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00:00:07She is the real killer!
00:00:09You have been arrested.
00:00:12I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.
00:00:16Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied, my uterus damaged from the beatings, my ankle shattered.
00:00:24The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.
00:00:31Why?
00:00:33Miles had been my knight, my loyal, unwavering protector.
00:00:37Junior year of high school, a girl tried to bully me.
00:00:40The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.
00:00:46She never recovered.
00:00:47Senior year, an older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.
00:00:52Miles put him in the hospital.
00:00:55Partial paralysis.
00:00:57He never walked right away.
00:01:01After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.
00:01:04Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.
00:01:09Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.
00:01:12He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.
00:01:17Miles was like my shadow.
00:01:20Wherever I was, he was behind me.
00:01:23Until I turned nineteen, Miles fell in love with someone else.
00:01:29She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.
00:01:35Prove to me you're completely crazy about me and I'll be yours.
00:01:41So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.
00:01:44Again and again, the man bled out.
00:01:48When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.
00:01:51Then he pointed at me.
00:01:54As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,
00:01:58I'm sorry.
00:02:00The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.
00:02:04I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.
00:02:10But I recognized him instantly.
00:02:21Jade.
00:02:24I came to take you home.
00:02:27Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.
00:02:31He looked composed.
00:02:33Polished.
00:02:34Miles.
00:02:34My voice came out quiet.
00:02:36No anger in it.
00:02:37I didn't have the energy for anger.
00:02:39Why?
00:02:39My parents had died because of him.
00:02:42Murdered by his family's enemies.
00:02:43He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.
00:02:46We slept under highway overspants.
00:02:48We fought rats for scraps of food.
00:02:51On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.
00:02:54He worked three jobs to put me through school.
00:02:57Worked himself until he coughed up blood.
00:03:00I cried when I saw it.
00:03:02He just wiped his mouth and said,
00:03:05I'm done for, Jade.
00:03:06But you're not.
00:03:07You've got something better ahead of you.
00:03:10I never understood why someone who was basically my family would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get
00:03:15arrested.
00:03:16For a woman he'd known five minutes.
00:03:24I'm sorry, Jade.
00:03:25I was out of my mind over Fiona.
00:03:28I'd never met anyone like her.
00:03:30Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.
00:03:33She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.
00:03:35I couldn't risk it.
00:03:36I knew you'd get hurt.
00:03:38But I couldn't lose her.
00:03:40He said that while pulling Fiona closer.
00:03:45I was just talking when I said that.
00:03:47I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.
00:03:49But the second he did, I was gone for him.
00:03:54Don't feel too bad.
00:03:56Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.
00:03:59How many people would kill for that kind of payout?
00:04:02Literally.
00:04:04Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person spare change.
00:04:08None of it mattered to me.
00:04:09Not the money.
00:04:10Not the house.
00:04:11I had a fascicle cancer.
00:04:13Stage four.
00:04:14One month left, maybe.
00:04:17Okay.
00:04:19It's freezing out here, Jade.
00:04:21Get in the car.
00:04:23Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona, laughing at something she said.
00:04:32He didn't notice me limping behind them.
00:04:35Didn't notice that every step cost me something.
00:04:40We drove to Fiona's estate.
00:04:42Security guards, a staff of five,
00:04:45a house that looked like a hotel.
00:04:47Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.
00:04:51He'd gotten all of it.
00:04:52He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.
00:04:56And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.
00:05:00When we pulled up,
00:05:02Fiona stepped in front of the door.
00:05:06Hold on.
00:05:09I have a thing about germs.
00:05:11You need to clean up before you come inside.
00:05:13Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.
00:05:18I understood exactly what she was doing.
00:05:21The temperature was somewhere below 20.
00:05:24A cold shower outside would kill me.
00:05:28I smiled.
00:05:29Politely.
00:05:31That's fine.
00:05:31I don't need to come in.
00:05:32Fiona's eyes sharpened.
00:05:34She thought I was trying to make her look bad.
00:05:37Don't play victim with me.
00:05:38You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?
00:05:41I looked at Miles.
00:05:43He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.
00:05:46Then he said,
00:05:47She's a little spoiled.
00:05:49It's just a shower.
00:05:49Can you just go along with it?
00:05:51I went still.
00:05:52The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.
00:05:57Then I won't come in.
00:05:58I said,
00:05:59Thank you for the offer.
00:06:00I turned to go.
00:06:02His voice stopped me.
00:06:03Are you seriously still holding a grudge?
00:06:06I said I'd make it up to you.
00:06:07What more do you want?
00:06:08I turned back.
00:06:10Did I kill someone?
00:06:12Did I put you in prison for 10 years?
00:06:14Did I invite myself into your house?
00:06:16Three questions.
00:06:18His face went red.
00:06:20You're coming inside.
00:06:21And you're doing it clean.
00:06:23The staff came out with a pressure hose.
00:06:27The water hit me like a wall of ice.
00:06:30I curled into myself,
00:06:31arms wrapped around my chest,
00:06:33shaking so hard my teeth rattled.
00:06:35My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.
00:06:38I lifted my head.
00:06:39There you go.
00:06:40I took care of it.
00:06:41Stop being mad.
00:06:42You're too pretty to make that face.
00:06:43She pressed herself against him and kissed him
00:06:45and right there on the steps,
00:06:47like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water 10 feet away.
00:06:50I stopped fighting.
00:06:51I let the water hit me.
00:06:53A night years ago,
00:06:54also snowing,
00:06:56Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass,
00:06:58one rotting blanket between us.
00:07:00This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.
00:07:03I swear,
00:07:03I will never let you freeze again.
00:07:06I had believed him completely,
00:07:08but he had forgotten completely now.
00:07:11Eventually,
00:07:12Fiona clapped her hands.
00:07:13All right.
00:07:14That's enough.
00:07:15You're clean.
00:07:16Come inside.
00:07:17I was soaking wet and shaking
00:07:19when my body went forward instead of upright.
00:07:28I woke up three days later.
00:07:32Miles was talking to the house doctor.
00:07:37When he saw my eyes open,
00:07:38he came to the bed quickly.
00:07:41Jade,
00:07:42I'm sorry.
00:07:42I didn't know your body was this bad.
00:07:44Is anything still hurting?
00:07:45I shook my head.
00:07:46He waited.
00:07:47I didn't say anything.
00:07:49Finally,
00:07:50he asked,
00:07:51quietly,
00:07:51Your leg.
00:07:53Why are you,
00:07:53how did that happen?
00:07:54I looked at the ceiling.
00:07:55The block leader in my unit.
00:07:57I wouldn't hand over the money I earned doing labor.
00:08:01So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.
00:08:06After that,
00:08:07they decided that was boring.
00:08:08So they stopped letting me eat.
00:08:10Whatever food I got,
00:08:11they took.
00:08:12Then that got boring too.
00:08:14So they held me down
00:08:15and force-fed me scalding food
00:08:16straight from the pot.
00:08:18Silence.
00:08:19Why didn't you tell me yesterday?
00:08:21His voice came out strange,
00:08:23tight.
00:08:25I used to,
00:08:26I said.
00:08:29The first time they hit me,
00:08:31I screamed your name.
00:08:32Miles.
00:08:33Help me.
00:08:34Miles,
00:08:34come get me.
00:08:35Then I figured out it didn't work.
00:08:38Eventually,
00:08:39you stopped calling for someone
00:08:40who isn't coming.
00:08:41He grabbed my hand.
00:08:42His was shaking.
00:08:43I'm getting you the best doctors.
00:08:45You're going to get better.
00:08:46I'll give you back everything I took from you.
00:08:48Stay here while you recover.
00:08:49I'll have someone with you around the clock.
00:08:51When you're well,
00:08:52I'll feel better about you leaving.
00:08:54I gave him a small smile.
00:08:57Okay.
00:08:59He was going to be disappointed.
00:09:01I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.
00:09:05Rest.
00:09:06I'll check on you later.
00:09:08Then walked out fast,
00:09:10like the room was on fire.
00:09:12That afternoon,
00:09:13he transferred the deed
00:09:14on a house in the Soberds
00:09:16into my name
00:09:16and put ten million dollars
00:09:18in a new bank account.
00:09:21He started to say something else,
00:09:22but seemed to lose it.
00:09:24You're old things.
00:09:26Everything's in here.
00:09:28Do you have to be this formal with me?
00:09:30I know I didn't...
00:09:30Miles?
00:09:31Dinner.
00:09:32I didn't want to go.
00:09:34I physically couldn't eat anymore.
00:09:35The cancer made sure of that.
00:09:37But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me
00:09:39to help me get my strength back,
00:09:40and I had to come down.
00:09:42So I did.
00:09:43I took one sip of the soup.
00:09:46My esophagus felt like it caught fire.
00:09:49I set down my spoon.
00:09:51Thank you for making this, Fiona.
00:09:53It's really good.
00:09:55I'm full.
00:09:57Are you doing this on purpose?
00:09:59You had one sip.
00:10:01I cooked for three hours.
00:10:02You're finishing every bite.
00:10:07The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.
00:10:12I'm not well, I said.
00:10:13My face had gone white.
00:10:15I genuinely can't.
00:10:16Because I scared you into the hospital last week,
00:10:18I made this as an apology.
00:10:20And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.
00:10:23I should have saved myself the trouble.
00:10:25The housekeeper piped up from the corner.
00:10:27She burned her hands making it.
00:10:29Got blisters.
00:10:30Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.
00:10:33Ungrateful.
00:10:34Without looking up, he said,
00:10:36Jade, don't cause a seed.
00:10:38She put in the effort.
00:10:39Just finish it.
00:10:40I laughed before I could stop myself.
00:10:43Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly,
00:10:45Miles, I have ethophical cancer.
00:10:48Stage four.
00:10:49I can't eat.
00:10:52And now you're cursing yourself?
00:10:54You're going to die next, I assume?
00:10:58It's one meal, Jade.
00:10:59Stop being dramatic.
00:11:20She is the real killer!
00:11:22You have been arrested.
00:11:25I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.
00:11:29Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied,
00:11:33my uterus damaged from the beatings,
00:11:35my ankle shattered.
00:11:37The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.
00:11:44Why?
00:11:46Miles had been my knight, my loyal, unwavering protector.
00:11:50Junior year of high school.
00:11:51A girl tried to bully me.
00:11:53The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.
00:11:59She never recovered.
00:12:01Senior year.
00:12:01An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.
00:12:06Miles put him in the hospital.
00:12:08Partial paralysis.
00:12:11He never walked right again.
00:12:15After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.
00:12:18Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.
00:12:22Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.
00:12:26He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.
00:12:31Miles was like my shadow.
00:12:33Wherever I was, he was behind me.
00:12:37Until I turned nineteen,
00:12:38Miles fell in love with someone else.
00:12:42She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.
00:12:48Prove to me you're completely crazy about me.
00:12:51And I'll be yours.
00:12:55So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.
00:12:57Again and again, the man bled out.
00:13:01When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.
00:13:05Then he pointed at me.
00:13:07As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,
00:13:11I'm sorry.
00:13:13The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.
00:13:18I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.
00:13:23But I recognized him instantly.
00:13:34Jade.
00:13:37I came to take you home.
00:13:41Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.
00:13:44He looked composed.
00:13:46Polished.
00:13:47Miles.
00:13:48My voice came out quiet.
00:13:49No anger in it.
00:13:50I didn't have the energy for anger.
00:13:52Why?
00:13:53My parents had died because of him.
00:13:55Murdered by his family's enemies.
00:13:57He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.
00:14:00We slept under highway overspants.
00:14:02We fought rats for scraps of food.
00:14:04On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.
00:14:07He worked three jobs to put me through school.
00:14:11Worked himself until he coughed up blood.
00:14:13I cried when I saw it.
00:14:15He just wiped his mouth and said,
00:14:18I'm done for Jade, but you're not.
00:14:21You've got something better ahead of you.
00:14:23I never understood why someone who was basically my family would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get
00:14:28arrested.
00:14:29For a woman he'd known five minutes.
00:14:37I'm sorry, Jade.
00:14:39I was out of my mind over Fiona.
00:14:41I'd never met anyone like her.
00:14:43Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.
00:14:46She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.
00:14:49I couldn't risk it.
00:14:50I knew you'd get hurt.
00:14:51But I couldn't lose her.
00:14:53He said that while pulling Fiona closer.
00:14:58I was just talking when I said that.
00:15:00I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.
00:15:03But the second he did,
00:15:05I was gone for him.
00:15:07Don't feel too bad.
00:15:10Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.
00:15:13How many people would kill for that kind of payout?
00:15:15Literally.
00:15:17Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person spare change.
00:15:21None of it mattered to me.
00:15:22Not the money.
00:15:23Not the house.
00:15:24I had a fascicle cancer.
00:15:26Stage four.
00:15:28One month left, maybe.
00:15:31Okay.
00:15:33It's freezing out here, Jade.
00:15:35Get in the car.
00:15:37Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona,
00:15:40laughing at something she said.
00:15:45He didn't notice me limping behind them.
00:15:48Didn't notice that every step cost me something.
00:15:53We drove to Fiona's estate.
00:15:55Security guards,
00:15:57a staff of five,
00:15:58a house that looked like a hotel.
00:16:00Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.
00:16:04He'd gotten all of it.
00:16:06He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.
00:16:09And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.
00:16:14When we pulled up,
00:16:15Fiona stepped in front of the door.
00:16:19Hold on.
00:16:22I have a thing about germs.
00:16:24You need to clean up before you come inside.
00:16:26Someone who's been in prison for a decade
00:16:28needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.
00:16:31I understood exactly what she was doing.
00:16:35The temperature was somewhere below 20.
00:16:38A cold shower outside would kill me.
00:16:41I smiled, politely.
00:16:44That's fine.
00:16:45I don't need to come in.
00:16:46Fiona's eyes sharpened.
00:16:47She thought I was trying to make her look bad.
00:16:50Don't play victim with me.
00:16:52You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?
00:16:55I looked at Miles.
00:16:56He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.
00:16:59Then he said,
00:17:00She's a little spoiled.
00:17:02It's just a shower.
00:17:03Can you just go along with it?
00:17:04I went still.
00:17:06The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.
00:17:10Then I won't come in.
00:17:11I said,
00:17:12Thank you for the offer.
00:17:14I turned to go.
00:17:15His voice stopped me.
00:17:17Are you seriously still holding a grudge?
00:17:19I said I'd make it up to you.
00:17:20What more do you want?
00:17:21I turned back.
00:17:23Did I kill someone?
00:17:25Did I put you in prison for ten years?
00:17:27Did I invite myself into your house?
00:17:29Three questions.
00:17:31His face went red.
00:17:33You're coming inside.
00:17:34And you're doing it clean.
00:17:37The staff came out with a pressure hose.
00:17:40The water hit me like a wall of ice.
00:17:43I curled into myself, arms wrapped around my chest, shaking so hard my teeth rattled.
00:17:48My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.
00:17:51I lifted my head.
00:17:52There you go.
00:17:53I took care of it.
00:17:54Stop being mad.
00:17:55You're too pretty to make that face.
00:17:56She pressed herself against him and kissed him and right there on the steps,
00:18:00like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water ten feet away.
00:18:03I stopped fighting.
00:18:04I let the water hit me.
00:18:06A night years ago, also snowing, Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass, one rotting
00:18:12blanket between us.
00:18:13This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.
00:18:16I swear.
00:18:17I will never let you freeze again.
00:18:19I had believed him completely.
00:18:22But he had forgotten completely now.
00:18:24Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.
00:18:27All right.
00:18:28That's enough.
00:18:29You're clean.
00:18:29Come inside.
00:18:31I was soaking wet and shaking when my body went forward instead of upright.
00:18:41I woke up three days later.
00:18:45Miles was talking to the house doctor.
00:18:50When he saw my eyes open, he came to the bed quickly.
00:18:54Jade, I'm sorry.
00:18:56I didn't know your body was this bad.
00:18:57Is anything still hurting?
00:18:58I shook my head.
00:18:59He waited.
00:19:00I didn't say anything.
00:19:03Finally, he asked, quietly.
00:19:05Your leg.
00:19:06Why are you...
00:19:07How did that happen?
00:19:08I looked at the ceiling.
00:19:09The block leader in my unit.
00:19:11I wouldn't hand over the money I earned doing labor.
00:19:14So they broke by my ankle to teach me a lesson.
00:19:19After that, they decided that was boring.
00:19:21So they stopped letting me eat.
00:19:23Whatever food I got, they took.
00:19:25Then that got boring too.
00:19:27So they held me down and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.
00:19:31Silence.
00:19:32Why didn't you tell me yesterday?
00:19:34His voice came out strange.
00:19:37Tight.
00:19:38I used to.
00:19:39I said.
00:19:42The first time they hit me, I screamed your name.
00:19:45Miles.
00:19:46Help me.
00:19:47Miles, come get me.
00:19:49Then I figured out it didn't work.
00:19:51Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.
00:19:54He grabbed my hand.
00:19:55His was shaking.
00:19:56I'm getting you the best doctors.
00:19:58You're going to get better.
00:20:00I'll give you back everything I took from you.
00:20:01Stay here while you recover.
00:20:02I'll have someone with you around the clock.
00:20:05When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.
00:20:07I gave him a small smile.
00:20:10Okay.
00:20:12He was going to be disappointed.
00:20:15I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.
00:20:18Rest.
00:20:20I'll check on you later.
00:20:22Then walked out fast, like the room was on fire.
00:20:25That afternoon, he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds into my name
00:20:30and put $10 million in a new bank account.
00:20:34He started to say something else, but seemed to lose it.
00:20:38You're old things.
00:20:39Everything's in here.
00:20:41Do you have to be this formal with me?
00:20:43I know I didn't-
00:20:44Miles?
00:20:45Dinner.
00:20:46I didn't want to go.
00:20:47I physically couldn't eat anymore.
00:20:49The cancer made sure of that.
00:20:50But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me to help me get my strength back,
00:20:54and I had to come down.
00:20:55So I did.
00:20:56I took one sip of the soup.
00:20:59My esophagus felt like it caught fire.
00:21:03I set down my spoon.
00:21:05Thank you for making this, Fiona.
00:21:07It's really good.
00:21:08I'm full.
00:21:10Are you doing this on purpose?
00:21:12You had one sip.
00:21:14I cooked for three hours.
00:21:15You're finishing every bite.
00:21:21The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.
00:21:25I'm not well, I said.
00:21:27My face had gone white.
00:21:28I genuinely can't.
00:21:29Because I scared you into the hospital last week, I made this as an apology.
00:21:33And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.
00:21:36I should have saved myself the trouble.
00:21:38The housekeeper piped up from the corner.
00:21:40She burned her hands making it.
00:21:42Got blisters.
00:21:44Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.
00:21:47Ungrateful.
00:21:48Without looking up, he said.
00:21:50Jade, don't cause a scene.
00:21:51She put in the effort.
00:21:52Just finish it.
00:21:54I laughed before I could stop myself.
00:21:56Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly.
00:21:58Miles, I have ethophical cancer.
00:22:01Stage four.
00:22:02I can't eat.
00:22:05And now you're cursing yourself?
00:22:08You're going to die next, I assume?
00:22:11It's one meal, Jade.
00:22:13Stop being dramatic.
00:22:14I can't.
00:22:33She is the real killer.
00:22:35You have been arrested.
00:22:38I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.
00:22:43Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied.
00:22:46My uterus damaged from the beatings.
00:22:48My ankle shattered.
00:22:50The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.
00:22:57Why?
00:23:00Miles had been my knight.
00:23:01My loyal, unwavering protector.
00:23:04Junior year of high school.
00:23:05A girl tried to bully me.
00:23:07The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.
00:23:12She never recovered.
00:23:14Senior year.
00:23:15An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.
00:23:19Miles put him in the hospital.
00:23:21Partial paralysis.
00:23:24He never walked right away.
00:23:28After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.
00:23:31Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.
00:23:35Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.
00:23:39He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.
00:23:44Miles was like my shadow.
00:23:46Wherever I was, he was behind me.
00:23:50Until I turned nineteen, Miles fell in love with someone else.
00:23:56She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.
00:24:02Prove to me you're completely crazy about me.
00:24:05And I'll be yours.
00:24:08So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.
00:24:11Again and again, the man bled out.
00:24:14When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.
00:24:18Then he pointed at me.
00:24:20As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,
00:24:24I'm sorry.
00:24:26The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.
00:24:31I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.
00:24:37But I recognized him instantly.
00:24:48Jade.
00:24:50I came to take you home.
00:24:54Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.
00:24:57He looked composed.
00:24:59Polished.
00:25:00Miles.
00:25:01My voice came out quiet.
00:25:03No anger in it.
00:25:04I didn't have the energy for anger.
00:25:05Why?
00:25:06My parents had died because of him.
00:25:08Murdered by his family's enemies.
00:25:10He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.
00:25:13We slept under highway overspents.
00:25:15We fought rats for scraps of food.
00:25:17On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.
00:25:21He worked three jobs to put me through school.
00:25:24Worked himself until he coughed up blood.
00:25:27I cried when I saw it.
00:25:29He just wiped his mouth and said,
00:25:31I'm done for Jade, but you're not.
00:25:34You've got something better ahead of you.
00:25:36I never understood why someone who was basically my family would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get
00:25:41arrested.
00:25:43For a woman he'd known five minutes.
00:25:51I'm sorry, Jade.
00:25:52I was out of my mind over Fiona.
00:25:54I'd never met anyone like her.
00:25:56Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.
00:25:59She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.
00:26:02I couldn't risk it.
00:26:03I knew you'd get hurt.
00:26:05But I couldn't lose her.
00:26:06He said that while pulling Fiona closer.
00:26:11I was just talking when I said that.
00:26:14I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.
00:26:16But the second he did, I was gone for him.
00:26:21Don't feel too bad.
00:26:23Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.
00:26:26How many people would kill for that kind of payout?
00:26:29Literally.
00:26:30Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person spare change.
00:26:35None of it mattered to me.
00:26:36Not the money.
00:26:37Not the house.
00:26:38I had a fascicle cancer.
00:26:40Stage four.
00:26:41One month left, maybe.
00:26:44Okay.
00:26:46It's freezing out here, Jade.
00:26:48Get in the car.
00:26:50Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona, laughing at something she said.
00:26:59He didn't notice me limping behind them.
00:27:02Didn't notice that every step cost me something.
00:27:06We drove to Fiona's estate.
00:27:09Security guards, a staff of five,
00:27:11a house that looked like a hotel.
00:27:14Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.
00:27:17He'd gotten all of it.
00:27:19He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.
00:27:23And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.
00:27:27When we pulled up,
00:27:28Fiona stepped in front of the door.
00:27:32Hold on.
00:27:36I have a thing about germs.
00:27:37You need to clean up before you come inside.
00:27:39Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.
00:27:45I understood exactly what she was doing.
00:27:48The temperature was somewhere below 20.
00:27:51A cold shower outside would kill me.
00:27:55I smiled.
00:27:56Politely.
00:27:57That's fine.
00:27:58I don't need to come in.
00:27:59Fiona's eyes sharpened.
00:28:01She thought I was trying to make her look bad.
00:28:03Don't play victim with me.
00:28:05You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?
00:28:08I looked at Miles.
00:28:10He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.
00:28:13Then he said,
00:28:14She's a little spoiled.
00:28:15It's just a shower.
00:28:16Can you just go along with it?
00:28:18I went still.
00:28:19The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.
00:28:23Then I won't come in.
00:28:24I said,
00:28:26Thank you for the offer.
00:28:27I turned to go.
00:28:28His voice stopped me.
00:28:30Are you seriously still holding a grudge?
00:28:32I said I'd make it up to you.
00:28:34What more do you want?
00:28:35I turned back.
00:28:37Did I kill someone?
00:28:38Did I put you in prison for 10 years?
00:28:41Did I invite myself into your house?
00:28:43Three questions.
00:28:44His face went red.
00:28:46You're coming inside.
00:28:48And you're doing it clean.
00:28:50The staff came out with a pressure hose.
00:28:54The water hit me like a wall of ice.
00:28:56I curled into myself,
00:28:58arms wrapped around my chest,
00:29:00shaking so hard my teeth rattled.
00:29:02My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.
00:29:04I lifted my head.
00:29:05There you go.
00:29:06I took care of it.
00:29:07Stop being mad.
00:29:08You're too pretty to make that face.
00:29:10She pressed herself against him and kissed him
00:29:12and right there on the steps,
00:29:13like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water 10 feet away.
00:29:16I stopped fighting.
00:29:18I let the water hit me.
00:29:19A night years ago,
00:29:21also snowing,
00:29:22Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass,
00:29:25one rotting blanket between us.
00:29:27This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.
00:29:29I swear.
00:29:30I will never let you freeze again.
00:29:32I had believed him completely.
00:29:35But he had forgotten completely now.
00:29:38Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.
00:29:40All right.
00:29:41That's enough.
00:29:42You're clean.
00:29:43Come inside.
00:29:44I was soaking wet and shaking
00:29:46when my body went forward instead of upright.
00:29:54I woke up three days later.
00:29:58Miles was talking to the house doctor.
00:30:03When he saw my eyes open,
00:30:05he came to the bed quickly.
00:30:08Jade, I'm sorry.
00:30:09I didn't know your body was this bad.
00:30:10Is anything still hurting?
00:30:11I shook my head.
00:30:12He waited.
00:30:14I didn't say anything.
00:30:16Finally, he asked, quietly.
00:30:18Your leg.
00:30:19Why are you...
00:30:20How did that happen?
00:30:21I looked at the ceiling.
00:30:22The block leader in my unit.
00:30:24I wouldn't hand over the money I earned doing labor.
00:30:28So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.
00:30:33After that, they decided that was boring.
00:30:35So they stopped letting me eat.
00:30:36Whatever food I got, they took.
00:30:39Then that got boring too.
00:30:40So they held me down
00:30:41and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.
00:30:45Silence.
00:30:46Why didn't you tell me yesterday?
00:30:48His voice came out strange.
00:30:50Tight.
00:30:51I used to.
00:30:53I said.
00:30:56The first time they hit me,
00:30:57I screamed your name.
00:30:59Miles.
00:31:00Help me.
00:31:00Miles, come get me.
00:31:02Then I figured out it didn't work.
00:31:05Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.
00:31:07He grabbed my hand.
00:31:09His was shaking.
00:31:10I'm getting you the best, doctors.
00:31:11You're going to get better.
00:31:13I'll give you back everything I took from you.
00:31:14Stay here while you recover.
00:31:16I'll have someone with you around the clock.
00:31:18When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.
00:31:21I gave him a small smile.
00:31:23Okay.
00:31:26He was going to be disappointed.
00:31:28I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.
00:31:32Rest.
00:31:33I'll check on you later.
00:31:35Then walked out fast,
00:31:37like the room was on fire.
00:31:39That afternoon,
00:31:40he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds
00:31:42into my name
00:31:43and put ten million dollars in a new bank account.
00:31:47He started to say something else,
00:31:49but seemed to lose it.
00:31:51You're old things.
00:31:52Everything's in here.
00:31:54Do you have to be this formal with me?
00:31:56I know I didn't-
00:31:57Miles?
00:31:58Dinner.
00:31:59I didn't want to go.
00:32:00I physically couldn't eat anymore.
00:32:02The cancer made sure of that.
00:32:04But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me
00:32:06to help me get my strength back,
00:32:07and I had to come down.
00:32:08So I did.
00:32:09I took one sip of the soup.
00:32:13My esophagus felt like it caught fire.
00:32:16I set down my spoon.
00:32:18Thank you for making this, Fiona.
00:32:20It's really good.
00:32:21I'm full.
00:32:23Are you doing this on purpose?
00:32:25You had one sip.
00:32:27I cooked for three hours.
00:32:29You're finishing every bite.
00:32:34The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.
00:32:38I'm not well, I said.
00:32:40My face had gone white.
00:32:41I genuinely can't.
00:32:43Because I scared you into the hospital last week,
00:32:45I made this as an apology.
00:32:47And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.
00:32:50I should have saved myself the trouble.
00:32:52The housekeeper piped up from the corner.
00:32:54She burned her hands making it.
00:32:56Got blisters.
00:32:57Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.
00:33:00Ungrateful.
00:33:01Without looking up, he said.
00:33:03Jade, don't cause a scene.
00:33:04She put in the effort.
00:33:05Just finish it.
00:33:07I laughed before I could stop myself.
00:33:09Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly,
00:33:12Miles, I have ethophical cancer.
00:33:15Stage four.
00:33:16I can't eat.
00:33:19And now you're cursing yourself?
00:33:21You're going to die next, I assume?
00:33:24It's one meal, Jade.
00:33:26Stop being dramatic.
00:33:46She is the real killer!
00:33:49You have been arrested.
00:33:52I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.
00:33:56Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied.
00:34:00My uterus damaged from the beatings.
00:34:02My ankle shattered.
00:34:04The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.
00:34:11Why?
00:34:13Miles had been my knight.
00:34:14My loyal, unwavering protector.
00:34:17Junior year of high school.
00:34:18A girl tried to bully me.
00:34:20The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.
00:34:26She never recovered.
00:34:27Senior year.
00:34:28An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.
00:34:32Miles put him in the hospital.
00:34:35Partial paralysis.
00:34:37He never walked right away.
00:34:41After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.
00:34:44Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.
00:34:49Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.
00:34:52He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.
00:34:57Miles was like my shadow.
00:35:00Wherever I was, he was behind me.
00:35:03Until I turned nineteen, Miles fell in love with someone else.
00:35:09She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.
00:35:15Prove to me you're completely crazy about me.
00:35:18And I'll be yours.
00:35:21So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.
00:35:24Again and again, the man bled out.
00:35:28When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.
00:35:31Then he pointed at me.
00:35:34As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,
00:35:38I'm sorry.
00:35:40The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.
00:35:44I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.
00:35:50But I recognized him instantly.
00:36:01Jade.
00:36:03I came to take you home.
00:36:07Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.
00:36:11He looked composed.
00:36:13Polished.
00:36:13Miles.
00:36:14My voice came out quiet.
00:36:16No anger in it.
00:36:17I didn't have the energy for anger.
00:36:19Why?
00:36:19My parents had died because of him.
00:36:21Murdered by his family's enemies.
00:36:23He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.
00:36:26We slept under highway overspants.
00:36:28We fought rats for scraps of food.
00:36:30On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.
00:36:34He worked three jobs to put me through school.
00:36:37Worked himself until he coughed up blood.
00:36:40I cried when I saw it.
00:36:42He just wiped his mouth and said,
00:36:45I'm done for Jade, but you're not.
00:36:47You've got something better ahead of you.
00:36:50I never understood why someone who was basically my family would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get
00:36:55arrested.
00:36:56For a woman he'd known five minutes.
00:37:04I'm sorry, Jade.
00:37:05I was out of my mind over Fiona.
00:37:08I'd never met anyone like her.
00:37:10Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.
00:37:13She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.
00:37:15I couldn't risk it.
00:37:16I knew you'd get hurt.
00:37:18But I couldn't lose her.
00:37:20He said that while pulling Fiona closer.
00:37:25I was just talking when I said that.
00:37:27I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.
00:37:29But the second he did, I was gone for him.
00:37:34Don't feel too bad.
00:37:36Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.
00:37:39How many people would kill for that kind of payout?
00:37:42Literally.
00:37:43Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person spare change.
00:37:48None of it mattered to me.
00:37:49Not the money.
00:37:50Not the house.
00:37:51I had a fascicle cancer.
00:37:53Stage four.
00:37:54One month left, maybe.
00:37:57Okay.
00:37:59It's freezing out here, Jade.
00:38:01Get in the car.
00:38:03Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona, laughing at something she said.
00:38:12He didn't notice me limping behind them.
00:38:15Didn't notice that every step cost me something.
00:38:20We drove to Fiona's estate.
00:38:22Security guards.
00:38:24A staff of five.
00:38:25A house that looked like a hotel.
00:38:27Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.
00:38:31He'd gotten all of it.
00:38:32He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.
00:38:36And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.
00:38:40When we pulled up, Fiona stepped in front of the door.
00:38:46Hold on.
00:38:49I have a thing about germs.
00:38:51You need to clean up before you come inside.
00:38:53Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.
00:38:58I understood exactly what she was doing.
00:39:01The temperature was somewhere below 20.
00:39:04A cold shower outside would kill me.
00:39:08I smiled.
00:39:09Politely.
00:39:11That's fine.
00:39:11I don't need to come in.
00:39:12Fiona's eyes sharpened.
00:39:14She thought I was trying to make her look bad.
00:39:17Don't play victim with me.
00:39:18You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?
00:39:22I looked at Miles.
00:39:23He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.
00:39:26Then he said,
00:39:28She's a little spoiled.
00:39:29It's just a shower.
00:39:29Can you just go along with it?
00:39:31I went still.
00:39:32The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.
00:39:37Then I won't come in.
00:39:38I said,
00:39:39Thank you for the offer.
00:39:40I turned to go.
00:39:42His voice stopped me.
00:39:43Are you seriously still holding a grudge?
00:39:46I said I'd make it up to you.
00:39:47What more do you want?
00:39:48I turned back.
00:39:50Did I kill someone?
00:39:52Did I put you in prison for ten years?
00:39:54Did I invite myself into your house?
00:39:56Three questions.
00:39:58His face went red.
00:40:00You're coming inside.
00:40:01And you're doing it clean.
00:40:03The staff came out with a pressure hose.
00:40:07The water hit me like a wall of ice.
00:40:10I curled into myself.
00:40:11Arms wrapped around my chest, shaking so hard my teeth rattled.
00:40:15My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.
00:40:17I lifted my head.
00:40:19There you go.
00:40:20I took care of it.
00:40:21Stop being mad.
00:40:21You're too pretty to make that face.
00:40:23She pressed herself against him and kissed him and right there on the steps,
00:40:27like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water ten feet away.
00:40:30I stopped fighting.
00:40:31I let the water hit me.
00:40:33A night years ago, also snowing,
00:40:36Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass,
00:40:38one rotting blanket between us.
00:40:40This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.
00:40:43I swear.
00:40:44I will never let you freeze again.
00:40:45I had believed him completely.
00:40:48But he had forgotten completely now.
00:40:51Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.
00:40:53All right.
00:40:54That's enough.
00:40:55You're clean.
00:40:56Come inside.
00:40:57I was soaking wet and shaking when my body went forward instead of upright.
00:41:08I woke up three days later.
00:41:12Miles was talking to the house doctor.
00:41:16When he saw my eyes open, he came to the bed quickly.
00:41:21Jade, I'm sorry.
00:41:22I didn't know your body was this bad.
00:41:24Is anything still hurting?
00:41:25I shook my head.
00:41:26He waited.
00:41:27I didn't say anything.
00:41:29Finally, he asked, quietly,
00:41:31Your leg.
00:41:33Why are you?
00:41:33How did that happen?
00:41:34I looked at the ceiling.
00:41:35The block leader in my unit.
00:41:37I wouldn't hand over the money I earned doing labor.
00:41:41So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.
00:41:46After that, they decided that was boring.
00:41:48So they stopped letting me eat.
00:41:50Whatever food I got, they took.
00:41:52Then that got boring too.
00:41:54So they held me down and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.
00:41:58Silence.
00:41:59Why didn't you tell me yesterday?
00:42:01His voice came out strange.
00:42:03Tight.
00:42:05I used to.
00:42:06I said.
00:42:09The first time they hit me, I screamed your name.
00:42:12Miles.
00:42:13Help me.
00:42:14Miles, come get me.
00:42:15Then I figured out it didn't work.
00:42:18Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.
00:42:21He grabbed my hand.
00:42:22His was shaking.
00:42:23I'm getting you the best doctors.
00:42:25You're going to get better.
00:42:26I'll give you back everything I took from you.
00:42:28Stay here while you recover.
00:42:29I'll have someone with you around the clock.
00:42:31When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.
00:42:34I gave him a small smile.
00:42:37Okay.
00:42:39He was going to be disappointed.
00:42:41I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.
00:42:45Rest.
00:42:46I'll check on you later.
00:42:48Then walked out fast, like the room was on fire.
00:42:52That afternoon, he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds into my name and put
00:42:57ten million dollars in a new bank account.
00:43:01He started to say something else, but seemed to lose it.
00:43:04You're old things.
00:43:06Everything's in here.
00:43:08Do you have to be this formal with me?
00:43:10I know I didn't-
00:43:10Miles?
00:43:11Dinner.
00:43:12I didn't want to go.
00:43:14I physically couldn't eat anymore.
00:43:15The cancer made sure of that.
00:43:17But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me to help me get my strength back, and I
00:43:21had to come down.
00:43:22So I did.
00:43:23I took one sip of the soup.
00:43:26My esophagus felt like it caught fire.
00:43:29I set down my spoon.
00:43:31Thank you for making this, Fiona.
00:43:33It's really good.
00:43:35I'm full.
00:43:37Are you doing this on purpose?
00:43:39You had one sip.
00:43:41I cooked for three hours.
00:43:42You're finishing every bite.
00:43:47The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.
00:43:52I'm not well, I said.
00:43:53My face had gone white.
00:43:55I genuinely can't.
00:43:56Because I scared you into the hospital last week, I made this as an apology.
00:44:00And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.
00:44:03I should have saved myself the trouble.
00:44:05The housekeeper piped up from the corner.
00:44:07She burned her hands making it.
00:44:09Got blisters.
00:44:10Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.
00:44:13Ungrateful.
00:44:14Without looking up, he said.
00:44:16Jade, don't cause a scene.
00:44:18She put in the effort.
00:44:19Just finish it.
00:44:20I laughed before I could stop myself.
00:44:23Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly,
00:44:25Miles, I have ethophical cancer.
00:44:28Stage four.
00:44:29I can't eat.
00:44:32And now you're cursing yourself?
00:44:34You're going to die next, I assume?
00:44:38It's one meal, Jade.
00:44:39Stop being dramatic.
00:44:41I can't.
00:45:00She is the real killer!
00:45:02You have been arrested.
00:45:05I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.
00:45:09Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied, my uterus damaged from the beatings,
00:45:15my ankle shattered.
00:45:17The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.
00:45:24Why?
00:45:26Miles had been my night.
00:45:28My loyal, unwavering protector.
00:45:30Junior year of high school.
00:45:32A girl tried to bully me.
00:45:33The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone
00:45:38to see.
00:45:39She never recovered.
00:45:41Senior year.
00:45:41An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.
00:45:46Miles put him in the hospital.
00:45:48Partial paralysis.
00:45:51He never walked right again.
00:45:55After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.
00:45:58Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.
00:46:02Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.
00:46:06He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.
00:46:11Miles was like my shadow.
00:46:13Wherever I was, he was behind me.
00:46:16Until I turned nineteen, Miles fell in love with someone else.
00:46:22She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.
00:46:28Prove to me you're completely crazy about me.
00:46:31And I'll be yours.
00:46:35So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.
00:46:37Again and again, the man bled out.
00:46:41When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.
00:46:45Then he pointed at me.
00:46:47As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,
00:46:51I'm sorry.
00:46:53The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.
00:46:58I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.
00:47:03But I recognized him instantly.
00:47:17Jade, I came to take you home.
00:47:21Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.
00:47:24He looked composed.
00:47:26Polished.
00:47:27Miles.
00:47:28My voice came out quiet.
00:47:29No anger in it.
00:47:30I didn't have the energy for anger.
00:47:32Why?
00:47:33My parents had died because of him.
00:47:35Murdered by his family's enemies.
00:47:37He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.
00:47:40We slept under highway overspants.
00:47:42We fought rats for scraps of food.
00:47:44On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.
00:47:47He worked three jobs to put me through school.
00:47:51Worked himself until he coughed up blood.
00:47:53I cried when I saw it.
00:47:55He just wiped his mouth and said,
00:47:58I'm done for Jade, but you're not.
00:48:01You've got something better ahead of you.
00:48:03I never understood why someone who was basically my family
00:48:06would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get arrested.
00:48:09For a woman he'd known five minutes.
00:48:17I'm sorry, Jade.
00:48:19I was out of my mind over Fiona.
00:48:21I'd never met anyone like her.
00:48:23Everything she did, every look, every word,
00:48:25it got under my skin.
00:48:26She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.
00:48:29I couldn't risk it.
00:48:30I knew you'd get hurt.
00:48:31But I couldn't lose her.
00:48:33He said that while pulling Fiona closer.
00:48:38I was just talking when I said that.
00:48:40I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.
00:48:43But the second he did, I was gone for him.
00:48:47Don't feel too bad.
00:48:50Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.
00:48:53How many people would kill for that kind of payout?
00:48:55Literally.
00:48:57Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person's fair change.
00:49:01None of it mattered to me.
00:49:02Not the money.
00:49:03Not the house.
00:49:04I had a fascicle cancer.
00:49:06Stage four.
00:49:08One month left, maybe.
00:49:11Okay.
00:49:13It's freezing out here, Jade.
00:49:15Get in the car.
00:49:17Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona,
00:49:20laughing at something she said.
00:49:25He didn't notice me limping behind them.
00:49:28Didn't notice that every step cost me something.
00:49:33We drove to Fiona's estate.
00:49:35Security guards, a staff of five, a house that looked like a hotel.
00:49:40Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.
00:49:44He'd gotten all of it.
00:49:46He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.
00:49:49And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.
00:49:54When we pulled up, Fiona stepped in front of the door.
00:49:59Hold on.
00:50:02I have a thing about germs.
00:50:04You need to clean up before you come inside.
00:50:06Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.
00:50:12I understood exactly what she was doing.
00:50:15The temperature was somewhere below 20.
00:50:18A cold shower outside would kill me.
00:50:21I smiled, politely.
00:50:24That's fine.
00:50:25I don't need to come in.
00:50:26Fiona's eyes sharpened.
00:50:27She thought I was trying to make her look bad.
00:50:30Don't play victim with me.
00:50:32You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?
00:50:35I looked at Miles.
00:50:36He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.
00:50:39Then he said,
00:50:41She's a little spoiled.
00:50:42It's just a shower.
00:50:43Can you just go along with it?
00:50:44I went still.
00:50:46The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.
00:50:50Then I won't come in.
00:50:51I said,
00:50:52Thank you for the offer.
00:50:54I turned to go.
00:50:55His voice stopped me.
00:50:57Are you seriously still holding a grudge?
00:50:59I said I'd make it up to you.
00:51:00What more do you want?
00:51:01I turned back.
00:51:03Did I kill someone?
00:51:05Did I put you in prison for 10 years?
00:51:07Did I invite myself into your house?
00:51:10Three questions.
00:51:11His face went red.
00:51:13You're coming inside.
00:51:14And you're doing it clean.
00:51:17The staff came out with a pressure hose.
00:51:20The water hit me like a wall of ice.
00:51:23I curled into myself, arms wrapped around my chest, shaking so hard my teeth rattled.
00:51:28My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.
00:51:31I lifted my head.
00:51:32There you go.
00:51:33I took care of it.
00:51:34Stop being mad.
00:51:35You're too pretty to make that face.
00:51:36She pressed herself against him and kissed him and right there on the steps,
00:51:40like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water 10 feet away.
00:51:43I stopped fighting.
00:51:44I let the water hit me.
00:51:46A night years ago, also snowing,
00:51:49Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass,
00:51:52one rotting blanket between us.
00:51:53This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.
00:51:56I swear.
00:51:57I will never let you freeze again.
00:51:59I had believed him completely.
00:52:02But he had forgotten completely now.
00:52:04Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.
00:52:07All right.
00:52:08That's enough.
00:52:09You're clean.
00:52:09Come inside.
00:52:11I was soaking wet and shaking when my body went forward instead of upright.
00:52:21I woke up three days later.
00:52:25Miles was talking to the house doctor.
00:52:30When he saw my eyes open, he came to the bed quickly.
00:52:34Jade, I'm sorry.
00:52:35I didn't know your body was this bad.
00:52:37Is anything still hurting?
00:52:38I shook my head.
00:52:39He waited.
00:52:40I didn't say anything.
00:52:43Finally, he asked, quietly.
00:52:45Your leg.
00:52:46Why are you...
00:52:47How did that happen?
00:52:48I looked at the ceiling.
00:52:49The block leader in my unit.
00:52:51I wouldn't hand over the money I earned doing labor.
00:52:55So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.
00:52:59After that, they decided that was boring.
00:53:02So they stopped letting me eat.
00:53:03Whatever food I got, they took.
00:53:05Then that got boring too.
00:53:07So they held me down and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.
00:53:11Silence.
00:53:13Why didn't you tell me yesterday?
00:53:14His voice came out strange.
00:53:17Tight.
00:53:18I used to, I said.
00:53:22The first time they hit me, I screamed your name.
00:53:25Miles.
00:53:26Help me.
00:53:27Miles, come get me.
00:53:29Then I figured out it didn't work.
00:53:31Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.
00:53:34He grabbed my hand.
00:53:36His was shaking.
00:53:37I'm getting you the best doctors.
00:53:38You're going to get better.
00:53:39I'll give you back everything I took from you.
00:53:41Stay here while you recover.
00:53:42I'll have someone with you around the clock.
00:53:45When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.
00:53:47I gave him a small smile.
00:53:50Okay.
00:53:52He was going to be disappointed.
00:53:55I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.
00:53:58Rest.
00:54:00I'll check on you later.
00:54:02Then walked out fast, like the room was on fire.
00:54:05That afternoon, he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds into my name
00:54:10and put ten million dollars in a new bank account.
00:54:14He started to say something else, but seemed to lose it.
00:54:17You're old things.
00:54:19Everything's in here.
00:54:21Do you have to be this formal with me?
00:54:23I know I'd-
00:54:24Miles.
00:54:25Dinner.
00:54:26I didn't want to go.
00:54:27I physically couldn't eat anymore.
00:54:29The cancer made sure of that.
00:54:30But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me to help me get my strength back,
00:54:34and I had to come down.
00:54:35So I did.
00:54:36I took one sip of the soup.
00:54:39My esophagus felt like it caught fire.
00:54:43I set down my spoon.
00:54:45Thank you for making this, Fiona.
00:54:47It's really good.
00:54:48I'm full.
00:54:50Are you doing this on purpose?
00:54:52You had one sip.
00:54:54I cooked for three hours.
00:54:55You're finishing every bite.
00:55:01The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.
00:55:05I'm not well, I said.
00:55:07My face had gone white.
00:55:08I genuinely can't.
00:55:09Because I scared you into the hospital last week, I made this as an apology.
00:55:13And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.
00:55:17I should have saved myself the trouble.
00:55:19The housekeeper piped up from the corner.
00:55:21She burned her hands making it.
00:55:22Got blisters.
00:55:23Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.
00:55:27Ungrateful.
00:55:28Without looking up, he said,
00:55:30Jade, don't cause a seed.
00:55:31She put in the effort.
00:55:32Just finish it.
00:55:33I laughed before I could stop myself.
00:55:36Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly,
00:55:39Miles, I have ethophical cancer.
00:55:41Stage four.
00:55:42I can't eat.
00:55:45And now you're cursing yourself?
00:55:47You're going to die next, I assume?
00:55:51It's one meal, Jade.
00:55:53Stop being dramatic.
00:55:54I can't.
00:56:13She is the real killer!
00:56:15You have been arrested.
00:56:18I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.
00:56:22Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied,
00:56:26my uterus damaged from the beatings, my ankle shattered.
00:56:30The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.
00:56:37Why?
00:56:40Miles had been my knight.
00:56:41My loyal, unwavering protector.
00:56:44Junior year of high school.
00:56:45A girl tried to bully me.
00:56:47The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.
00:56:52She never recovered.
00:56:54Senior year.
00:56:55An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.
00:56:59Miles put him in the hospital.
00:57:02Partial paralysis.
00:57:04He never walked right again.
00:57:08After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.
00:57:11Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.
00:57:15Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.
00:57:19He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.
00:57:24Miles was like my shadow.
00:57:26Wherever I was, he was behind me.
00:57:30Until I turned nineteen.
00:57:32Miles fell in love with someone else.
00:57:36She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.
00:57:42Prove to me you're completely crazy about me.
00:57:45And I'll be yours.
00:57:48So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.
00:57:51Again and again, the man bled out.
00:57:54When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.
00:57:58Then he pointed at me.
00:58:00As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,
00:58:04I'm sorry.
00:58:06The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.
00:58:11I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.
00:58:17But I recognized him instantly.
00:58:30Jade, I came to take you home.
00:58:34Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.
00:58:37He looked composed, polished.
00:58:40Miles.
00:58:41My voice came out quiet.
00:58:42No anger in it.
00:58:44I didn't have the energy for anger.
00:58:45Why?
00:58:46My parents had died because of him.
00:58:48Murdered by his family's enemies.
00:58:50He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.
00:58:53We slept under highway overspance.
00:58:55We fought rats for scraps of food.
00:58:57On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.
00:59:01He worked three jobs to put me through school.
00:59:04Worked himself until he coughed up blood.
00:59:07I cried when I saw it.
00:59:08He just wiped his mouth and said,
00:59:11I'm done for, Jade.
00:59:13But you're not.
00:59:14You've got something better ahead of you.
00:59:16I never understood why someone who was basically my family
00:59:19would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get arrested.
00:59:23For a woman he'd known five minutes.
00:59:31I'm sorry, Jade.
00:59:32I was out of my mind over Fiona.
00:59:34I'd never met anyone like her.
00:59:36Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.
00:59:39She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.
00:59:42I couldn't risk it.
00:59:43I knew you'd get hurt.
00:59:45But I couldn't lose her.
00:59:47He said that while pulling Fiona closer.
00:59:51I was just talking when I said that.
00:59:54I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.
00:59:56But the second he did, I was gone for him.
01:00:01Don't feel too bad.
01:00:03Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.
01:00:06How many people would kill for that kind of payout?
01:00:09Literally.
01:00:10Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person spare change.
01:00:15None of it mattered to me.
01:00:16Not the money.
01:00:17Not the house.
01:00:18I had a thasical cancer.
01:00:19Stage four.
01:00:21One month left, maybe.
01:00:24Okay.
01:00:26It's freezing out here, Jade.
01:00:28Get in the car.
01:00:30Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona,
01:00:33laughing at something she said.
01:00:39He didn't notice me limping behind them.
01:00:42Didn't notice that every step cost me something.
01:00:46We drove to Fiona's estate.
01:00:49Security guards, a staff of five, a house that looked like a hotel.
01:00:54Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.
01:00:57He'd gotten all of it.
01:00:59He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.
01:01:03And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.
01:01:07When we pulled up, Fiona stepped in front of the door.
01:01:12Hold on.
01:01:15I have a thing about germs.
01:01:17You need to clean up before you come inside.
01:01:20Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.
01:01:25I understood exactly what she was doing.
01:01:28The temperature was somewhere below 20.
01:01:31A cold shower outside would kill me.
01:01:35I smiled.
01:01:36Politely.
01:01:37That's fine.
01:01:38I don't need to come in.
01:01:39Fiona's eyes sharpened.
01:01:41She thought I was trying to make her look bad.
01:01:43Don't play victim with me.
01:01:45You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?
01:01:48I looked at Miles.
01:01:50He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.
01:01:53Then he said,
01:01:54She's a little spoiled.
01:01:55It's just a shower.
01:01:56Can you just go along with it?
01:01:58I went still.
01:01:59The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.
01:02:03Then I won't come in.
01:02:04I said,
01:02:05Thank you for the offer.
01:02:07I turned to go.
01:02:08His voice stopped me.
01:02:10Are you seriously still holding a grudge?
01:02:12I said I'd make it up to you.
01:02:14What more do you want?
01:02:15I turned back.
01:02:17Did I kill someone?
01:02:18Did I put you in prison for ten years?
01:02:21Did I invite myself into your house?
01:02:23Three questions.
01:02:24His face went red.
01:02:26You're coming inside.
01:02:28And you're doing it clean.
01:02:30The staff came out with a pressure hose.
01:02:34The water hit me like a wall of ice.
01:02:36I curled into myself, arms wrapped around my chest, shaking so hard my teeth rattled.
01:02:41My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.
01:02:44I lifted my head.
01:02:46There you go.
01:02:46I took care of it.
01:02:47Stop being mad.
01:02:48You're too pretty to make that face.
01:02:50She pressed herself against him and kissed him and right there on the steps,
01:02:53like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water ten feet away.
01:02:56I stopped fighting.
01:02:57I let the water hit me.
01:02:59A night years ago, also snowing,
01:03:02Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass, one rotting blanket between us.
01:03:07This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.
01:03:09I swear.
01:03:10I will never let you freeze again.
01:03:12I had believed him completely.
01:03:15But he had forgotten completely now.
01:03:18Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.
01:03:20All right.
01:03:21That's enough.
01:03:22You're clean.
01:03:23Come inside.
01:03:24I was soaking wet and shaking
01:03:26when my body went forward instead of upright.
01:03:34I woke up three days later.
01:03:38Miles was talking to the house doctor.
01:03:43When he saw my eyes open, he came to the bed quickly.
01:03:48Jade, I'm sorry.
01:03:49I didn't know your body was this bad.
01:03:50Is anything still hurting?
01:03:51I shook my head.
01:03:53He waited.
01:03:54I didn't say anything.
01:03:56Finally, he asked, quietly.
01:03:58Your leg.
01:03:59Why are you...
01:04:00How did that happen?
01:04:01I looked at the ceiling.
01:04:02The block leader in my unit.
01:04:04I wouldn't hand over the money I earned doing labor.
01:04:08So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.
01:04:13After that, they decided that was boring.
01:04:15So they stopped letting me eat.
01:04:17Whatever food I got, they took.
01:04:19Then that got boring too.
01:04:20So they held me down and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.
01:04:25Silence.
01:04:26Why didn't you tell me yesterday?
01:04:27His voice came out strange.
01:04:30Tight.
01:04:31I used to.
01:04:33I said.
01:04:36The first time they hit me, I screamed your name.
01:04:39Miles.
01:04:40Help me.
01:04:40Miles, come get me.
01:04:42Then I figured out it didn't work.
01:04:45Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.
01:04:47He grabbed my hand.
01:04:49His was shaking.
01:04:50I'm getting you the best doctors.
01:04:51You're going to get better.
01:04:53I'll give you back everything I took from you.
01:04:54Stay here while you recover.
01:04:55I'll have someone with you around the clock.
01:04:58When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.
01:05:01I gave him a small smile.
01:05:03Okay.
01:05:06He was going to be disappointed.
01:05:08I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.
01:05:12Rest.
01:05:13I'll check on you later.
01:05:15Then walked out fast, like the room was on fire.
01:05:19That afternoon, he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds into my name
01:05:23and put ten million dollars in a new bank account.
01:05:27He started to say something else, but seemed to lose it.
01:05:31You're old things.
01:05:32Everything's in here.
01:05:34Do you have to be this formal with me?
01:05:36I know I didn't...
01:05:37Miles?
01:05:38Dinner.
01:05:39I didn't want to go.
01:05:40I physically couldn't eat anymore.
01:05:42The cancer made sure of that.
01:05:43But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me to help me get my strength back,
01:05:47and I had to come down.
01:05:48So I did.
01:05:50I took one sip of the soup.
01:05:53My esophagus felt like it caught fire.
01:05:56I set down my spoon.
01:05:58Thank you for making this, Fiona.
01:06:00It's really good.
01:06:01I'm full.
01:06:04Are you doing this on purpose?
01:06:06You had one sip.
01:06:07I cooked for three hours.
01:06:09You're finishing every bite.
01:06:14The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.
01:06:18I'm not well, I said.
01:06:20My face had gone white.
01:06:21I genuinely can't.
01:06:23Because I scared you into the hospital last week, I made this as an apology.
01:06:27And you can't even give me the decency of eating it.
01:06:30I should have saved myself the trouble.
01:06:32The housekeeper piped up from the corner.
01:06:34She burned her hands making it.
01:06:36Got blisters.
01:06:37Some people don't know how to appreciate kindness.
01:06:40Ungrateful.
01:06:41Without looking up, he said.
01:06:43Jade, don't cause a scene.
01:06:44She put in the effort.
01:06:46Just finish it.
01:06:47I laughed before I could stop myself.
01:06:49Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly,
01:06:52Miles, I have ethophical cancer.
01:06:55Stage four.
01:06:56I can't eat.
01:06:59And now you're cursing yourself?
01:07:01You're going to die next, I assume?
01:07:04It's one meal, Jade.
01:07:06Stop being dramatic.
01:07:26She is the real killer!
01:07:29You have been arrested.
01:07:32I was in prison for ten years for intentional homicide.
01:07:36Ten years of being screamed at, beaten, bullied, my uterus damaged from the beatings, my ankle shattered.
01:07:44The only thing that kept me alive was one question I needed to ask my boyfriend, Miles.
01:07:51Why?
01:07:53Miles had been my knight.
01:07:55My loyal, unwavering protector.
01:07:57Junior year of high school.
01:07:58A girl tried to bully me.
01:08:00The next day, her naked photos were plastered across the school's main screen for everyone to see.
01:08:06She never recovered.
01:08:07Senior year.
01:08:08An older guy wanted me and slipped something into my drink.
01:08:12Miles put him in the hospital.
01:08:15Partial paralysis.
01:08:17He never walked right again.
01:08:21After that, anyone who hurt me got hurt back.
01:08:24Because he'd made a promise in the front of my parents' graves when I was ten years old.
01:08:28Mr. and Mrs. Gratian, I swear I'll protect Jade for the rest of my life.
01:08:33He kept that promise from the time I was ten until I was nineteen.
01:08:37Miles was like my shadow.
01:08:40Wherever I was, he was behind me.
01:08:43Until I turned nineteen, Miles fell in love with someone else.
01:08:49She was loud and dazzling and nothing like anyone we'd ever known.
01:08:55Prove to me you're completely crazy about me.
01:08:58And I'll be yours.
01:09:01So Miles drove a knife into her fiancé.
01:09:04Again and again, the man bled out.
01:09:08When the police arrived, Miles pressed the knife into my hand.
01:09:11Then he pointed at me.
01:09:14As they dragged me away, the last thing I heard him say was,
01:09:18I'm sorry.
01:09:20The day I got out, it snowed so hard I could barely see.
01:09:24I stood at the prison gates feeling like I'd stepped out of a different century.
01:09:30But I recognized him instantly.
01:09:43Jade, I came to take you home.
01:09:47Ten years had stripped every trace of the boy he used to be.
01:09:51He looked composed.
01:09:53Polished.
01:09:54Miles.
01:09:54My voice came out quiet.
01:09:56No anger in it.
01:09:57I didn't have the energy for anger.
01:09:59Why?
01:09:59My parents had died because of him.
01:10:01Murdered by his family's enemies.
01:10:03He'd taken my ten-year-old hand and we'd run together.
01:10:06We slept under highway overspans.
01:10:08We fought rats for scraps of food.
01:10:10On the coldest nights, we held each other and shook until morning.
01:10:14He worked three jobs to put me through school.
01:10:17Worked himself until he coughed up blood.
01:10:20I cried when I saw it.
01:10:22He just wiped his mouth and said,
01:10:25I'm done for Jade, but you're not.
01:10:27You've got something better ahead of you.
01:10:30I never understood why someone who was basically my family
01:10:33would hand me a murder weapon and watch me get arrested.
01:10:36For a woman he'd known five minutes.
01:10:44I'm sorry, Jade.
01:10:45I was out of my mind over Fiona.
01:10:48I'd never met anyone like her.
01:10:50Everything she did, every look, every word, it got under my skin.
01:10:53She said if I went to prison, she'd end up with someone else.
01:10:55I couldn't risk it.
01:10:56I knew you'd get hurt.
01:10:58But I couldn't lose her.
01:11:00He said that while pulling Fiona closer.
01:11:05I was just talking when I said that.
01:11:07I didn't think he'd actually stabbed Marcus.
01:11:09But the second he did, I was gone for him.
01:11:14Don't feel too bad.
01:11:16Miles left you a house and ten million dollars.
01:11:19How many people would kill for that kind of payout?
01:11:22Literally.
01:11:23Her voice had the easy confidence of someone giving a homeless person spare change.
01:11:28None of it mattered to me.
01:11:29Not the money.
01:11:30Not the house.
01:11:31I had a fascicle cancer.
01:11:33Stage four.
01:11:34One month left, maybe.
01:11:37Okay.
01:11:39It's freezing out here, Jade.
01:11:41Get in the car.
01:11:43Miles turned and walked toward the house with Fiona, laughing at something she said.
01:11:52He didn't notice me limping behind them.
01:11:55Didn't notice that every step cost me something.
01:12:00We drove to Fiona's estate.
01:12:02Security guards, a staff of five, a house that looked like a hotel.
01:12:07Everything Miles and I used to dream about from under our overpass.
01:12:10He'd gotten all of it.
01:12:12He'd gotten every single thing we imagined.
01:12:16And I'd gotten ten years of concrete floors and iron bars.
01:12:20When we pulled up, Fiona stepped in front of the door.
01:12:26Hold on.
01:12:29I have a thing about germs.
01:12:31You need to clean up before you come inside.
01:12:33Someone who's been in prison for a decade needs a proper scrub before setting foot in my house.
01:12:38I understood exactly what she was doing.
01:12:41The temperature was somewhere below 20.
01:12:44A cold shower outside would kill me.
01:12:48I smiled, politely.
01:12:50That's fine.
01:12:51I don't need to come in.
01:12:52Fiona's eyes sharpened.
01:12:54She thought I was trying to make her look bad.
01:12:57Don't play victim with me.
01:12:58You scrubbed down in cold water every day in there, didn't you?
01:13:01I looked at Miles.
01:13:03He met my eyes with something that might have been apology.
01:13:06Then he said,
01:13:07She's a little spoiled.
01:13:09It's just a shower.
01:13:09Can you just go along with it?
01:13:11I went still.
01:13:12The man standing in front of me was not the Miles I grew up with.
01:13:16Then I won't come in.
01:13:18I said,
01:13:19Thank you for the offer.
01:13:20I turned to go.
01:13:22His voice stopped me.
01:13:23Are you seriously still holding a grudge?
01:13:26I said I'd make it up to you.
01:13:27What more do you want?
01:13:28I turned back.
01:13:30Did I kill someone?
01:13:32Did I put you in prison for ten years?
01:13:34Did I invite myself into your house?
01:13:36Three questions.
01:13:38His face went red.
01:13:40You're coming inside.
01:13:41And you're doing it clean.
01:13:43The staff came out with a pressure hose.
01:13:47The water hit me like a wall of ice.
01:13:50I curled into myself,
01:13:51arms wrapped around my chest,
01:13:53shaking so hard my teeth rattled.
01:13:55My spring jacket went soaked through in seconds.
01:13:57I lifted my head.
01:13:59There you go.
01:14:00I took care of it.
01:14:01Stop being mad.
01:14:02You're too pretty to make that face.
01:14:03She pressed herself against him and kissed him
01:14:05and right there on the steps,
01:14:07like I wasn't on my knees in the ice water ten feet away.
01:14:10I stopped fighting.
01:14:11I let the water hit me.
01:14:13A night years ago,
01:14:14also snowing,
01:14:16Miles and I huddled under a highway overpass,
01:14:18one rotting blanket between us.
01:14:20This is the last cold winter we'll ever have, Jade.
01:14:23I swear,
01:14:24I will never let you freeze again.
01:14:25I had believed him completely.
01:14:28But he had forgotten completely now.
01:14:31Eventually, Fiona clapped her hands.
01:14:33All right.
01:14:34That's enough.
01:14:35You're clean.
01:14:36Come inside.
01:14:37I was soaking wet and shaking
01:14:39when my body went forward instead of upright.
01:14:48I woke up three days later.
01:14:52Miles was talking to the house doctor.
01:14:56When he saw my eyes open,
01:14:58he came to the bed quickly.
01:15:01Jade, I'm sorry.
01:15:02I didn't know your body was this bad.
01:15:04Is anything still hurting?
01:15:05I shook my head.
01:15:06He waited.
01:15:07I didn't say anything.
01:15:09Finally, he asked, quietly,
01:15:11Your leg.
01:15:13Why are you...
01:15:13How did that happen?
01:15:14I looked at the ceiling.
01:15:15The block leader in my unit.
01:15:17I wouldn't hand over the money I earned during labor.
01:15:21So they broke my ankle to teach me a lesson.
01:15:26After that, they decided that was boring.
01:15:28So they stopped letting me eat.
01:15:30Whatever food I got, they took.
01:15:32Then that got boring too.
01:15:34So they held me down and force-fed me scalding food straight from the pot.
01:15:38Silence.
01:15:39Why didn't you tell me yesterday?
01:15:41His voice came out strange.
01:15:43Tight.
01:15:45I used to.
01:15:46I said.
01:15:49The first time they hit me, I screamed your name.
01:15:52Miles.
01:15:53Help me.
01:15:54Miles, come get me.
01:15:55Then I figured out it didn't work.
01:15:58Eventually, you stopped calling for someone who isn't coming.
01:16:01He grabbed my hand.
01:16:02His was shaking.
01:16:03I'm getting you the best, doctors.
01:16:05You're going to get better.
01:16:06I'll give you back everything I took from you.
01:16:08Stay here while you recover.
01:16:09I'll have someone with you around the clock.
01:16:11When you're well, I'll feel better about you leaving.
01:16:14I gave him a small smile.
01:16:17Okay.
01:16:19He was going to be disappointed.
01:16:21I wouldn't live long enough for any of that.
01:16:25Rest.
01:16:26I'll check on you later.
01:16:28Then walked out fast, like the room was on fire.
01:16:32That afternoon, he transferred the deed on a house in the Soberds into my name
01:16:36and put ten million dollars in a new bank account.
01:16:41He started to say something else, but seemed to lose it.
01:16:44You're old things.
01:16:46Everything's in here.
01:16:48Do you have to be this formal with me?
01:16:50I know I didn't-
01:16:50Miles?
01:16:51Dinner.
01:16:52I didn't want to go.
01:16:54I physically couldn't eat anymore.
01:16:55The cancer made sure of that.
01:16:57But Fiona said she'd cooked specifically for me to help me get my strength back,
01:17:00and I had to come down.
01:17:02So I did.
01:17:03I took one sip of the soup.
01:17:06My esophagus felt like it caught fire.
01:17:09I set down my spoon.
01:17:11Thank you for making this, Fiona.
01:17:13Fiona, it's really good.
01:17:15I'm full.
01:17:17Are you doing this on purpose?
01:17:19You had one sip.
01:17:20I cooked for three hours.
01:17:22You're finishing every bite.
01:17:27The smell of the food alone had my stomach turning.
01:18:00I'm not well, I said.
01:18:00I laughed before I could stop myself.
01:18:03Then I pressed the laugh down and said, quietly,
01:18:05Miles, I have ethophical cancer.
01:18:08Stage four.
01:18:09I can't eat.
01:18:12And now you're cursing yourself?
01:18:14You're going to die next, I assume?
01:18:18It's one meal, Jade.
01:18:19Stop being dramatic.
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