Her Twenty-Fifth Night as the Nanny Unlocked a Forbidden Closet—Then One Impossible Photograph Revealed Sophie’s Dead Mother Had Chosen Her Years Before Somehow
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Chapter 12
Chloe scrambled into the ventilation shaft just as the heavy oak door was blown open by an electronic override charge from outside.
Two armed security guards rushed into the archives room, their tactical flashlights sweeping across the empty desk in confusion.
Chloe and Lily crawled through the dusty labyrinth of pipes until they dropped safely into the abandoned indoor swimming pool area.
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The indoor pool had been drained years ago, its concrete basin now serving as a hidden nexus for old maintenance tunnels.
They ran through the damp darkness until they reached a rusted iron ladder leading up to an overgrown exterior courtyard.
