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08:55Just then, Sophia's tiny sobs came through the phone.
08:59Cass, didn't you say you'd do anything for me?
09:02Then Cassian spoke, tired and yielding.
09:04Fine, I promise. Stop crying.
09:07The call ended.
09:08I slowly backed away from the door and returned to the bed,
09:12leaning weakly against the headboard.
09:14A cold smile tugged at the corner of my mouth.
09:17Then, the encrypted channel on my phone, silent for nearly three years, suddenly lit up.
09:23I remembered that family gathering years ago, my mother ill in his face, cold.
09:28A daughter of the Moretti family does not need to swallow humiliation.
09:32He isn't right for you.
09:35If you don't break up with him, don't contact this family ever again.
09:39I had left in a fit of anger without looking back.
09:42In that moment, I could not hold it in any longer.
09:47I buried my face in the blanket and cried.
09:49Then, over the encrypted line, I told her everything that had happened these past few days.
09:55Then I told her my plan.
09:56I was going to turn their anniversary plot back on them.
09:59I needed her people.
10:00The other end was silent for a long time.
10:03Then one word came back.
10:05Good.
10:07On the day of the anniversary,
10:09I was taken to the private racetrack under the Castellano family's name
10:12and seated alone inside a race car.
10:14Do you feel unwell anywhere?
10:15I shook my head, pretending not to notice the spectacle around us.
10:19Why are there so many people here?
10:21Looks like some kind of ceremony.
10:22His eyes flickered.
10:24In the end, he only reached out and touched my head.
10:26It's a surprise I prepared for you.
10:28Then he turned and strode away.
10:29I watched his back and smiled silently.
10:32Cassian, I gave you one last chance.
10:35You didn't take it.
10:36I immediately lowered my head and checked the car.
10:38The brake line had been tampered with, very subtly, but not well enough to fool me.
10:43Cassian didn't know that before I came to Latin America,
10:45I had spent three years running tracks.
10:48In the Moretti family's underground training facility,
10:50a woman in a white dress appeared before the crowd.
10:53Holding Cassian's hand, I recognized her.
10:56Sophia.
10:58Look how awful she looks.
11:00That's what she gets for not helping Sophia back then.
11:02A ceremony, and a race afterward.
11:06This is going to be car.
11:07I put on a lost, bewildered expression.
11:09Next second, someone pressed the button in his hand.
11:12The car shot forward.
11:15The roar of the engines swallowed.
11:17Cheers and cheers become one.
11:18The car charged upon a trap to prevent.
11:21Counting the seconds.
11:23Five.
11:24Four.
11:25Three.
11:26Five.
11:26In the blind spot, I brought it smoothly to a stop.
11:29The Moretti family's people were already waiting for me.
11:31Two agents silently got me into a black SUV.
11:35Once we had withdrawn to a safe distance.
11:37A deafening boom had torn behind us.
11:39Flames burst high in the building.
11:41A smoke woke up.
11:43Fragments flying everywhere.
11:45The race car blew apart in the towering fire.
11:48The charred body arranged in advance was left inside the wreckage.
11:51At that moment, in all of their eyes,
11:54Valentina Reyes was dead.
11:59Valentina!
12:02The moment the risk blew off the track.
12:05It went flying!
12:06Did she pass out from fear?
12:08Doesn't she look like a cannonball?
12:10Sophia laughed until she bent over.
12:11Then a ton of fire was at the edge of the horizon.
12:15The shockwave from the explosion swept over the track.
12:18All color drained from Cassian's face in a single second.
12:21What did you do?
12:23It had nothing to do with me.
12:25I don't know anything.
12:25The other participants retreated several steps as well.
12:28Their faces bloodless.
12:30Cassian shoved the man away.
12:31And ran toward the explosion.
12:33Sophia hurriedly grabbed his arm.
12:35Are you insane?
12:36We don't even know if there'll be a second explosion.
12:38What are you running over there for?
12:39Her expression turning vicious.
12:41As if she did not care at all.
12:42Besides, so what if it blew up?
12:45Didn't she deserve it?
12:46Cassian turned back in disbelief.
12:49What are you saying?
12:50Did I say something wrong?
12:52She was only ever again.
12:54What about her?
12:56What about...
12:57What are her life?
12:58Does she not even have the right to live?
13:00His roar stunned everyone present.
13:02But none of the enforcers around him dared to go.
13:04The rescue team and fighting security arrived together, bringing firefighting equipment.
13:09Let me go!
13:09Anyone who stops me is dead!
13:11And thoroughly dousing the wreckage area.
13:14After the flames went out, they carried out a body burned black.
13:19No!
13:21No!
13:21Cassian broke violently free from everyone's grip and stumbled to the wreckage.
13:25He dropped to his knees and carefully gathered the charred body into his arms.
13:29This bracelet took me so long to make.
13:31You'd better treasure it.
13:33It was the couple's bracelet Valentina had made by hand.
13:35Some time earlier, she had given it to him.
13:39He had not lifted his head then, only hummed absently.
13:42She had come closer, leaning in front of him, her eyes bright.
13:45When will you be willing to marry me?
13:47Cassian had hesitated.
13:49He had looked at her, at her radiant smile, and unconsciously touched the side of her face.
13:53He had imagined exchanging rings with her in some seaside chapel no one knew about.
13:57He imagined what she would look like in a white wedding dress.
14:00But the phone had rung, seeing his father's name on the screen.
14:03He had said nothing, and he had not taken the bracelet.
14:05But Valentina had kept wearing it.
14:07Cassian knelt in the muddy water, his body shaking uncontrollably.
14:11Valve, no!
14:12This isn't real!
14:13The sky suddenly darkened, and without warning, rain poured down in sheets.
14:17Rain washed the ground, washed the wreckage, washed the blackened body in his arms, on Cassian's face.
14:23Rain mixed with tears.
14:24Why?
14:25Why couldn't you wait for me?
14:27Valina, I had already decided.
14:30Once all of this was over, I was going to apologize properly.
14:33I was going to beg you to forgive me.
14:36Then I would tell you the whole truth.
14:38I wasn't really going to marry Sophia.
14:40I was going to clean out every accomplice around me, too.
14:44We were going to start over.
14:46We were supposed to have a new beginning.
14:49Why did you?
14:50In that instant, he remembered the last look she had given him before setting off at the racetrack.
14:55It had been calm, too calm for her.
14:57Those amber eyes had looked at him quietly.
14:59He understood.
14:59So that's it.
15:01You already knew.
15:03He laughed and cried at the same time.
15:05No one behind him dared come near.
15:06Only when the rain eased did Cassian stagger away, carrying the charred body in his arms.
15:11I'm going to bury my wife.
15:13He repeated it, his voice hoarse as if rubbed raw by sandpaper.
15:16Sophia stumbled after him, her skirt dragging through the mud.
15:19Stained with gray, black filth, she grabbed Cassian's arm, furious.
15:23What did you say?
15:24What are you doing?
15:27Cassian, I'm your fiancée.
15:30We've been together since we were 14.
15:33What is she?
15:34She's just a tool you use for fun.
15:36She's our enemy.
15:38I won't let you hold her.
15:40She reached out to shove the body in Cassian's arms.
15:43Cassian shoved her away.
15:45Sophia fell bodily into the standing water, the white dress soaked through.
15:50When she looked up and saw Cassian's eyes, she shrank back on instinct.
15:53Get out.
15:54Only those two words.
15:55Sophia opened her mouth, but said nothing.
15:57She watched him disappear into the end of the downpour, with the body in his arms.
16:01Cassian drove alone, taking the body to a mountaintop cemetery outside Bogota, private land belonging to the Castellano family, with
16:07the entire city spread below.
16:09He personally chose an east-facing plot.
16:12I know, Valentina.
16:14You always loved the morning sun best.
16:16His eyes were full of tenderness.
16:17It was nearly dusk.
16:18A crack opened in the lead-gray clouds, and the last sliver of sunlight fell across the newly-raised headstone.
16:24Cassian knelt and kissed the stone.
16:26I'm sorry.
16:26He sat before the grave the entire night.
16:28At dawn the next day, he returned to the apartment like a shell.
16:31With its soul ripped out, the instant he pushed open the door, he froze.
16:34He walked inside, and it felt as if Valentina were right beside him, introducing everything.
16:39I remember you said the lockers at Racetrack Changing Room were too small.
16:43From now on, all your racing suits and helmets can hang in the entryway.
16:48And then this whole display wall on the left side of the living room.
16:51I arranged all your trophies and medals by year.
16:53I wiped every single one clean.
16:56The dining table is dark walnut, and the sofa is the dark gray you like.
17:02And the fridge!
17:03He remembered Valentina handing him a beer.
17:06It's that Mexican dark beer you always drink.
17:08He walked into her closet.
17:10She did not have many clothes, most of them inexpensive brands she had bought herself, folded neatly.
17:14In the corner was a blue silk scarf.
17:16He remembered she always liked tying her hair with it.
17:19She loved blue, but there was not a trace of blue in this apartment.
17:22Cassian opened the fridge.
17:23Inside, Mexican dark beers were lined up neatly.
17:27Beside them sat only one small bottle of sparkling water.
17:30He closed the fridge door and rested his forehead against the cold metal panel.
17:34Standing there for a long time, for the next half month, he stopped going to the company,
17:37stopped taking calls, stopped seeing anyone.
17:40When his assistant called, he would order directly.
17:42Call again, and I'll have someone throw you into the sea.
17:45Every night, he opened Valentina's closet, took out the clothes she had worn one by one,
17:49and piled them on the other half of the bed.
17:51Then he lay down and held the clothes in his arms.
17:54Late on the 16th night, he seemed to be dreaming.
17:56Valentina wore a lace floral slip dress and walked barefoot through the sunlight toward him.
18:00Her hair was long, curled in waves he had never seen before,
18:03falling on either side of her collarbones and swaying softly with each step.
18:09Cassian stood frozen, his throat tightening.
18:11He reached out and pulled her hard into his arms.
18:13He desperately breathed in the scent of her hair.
18:16His voice was very, very low.
18:18Val, it's been half a month.
18:20This is the first time you've come to see me.
18:24I missed you so much.
18:25She said nothing, only buried her face in the hollow of his neck.
18:28Her wavy hair brushed his jaw.
18:30He frowned without thinking.
18:31It feels so real.
18:33The next second, Cassian's eyes snapped open.
18:35In the darkness, there really was a woman pressed against him.
18:38Long, wavy hair spilled across his chest.
18:41She wore a floral slip dress, exactly like the one in the dream.
18:44He grabbed the wrist of the hand, sliding toward his waist,
18:47threw back the covers, and hurled the body off the bed.
18:50Who are you?
18:50The woman slowly lifted her head from the floor.
18:52It was Sofia Ferraro.
18:53She had always had sleek, straight hair.
18:56But tonight, she had curled it into waves.
18:58The style, color, even the width of the straps on the floral slip dress
19:01were identical to Valentina's.
19:03She knelt on the floor and looked up at him with wet eyes.
19:07Cassian, don't you like me like this?
19:09Cassian sprang off the bed and crossed the room in one stride.
19:12The corners of Sofia's mouth had just begun to lift when they froze.
19:15Cassian's five fingers locked around her throat,
19:17and he slammed her whole body into the wall.
19:21Pits of plaster fell into her curled hair.
19:24Who taught you this?
19:25All color vanished from Sofia's face in an instant.
19:27She slapped frantically at his forearm.
19:29Her eyes bloodshot from lack of hair.
19:31No one!
19:32I did it myself!
19:33He loosened his grip by an inch,
19:35just enough for her to take a breath.
19:36Sofia gasped desperately.
19:38Cassian, you haven't contacted me in more than half a week.
19:42You don't answer calls.
19:44You don't reply to messages.
19:45I went to the company to find you,
19:47and they said you hadn't shown up in two weeks.
19:50She swallowed, her throat moving under his palm.
19:53I only did this because I missed you too much.
19:56Cassian sneered, looking over the floral dress she wore.
19:59You dressed like her, wore her perfume,
20:02and climbed into my bed in the middle of the night.
20:05Who doesn't know what you're trying to do?
20:08Sofia, you really are tired of living.
20:10Sophia's tears ran down through his fingers.
20:13I'm sorry.
20:14I just thought it looked pretty.
20:16I didn't know Valentina dressed like this too.
20:18Before she finished,
20:19she worked up the nerve to rub her calf against his thigh,
20:22pressing her whole body into him.
20:23Just pity me.
20:25Cassian's pupils contracted.
20:26The next second, he freed one hand,
20:28grabbed the calf trying to coil around him,
20:30and twisted his wrist.
20:31The sound of bone-breaking was greatly clear in the silent bedroom.
20:34Sophia's scream nearly tore the room apart.
20:36Cold sweat instantly beaded across her forehead,
20:39and her convulsing body slid from his hand to the floor.
20:42Cassian, what's wrong with you?
20:44Don't you remember what we had?
20:46She trembled, her voice so shattered it could barely form a sentence.
20:49When we were 18,
20:51you gave me a birthday present,
20:53a silver necklace.
20:54You said you'd always protect me.
20:57We watched the sunset on the library roof,
20:59and you kissed my forehead.
21:01The more she spoke,
21:02the harder Cassian pressed his foot down on her other leg.
21:05Go on.
21:05His voice was ice.
21:06Keep talking until you think I'll soften.
21:09I'd like to see what comes first.
21:11My sympathy, or this leg breaking?
21:13He had already finished speaking.
21:14A second crack rang out.
21:16Sophia's mouth stretched wide open.
21:19Cassian took a step back
21:20and looked down at the woman on the floor,
21:22both her legs twisted at unnatural angles.
21:24She gulped for air,
21:25her eyes full of terror.
21:27No.
21:27Cass, please.
21:28My legs, no.
21:30Cassian's expression did not change in the slightest.
21:33He bent,
21:33seized her ankle with one hand,
21:35and dragged Sophia from the bedroom toward the front door.
21:37Her back scraped across the marble floor,
21:39and the hem of her floral dress
21:40was already soaked through with blood.
21:43Cassian, please.
21:44Her fingers clawed desperately at the floor.
21:46Several nails broke,
21:47leaving shallow streaks of blood behind.
21:49I'll never do it again.
21:51I swear.
21:53Please don't throw me away.
21:55Cassian did not look back.
21:56He opened the front door,
21:57threw her into the cold light of the hallway,
21:59and took out his phone and dialed a number.
22:02Come pick her up.
22:03The Ferraro family's butler sounded panicked on the other end.
22:06Young Castellino, what?
22:07From tonight on,
22:09Sophia Ferrado has nothing to do with the Castellino family.
22:12Cassian had only disgust left.
22:13My engagement to Sophia Ferrado is over.
22:16We have nothing to do with each other anymore.
22:18Come clean the trash from my doorstep quickly,
22:20or I can't guarantee she'll only lose the use of her legs.
22:23And he hung up.
22:24Before closing the door,
22:25he gave Sophia one last look.
22:27She was curled on the hallway tiles,
22:29both calves twisted at unnatural angles.
22:31Her waves spilled across the floor,
22:33and large patches of blood on her floral dress
22:35were clotting into black.
22:36She was still crying,
22:37but she no longer begged.
22:38She clamped both hands over her mouth,
22:40terrified of making too much noise.
22:41The door closed.
22:43The lock clicked into place.
22:44Soon,
22:45a car from the Ferraro family stopped below the apartment building for 20 minutes.
22:48People came up.
22:49People went down,
22:50and the blood in the hallway was washed clean.
22:52No one dared pause.
22:54For the next half month,
22:56Cassian began his purge.
22:57The first to fall was Matteo.
22:59He was the one who had suggested arranging the ceremony at the racetrack,
23:02so Valentina could witness the engagement with her own eyes.
23:05And he had also suggested sabotaging the brakes.
23:08The Castellano family's legal team sent him to prison on money laundering charges.
23:12Within 48 hours,
23:13three companies under his name were frozen by the courts,
23:16and his wife fled back to Mexico with their children overnight.
23:19The second was Diego.
23:20He had been responsible for cutting the call button wire at the hospital,
23:23and he had recorded the video and sent it to Sofia.
23:26Cassian had people shut down the four nightclubs he ran,
23:28then delivered years of corruption evidence against Diego's uncle,
23:31a politician in Bogota,
23:33to the media all at once.
23:35On the day his uncle was removed from office,
23:37Diego knelt outside the Castellano ancestral estate
23:39and knocked his forehead to the ground 300 times
23:42until it was split and bloody.
23:44The door never opened for him.
23:46The third,
23:47the fourth,
23:47the fifth.
23:48Cassian settled accounts one by one.
23:50Some people were driven into a corner
23:52and knelt before Cassian with their whole families.
23:54Cass,
23:55we really know we were wrong.
23:56Please spare my family.
23:57They only want to live.
23:58Hit me,
23:59curse me,
24:00anything,
24:00but don't go after them.
24:01Cassian sat on the sofa,
24:03slowly turning a bullet casing between his fingers.
24:05You want your family left alone?
24:07Fine.
24:08Kill yourself.
24:09No one dared gamble on whether he meant it,
24:12but there were always people forced to the edge of the cliff.
24:14The first to jump was a young man named Felipe.
24:17He had once been a technician on Cassian's racing team.
24:19At the estate,
24:20he had guarded Valentina after she was beaten
24:22and had kicked her a few times for amusement.
24:24He leapt from the rooftop of one of the family's office buildings,
24:27leaving only one sentence in his suicide note.
24:29I'm sorry.
24:30Cassian kept his promise.
24:32That same day,
24:33Felipe's family received enough money to spend for three lifetimes.
24:36After the news spread,
24:37two more people voluntarily fell from high places.
24:41Their families received the same amount.
24:42The entire underground order of Bogota collapsed.
24:47After the third body fell from the rooftop,
24:49Ricardo Castellano finally intervened.
24:52The old Don sent the finest guards from the ancestral estate.
24:55Twelve men with guns broke into Cassian's apartment
24:58and pinned him to the floor.
25:00They took all his communication devices and weapons,
25:02then escorted him back to the Castellano ancestral estate
25:05in an armored car.
25:06The basement door was locked from the outside.
25:08Three days and three nights.
25:09No food.
25:10No water.
25:11Only a stark white fluorescent tube overhead
25:13and concrete walls on all four sides.
25:15On the morning of the fourth day,
25:17the door opened.
25:18Ricardo stood in the doorway
25:19with two personal guards behind him.
25:21He looked at his son crouched in the corner.
25:23His shirt was wrinkled into a mess.
25:25Uneven stubble covered his jaw.
25:27His eyes were sunken,
25:28and he was thin as a living skeleton.
25:30Do you know what you did wrong?
25:31Cassian did not answer.
25:32He leaned against the wall,
25:34staring hollowly at the opposite wall.
25:35Ricardo's voice carried the restrained fury,
25:38particular to an old generation Don.
25:40For a dead woman,
25:41you turned half of Bogota's upside down.
25:44Three lives,
25:45two family supply chains broken,
25:46and the committee's prosecutors
25:47have already started paying attention to us.
25:49How am I supposed to trust you
25:51with Castellano's future?
25:52Cassian still did not speak.
25:54His fingers unconsciously rubbed
25:55the protruding bones of his wrist.
25:57She liked my hands best.
25:59And his lips moving faintly.
26:00They don't look good anymore.
26:02Ricardo stared at him for a long time,
26:03then shook his head.
26:04Then he turned and gestured to a guard.
26:06A thick, cracked paper file
26:08was handed to Cassian
26:09and tossed onto the cold cement floor
26:10with a dull smack.
26:12Look for yourself.
26:13Cassian lowered his head
26:14and sluggishly reached out to open the seal.
26:16Inside was a stack of photographs
26:18and several reports.
26:19In the photos,
26:20a woman in a denim jacket
26:21with her long hair tied in a ponytail
26:23was walking down the stairs of a private jet.
26:25Behind her was a sunlit tarmac
26:27with palm trees
26:28and a blue coastline visible in the distance.
26:30Miami.
26:31He recognized that back.
26:32The back he had held countless times.
26:34Valentina.
26:36Your dear girlfriend isn't dead at all.
26:41The charred body in the race car
26:43was a substitute.
26:44Her family arranged everything.
26:48They pulled off a vanishing act
26:50right under your nose.
26:52And then she took a private plane
26:53back to Miami.
26:54Do you know who her family is?
27:02Moretti.
27:03The head of America's five Camelies.
27:08You thought she was an ordinary
27:10international student?
27:13She's that family's only daughter.
27:15Cassian's pupils shrank sharply.
27:17The photographs in his hand
27:19began to tremble violently.
27:20He flipped through them one by one.
27:24Valentina walking off the plane.
27:25Valentina being embraced by a tall man
27:27getting into a black armored SUV.
27:29His eyes burned.
27:30The tears fell.
27:33His lips trembled several times
27:35before he forced out
27:36a broken breath of sound.
27:38She's alive.
27:40What do you plan to do now?
27:42Run to Miami to find her?
27:46The Moretti family shoot you full of holes
27:49and carry you back?
27:53Cassian did not hear his father.
27:54He clutched the photos tightly to his chest,
27:57pressed his forehead to the cold cement floor,
27:59and shook hard through the shoulders.
28:02She's alive.
28:05She's alive.
28:06She's alive.
28:06He repeated the sentence again and again.
28:09Miami's sunlight fell over the Moretti private jet.
28:11When I walked down the stairs,
28:12there was only one person on the tarmac.
28:14Marco stood there in a crisp suit,
28:16sunglasses pushed up onto his forehead.
28:18The instant he saw me,
28:19the corner of his mouth twitched.
28:20Then he strode over and pulled me into his arms.
28:23You're home.
28:24That's what matters.
28:25My tears soaked a large patch into the front of his suit.
28:28He let me go and stepped back
28:29and looked me over from head to toe
28:31when he saw the bruises
28:32that had not yet faded from my arms
28:34and the gauze wrapped around my fingers.
28:36His gaze darkened for an instant,
28:37but he asked nothing.
28:38He only took off his sunglasses and put them on me.
28:40Come on.
28:42Mom is waiting for you to eat.
28:43The armored SUV stopped at the entrance of the estate.
28:46I took a deep breath and opened the door.
28:47Elena stood before the living room's floor-to-ceiling windows.
28:50With her back to the entrance,
28:51she wore a dark blue silk blouse.
28:53and she heard my footsteps.
28:55She did not turn around.
28:56You're back?
28:57I stood behind her,
28:58twisting the hem of my clothes and my hands.
29:00Mom.
29:01She turned.
29:01I saw that her eyes were red,
29:03but her voice was still cold and hard.
29:05It took you almost a hundred times of being played
29:08before you knew to come home.
29:10Anyone else would have woken up after the first.
29:14I-
29:14She stepped forward and jabbed a finger against my forehead.
29:17You what?
29:18Is your brain only there for decoration?
29:20A daughter of the Moretti family
29:21was made a fool of for three years.
29:23If word gets out,
29:24where is the whole family supposed to put its fate?
29:26Enough.
29:26Stop scolding her.
29:28She's home and that's what matters.
29:30But your mother is right.
29:32Falling in love to the point of disowning your whole family was ridiculous.
29:36My nose stung.
29:37Mom, I'm sorry.
29:38I'll never do it again.
29:40Her body stiffened for one second.
29:41Then one hand settled gently on the back of my head.
29:44Go wash your hands and eat.
29:46Your room has been made up.
29:48I lifted my head and saw her turn her face away,
29:50wiping a tear from her cheek.
29:52Come on.
29:53Mom made your favorite pasta.
29:56Marco stood at the dining room entrance and made a hurrying gesture at me.
30:00It won't be good if it gets cold.
30:02The family sat around the table.
30:03Outside the window was Miami's endless bright sunshine.
30:06Dad served food to Marco.
30:07And Elena ladled soup for me.
30:09It was as if I had never left.
30:11Marco's wedding was set at the Seaside Estate.
30:14The December sun in Miami was still generous,
30:16shining through the white canopy until it was almost translucent.
30:19I stood in the dressing room, pinning the last pearl hairpin into Nancy's veil.
30:23She smiled at me in the mirror.
30:25Nervous?
30:29Not nervous.
30:30But what about you?
30:33Why are your eyes a little red?
30:35They're not.
30:35It's the light.
30:37Just then, the door opened.
30:39Elena walked in, her face extremely grim.
30:44Valentina.
30:45I slowly set down the hairpin in my hand.
30:47Who's here?
30:47Go see for yourself.
30:49I crossed the hallway, my heels clicking against the marble floor.
30:52In the sunlight at the end of the corridor stood a man, Cassian.
30:55He had lost weight.
30:56His suit hung loose on him.
30:57His shirt collar a size too big.
30:58The lines of his collarbones sharp and clear.
31:00In his hands was a bouquet of white roses.
31:02The instant he saw me, it was as if electricity had struck through him.
31:06Val.
31:06I stopped five paces from him and went no farther.
31:09Who let you in?
31:10He opened his mouth.
31:10I looked for you for a long time.
31:13And you found me.
31:14My voice was calmer than I expected.
31:16Now what?
31:16Are you here for your hundred and firth prank?
31:19No.
31:20I know I was wrong.
31:21Those things.
31:23Which things?
31:23He instinctively took half a step back.
31:26The 97 times you toiled with me?
31:29Making me watch you get engaged to another woman at the racetrack?
31:34Or drugging me until I nearly became an idiot?
31:38His breathing suddenly turned ragged.
31:40His throat worked up and down.
31:42Heavy footsteps came from the end of the corridor.
31:44Marco appeared around the corner.
31:46The instant he saw Cassian, his face darkened.
31:48How the fuck did you get in here?
31:51He strode over, grabbed Cassian by the collar, and yanked him away from me.
31:55The four guards closed in at the same time.
31:57Marco.
31:57Don Moretti.
31:59Cassian did not struggle.
32:00He only pulled a gold embossed invitation from the inside pocket of his suit.
32:03I was invited.
32:04Marco snatched the invitation away and saw the signature on it belong to the Rivera family.
32:08Marco looked at me with a frown.
32:09Nancy's family?
32:10I only shook my head.
32:12He turned and tore the invitation in half, throwing it to the floor.
32:15I don't care who invited you.
32:18Today is my wedding.
32:20You sit quietly in the last row and do not go near my sister.
32:25Otherwise...
32:28These four guns are not decorations.
32:31But I turned away and walked straight toward the banquet hall.
32:34The ceremony went smoothly.
32:36And Marco and Nancy exchanged vows before the priest.
32:38Applause and whistles filled the room.
32:40I stood in my bridesmaid's place, smiling and clapping.
32:43Cassian sat in the corner of the last row, staring at me without moving.
32:46But when I passed a table of guests with a glass in my hand,
32:49a thin figure suddenly appeared in front of me.
32:52Congratulations.
32:53Your brother looks very happy.
32:55I looked up.
32:56Cassian stood there with a glass of champagne in his hand, looking painfully nervous.
33:00I did not answer and turned to leave.
33:01He suddenly spoke, his voice light as a breath of wind.
33:04I thought about our wedding too.
33:06The air froze for a second.
33:07I turned back and threw the glass of red wine in my hand into his face, glass and all.
33:13The entire room went quiet.
33:15The deep red liquid ran down from his brow bone over the bridge of his nose and dripped onto his
33:19white shirt.
33:21Don't make me sick.
33:23Cassian wiped his face with the back of his hand.
33:25Then he smiled, and the smile was strange.
33:27At least you're still willing to be angry at me.
33:29That means you haven't really forgotten me, Valentina.
33:33The next second, Cassian was knocked down by a punch.
33:35Did I not fucking tell you to stay away from my sister?
33:38Are you trying to die?
33:40I quickly stepped forward and grabbed Marco's hand.
33:43Don't, Marco.
33:44It's your wedding today.
33:47Throw him out.
33:48The guard strode over.
33:50One grabbed Cassian by the back of the neck and dragged him toward the door.
33:53The muzzle of a gun pressed once more against the back of Cassian's head.
33:56But as he was being dragged away, he suddenly broke free from the guard,
33:59pulled a stack of documents from the inside pocket of his suit, and held them high.
34:04Val, these are the transfer documents for all Castellino's shares.
34:07I've already signed them.
34:09Please, let me make it up to you.
34:11A few pages fluttered loose from the stack.
34:13I watched the documents fly through the air and bent to pick up the page closest to me.
34:17The heading at the top read, Castellano Group.
34:19Then, in front of him, I tore the pages apart.
34:22One by one, shreds of paper drifted between us like snow.
34:25I don't need money.
34:26I threw the last scrap into his face.
34:30I only want you to disappear from my life, forever.
34:35Cassian stopped struggling entirely.
34:37The guards dragged him out of the banquet hall, with a gun pressed on the back of his head.
34:41When the banquet hall door was closed, Nancy reacted quickly,
34:45immediately lifting her champagne flute to the guests.
34:47Just a little interruption.
34:49Let's keep drinking.
34:49The band began playing again, and laughter and conversation gradually hit the space.
34:54Marco came to my side, and asked in a low voice.
34:57Are you okay?
35:00I'm going to fix my makeup.
35:03In the restroom mirror, my eyes were red.
35:05A faint red stain from the wine still lingered on my wrist.
35:08I turned on the faucet, splashed cold water against my cheeks, and took several deep breaths.
35:13Just as I turned off the tap, another shadow appeared in the mirror.
35:16I spun around.
35:17Cassian stood in the doorway of the restroom.
35:19There was a fresh cut on his forehead, blood beating and sliding down along his brow bone.
35:24His suit jacket was gone.
35:25All that remained was a white shirt ruined beyond recognition by wine and blood.
35:29Why are you still here?
35:30He did not answer.
35:31He took two steps forward, then slowly knelt an arm's length away from me.
35:35Val.
35:35He lifted his head and looked at me.
35:37Blood and wine mingled on his face, dripping down the line of his jaw, and onto the tile where he
35:42knelt.
35:43If I died, would you feel better?
35:44He slowly took something from his trouser pocket.
35:47A car key, black, marked with the Castellano family's falcon crest.
35:50He placed the key on the floor between us.
35:52My race car is parked behind the hotel.
35:55The brake line has been cut.
35:56From here to the sea cliff, ten minutes is enough.
35:59All it takes is one word from you.
36:01My breathing moved fast beyond my control.
36:03What are you talking about?
36:04Cassian smiled.
36:05It was a smile that made my skin crawl.
36:07You died once at the racetrack.
36:10Now it's my turn.
36:11That's fair, isn't it?
36:12I bent down, snatched up the key, and hurled it hard at the wall.
36:16The sound of metal striking tile was sharp and piercing.
36:19The key bounced into a corner.
36:20Cassian Castellano, are you fucking insane?
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