Chapter 2 - THE HOSPITAL CAMERA CAUGHT WHAT THE PARTY GUESTS MISSEDThe hospital kept me overnight.
Then another night.
My daughter was fine.
No placental abruption.
No premature labor.
My lungs were clear after observation.
I had bruising where I hit the pool edge.
Nothing worse physically.
Emotionally was different.
Every time I closed my eyes, I felt water over my face.
Dean stayed outside my room until I asked him in.
Parker was not permitted access.
I made that decision.
The police were already involved.
So was hospital security because the event venue belonged to the hospital foundation.
The pool cameras mattered.
There were four.
One wide view.
One facing the garden.
Two mounted on the mansion.
The cleanest angle showed me standing alone at the pool’s edge.
Parker behind me.
Sabrina beside him.
Parker leaned toward her.
She looked around.
Then both stepped closer.
Parker’s right hand hit my upper back.
Sabrina’s left hand contacted my shoulder.
Together.
I went forward.
No slip.
No ambiguity.
Then something worse.
Sabrina took half a step toward the water.
As if checking.
Parker grabbed her wrist.
Not to rescue me.
To stop her getting closer.
Neither entered the pool.
Dean came into frame seven seconds later.
He ran from across the terrace.
Jumped immediately.
Seven seconds.
It felt like an hour underwater.
Police preserved the footage.
Witnesses confirmed what they saw.
Some had initially believed I fell.
Several remembered Sabrina and Parker standing unnaturally still.
One guest had taken a phone video seconds afterward.
Audio captured Sabrina whispering:
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“Why is she still moving?”
That sentence destroyed her claim of shock.
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