Victoria: You hit me in front of the house staff[cite: 5]!
Julian: I should have thrown you out of these gates months ago, Victoria[cite: 5]!
Victoria: She was climbing on the stone banister on her own[cite: 5]!
Emma: That is a lie, Daddy! She grabbed my wrists and lifted me right over the edge[cite: 5]!
Victoria: Shut your mouth, Emma! The girl has an overactive imagination, Julian[cite: 5]!
Julian: I watched you open your hands with my own eyes the second I came through the doors[cite: 5]!
Victoria: I lost my footing on the polished stone! The wind was blowing so hard[cite: 5]!
Julian: You didn't slip, Victoria. You threw my six-year-old child like a piece of trash[cite: 5].
Julian gently set Emma down behind a tall marble pillar, smoothing the hem of her white dress[cite: 5].
Julian: Are you hurt anywhere else, sweetheart? Tell Daddy right now[cite: 5].
Emma: My arms hurt where she squeezed me, Daddy. And my ribs sting really bad[cite: 5].
Julian lifted the girl's small sleeve, revealing four dark purple bruises dug deep into her pale skin[cite: 5].
Julian: Did you pinch my daughter, Victoria[cite: 5]?
Victoria: She refused to eat her morning oatmeal! A stepmother has to teach discipline[cite: 5]!
Emma: She dumped ice water in my bowl because I asked for Mommy's gold locket[cite: 5]!
Julian: You poured ice water on my child because she wanted her dead mother's locket[cite: 5]?
Victoria: Clara is dead, Julian! She has been in a cemetery for three years[cite: 5]!
Julian: Clara built the software tracking systems that made Sterling Logistics worth billions[cite: 5].
Victoria: Well, she left those billions behind, and now they belong to our new marriage[cite: 5]!
Julian: There is no marriage, Victoria. The wedding is canceled forever[cite: 5].
Victoria: You cannot cancel our wedding! We have five hundred high-society guests arriving on Saturday[cite: 5]!
Julian: Tell your guests to stay home, because you'll be sitting in a concrete cell[cite: 5].
Victoria: On what charges?! You have no proof of anything that happened out here[cite: 5]!
Julian: I have two eyes, Victoria. And I have the sworn statements of my staff[cite: 5].
Victoria: The staff works for me! I sign their weekly paychecks[cite: 5]!
Julian: You don't sign a single thing in this mansion, Victoria[cite: 5].
Victoria: My father invested forty million dollars in your maritime shipping fleet last month[cite: 5]!
Julian: Your father didn't invest forty million dollars of clean money[cite: 5].
Victoria: What are you talking about?! Vance Maritime holds thirty percent of your equity shares[cite: 5]!
Julian: Vance Maritime is an empty corporate front that went bankrupt four months ago[cite: 5].
Victoria froze on the terrace tiles, her grey shirt fluttering in the cool breeze[cite: 5].
Victoria: That is slander! My father is a respected commissioner on the Dallas commerce board[cite: 5]!
Julian: Your father was arrested at his private hangar thirty minutes ago by federal marshals[cite: 5].
The antique clock inside the library chimed three times, echoing through the tense, heavy silence[cite: 5].
Victoria: Arrested...?! You're bluffing! You're inventing lies to scare me[cite: 5]!
Julian: Look at your phone sitting on the patio table, Victoria[cite: 5].
Victoria grabbed her smartphone with shaking hands, tapping the screen rapidly[cite: 5].
Her display lit up with forty-five missed calls and breaking news alerts from the local papers[cite: 5].
Victoria: 'Vance Maritime raided by federal task force... Chairman Arthur Vance in custody'[cite: 5]...
Julian: The Department of Justice unsealed the grand jury indictment at noon today[cite: 5].
Victoria dropped the phone onto the stone, her eyes wide with mounting terror[cite: 5].
Victoria: Arthur promised me our family finances were completely protected[cite: 5]!
Julian: Your father spent three years stealing money from our joint logistics escrow accounts[cite: 5].
Victoria: Those transfers were routine inter-company bridge loans! We were going to pay them back[cite: 5]!
Julian: You were never going to pay back a single dime, Victoria[cite: 5].
Victoria backed up against the railing, realizing every single lie was falling apart right before her eyes[cite: 5].
Victoria: I am still entitled to the prenuptial settlement! We filed it with the clerk[cite: 5]!
Julian: A prenuptial agreement based on fraud is completely void under state law[cite: 5].
Victoria: You cannot throw me out into the street with nothing, Julian[cite: 5]!
Julian: You are not going into the street, Victoria. You are going into federal custody[cite: 5].
Emma wrapped her arms around Julian's leg, looking up at him with tear-stained eyes[cite: 5].
Emma: Daddy, don't let her touch my mommy's jewelry box in the master suite[cite: 5].
Julian: Nobody is touching anything that belonged to your mother ever again, Emma[cite: 5].
Victoria pulled herself up, her fingernails digging hard into the cold limestone railing[cite: 5].
Victoria: You think you have won, Julian, but you have no witnesses to prove I dropped her[cite: 5]!
Julian smiled coldly, his gaze locking onto the woman who had brought terror into his home[cite: 5].
Julian: You always were too arrogant to look at the ceiling, Victoria[cite: 5].