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Chapter 244

I frowned, confusion replacing fear. "What are you talking about?"

"The real threat to Emma isn't me," Olivia said quietly. "It's Victoria."

I laughed outright at that. "Victoria? She loves Emma more than anything in this world."

"Does she?" Olivia nodded to someone behind me.

The door opened again, and Dorothy Lawson walked in. The housekeeper from Rosewood Haven looked nervous, wringing her

hands as she avoided my gaze.

"Tell him what you told me, Dorothy," Olivia instructed.

Dorothy cleared her throat. "Miss Victoria... she's not kind to Emma when no one's watching."

"That's a lie," I snapped. "Victoria adores Emma."

"I've seen Emma come out of her mother's room with red eyes and slap marks," Dorothy continued, her voice gaining strength.

"I've heard the crying, the begging."

I shook my head vehemently. "No. Victoria would never hurt Emma. Never."

pay you to say this?" I demanded, glaring at Dorothy. "What did she offer

phone. "I didn't need payment to do what's right

the screen a few times, then turned it toward me. "I took this video last

errand."

Emma standing barefoot in the snow, wearing only a thin nightgown. Her small body shivered

stand out there for thirty minutes because she spilled juice on the carpet," Dorothy explained, her voice breaking. "It was fifteen

"This could be

revealing finger-shaped bruises on her

marks

I repeated, horror creeping into my

grimly. "Victoria's been injecting her with something. I don't

around me. I thought of Victoria's medical background, her

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whispered, but doubt had

free to go, Connor. Investigate for yourself if

us."

"Just like that? You're letting me walk

simply. "You'll do what needs to

Haven, my heart pounding in my chest. The security code Victoria had given me still worked, allowing me to slip past the

outside Emma's bedroom. The door was ajar, and I could see her

covers, her breathing steady

My daughter. My blood.

glow of her nightlight, I

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