I returned through the unlocked door and heard Margaret speaking angrily on the phone.
“I told you to stay away until I sorted this out!”
I froze and began recording.“Of course he believed Vanessa! You were supposed to make her suspicious, not announce at her office that you were carrying his child. If she’d demanded a paternity test, the whole plan would’ve fallen apart!”
Then came the words that made my blood run cold.
“I promised to help you and your baby until you got back on your feet. But you have to let me handle my son.”
Margaret wasn’t being manipulated. She was behind the entire scheme.
I hurried back to Roy and played him the recording.
“My mother wouldn’t do that,” he whispered.
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But when he heard her words for himself, his expression crumbled.
“I won’t force you to confront her,” I said. “But I’m done pretending she’s innocent.”
