Victoria's face drained of all color, her breath catching in her throat.
Victoria: The... the cameras are working?
Gabriel: They have been working all morning, Victoria.
Victoria: You... you recorded the whole lunch?
Gabriel: I recorded the moment you deliberately kicked Maya's foot. I recorded the moment you screamed at her while she was burned on the floor. And I recorded you threatening her father's pension last week in the hallway.
Aunt Eleanor gasped, taking a step away from Victoria as if she had been burned.
Aunt Eleanor: You threatened Old Thomas's pension?! The gardener who served this family for thirty years?!
Victoria: Eleanor, listen to me! I was just trying to establish authority in the house!
Aunt Eleanor: Authority?! That is not authority, Victoria, that is pure cruelty!
Victoria: You supported this marriage ten minutes ago!
Aunt Eleanor: I supported a union with a respectable woman from a good family! I will not have a sadist representing the Sterling name!
The man carrying the leather briefcase stepped forward, adjusting his wire-rimmed glasses.
Attorney Lawson: Gabriel, as your family corporate counsel, I advise that we immediately execute the non-disclosure breach clause on the prenuptial agreement.
Gabriel: Do it, Lawson.
Victoria: What prenup clause?! We haven't even signed the final marriage certificate!
Attorney Lawson: The preliminary engagement contract you signed last month included a mandatory conduct standard, Miss Victoria. Physical assault or workplace harassment against estate staff voids your family's corporate partnership with zero financial settlement.
Victoria: Zero settlement?! You're keeping my father's four million dollars?!
Gabriel: I told you, Victoria. I repaid your father's loan yesterday. But the merger agreement is officially dead.
Victoria: You monster! You planned this whole thing!
Gabriel: You brought this on yourself the moment you laid a hand on an innocent girl under my roof.