Chapter 15 - Marcus Loses His Luxury Apartment Lease And Car

The final blow to Marcus’s collapsed lifestyle arrived in the form of a formal eviction notice taped to his front door.
The luxury high-rise apartment lease had been co-signed by a subsidiary of Sterling Capital Holdings.
“You have forty-eight hours to vacate the premises and surrender all vehicle keys,” the property manager informed him coldly.
Marcus packed his expensive designer suits into cheap cardboard boxes, his hands shaking with bitter humiliation.
Beatrice sat on a suitcase in the empty living room, weeping over her ruined social status and frozen bank accounts.
“This is all Valeria’s fault! She trapped us!” Beatrice sobbed hysterically.
“No, Mom... we did this to ourselves because we thought we could bully someone we underestimated,” Marcus whispered bitterly.
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They were forced to move into a rundown motel on the outskirts of the city, far away from the glittering downtown skyline.
The luxury and arrogance they had once flaunted were replaced by the harsh reality of their own financial destitution.
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