Two local police officers walked quickly into the bright white marble foyer.
They looked around the room at the scattered pearls and the tense group.
Officer Miller: We received an emergency call regarding an assault inside this house.
Victoria: Officer, thank goodness you arrived here so quickly today.
Victoria: These two trespassers attacked me and broke into my home offices.
Leo: That is a complete lie and she knows it, Officer.
Leo: She just pushed Clara over the upper balcony railing minutes ago.
Officer Miller looked up at the high railing and saw the cut thread.
He noticed the hundreds of pearl beads covering the polished floor tiles.
Officer Miller: Ma'am, do you have security cameras installed in this hallway?
Victoria stiffened slightly and swallowed hard before answering the question.
Victoria: The system has been offline for routine maintenance all week.
Clara: That is another lie to protect herself from the police!
Clara: Leo installed new security cameras in every hallway last month.
Leo: The video feeds stream directly to a secure private cloud server.
Leo pulled out his smartphone and tapped the screen a few times.
He held the bright phone display toward the senior police officer.
The video clearly showed Victoria cutting the pearls with heavy wire tools.
It showed her shoving Clara's hands away as Clara lost her balance.
Officer Miller: This video footage is extremely clear and undeniable, ma'am.
Victoria: You have no right to use private recordings against me!
Officer Miller: Put your hands behind your back right now, Victoria.
The second officer stepped forward and unclipped his heavy metal handcuffs.
Victoria stepped backward away from the officer with a desperate expression.
Victoria: You cannot arrest me inside my own private residential home!
Leo: This is not your home anymore, Victoria.
Leo: The judge signed the emergency eviction notice two hours ago today.
Clara: Your time in this house is officially over right now.
Victoria looked around the grand hall as if searching for an escape route.
She realized there was nowhere left for her to run or hide.
The officer clicked the cold metal cuffs tightly around her small wrists.
Victoria: You will regret this day for the rest of your life, Clara!
Clara: I only regret trusting you after my father passed away.
The officers led Victoria slowly toward the open double front doors.
Her expensive shoes dragged across the hard floor covered in broken pearls.
Leo turned back toward Clara and gently held her trembling right hand.
Leo: The nightmare is finally starting to end for you, Clara.
Clara: We still have to fix everything she destroyed in this business.