THE BILLIONAIRE CAME HOME EARLY—AND HEARD HIS BABY SCREAMING FROM INSIDE THE MANSION.
THE BILLIONAIRE CAME HOME EARLY—AND HEARD HIS BABY SCREAMING FROM INSIDE THE MANSION.
Victor Blackwood knew something was wrong before he even reached the nursery.
The house was supposed to be quiet.
Instead, a baby was crying upstairs.
Then came another sound.
His young son screaming in pain.
Victor ran toward the noise—and froze in the doorway.
His son was lying on the cold marble floor.
One arm was injured.
His little body was shaking so badly he could barely breathe.
And standing over him was the woman everyone in Chicago called perfect.
Serena Montigue.
Victor’s beautiful, elegant future wife.
The woman he trusted with his home.
And his children.
The second Serena saw him, her face changed.
“Victor, thank God.”
She rushed toward him.
“It was an accident.”
Victor didn’t answer.
His eyes stayed on his terrified son.
Then Serena pointed toward the nanny.
“She did this.”
“She wasn’t watching him.”
“I tried to stop it.”
The nanny went pale.
“That’s not true.”
Serena snapped around.
“Don’t you dare lie to him.”
Victor looked from one woman to the other.
Someone wasn’t telling the truth.
And Serena had made one terrible mistake.
She had forgotten about the tiny recorder still running inside the room.
Victor picked it up.
Serena’s face instantly lost its color.
“Victor…”
He pressed PLAY.
At first, there was only static.
Then his son’s frightened voice came through the speaker.
And another voice answered him.
Cold.
Cruel.
Familiar.
Victor slowly raised his eyes toward Serena.
Because the woman speaking on that recording wasn’t the nanny.
It was his future wife.
The woman he had planned to marry.
The woman he had allowed near his children.
But before Victor could confront her, an elderly housemaid appeared in the doorway.
She had worked for the Blackwood family for more than twenty years.
Her hands were trembling.
Her eyes were filled with fear.
“Sir…”
Victor turned toward her.
The old woman swallowed hard.
Then she said the words that changed everything.
“This wasn’t the first time.”
Silence swallowed the room.
Victor stared at her.
“What did you just say?”
The housemaid looked toward Serena.
And Serena looked terrified.
The magnificent Blackwood mansion everyone in Chicago admired had been hiding a nightmare behind its locked doors.
A nightmare Victor had been too trusting to see.
Now he was about to discover what had really been happening to his children whenever he left home.
And how far one woman was willing to go to become Mrs. Victor Blackwood.
Even if she had to destroy every innocent person standing between her and his fortune.
But the recording wasn’t Serena’s worst secret.
Because when Victor heard the final thirty seconds…
He realized his son had never fallen by accident.
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