Chapter 2: Grandma Rose's Last Gift
Chapter 2: Grandma Rose's Last Gift
Bridget underwent emergency surgery that evening.
Doctors confirmed multiple fractures to her spine.
Whether she would ever walk again remained uncertain.
Meanwhile...
Police executed a search warrant at the family home.
Marcus wasn't there.
Neither was the home's surveillance recorder.
Tyler smiled when detectives told him.
"Looks like someone stole it."
But he smiled too soon.
Marcus was arrested before sunrise at a nearby motel.
The recorder was still in his backpack.
During questioning, Marcus finally broke.
"It wasn't my idea."
"Tyler called me before the party."
"He said if something happened..."
"...I had to erase the footage."
Detectives recovered the hard drive.
The cameras had recorded everything.
Tyler cornering Bridget.
The shove.
The broken railing.
And something even more disturbing.
Two hours before guests arrived...
Tyler had been filmed loosening the deck bolts with a cordless drill.
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It hadn't been a moment of anger.
It had been planned.
