Chapter 8 - The DaughterElise Sterling had grown up surrounded by privilege.
She had never known hunger.
Never known poverty.
Never understood what it meant to lose everything.
Yet somehow, she had always believed she deserved more.
More money.
More power.
More control.
After her brother's death, she began asking questions about Arthur's estate.
What would happen to the property?
Who would inherit the trust?
What would happen to Leo?
Arthur had dismissed those questions as bitterness.
He had been wrong.
Elise had accumulated enormous gambling debts.
Creditors were closing in.
Her lifestyle was collapsing.
The Sterling fortune was her only escape.
Julian had offered a solution.
Arthur would die naturally.
Leo would eventually be placed somewhere else.
And Elise would inherit control.
But Leo's unexpected act of courage had changed everything.
He had taken the poison.
Now the plan was exposed.
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And Elise knew she had only one chance left.
She had to destroy the evidence.
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