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00:02To break our engagement, my fiancé, Julian, lured me to an abandoned building on my birthday.
00:08I was trapped at the bottom of an elevator shaft for ten days straight.
00:14At night, several homeless men crowed down to bind my hands and tear my clothes to shreds.
00:20I looked up. Julian was standing at the edge, watching with cold eyes.
00:24I begged him to help me.
00:26Come on, Wren. It's one ring. Skylar wants it more than you do.
00:30Stop making this into something it's not.
00:32Ten days later, I dragged myself out. Julian stood waiting.
00:37Ready to talk like an adult now?
00:39He expected tears, begging. The old me. Instead, I agreed without hesitation.
00:45Fine. It's hers.
00:48I'll fix this, I promise. Once Skylar's given me a kid, there's still a place for you. Quiet, but real.
00:55What he didn't know. During those days, I made a deal with something that wasn't human. Seven days from now
01:01was my wedding day, too.
01:03We'll talk details later. Just let her have the jewelry, Wren. I'll make it up to you.
01:10Let Skylar choose first. That's all I'm asking.
01:13Skylar was the fake heir who'd worn my place for years, keeping everything that should have belonged to me.
01:19I was the real daughter, barely home a season, and I was still the one told to step back.
01:24A week gone, Wint. People won't stop talking. You've dragged this family's name through the mud. Show some gratitude.
01:30Skylar's taken this wedding to protect what's left of our reputation. That's what you'll tell people.
01:36One word against her, and you'll wish you hadn't.
01:38I stared at the man I'd grown up beside. The one who used to stand with me through everything.
01:43A dull ache spread through my chest. He knew. He knew exactly what those ten days had cost me.
01:49He knew someone had gotten to me down there. And he'd done nothing. All for a woman he'd known three
01:55months.
01:55That man's face. His hands ripping my dress. It haunted me like a nightmare.
02:01If that man in the dark hadn't come for me, I would have died in that shaft.
02:06But it would all be over soon. In seven days, Julian would marry Skylar. And I would be bound to
02:12a devil.
02:13Julian had the car drop me at the service entrance alone. Didn't want anyone seeing us walk in together.
02:19I'd barely stepped out when Skylar came running.
02:22I've been losing my mind. Everyone said you got taken by someone.
02:25She looped her arm through mine like we were close. Behind her stood my brother Grant, and my parents, who
02:32took one look at the state of my clothes and went cold.
02:35Someone from the neighboring property was watching.
02:38At the cross, girl? What happened to her?
02:40Grant wouldn't even meet my eyes.
02:43She's nobody. The only daughter in this family is Skylar.
02:46He steered Skylar inside without another word.
02:50My mother glanced at me once.
02:52Get cleaned up. We'll talk after.
02:53She had someone run me a bath, then followed me into my room after, saying she brought Madison herself.
03:00I actually thought she was worried about me.
03:03Then two hands held my jaw open and pour something bitter down my throat, right there on my own bed.
03:10That's when I understood.
03:12She wasn't scared for me.
03:14She was scared I'd come back from that stretch away, carrying something that would embarrass the family.
03:18The cramping hit within minutes.
03:20I went down onto the floor beside my bed, folded in half, screaming for her to stop it, to help
03:26me, anything.
03:29Skylar and Julian's wedding is one week out.
03:31I can't have you causing a scandal now.
03:33You were switched at birth, Rin.
03:35None of what happened to you growing up is Skylar's fault.
03:37Julian's about to make partner.
03:39He and Skylar fit.
03:40And you?
03:42She looked at me a second too long, sighed, and walked out of my room.
03:47I lay there and let the pain roll through me in waves.
03:50Teeth clenched so no one outside the door would hear.
03:53Almost done.
03:54Seven more days.
03:55The Ashfall estate.
03:57He'd said he would come for his bride himself.
03:59I woke sometime the next afternoon.
04:02Poppy adjusted the humidifier and pressed a cooling patch onto my forehead.
04:06You scared me half to death.
04:10They're downstairs right now, finalizing the wedding.
04:13Word is Julian went around the family and got the engagement announcement pushed through the board himself.
04:18Made it public before anyone could object.
04:20Years ago, the day I returned to the family, he promised that if they rejected me, he'd lobby the board
04:26to force my parents' hand.
04:28Funny how that plan worked out for someone else.
04:31I forced myself upright, jaw tight against the ache still radiating through me, and dug through my things until I
04:37found it.
04:38The sapphire ring.
04:39The one his family had sent over the day they first proposed the match.
04:46Next time you're free, get this back to Julian.
04:48This is the one from when they arranged your engagement, isn't it?
04:52I'm getting married soon too.
04:54It's time I gave it back.
04:55You're getting married to who?
04:57To the person who actually saved my life.
05:00Then I'm coming with you.
05:02Wherever you go, I go.
05:04Deal.
05:05Wherever I end up, you're coming too.
05:07In reality, I only lived in this home for three months.
05:11I never felt its warmth.
05:12Everything handed to me had already been worn by Skylar first.
05:16Picked through.
05:17Discarded.
05:18The only thing I owned that had never touched her hands was a pair of earrings Julian gave me the
05:23morning he drove me out to that building.
05:25I deleted every message he'd sent me.
05:27Then, I tossed the earrings into the trash.
05:31Not long after, my mother's assistant came to collect me, said my parents wanted a word.
05:37I got to the study door just as Skylar's voice cracked through it, thick with tears.
05:43Dad, Mom, this whole thing was supposed to be hers.
05:45Now that I'm marrying Juliet, will she hate me for it?
05:49Maybe I should just step back.
05:51Let her have the position back.
05:53She is a disgrace and not even in your league.
05:56She is out messing around while you hold it all together.
05:59If it weren't for you, our reputation would be trash.
06:01Exactly.
06:03Julian's about to make partner.
06:05She was never in his league to begin with.
06:08I stood at the door.
06:10Skylar's sneer was unmistakable.
06:12She was laughing at how pathetic I looked, with no dignity and absolutely no love from this family.
06:18I stepped inside anyway, dipped a small nod toward them both.
06:23Mrs. Cross, is that how you address us now?
06:26Can't even manage Mom and Dad anymore?
06:28Grant already made it clear.
06:30The only daughter in this house is Skylar.
06:33I'm nothing here but staff.
06:35Your brother was upset.
06:36Who told you to go missing for ten days and humiliate this entire family?
06:40If he hadn't said it, what would that have done to Skylar's dignity?
06:43So, as long as Skylar's image is protected, it doesn't matter how much you belittle me?
06:48Skylar dropped to her knees in front of me, sobbing into her hands.
06:52Please don't be upset with them.
06:54They've been sick with worry since the day you disappeared.
06:57If you need to be angry at someone, be angry at me.
07:00Before I could say a word, Julian shoved through the door.
07:03Wink.
07:04I thought I made myself clear.
07:06Skylar and I are getting married.
07:07Why would you still have your maid bring that ring to me?
07:10Ring?
07:11I knew it.
07:11You still haven't let this go.
07:13I went completely still.
07:15That sapphire ring wasn't some family heirloom.
07:18Julian had saved up an entire year's salary from his first job just to afford the cheapest
07:23one in the case.
07:24And I had kept it like it was the only thing of value I owned in the world.
07:29He didn't even remember where it came from.
07:32That ring came from you.
07:34You gave it to me when we got engaged.
07:37Wink, ever since you moved in here, all you've done is compete with Skylar for everything
07:40that's mine.
07:41This wedding is already public, already on the calendar, and you're still holding on.
07:45You're an embarrassment to this entire family.
07:47Nobody gave me the chance to explain.
07:49Two of the staff grabbed Poppy and dragged her out of the room.
07:53No matter how I begged, they refused to let her go.
07:57The sound of a whip came from all sides.
08:00She's just the help.
08:01Nobody's going to miss her.
08:03Same as you, honestly.
08:05Both of you are replaceable.
08:06From this moment on, anyone who dares to cross Skylar on her wedding day will face the consequences.
08:12They threw Poppy and me back into my room and locked the door from outside.
08:17No matter how hard I knocked, no one came to help.
08:20When night fell, Julian appeared at the crack in the door.
08:24Please, get a doctor!
08:26Poppy is dying!
08:27Enough.
08:28Still looking for excuses to weasel out of this?
08:30The wedding's already public, Wren.
08:32Nothing's changing that now.
08:33A couple days locked up might actually do you some good.
08:37Poppy's fever kept climbing.
08:39No food.
08:40No medicine.
08:41She was gone by the second night.
08:46The door finally opened on the third morning.
08:49The wedding party was raging.
08:52Hey, Poppy.
08:53It's my wedding day, too.
08:55We're going together.
08:57I laid my coat over her, fixed what was left of my hair, and lifted her onto my back.
09:02This was the third time today Julian had completely lost the thread of his own wedding.
09:07It was supposed to be the best day of his life.
09:10He couldn't feel a single second of it.
09:12His eyes kept sweeping the room.
09:14Every cross was accounted for, except me.
09:16Something about that sat wrong in his chest, and he couldn't shake it.
09:20He kept circling back to three nights ago, when he'd gone to tell me to stop making a scene.
09:25I had my back to him the whole time, curled into the corner of that room, not even bothering to
09:30look up.
09:30He'd pictured me in a wedding dress, a hundred times.
09:34Now, replaying that image, something twisted low in his stomach.
09:39What are you doing just standing there? Go get Skylar.
09:41Julian ignored him, turned to the coordinator instead, frowning.
09:45It's her wedding, too. Technically, shouldn't she be here for any of this?
09:49The coordinator looked at him like he'd asked something insane.
09:52Sir, isn't the bride marrying you?
09:55I'm not talking about Skylar. Does this family only have one daughter?
09:59Julian, she's not really family yet. Paperwork's still pending.
10:02Ceremony starts soon. Go get Skylar. And don't say I never do anything for you.
10:05Her gift includes something special.
10:07Drove all the way out to Harrow Creek to pick it up myself from a jeweler out there.
10:11Harrow Creek? That's what, three hours out? When were you there?
10:14About ten days ago.
10:16Why?
10:17Ten days ago, you weren't anywhere near that building?
10:20Skylar wanted to buy something from a jeweler ten days ago.
10:23I just went to help her pick it out.
10:26What does that have to do with me not being at that building?
10:29Julian grabbed him by the collar.
10:31Didn't I have Skylar call you to put security and cameras in place at that site?
10:35It's a dead site, Julian.
10:36We shut everything off two years ago. There's nothing left to secure.
10:39Why does that even matter?
10:41Julian's face drained white. His voice shook.
10:44Then who was the man down there with her?
10:46No wonder she'd looked at him like that when he pulled her out.
10:49He hadn't let himself imagine what ten days down there might have meant.
10:53Her crawling out covered in blood, clothes barely holding together,
10:57her eyes gone from soft to ice cold in ten days.
11:00Julian couldn't hold still anymore.
11:03He shoved Grant off and bolted toward the back of the mansion.
11:06He didn't get far before a wall of orange light lit up the sky behind the main house.
11:12Someone came sprinting toward him.
11:15Sir, the east wing, it's on fire!
11:16Rink, where is she? Where the hell is Rink?
11:18She left, sir. Blood all over her dress, carrying something on her back.
11:22Headed out toward the old hollow in the woods.
11:26Julian got to me first.
11:28Word! Step back from the edge! It's not safe!
11:31I'm fine. I'm waiting for my husband.
11:34This is my wedding day, too.
11:36Rint, there's nothing out here.
11:38Just a cliff in the middle of nowhere.
11:40If you want to get married, we'll find you someone real.
11:42Come home. We'll talk about this like a family.
11:44You're carrying a dead body around out here.
11:46Do you know how insane that looks?
11:48Get those clothes off her.
11:50Bring her home.
11:51This blood is bad luck.
11:55Bad luck?
11:56You took me in and then didn't want me.
11:58You blamed me for embarrassing you and wouldn't let me leave.
12:02Now I'm gone from your life and I'm still bad luck?
12:05Is my life worth less than Skyler's because of how I was born?
12:09Was it my fault someone took me away as a baby?
12:12Did I choose to grow up starving in someone else's house?
12:15Rint, it's not what you think.
12:17Julian's about to make partner.
12:19His boss's daughter already has her eyes on him.
12:22If you marry him, you become a target.
12:24You wouldn't survive that.
12:25We just got you back.
12:27How am I supposed to let you run off with him?
12:30You've been nothing but a problem since you walked back into this family.
12:33You and Julian were never on the same level.
12:36You just knew him first.
12:37He's making partner.
12:38You think he wants a wife raised by higher delt?
12:41Get in the car, Wynn.
12:42Don't do this to your parents or...
12:44One of the staff pulled Poppy's body off my back like it was nothing.
12:48Cold air, no ground under me.
12:50Then something caught me.
12:51I stopped falling.
12:53Him.
12:55Sorry I'm late, little bride.
12:57He flew us back up.
13:00I leave for five minutes and this is what your family does?
13:03Wynn, come here.
13:05Now.
13:07That thing is dangerous.
13:08It'll kill you.
13:09Funny.
13:10I thought that was already your job.
13:15You're calling him the monster?
13:18He's the one who pulled me out of that shaft alive.
13:21Where were any of you?
13:22Wynn, that man is evil.
13:25Whatever he is, please come back to us.
13:28My name is Lucifer.
13:30Every one of you put your hands on what's mine tonight.
13:32He raised one arm.
13:34The ground under Julian and the rest of my family cracked open.
13:39You want to talk about who's dangerous?
13:42You.
13:43You drove three hours to buy Skylar a wedding gift while I was trapped in that building.
13:48You.
13:49You spent that same week fixing her dress.
13:51And you.
13:52Spent every day figuring out how to hand my engagement to her because she's the only daughter you actually want
13:56to show off.
13:58And you, Julian.
13:59A guy about to make partner needs a wife who knows her place.
14:02A father-in-law with the right connections.
14:04That's all I ever was to you.
14:06I actually believed you cared about me once.
14:09Looking at you now just makes me sick.
14:12Let's go.
14:12I woke up in a bed the size of my old bedroom.
14:16Somewhere deep inside the Asheville estate.
14:18The ceiling had some kind of gold pattern carved into it.
14:22Lucifer walked in holding a mug.
14:26You passed out.
14:26Your family went home.
14:28Someone from your side called your phone eleven times.
14:30I turned it off.
14:31They're not my family anymore.
14:33He went quiet for a second.
14:35Good.
14:36Then smiled.
14:37Small.
14:38Like he wasn't used to doing it.
14:40Can I be your family instead?
14:42I looked at him.
14:44Today he seemed different than he did back at the cliff.
14:47Less scary.
14:47Almost nervous.
14:49You're my husband.
14:50Obviously you're my family.
14:52You're not scared of me?
14:53I don't exactly look normal.
14:55You don't know where I came from?
14:56I could be some kind of monster that eats people for fun.
14:58If you're a monster, fine.
15:00I'll take it.
15:01I reached up and touched the edge of his mask.
15:04How you look on the outside doesn't tell me who you are.
15:07Sometimes the ugliest thing in the room is a person, not a face.
15:11I kept having the same dream, my childhood, before the crosses found me, the years I spent
15:17with the woman who raised me in a house at the edge of town that never had enough money
15:21in it.
15:22I worked from the second I could hold a broom, cleaning the house, running the register at
15:27the shop.
15:27She ran out of the garage, watching her other kids after school.
15:31Once she sent me out on my bike at night to make a delivery run across town, and I got
15:35a flat two miles out.
15:37No phone, no money for a cap.
15:39I walked it back in the freezing cold.
15:41Took almost four hours.
15:43Nearly got hit by a car twice.
15:44When someone finally dropped me off at the house.
15:47You couldn't even manage a bike ride?
15:49You want to freeze us all to death out there worrying?
15:51Later, I noticed she kept buying nice clothes and shoes, kid-sized, off some resale app.
15:56I thought they were for me.
15:58Tried one on once.
15:59She beat me half to death for it.
16:01Then one night, I overhoored her on the phone with...
16:03This one's too pretty for her own good.
16:06We should just sell her off, make them money.
16:08The real family's never going to want her back anyway.
16:11Our daughter can have everything.
16:12I ran, on the road I met Julian, heading into the city too.
16:16He said we should travel together.
16:18Later, I accidentally ran into Skylar in the city.
16:21Julian blurted out who I actually was.
16:24Turns out my real parents never wanted me either.
16:26Every meal at that house went to her first.
16:29Only Poppy ever gave me anything.
16:32Splayed her own food with me when there wasn't enough.
16:34Now she's gone.
16:35I woke up saying her name out loud, crying into the dark.
16:39Something shifted on the bed next to me.
16:41Arms wrapped around me over the blanket.
16:44A hand patting my back.
16:46Slow and careful.
16:47Lucifer disappeared for three days after that.
16:50Nobody inside the Ashfall estate knew where he went either.
16:54On the fourth morning, I woke up, and he was standing outside my door.
16:58Dressed.
16:59Waiting.
17:01Where do you keep going?
17:02Training.
17:03Nothing important.
17:05I didn't push.
17:08He took me down to an underground room somewhere beneath the Ashfall estate.
17:12The second I walked in, I saw a familiar face lying on some kind of frozen platform.
17:18Poppy.
17:18She'd gone off the edge.
17:20How is she here?
17:21He told me it was a gift.
17:22Something passed down in his family.
17:24Some kind of medicine that could bring someone back if it wasn't too late.
17:28She'd need to rest on that cold platform for months.
17:30Maybe a year before she woke up.
17:32After that, he vanished again.
17:34Days passed, and I barely saw him.
17:36The staff here treated me well.
17:38Brought me gifts constantly.
17:40Jewelry.
17:40Random human things they thought I'd like.
17:42At night, I kept feeling like someone was watching me from the dark.
17:46Every time I looked, no one was there.
17:48Finally, I stopped an older staff member in the hall, and asked where Lucifer had been going.
17:53Bringing someone back from the dead breaks the rules, ma'am.
17:56Doing that kind of thing always comes with a price.
17:58You should go see him.
17:59I followed his directions, and found where Lucifer had been staying.
18:03The smell hit me before anything else.
18:06Blood.
18:06He was lying in bed.
18:08Cuts open all over his body.
18:10Healing and splitting back open on repeat.
18:12The sheets were soaked through.
18:14He saw me and tried to cover himself up.
18:16Don't look at this.
18:17Go back upstairs.
18:19I grabbed his hand before he could pull away.
18:22Let me help you.
18:23He shook his head.
18:25It's nothing.
18:26Go on.
18:26I mean it.
18:27Why would you do this for me?
18:28I'd never had anyone treat me like this before in my life.
18:31Because you're the first person who ever actually chose me.
18:36He wouldn't stop trying to pull the blanket up, to hide the cuts.
18:39You didn't grow up with anyone who was ever good to you either.
18:43Not until you.
18:44I looked at his face.
18:46At least the part not covered by the mask.
18:48Then I did something I hadn't planned.
18:50I leaned in and pulled him toward me until he was flat on his back.
18:54Me half on top of him.
18:56Frank.
18:56I traced a finger along the edge of his mask.
18:59You never let me see what's under this thing.
19:01The mask only comes off for someone who actually loves me.
19:04That's how it works.
19:04So you're scared I can't take it off?
19:08Let's actually get married.
19:10For real.
19:11Not the deal from that shaft.
19:13I mean it now.
19:14Not a contract.
19:15A real life.
19:17Together.
19:18All the way through.
19:19The wedding happened three weeks later.
19:21Right there at the Asheville estate.
19:24Every staff member in the place showed up.
19:26I wore the dress he picked out himself.
19:28He walked me down to the center of the room.
19:31Poured one drop of his own blood into a glass of wine.
19:35And handed it to me.
19:37Drink this.
19:38Once you do, we're bound.
19:40For good.
19:41I took the glass.
19:42Right as it touched my lips.
19:44The front doors blew open.
19:46Alarms went off somewhere in the building.
19:48My family walked in with security trailing behind them.
19:51And Julian in front.
19:52Yelling.
19:53Rin, don't drink that.
19:54That wine is drugged.
19:55It messes with your head.
19:56I looked down at the glass.
19:58The wine had turned a strange road color.
20:01My mother pushed forward.
20:02Rink, we know the truth now.
20:04We know Skylar paid that man to trap you in that building.
20:06We're sorry.
20:06We can fix this.
20:07Come home.
20:08Doesn't matter now.
20:09Whether Skylin did it or not.
20:11I'm done being your daughter.
20:12You already got everything you wanted out of me.
20:13No.
20:14Rink, listen to me.
20:15We were wrong.
20:15We'll make it up to you.
20:16You spent months treating her like garbage.
20:19Now you feel bad?
20:21This is a family matter.
20:22Stay out of it.
20:23You're a family matter now?
20:24I want one answer.
20:26All those years I was living somewhere else, did you actually not know I existed?
20:29Or did you know and just didn't want me?
20:31After I came back, you saw exactly how the staff treated me.
20:35How Skylar treated me.
20:36Don't tell me none of you knew.
20:38I cut him off before he could say anything else.
20:40Gwyn, we can start over.
20:42Just come back.
20:43I'm not coming back.
20:44He turned toward the door, furious now.
20:47Bring her in!
20:48Two guys dragged Skylar in.
20:50Zip-tied, bruised, dress-torn to pieces.
20:52She looked up at me with pure hate in her eyes.
20:55Gwyn.
20:56Why did you just die out there?
20:59This is all your fault!
21:01You know how much trouble you've caused me!
21:03If I'd known this would happen, I would have had you killed the king!
21:06Lucifer raised one hand.
21:08A blast of force hit her.
21:10This time, neither of my parents ran to catch her.
21:14You don't like them here?
21:16Want me to get rid of them for you?
21:18He wrapped both arms around me and lifted off the ground.
21:22He flapped once.
21:23He flew us straight out of the building.
21:26We landed on the steps of a building I'd never seen before.
21:30Someone get the arch in!
21:32Now!
21:32The arch in?
21:33I used to hold a rank most people forget still exists.
21:36Got hurt badly once protecting someone.
21:37And a kid saved my life afterward.
21:39Been looking for her ever since.
21:40Didn't expect it to be you.
21:41Wait!
21:42You're that bird!
21:43When I was a kid, I found an injured blackbird by the river.
21:47It looked like it was dying.
21:49I gave it the last of my food.
21:52Later, I got locked in a cellar by the people raising me.
21:55By the time I got out, the bird was gone.
21:57I never found it again.
22:00Brynn, get away from that thing!
22:01You have no idea what you're standing in front of!
22:03Get over here!
22:03We can still protect you!
22:05I've served my whole life hoping to see this day.
22:07Our world's protector.
22:09I never thought I'd actually meet you in person.
22:11That's not possible!
22:12That's a story, something people made up!
22:13Watch your tone.
22:14Our order has answered to him since it was founded.
22:17You think you get to just walk up and demand answers from someone like him?
22:22Whatever business you have with these people, it falls under my jurisdiction too.
22:25I'll handle it however you want it handled.
22:27The Archon turned on Julian and my family.
22:30You had no idea who you were dealing with and you put your hands on what belongs to him?
22:34He snapped his fingers.
22:36Two of his people stepped forward with tablets already open.
22:39Freeze every account the cross name touches.
22:42Pull their access out of every system we run effective now.
22:46Julian, your license gets flagged tonight.
22:48Every firm connected cuts you loose by morning.
22:50You're done in this city.
22:52Skylar completely lost it, trying to bolt.
22:55No! Don't do this to me!
22:57I'm not even a real cross! I'm not!
22:59She lunged straight at the Archon.
23:01He caught her by the wrist before she got close,
23:04and one of his people pressed something to the side of her neck.
23:07A small device, barely bigger than a coin.
23:10She dropped instantly, unconscious, before she hit the ground.
23:13Wipe her out of every system that matters.
23:15New identity, no access, no name anyone will ever recognize again.
23:20Somewhere she can't reach a phone or a network for the rest of her life.

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