Chapter 4 - Uncovering Hidden Security Footage Inside The Nursery
That evening, the household staff gathered in the west wing for their mandatory monthly inventory check.
Audrey slipped away quietly up the curving staircase toward the third-floor private family nursery.
She unlocked the smart-home maintenance panel hidden behind a framed oil painting on the eastern wall.
A digital hard drive hummed softly inside the metal box, recording every camera feed from across the estate.
Her fingers flew across the keyboard, exporting the past thirty days of night-vision footage to a small silver USB drive.
She plugged the drive into her tablet, watching the screen with a growing sense of absolute dread.
The timestamp read 2:15 AM three nights ago.
On the grainy black-and-white screen, the nursery door clicked open silently in the dark.
A tall figure wearing heavy winter boots walked into the room and picked the sleeping four-year-old boy straight out of bed.
Eli didn't scream or cry; he just clutched his small backpack tightly to his chest like a soldier heading into battle.
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Audrey covered her mouth with her trembling hand, tears blurring her vision as she watched her son being carried down the hall.
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