Chapter 2: The Secret Behind the Poison
Chapter 2: The Secret Behind the Poison
Police arrived within the hour.
Margaret surrendered without resistance.
But during questioning, she repeated the same sentence over and over.
"I wasn't trying to kill my grandson."
Detective Laura Bennett frowned.
"Then why was poison in his bottle?"
Margaret looked toward Emma before lowering her head.
"Because someone threatened to kill all of us if I didn't."
The room went silent.
Emma stared in disbelief.
"What are you talking about?"
Margaret asked for a folder from her handbag.
Inside were photographs.
Letters.
Bank records.
And one horrifying document.
A debt agreement signed twenty-six years earlier.
Charles picked it up.
His face lost all color.
Emma had never seen her father frightened before.
"What is this?"
Charles whispered,
"I thought I'd destroyed every copy."
Years earlier, before building the Whitmore family fortune, Charles had secretly borrowed millions from a violent criminal organization.
He had repaid the money.
Or so he believed.
Instead, the syndicate had continued collecting favors for decades.
When Emma inherited the family's controlling shares, the criminals wanted control of the company.
The baby stood in their way.
Margaret had received one impossible choice.
Poison her grandson...
Or watch her entire family die.
"I thought I could warn someone before it happened," Margaret cried.
"But they were watching me."
Sofia suddenly interrupted.
"They weren't only watching you."
She pulled a tiny electronic device from beneath the baby's crib.
May you like
A hidden microphone.
Someone inside the mansion had been listening to everything.
