Chapter 5 - The Plan To Erase My Daughter
Ethan wanted answers.
I could see it.
But wanting the truth and accepting it were two different things.
He looked at Victoria.
“You knew?”
She swallowed.
“I knew someone was interfering.”
“Someone?”
His voice hardened.
“Who?”
Victoria looked away.
That hesitation told me everything.
She was protecting someone.
The question was who.
Before she could answer, Ethan’s attorney stepped forward.
“Everyone needs to understand the legal consequences before making accusations.”
I hated that sentence.
Not because it was wrong.
Because it was familiar.
People with money always had a way of turning pain into paperwork.
Ethan looked at me.
“Emma, why didn’t you come to me?”
The question hurt.
Because I had.
Again and again.
“I did.”
His face changed.
“You never told me.”
“I called you forty-three times the night I left.”
Silence.
The female attorney looked down.
Ethan looked confused.
“I never got those calls.”
That was the first honest thing he had said.
I reached into my bag again.
My hands shook slightly.
Because this was the part I hated.
The part where I had to prove my own suffering.
I placed my old phone on the table.
“I saved everything.”
Messages.
Call records.
Voicemails.
Evidence of every attempt to reach him.
Ethan stared at the phone.
Then his eyes moved toward Victoria.
Because someone had blocked those calls.
Someone had controlled the information between us.
The billionaire who thought he controlled his entire world suddenly realized he had been controlled too.
Then the boardroom lights flickered.
Everyone turned.
The male attorney’s assistant rushed in holding a laptop.
“Mr. Hartwell…”
His face was pale.
“We found something from the building security system.”
Ethan stood.
“What?”
The assistant opened the laptop.
A video file appeared.
Recorded six months earlier.
The night I disappeared.
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And the person walking into Ethan’s office with my medical records was someone I trusted.
📖 Chapter 6 reveals the security footage that changes the divorce battle and exposes the first person who betrayed Emma. 👇
