Chapter 11 - I ASKED VICTORIA THE HARDEST QUESTION“Did you plan for Elena to go to jail?”
Victoria looked down.
“I thought the charges would be dropped.”
“After what?”
“After she left.”
I stared.
“You thought an innocent woman could be arrested as long as it became temporary?”
“I was panicking.”
“No.”
I was beginning to hate that word.
“Panic is dropping a glass.”
Then:
“You planted evidence.”
She cried.
“I needed her credibility destroyed.”
There.
The truth.
Not gone.
Discredited.
Because if Elena spoke after being labeled a thief, people would doubt her.
Victoria had weaponized social hierarchy.
Billionaire wife.
Housekeeper.
Whose story sounds believable?
That was the calculation.
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I almost helped it work.
That realization sat heavily inside me.
