Chapter 19 - Elena's Begging Visit
Two days later, an unkempt and desperate Elena Vance stood outside the heavily guarded iron gates of the Sterling estate.
She pressed the intercom button repeatedly, sobbing hysterically as security guards watched her through the camera monitor.
"Please! Let me speak to Clara! I'm her mother-in-law, I have nowhere else to go!" Elena wailed into the speaker.
Clara watched the security feed from her father's study, her expression remaining completely emotionless and cold.
"Shall I have her escorted off the property by local police, Miss Clara?" the head security guard asked over the intercom.
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"No. Let her speak," Clara replied quietly, walking down to the front gates herself accompanied by two guards.
Elena fell to her knees the moment she saw Clara approach, clutching the iron bars with trembling, manicured hands.
