Victoria: Grant, please... listen to me for one second. Just one second!
Victoria crawled across the marble floor, her silk green dress ruined, her manicured hands reaching for Grant's velvet tuxedo trousers[cite: 1].
Victoria: I did it for us! I did it so we could be together!
The entire room froze once again. Sarah gasped, pulling Lily closer to her chest. Grant looked down at Victoria with pure disgust.
Grant: What did you just say?
Victoria: *Tears streaming down her cheeks* Your wife was going to leave you, Grant! She was going to file for divorce and take half of the Sterling trust fund! She was going to ruin your life!
Grant: Eleanor loved me! We were going to marriage counseling!
Victoria: She was lying to you! She had a secret lawyer in Austin! I found the papers when I was working as her personal assistant!
Grant: So you poisoned her tea?! You gave her Digitalis from her own heart medication prescription?!
Victoria: I swapped her pills! I slowly increased the dosage over three weeks so the doctors would think it was a natural heart attack!
Lily: *Whimpering* Mommy told me her tea tasted bitter... she told me that the night she went to sleep and didn't wake up...
Grant felt like he had been struck by lightning. His hands shook as he looked at Victoria's face. The woman he had married three months ago was a cold-blooded killer who had murdered his childhood sweetheart.
Grant: You killed Eleanor so you could marry me and take her place in this mansion[cite: 1].
Victoria: I loved you, Grant! I've loved you since the day I started working for your firm! Eleanor didn't appreciate your wealth! She didn't appreciate this estate!
Grant: Eleanor didn't care about money! She cared about this family! And you tried to destroy my child because she found the evidence!
Victoria: The girl was snooping in my personal suite! She was going to show you the bottle!
Sarah: She's seven years old, Victoria! You burned a child's skin with a two-hundred-degree iron because you were afraid of going to prison[cite: 1]!
Victoria: Shut up, you worthless maid! Nobody asked you!
The sound of heavy boots echoed down the second-floor hallway outside. Bangs echoed against the locked mahogany bathroom door.
Officer Davis: Dallas Police Department! Open this door immediately!
Grant: I'm opening it right now, Officer!
Grant turned the brass lock and pulled the heavy door open. Four armed Texas State Troopers and two Dallas police officers rushed into the luxury bathroom, their guns drawn[cite: 1].
Officer Davis: Nobody move! Hands where we can see them!
Grant: Officer Davis, arrest this woman. She just confessed to the murder of my late wife, Eleanor Sterling, and the physical torture of my daughter[cite: 1].
Victoria: It's a setup! He forced me to say those things! He hit me! Look at my cheek!
Officer Davis looked at Victoria's swollen cheek, then at the burning curling iron in the sink, and finally at the horrific burn mark on little Lily's scalp[cite: 1].
Officer Davis: Cuff her. Right now.