Chapter 2 - THE RECORDINGNobody moved.
Grandma Eleanor placed her watch on the dining table.
A small recording icon blinked on the screen.
Vanessa stared at it.
“You've been recording me?”
Grandma's voice remained calm.
“Not you.”
She looked at Lily.
“My granddaughter.”
Vanessa scoffed.
“This is ridiculous.”
Grandma pressed play.
At first, we heard birthday music.
Children laughing.
Plates clinking.
Then Lily's voice.
“Mommy, look! Grandma gave me a watch!”
My heart tightened.
Then another voice appeared.
Vanessa.
But this wasn't the voice everyone had just heard.
This one was quiet.
Cold.
Threatening.
“If anyone asks, you never saw that watch.”
Lily's voice trembled.
“Why?”
“Because it's mine.”
“But Grandma gave it to me.”
“Then don't tell anyone.”
The recording stopped.
Vanessa's face drained of color.
Daniel slowly turned toward his sister.
“What was that?”
Vanessa opened her mouth.
Nothing came out.
Grandma pressed another button.
The recording continued.
And this time, Vanessa's voice was speaking to someone else.
A man.
“Once the girl is gone, everything becomes easier.”
Daniel's eyes widened.
“Who were you talking to?”
Vanessa grabbed the watch.
Grandma pulled it away.
“Don't touch it.”
Vanessa stepped backward.
“You don't understand.”
I stared at her.
“Then explain.”
She looked at Daniel.
Then at me.
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Finally, she whispered:
“You really want to know why I hate that child?”
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