Chapter 7 - The Mastermind Unmasked
“You monster!” a high-profile female guest shouted from the front row. “Framing a three-year-old child!”
Celeste stumbled backward, her heels catching on her ivory dress as she backed into the marble pillar. “No! It’s a trick! That video is doctored! Caleb, you have to believe me!”
Caleb Blackwell walked slowly toward Celeste, his expression darker and more menacing than anyone in the room had ever seen.
“You destroyed a $20,000 cake, bribed my head butler to erase security footage, and tried to ruin an innocent mother and child... just to protect your own vanity,” Caleb said, his voice dropping into a terrifying growl.
“Caleb, please! I did it for us!” Celeste sobbed, tears ruining her heavy makeup. “Marisol saw confidential files on your desk! She was snooping! I was trying to protect you!”
Caleb stopped inches from her face. “Marisol didn't snoop. I gave her those files because she’s my private auditor.”
Celeste froze, her mouth agape in total shock. “What... what did you say?”
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Marisol stepped forward, pulling a gold executive badge from inside her dress pocket.
👉 “I am not just a temp housekeeper, Miss Vale,” Marisol announced clearly. “I am a forensic accountant hired by Caleb to investigate your family’s embezzlement.”
