The room was thick with tension, every breath feeling like it was held too long. Sofie stood in the center, trying to hold her ground, but the expression on Alexander’s face—implacable, unreadable—betrayed nothing. His silence was suffocating.While Alexander remained ominously still, his presence looming like a storm cloud over the room, it was Adam who took charge. Adam, with his sharp mind and gaze full of quiet judgment, stepped forward. His movements were deliberate, measured. Approaching Brayden, he crouched to meet the boy’s eye level, his voice calm but firm. “Now, Brayden,” he said, “tell me again what happened. No lies.”Brayden, utterly unaffected by the tension swirling around him, blinked up at his uncle before he spoke with surprising clarity. “The mean lady—” he pointed toward Sofie, “—tried to make Pretty Lady Dysis look bad, but she didn’t do anything! I saw it, granddad! She tripped, and then she blamed Dysis!”A murmur rippled through the room, eyes darting from Sof
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