Chapter 4

Vanessa thought she had me all figured out.

In her calculations, I was just a low-class maid who came to the city on a bus, desperate to pay off my sister's surgery fee. She believed a petty trap was all it would take to crush me like an ant.

But in her wildest dreams, she could never have guessed that I wasn't here to be her punching bag.

I was here to collect evidence.

At 4:20 she came into the drawing room with Silas behind her and her face arranged into a beautiful, terrible sadness.

"Silas, I hate this. I…