Chapter 3 - The Secret in the Study
Vanessa’s expression shifted from defensive anger to pure, subtle panic as David tapped the screen, unlocking the live cloud archive footage from the hidden security feeds installed throughout the mansion.
Three hours earlier, David had supposedly boarded an international flight for a three-day business trip in New York.
The moment his car had pulled out of the gates, Vanessa had marched straight up to David's private study on the second floor.
She didn't know that David, a meticulous tech CEO, had installed motion-activated 4K security lenses hidden behind the books on his library shelves—cameras connected directly to a encrypted cloud server that streamed straight to his mobile device.
The footage clearly showed Vanessa breaking open the lock on David's personal wall safe using a brass paperweight. She had pulled out a velvet box containing a multi-million-dollar heirloom diamond necklace that had belonged to David's late mother.
When Teresa had walked in with a basket of clean linens, she had gasped in surprise upon seeing the broken safe.
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Instead of putting the necklace back, Vanessa had grabbed Teresa by her hair, dragged her down the grand staircase, and bound her to the column using heavy rope from the garden shed to frame her before David returned.
👉 Why was Vanessa so desperately trying to steal David's mother's heirloom necklace on the very eve of their wedding?
