Chapter 6 - Unmasking the Serpent
Elena took a steadying breath, refusing to look down at the grass or shrink from Victoria’s murderous glares.
She stated that Victoria had cornered Eleanor while the guests were occupied with champagne at the bar.
She revealed that Victoria had brandished a legal document, demanding that the matriarch sign away her controlling shares in the family foundation.
When Eleanor refused to sign over her life's philanthropic work to fund Victoria’s reckless offshore debts, the threats escalated.
Victoria had called the frail woman a useless parasite who was living on borrowed time.
Elena recounted how Victoria had walked over to the patio sports locker, retrieved the silver baseball bat, and returned with murder in her eyes.
Victoria had explicitly promised to break both of Eleanor's brittle knees so she could never sit in the garden again.
Elena explained that she watched the terror in Eleanor's face and realized that none of the wealthy guests would lift a finger to save her.
She admitted plainly that she ran forward, ripped the weapon away, and struck Victoria twice across the face.
Elena looked Marcus dead in the eye and said she would strike her ten times more if it meant keeping Eleanor breathing.
A stifled murmur of shock rippled through the gathering of high-society elites.
Victoria lunged forward, her voice screeching like tearing metal as she accused Elena of fabricating a monstrous lie.
She claimed the bat was merely a prop for a garden game and that Eleanor was suffering from senile hallucinations.
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She insisted that the maid was attempting to extort the Sterling family with slanderous accusations.
Marcus remained completely still, listening to both women with the terrifying calm of a judge who had already signed the verdict.
