Chapter 13 - The Man Inside the House
Nora was handcuffed in the same ballroom where Camille had humiliated her.
Reporters crowded outside the gates.
Police believed she had poisoned Harrison after learning she was Evelyn’s daughter.
Lucas knew it was a setup.
Then Camille surprised everyone.
“I saw Grant go into Dad’s room.”
Grant Keller was the Sterling security chief.
Lucas had trusted him for years.
Grant controlled mansion cameras, staff access, vehicles, and alarm records.
Investigators searched his office.
Half the hard drives were gone.
Several security recordings had been altered.
And Grant had received secret payments from Martin Blackwood for nearly twenty years.
Before police could arrest him, Grant vanished.
Harrison suffered cardiac arrest but survived.
Nora remained in custody overnight.
News headlines called her a revenge-seeking secret heiress.
Lucas visited her.
“I should have protected you.”
Nora shook her head.
“Stop saying that.”
He looked confused.
She leaned toward the glass.
“I don’t need another Sterling man deciding what protecting me looks like.”
Lucas went silent.
“Stand beside me.”
Her eyes hardened.
“There’s a difference.”
Lucas left the jail understanding that saving Nora’s reputation required more than believing her.
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He needed proof.
And the proof was hidden in the first humiliation that started everything.
