Chapter 8
By Monday morning, the financial papers of Wall Street were consumed entirely by the twin scandals of the Sterling wedding collapse.
WALL STREET TITAN HARRISON VANCE FACES FEDERAL FRAUD INVESTIGATION FOLLOWING DAUGHTER'S DISASTROUS WEDDING DEBACLE.
Inside her penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue, Chloe sat wrapped in a silk blanket, staring blankly at the morning news broadcast.
Her designer gowns were piled in black garbage bags near the foyer, awaiting repossession by creditors demanding immediate settlement.
The wedding planner, the caterers, and the floral designers had all filed multi-million dollar breach of contract lawsuits against her family.
Chloe realized with terrifying clarity that her life of absolute privilege, luxury, and social dominance had vanished overnight.
She picked up the landline phone, trying to call her closest society friends, but every single number went straight to voicemail.
Even her closest confidantes had blocked her social media profiles to protect their own reputations from the fallout of the scandal.
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She was completely, utterly alone in the sprawling, gilded cage that her father's illegal wealth had built around her.
A sharp knock at the penthouse front door announced the arrival of federal marshals bearing asset seizure warrants and court summons.
