Chapter 1 - The Gasps in the Living RoomThe soaring vaulted ceilings of the luxury estate echoed with a terrifying, ragged sound. Little Lily stood on the plush living room rug, her tiny hands outstretched, gasping frantically for air as her chest heaved with a violent asthma attack.
An older woman—dressed in a crisp white silk blouse and dark trousers—stood over her, clutching a blue inhaler tightly in her fist and refusing to hand it over.
"Give my daughter the inhaler!" a desperate voice thundered across the room.
A young father rushed forward, kneeling onto the rug and pulling his trembling daughter into his arms just as another woman stepped into the view, holding up a smartphone playing a recorded video.
The father gently pressed the plastic oxygen mask over Lily’s tear-streaked face, his hands shaking as the little girl sobbed through the filter, gasping, "Tabitha takes it whenever you leave..."
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The woman in the white silk blouse—Tabitha—crossed her arms, sneering coldly down at the struggling child. "She'd better get used to living without it!" Tabitha barked savagely.
The father turned his head slowly, his eyes locking onto the smartphone screen held by the blonde woman who had just exposed the footage. He stared at the damning proof of cruelty inflicted on his innocent child behind his back. Veins bulged along his temples, his face twisting into an expression of raw, unbridled fury. He let out a blood-curdling roar of rage that shook the crystal chandelier above them: "How could you do that to a defenseless child?!"
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