Victoria backed up until her heels touched the wooden stair banister behind her.
She put her hands out to keep David from coming any closer to her.
Victoria: David, you do not understand what really happened back then!
David: You locked my sister underneath the living room floor for money!
Victoria: I was only trying to protect our family name from ruin!
David took another step up the wide stairs toward his wealthy stepmother.
His voice shook with absolute fury as he spoke to her face.
David: You stole her life and stole her legal trust fund too!
Evelyn sat on the soft rug while Clara held her hand very tightly.
She looked up at the ceiling and took a deep breath of fresh air.
She had survived on dry food and bottled water dropped through the floor slot.
Victoria had forced her to stay hidden so the estate money stayed locked.
If Evelyn claimed her legal share, Victoria would have lost the giant mansion.
The lawyer had left everything to Evelyn when their rich father passed away.
Victoria could not accept living without her luxury lifestyle and big cars.
So she created a dark plot to make Evelyn disappear from the world.
She told the whole city that Evelyn had run off with a boy.
David had believed the sad story because he trusted his father's wife.
He had spent millions hiring private detectives to search across every state line.
None of those expensive investigators had ever thought to check under the floor.
Now the entire awful truth was laid out under the bright morning sun.
David pulled his black smartphone out from his right pants pocket quickly.
He pressed three familiar numbers to contact the local police right away.
Victoria saw the phone and made a sudden desperate jump down the stairs.
She tried to grab the black phone directly out of David's hand.
David stepped side to side easily and pushed her arm away firmly.
David: Do not touch me or my sister ever again, Victoria!
Victoria stumbled backward and fell onto the bottom step of the staircase.
Her gold dress was wrinkled and her neat hair was completely ruined now.
She looked like a stranger in the very house she had stolen.
David put the phone to his ear as the emergency line connected.
He kept his sharp eyes locked on Victoria the entire time he spoke.
The end of her cruel control had finally arrived in this room.