When a family gathers around a grand dinner table, love and laughter are supposed to fill the room. But behind closed doors and wealthy facades, dark secrets often hide in plain sight. Money and power can tempt people to show their cruelest faces to the ones they promised to protect.
Sometimes the only way to save someone you love is to play along until the right trap is set. So let's dive into this story chapter by chapter and enjoy every moment of it.
Mark: Shut your mouth right now, Clara!
Clara: Mark, please, you're hurting me!
Mark: You think you can humiliate me in front of your mother?
Eleanor: Mark, sit down and finish your meal.
Mark: Stay out of this, Eleanor! She needs to learn her place!
Clara: Mom, help me!
Eleanor: A husband has to teach his wife.
Mark: See? Even your own mother knows you're wrong!
Clara: Please, let go of me!
Mark: Not until you apologize to everyone at this table!
Eleanor's fingers moved silently below the table edge, pressing the three numbers that would change everything forever.