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Chapter 5 - The Hidden Lens

Within twenty-four hours, disguised micro-lenses were embedded into the smoke detectors, decorative crown moldings, and the kitchen island light fixtures. The feeds streamed continuously to an encrypted private cloud server accessible only from Michael’s phone.

What the cameras captured over the next four days turned Michael’s stomach.

Clip 1 (Friday, 2:14 PM): Olivia deliberately opened Margaret’s daily pill organizer, took two essential blood pressure capsules, and flushed them down the powder-room sink. When Margaret complained of dizziness two hours later, Olivia loudly scolded Sophie in front of Robert for 'negligence with grandma's medication.'

Clip 2 (Sunday, 11:30 AM): Olivia took a pair of tailor shears from her sewing kit and made a clean four-inch slit inside the seam of her $12,000 rehearsal dinner gown. She threw the shears into Sophie’s laundry basket, ran downstairs in faux tears, and sobbed into Michael’s shoulder, claiming Sophie had sabotaged her dress out of jealousy.

Clip 3 (Monday, 9:45 PM): Olivia was sitting in the library on a private video call with a man saved in her phone as 'Julian.'

Michael plugged his earphones in to listen to the synchronized audio of Clip 3.

Olivia: "The prenuptial agreement only protects his pre-marital commercial holdings. Once the vows are exchanged on Saturday, the Buckhead estate and the secondary investment trust transfer into joint community property."

Julian: "What about the old woman and the maid?"

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Olivia: "The maid will be fired for theft by Wednesday. And I’m putting Margaret into a nursing home in Savannah before our honeymoon flight."

Michael stared at the glowing phone screen in the dark of his study, his blood running colder than winter ice.

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