The war began quietly. Isabella planted doubts, dug into Camille’s life, uncovered her mother’s illness and debts.
When Sebastian found Camille crying, she finally confessed. “My mother has cancer. That’s why I took this job.”
Her mother, Helen Vasquez, teased him gently at the hospital. “You look at her like water in the desert.”
Sebastian paid for a surgery insurance wouldn’t cover. He asked for nothing.
But Isabella wasn’t finished.
At a family gathering, she slipped a diamond necklace into Camille’s bag.
“Has anyone seen my necklace?” she asked sweetly.
When it was “found,” all eyes turned to Camille.
“I didn’t take it,” Camille said.
Sebastian hesitated. “How did it get into your bag?”
That question broke her.
She left with dignity—and a shattered heart.
Matthew regressed. He stopped eating, stopped speaking. When he was hospitalized, a nurse, Carol, mentioned seeing Isabella wearing the necklace weeks earlier.
Sebastian confronted Isabella. She didn’t deny it.
“My son is falling apart because of you,” he said.
He exposed her publicly, accepted the scandal, and searched for Camille.