Chapter 2 - Grandpa Orders Them Out Immediately
The older man in the doorway was my father, Richard Bennett.
He owned the villa.
He had paid for the party.
And he had heard enough.
Richard looked at Lily first.
Frosting covered the front of her pink dress.
A red handprint stood out on her cheek.
Then he looked at Vanessa and Mark.
“Get out of my house.”
Vanessa blinked.
“Dad, you don’t understand—”
“I understand that you hit my granddaughter.”
Mark stepped forward.
“This got out of hand.”
Richard pointed toward the gate.
“Then take your hands and your excuses with you.”
Vanessa’s expression changed.
Not embarrassment.
Fear.
That was when one of the guests, a family friend named Daniel Price, approached Richard with his phone.
“I think you need to see what I recorded before Sarah came outside.”
Vanessa went pale.
Richard watched the clip once.
Then again.
On the screen, Vanessa stood near the cake table with Mark ten minutes before Lily spilled the water.
Mark whispered:
“If she tells your father what she saw in the study, we’re finished.”
Vanessa answered:
“Then make sure she keeps quiet.”
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The spilled water had not started anything.
It had only given Vanessa an excuse.
