14. Natalia
Fiorenzo Family Chat
Natalia: I heard you paid Alessandro a visit.
Gio: Yes.
Luca: He’s a dick.
Mamma: Language, Luca.
Luca: Sorry, Mamma, but he is.
Gio: He refused to sign the papers.
Natalia: I told you so.
Gio: Yes, but we thought he would listen to us.
Luca: He’s a stubborn asshole.
Mamma: Luca!
Papà: He’s passionate, sweetheart.
Natalia: Why, because you’re a man?
Gio: No. That’s not it at all.
Luca: Because we’re more intimidating.
Natalia: Guess you weren’t that intimidating were you because he still hasn’t signed the papers.
Gio: I’m working on it.
Luca: We have a plan.
Natalia: And so do I.
Gio: Let us deal with him, Nat.
Luca: He’s our problem, not yours.
Natalia: I married him. He’s my problem. I created the mess and I’m going to sort it out.
Gio: There’s nothing you can do. Let us deal with him.
Luca: The man is a monster.
Papà: Sweetie, please let your brothers deal with him. You can’t trust Contis.
Natalia: You don’t trust me.
Luca: Of course we do.
Gio: But you’re our baby sister.
Natalia: I’m an adult.
Papà: Of course you are. Your brothers have experience in these kinds of things though.
Natalia: What, marrying your family’s enemy in Vegas? Then they try to blackmail you so that your family loses out on a deal. I had no idea they had been through something like that.
Gio: What’s with the attitude?
Mamma: Natalia, don’t talk to your father like that.
Allegra: You guys are being too hard on her.
Gio: Stay out of this.
Allegra: No. This is her life.
Luca: And this is our family’s business.
Allegra: Which is more important than Natalia?
Papà: No, of course not.
Mamma: Why are you all fighting? Stop that.
Natalia: I’m moving in with him.
Gio: What the fuck?
Mamma: Gio, language.
Luca: Like hell you are?
Mamma: Luca!
Papà: No.
Allegra: Why?
Natalia: Screw him.
Mamma: Natalia!
Natalia: I’m not going to sit back and let this man win.
Gio: The man is a Conti. You’re not moving in with him.
Natalia: Yes, I am.
Natalia: You can’t stop me.
Gio: Yes, I can.
Luca: Yes, we can.
Allegra: This is crazy, why would you want to do that?
Papà: No. I will not allow it.
Natalia: I’m a grown woman you can’t stop me.
Mamma: Think of your father’s health.
Allegra: Nice guilt trip, Mamma.
Mamma: It’s true. This is stress he doesn’t need.
Natalia: I don’t want to stress him, Mamma.
Natalia: But I’m going to put a stop to this once and for all.
Lilly: What’s your plan?
Luca: You can’t be serious, babe.
Lilly: None of you have heard her out. I want to hear her plan.
Gio: No.
Paige: Gio.
Gio: Babe.
Allegra: Listen to your wives.
Natalia: This man and I have been playing tit for tat this past couple of weeks.
Mamma: You’ve been doing what?
Gio: Like what?
Natalia: It was my idea to call his bluff about the article.
Gio: Which was stupid.
Allegra: No, it wasn’t.
Luca: Yes, it was.
Lilly: I think it was brilliant in its pettiness.
Natalia: Then he showed up in Paris, pretending to play the devoted husband.
Paige: He looked convincing in the photos.
Gio: He’s a charlatan, of course he can look convincing.
Lilly: Nat looked convincing too.
Allegra: Seems like she was playing the game.
Luca: She got lucky.
Papà: Wasn’t happy about those photos.
Natalia: I know, Papà.
Natalia: Then Gio and Luca paid him a visit and he retaliated.
Gio: What did he do?
Luca: I’ll kill him.
Natalia: So dramatic.
Natalia: He organized a wedding photo shoot with Vogue.
Allegra: He did what?
Lilly: That doesn’t sound very scary.
Paige: OMG, Vogue.
Natalia: Online edition.
Paige: Still, good work.
Gio: Babe.
Paige: Oh sorry. Yes, bad man. Continue.
Natalia: That made me sad dressing up in wedding dresses knowing that all those special moments have now been tainted by him and my stupid drunken night in Vegas.
Paige: I’m sorry.
Lilly: Oh, babe.
Allegra: Didn’t realize that upset you.
Natalia: I’ll never get to experience the fun of trying on wedding dresses with you all for the first time because of that night.
Natalia: Standing in a ridiculous wedding dress that made me look like a swan, I realized how much I messed up.
Natalia: How much I let you all down.
Papà: You haven’t let us down, sweetie.
Allegra: Don’t let that man taint weddings and marriage for you. Don’t give him that power.
Mamma: I want to give you a hug. I’m coming over.
Natalia: No.
Mamma: Why not?
Natalia: I love you, but I won’t be here.
Mamma: Where will you be?
Gio: No. Don’t do it.
Natalia: If a Conti thinks he can defeat a Fiorenzo then he has another thing coming.
Luca: What are you doing?
Papà: Sweetheart!
Mamma: I don’t understand. What is happening?
Lilly: You’re going there tonight?
Natalia: Yes.
Gio: No
Luca: Father, forbid her.
Papà: I can’t do that.
Lilly: Forbid her?
Luca: You know what I mean.
Lilly: Seems like I don’t.
Allegra: You’re in trouble, Luca.
Luca: Shut up, Allegra.
Mamma: Luca!
Papà: Sweetheart, please, you don’t have to do this.
Natalia: I need to.
Mamma: I don’t understand what she’s doing.
Allegra: She’s moving in with her husband.
Mamma: The Conti boy?
Allegra: Yes.
Mamma: Why?
Natalia: Because I’m going to destroy them from the inside out.
Lilly: Dark.
Allegra: Nat’s turned beast mode on.
Paige: You go, girl.
Gio: Why are you all encouraging her?
Luca: You think you can take him down?
Lilly: What does that mean?
Luca: Babe, I’m not fighting with you.
Lilly: Then stop saying stupid things.
Papà: I don’t care about the hotels. Tell him we concede. I’m not going to let my daughter go into the viper’s nest.
Natalia: Papà, please.
Papà: No. You’re too important.
Natalia: Nothing is going to happen to me.
Natalia: The paparazzi are following us around everywhere we go. He’s had to hire extra security because of it.
Papà: I don’t like it.
Gio: This is crazy.
Allegra: I think it’s brilliant. Everyone besides us thinks the two of you are in love.
Paige: Exactly.
Allegra: The entire world thinks this is a real-life version of Romeo and Juliet. There is no way Conti is going to be able to scratch himself without someone snapping him.
Lilly: So true. Have you seen all the online stories about them? Roma is infatuated with them.
Papà: I don’t like it.
Natalia: Do you trust me?
Papà: Of course. I don’t trust him.
Natalia: I can handle him.
Lilly: I’m sure you can.
Luca: Lilly!
Lilly: Get your mind out of the gutter. I meant it as she’s an intelligent girl, she knows what she’s doing.
Natalia: I do.
Allegra: Give him hell.
Mamma: I don’t like this.
Papà: Me either.
Gio: Have you all lost your minds?
Luca: I think they have.
Papà: If your sister thinks she can win then I’m going to back her.
Gio: You are?
Natalia: Thank you.
Luca: This is going to blow up in your face, Nat.
Lilly: Ignore him. You’ve got this.
Allegra: Call me if you need anything.
Paige: Me too.
Lilly: Me three.
Mamma: I love you, sweetheart. I don’t understand what you are planning but if your father thinks it’s okay, then so do I.
Papà: I trust her.
Natalia: Thank you.
Papà: If you get into any trouble, you come straight home, you hear me.
Natalia: Yes, Papà.
Gio: Have you all lost your minds? This is a Conti we are talking about.
Allegra: And she’s a Fiorenzo. She’s got this.
Gio: I don’t agree.
Luca: Me too.
Natalia: Noted but ignored.
Natalia: Look I’ll probably be back in my bed by tonight. And tomorrow he will have signed the papers.
Gio: Wishful thinking.
Natalia: Just watch me.