00:00When I return to the penthouse, my coat still smells of hospital disinfectant.
00:04I keep my head down, trying to slip back to my room.
00:09Where have you been?
00:12He is so close that I can smell the whiskey on his breath.
00:15I raise my hands and sign slowly, charity work.
00:18You smell like a hospital. Stay out of my way.
00:21He walks past me like I'm a piece of furniture.
00:24He doesn't know that the financial model he is paying millions to find
00:27has just been solved by the wife he can't stand to look at.
00:31And I won't let him know, at least, not yet.
00:35The floorboards of Schmidt Manor creak when you walk on them.
00:38That is the sound I knew best as a child.
00:40It meant hide.
00:42Today, I don't have to hide.
00:43I kneel by the moldy mattress and pry up a loose floorboard.
00:47Inside the rusty tin box lies my mother's sapphire necklace.
00:51It is not worth much, but it is the only thing she left me.
00:56Put it down.
00:57Clotilde stands in the doorway, flanked by two maids.
01:00A jarring contrast to this dusty room.
01:03That belongs to the Schmidt family.
01:05A bastard doesn't get heirlooms.
01:08I don't move.
01:10My nails dig into the tin box.
01:12My knuckles turning white to take it.
01:15The moment the maiden reaches out, I grab her wrist and rotate it backward.
01:19Phew!
01:19I pull out my phone and show a screenshot of the prenuptial agreement.
01:24Section 14, paragraph E.
01:26Crotilde reads it, and her case shifts from shock to hearing.
01:30Yes, Elsa is unstable.
01:32We are worried she might hurt herself.
01:36My stepmother spins lies on the phone.
01:39I press the record button and record every word.
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