Chapter 2: The Locked Room
Within an hour Daniel had ordered every security recording from the executive floor.
The footage revealed something no one expected.
Nearly every afternoon, while Daniel attended meetings, the nanny used the executive family lounge.
Not as a playroom.
As a punishment room.
The cameras showed her locking the girls inside for hours.
Whenever they cried...
She turned off the lights.
Whenever they signed to one another...
She separated them.
One recording captured words that made even the investigators look away.
"If you're quiet enough," she told them, "Daddy might love you again."
Daniel watched the footage without speaking.
His knuckles turned white around the conference table.
Then another clip appeared.
The nanny throwing away drawings the girls had made for him.
Birthday cards.
Letters.
Pictures of their mother.
She had made sure they never reached him.
Daniel closed the laptop.
"I hired someone to protect them."
May you like
His voice cracked.
"Instead... I hired their first bully."
