Chapter 2 - The Silent Partner
I stared at the tablet in absolute shock, my hands trembling.
Luke sat calmly beside me, his fingers flying across his specialized keyboard.
I asked my son what he had just projected to the entire gala.
Luke did not look away from his screen as he explained the dark truth.
He told me Christopher was not just an innocent victim manipulated by a beautiful mistress.
My husband had been actively draining my father's company for the past eighteen months.
On the live stream, panic erupted in the ballroom as reporters started taking rapid photographs.
Christopher shoved Brenda away from him, desperately trying to distance himself from the scandal.
He grabbed the microphone from the auctioneer and shouted that they were being cyber attacked.
He blamed a disgruntled former employee for fabricating the malicious documents.
Brenda looked entirely terrified as the high society women around her began to sneer.
She tried to grab Christopher's arm again, but he forcefully slapped her hand away.
I felt a brief moment of satisfaction seeing them turn on each other like cornered rats.
Then, my bedroom door suddenly creaked open behind us.
The housekeeper, Missus Higgins, stood in the doorway with a strange expression on her face.
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She pulled a suppressed handgun from her apron pocket and aimed it directly at my chest.
She whispered that Christopher paid her very well to make sure I never woke up from my nap.
