Chapter 5 - The Plush Bunny's Secret
Daisy knew that if she ran out and yelled at her father, he would lock her away too. She had seen how terrifying he looked when he screamed at her mother. She needed proof to show a safe adult—someone outside the house who could stop the monsters.
A week earlier, Penelope had gifted Daisy a small, child-friendly digital voice recorder so she could record her own singing and bedtime stories.
Moving with the absolute silence of a ghost, the six-year-old girl crept back up to her bedroom. She retrieved the small, black digital recorder from her toy chest. With trembling hands, she unzipped the hidden back compartment of her favorite stuffed plush rabbit, slipped the recorder inside, and clicked the record button through the soft fabric.
Daisy snuck back downstairs and carefully, silently pushed the plush rabbit through the crack in the study door, leaving it hidden beneath the shadows of a heavy leather armchair.
For the next two hours, the little voice recorder captured everything. It captured Gabriel detailing his exact plan to bribe a psychiatric facility to hold Penelope against her will. It captured Bianca laughing about how easy it was to slip sedatives into Penelope's chamomile tea. It captured their entire conspiracy to steal the Albright fortune and abandon the unborn baby to a state-run orphanage.
The next morning, before the maid came to clean the study, Daisy retrieved her plush rabbit. She listened to the playback on her headphones, her blood running cold as she heard the wicked truths spoken by the man she once called Daddy.
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She knew she couldn't tell her mother; Penelope was too dizzy and confused from the drugs to protect them. Daisy knew she had to wait for the exact right moment to strike.
👉 Read Part 6 to learn what happened in the courthouse hallway.
