Chapter 5
Three days after the disastrous wedding, Marcus filed for an immediate legal annulment in the Manhattan Supreme Court. He cited severe financial deception and fraudulent concealment of massive personal debt committed by his former bride.
Victoria received the legal papers while sitting alone in her darkened bedroom in the Hamptons estate. She laughed bitterly, realizing that the man who had sworn loyalty in sickness and wealth had abandoned her at the first sign of trouble.
She threw the papers across the room, watching them scatter uselessly against the expensive imported wallpaper. Her phone rang continuously with anonymous numbers, hostile creditors, and reporters camping outside the security gates.
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She walked over to the window, peering through the sheer curtains at the swarm of media vans blocking her driveway. An American flag fluttered on a neighbor's flagpole across the street, mocking her total loss of freedom and status.
There was no escaping the relentless machinery of the American legal system once it was set into motion. Her entire existence had been built on a foundation of sand, and Sarah had simply washed it away with a single gold card.
