Chapter 5 - THE EXPOSUREVictoria Vance froze. Every camera in the room spun toward her!
"W-What?!" Victoria stammered, turning pale as a sheet. "Grace... sweetie, you're confused! You're having a delusion—"
Harrison pressed a button on the podium control panel.
The massive LED screen behind the stage flared to life! The audio recording played loudly across the ballroom’s high-end sound system:
"If you tell your father about our little talk, he’ll get sad and send you away to a boarding school in Europe... Just stay quiet. Be a good, silent girl."
Shouts of horror and disgust broke out among the wealthy guests! Reporters began flashing cameras furiously in Victoria’s face!
"You monster!" a wealthy donor shouted from the front row!
"She tortured a grieving child!" another guest cried!
Victoria looked around in utter panic, covering her face as reporters swarmed her. "No! It's a fake! That recording is AI generated!"
"It was retrieved directly from the encrypted nursery server by the FBI, Victoria," Harrison revealed coldly into the microphone. "Federal agents are waiting in the lobby."
Four federal officers stepped through the ballroom doors, walking straight up to Victoria Vance and placing her in heavy iron handcuffs for child endangerment, psychological abuse, and fraud!
"Evelyn! Help me!" Victoria screamed as she was dragged away through the shouting crowd! "EVELYN!"
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Evelyn Cole backed away in horror, trembling as her son looked down at her from the stage with complete, unshakeable indifference.
"You are no longer welcome in our lives, Mother," Harrison said quietly. "Ever again."
