Victoria: It was an accident, Richard! She slipped from my hands!
Richard turned his head toward Victoria with absolute fury shining deep inside his icy eyes.
He squeezed Maya closer to his beating chest and kept his body between them as protection.
Victoria: Let the nanny take her back upstairs right now.
Richard: No.
Victoria: Richard, please look at me, I was just trying to fix her small shoe!
Richard: Do not step any closer to my daughter ever again.
Victoria: You are hysterical right now because of the shocking shock, my love.
Richard: I stood right down there and watched your hands open up on purpose.
Victoria's face turned completely pale as her fake teary expression vanished instantly into thin air.
She stepped back slightly and pulled her bronze satin dress closer around her small waist.
Victoria: You cannot prove a single word of that ridiculous emotional claim in any court.
Richard: I do not need a court to kick a snake out of my home.
The head housekeeper Sarah hurried into the foyer after hearing the terrible loud screaming sounds.
She gasped in complete horror when she saw Richard holding Maya on the hard floor.
Richard: Sarah, take Maya to my private study and lock the heavy double doors inside.
Sarah stepped forward quickly and took the crying girl into her kind safe open arms.
Maya held onto Sarah's white shoulder as the elderly housekeeper carried her safely out away.
Richard stood up slowly from the cold marble floor and straightened his dark velvet coat jacket.
He towered over Victoria with a dangerous look that made her step backward against the wall.
The warm family home suddenly felt colder than an empty ice house in middle winter.