Chapter 20 - Margaret Finds Peace In Her Quiet Suburban Sanctuary
Back at her white-brick colonial home, Margaret sat in her sunroom enjoying a peaceful cup of afternoon tea.
The classical music played softly in the background, uninterrupted by frantic phone calls or demands for financial bailouts.
She received a brief text message from Daniel earlier that morning containing a single humble photograph.
It showed Liam wearing a simple public school backpack, smiling genuinely as he walked out the front door with his father.
Margaret smiled back at the screen, knowing she had done the hardest thing a mother could ever do for her child.
She hadn't destroyed her family; she had saved them from the slow, toxic poison of unearned wealth.
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Life was quiet, peaceful, and entirely back under her own control where it belonged.
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