
05:38Remember what you said, Mr. Sterling!
05:42Then I ran.
05:44Four strides.
05:45The guardrail.
05:46The night air.
05:47I launched myself over the edge.
05:50Jax was terrified of water.
05:52He'd almost drowned as a child.
05:54He'd just said he wouldn't save me.
05:56So when the freezing Hudson flooded my nose and dragged me under,
06:01I smiled.
06:02I'm coming, Mom.
06:05Darkness.
06:06Then, a slap across my face so hard my teeth rang.
06:11You little bitch!
06:12You can't stand a little honest work at the training grounds?
06:16You had to stage this whole performance in front of your father.
06:19Do you know he almost died in that river?
06:23Dr. Julian.
06:25Of the four, he and I had been closest.
06:28The other three ran empires.
06:30He was the one who raised me.
06:33He taught me to read.
06:34Taught me medicine.
06:36Taught me which herbs could kill and which could save.
06:40He never raised his voice at me.
06:43Not once.
06:44Until Sienna came home.
06:46Sienna had planted one of his venomous specimens on herself and screamed that I did it.
06:53Dr. Julian had whipped me until my back was raw.
06:59Allora.
07:00I failed you.
07:02I raised a monster.
07:05Later, when Sienna was poisoned again,
07:09he force-fed me pheromone pills and locked me in the containment chamber.
07:16The specimens chewed through my skin from the inside out.
07:20He saved my life afterward,
07:23but he couldn't save my left eye.
07:25I didn't speak now.
07:27He took my silence for defiance,
07:30raised his hand to strike me again,
07:32and Jax's hand shot out of nowhere,
07:35catching his wrist mid-air.
07:37Brother,
07:38she's tried to kill herself three times tonight already.
07:47I looked at Jax.
07:48He'd changed clothes.
07:50His wounds were bandaged.
07:51His face was ghost white.
07:52So it was him who pulled me from the river.
07:55He couldn't swim.
07:56I didn't want to imagine what that cost him.
07:58Jax exhaled.
07:59Thank God.
08:00Dr. Julian turned back to me.
08:03Allora,
08:04today is Sienna's gala.
08:05Act out in front of us if you must.
08:07But do not do this in front of Alistair and Garrison.
08:10His medicine cabinet stood against the far wall.
08:13I yanked open the drawer,
08:14closed my fingers around the black vial,
08:16swallowed it whole.
08:17Dr. Julian's face drained of color.
08:19He lunged,
08:20shoved his fingers down my throat.
08:21Do you know what that was?
08:23Needle to my wrist,
08:24black blood out.
08:25When the black turned red,
08:27he exhaled.
08:28Allora,
08:30you would die over a title?
08:32Tears rolled down my cheeks.
08:33They mistook them for joy.
08:35I dropped to my knees.
08:36Doctor,
08:37Mr. Sterling,
08:38please,
08:39just
08:40let me die.
08:43I don't want to come home.
08:46I want my mother.
08:48I told them everything.
08:49The voice,
08:50the neural interface,
08:51my mother waiting.
08:52Dr. Julian pulled me upright.
08:54Allora,
08:55your mother is dead.
08:57We sat with her body for seven days.
09:00We watched her rot.
09:02The voice is trauma,
09:03he said.
09:04It wasn't.
09:04I knew.
09:05Tires screeching outside.
09:06Alistair and Garrison burst through the door,
09:09faces white.
09:10Brothers,
09:10have you seen Sienna?
09:11She's missing.
09:12All four of them turned to me,
09:14in perfect,
09:15terrible unison.
09:16I knew that look.
09:17No,
09:18it wasn't me.
09:18Jax's hand closed around my throat.
09:20He dragged me into the courtyard,
09:22plunged my head into the stone fountain.
09:24Under,
09:25up,
09:25under,
09:26under,
09:26Last time,
09:29where is Sienna?
09:30The truth rose in my throat.
09:32I swallowed it.
09:33Make them kill you.
09:34I smiled up at him.
09:36Sienna?
09:36Oh,
09:37I killed her.
09:38And before I did,
09:39I let 12 of my favorite guests from the training grounds have her first.
09:43Four faces went white.
09:45Alistair sent for the instruments.
09:47Garrison brought the agency's best interrogator.
09:50Dr. Julian force-fed me a stimulant so I'd stay conscious.
09:53Jax gave the order.
09:55The blades went in.
09:56Mom,
09:57I'm coming.
09:57An assistant sprinted down the hall.
09:59Senator!
10:00Sienna!
10:01We found her!
10:02Alive!
10:03My scream tore through the estate.
10:06Hot blood splattered across their faces.
10:09The interrogator's blade,
10:10driven clean and perfect,
10:12straight through my heart.
10:16The blade in my chest burned.
10:18I almost cried.
10:20Almost.
10:20But I was going to see my mother.
10:22Through the haze,
10:23I saw them running toward me.
10:24Alistair ripped off his $1,000 suit jacket
10:27and pressed it hard against my chest.
10:29Garrison slammed the interrogator into the wall so violently,
10:32I heard something crack.
10:34Dr. Julian forced an experimental compound between my lips.
10:38And Jax?
10:38Jax just kept saying my childhood name.
10:41Ellie.
10:42Ellie.
10:43Don't close your eyes.
10:44Don't you dare-
10:45It reminded me of a winter I'd forgotten.
10:47I was six years old,
10:48burning alive with the fever of 104.
10:50They cancelled four boards.
10:53A pentagon briefing.
10:54A ceasefire negotiation.
10:56Just to sit around my bed.
10:57Just to coax me into taking medicine.
11:00They used to love me.
11:01So I memorized their faces one last time.
11:04I closed my eyes.
11:05The world should have ended there.
11:07But five days later,
11:08I opened my eyes again.
11:10Alive!
11:10In Dr. Julian's guest room.
11:12And the girl sitting at the edge of my bed,
11:14was Sienna.
11:17Sister, you're awake.
11:20Her voice was syrup.
11:21Dr. Julian crossed the room to take my pulse.
11:24His face was flat.
11:26The blade missed the ventricle by a hair.
11:28I flew the experimental regen serum in from Switzerland.
11:31Five days.
11:32He'd burned a million dollar compound on someone who just wanted to die.
11:37Alera, if you didn't touch Sienna,
11:40why didn't you just say so?
11:42Why put us through that?
11:43The other three nodded.
11:45Only Sienna came to my defense.
11:47Don't scold her.
11:48It's my fault.
11:49I got lost.
11:51I just wanted to buy her a gift.
11:54Her eyes glistened on cue.
11:56Sienna missed her own gala worrying about you.
12:00Apologize.
12:01Now.
12:01I laughed.
12:03It hurt my ribs.
12:05I laughed anyway.
12:07Apologize for what, exactly?
12:09The room froze.
12:10I never laid a finger on her.
12:12Not once in my life.
12:14Every crime she cried about, she staged.
12:18And you bastards believed every tear.
12:21Sienna's face crumpled on cue.
12:23And Dr. Julian's hand came up so fast,
12:26I didn't see it move.
12:27Just felt the sting bloom across my cheek.
12:32Sienna ran to Alistair,
12:35clung to his sleeve.
12:36Father, send me back to the compound in New Mexico.
12:39That's where I belong.
12:41The four of them melted instantly.
12:44They hushed her,
12:45promised her she was their precious girl.
12:48Then they turned on me.
12:50Alistair's voice dropped.
12:52You're jealous.
12:53That's all this is.
12:54Jealous like your mother.
12:57Don't.
12:58Dr. Julian slapped me.
12:59Jealous like your mother.
13:01Spiteful like your mother.
13:03Your mother would be ashamed of you.
13:05Don't you dare bring up my mother.
13:09My mother risked her life to hide you four when your father was assassinated.
13:15My mother emptied her trust fund to buy the evidence that exonerated the sterling name.
13:20My mother found the witnesses.
13:22My mother testified at the hearings.
13:24My mother gave you this empire.
13:27And what did you do?
13:29Alistair,
13:30you left her at the altar for a stranger who'd been in your life eight weeks.
13:35Garrison,
13:36she called you crying for help and you didn't pick up the phone.
13:40Julian,
13:41Jax,
13:43you swore you'd protect her.
13:46You drove her into the water.
13:48I called them by their first names.
13:50Four faces went bone white.
13:52They hadn't realized I knew.
13:54And Alistair's voice came out hoarse.
13:56Almost a whisper.
13:59How do you know any of this?
14:02Because of Lily,
14:04my mother's maid.
14:05The one person they couldn't make disappear.
14:08Alistair had banned her name from every inch of the estate after she died.
14:13Burned every portrait.
14:14Paid off every witness.
14:16Shipped every servant back to wherever they came from.
14:19The tabloids thought the titans were grieving too hard to bear her image.
14:23I know better.
14:24They were furious.
14:25Because my mother had driven Fiona,
14:27Sienna's real mother,
14:28into hiding by dying.
14:31When I was nine,
14:32I fell out of a tree and into the condemned east wing of the estate.
14:36Lily was there,
14:37still living in my mother's old rooms.
14:39The ones they'd sealed.
14:40She looked at me and started to cry.
14:42Your eyes are exactly like hers.
14:45She told me everything.
14:46My mother helped Alistair escape the men who killed his father.
14:50My mother nursed Garrison through his first combat wound.
14:53My mother synthesized the rare compound that saved Dr. Julian's dying sister.
14:57My mother found Jax when the underworld left him for dead and brought him back with her bare hands.
15:04She'd been there whole world until Fiona came.
15:07Alistair broke off the engagement two weeks before the wedding.
15:11Jax, who'd comforted my mother through the humiliation,
15:14confessed his love to Fiona behind her back.
15:17Garrison imprisoned my mother for her own safety.
15:20Dr. Julian watched it all happen and said nothing.
15:23When Fiona planted the last false accusation,
15:27my mother stopped fighting.
15:28Lily told me everyone thinks she drowned herself out of heartbreak.
15:32But that morning she was smiling.
15:34She told me I was going home.
15:36I asked, isn't this her home?
15:38Lily shook her head and her answer has never left me since.
15:42She said her real home was another world.
15:44And she said you could go there too.
15:48Back in the present, the four of them sat in broken silence.
15:53Ellie.
15:55If you're miserable here, come with me.
15:59Come see the world.
16:01Travel.
16:03You said once you wanted to be like me.
16:07Jax.
16:08You don't want to take me away because you love me.
16:11You want to take me away so I stop making Sienna uncomfortable.
16:15His eyes flickered.
16:17Bullseye.
16:18If you take her with you, she needs medical supervision.
16:22I'll take her to my private facility in Geneva.
16:26No, she'll come back to the training grounds with me.
16:28She was obedient there.
16:30Loud enough that Garrison's own chair fell over as he shot to his feet.
16:34Back to the training grounds?
16:36Garrison, haven't your men violated me enough yet?
16:39The room went dead silent.
16:42Suddenly, his voice came back at me like a gunshot.
16:45What did you just say?
16:48And the second you left, they told me the general himself had given the order.
16:54I was a new asset.
16:55Don't go easy on her.
16:57There was someone in my cell every night.
17:00Sometimes one.
17:02Sometimes three.
17:04Dr. Julian, you taught me about conceptives.
17:07I used them every time.
17:09Dr. Julian's lips went gray.
17:11Tell me you didn't use sylphrus extract.
17:13I nodded.
17:14He doubled over like I'd stabbed him.
17:16That compound erodes the uterine lining.
17:19Every dose is like grinding bone.
17:21How did you...
17:22Better than a baby.
17:23Silence.
17:24Jax moved first.
17:25Grab Garrison by the collar.
17:27You piece of shit.
17:28You told them to.
17:31I didn't.
17:32Garrison's voice was a whisper.
17:34I never gave that order.
17:35Could sister be exaggerating?
17:39Garrison exhaled.
17:40Exactly.
17:41My men would never.
17:42I peeled off my blouse.
17:44My back was a map.
17:46Whip scars.
17:47Burn marks.
17:48The ruined tissue from the sylphium.
17:50Lacerations that had healed wrong because no one had set them.
17:54Every man in the room stopped breathing.
17:56And Garrison's hand was already on his phone.
17:59Shaking so hard he could barely dial as he barked into the receiver.
18:03Pull every officer who had access to her cell.
18:06Tonight!
18:09The four men who had tortured me for three years were finally, finally looking at me like I was real.
18:18Sienna saw it too.
18:19Her eyes flickered with something cold.
18:22I pushed.
18:23I don't want to live with any of you.
18:25I want to go home to my mother.
18:28Dr. Julian and Jax exchanged a look I couldn't read.
18:32Alora, you've been through trauma.
18:34The voice isn't real.
18:36But we can make you comfortable.
18:38Each of us kept one of your mother's rooms.
18:41You can live in whichever one you choose.
18:43I shook my head.
18:44I want my mother.
18:45Why doesn't sister stay with me?
18:48She's afraid of men now.
18:50My staff are all women.
18:52I'll take care of her.
18:53Four pairs of hopeful eyes swung toward me.
18:57I opened my mouth to refuse.
18:59Then I saw Sienna's expression.
19:01The small, triumphant curl at the corner of her mouth.
19:05And I understood exactly what she wanted.
19:08Living with the fathers would keep me alive.
19:10Living with Sienna would kill me.
19:13I smiled back at her, matching her mask with my own.
19:16And said the two words that sealed it.
19:18Okay.
19:20Sienna.
19:24Exactly what I expected.
19:26The second the door closed behind the titans, her smile died.
19:30She led me to a windowless room in the sub-basement of her brownstone.
19:34Her two handmaids forced me to my knees.
19:38I didn't fight.
19:39You brought me here to torture me.
19:41Congratulations.
19:42I'm not surprised.
19:44Sienna lowered herself into a chair across from me.
19:47Legs crossed.
19:48Wine glass in hand.
19:50Your mother killed mine.
19:51I'm just balancing the books.
19:53Then kill me.
19:55Kill me and we're even.
19:56Go on.
19:57You think I won't?
19:59You won't.
20:01Your mother was a cheap slut.
20:03A homewrecker.
20:05A whore passed around every bed in Manhattan.
20:08Don't speak about my mother!
20:10She lunged.
20:11Slapped me.
20:13Drew a knife.
20:14Pressed it to my throat.
20:15My mother was royalty.
20:17My mother was the last daughter of...
20:19An older woman, her chief of staff, caught her wrist.
20:23Princess.
20:24Careful.
20:25Sienna blinked.
20:27Snapped back to herself.
20:28She laughed, soft and cold, and waved the older woman off.
20:33But she'd said too much, and we both knew I'd heard every word of it.
20:38Death is a second of relief.
20:40I'm not giving you that.
20:42I'm going to keep you alive, conscious, watching, while I take everything that was ever yours one piece at a
20:49time.
20:50She clapped twice.
20:51Four large men walked in.
20:53My stomach dropped before my brain caught up.
20:56I knew those faces.
20:57Every single one of them.
20:59They were from the training grounds.
21:00My body started shaking before I could stop it.
21:03The men who came to my cell for three years.
21:06They were yours.
21:08Sienna laughed, delighted.
21:09Every single one.
21:11Hand-picked.
21:12For you.
21:13I'm a generous sister, aren't I?
21:15Garrison's men couldn't have been infiltrated by just anyone.
21:19A four-star general's personal command.
21:21I tested her.
21:23Aren't you afraid Garrison will find out?
21:25If I wasn't certain he wouldn't.
21:28I wouldn't have done it.
21:29Which meant she had moles inside the U.S. Army.
21:32And if she could bend Garrison's command to her will, there was no telling how deep the rot in this
21:38city went.
21:38Or which of my father's empires was already hollowed out from the inside.
21:43She clapped again.
21:44The men moved toward me.
21:46The familiar smell hit me first.
21:48Cheap cologne and military-grade soap.
21:51My stomach flipped.
21:52Sienna didn't want me dead.
21:54She wanted me hollow.
21:56Every time I got too weak, her doctors revived me.
21:59Two weeks in, I was skin and bone, barely lucid.
22:03Then the fathers started showing up.
22:05One of them every day.
22:06She wouldn't let them see me.
22:08Sister is resting.
22:09She gets agitated when she sees men.
22:11They came back, and back, and back.
22:14Until Dr. Julian, on his fourth visit, offered to fly me to Geneva for inpatient neuropsychiatric care.
22:21And for the first time in two weeks, Sienna had no way to refuse without exposing herself.
22:26Before she let me into the room, she dug her nails into my cheek.
22:30Remember, they believe me, not you.
22:34One wrong word, and I burn your eyes out.
22:37I nodded.
22:38Then I walked into the room, dropped to my knees in front of Dr. Julian, gripped his wrist.
22:43Save me.
22:44She has men here.
22:45The soldiers who raped me.
22:46They're hers.
22:47She's planning to overthrow Alistair.
22:49Sienna went white, recovered in half a second.
22:52Oh, sister, your delusions are back.
22:55I'm not.
22:57Enough!
22:58Dr. Julian cut me off, face full of disappointment.
23:01Exactly as Sienna had predicted.
23:03Alara, I thought staying with Sienna would humble you.
23:06Instead, you're spreading slander.
23:08I won't visit again.
23:09He walked out.
23:10Sienna bent down, whispered in my ear.
23:13When will you learn?
23:15She turned to her men with a smile, I'll remember until I die, and gave the order in
23:20a voice like sugar.
23:21Night, nobody holds back.
23:23After this, no one's coming to check on her ever again.
23:27She dipped a braided leather whip in salt water.
23:30The first lash fell, then another, then tires.
23:33Outside, screeching, Sienna froze.
23:36The door exploded inward.
23:38Four men, four silhouettes in bespoke coats.
23:41Alistair, Garrison, Dr. Julian, Jax.
23:44They saw what was in the room.
23:46Four faces went to stone.
23:48Alistair stepped in first.
23:49Sienna, what are you doing?
23:51Even royalty folds under Alistair's voice.
23:54Sienna hit her knees.
23:55Father, I can explain.
23:57I was playing with sister.
23:59She was so afraid of men.
24:01I was helping her.
24:03Playing.
24:03Alistair's voice was below zero.
24:05And what are the soldiers you've been training at the compound in North Hills?
24:08Garrison tossed something at her feet.
24:10Something that bounced twice, rolled, and came to rest upright so we could see the
24:14face and Sienna's lips formed the word, no, before her brain caught up to the severed
24:19head of her own commander staring back at her.
24:22Here's what had happened.
24:23Earlier that day, when I whispered the truth to Dr. Julian, he'd believed me.
24:28He'd noticed Sienna's handmaids.
24:30The throats weren't right.
24:32Adam's apples.
24:33Calluses from weapons training on their palms.
24:36Julian was a scientist, not a fighter.
24:38He'd driven straight to Alistair and told the others.
24:41While they were mobilizing, Garrison's internal audit cracked open.
24:45The whole training ground's trafficking scheme unraveled.
24:48They traced the money.
24:50It led to an abandoned industrial site in North Hills.
24:53A private militia with hundreds of men.
24:56A standing army, inside U.S. borders, pointed at Manhattan.
25:01They stormed it that afternoon.
25:02Most of the force was mercenaries and ex-cons.
25:05They folded in 20 minutes.
25:06The commander broke under questioning in 10.
25:09And when the four of them listened to the recording of his confession,
25:12they realized he wasn't American.
25:14He wasn't a mercenary.
25:16And he wasn't working for any cartel they'd ever heard of.
25:19He was the last living general of a monarchy that supposedly ended 30 years ago.
25:24He was a deposed Eastern European general.
25:27One of the last holdouts from the old regime the Sterlings had helped overthrow a generation ago.
25:32He'd been taking orders from Sienna.
25:34And Sienna's mother, Fiona.
25:36Fiona wasn't just a pretty stranger.
25:38She was the deposed monarchy's youngest princess.
25:41Exiled, forgotten, living in a convent.
25:44She'd spent 20 years planning her revenge.
25:46Step 1.
25:47Seduce the four boys who had killed her father.
25:50Step 2.
25:51Destroy my mother, who was the one person who saw through her.
25:54My mother didn't drown herself.
25:57She killed her.
25:58We just learned this.
26:01Fiona.
26:02Poisoned your mother to silence her.
26:04Then vanished.
26:05Garrison picked up the thread.
26:07She left her daughter behind.
26:08Raised on hatred.
26:09I found Sienna in Albania.
26:11I thought I was saving her.
26:12I brought a weapon into our home.
26:14Sienna was sobbing on the floor now.
26:16I'm your daughter.
26:19I'm your blood.
26:21You can't do this to me.
26:24Alistair's voice could have cut glass.
26:26You are not my daughter.
26:28I never slept with your mother.
26:30You're the bastard child of an exiled pretender.
26:33Bastard.
26:33Sienna snapped.
26:35She threw her head back and laughed.
26:37Oh!
26:38I'm not yours?
26:40Then whose is Alora?
26:42Because none of you know either.
26:43The room froze.
26:45Four heads turned toward me.
26:47Sienna pulled a transmitter from her sleeve.
26:49Pulled the pin.
26:50Black-clad men flooded every entrance of the estate.
26:54Her second army.
26:55The one she'd kept in reserve.
26:57And while Alistair's security and Sienna's mercenaries collided in the hallway in a cascade of gunfire,
27:02I slipped past all of them.
27:04Out the front door and into the night.
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