Chapter 5 - Victoria Attempts To Shift Blame Onto The Staff
“She is making up wild lies to protect herself because she hates that I modernized the household staff!” Victoria yelled desperately.
“Check the master safe upstairs, Daniel! You’ll see that everything is accounted for down to the last penny!” she pleaded.
“I already had the digital archives audited by the evening accountant before I came down to the foyer,” Daniel countered quietly.
Victoria froze mid-sentence, her breath catching in her throat as the floor seemed to drop out from beneath her feet.
“You... you audited the accounts behind my back?” Victoria whispered, horror dawning across her pale features.
“I trusted you implicitly, Victoria, which was apparently the biggest mistake of my entire life,” Daniel replied with quiet devastation.
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Mrs. Gable quietly stepped back into the shadows of the hallway, leaving the couple to face the wreckage of their marriage.
The crystal chandelier overhead cast sparkling refractions across the silent, tension-filled marble floor.
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