Chapter 5 - Leo Explains What He Found Inside The Tote
Thomas stood up slowly, turning away from Vanessa to look down at his son standing near the edge of the wrecked dessert table. The red handprint still stung across Leo’s pale cheek, a painful reminder of Thomas’s blind, unforgiving fury.
“I’m sorry I hit you, Leo... please tell me what you found,” Thomas whispered, his voice cracking with unbearable remorse. Leo looked up at his father, his eyes shining with unshed tears but devoid of any lingering malice.
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“I went to get your inhaler from her leather tote bag in the bridal suite, Dad,” Leo explained clearly for everyone to hear. “When I tipped the bag over to look inside, all those practice papers fell out with your forged signature written over and over again.”
Leo pointed a steady finger toward the capsule on the floor. “She told the caterer to put that in the cake so you would sign everything away live on microphone.”
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