The gala screen flashed with a horrifying deepfake video of me viciously cursing and beating my stepdaughter, Chloe. Before I could process it, my husband, Marcus, shoved me against a table. My head slammed the edge, shattering my right hearing aid. The world went dead silent as Chloe pointed at her bruised forehead, playing the perfect victim. Fighting back means destroying my marriage completely. I must prove the screams in that footage erupted in my deaf blind spot, triggering no physical flinch from me. Uncovering this trap will permanently cost me my ability to ever trust intimacy again. Locked in this soundless room with Marcus waiting to banish me, I have hours before the police arrive. Can I shatter a teenager’s mask before the silence swallows me alive?