Chapter 1
“Have the baby without me.”
Seven-year-old Mila stood beside the SUV holding an old smartphone against her chest.
She had been recording.
Then the elevator doors opened.
Nico Ferrante stepped into the garage with two bodyguards behind him.
Mila ran directly to him and pushed the phone into his hand.
“Grandpa… I recorded Daddy talking to Grandma.”
Gavin’s face immediately changed.
He lunged for the phone.
Nico knocked his arm aside and drove him backward into the rolling detailing cart.
The metal frame overturned as buckets, towels, and bottles scattered across the concrete.
Then Marjorie grabbed Sienna’s hospital bag and tried to pull her away.
Nico tore her hand free and sent her backward into the freestanding car-cover rack.
Folded covers and storage bins collapsed around her.
Two bodyguards moved behind Gavin and Marjorie.
Nico held Mila’s phone in his hand.
“Let me hear what you two are hiding.”
Gavin looked toward Marjorie in panic.
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And that was the strangest part.
He had lunged for Mila’s phone before anyone had said a single word about what she recorded.
