Chapter 2: The Voice That Came Out of the Speaker
**— PART 2 —**
The room went dead quiet.
Lauren's eyes locked onto that little pink watch like it was the only thing in the world.
Then she laughed — short and sharp, the kind of laugh that isn't really a laugh at all.
"She's eight years old," Lauren said.
"You're all going to believe an eight-year-old over me?"
Nobody answered her.
Emma still hadn't looked up.
She just pressed two fingers against the side of the watch — slowly, carefully — the way a child does when they've been practicing.
A voice came out of that tiny speaker.
Lauren's voice.
*"If you tell anyone what you saw, I will make sure your mother loses everything.
Do you understand me?
Everything."*
Emma's mom made a sound I can't describe.
The man standing beside Lauren — her own husband — took one step back from her.
Lauren's face didn't crumble.
It went hard.
"That recording means nothing," she said.
"I want a lawyer."
But then the door opened.
And the person who walked in was the last one any of us expected to see.
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What Emma recorded was only the beginning.
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What that person revealed next shook everyone in that room to the core.
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