Chapter 1
Claire thought the worst moment was finding her baby at the bottom of the stairs.
Then she saw Margaret’s reaction to one folded paper.
When Claire rushed into the foyer, 15-month-old Noah was crying on the floor after being kicked down the staircase.
“NOAH!”
She gathered him into her arms and turned just in time to hear Margaret come down the stairs and sneer:
“That bastard deserved it.”
Claire didn’t hesitate.
She struck Margaret across the face and sent her sprawling onto the floor.
Then she held Noah tighter with one arm—
and pulled a folded paper from her handbag with the other.
Margaret looked at it—
and her expression changed immediately.
“Let's see whose name is written on this paper.”
Claire threw the paper down beside her.
Margaret stared at it in silence, her face drained of all color.
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Because the terrifying part wasn’t only that Claire had seen what happened to Noah.
It was that Claire apparently already had something in her bag powerful enough to make Margaret panic before it was even opened.
