Chapter 6 - Flashback Reveals How The Maid Protected The Child
Memory flashed backward to a stormy night six years ago inside the very same secluded corner of the mansion grounds.
The maid had discovered a newborn infant wrapped in a silk blanket left outside the servant quarters by executive decree.
Victoria had ordered the child sent to a remote foster facility to keep the family lineage legally pure and uncontaminated.
Instead of obeying, the brave maid had risked everything, hiding the baby in the estate’s converted greenhouse studio.
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She had watched over little Maya in secret, providing food, love, and a makeshift sketchbook filled with stolen magazine clippings of Richard.
“You’ll know your father by his strength and his kindness when he finally walks through those doors,” she had promised Maya daily.
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