The Guardian's Secret

For ten years, Sarah has lived under the care of her guardian, Julian, the man who took her in after her parents' deaths. On her nineteenth birthday, she finally gathers the courage to confess the feelings she has hidden since a gala three years ago, when he whispered that he would wait for her to grow up. But Julian coldly rejects her, telling her she is still a child and that she has forgotten her place.

The next morning, Sarah finds Elena, the woman Julian once loved, wearing the necklace he gave Sarah as a birthday gift. Elena stages a fall and frames her, and Julian sides with Elena, ordering Sarah to move out. When Elena reveals the secret photos of Julian that Sarah had kept hidden, Julian burns them, calling her feelings childish games. Yet Sarah is hiding a worsening illness, coughing blood she cannot let him see. As she clings to the hope that he will take her to the hospital, the rain falls over New York.