Chapter 2 - Ethan Realizes The Security Camera Caught Everything
The crimson recording light on the corner molding blinked slowly, casting a mocking red glow across the silent living room.
Ethan stared up at the lens in mounting horror, his hand still stinging from the brutal slap he had delivered to his own father.
“No... no, this has to be a mistake,” Ethan stammered, his eyes darting back to the scattered buttons on the Persian rug.
Sophia stood frozen near the French doors, her face drained of all color as the trap she set began swallowing her whole.
“Ethan, don’t look at that camera! Your father is just trying to manipulate you like he always does!” Sophia shrieked hysterically.
Richard did not say a single word; he lowered his trembling hand and rubbed his stinging cheek where his son had struck him.
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The seventy-five-year-old patriarch looked at Ethan not with anger, but with a deep, crushing disappointment that cut deeper than physical pain.
Ethan swallowed hard, his chest tightening as every piece of Sophia’s rehearsed performance suddenly fell apart in his mind.
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