Chapter 13 - Beatrice's Downfall
The news of Liam’s embezzlement and criminal fraud leaked to the local press within forty-eight hours.
The scandal completely rocked the elite, wealthy circles of our suburban town.
Beatrice’s carefully constructed world of fake money and fake prestige completely imploded overnight.
I was holding Leo in the kitchen when my phone buzzed with an alert from a local gossip blog.
Someone had recorded a video of Beatrice being publicly escorted out of her exclusive country club.
The club board had permanently revoked her membership due to a mountain of unpaid dues and the public criminal scandal.
In the video, Beatrice was screaming and crying, begging the security guards not to embarrass her.
Her former wealthy friends simply walked past her, completely ignoring her pathetic, desperate cries.
She had spent her entire life judging people for not being good enough to sit at her table.
Now, she was completely exiled, entirely penniless, and absolutely alone.
I felt a brief, fleeting second of pity, but then I looked down at my beautiful, innocent son.
She had tried to erase him from his own family portrait just to assert her cruel dominance.
She had completely earned every single ounce of misery that was currently destroying her life.
I turned off my phone, entirely done watching her pathetic downward spiral.
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I had far more important things to do, like building a beautiful, peaceful life for my child.
The toxic monsters were finally locked outside my castle walls forever.
