Status Updates From The Price of a Promise (The...

away. She know they both won’t get over this anytime soon. 3 months later bros try convince Axel finish MBA. He don’t want to plus couldn’t afford all 3 them graduate. He spent past 3 months rehashing relationship, remember sheer joy on her face when he ask her marry him. Axel spent one month wish Cora change mind. Spent rest of time in endless one night stands. Axel want get her dad as client 4 revenge.

see him one more time. She see how stressed he is. He see doorbell, talk directly into camera. Begs her talk to him. She press intercom. He want her meet him, she can’t. He know her dad making her say this. She say she love him but love not enough. Dad text her tell her stop talk w/Axel. She tell Axel try forget about her, move on. Dad’s security tell Axel leave. She never seen Axel so broken, security drag him

Axel message her on instagram, is she getting his messages? How did they go from engaged to not responding to blocking him. Cora know dad blocked him. Cora vomiting still, mom ask she pregnant? No Tell her dad Axel in LA, need see him one time, he say no. Dad moved her from condo so Axel couldn’t find her. She know driver won’t take her to condo. She remembers her doorbell camera & turn it on so she can at least

truth, he’d ruin own future to fight dad. She want him/bros to get their dream. dad monitoring her phone, who she text, email, how long call from NY last. She used housekeeper phone to call Axel, housekeeper told on her. Only choice was use social media. 2 weeks ago, dad say she can’t communicate w/Axel anymore. She didn’t want leave condo but dad insist she get new place for new life. Bought house for her.

tell him don’t come cuz won’t end well for him. She say they need break. He can’t believe what’s happening. She say has go & hang up. He gonna cash out stocks cuz needs see her. She been throwing up cuz anxiety. She agree do what Chris want & work for family. She try save Axel & feel sad. She moving. She keep all Axel’s things under bed, proof of their love will last her lifetime. She know if she tell Axel

from social media. He know something wrong, tell her she distance from him but she always deflects. He tell her call ASAP. He ask her what really going on, she say busy, he ask if she want marry him, yes, she sobbing but won’t say why. Did parents find out about engagement? yes. He ask when she come for Christmas, she not. Parents flew to LA this year, he say he coming to see her, he can’t cuz her dad’s there,

traded name Hanes for Fairchild. Kaylee still in foster care, victim of human trafficking. Kaylee/Jordan had been split up in placement of foster care. Same system that failed sisters had lifted him/Damien up. Axel know something off w/Cora but she won’t say what. His bros know something worry Axel about Cora. They say she probably busy w/school. Cora’s messages few & far btwn. Call from friend phone, message him

say if she stay w/Axel he’ll make sure he never succeeds. Dad say he’s inferior in every single way. He’ll show her police records, adoptive parents bankruptcy records. Tell her think it over, give them answer Friday. Offer is irrevocable. Once she chooses, there’s no turning back. She feel betray by parents. It’s not creature comforts she’d miss. Trace was Fairchild’s only biological son. Damien/Axel

her they pay for house, chef, trainers, drivers, housekeepers, spending money, etc They say no way they’ll ever allow Axel become part of their family. He won’t b part of her future if she wish b part of family. If she stay w/Axel she’s on her own, they won’t pay anything. She say she’ll work for company w/Eli, just let her b w/Axel, they’ll even keep it secret. Dad say she can’t have it both ways. Dad

ring. Cora say it is, Axel her fiance. Dad say she throw life away being w/him. They call Axel a joke, nothing, something she need get out her system. Dad say she won’t marry him, she say she is. She crying, they tell her not b emotional. Parents detest Axel cuz he not their kind, not their level of wealth. She didn’t tell Axel about parents disapproval. She feel like want/need live for Chris wishes. Parents tell

to step up to CEO cuz she’d b great. She know exactly why they give her letter now. She pissed, want know how long they’ve had it. Dad wants her decision & letter practically made it for her. She’d taken off engagement ring last night cuz didn’t want questions b4 she told them. Talk w/Axel in morning she put it on & forgot about it til mom see it on her hand while eating breakfast, say looks like engagement

had shot himself w/gun in his room in Cora’s senior yr high school 6 yr earlier. There wasn’t suicide note, found this letter in his drawer. They tell her read it. Chris was gay, dad wouldn’t ever allow it. Chris/Cora close, she only one that could get him out of his depression states. Chris letter tell mom plant him in her garden, dad b happy w/whoever become CEO cuz he would’ve just disappointed him. Cora,

hard to get turns him on. Axel meet Cora at lounge for drinks where he gonna propose. He propose, she say yes. He go to get drinks, card declined. They’re celebrating, she tense cuz Vince (dad’s driver) show up, tell Cora need go cuz emergency, need get to hospital. There’s no medical emergency, Vince take her to parents. They show her letter w/Chris’ handwriting on it, tell her she needs to read it. Chris

if she going into family business when graduates, she say talk still underway. Parents hint at Eli/Cora marriage & babies. Cora go to bathroom, Axel texts say he needs her. She run into Eli, he ask her to give him a chance. She say she has boyfriend. He hasn’t proposed. She agree in some alternate universe w/no boyfriend she might give him chance. He tell her he could ruin Axel. She say not to. He say her playing

Eli, dad late from work. Axel not reply to her, weird, her dad being late, weird. His parents get bottle wine, Cora say doesn’t need bottle, they say it’s for afterwards for celebrating w/Eli. Eli attractive but jerk. Dad say mtg ran over w/wishful idiot who think can run things his own way. Dad say this one was worse, look at her w/dark gaze. Eli dad say he want Cora to work w/him, want merge companies. Ask her

Dad tell him time up, does strong southern accent say y’all come back. Axel say f u, talk about disrespect. Dad say this last time he’ll ever set foot in bldg. Cora at dinner w/parents, Eli’s parents & Eli. Eli, 23,blonde hair, brown eyes. Cora 23. Eli say he’s glad she at mtg, she’s hard to catch. Like he know something or dad promise him & say it’s good to know money is what makes her purr. Sit next to

door, what else will he lie about? Cora deserves better than him. Dad such asshole to him, condescending. Axel love Cora so much he’d do anything for her. Dad say anything? f off. Tell him commit 100% to his real estate company, work from ground up & maybe in few yrs they’ll talk again. Tell him janitor position open just like dad. Axel’s biological dad was janitor, dad done thorough background check on him.

found someday but think she dead. Her parents don’t talk about Chris, her dead bro, cuz see suicide as heinous act. Axel only one she talk to about Chris. They spend night together. Axel go to her dad’s real estate company for mtg w/fake name. Dad not happy Axel there, he tell him gonna ask her to marry him. Dad say he think Cora serious about him? Say Axel never been courteous to him/family ever, lied to get in

propose to Cora cuz of dad is bad idea. They think he needs talk w/dad b4 propose, explain his/bros plan for future. Axel didn’t want ask dad cuz know he’ll say no. Axel/Cora last saw each other 3 months ago. Axel dirty blonde hair, meet her at airport. Jordan & Kaylee, Axel’s younger sisters taken into foster care. Kaylee died Axel’s freshman yr college, Jordan disappeared, they keep small hope she may b

in her MBA program at Stanford. Eli was interested in her but she told him she taken. Dad want her/Eli get married. Mtg in NY, she want go cuz can see Axel. Damien, Trace r Axel’s bros. Cora tell Axel she coming to NY mtg w/Rossbergs. Dad want her marry Eli, Axel feel sick. She suggest he work for dad, would get him step closer to her dad accept him. Last thing he want do is work for him. He ask bros if they think

how sis died. Axel 2 bros he live w/. Axel/Cora collect sea glass, him green pieces, her blue pieces for each others eyes. Cora dream of Axel proposing. Dad want her take over family business. She don’t want to. Dad groom her bro Chris to take over all his life but Chris commit suicide, dad now want her. Dad say Rossberg want meet discuss business opportunities. Rossberg only family richer than them, eldest son Eli

Narrators: Jill Smith & Jeremy York
Axel Fairchild & Cora Margulis
Cora in CA, live at Stanford. Axel in Hamptons. Both in grad school on separate coasts. Axel has anxiety & Cora help calm him. He ready to tell her she the one, bought her ring. Cora brown hair, green eyes. Cora’s dad didn’t like him. Cora’s dad rich. Axel grew up in Louisville. Both lost siblings. Cora knew how her bro died. Axel didn’t know