Chapter 4 - The Midnight Threat
That night, the massive luxury mansion was dead silent.
Maya lay awake in the nanny quarters, completely unable to shake the image of Leo’s terrified face. She quietly slipped out of bed, walking softly down the carpeted hallway to check on the boy.
As she approached his bedroom door, she heard a chilling, venomous whisper.
Maya stopped perfectly still, pressing her back against the wall. The door was cracked open just an inch.
Inside, Vanessa was standing over Leo’s bed. The socialite was gripping the eight-year-old boy’s fragile wrist with bone-crushing force.
"You better ramp it up tomorrow, you little freak," Vanessa hissed, her voice dripping with toxic malice. "That new nanny is too stubborn. You throw a glass at her head. You bite her. You make sure she quits by Friday."
Leo was crying silently, thick tears rolling down his cheeks. "Please... I don't want to be mean anymore."
"You will do exactly what I say!" Vanessa threatened, digging her manicured nails into his skin. "If your father doesn't sign the papers to send you to the Swiss asylum on Friday, I will tell him you pushed me down the stairs. I will tell him you tried to kill the baby I'm carrying. He will lock you away forever. Do you understand?!"
Leo nodded frantically, utterly broken by the psychological torture.
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Maya’s blood turned to absolute ice. The sheer, cinematic horror of the betrayal was suffocating. Vanessa wasn't pregnant. She was a vicious, calculating parasite systematically destroying a grieving child's mind so she could inherit Dax's multi-million-dollar empire without any heirs in her way.
👉 Maya had just uncovered a demon living in the house, and she knew she had to build the perfect trap to destroy her.
