Chapter 17 - Beatrice Loses Her Suburban Home Due To Unpaid Mortgages
Without Marcus’s steady corporate salary and her own secret debts catching up, Beatrice defaulted on her suburban mortgage. The bank issued an immediate foreclosure notice, giving her thirty days to vacate the brick house she loved so dearly. She tried calling relatives and former friends for emergency loans, but every single phone call went straight to voicemail. Even her sister, whose silverware had clattered nervously at the wedding banquet, refused to answer her door.
"You made your bed with your greed, Beatrice; I can't afford to anger the Sterlings," her sister told her over the phone. Movers arrived on a crisp Tuesday morning with plastic boxes to pack up her designer furniture and porcelain tea sets. Beatrice sat on the front porch steps in tears, watching her possessions get loaded into a generic rental truck. Her lifelong obsession with status and control had reduced her to absolute financial ruin.
