Less than five minutes later, Rebecca returned in a fresh outfit.This time, she was holding my six-year-old son, Noah Lock, by the hand.Noah broke free and charged into my arms like a little rocket.“Mommy!”Rebecca cleared her throat pointedly behind him.Noah tugged on my arm and pouted.“Mommy, it’s so boring here. Can you take me to the arcade to win some stuffed animals?”[Here comes the trump card! There’s no way the villainess can resist this.][Her son is the apple of her eye.]I glanced at my watch. It was one in the afternoon.Noah should have been napping at this hour.My gaze turned sharp as a blade when it landed on Claire Brook, his nanny, who had followed them.She flinched and stammered, “Mrs. Lock, Stacy said you wanted to take Noah out to play, so she forced me to wake him.”Well played, Stacy. Well played, Rebecca.They had even dragged a child into this just to protect that cheating couple inside.I strode forward, raised my hand, and slapped Stacy hard across the
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