Chapter 5: The Whisper That Broke Everything
The room leaned in.
Breath held.
The maid bent closer.
“Stay with me.”
Evelyn tried to speak.
Nothing.
Then—
“He wanted… the house…”
A sob broke from her mother.
Daniel shook his head wildly. “That’s not true!”
But no one listened.
Because Evelyn wasn’t supposed to speak.
And yet—
she did.
