Chapter 3 - THE CAMERA JULIAN FORGOT Eleanor spent the night at a small hotel outside Manhattan.
At 2:17 AM, she stopped crying.
Pain became anger.
Anger became clarity.
Maria had staged everything too perfectly.
Then Eleanor remembered something.
The nursery camera.
Julian thought it had been disconnected months ago after a security upgrade.
Eleanor had secretly reactivated it because she liked watching Leo sleep when traveling.
She opened her laptop.
Logged into the encrypted backup.
Her hands froze.
The video showed Maria pinching Leo’s leg until he screamed.
Eleanor entering.
Maria scratching her own face.
Then—
Maria looked directly toward the camera.
“The Sterling bloodline dies before sunrise.”
Eleanor stopped breathing.
She grabbed her coat.
Her husband had thrown her out to protect their baby.
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Without realizing it…
he had handed Leo directly to the person sent to kill him.
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