Chapter 14 - Returning to the Silent Suburban House of Horrors
A police escort drove Claire and Lily back to their sprawling suburban colonial house in the affluent Naperville neighborhood.
Yellow police tape crisscrossed the manicured front porch, fluttering mournfully in the damp morning breeze.
Claire unlocked the heavy oak front door, stepping cautiously into the quiet foyer where everything looked deceptively normal.
Lily clutched her stuffed rabbit tightly, burying her face against Claire’s hip as they walked past the living room.
“We're safe here now, sweetheart... Mommy is going to pack our bags and we're going to stay at Grandma's house,” Claire promised softly.
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Every shadow in the hallway seemed to whisper memories of the afternoon Vanessa had walked through the back door with that fatal mug of milk.
She needed to secure all the financial records and backup drives before Vanguard’s legal team could send clean-up crews to the estate.
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