Chapter 5 - The Security Footage
"I'm not lying!" Vanessa wailed hysterically, holding her hands up defensively. "She's just a maid's child! She probably dyed her hair to manipulate you!"
"I didn't say anything about her hair, Vanessa," Teodoro whispered coldly.
He didn't yell. His quietness was infinitely more terrifying. He pulled a heavy, encrypted digital tablet from his suit jacket.
"Three years ago, you were Elena's best friend," Teodoro explained flawlessly, ensuring his heavily armed bodyguards heard every single devastating word. "You told me you were with her when the cartel took her. You told me you barely escaped with your life."
Vanessa’s jaw literally unhinged. All the color violently drained from her flawless powdered face, leaving her looking like a terrified ghost.
"But I never stopped looking for the men who took her," Teodoro continued, his dark eyes locked entirely onto Vanessa's terrified face. "And this morning, my enforcers finally broke the cartel's lieutenant. He gave me the security footage from the warehouse."
Teodoro turned the digital tablet around.
The cinematic realism of the terrifying footage completely electrified the room. The video explicitly showed Vanessa standing in the abandoned warehouse three years ago, holding a newborn baby. It showed her actively, maliciously handing the cartel leader a massive briefcase of cash to execute Elena, completely orchestrating the murder so she could steal Teodoro's wealth and become the syndicate queen.
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"You didn't escape," Teodoro commanded smoothly, his voice echoing with absolute authority. "You paid them to kill my wife. And you gave my newborn daughter to a maid, forcing her to live as a servant in my own house while you planned to marry me."
👉 Vanessa realized her multi-million-dollar life was over, and she instantly turned into a desperate monster.
