Chapter 17 - Richard And Victoria Are Forced Out Onto The Street

Months later, following rapid plea hearings and swift sentencing, Richard entered a medium-security federal penitentiary.
Stripped of his tailored suits and silver hair dye, he looked every bit of his fifty years, broken and forgotten.
Victoria, after completing a brief probationary stint for asset concealment, found herself completely blackballed by high society.
Her former friends refused her phone calls, locked their country club gates, and pretended she never existed.
Living out of a small, dreary studio apartment on the wrong side of town, she faced the reality of honest work.
Without servants to command or wealth to flaunt, she realized the emptiness of the life she had viciously guarded.
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The irony of her situation wasn't lost on her—she had spent decades looking down on maids, only to end up scrubbing floors herself.
Karma had delivered a masterclass in humility, stripping away every superficial layer of her arrogant existence.