Chapter 5 - Bernadette Is Locked Inside the Estate’s West Parlor
Back at the mansion, Bernadette was escorted away from the patio and locked inside the historic west parlor.
The heavy oak doors clicked shut, sealing her inside the room with its antique velvet furniture and barred windows.
She paced across the Persian rug, her mind racing to find a way out of the impending disaster.
The security camera footage from three years ago—the night of the mysterious household tragedy—was still buried deep.
If Vittorio accessed those archived files, everything she had fought to protect would instantly vanish into ash.
She reached into her pocket for her encrypted burner phone to alert her co-conspirators in the city.
To her horror, the screen flashed black; the estate’s automated signal jammer had cut all external communications.
Footsteps echoed heavily in the hallway outside the parlor doors as guards secured the perimeter.
Bernadette clutched her chest, realizing that her decades-long reign of manipulation in the household was over.
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