Chloe: Say that again. Look me in the eye and say that again, Mom!
Victoria: Chloe, please calm down before the staff hears us shouting like this.
Chloe: I don't care about the staff! I care about my daughter sitting upstairs in her crib!
Victoria: The baby is fine! Nothing happened to her!
Chloe: Because Elena shattered the glass on the floor before you could poison her!
Chloe took a step closer to her mother, her golden satin robe catching the harsh light of the grand foyer. Her hands were shaking so violently she had to clench them into tight fists.
Elena: Miss Chloe, I put the powder in the trash can behind the kitchen! She gave it to me in a small glass vial this morning!
Victoria: Shut your mouth, Elena! You are a hired employee in this house!
Chloe: Don't you dare speak to her like that! She just saved my daughter from your sick plan!
Victoria: It wasn't poison, Chloe! It was just a mild sedative to make the baby sick enough for a hospital admission!
Chloe: A sedative?! Are you out of your mind?! She is seven months old!
Victoria: The terms of your father's will were very specific! The secondary trust fund doesn't release capital unless there is a family medical emergency!
Chloe: You tried to put my baby in the hospital just to unlock my late father's money?!
Victoria: I needed five hundred thousand dollars by noon today or the bank is foreclosing on the family mansion!
Chloe stared at her mother in total disbelief, feeling the room spin around her as the dark reality set in.
Chloe: You gambled away your entire widow inheritance, didn't you?
Victoria: That was an investment that went wrong! I was trying to protect our family estate!
Chloe: You were protecting yourself! You didn't care about me, and you clearly don't care about my child!
Victoria: I raised you in luxury, Chloe! Everything you have came from the life I built with your father!
Chloe: My father built this company! My father set up the trust funds so you wouldn't ruin us!
Victoria: He left you seventy percent of the voting shares in the corporation and left me with crumbs!
Chloe: Because he knew what you were! He knew you would sell off every piece of land we owned the second he died!
Elena slowly stood up from the floor, wiping tears from her face as she stepped behind Chloe for protection.
Elena: Mrs. Vance told me she would fire me and report my family to immigration if I didn't put the substance in the formula bottle.
Chloe: Is that true, Mom? You threatened my housemaid to commit a felony for you?
Victoria: She works for this estate! Her loyalty should be to the head of this family!
Chloe: I am the head of this family now! I own this estate, I own the land, and I control every single bank account!
Victoria: You wouldn't have any of it if I hadn't approved your marriage to that worthless husband of yours!
Chloe: Do not bring my husband into this! Mark is in town right now meeting with our estate lawyers because we knew money was missing from the account!
Victoria's face drained of what little color was left as she realized how close she was to complete exposure.
Victoria: You... you audited the family trust without telling me?
Chloe: We noticed the missing two hundred thousand dollars last Tuesday. We knew someone inside the house was forging signatures.
Victoria: That was my legal right as the co-trustee of your father's estate!
Chloe: You aren't a co-trustee anymore, Victoria. Dad removed you six months before he passed away.