Victoria: What is the meaning of this, Marcus?! Your security guards put their hands on me!
Victoria strode into the grand study, her designer heels clicking sharply against the hardwood floor. She adjusted her coat, her eyes darting nervously toward Maria, who sat weeping on the leather sofa.
Marcus: Sit down, Victoria.
Victoria: I will not sit down in my own brother's home like a criminal! What is she doing here? Why is the house on lockdown?
Evelyn: Cut the act, Victoria. We know everything.
Victoria: Know what? Evelyn, you look unhinged. Marcus, why is she holding the baby like that? Did something happen?
Marcus: Maria confessed.
Victoria: Confessed to what?! She's a maid! She's probably stealing your expensive silver or lying to get a raise!
Maria: I told him about the two hundred thousand dollars, Victoria! I showed him the jammer!
Victoria: You stupid, worthless fool! Shut your mouth!
Evelyn: So it is true. You tried to destroy my life and steal my son!
Victoria: Destroy your life?! You don't belong in this family, Evelyn! You came from nothing! You married my brother and immediately secured a slice of a fifty-million-dollar estate!
Marcus: Evelyn married me because she loves me, Victoria. Something you clearly know nothing about.
Victoria: She tricked you! She wanted the money, and now she has an heir! If anything happened to you, everything would go to her and that child!
Evelyn: I signed a prenuptial agreement before we ever got married! I don't care about your family's money!
Victoria: Words on paper! Once a baby is involved, judges tear prenups to pieces!
Marcus: So your solution was to tamper with my security system, bribe my staff, and accuse my wife of child abuse?
Victoria: I was protecting our family's legacy, Marcus! You are blind to what she really is!
Marcus: I am looking at the real monster right now. And she wears my last name.
Victoria: You can't prove anything! It's her word against mine! A maid's word holds no weight in court!
Marcus: It wasn't just her word, Victoria.
Marcus stood up from behind his desk, holding a small silver USB drive in his fingers.
Marcus: The jammer blocked the wireless feed to my phone, but the local hard-wired backup system in the wall recorded every single frame of audio and video from the hallway.
Victoria's face drained of all color. Her mouth opened, but no sound came out.
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