Chapter 14 - Eleanor Begs For Forgiveness Outside The Family Estate
Three days after her eviction, Eleanor Sterling sat on a wooden bench outside the wrought-iron gates of her former Greenwich estate.
Her designer luggage sat piled around her feet, untouched by the passing delivery trucks and luxury sedans driving down the boulevard.
Her high-society friends had blocked her phone numbers; her credit cards had all been declined by the federal asset freeze.
When she saw William’s black Mercedes approach the gates, she scrambled up from the bench with desperate, undignified haste.
She threw herself against the driver’s side window as William slowed the vehicle down to punch in the security code.
“William! Please! Just five minutes!” Eleanor sobbed hysterically, pressing her tear-stained face against the tinted glass.
“I have nowhere to go! My accounts are frozen! Please don't leave your own mother on the streets!”
William rolled the window down halfway, looking at the woman who had terrorized his wife with absolute, cold detachment.
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“You left my wife at the bottom of a flight of stairs without a second thought, Mother,” William said quietly.
“Live with the consequences of your own cruelty.”
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