Victoria stood completely frozen, trying to adjust her shocked face into an expression of fake worry.
She took a step toward Mark with her hands raised in a frantic gesture of artificial sympathy.
Victoria: Oh thank heavens you arrived in time, Mark, she slipped while running near the edge!
Lily: That is a lie, Daddy! She yelled at me and pushed me!
Mark: What did you just say, Lily?
Lily: She took Mom's wooden box and pushed me when I tried to take it back!
Mark stood up slowly from the wet ground, holding his shivering daughter firmly behind his body.
His face turned dark with an intense fury that Victoria had never seen in him before.
Mark: Is this true, Victoria?
Victoria: Of course not! The child is confused and hysterical from the cold water!
Lily: Check her handbag, Daddy! She threw the key into the pool filter box right there!
Mark walked toward the plastic filter cover near the edge without taking his eyes off Victoria.
He reached down into the filter basket and pulled out the wet wooden keepsake box instantly.
Inside the wet box were the letters detailing the million-dollar Swiss trust account for his daughter.
Mark opened the documents with shaking hands and read the notes written by his late wife.
He suddenly understood why Victoria had been behaving so distant and cruel toward Lily recently.
She had discovered the hidden fortune and wanted to push Lily out of the family completely.
Mark: You were going to let my ten-year-old child drown over a financial trust?
Victoria: Mark, listen to me, I was just trying to protect our family's economic future!
Mark: Do not speak another word to me or my child ever again!
Mark pulled his cell phone from his wet pocket, which was fortunately sealed in a waterproof casing.
He dialed the local police department immediately while Victoria began to back away toward her sports car.
Mark: I need officers at my estate right now to report an attempted assault on a minor.
Victoria: You cannot do this to me! I am your legal wife!
Mark: You are a monster, and your time in this house ends today.