Mark pulled out his phone and dialed emergency services right away.
He gave the Dallas address to the dispatcher with a shaking voice.
He stayed on the floor right beside Chloe until the paramedics arrived.
The medical team rushed through the front doors carrying a stretcher.
They carefully lifted Chloe and placed her onto the mobile bed.
Mark followed them out to the ambulance while Victoria remained upstairs.
She locked herself inside the estate office near the master bedroom suite.
Victoria walked quickly over to the large steel safe in the wall.
She entered the security code with trembling fingers and pulled it open.
Inside lay the original papers for their father's primary life insurance.
She pulled out the thick legal folder to inspect the names listed.
A recent amendment named Chloe as the primary beneficiary of the funds.
Victoria gripped the papers tightly while pacing across the hardwood floor.
If Chloe survived, she would retain full legal rights to the money.
Victoria took out a lighter from her desk drawer to burn them.
Before she could flick the flame, the office door clicked open.
Mark stood in the doorway holding a backup set of room keys.
He looked at the papers held tightly inside her right hand.
Mark: Put those documents down right now, Victoria.
Victoria: This is private family business that doesn't concern you!
Mark: I am her legal husband and executor of this estate.
Victoria tried to shove the folder back into the wall safe.
Mark stepped forward fast and grabbed the folder out of her hand.
He scanned the legal pages line by line with absolute focus.
Mark: You knew about this update before the party started today.
Victoria: Father was not in his right mind when he signed that!
Mark: He signed it three weeks ago with his personal lawyer present.
Victoria backed into the edge of the heavy wooden office desk.
Victoria: You convinced him to change the split behind my back!
Mark: He changed it because he discovered how much you took.
Victoria froze as Mark revealed the truth about the missing accounts.
The room grew completely cold as the truth hung between them.