Chapter 17 - Rachel Finds Herself Entirely Alone In High Society
Down in Federal Hill, Rachel packed her remaining designer handbags into cheap cardboard boxes inside her barren apartment.
Her lease had been terminated due to non-payment, and her luxury vehicle had been repossessed by the bank the previous afternoon.
Not a single high-society friend or former romantic acquaintance answered her calls or offered a couch to sleep on.
She dragged her cardboard boxes down the brick steps toward a rented moving van parked beside the curb in the drizzling rain.
Her daughter Sophie was staying temporarily with a state-funded medical foster family while her heart treatment was legally reorganized.
Rachel realized too late that she had built her entire identity on manipulation, dependency, and stolen luxury.
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She climbed into the passenger seat of the rental truck, wiping rain from her face as the driver pulled away from the curb.
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