Jilted Wife Returns As A Billionaire Heiress novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Unedited
By seven in the morning the clip had three million views.
It ran forty seconds.
It showed Elsie in a hospital bed, hair wild, mouth open, telling someone out of frame to get out.
The captions said what she was saying, and the headline said: THE HEIRESS HAS A TEMPER.
Elsie watched it at Darius's kitchen island with a cup of tea going cold in her hand.
It was real footage, from the suite on the night the twins were born.
She remembered the minute it was shot.
It was the end of the scene with the process server, when she had told Trent to get out.
Every word that came before it had been cut away.
"Who filmed it?" Darius asked.
"Someone from the doorway. Two nurses and an orderly stopped to listen."
Her phone lit up with a number she did not know.
It was a text with an attachment.
"I'm the orderly who wheeled you to bed four. I filmed the whole thing from the door because I didn't like what I saw. Someone sold the last forty seconds. Here is the rest."
Elsie opened the video.
It was seven minutes long.
In it she kept her voice flat and steady, and she did not raise it until the last line.
Imogen stood beside Trent for every minute, with her hand on his sleeve.
"That is the part they sold," Darius said slowly.
"And that's the part we're going to give them back."
She stood up.
"Get me a car. I want to do this at Lakeshore."
The front steps of Lakeshore Memorial were crowded by eight.
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