BRYCE CLERK GRANNY LIAM MIKE NARRATOR NATALIE NICK ROSEMARY SHERYL TOM NARRATOR Five years ago, on the night before my wedding, I was drunk and I spent the wildest night with my then fianc�, Nick. I wanted to remain a virgin until our wedding night, but I couldn't resist, and my world shattered with a knock the next morning.� NATALIE Fie years ago, on the night before my wedding, I was drunk and I spent the wildest night with my then fianc�, Nick. I wanted to remain a virgin until our wedding night, but I couldn't resist, and my world shattered with a knock the next morning.� NICK Natalie! Open the door! Are you in there? Open the door!� NATALIE Nick? Nick, can you open the door?� NICK Natalie!� NATALIE Nick?� NICK What are you doing here? NATALIE I What room number is this?� Who is there?� NICK You damn slut!� NATALIE Nick. No!�Today I was supposed to marry Nick. Yesterday, after celebrating my bachelorette party, I went back to my room and fell asleep. Was this not my room?� TOM How? How could you do that?� SHERYL Father, calm down.� TOM You have disgraced yourself. You have disgraced our entire family! NATALIE Pease, it's not my fault.� How can you say that? You cheated on your fianc� right before your wedding! Don't you dare say it's not your fault! God.Did I raise you to behave like that?� SHERYL Stop it!� ROSEMARY Sheryl, don't interrupt your father, he's right. I always knew that Natalie wouldn't grow up to be a decent person.� NATALIE My stepmother, Rosemary. She's never liked me, ever since I was a kid. So, that day she was very happy to finally tell me how she actually felt.� NICK Why did you do it? Was that man really better than me? NATALIE No! No, Nick, of course not! I don't even know who that man was. I just was really drunk and when I got into the room, I thought it was you.� NICK What a load of crap. Oh, my God. Do you really believe this?� NATALIE Nick, I love you.� NARRATOR He was right, it was really hard to believe. Especially seeing that stranger had already checked out and the hotel refused to give me his name. There was no way to find out what really happened. I couldn't prove anything.� NATALIE Nick, I need you.� NICK No, you don't. There will be no wedding.� TOM Nick. Let's calm down� Nick, let�s talk this through. Nick!� ROSEMARY Honey, don't go after him. You would have done the same.� TOM I need to talk to him.� NATALIE Sheryl, help me, please. I have to figure it out. It's not my fault. Believe me, please.� SHERYL I believe you, honey. Of course, I know you're innocent.Because I set you up. And I can prove it!� NATALIE Sheryl pulled out a phone and I was stunned. I remember that while I was sleeping, a man came into the room. I was absolutely sure it was Nick. I gave myself to him without question. But what was the video that my stepsister had?� NARRATOR Back at the hotel, Bryce was trying to find the woman he had slept with last night. BRYCE Wait, wait, wait, wait, what did you say? Is that a joke? MIKE No, sir. According to the security cameras, you were at the bar last night getting drunk and some girl, she put something in your wine. Look, you see that?� BRYCE Yeah.� MIKE And then she tempted you to meet her that evening. But half an hour later, instead of her, some other girl came to your room. The one brought by your friend, being under the influence of those drugs, obviously, you were unable to notice this switch. It looks like she acted according to the precise plan. So, what do you want to do now?� NARRATOR Unaware of the situation unfolding on the other side, Natalie's world was jst crashing around her.� SHERYL Oh my God, sister, what a horror. Cheating on your fianc� before the wedding. I would never have thought of you like that.� NATALIE Sheryl, I don't understand, you set this up. But, why?� SHERYL It was really very simple. You and I celebrated all day yesterday. And while you were looking away, I just slipped sleeping pills into your drink. And then I took you to someone else's room telling you that Nick was waiting for you. You didn't think for a second it wasn't him.� NATALIE But why!? Why did you do this to me?� SHERYL Because I want to marry Nick.� NATALIE Wait! My stepsister is in love with my fianc�?� SHERYL And I can't stand the thought of you being happy with him. I'm ready to do pretty much anything to have him.� NATALIE Something overtook me and all I could see was red.� TOM Girls, what is going on here?� ROSEMARY Natalie, are you crazy? Let her go! NATALIE It was her, she set me up! She set me up!� ROSEMARY How dare you accuse my daughter of anything? You're just as wild as your mother was.� NATALIE You don't understand what I am saying? She was the one who sabotaged everything. TOM Sit down!� SHERYL How could you even think that, Natalie? We're sisters!� ROSEMARY Tom! Do you hear what your daughter is saying?� NATALIE Dad! Believe me please.� NARRATOR Natalie pleaded but her screams fell on deaf ears.� BRYCE Everything has to be destroyed. If the media comes to knowth about this scandal, the company will be finished. I can't let that happen. Mike, you go to the hotel and destroy all the evidence.� MIKE I'll do that, sir. What about the girl who was framed? Should we contact her? Maybe she needs our help?� BRYCE No, no! Don't think about her. She'll be fine. I hope we'll never meet again. TOM From now on, she's no longer my daughter.� NATALIE What? Dad, what? What do you mean?� TOM You have disappointed me twice today. You are no longer worthy of this family. Pack your things and get out. NATALIE That day, I lost everything. They kicked me out of the house and forced me to leave the country. Almost an hour later, my father drove me to the airport and told me that I couldn't stay here. At that time, I was well aware of what I had gotten myself into. But one question kept nagging at me Who was that man I was with that night?�Nine years have passed since everything happened. From the moment my family kicked me out until now, we haven't spoken to each other. But yesterday morning, my father called me and said I had to come back. He didn't give me a reason, he just said it was urgent. And that's why I'm here. I came to buy plane tickets: one for myself and the other. LIAM Mom, hurry up! The bus will leave without us!� NATALIE So what? We'll walk. It's only a couple of kilometers. It will be very good for us.� I realized I was pregnant with Liam after I left the country. And although I was all alone, I decided to keep him. In his short life, he had never known who his real father was. It seemed like it was time to change that.� CLERK Here you go. You'll be flying in first class Mam.� BRYCE Come on. I'm sorry. Are you serious? Is this an airplane or a kindergarten? CLERK I'm sorry, what?� I don't buy expensive tickets to listen to children screaming. Mike? Take the tickets away from What?� NATALIE I'm so sorry, but my child is not an infant and he isn't loud.� BRYCE Six or seven years old?� LIAM No! I�m eight.� BRYCE It doesn't matter. You are loud. NATALIE I'm sorry but mind your tone with my child.� Can't you see the absurdity of the situation?� At that moment, neither he nor I recognized each other at all, even though we had spent the night together nine years ago.� MIKE Please tell me you have other flights leaving today.� CLERK Just a moment, sir. Let me please find out.� MIKE thank you.� LIAM Daddy!� NATALIE I'm sorry. Liam, what are you doing? It's not funny, making jokes about this. LIAM But it's true! Look at his arm! He has a mark, the same as mine!� BRYCE Hey, it's just a coincidence. Don't get too excited about it.� LIAM Why did you leave me and my mom?� NATALIE Liam, It's enough. It's not nice to behave like this.� BRYCE Oh, no, no, no, go ahead, act for me, actress. Do you know how many women send their children to me and ask them to call me Daddy? You want my money? Is that it?� NATALIE I didn't send anyone to you. I'm really sorry, but you are overestimating yourself. BRYCE Was it your idea? Hey, why don't you give him a proper family, Mother of The Year? NATALIE Don't you dare tell me and my son how to live our lives. Liam, come on. NARRATOR No woman had ever put Bryce in his place before. They were all infatuated by his strength and authority. At that moment, he was pushed in a corner for the first time. And he liked it. He was definitely interested in the mother-son duo.� MIKE Mr Bryce, are you all right?� BRYCE I'm fine. I'm good.� MIKE The cashier says there is one more flight leaving today. Should we take it? BRYCE No, we'll fly with her. Let's go.� With her? Really?� NARRATOR Natalie didn't understand why Liam called this man dad. It was their first meeting after that night. A meeting in which neither Natalie nor he realized that they had met each other a long time ago. But a few hours later, none of this mattered. Natalie had finally returned to her hometown where her family was waiting for her. Her father didn't tell her why he invited her, but things were starting to finally fall in place when she saw Sheryl and Nick waiting for her at the airport.� SHERYL Hey, Natalie! Finally! We were waiting for you.� NARRATOR It finally dawned on Natalie that Sheryl had finally managed to get into a relationship with Nick.� LIAM Mister, you forgot your wallet.� NICK Did it fall out? Or maybe you pulled it out?� Where are your parents?� NATALIE Liam would never take something that wasn't his. He just wants to give you your wallet back.� SHERYL This is your son? Mother of God, I can't believe it. Who could have agreed to do this with you? Wait! Don't tell me you gave birth after you cheated on Nick. That's terrible. That's just pathetic.� NICK And you have been raising him all this time on your own? No wonder he's picking pockets. This is what happens when you get pregnant with the first random guy you meet.� NATALIE It was all very painful to hear. I couldn't believe that my step sister and ex fianc� who had once told me that he loved me could now say such things. At that moment, I couldn't hold myself back.�If you say that again, you'll get a second one. It goes for you too, Sheryl. Got it? NICK How dare you? Just because you're a woman, you think I won't do anything to you? LIAM Don't touch my mom.� What's wrong with you? That hurts!� LIAM Stay away, you're bad people!� NICK It's your mother's fault that you have to grow up without a father, and you're calling us bad?� BRYCE Darling, there you are! I've been looking for you everywhere, I was getting worried. Have you decided where we�re going for lunch?� NATALIE Yeah, darling. Liam really wants some ice cream. Should we go to look for some restaurants with their own ice cream?� BRYCE Of course, it's a good idea. Mike, bring the car around.� MIKE Sure, Mr Bryce. NATALIE Sheryl couldn't believe what was happening. They had just been convinced that I had been raising an illegitimate child alone for eight years, and now it turned out that I had a rich husband abroad. I will never forget the look on their faces!� BRYCE I'm sorry, who are you? Honey, are these your friends?� NATALIE No! Honey, I don't know these people. They were looking for some money for the subway. Do you have some?� BRYCE Unfortunately, no.� NATALIE Oh, sorry.� BRYCE Sorry. Let's go.� NATALIE Yes.� Thanks for your help.� LIAM Yeah, seriously.� BRYCE I just don't like what those two were saying. That's all.� LIAM That's right, they were really bad. I'm glad you intervened, Dad. NATALIE Liam, you can't call someone dad.� Why not? It's the truth.� NATALIE Liam, please.� LIAM What? It's him. I know it. I can feel it. BRYCE To have a baby with a woman, at least she needs to be attractive, and that's not I wouod say about your mother.� NATALIE Those words were very painful. Of course, Mr Bryce protected me from Nick and Sheryl, but now he's hurt me just as much as they had.� Stop the car. Stop the car, please.� BRYCE What happened?� We're leaving.� What's wrong? Are you mad at me? What are you doing?� NARRATOR Natalie had pulled liam out of the car and thrown a 100 dollar bill throughthe the window at Bryce.� NATALIE It's for the taxi. Thank you for your help. I hope I never see you again. Thank you. BRYCE Crazy. Mike, did you see that? Let's go.� NARRATOR This was the second time, the second time in Bryce's entire life that a woman had put him in his place. And both times it was Natalie. When they got out of Bryce's car, thry didn't go to her father's mansion but instead took a taxi to another place.� GRANNY Natalie. NATALIE Granny!� GRANNY Is that you? Oh!�I missed you so much.�How much suffering have you endured while you�ve been away? LIAM Hello, I'm Liam� GRANNY Hello, Liam. Let's go.� NATALIE Of course, my grandmother was happy to see me, and she was just infatuated with Liam. She fell in love with him at first sight. A woman of her experience knew what to ask a person and what not to ask. That's why she didn't ask me where my son came from. I was happy to come back to the place where I had spent my childhood. I felt good here and nothing could destroy this idyllic feeling. Nothing except SHERYL Hello again. Sis, I knew this was the place to look for you.� NATALIE I don't think we have anything else to talk about. Please, don't bother me. Okay? NICK Wait. We didn't really want to come here.� SHERYL Yeah. Daddy asked us to come. He wants to see you right away.� NICK Your choice.� NATALIE Liam!�On the way to the family mansion, none of us said a word. And the house seemed to be the same as it was nine years ago. But the people in it had changed. I couldn't look into their eyes anymore.� SHERYL Honey, I want a drink.� ROSEMARY Oh, Natalie, you're back. How was the flight? Are you hungry? NATALIE I know you don't like me, so you shouldn't act like you do.� TOM Is that a way to talk to your mother? NATALIE Hi, Dad.� TOM I sent you out of the country to think about your behavior. Instead, you brought some strange kid here.� LIAM Hello, I'm Liam.� TOM I will never accept him as part of the Davidson family.� SHERYL Daddy, don't be so angry. This child, it's not his fault. Besides, he's your grandson. TOM Don't you dare call him that.� NATALIE Of course, she emphasized the word grandson. She knew that would make my father even angrier. When they kicked me out, I was so poor that I hardly had anything. And even then none of them called me once. And now they want to reject the only person who cares about me?�Liam is my son and I don't care if you accept him or not. I only came back here for the engagement party and I'll be leaving as soon as it's over.� TOM Good.�You're welcome to come to the wedding, but not with him. I forbid you to embarrass our family in front of all the guests.� NATALIE Okay. Well, if that is what you want, it was very nice seeing you all. Bye.�At that time, I felt nothing but disgust. I wanted to leave the house I had lived in for 20 years, as soon as possible, and go back to my grandmother's house. But on the way out, I was stopped.� NICK Natalie. Natalie! Please wait, Natalie.� NATALIE What? What do you want from me? Did you come here to insult me even more? All this time, here, Nick hadn't taken his eyes off Liam. He clearly couldn't stop thinking about the man who was with me yesterday. After all, Nick and I had been together for a few years and I knew I held a very important place in his heart. He still felt something.� NICK I just want to ask you something. Okay? What did you mean when you called Sheryl the fraud yesterday?� NATALIE What. Are you serious?� NICK Listen, what right do you have to say something like that? You�re the fraud. You cheated on me behind my back.� NATALIE Are you done? Now, you listen to me. Don't you ever bring up what happened then. I had been set up and you just walked away without asking any single question. Even though we had been together for so many years. You, you didn't give me an ounce of trust. So stay with your Sheryl now. You both deserve each other.� NICK Wait, wait, wait, please wait, please, please tell me, please look at me. What do you mean you were set up? Natalie, What do you mean you were set up?� NARRATOR What happens next? Find out in the audio series, The Return, only on the Pocket FM app. Download today.