Victoria: You wouldn't dare humiliate our family name in the national press like that!
Chloe: You humiliated this family the moment you tried to poison my child for a payout!
Victoria: It's a private family matter! We can settle this internally without law enforcement!
Chloe: There is no internal settlement for attempted murder, Victoria!
The heavy front doors of the mansion creaked open, and Mark, Chloe's husband, walked into the grand foyer holding a thick leather folder.
Mark: Chloe? What happened in here? Why is there milk and broken glass on the floor?
Chloe: Mark! Thank God you're back. Did you get the documents from the divorce lawyer and the estate planners?
Mark: I got everything. The forensic accountant confirmed forty separate illegal wire transfers from the corporate trust account into Victoria's personal account.
Victoria: Mark, stay out of this! This is between my daughter and me!
Mark: It stopped being between you two when you stole six hundred thousand dollars from our daughter's college trust fund, Victoria!
Chloe: Mark... it's worse than the money. She tried to make Sophia sick this morning.
Mark froze in his tracks, his eyes widening in complete shock as he looked from Chloe to Victoria.
Mark: What do you mean sick? What did she do?
Chloe: She bribed Elena to put a powder into Sophia's formula bottle so we would have to rush her to the emergency room and trigger the emergency medical trust payout!
Mark: Is this true, Victoria?! Did you put something in our daughter's food?!
Victoria: Mark, listen to me! Chloe is exaggerating! It was just a simple herbal compound to induce a slight temp--
Mark slammed his leather folder onto the console table with a deafening thud that made Victoria jump backward.
Mark: You tried to poison my seven-month-old daughter?!
Victoria: It wasn't poison! Why does everyone keep using that word?!
Mark: Because that is what putting unverified chemicals into an infant's bottle is! It is poisoning!
Chloe: Elena saved her life, Mark. She threw the bottle onto the floor right in front of me before Sophia could take a single sip.
Mark: Where is Elena now?
Chloe: She is upstairs in the nursery with Sophia. She locked the door from the inside like I told her to.
Mark pulled out his phone with trembling fingers, his face flushed red with unbridled anger.
Victoria: Mark, put that phone down right now! If you call the police, the corporate shares will plunge by forty percent before the stock market closes!
Mark: I don't give a damn about the stock market! I care about my wife and my daughter!
Victoria: If the shares collapse, Chloe's inheritance won't be worth the paper it's printed on!
Chloe: I would trade every single dollar in that corporate fund to keep my baby safe from you!
Mark: Hello? Emergency services? I need police and an ambulance at seven-forty-two Estate Drive immediately.
Victoria: Mark! Cancel that call right now!
Mark: We have an intruder on the property who attempted to administer a toxic chemical to an infant. Please send officers right away.
Victoria backed away toward the front doors, her breathing coming in short, panicked gasps as the full weight of her actions finally crashed down upon her.
Victoria: You two are monsters... after everything I sacrificed for this family!
Chloe: You didn't sacrifice anything, Mom! You bled us dry until there was nothing left to take!